Seed Community Church

Seed Community Church Seed Community is an Evangelical Church plant where Jesus Christ, and life in his name, might be known and promoted in Swan Hill, the Mallee and beyond.

18/07/2026

Seed Church will be closed Sunday 19 July 2026. The reason? We want to honour and respect Eric Hutchins and especially honour Marj. Marj passed away last night, a lovely God fearing woman who worked tirelessly for the Lord and the Church. It was unexpected and like all things unexpected, leaves us in shock. God bless you Marj and you are now enjoying His rest and presence forever. Tomorrow we will be heading to the Swan Hill Baptist church to honour Marj and be there for Eric in this very difficult time.

27/06/2026

If you were thinking of joining us for church tomorrow, please don't. We aren't holding service on the 28 June due to unforeseen circumstances. So no church tomorrow but we are back up and running next weekend.

08/06/2025

And here is today's message.

Ephesians 3:9-10

Entirely dependent on God's Holy Spirit.

Identity, ministry and humility.

Bringing things to light. It is the mission of the bible teacher.

It is a remarkable thing that God has given Paul the responsibility to impart to the gentiles the mystery of God's plan.

GOD HAS A PLAN
God's plan goes back to before the foundation of the world.

Paul's mission was to shed light on these mysteries.

God's plan and purpose from all eternity is to be through His people. At the heart of God's plan is His Church. All churches who meet are doing so as a part of the plan He established before time began.

So that people ultimate plan for the world is seen in an embryonic way in the Church. We are all connected in Christ. Whether we are believers in Russia or the US or even in Israel.

Churches that are under attack are ones who take the Word of God seriously. Not much attack on Churches that don't believe the Bible.

THAT PLAN HAS BEEN HIDDEN.
It is the bible that gives us the great revelation of God's purposes.

The bible gives us the great scheme of humanity. The bible tells us about darkness of the world and the fact that the Light of God came into. That darkness lead many a musician had a dream that war and conflict would disappear. But look at history. It hasn't happened. War and darkness is still with us.

Without the wisdom of God man in his wisdom cannot know God. The responsibility of the church in every generation is to shine light into a dark world.

Is global warming the real issue with the world. It is the only area that there seems to be total agreement. But global warming isn't the biggest issue facing the world. Darkness is. Jesus is the answer. Nothing else matters. Whether global warming is an issue or not, the world needs a Church prepared to proclaim that Jesus is the answer.

Jesus created everything. Here's a staggering thought, this is God's world. He made it.

There is a sense of abject hopelessness in the world. They don't understand how they started, how the continue or how they will end. Without God nothing makes any sense.

The world God made and it was good. Man has spoilt the world and so all the bad things man does makes the world bad.

GOOD - BAD - NEW
Good world, made bad by sin, is made new through the work of Jesus. The gospel is not about what we have to do but about what God has done for us

When God's plan is complete Jesus will return.

All injustice will be dealt with when the King comes back. Evil doers may look like they get away with it. But they won't. There is no hope for peace on earth except through the Prince of Peace.

Christian make sure that as you view our world, do so in light of these truths.

08/06/2025

Forgot to post last week's message. Here it is.

Ephesians 3:7-13

We need to be grateful of the pastors in our lives.

We start of with three words Identity, Humility and Responsibility.

The message of the Gospel is not a story about what you do to make yourself a Christian.

So what is the Gospel? We need to be sure that we understand what we're saying when we say the gospel.

It is the message of salvation through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ conveying divine power to save all those who believe. The story of the Gospel is that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself.

The appeal of the gospel is to men and women to receive the Reconciliation provided for them in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ and this is Paul's message and it was as a servant of this message that he was made a minister.

He was made a minister. No man may make himself a minister. Serving by divine initiative. It is by appointment. God gives it all. It's not something that we can make, happen ourselves. It is but by the Grace of God.

Paul was a Pharisee of Pharisees and left to his own devices that's what he would have pursued. But God intervened. We don't have a predisposition to beliieve Jesus. It was by the gift of Grace of God that Paul was called to be a minister of the Gospel.

We don't want a Pastor who says that they could become a doctor, an engineer or lawyer. Then think "no I'll become a Pastor the church looks like a good job". No we need someone who is called by God, someone who can do nothing else really.

Humility

Humbled by the fact that God calls us. Never tire of saying how much God has done for us. All the.things Paul did and he counts them as nothing but considers the blessing of being forgiven as foremost.

Paul recognises that he isn't an obvious choice. He is least likely as he is at the bottom of the pile. Grace of God so showered upon him that he knows who God is, who Jesus is too. Paulus in Latin means "little". It is believed that Paul was short.

Spiritual pride is the worst. Everything we have is a gift and how can we pride ourselves in that.

