Lesson # 004 The Seed Christ
John 4:31; 1John
5:18-20
God has design and purpose in everything He
does. He does nothing haphazardly. The works of God bring light to the ways of God,
and the ways of God bring light to the why of God.
Understanding the knowledge taken
into the mind has value – knowledge without
understanding has no value. Unless there
is understanding in the spirit of our being, the information remains
information - facts. Without
understanding in the spirit of our being, the why of God’s works and ways is
not apprehended. Thinking we know hinders
understanding. The works and ways of God
remain facts in our mind with no effect or power in our lives.
The eternal covenant of God is God’s plan for
His creation. All is of God. What is that plan? What is God’s eternal covenant? In a word – it is children. God’s purpose in creating man is to have a
kingdom of sons of God in His image. The eternal covenant is the hope of life everlasting
and a holy calling of sons of God (2Timothy 1:9-10, Hebrews 13:20-21, 1Peter
1:17-25).
A
review of what we know:
We know: Spirit is the essence that God is (John 4:24a). God is one Spirit
in being, with three personal beings; He is Deity. God is righteous in being; God is eternal
life. Spirit Being of Deity has no image, no form or appearance.
We know: Man
is spirit in being; man is lawless in being. Man is created spirit, soul and body. Man is flesh and blood.
We know: Paul states in
1Corinthians 15:50 “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.”
We know: An inheritance
is handed down to family members. Sons
come from seed. In order to inherit the
privileges of the kingdom of God, one must have a birthright; one must be an
heir. One must be born into the family a son of God.
We know: God
does not have an image and sons come from seed.
We know: God’s
goal is sons of God in His image for
His kingdom. In order to inherit the
kingdom, a son of Adam must choose to be born a son of God.
We know: That the
two things – image and sons must be reconciled and God does the reconciling.
We know: God’s plan requires two
men and two bodies to have His image and
to have birthed sons in His image.
The First Man in God’s Eternal Covenant
God provides the seed coat in the first man,
Adam.
The first man Adam was a living soul in a body
- of the earth, earthy.
In the Genesis record God begins with the end; He tells
the conclusion of His plan. With the
creation of His first man, God shares how He will achieve His goal to have man
in His image and to have a kingdom of sons.
He will begin with the likeness. Adam’s body is a likeness – flesh and bone
body with the blood being the life of that body. Adam’s body is the resemblance of the image
of God – the goal is a body of flesh and bone with Spirit being the life of that body – a body like the resurrected
body of Jesus.
God will initiate His goal of an image - a body
of Spirit and life eternal with a body
of blood - a flesh and bone body. God will begin with a natural body, a mortal
body. God first begins with the likeness
- the representation to accomplish the image – the substance.
The Lord God created Adam’s body a seed coat
of flesh, which had seed in it to reproduce sons of flesh. Like reproduces like; flesh and blood will
produce flesh and blood. Adam’s body did
not come from a seed with a germ cell of life eternal. Eternal life cannot be created. Eternal life is Spirit being of Deity.
The life of the seed coat is in the flesh. For man, the life of his seed coat of flesh is
in the blood. With each breath man
takes, oxygen is absorbed into the bloodstream; without breath, the life in the
flesh ceases.
What
else do we know?
We
know:
The natural man is a man of time and
sense. He lives for the here and now. The body is given to the inner man for his
keeping. He lives in it during his time
on earth and he must not think of it as his own (1Corinthians 6:13c). The body is given man for a purpose - it is
the seed coat for the body of a new birth. The temporary flesh and blood body born of the
seed of man furnishes a seed coat for a permanent, deathless body of flesh and
bone of spirit life.
We know: The
body of flesh is precious to God. In the
flesh body (seed coat) the germ cell of life must be implanted so that a
forever-living body can be raised up out of the dead seed coat.
We know: The personal being (mind,
will and emotions) of spirit not only has the body in his keeping he also has
the life of the soul, the spirit of his very being, in his keeping. He is responsible to God for that which he
minds.
We know: Apart
from the discernment of the word of God to divide asunder the soul and spirit,
one will deceive himself in his thinking (Hebrews 4:12).
