Understanding the Sabbath
Today’s Focus: The Principal of Sowing: The Field of the Spirit
Scripture: John 3:16; Romans 6:13,19; 12:1; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 2 Corinthians 8:5;
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
We know that there are two elements of rest that we can for the members of our body in this time. That is rest for our soul and our spirit. Now our spirit comes to rest when we receive the Holy Spirit into our hearts. The rest for the spirit is a gift given by God to the sons of God. Now if we are sowing into the spirit then there are things that we should do and things that we should not do. That seems to be pretty elementary but let’s see what are those things and how do we sow into the field of the Spirit.
Romans 6:13: Neither yield ye your members (body, soul and spirit) as instruments of unrighteousness UNTO SIN: BUT YEILD YOURSELVES UNTO GOD (THE SPIRIT), as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
So God starts off by telling us not to yield to sin. That requires us to deny the desires of the flesh and desire the Will of the Father
Romans 6:19: I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity (sickness) of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto inquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Romans 12:1: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service.
When we see reasonable service, this means, it should automatically be done and without prompting. It is not a bonus to live holy, that is how a son of God should live anyway. That is your reasonable service. So to yield your body to God is a reasonable service because He was the one that gave it to you anyway. Hence your own body is not really yours. Let’s prove it.
1 Corinthians 6:20: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, WHICH ARE GOD’S.
2 Corinthians 8:5: And this they did, not as we hoped, BUT FIRST GAVE THEIR OWNSELVES TO THE LORD, AND UNTO US BY THE WILL OF GOD.
To sow to the Spirit is to deny your flesh and your soul and follow the Spirit. Allowing the Spirit to live through you to do the Will of God. You do not yield to sin and unrighteousness. You blind the eyes of your soul to see through the eyes of the Spirit and you are lead and guided by the Spirit to do the Will of God. So the biggest step that we as the sons of God must take in sowing to the Spirit is to deny the flesh and yield all our members, flesh, body and soul to God for His Will because it belongs to God.
In the next message we will look at the seeds that we can sow and their end results and yield.
Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
