Pinecrest Bible Training Center
1968-2008

John 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone.

Beginning in 2008 the vision and bible school that God so graciously gave Wade Taylor beginning in 1968 came to an abrupt end, falling into the ground and dying.-

We now wait for God to raise up and bring forth His seed of promise in another, that the vision fail not.

Summer 1993

Bread For The Hungry
Vanita Sels

"He that hath ears to hear, let him hear" Matthew 11:15. Here, Jesus sets before us a challenge, as He does to the seven Churches in Revelation, in preparation for His second coming.

In Revelation, He stresses that it is the overcomer of each Church that will enter into His plan and purpose; in Matthew 11:11 He states that it is not the "placement" but the "life with Him" that has value. "Verily I say unto you, among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he."

The New Testament Bride of Christ has a definite advantage for the fulfillment of the divine life that is to be lived. Although the Holy Spirit had been given to John the Baptist in the womb of Elizabeth to aid and fulfill his "placement" in God, the Holy Spirit had not yet been given out of the heart of the resurrected Christ. John had the Spirit-power to obey the law, but he could not manifest the love, for the Lord Jesus Christ had not yet taken the Holy Spirit through the fullness of sacrificial love with which God's agape love could be made available to man.

The God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ, who rules over all things from the heavenlies, is no longer only Spirit. He is a new life - a Spirit Life with a Body that contains all of the obedient, perfected, earthly life of Jesus within, including the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in His bosom. Through the mystery of God in this transformation, this same Holy Spirit can enter into our bosom and bring the abiding life of the Son of God and the Father, that we may reflect God's likeness in fullness.

Can we see why John was able to fulfill the law, but unable to fulfill his work in the Love of Christ, which of necessity and purpose was left for our Great Messiah to fulfill? Can we not see that even the "least in the Bride of Christ" can be as this maiden in the Song of Songs; that by her proper choices and responses can become that "perfect one" to Him? Today this is possible by the strength of His great and totally perfected sacrificial love, which is now available to the "least" by the indwelling Christ (John 14:17-20).