We know: Only
God – the knowledge of the Lord Jesus and the understanding of what the will of
God is – will satisfy the soul of man.
The
Second Man in God’s Eternal Covenant
The last Adam, Jesus, is the Seed provided
for life everlasting.
The last Adam, the first begotten from the
dead, is a quickening Spirit – in a body of Spirit – the Lord from Heaven.
God’s only image is the only begotten Son. The first Son of God raised from the dead in a
body of Spirit Being; a body of flesh
and bone - incorruptible, a body eternal.
God achieves His goal to have man in His image in this glorified body.
The seed for the image of God is the birthed
Son – the body prepared – the seed coat of human flesh. The beloved Son, in whom the Father was well
pleased, came in the likeness that He shared with the man born of a
virgin. The seed for the image of God
was not of the seed of man but of God who prepared the seed coat of human
flesh.
The personal being in the body
prepared, the Word who is God, is the germ cell of life. In Him is life eternal. Held in the seed coat of human flesh, life eternal
was birthed in a seed body of blood for
creating the image of God - a seed body of Spirit,
an eternal life of flesh and bone.
The glorified Son of God is seed to bring
forth after His kind, bodies raised up out from the dead, deathless and
glorified. If Jesus had not taken the
mortal body – the likeness into death, the life for the deathless body would
not have been released. God would have
one birthed Son, yet in a mortal body and no seed grain to bring forth
deathless bodies raised out from the dead and glorified.
We
know:
the love of God is the end goal (John
3:16; 1John 3:1, 3:11, 4:7-8, 10-12; 4:16).
The love of God is the why of His works and ways.
God’s end goal is children. God is love; His love must be shared with His
creation. His desire is for many, many
sons of glory, many sons of God. Sons
are produced from seed, whether they are sons of humanity or sons of God.
As in the natural realm, so it is in the
spiritual. Without a union, there is no
procreation. In the natural realm, the
seed of man reproduces flesh and blood bodies.
In the realm of the spirit – Christ is the seed – He is life
everlasting. Christ does not create life
everlasting and He does not reproduce life everlasting – He shares Himself,
life everlasting. Without the union
between the seed, who is the begotten Son raised from the dead, and man, there
is no body of glory.
God so loved that He gave His only begotten
Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have life everlasting.
God gave the begotten Son for life
everlasting. Receiving the life offered
in the resurrected Christ gives man life everlasting.
Without man’s union with Christ in His death
and resurrection, man has no germ cell of life everlasting. Because of this union, man will be raised up
and will be in the image of God. Man
receives all the privileges entitled a son in the kingdom of God. One must have a birthright; one must be an
heir.
We
know: This union is voluntary and the one
created makes a deliberate decision. God
does not force His creation of sons of Adam to choose to become sons of
God. God provides man with a way to live
forever, the seed Christ; “you must be born again” to become a son of God.
The union of love is a love union. God does not force His creation of man to
love Him. Love is voluntary. You cannot make someone value what you value
and you cannot want something more for someone than they want for themselves.
As a son of God, one is no longer a son of
Adam. One cannot be in two creations. Either one is in Adam or in Christ. The union of love is one’s exit out of the one
creation and entrance into the other. If
any man be in Christ, he is a new creation – not going to be a new creation or
hope to be a new creation but is a
new creation. What does this mean?
What one is in Adam passes away when he
chooses a union with Christ. He has been
made alive unto God raised to walk in newness of life. He is free not to mind his former manner of living – his behavior. He is
free to mind his life – Christ. He is
free to mind God; God’s thinking – the knowledge of the Lord Jesus and the
understanding of what the will of God is and to will to do His will
(Philippians 2:13; Hebrews 13:21).
Finally we know: “Whosoever
is born of God does not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God” (1John
3:9).
“We know that whosoever
is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and
that wicked one toucheth him not.
“We know that we are
of God and the whole world lieth in wickedness. And
we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that
we may know Him that is true, and we are in Him that is true, in His Son Jesus
Christ. This is the true God, and
eternal life” (1John 5:18-20).
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