Wheel Wing General Meeting -04.09.2024
Joh 12:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Our Lord Jesus very often spoke in parables and in a language which ordinary people could understand. In the gospel of John, we see how people came to hear from Jesus, receive miracles from Jesus and slowly came to believe in Jesus. Jesus Christ’s name and what all He did spread in and around the place. It went even beyond Israel and Greeks came to meet Him. In John 12:20 we read it.
Joh 12:20-22 Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
This was a sign for Jesus to realize that His time to depart from this world has come. Because He knew His destiny was that of a seed . A seed to be sown on earth, to go hidden from human eyes, to die so that many will get eternal life through Him. So He said the example of the seed.
Example of a Farmer
As soon as the harvesting is over what will a wise farmer do? He will segregate the best quality of the crop from the rest of the grain. This will be used for seed for future. He will prepare it with much care.
Grain will go to the barn for food or market for sale. It will be used for food. He gets his profit for the year out of it. Regarding the grain part of the farmer’s duty is over. Now all his concentration will be on the seed part. He has to prepare the seed grain very carefully so that it would yield 100 percent or even more. He will start working on it.
The Lord showed me how He has established The Army of Jesus with the only purpose of collecting seeds from different Churches, prepare them and prepare also the ground to sow them. All cannot join AOJ. Only the seeds are collected in AOJ. All those who are used as food, to supply food are in other places, like institutional Churches and in hierarchical, organizational Churches. Every Sunday they distribute food to many. People come there to get deliverance, healing, etc. They get their ration every Sunday which is needed for minimum survival.
But the Lord did not create Adam to live on a ration. He was to become the ruler of the earth, owner of all the resources and assets He created. The new Adam, Jesus Christ has made us kings who are to rule over the country’s supplies and resources of the nation to all the people according to their needs. Each member of the Church (Troop Church) should be the wise and faithful steward who supplies food to the workers in his /her Constituency.
Mat 24:45 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?
We are compelled to live in a generation in which the Church has failed even to distribute the ration to those who rely on it. Why such shortage for food with the Church? It is due to the mistake of the Church for the past half century!
The Indian Church
The Indian Church failed to be a wise farmer who segregates seed from food grain during harvest time. India had such a splendid harvest time during the 7 years 2007-2013! The Lord had alerted us to collect 20% of seed (instead of 10%) of this fantastic harvest!
The global Church
For so many years, (may be for the past 50 years) the Church, (global Church) did not care about seeds; It failed to separate seeds from the food grain during harvest , prepare it, to prepare also the ground for sowing it. Hence there is famine in the world for “Truth” a severe famine, as severe as one about which we have never heard or never witnessed in history.
Jesus gives the example of a seed. Regarding the seed of a grain, there are many things we have to study.
- It has to fall into the earth.
- It should die
- Should not remain alone
- Should bear much fruit
- Fall into the earth: There are different ways of a seed grain falling to the earth. For eg. A seed of mango. Any one after eating the flesh part of the mango, will throw it away to the waste box. If it reaches the ground (earth) it will grow into a tree.
Dear Soldiers of AOJ,
Were you thrown to a dustbin at any time in your life? If not your desire to become a seed will remain only as a dream. Unless thrown away, unless you fall to the earth, you will never become a seed. After squeezing the pulp (all the essence) from you, you have to be thrown away by your own family, friends, Church, wife/husband, or children, the institution/ company & so on.. Then You will get an opportunity to reach the ground.
Another opportunity to fall on the ground is somebody identifying your calling should prepare you as a seed and sow you on the proper ground.
- It should die:
Grain used for food will be carefully protected. It will go to posh secure places, The consumer will see that it never comes into contact with the earth or ground, gets mixed with mud, sand, etc. It is stored in safe cupboards, storage houses, godowns, etc. Before using, we clean it, wash it, remove all the mud, sand etc. But the seed has to go to the mud. In the above example, if it is mango seed, it has to be trampled by someone so that it disappears from the surface, goes to the underground not to be seen by anyone. If it remains there for days, weeks, months together, it dies, decayed loses all its originality!
- Should not remain alone:
Suppose the seed which is thrown falls on the ground and remains there alone without any contact with mud or sand, it will remain there alone. It will never become a seed. Unless united to a fellowship a Christian cannot live alone. He needs a fellowship to grow. That is called Church.
- Should bear much fruit. Jesus wants every believer to give much fruit. The institutional Church failed to collect seeds for the past so many years. Now in order to make reparation for that, the Troop Churches have to make all the soldiers seeds and send them to various countries of the world, especially to the European countries, USA and Australia where there is severe famine for both food and seed.
Shall we take up this challenge?
God will bless us!
Sr. Angelica AJ.