The power of the individual grows with the supernatural seed of God within

Picture of the artist Ilyas the Prophet. Original image source unknown.

by Brian Shilhavy

Most people living in the world today define their identity based on the groups they belong to, such as ethnicity, nationality, religion, family, etc.

A single person who tries to live independently of these group associations is almost always viewed negatively. For example, in Christianity, Christians are taught that “there are no single Christians” and that you are considered ineffective, selfish, and ignorant if you don’t join their group.

“Unchurched” people are usually considered as “sinners”.

However, the writings of the New Testament make it very clear that God treats us as individuals, no matter what groups we belong to.

God alone saves and lives, no groups.

One of the best places that describe this is in the first letter of John to the disciples of Jesus.

Do not love the world or anything in the world.

If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Because everything in the world – the lust of a sinful man, the lust of his eyes and boasting about what he has and does – is not from the Father, but from the world.

The world and its soul will pass, however one He who does God’s will lives forever. (1 John 2:15-17)

When one reads about the life of the Old Testament prophet Elijah, we see the power of a man empowered by God. He was alone most of the time, and yet he took and defeated the wicked King and Queen of Israel at that time, as well as all their false prophets.

Jacob wrote about Elijah in the New Testament:

The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

Ilyas was also human like us. He prayed from the bottom of his heart that it would not rain and that it would not rain on the earth for three and a half years.

He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth gave its harvest. (James 5:16-18)

The power that God gives to people is much more powerful than the power that a person gets from being a member of a group.

And the power that God gives to an individual is from his “seed” which is a supernatural spiritual seed planted in the person’s soul that causes them to be born again and then lead them to grow a spiritual life that is more powerful than anything on earth that exists in the natural world, including “bloodlines” and “family trees”.

The proof of this God-given “seed” growing in another person is their selfless love for others.

How great is the love that the Father has shown us so that we can be called children of God! And that’s what we are!

He does not know the reason why the world did not recognize him.

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be is not yet known. But we know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him as He is.

Whoever has such hope in Him purifies himself, as He is pure. Whoever commits sin violates the law; in fact, sin is lawless.

But you know that He appeared to take away our sins. And there is no sin in Him. No one who lives in Him sins. No one who keeps on sinning has seen him or known him.

Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does good is righteous, just as he is righteous. Whoever sins is of the devil, because the devil sinned from the beginning.

The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

No one born of God will continue to sin because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot continue to sin because he is born of God.

Thus we know who are the children of God and who are the children of the devil: He who does not do what is right is not a child of God; and he who does not love his brother. (1 John 3:1-10)

In the book of Matthew in the New Testament, Jesus taught in parables and used the example of physical seed to illustrate the principle of spiritual seed that comes from God.

That same day, Jesus left the house and sat by the lake. There were so many people gathered around him that he got into a boat and got into it, while all the people were standing on the shore.

Then he told them many things in parables, saying:

“A farmer went out to sow his seeds. As he scattered the seeds, some fell on the road and the birds came and ate them.

Some fell on rocky places where there was not much soil. It grew quickly because there was little land.

But when the sun rose, the plants burned and withered because they had no roots. Another seed fell among the thorns, which sprouted and choked the plants.

Another seed fell on good ground, where it yielded a hundred, sixty, or thirty times.

He who has ears, let him hear.

So listen to what the parable of the sower means: When someone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand, the devil comes and steals what was sown in his heart. This is a seed sown along the way.

The one who received the seed that fell on the rock is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy. But since he has no roots, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly withdraws.

The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of life and the deception of wealth suppress it and make it ineffective.

But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the one who hears and understands the word. The harvest grows, yields a hundred, sixty, thirty times more than what was sown.” (Matthew 13)

Satan also sows his spiritual seeds, which are called “weeds” in Jesus’ parables.

Jesus told them another parable:

“The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and left.

When wheat sprouted and heads appeared, weeds also appeared.

The servants of the owner came to him and said: “Master, did you not sow good seeds in your field?” So where did the weeds come from?”

“It was done by the enemy,” he answered.

“The servants asked him: ‘Do you want us to go and lift them up?’

“No,” he replied, “because when weeds are pulled, wheat can be uprooted with them, let both grow together until the harvest.”

At that time, I will say to the reapers: First, collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to burn them; then collect the wheat and bring it to my barn.'” (Matthew 13:24-30)

As we see in this last parable, just being in the farmer’s field did not save everything that grew in that “group”.

It was necessary to examine each plant individuallyit should be determined which one was a weed and which one was a grain that would be replanted and yield more.

It was not enough to grow it on the “right farm” and grow it with the “right farmer”. Each one had to be checked individually.

There are no “chosen peoples” or “chosen races” in the Kingdom of God. Only those who, regardless of what group they belong to, have planted supernatural “seeds” of God in their hearts.

So are you a weed sown by Satan that serves the world or a grain that makes up the “bread of life” that nourishes and nourishes others?

Because these two classifications of human beings are only two important ones.

Remember what John wrote above: The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

So one either actively works to destroy the works of Satan and suffers for it, or works together with Satan to advance the world.

One group burns out because they are worthless and die. The other group is life-giving and growing and will live in the Kingdom of God when this world is destroyed.

The first group consists of the many subgroups in the world that serve Satan, and they are in the majority. Most of them are in church groups.

The second group is empowered by the Spirit of God and they are in the minority. But they have great power because they are composed of them individuals which are connected to a higher source of energy that never stops working because this power does not depend on electricity.

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This article was written by Human Superior Intelligence (HSI).