Unless you are born anew, you cannot enter the Kingdom. Unless you are born of water and spirit, you cannot see the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of spirit is spirit.
The New Christians of the 21st Century who are ready to walk with Me unto Truth and Eternal Life…
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. I am the vine, and you are the branches. And the Father requires of me only that you shall bear much fruit.
The vine is pruned only to increase the fruitfulness of its branches. Every branch coming out of me which bears no fruit, the Father will take away. Every branch which bears fruit, the Father will cleanse that it may bear more fruit.
Already are you clean through the word I have spoken, but you must continue to be clean. You must abide in me, and I in you; the branch will die if it is separated from the vine.
As the branch cannot bear fruit except it abides in the vine, so neither can you yield the fruits of loving service except you abide in me.
Remember: I am the real vine, and you are the living branches. He who lives in me, and I in him, will bear much fruit of the spirit and experience the supreme joy of yielding this spiritual harvest.
If you will maintain this living spiritual connection with me, you will bear abundant fruit. If you abide in me and my words live in you, you will be able to commune freely with me, and then can my living spirit so infuse you that you may ask whatsoever my spirit wills and do all this with the assurance that the Father will grant us our petition.
Herein is the Father glorified: that the vine has many living branches, and that every branch bears much fruit. And when the world sees these fruit-bearing branches—my friends who love one another, even as I have loved them—all men will know that you are truly my disciples.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Live in my love even as I live in the Father’s love. If you do as I have taught you, you shall abide in my love even as I have kept the Father’s word and evermore abide in his love.
When there exists this living connection between divinity and humanity, if humanity should thoughtlessly and ignorantly pray for selfish ease and vainglorious accomplishments, there could be only one divine answer: more and increased bearing of the fruits of the spirit on the stems of the living branches.
When the branch of the vine is alive, there can be only one answer to all its petitions: increased grape bearing. In fact, the branch exists only for, and can do nothing except, fruit bearing, yielding grapes.
So does the true believer exist only for the purpose of bearing the fruits of the spirit: to love man as he himself has been loved by God—that ye should love one another, even as I have loved you.
And when the Father’s hand of discipline is laid upon the vine, it is done in love, in order that the branches may bear much fruit. And a wise husbandman cuts away only the dead and fruitless branches.
In regards to the greater humanity, I have great difficulty in leading many of my general apostles to recognize that prayer is a function of spirit-born believers in the spirit-dominated kingdom.
When I have left you in the years to come, be not discouraged by the enmity of the world. Be not downcast even when fainthearted believers turn against you and join hands with the enemies of the kingdom.
If the world shall hate you, you should recall that it hated me even before it hated you. If you were of this world, then would the world love its own, but because you are not, the world refuses to love you.
You are in this world, but your lives are not to be worldlike.
I have chosen you out of the world to represent the spirit of another world even to this world from which you have been chosen.
But always remember the words I have spoken to you:
The servant is not greater than his master. If they dare to persecute me, they will also persecute you.
If my words offend the unbelievers, so also will your words offend the ungodly.
And all of this will they do to you because they believe not in me nor in Him who sent me; so will you suffer many things for the sake of my gospel.
But when you endure these tribulations, you should recall that I also suffered before you for the sake of this gospel of the heavenly kingdom.
The Universal Parenthood of all Life requires of me creation, preservation, sustenance, evolutionizing impetus, and the ascendancy of every creature within my care and creation.
And all these individual, planetary, system, constellation, galactic, and finally, universal developments occur as we build trust together .. a generosity with one another .. and a cooperative collaboration .. a consideration of hearts .. with constancy and clearness always.
And .. always am I transparent with all my universe children .. truthful and tender .. even during certain moments of chastisement and those very necessary concentrations of intense learning.
I teach you of thine own spiritual harvest of your possibilities and probabilities of potentialities. I guide you in the ways of heaven which do certainly allow you to prosper and advance. I and the Universe Mother watch over you with concern and personal care. We must wait often .. waiting upon your personal choices in favor of orderly growth and observing your decisions .. as you traverse the evolutionary byways of planetary lifetimes in this particular pond of our universe; a planetary pond wherein the vestibule of form .. mortal evolutionary form .. gathers about you with your often pressing concerns for survival.
And in the unfolding harvest of your multidimensionality .. your possibilities and priorities and purposes .. the Universe Spirit and I with a vast legion of universe orders of personality do ever seek to impregnate thine evolutionary moments with the ideas of eternity .. that ye shall gradually arise to partake .. reach to participate .. persevere with every muscle of determination and desire to enter greater understanding and it's application in your personal existence.. your expression .. and in your experience.
Christ Jesus Michael Of Nebadon
21st Century Conclave of the Sovereign Shepherd
