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The Church’s seed
is nought but Christ Himself
Sown into human hearts
as life, thereby
Growing as wheat,
producing flour fine
For bread both God
and man to satisfy.
But Satan hath
the false believers sown
Among the saints
as tares among the wheat,
To bring confusion
and to hinder growth
That they may not fulfill
God’s plan complete.
The Church’s life
just as the herb must be,
Grown out of Christ,
who is the mustard seed;
Hidden and transient,
little on the earth,
But good for food
the hungry ones to feed.
But Satan came
and made the little herb
To change its nature
and to change its form,
That fully grown
it did a tree become
Where many evil ones
may lodge and swarm.
Satan has also used
the fallen “church”
Evil and heathen practice to include,
As leaven mingled
with the meal of wheat,
Thus to corrupt its purity as food.
But Christ as life would
so transform the saints
That they may be as pearl
and precious stone,
As the materials suitable to build
Into His Church to make
His Kingdom known.
Such an assembly
grown in Christ as life,
Transformed and built
with Christ in them annealed,
Is as the goodly pearl
for preciousness
And as the treasure
hidden in the field.
Lord, separate us from
the devil’s “tares,”
Each one deliver from
the monstrous “tree,”
From all the “leaven”
may Thou purify,
That we may be
as food to man and Thee.
Cause us to grow
in life divine each day
That we may be transformed
and built by Thee
Into a body to express Thyself,
That Thou in us Thy Church
and Kingdom see.
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THE CHURCH’S SEED*
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10 10 10 10
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