NOW HEAR THE MUSTARD SEED
Mark 4: 30
Someone once told me if I had a little bit of faith, I could move a mountain. Well I can not even move a gopher hill, so I must have no faith at all. I knew this was not the case, and that meant the interpretation must be wrong. So I continued to study, and saw that Jesus said the kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed. Suddenly I knew God is not trying to tell me heaven is little bitty. How could heaven be like a mustard seed? After studying mustard seeds, I learned mustard unlike other plants will not cross-pollinate. If you plant pop corn and sweet corn in rows next to one another, your popcorn will cross- pollinate with the sweet corn and not pop. Mustard will not cross-pollinate; it will be pure mustard no matter what you plant it near. John wrote in his vision of heaven that from the throne of God is a flowing river of pure water and the streets are pure gold. Then I knew heaven is like a mustard seed, because it is pure. If we have pure faith, we can move that mountain.
Next Jesus said it was the least of all seeds when sown in the earth. Now I am a country boy, and I have seen a lot of seeds, and I know that Bermuda grass seeds are very much smaller than mustard seeds. We must know God is true, and Jesus never lies, so I had to be wrong here. I went back to my bible, and on the same page, in the same chapter, in verse fourteen, Jesus said the sower soweth the word. So if mustard is pure and seeds are words, Jesus is talking about the pure word of God. When the pure word of God is sown in the earth, it is the least of all words sown. If you talk to, as many people about God as I have you will soon learn that men will very quickly have a reason they can not stay, because they have something else to do. We all have time for what we want, and none at all for anything that is not really important to us. We all can find time for a movie or a ball game, but there is no time to read our bible. However, if instead I were to tell them they could double their money, suddenly they have time to talk. Money is the big words on earth, or when spoken to worldly men. In the earth the pure word of God is the least of all words. The world is upside down, so we must change our thinking to prize the word above all else, diligently seeking truth. However, you can not serve God and mammon. The word repents means to change the way you think. If we have pure faith as the mustard seed, and his word abides in us we can move that mountain. Faith is to believe what you can not see, for if we see it then, it is no more faith. Doubt is what makes faith impure. Once I met a woman who told me, my daughter has cancer. We prayed for her at our church, but she is eaten up with cancer. I said stop saying that, you prayed believe now and say my daughter had cancer, but praise God she is cured. She said, “well I live in reality.” Prayer can change reality, if it can not why pray. Jesus said say to that mountain be thou removed and believe and it shall be done. Most people do not realize that our power is in the tongue. Everything is controlled by it. Solomon wrote that the power of life and death are in the tongue. But we have a greater than Solomon, because Jesus said if two agree as touching anything they shall have whatever they say. He did not just say just the good but whatever. The woman said my daughter has cancer, and, of course, had no trouble getting people to agree.
Your very salvation is in the tongue, for he said by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned. Not as if Jesus needs conformation, but for better understanding Paul also said, “With the heart we believe unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” The mouth is your power, for good, out of the treasure of a good man’s heart good things come to pass, out of the treasure of an evil mans heart evil things come to pass. Jesus said where your treasure is, there will your heart be, and where your heart is there will your mouth speak. He said you shall know them by their fruits. The fruits of their lips, listen they will tell you who they are. That is not to judge them, but to know them, because Jesus said “JUDGE NOT”. My treasure is setting in the throne of God that is where my mouth speaks. My feet may be standing down here on earth, but my heart is setting firmly in the throne of God. His words are my words, his will is my will, and his life is my life. With this knowledge, I can say my father and I are one. Now don’t freak on me, Paul wrote let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. Jesus was God minded, and God is love. Let his love reign and rule in your heart for he loves you and died to take away our sin, abolishing in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments that was against us, taking it out of the way and