THE UNION AND THE BIRTHING

Mother’s Day 2001
May 13, 2001 am
MF Blume

Genesis 3:16  Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

John 16:16-22  A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father. Then said [some] of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father? They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith. Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me? Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.



Jesus, of course, spoke of His death and resurrection to the disciples who wondered what He meant by speaking of departing from them and then returning again. Note that Adam was told to multiply. God desires mankind to, in similar manner, birth forth His Christ into our world. God works in our lives in two phases which both involve the thought of birthing.

(1) First, we are born again.

John 3:3  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
We become children of God.

We come into a new universe of the kingdom of God and see a world that the unregenerate do not know.

(2) And then Christ is formed in our lives and we are birth His life and His ways into the world around us through our lives.

JESUS USES PRINCIPLE OF THE MOTHER WHEN DESCRIBING DISCIPLES

John 16:20-22  Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
Jesus spoke to the disciples as being in sorrow as a mother is in sorrow when she travails to give birth.


HEARTS IMPREGNATED BY SEED

But perhaps Jesus implied more than that. With that in mind, turn to:
Hebrews 4:2  For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard [it].
The seed is the word and the word is mixed with FAITH.

What part of us believes and has faith?

Romans 10:10  For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
The HEART believes.
Hebrews 10:22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
So the HEART is where FAITH exists. The heart is the SOIL.

As in Jesus’ parable in Luke 8, some HEARTS have other elements in them besides FAITH.

Your heart is precious, people. Don’t let it bring forth thorns of death.
 
What WORD do we receive? The word is a SEED. More specifically the WORD we receive is Christ and Him crucified. IDENTIFY WITH HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION And Jesus told us to eat His flesh and drink His blood.  

BIRTH FORTH VICTORY OF CHRIST IN YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES

Those who constantly identify with Christ’s death by faith, will birth forth Christ’s life from their lives.

When hard times come, and you do not have the strength to battle a situation, identify yourself with Christ.

When fear attacks your mind, recall your union with Him. You take a spiritual communion every time you enter a situation that requires faith and you then identify yourself with Him and claim victory over that situation on the basis of your union with Him.

You are not going to stand up against fear, stress or the devil himself, unless you have faith in your union with Christ.
 

THOSE WHO HAVE NOT FAITH IN THEIR UNION TO CHRIST

Many of you are united to Christ, but you have no faith in it, nor understand it.


JOY IN THE BIRTHING

Like a mother has joy and forgets the sorrow of travail, you will have joy when you birth Christ’s victory into your situation.

Every battle you win will result from birthing Christ’s victory through your life into that battle.

Hebrews 4:2 says we mix the word with faith and in verse 11 he calls that the LABOUR we must experience.
Hebrews 4:11  Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Women undergo “Labour” while in travail.

Let us labour.


"JOY OF THE LORD" IS YOUR STRENGTH

There are many believers who have backslidden away from the Lord. So, if you have lost your joy, then recognize that it was not JOY OF THE LORD that you once had.
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