The Tree and The Seed

ZChurch Message for March 22, 2025 (full service:    • The Tree and The Seed  )

Did you know Jesus used the sycamine tree to illustrate bitterness and unforgiveness? And yet, He said that even faith as small as a mustard seed can uproot it completely! Join Pastor Loretta Huggins as she unpacks Luke 17:1-10 — a powerful lesson on faith, forgiveness, and transformation.

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Luke 17:1-10 KJV 1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! 2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. 3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. 4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him. 5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. 6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you. 7 But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? 8 And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink? 9 Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow (know) not. 10 So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

Hebrews 11:3 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (mechanics of faith)

Faith – (definition) To entrust yourself to something or someone, to put your full confidence, your full safety, your well being in the hands of another person’s words. Resting your entire future in God’s hands even when the outcome seems unclear.

Amos 9:13 (MSG) “Yes indeed, it won’t be long now.” God’s Decree. “Things ae going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won’t be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, blessings! Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and hills.

Isaiah 53:1 (The Voice) Indeed, who would ever believe it? Who would possibly accept what we’ve been told? Who has witnessed the awesome power and plan of the Eternal in action? 2 Out of emptiness he came like a tender shoot from rock-hard ground.

Galatians 3:13-14 13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.