Streamed on: Jun 12, 11:00 am EDT

218

MSOP | Jun 12, 2025 | Melchizedek School of Priesthood
You were created to be a tree of righteousness, designed to bear fruit that reflects the divine nature within you. This fruit is not mere external behavior but the manifestation of an inner transformation that occurs when the seed of Christ takes root in your heart.

Every tree produces fruit according to its nature—this is an unchangeable spiritual law. The fruit you bear reveals the true seed operating within you. If you find yourself consistently drawn to teachings that make you feel good about your current state without challenging you to grow, examine whether these messages are developing Christ's nature in you or merely feeding your flesh. True spiritual teaching will often make you uncomfortable because it confronts areas that need transformation.

Your heart operates like soil with different conditions—some areas may be hard like stone, others choked with thorns of worldly concerns, and some ready to receive seed. You must actively work to break up the fallow ground of your heart through repentance, which means ongoing change, not just confession. This process requires patience and consistency as God's word gradually conquers every resistant area within you.

Love is not something you learn or perform—it is the very nature you inherit when you are born of God. Because your heavenly Father is love, you love not because of what others do, but because love is who you are at your core. This understanding transforms how you approach relationships and challenges, moving you from conditional responses to unconditional expressions of divine nature.

Be aware that deception often comes from within religious communities, not from obvious outsiders. Those who teach messages that sound spiritual but ultimately serve to make people comfortable in their current state may be antichrist spirits—they appear like Christ but work against His transforming power. Test every teaching by asking: "Does this develop the seed of Christ in me, or does it appeal to my flesh?"

You are not living solely for yourself. Creation itself eagerly awaits your maturation into the full stature of Christ because through mature believers, God's original intention for earth can be restored. Your daily choices, responses, and level of spiritual development affect the spiritual atmosphere around you and determine which spiritual forces can operate in your environment.

Spiritual warfare is not occasional dramatic encounters but daily, consistent engagement with opposing forces until victory is complete. Like a wrestler maintaining body-to-body contact, you must stay engaged with truth and resist the constant pressure to compromise or abandon challenging principles for easier, more popular alternatives.

Expect resistance when you commit to spiritual growth and truth. The more you align with divine principles, the more you may find yourself opposed by those who prefer comfort over transformation. Do not be discouraged by small gatherings or lack of external validation—focus on the reality of transformation happening within yourself and others who are genuinely seeking God's nature.

Every encounter with divine truth should lead to repentance—not self-condemnation, but joyful recognition of areas where you can grow more like Christ. This ongoing process of change is evidence that the seed of God's nature is actively working within you, producing the fruit that creation is waiting to see.

Your purpose is not to convince others of your spirituality through external displays, but to become so transformed by divine nature that the fruit of Christ's character naturally emerges from your life, bringing light to darkness and establishing God's kingdom wherever you are planted.