What Generates Your Life?

MF Blume
February 18, 2001 pm


1 Peter 2:9  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Matthew 3:7-11  But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

Jesus spoke to the same Pharisees.
Matthew 23:33  Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

John 8:32-34  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

John 8:37-44  I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.



A generator produces a generation.
John the Baptist spoke to the Pharisees and said they were a generation of vipers. The opposite of that is the chosen generation called the Church. Notice that John spoke of the aspects of trees as he spoke to the generation of vipers. When God called Moses in the wilderness, notice the details.
Exodus 3:3-5  And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Moses was in that desert for 40 years. For example:
Exodus 4:10  And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
However we read the following:
Acts 7:22  And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
Why did he say he was not eloquent, and then we read in Acts that he was mighty in words? However, that "generation" died. All of the carnality that Moses acquired in Egypt was stripped away from him. Joshua was with the Hebrews as they were ready to conquer Canaan. Forty years passed, and these doubters died. Where did we read of removing one's shoes before? The removal of shoes speaks of cessation from walking your own way and the beginning of walking the way that God wants us to walk.

When Moses saw the burning bush, he saw a representation of something.

In Revelation chapter 1, John also saw Christ in the midst of a set of burning branches. When there is grudges in christians' lives towards other christians, until they cannot talk to one another, all of that is generation of flesh and the serpent. Joshua threatened an angel, due to his boldness and courage, having seen the last of the generation of doubters die away in the wilderness. John saw the churches like branches stemmed from Jesus. The Life of Jesus was the LIGHT OF MEN. The fruit of LIFE is the LIGHT OF MEN.
John 15:1-5  I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
God wants to use us in this dark world. Jesus wants to pump His life through a like sap through a branch. But the generation of flesh has to be removed from working in our lives. Most of the Christian denominational world is simply a generation of flesh.

Let us allow the Lord to burn His light through our lives and to generate the light of life.

Treat people the way Jesus did.

Jesus spoke of a master who demanded the equivalent of millions of dollars from a poor man.

The man then confronted a neighbour who owed him only twenty dollars. Jesus forgave us of an entire "generation" of sin. Is your life a life of unforgiveness, and anger and bitterness over past troubles? What generates your life? Egypt is often compared to the world from which we are saved. You are called to a ministry of some kind. God did not call you to church attendance, and nothing more.


(We will continue this thought in the following sermons.)


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