(The most important parable in the Bible, part 4)

02-27-22 This message may be viewed live streaming video at youtube.com and tabernacleofmoses.org today Sunday at 11:00 am, and repeated 24/7 thereafter. The video, audio, and study notes are archived.

Commentary: God is Thought. “God is a Spirit” (John 4:24). “God is love” (1 John 4:8,16). The parable of The Sower Soweth the Word (of the love of Father God), as found in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, are three similar points-of-view (personal perceptions) that empathize the planting and growth of the “seed” of the love of Father God in our hearts (minds); whereas the gospel of John, while accepting and paralleling the views of the latter three gospel writers regarding this parable, empathizes the “fruit” of that planted “seed” of the love of Father God, thereby embracing the Holy Spirit of God.

JOHN’S GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

John 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. John 15:2 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. John 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. John 15:4 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. John 15:5 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. John 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 

THE HOLY SPIRIT INTERPRETATION

(John 15:1) I am [Jesus Christ (part of the Holy Trinity)] the true vine [Gk: a vine (as coiling about a support)] [i.e., a picture of the Son dependent upon and loving His Father], and my Father [God the Creator (syn: Maker, Inventor, Originator, Architect, Designer, Author)] is the husbandman [Gk: landworker, farmer /// soil worker] [i.e., the land (soil, ground) is the thoughts of your mind (fig. your heart; please note that the true vine grows (expands, matures) in the ground (thoughts) of your heart] [1,2]. (John 15:2) Every branch [Gk: a limb or shoot] [angel (fruit tree), i.e., God’s fallen thoughts] in me [“the true vine”] that beareth [Gk: brings forth] not [good] fruit [on the tree branch of you, corresponding to “by the way side” & “on the rock” are not saved persons (not Restored Angels – i.e., not Restored God-Thoughts)] he taketh away [the principle of separation; the ultimate separation is Heaven and Hell]: and every branch [angel (the tree branch of you), God’s Original Thoughts] that beareth fruit [“among thorns” servants, support troops & “on the good ground” friends, combat troops, are saved persons (Restored Angels – Restored God-Thoughts)] [i.e., generating 30 fold fruit on the tree branch of you] [3], he purgeth it [Gk: cleanses, (specif. prunes) /// clean, clear, purify], that it may bring forth more fruit [generating 60 fold fruit on the tree branch of you]. (John 15:3) Now [Gk: by this time] ye are clean [Gk: clear, pure] through the word [Gk: logos; something said (including the thought)] [i.e., the seed] which I have spoken [4] unto you. (John 15:4) Abide [Gk: stay: dwell, remain] in me [in the Word of God, in the Bible], and I [will abide] in you. As the branch [angel] cannot bear [Holy (created, original)] fruit of itself [Lucifer-Satan is an unholy broken off “branch” of the “true vine.” Lucifer-Satan is a fruit tree (angel) in the Garden of Eden (a type and shadow of Heaven) who bears unoriginal changed (perverted) thoughts, and thus unholy (not of God) fruit], except it abide [Gk: stays: dwells, remains] in the [“true”] vine [of Jesus Christ]; no more can ye [can you bear fruit], except ye abide [Gk: stay: dwell, remain] in me [in the Bible, in Jesus Christ]. (John 15:5) I am the vine, ye are the branches [Gk: limbs or shoots] [i.e., angels (fruit trees): He that abideth in me [in the Bible], and I [my words] in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit [generating 100 fold fruit on the tree branch of you]: for without me ye can do [i.e., create] nothing. (John 15:6) If a man abide [believe] not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered [Gk: desiccated, shriveled: dried up /// (through the idea of scorching)]; and men [i.e., (post-rapture) Restored “angels” Matt 13:41] gather them [during the thousand years of the Millennium], and cast them into the fire, and they are burned [Gk: consumed] [Matt 13:42,43] [5].

1.    Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, Eph 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 

2.    (Eph 5:25) Husbands [farmers, landworkers, sacrificially spend the remaining precious gift of your allotted life-time in this world] love [ing] your wives [plant your love seed in the ground (thoughts) of her heart (mind)], even as Christ also [sacrifically] loved the church [spiritually (He does so), by planting His love seed (Thoughts) into your collective hearts (minds); physically (you do so), by inseminating your love into her willing ground], and gave himself for it [i.e., sacrificed Himself for it]; (Eph 5:26) That he might sanctify [Gk: make holy] and cleanse [Gk: purge, purify] it [the church, you] with the washing [Gk: a bath, fig. baptism /// to bathe (the whole person)] [i.e., to immerse the whole person in your love (in God’s word)] of water [a type and shadow of the Holy Spirit] by the word [Gk: rhema; (revelations)] [the fruit (the true meaning) of the message], (Eph 5:27) That he [Jesus Christ] might present it [the church (collectively, the thoughts of its members)] to himself [in a Holy wedding, with the flaming intensity of a welding (i.e., as/to the gold and silver; a Unifying with our God who is a consuming fire)] a glorious [Gk: splendid, fig. noble: gorgeous, honourable /// glory (as very apparent)] church, not having spot [Gk: stain or soil: defiled], or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish [Gk: faultless]. 

3.    fold = Dict.: 1. a pen in which to keep sheep. 2. sheep kept together; flock of sheep. 3. a group or organization with common interests; aims, faith, etc., as a church.

a.     fold = Dict.: 1. (a specified number of) times.

4.    (John 1:14) And the Word [Gk: logos; something said (including the thought)] [i.e., the Word of God, the Bible, Jesus Christ] was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten [Gk: born] of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 

5.    (Matt 13:41) The Son of man shall send forth his angels [Restored “men” John 15:6], and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; (Matt 13:42) And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. (Matt 13:43) Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Amen