(Ver 1.2)  This is now Part 8 of a series of lessons on the concepts and laws surrounding seeds found in the Bible.  The Seed is a natural divinely inspired design principle revealed in creation that demonstrates vast complex spiritual revelation.  In the previous lessons I taught on the laws surrounding seeds and demonstrated some of their applications given to us in the New Testament.  Today I will be doing another one of those lessons about seed applications using the New Testament.  If you have not been reading this series from the beginning I would highly recommend that you go back and start reading with “Part 1”.  Only by following the series from the beginning will you have much of a chance at understanding what is being taught.  Let me review briefly the Major Seed Laws from Genesis 1 that we have already covered: 

1. Fruit with Seed within Itself!
2. Every Seed produces after its Kind!
3. Seeds Produce Trees that Produce More Fruit!
4. You Always Harvest more than You Sow!  Seed Multiplication.

Seed concepts are not widely known in modern America.  Very few people plant gardens and grow their own fruit, vegetables and crops.  The farm concept was a widely known principle in early Bible days.  This is one of the key reasons Jesus taught using these principles so often in the parable lessons that he gave us.  In Jesus’ days on earth, if you wanted to eat you better grow it.  Today modern children just think everything is magic that appears at the grocery store or at the market and they probably do not even have a clue how it is produced.  As a result of this they have lost the essential concepts and laws of planting seeds and getting harvests.  To lose sight of these concepts is to lose sight of God’s designed ways.  The Seed concept is still a vital part of the End Time Plan of God.  God has never lost sight of what seeds are and how seeds work.  That is one of the key reasons I have spent this amount of time on this subject.  I believe it to be absolutely critical to understand how God works in the spiritual realm and since we do not have any personal experiences in this realm we must rely on the natural realm that God created as a pattern of information for the unseen spiritual realm.   Of course you do not interpret nature, you interpret the Word of God, using the Word of God to define the things that you find in nature and this is the key to seeing these Bible truths and hidden spiritual things.

Today I am going to expand on the topic of the “Seed within Itself” Law of Genesis 1 using some fresh New Testament verses.   In earlier blogs on this subject we discussed how that Levi had paid tithes in Abraham, because he was a seed of Abraham (Heb. 7:9).  Levi was a future descendant of Abraham, yet God counted what Abraham did as applying to what Levi had done.  This is one of the most profound truths in the Bible that I have ever seen, yet I have not heard hardly anyone teach on it.  The concepts behind this teaching are far reaching and apply to many things in the spiritual realm.  Today I am going to give you an example of these concepts.  Let’s start the lesson with a verse found in Galatians:

Gal 2:20  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

There are verses like this one in the Bible that will totally confuse you unless you understand the Seed Laws and apply them correctly.   How can Paul have been crucified with Christ, when he was not even there physically with him?  I hope that you are beginning to see how this is possible.  Paul was not there physically, but he was there spiritually as a future spiritual seed of God.  If natural children are natural seeds in the Bible, then spiritual children are also seeds, but of a spiritual kind.  Remember everything produces after its own kind.   Jesus was called the Seed of Abraham and the Seed of David in the Bible.  Paul was calling himself a seed of Christ Jesus.   Whatever happened to Jesus is what happened to US who are born again.  Since the spiritual birth is a spiritual process that is patterned after the natural birth process we can very easily begin to see that Paul considered himself to be a spiritual descendant of Jesus.  Paul looked at Jesus as being his spiritual father.   Paul looked to Jesus as being the head of a new spiritual family of God as you and I are also in this family.  Here is another verse that use to boggle people’s mind:

Eph 2:6  And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

As you can see this verse says that we have been raised from the dead with Christ and that we now sit with Him in heaven.  Have you ever been to heaven?  If you have then you probably died or saw a spiritual vision of heaven.  No, again we see the application of the “Seed within Itself” Law being applied to us in the spiritual realm.  Whatever our father Jesus accomplished we accomplished because we were “IN HIM” when He did them.  Wow, that is so awesome!  That is just a totally RADICAL concept to try to wrap your mind around, isn’t it?   Everything that Jesus did, we did if you are born again!  This is why in the New Testament you can search and find so many verses in the Bible that describe how we are IN CHRIST, IN HIM, IN WHOM.  By finding out what Christ did, you find out what you DID!

