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produce the life of the parent. The seed is parent and it will produce
itself.

If it is bird protoplasm it will grow feathers and a beak. If it’s a fish
protoplasm it will have scales and a tail. If it’s a reptile protoplasm
it is going to produce a snake or a turtle. At the beginning you don’t
know if it’s a worm, an elephant or a man.

Listen again to 1 John 3:9, “No one who is born of God practices
sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he
is born of God.” God has planted His seed in your life. That’s the
guarantee that you are going to be like Jesus. You can’t avoid it.
You might revel along the way but His seed is in you. The seed will
produce after its kind. That’s why I want to start there. That’s the
guarantee that someday you will be like Jesus. That should take the
burden off your shoulders. That should take away the
discouragement that says, “I don’t think I’ll ever arrive.” You are
going to arrive. His seed is in you. His life is in you. He has
stamped His image in you and there will be a day when you will be
like Jesus. That’s the beginning; but what is the process? I want us
to look at the process.

Once again there is a Bible illustration in 2 Corinthians 3:18, “But
we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the
Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory,
just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” James 1:23-25, “For if anyone is
a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at
his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and
gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he
was. But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of
liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but
an effectual doer, this man shall be blessed in what he does.”

God’s illustration is a mirror. The Bible is called “a mirror”. It’s a
wonderful illustration of the process of becoming like Jesus. In the
New Testament the mirror was highly polished brass. Usually our