TRUE NATURE: PART ONE The teaching you are about to read is a key to the door of power delivered to you from the Father. It is not complicated teaching but it is encompassing to the believer who chooses to operate these divine principals in their life. Though, the following words may not seem dynamic or necessary, they are words that will lead a believer or believers in the divine hands of the Father to do as he wills in their life. This is a message to those "who with patience’s continue to do good seeking glory, honor and immortality," and believe that he will grant to them "eternal life." Romans 2:6 The working of the divine nature into ones being is the Father's good will. The imparting of his divine character into our being with his actual substances is the Father's desire. We are not born with his nature in our being. But, we are re-born as his sons when he draws us and we receive his spirit into our spirit. As newborn babes, we are trained in the way we should go so that all the hindrances to his divine nature are removed. The capacity for his nature is developed as we learn to submit to his divine instructions and discipline. Divine Instruction In Heb.12: 4-12, the divine instructions are mapped out for us to observe and partake. This passage of scripture does not deal with our martyrdom in the earth or our sacrifices to the world. It is a detailed description of how our divine Father works in his sons to bring about his harvest. Hebrews 12:11. “ Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace… " This is how we share in his holiness. The Father works in us for our good. “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” The focus of the Father's discipline is for our good so we may share or partake of his holiness and produce his righteousness and peace in the earth. It is so strange how believers will dedicate their entire life to a harvest of souls but will overlook the true harvest of the Father. The harvest full of righteousness and peace, the harvest for which there cannot be any harvest of souls unless the first fruits of the divine nature is revealed and available to the Father through his sons. James 5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. John 15: 8 "This is to my Father's Glory, that you may bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples." Think of it! Bear much fruit and you prove, demonstrate beyond human doubt that we are his disciples. The manifested sons of God showing to be his disciples by producing a harvest of righteousness and peace in the earth. This fruit of righteous and peace will do more to heal the world than all the pretend preaching from pulpits we hear today. Why? "Because he that bears much fruit remains in God and he can ask anything from the Father and he will give it to him.” (John 11:7) Operating in the Divine Nature If, I tell you that the Father is not interested in the great harvest of souls but only really cares for the harvest of righteousness and peace from his sons, will you burn these pages as heresy? Yet, church people of today spend their every waking hour and dollars trying to save the world. They work in programs that only feed the human ego. How can one do anything without the divine nature? I am not talking about being motivated by the divine nature, I am talking about operating in the divine nature. It is one thing to perform a function under laws and rules. Operating under certain procedures does not indicate the true character of a person. It only indicates his influences and belief systems. The true character cannot be discerned until death is faced or some extreme sacrifice is given. The true nature of Christ is revealed on the cross to all generations. The true nature of the Father is revealed in that he gave us his only begotten Son. The true nature of man’s religion is revealed on television. A lawyer may defend a client under the rules and regulations of the court. The lawyer may know his client is guilty, yet he will proceed as though he is innocent. We may never know the truth that the lawyer knows about his client. We do not have an insight to the lawyer’s truth but on the outside we are led to believe what he says about his client is because the lawyer believes he or she is innocent. The lawyer only operates within the structure or the limits of the law. He is guided by rules of conduct. It is what he must do if he wants to practice law. He is more devoted to a system of conduct then he is devoted to his client. His client may be acquitted but he is still guilty. The client is acquitted but not changed. The client may again need the services of the lawyer. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law. We were guilty but unlike the client we are given the power to change. We are acquitted and given the power of a new life. We are no longer under the law but under the spirit. Our Father maintains our growth through his chastening and reaps the rewards of righteousness and peace from our lives. Many believers defend the gospel and work in the harvest of souls with that same kind of devotion. They have been acquitted but not changed. What the Fathers wants is his divine nature in his sons. The divine operation of his righteousness and peace being harvest from their souls. Not because of a belief system or a devotion to duty that is able to persuade the masses. Devotion and dedication are fine on the level of the soul. But, divine nature operating from the soul of a son is the releasing of the divine nature into the earth. It is like the high priest who puts on the linen undergarment instead of wool so he will not sweat when doing the service of Lord to signify he is not doing the service of God with human ability. Oh, how we need priest today who will do the service of God without human ability, priests who will perform out from a godly nature. It is when heaven and earth agree that the Father's will is done in the earth. It is when the Father and the son are one that God is glorified on the earth. Shall we discount the great commission? No, we simply state that there can be no great commission, no end time revival, or huge world-wide revival without the first fruits, the harvest that God, the Father, desires from his sons. Those who do the greater works must accomplish these tasks through the divine nature for without him you can do nothing. We must see that this is true. All our best efforts mean nothing if we are not motivated by his nature. Sacrifice from human effort will not save the world. But sacrifice from one who is motivated by the divine nature extends the ministry of Christ in the earth. The harvest of righteousness and peace comes to us when we experience Hebrew 12 and John 11. "My sons despise not the chastening of the Lord. ...Abide in the vine and so shall you bear much fruit." Two Natures Can we really see the difference? The good efforts of humans is so often confused for the nature of God. I Cor. 13: 3 You can give your body to be burned and it profits nothing. It gains nothing. It has no benefit because it doesn't center in the love of God. Its source is not from the Father. It did not become an extension of the divine nature. It did not originate from the Father's nature. The source is from the effort of the human nature. Divine nature and human nature are not the same. They have nothing in common. The human nature has no source of eternal life. Human nature has no originality. It cannot create the things of God. Human nature is only able to copy divine nature. Yet, human nature has no source of eternal life. When Satan stood up, He declared, " He would be like God.” He would copy God. Human nature has the same characteristics of its father. Human nature tries to copy God. It tries to be like God. It can be difficult to discern the difference. No wonder why there is so much religious confusion. The human nature is able to imitate and act religious. The human nature likes to duplicate anything it cannot create. It loves to act like God and pretend to be like God. I Cor. 2:14 "But human nature does not receive the substance of God, for it is foolishness, neither can it know or be intimate with the spirit of God for He is spiritually discerned." Let us meet with the Father face to face by freshly applying his word to our life. Laying aside what seems important to us and picking up what is important to him. Often times it is the way we emphasize scripture that leads us to overlook some of the important aspects of its meaning. It seems more glorious to dwell on the great harvest while we ignore what the spirit wants to do in our lives. It is interesting that we cannot do anything to earn our salvation for it is a gift. But the scriptures point out to us that there are some things we can and must do. For example, "despise not the chastening of the Lord.” We are not to despise what God does in our life to discipline us. Rather, we are instructed to submit. The Lord spoke to us "to abide in him.” So we are to "despise not,” we are to "submit" to the Father and we are “to abide in him.” These words become the key to his power. "Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men..." (Heb. 12:3) the voice Readers may direct questions and comments to: hiswinepress@live.com return Seeds of Light: