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Frida , November 13, 2009

November 2009

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS OUT OF THE

ALABASTER BOXRETURNING TO GHANA IN AFRICA

INVITATION FROM BROTHER PASIVAL SECKUDear Pastor Murray,Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is good to hearfrom you again, and my pleasure to serve my master Jesus. Glad toknow that you are still committed to the mission to Ghana. I want tosuggest third week of January for your trip to Ghana, that is 18 thJanuary to 3rd February 2010. You will depart from the States on the18th and arrive in Ghana on the 19 th of January, and depart from

Ghana on the 3rd

and arrive in the US on the 4th

of February.I am trusting the Lord that we will gain more grounds this time, soyour message can reach more people. To achieve this we need totrust God to be able to raise enough money for this mission. Weneed to do radio announcement and come out with enough flyers.Organize transport and lunch for the participants. That will give us abig boost.I pray that the Lord open doors for you. Please let me know howmany people are coming with you. My love to your lovely family.Blessings, Brother Secku

WOULD YOU PRAYERFULLY CONSIDER HELPING?

I am not one to ask for money. I do not employ cunning methodsto get people to give. Last year the Lord brought to my spirit in avision burden an African man requesting my coming to help them.Miraculously the doors opened to go to Ghana and by His grace, theLords ministry manifested in this mans spirit. We were able to haveseminars twice per day for pastors. Over 75 pastors attended theseminars. In the evening we had crusades for the general public.The dear pastors in Ghana have told me that the visit from lastJanuary had profound and great affect upon the churches. They haveex ressed that there is need for a far more reachin ministr to man

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more churches.

Last years seminar, which I did not complete, was on the subjectof being stewards of the mysteries of the Gospel from I Corinthians4:1-2: Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, andstewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required instewards, that a man be found faithful. This seminar was given inTemah which adjoins the capital city of Accra. Lord willing, we areplanning to return to Temah as well as going to Ghanas largest cityKumasi. We will also be going to the bush country where juju, orwhat we know as voodoo is powerfully practiced. I have reportsfrom pastors who were eye witnesses to those who can fly under thissatanic power, as well as bring powerful curses upon people they

wish to control.I have personally sensed that this assignment is from the Lord

personally to me from His throne in heaven. If we can send cdswith messages that could go on the radio, the potential would be veryfar reaching. Also to transport people from the country into themeetings is another expense. Airfare, necessary medicines and shotsnecessary to enter Ghana is also quite expensive. I am consideringbringing a team and even possibly bringing one of my sons, Andrewalong. Andrew has a very effective ministry with children andwould be an asset to this journey. I am simply presenting this to youdear reader. Would you please consider supporting this journey?Simply make out any checks to Tree of Life Christian Fellowship,167 East State Street, Nanticoke, PA 18634. We have been sendingout the Seed of the Alabaster Box for some three decades withoutpromoting the ministry or asking for money. The newsletter hassimply been presented in a way of completely lifting up the LordJesus Christ. I am not asking for myself, this is simply for the dearprecious brethren of Ghana to receive the Word that they have sodeeply appreciated.

STEWARDS OF THE MYSTERY

THE NEWEST BOOK SOON TO BE IN PRINT

I am about to complete a book on what it means for a minister tobe a true administrator of the mysteries of the Gospel. It is my hopeto bring a number of these books in my suitcase to give to the pastorsthat will be attending the seminars. While in Ghana, I brought myvideo camera. At the end of the seminar the pastors requested togive a word to the people in America on how much their lives werechanged in bringing the vision of Gods glory to their churches. Thisbook is based out of the seminar of January 2009 and Lord willingthis seminar will be completed in Ghana in January 2010. This bookwill be made available in the near future and it is m sincere ho e to

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get this book into the hands and before the eyes of whom God

ordains to read it. Perhaps that would be you. This book will beavailable at our bookstore online at www.treeoflifefellowship.net.As always, books are a suggested donation, but no one will berefused a book if unable to pay.

MINISTRY IN MUSIC

LIVING SACRIFICE BANDSince 1971 I have been writing music to the glory of God. Under

the direction of God, this music is now being put up on the computeron YouTube with a video presentation. I believe this presentationwith the music brings about a very interesting communication ofGods heart from before the foundation of the world. I want toencourage you and invite you to go to YouTube and type inlivingsacrificeband1 (no spaces). Please note that if there are spaces,you will not go to the correct site. I believe you will find the musicto be quite peculiar with truth and for the most part unable to fit in

the contemporary Christian radio music that is largely limited bytime. Please write or call us and let us know how the music ministrymay have ministered life unto you. Likewise, be aware that songswill be continuously added.

THIS MONTHS NEWSLETTER IS A PORTION OF THE NEW

BOOK

TAKEN FROM THE CHAPTER OF

THE MYSTERY OF JESUS CHRIT AND HIS CHURCH

BONE OF BONEThe expression bone of bone and flesh of flesh has a unique

history in Scripture. It is one of the first expressions of thenewly created man Adam. He speaks this concerning theresult of the deep sleep that God places upon him. (Genesis2:21) This sleep foreshadows the death of Jesus Christ for thesins of the world. Out of the area of the heart of Adam Godtakes a rib and from that rib God brings the love of Adams life,Eve.Genesis 2:23

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones,flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman,because she was taken out of Man.

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Eve being brought to life out of the deep sleep of Adam is a

foreshadowing of the church that is brought forth out of thedeath of Jesus Christ. This is a great mystery as the sacredScripture proclaims. In Adams awakening there is theproclamation of bone of bone. In the resurrection of Jesusthere is the profound proclamation of bone of bone and thegreatest of inspired visionary proclamation!

Ephesians 5:27:That He might preset it to Himself a gloriousChurch, not having spot, or wrinkle, or anySuch thing; but that it should be Holy and

Without blemish.How God can take sinful man and make him bone of boneand flesh of flesh is Gods greatest creation. It is in this greatnew creation that the old fall of man passes away (IICorinthians 5:17) and He makes all things new. (Revelations21:5) The Spirit and the Bride say come. (Revelation 22:17)God illustrates the mystery through marriage.Ephesians 5:28-29:

So ought men to love their wives as their ownbodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but

nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lordthe church.Marriage is under the greatest assault in this time of antichrist.Antichrist does not desire women. (Daniel 11:37) There is theattack to establish marriage like Sodom. This destroys anysociety that adopts it for it is the mockery of the mystery by thepower of hell itself. The entire tribe of Benjamin was nearlyeradicated for accepting this sin. (Judges 21:3)

SOLOMON, THE MYSTERY OF MARRIAGEIN WISDOM AND REVELATION

Marriage is the wisdom of God illustrating the great mystery.This wisdom is illustrated in the Song of Solomon, one of thegreat books of the great mystery wisdom. In the Song ofSolomon, as in other flashpoint Scriptures, we are againbrought into a garden. In the Garden of Eden man is broughtinto the fall and driven from the presence of God, (Genesis3:24) while in the Garden of Gethsemane the process ofSalvation by blood is begun. (Luke 22:44) In the garden ofSolomon, the Spirit of adoption begins the restoration of thegarden of Gods intent.

Son of Solomon 4:12

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A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse;

A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

MY SISTER MY SPOUSE

It is a most interesting terminology the idea of my sister myspouse. A true marriage must have three great loves at workwithin it. There must be the greatest love that requires thelaying down of ones life, the giving of ones life. This is how atrue man is to love a true woman. This is how the Lord lovesHis church. This is how a spouse, one that is apprehended tobone of bone, comes into being. The second love is that of

family. The reference to a sister is the reference to the fact thatin marriage family is always to stand together in the great loveof God. The third of the great loves, which is the least, is theromantic love wherein the husband ravishes his wife.(Proverbs 5:19) The false imitation of this love is the lust thatleads to sin. This is where the world has mocked what Godintends and the result has been disease.

Within these loves there is a great fountain that is sealed.This can be found in the spirit of a man that has been born intothe mystery from above. There, where the spring is shut up bythe world, his great love abides an everlasting spring thatfountains. There the blood of Jesus speaks and becomes theRiver of Life, the highway of the heavenly Jerusalem, adornedas a bride.Rev. 21:2-3:

And I John saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem,coming down from God out of Heaven, preparedas a bride adorned for her husband.And I heard a great voice out of Heaven saying,Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, andHe will dwell with them, and they shall be Hispeople, and God Himself shall be with them, and

be their God.The garden is enclosed. Satan cannot enter for the bloodfrom the garden speaks of the cup of suffering that brings theperfect will of God and sanctifies. (Luke 22:42) In that holyblood the fount is loosed and the Tree of Eternal Life that Godintends from the garden manifests.Revelation 22:1-2:

And he showed me a pure river of Water of Life,clear as crystal, proceeding out of the Throne ofGod and of the Lamb.In the midst of the street of it and on either side

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of the river, was there the Tree of Life, which

bear twelve manner of fruits, and yielded herfruit every month: and the leaves of the treewere for the healing of the nations.

GROWING IN THE ENCLOSED GARDENORCHARD OF POMEGRANATES

In the garden of restoration found within the Song ofSolomon, the heart touched with revelation finds an initialencounter with the orchard of pomegranates.Song of Solomon 4:13a:

Your plants are an orchard of pomegranatesTo the Hebrews of Solomons time the pomegranate

represented fertility. Such fertility represented new life. Manyof the ancient Jewish people considered the pomegranate treeto be the Tree of Life from the Garden of Eden. The fruit of thepomegranate tree had only one edible source, the seed. Whenwe equate that seed fills the mystery parables, we can seewhy God created the seed to be the first source of food in theSolomon garden of His great love. It must also be noted thatfrom this seed a choice wine is made. Water made into winewas the first miracle that Jesus performed at a wedding, thebeginning of the great mystery reflected. (John 2:10)Song of Solomon 8:2:

I would lead you, and bring you into my mothershouse, who would instruct me: I would cause youto drink of spiced wine of the juice of my

pomegranate.In the Torah there are 613 commands of God. It was

commonly reported amongst the Hebrews of this time that thepomegranate fruit will hold 613 seeds To these believers thissymbolized that in the keeping of the law there was life. That isindeed true if we could keep the law that we are incapable ofkeeping. Only the Promised Seed of Abraham, Jesus Christ,could do that for before Abraham was I Am. (John 8:58)

The pomegranate also had a special place in the temple andthe priesthood. A symbolic pomegranate was interwoven witha bell into the ephod of the high priest entering into the Holiestof Holies.Exodus 28:34 35:

A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden belland a pomegranate, upon the hem of the roberound about.And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: andhis sound shall be heard when he goes in untothe Hol Place before the Lord and when he

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comes out, that he die not.

Likewise when Solomon built Davids Tabernacle by preciseheavenly direction, (I Chronicles 28:11-12) the pomegranatewas integrated into the expression of the pillar which held thetemple up.I Kings 7:18:

And he made the pillars, and two rows roundabout upon the one network, to cover thechapiters that were upon the top, withpomegranates: and so did he for the otherchapiter.

In an orchard of pomegranates we find an expression of an

abundance of holiness, union, strength, and mystery in theeternal mystery expressed in the wisdom we know as theSong of Solomon.

CAMPHIREThe second plant of this garden of divine thought is

camphire. Camphire is the perfume of love in the enclosedgarden. Camphire is also known as the henna plant. Camphireis a cream colored abundant flowering plant that grows togreat stature. Camphire is extremely fragrant when crushed.Camphire when crushed can produce a dye and perfume that

was used on the palms of hands and feet by the children ofIsrael. Camphire is in abundance in the wilderness of Engedi.Engedi was the wilderness that became a stronghold to David.(I Samuel 23:29) There in the abundance of camphire, Davidwould learn the lessons of a broken, crushed spirit that wouldmake him the King of Israel. His lineage would be the lineageof the Messiah. This will be proclaimed twelve times in theGospel of Matthew.

David was hidden in the cave in the midst of camphire. It isalways interesting to note that what is led by God is oftenhidden. Joseph was brought by God into Egypt under the mostdifficult and painful of circumstances. Joseph was hidden byGod in slavery for many years.Psalms 105:17-18:

He sent a man before them, even Joseph,who was sold for a servant:whose feet they hurt with fetters: he waslaid in iron.

Despite Joseph experiencing terrible sufferings, God willultimately lead His chosen man for a corporate purpose.Psalms 80:1:

Give ear O She herd of Israel thou that

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leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest

between the cherubims, shine forth.David is a similar man. It is in the wilderness of betrayal that

David is brought to the camphire of Engedi. There his handsand feet will be covered in the fragrance of the grace ofcamphire unto corporate mystery. In Engedi David is broughtinto the stronghold of being hidden. As David is hidden in thecave of Engedi, Saul comes to sleep in this cave thinking he isin safety. The enemy is never in safety when the Lordsservants are hidden in the death of Jesus. There David willcome into the test of self-will as opposed to mercy. While Saulsleeps, David cunningly cuts off the corner of Sauls robe. (I

Samuel 24:4) Davids action is restrained by the living God inthe lesson of authority. David is not to touch Gods anointed.(Psalms 105:15) God touches Davids conscience and hespares the life of Saul in mercy. God has prepared David andbrings him out of the hidden place into the resurrectionfragrance of camphire.I Samuel 24:8-11.

David also arose afterward, and went out of thecave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord theking. And when Saul looked behind him, Davidstooped with his face to the earth, and bowed

himself.And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thoumens words, saying, Behold David seeketh thyhurt?Behold this day thine eyes have seen how thatthe Lord had delivered thee to day into minehand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee:but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will notput forth mine hand against my lord; for he is theLords anointed.Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy

robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt ofthy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and seethat there is neither evil nor transgression in minehand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thouhuntest my soul to take it.

In being brought out of the cave he is a shadow ofresurrection. His hands spiritually dyed in camphire, havespared life in mercy. His feet in like shadow fashion walk in theresurrection power of grace that will bring all of Israel to callhim kin . He would walk in the fra rance of the shadow of the

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coming King who would be hidden in death and resurrected to

where all of creation and every knee will bow to Him!(Philippians 2:11)From the wilderness of camphire would arise one of the

great shadows of Jesus Christ who will be called the Son ofDavid by the blind desiring to see. (Mathew 9:27) David will becalled by a corporate body, who he takes into Zion, the nameof marriage mystery. The corporate Israel will cry to David Weare your bone and flesh. May the camphire fragrance of Hisgreat grace touch our hands and feet. In the enclosed gardenlet there be a working of grace by the marks of the cross.(Galatians 6:17)

II Samuel 5:1, 2:Then came all the tribes of Israel to David untoHebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thybone and thy flesh.

Also in time past, when Saul was king over us,thou wast he that leddest out and broughtestin Israel: and the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt

be a captain over Israel.

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