Responsibility

Amazing that God would choose someone who hated gentiles the become an apostle to the gentiles.

We want a Gospel for nice people. But God comes to save sinners and when God shines His light of Grace upon you, what a joy, what a blessing.

The wisdom of God is actually foolishness to those who are perishing. Does the pastor preach Christ. If yes then he is on the right track.

Pastors aren't there to give ethical talks or be political. The Pastors role is to preach Christ. That's his job. Don't give people what they want you give them what they need. And they need Christ.

Paul loved to tell us all about Jesus.

If you are in need of salvation, turn to Jesus. He is to us Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption. He is all of these to us. Without Him we have nothing. He redeems us from the pit.

25/05/2025

Today's message 25 May 2025

Starts off with Acts 22 and Paul's testimony regarding his salvation. Then moved Ephesians 3:1-6.

No one was more amazed at the grace of God than Saul of Tarsus. His works to destroy the way was clearly obvious and the transformation made even more amazing. What was also amazing was that the Lord could choose a more unlikely person to go the the gentiles.

Talk about mystery novels and how we try to figure out the ending. The word mystery in Ephesian is a word that cannot be deduced from human wisdom. We need the Spirit of God to fully understand.

Paul was comvinced that he needed to oppose Jesus of Nazareth until he encountered Jesus on the road to Damascus. And then he tells us how he preached the gospel and that only true understanding came from the Holy Spirit.

In 1 Corinthians he wrote that you can't argue someone into salvation but it is the work of the Spirit.

Entrance of God's word brings life but men and women can't grasp it unless God sheds His light on it.

We possess no intuitive radar. The barrier is impenetrable and only God can tear it down. We can't.

Do you think that Paul would be surprised that we are reading his letter that he wrote 2000 years ago. Some would say yes which is wrong. Paul would not have been surprised. He had seen the risen Christ and so he understood that his letters actually carried the Authority of God.

2 Peter 3 speaks about Paul writing scripture. Their unique foundational role in the Church. We don't need other revelation as we have the scriptures.

Verse 6 and the mystery. Thinking about Jesus and it is a great mystery. The mystery of the incarnation. The mystery of Jesus being fully God and fully man. Only by the Holy Spirit does a person bow down. Jesus is the substance and the source of this mystery.

This truth is clear and understandable. It is a mystery only to those who haven't the Spirit of God.

3 chapters in Acts 10, 11 and 12. It's the story of Peter who needed to be converted of his faulty view of the Gentiles. He was hanging out with Simon the tanner who deals with dead animals. A big no no to Jews. Same with the vision of all the animals. He needed to realise that what God makes clean, is clean indeed.

God doesn't show favouritism. No special nation status anymore. Cornelius needed to be dissuaded from worshipping Peter as a god and Peter needed to be dissuaded from treating Cornelius as a dog.

And how blessed are we because of this.

14/05/2025

There will be no Church service for the 18th May. Apologies for any inconvenience.

11/05/2025

Ephesians 3:1-13

Paul is writing to the saints in Ephesus who are faithful in Christ Jesus. In Ephesus and in Christ.

Are you in Christ. Former life absolutely opposed to Christ and now he was in Christ.

We are placed into a community. This thread has been with us in our journey through Ephesians. Unity despite our nationality and ethnicity. Even if you are an only child you have brothers and sisters here and all over the world.

Community in the Christian life is not an idea but a reality. When we were placed in Christ we are organically related to anyone else who has been placed in Christ. We are sharing citizenship and members of one family.

Don Carson has a wonderful quote regarding this, this is what he writes. The church is not made of natural friends, it is made up of natural enemies. What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs or anything of the sort, Christians come together not because they form a natural collocation, but because they have been saved by Jesus Christ. In this light he says, they are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus sake.

On our own we can't convey the wonder of what it means to be in Christ, we do it best together. Some of us are tempted to view the gospel as an individual, we will look at Church stuff as an optional extra. But it isn't. We would need to wonder if you understood what it means to be in Christ.

Paul was in prison when he wrote Ephesians. The first point in chapter 3 is that even though a prisoner of Nero in Rome, he says he is a prisoner for Christ Jesus. He has no agitation. No resignation. No stoicism. Here he is showing exultation. It is what has happened to him that advances the gospel. How do we react when things don't go as we plan?

Andrew Murray. His words. I am here by God's appointment, in His keeping, under His training, for His time.

This makes all the difference in the world. It doesn't actually change the circumstance, it is what it is, through the storm, you are not out of the storm, you are going through the storm, and Paul writes out of the storm tossed experience of his prison and he says I am a prisoner for Christ Jesus. Not only a prisoner but a prisoner for you gentiles.

