The Ultimate Intention by Devern F. Fromke

Author:Devern F. Fromke [Fromke, DeVern F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2016-10-20T17:00:00+00:00

22—THE PLANTING AND THE HARVEST

HOW THRILLING IT IS to live in the larger viewpoint and have the Father explain what He is accomplishing now in this present age. In His plan of sanctification we see how He deliberately follows a pattern. Just as the husbandman plants one seed that he might have a harvest of much fruit after its kind, so the eternal Father plants His precious Son that He might in due time bring many sons to glory. How often we have become so fascinated with the growth of the grain that we have overlooked the Husbandman and His intention in...

THE PLANTING AND THE HARVEST

A WONDERFUL, though seldom detected, theme runs through the book of Hebrews. Briefly, it is the story of two bodies the Father has designed for His Son. As a Husbandman, the Father planted His only begotten Son and waits for the growth and harvest of His many regenerated sons who will one day come to glory. God has spoken His full and all-inclusive message by His unique Son, and He will continue to speak throughout the whole universe in ages to come by His coming corporate sons in union with His unique Son. A summary of this theme is seen as follows:

His unique Son—

● “God hast...spoken...in His Son” (literally, ‘sonwise,’ 1:2).

● “Thou art My Son...” (1:5).

● “But of the Son He saith...” (1:8).

● “Christ as Son over His (God’s) house...” (3:6).

His many sons—

● “...bringing many sons unto glory” (2:10).

● “My son, regard not lightly...the chastening...” (12:5).

● “...every son whom He receiveth...” (12:6).

● “God dealeth with you as with sons...” (12:7).

● “Ye are come to the church (assembly) of the First-born who are registered [as citizens] in heaven” (12:23, Amp.).”

Moreover, herein are two bodies: “...when He (Christ) entered into the world, He said...you have made ready a body for Me [to offer]” (Heb. 10:5, Amp.). This natural individual body which He received was offered (planted) in death. But there is another Body of which Paul speaks in Colossians 1:18—the many-membered corporate Body, the Church.

God’s Word speaks much of the first body which the Lord Jesus sacrificed on the Cross, that we might experience a personal setting apart unto God (Heb. 10:10). But here we have only the foothills of truth. The summit of truth reaches far up into a corporate experience of which we only have glimpses at present. “Till we all come...unto a perfect man,” Paul wrote, “unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ” (Eph. 4:13). Not unto many perfect men, but one perfect man—all of us together, Head and Body—a perfect man. “For as the body is one, and hath many members and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ” (1 Cor. 12:12). Norman Grubb notes that it does not say, “so also is the body of Christ,” but “so also is Christ.” Can we conceive of this? We are led to a final unification with Christ which is beyond our present understanding.

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