The Seed Must Die JOHN 12:20-36

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Daniel 7:13-14 (NIV) “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.”

A seed is the prolific (productive) principle of future life.

Seeds are used in the Bible for: human descendants or offspring spiritual descendants agriculture God’s Word (sowing: preaching) giving good deeds or of working evil the burial of the body

Letting a Seed Die involves: Dying to Multiply (Multiplying takes sacrifice)

1 Corinthians 15:35-38 (NLT) But someone may ask, "How will the dead be raised? What kind of bodies will they have?" What a foolish question! When you put a seed into the ground, it doesn't grow into a plant unless it dies first. And what you put in the ground is not the plant that will grow, but only a dry little seed of wheat or whatever it is you are planting. Then God gives it a new body — just the kind he wants it to have. A different kind of plant grows from each kind of seed.

Letting a Seed Die involves: Dying to Multiply (Multiplying takes sacrifice) Letting your concept of what form something should have die God speaking

31 Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out. krisis; decision (subjectively or objectively, for or against); by extension, a tribunal; by implication, justice (especially, divine law)

Romans 8:3-11 (condensed) (NLT) 3 The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. 4 He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.

Romans 8:3-11 (condensed) (NLT) 7 For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will. 8 That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God… 10 And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God.

Romans 8:3-11 (condensed) (NLT) 11 The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.

What does your seed represent?