The Jewish people had an issue with this. Read Acts 22 to see how they reacted when Paul pointed out that he was an Apostle to the gentiles.

There was a new temple, a new people. All through Christ Jesus. Jews couldn't stand the fact that Gentiles were being saved too.

The gospel of Jesus is a radical story. It is grounded in the fact that God from all eternity has planned the rescue of both Jew and Gentile. Where can a Jew and Gentile meet together in peace? The rich and the poor. In the church. We are the temple. We aren't going up to the temple, it is coming down to us.

What we have here on earthcin the Church is partial. In heaven it will be perfect.

04/05/2025

Ephesians 2:19-22

ART
Alienated
Reconciiled
Transformed

At one time. Refers to who we were. A description of humanity without God. Helpless. What can a dead person do to make themselves alive. And we were hopeless. Without hope.

But now. We are reconciled to God through the cross. The account has been settled by Jesus. No longer strangers and aliens.

A real observable difference between the Christian and the Non Christian.

Paul's conversion was dramatic. Not all of our conversions are dramatic. Transformation may occur over a long period of time. As we read God's word, as we pray, as we learn more, one day we look back and realise we have been transformed.

Faith in Jesus makes the greatest of distinction.

We are now fellow citizens with the saints. In Christ we have a new identity.

Members. All of God's people together in His household.

We belong to God and we belong to each other. We can choose our friends but not our family. Same with Church. Some people Church shop, never satisfied.

How long did it take Jesus to wait for you to get your act together. He didn't, He took you in as you were. We can't make ourselves clean, only He can do it.

Jesus is the cornerstone and everything else fits into Him.

We are stones in God's temple. He is building something. Being joined together in Christ, building a holy temple.

The dwelling place of God is in the Church.

We may be from different cultures, backgrounds, education, yet we are one. We worship the same God, share the same saviour.

We are all stones, not always fitting well together. We all require chiselling and hammering to get us to fit together.

Do we think that those who are stuck up snobs would need to have their trough edges knocked off, of course they do. Our culture is manifestly chaos. And it is a phenomenal opportunity for the Church.

The building isn't the Church. Jesus is present in us, not the building.

The character of a local church is molded by the self perception of those who are members.

Wise as serpents and harmless as dogs. We differ from each other on innumeral levels. But in Christ we are one.

27/04/2025

Passage for today. Ephesians 2:11-22

We long for peace and harmony. Lennon in his song Imagine stated that the only way for the world to move forward is to have an end to religion. Seems nowadays we can only achieve this not by the end of religion but by blending all religions.

Universal agreement that our world is broken. No agreement with the cause or cure. Yet Ephesians, written years ago, has the remedy.

Peace discovered in the context of hostility. Jesus is our peace. He is making peace and He preached peace.

Jesus is the prince of peace. Paul's life was marred by hostility, he had a hatred for people and pursued those people and imprisoned them even to death. Paul discovered how wrong he was.

The devil is the great fabricator. He has convinced everyone that the answer is the problem. The problem is you people who talk about Jesus.

It's a matter of truth.

Jesus stands and says I am the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except through me. The only way to meet the God who made us is through the Prince of Peace.

Separation was replaced by integration

Hostility swallowed up in community

Jesus is creating a completely new society with barriers broken down and the church is that society.

We are to be an indication to a broken world what Jesus has done in us. We aren't perfect but we need to do our best.

Jesus has broken down the wall. This wall being broken means absolutely everything to both Jew and Gentile. There was a wall between us, but in Christ no longer.

The laws were written for an interim purpose. It all pointed to Jesus. The law isn't done away with, it's a mirror to show me that it is through Christ alone that I'm saved.

The only solution to the middle east crisis is to get the Arab and the Jew together. And the only way that can happen is if both accept Jesus. Then they become one in Christ. No more emnity.

He has made one in place of two. He has done this in order to create in Himself one new man in the place of two. He has taken those who were once separated from one another who were actually hostile to one another. And he has created one new man in the place of two. No distinction for those near nor far away. They both have access to the Father.

All the things we hold dear are irrelevant when we come to Christ. Think of Paul, the Pharisee of Pharisees, he now counts as nothing.

Jesus brings us near. The divisions and distinctions that once separated us can't be in us anymore. Sometimes they are, but Christ breaks down those barriers and we both have access.

Access to where? Not to a temple in Jerusalem but to the Father. The tearing of the curtain ended the temple. We have access to God the Father Himself through Jesus.

Message ends with John Lennon. Imagine there's no heaven, easy if you try, imagine all the people living for today. No thought for yesterday, no thought for tomorrow. And in to this steps Jesus. No need to imagine, we find purpose in Jesus Christ.

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38 Swan Hill Road
Murray Downs, NSW
2734

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10:30am - 11:45am

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