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

There are just too many scriptures in the Bible that repeat the “Seed within itself principle for me to give you them all.  I think I gave you this one before, but it is so good that I will briefly go over it again.  Because the human race was “IN” Adam all must die.  Adam’s death passed death to every one of His Seeds.   This is the natural picture of the seed within itself concept being described to us very clearly.  Then there is a spiritual contrasting truth that is now revealed to us that Jesus who is the Last Adam and that He is the spiritual procreator of a new people that will live.  Because Jesus was raised from the DEAD, we have been raised from the dead because we were IN HIM!  As in Adam all died, so those IN Christ will all live.  You better make sure that you are IN Christ if you want to live spiritually in God’s family!

2Co 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Being IN Christ is essential to understanding your position today in the spiritual realm.  Those who are spiritually born again have become a NEW CREATION of Almighty God.  This means that we are something that never existed before.  Adam had a spirit within his body, but did not have the Spirit of God in union with his spirit.   You can see in this verse that translators have added 3 words that are not in the Greek.  If you take these out, they basically say the same thing, but review it without these words:

2Co 5:17  Therefore if any man in Christ a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

You can see a subtle difference now.  The fact that we are IN Christ has not changed but only because we are IN Christ makes us a new Creature with Christ!  God the Almighty Creator became a part of His creation by His designed purpose.  I could try to elaborate why this was necessary but I might just cloud the current subject with too much extraneous information, so I’ll pass by that for now.  What I want you to focus on is the fact that a man is now IN Christ and that is what also makes him able to participate as being a New Creature!

2Co 5:19  To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

Now we can see why Jesus Christ was so different and why Satan did not know what to do with this man.  Jesus was born a human male that had the Spirit of God within His Body.   This is the   SEED within Itself Concept being repeated.  God provided Himself the Seed for our reconciliation.   These seed concepts are so important for you to understand.  It truly helps you to see what was accomplished by God and how He did them.   God was IN Christ; the church was IN Christ so we are now IN God.  Christ IN Us, the hope of Glory!  Now the reverse concept is also applicable in the New Testament Bible.  You can see that not only are we IN Christ, but Christ must also be IN us!  It is a two way seed street reality.  How do you get Christ in YOU?

Joh 15:4   Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it Abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye Abide in me.

More seed concepts are given in this verse statement of Jesus Christ.  You can see the concept of fruit being given.  Fruit is the end result that God is looking for in the lifes of every Christian.  This fruit will always contain seed to produce more fruit.  This is again the seed within itself concept.  But we can also see the two way street that I just referred to and how that this works.  While the SEED of God is in us, we are in the VINE of God.  The VINE represents Christ and we are in Him.  We the church, are the branches that produce the fruit as long as we abide in Him, Christ the Vine!  But, we the church are also the ones that have the Word of God in Us!  If you recall from earlier lessons on this subject, the Word of God was the Seed of God.  We have been born again not of corruptible seed, but of the incorruptible seed, which is the Word of God (1 Peter 1:23).  So we are beginning to see how it is a full circle concept of Seed Salvation.  Everything starts with the Word of God and everything continues to exist with the Word of God.

Joh 15:7  If ye abide in me,  and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done untoyou.

Do you see what Jesus is telling you?  Do you see how the seed concepts and seed laws are affecting what you get in life?  Do you see how that if you abide in Christ the Vine (the Spiritual Seed of God) and if you allow the Word of God (also the spiritual seed of God) to live in you a natural seed (the Seed within Itself) that you can not only produce fruit but that you can also get your prayers answered by God?  Everything hinges upon the Word of God which is the Seed of God that produces the results that God is expecting to harvest very soon.  Seeds are everywhere in the Bible.  The concepts of seeds are everywhere in the Bible.   Different Seed types and seed patterns are repetitious, overlapping and intersecting with each other and this can make them vastly complex to understand.   The intelligence of God is so much greater than our minds and therefore we are challenged to come up to a higher dimension of how to think about these spiritual things and God’s Word.  May the God of Peace enlighten your minds so that you can comprehend these Seed Principles!  God Bless, until next time!

If you would like to continue reading this series of lessons you can now continue with “Part 9“.