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creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind’; and it
was so.”
In nature God made everything after its kind. The life is
in the seed and the seed determines what will come. That’s true
in animal life and that’s true in plant life. Dogs do not bring
forth cats. A horse will not bring forth a lion. A bird will never
bring forth a fish. Everything is after the life of the seed.
Watermelon sees produce watermelons. Apple seeds produce
apples. A squash seed cannot produce a carrot. It’s a law of
life.
Why am I stressing that life comes from the seed?
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.” This is the law of physical life. It’s the law of spiritual
life. His seed abides in you and His seed abides in me. That’s
the guarantee that someday you will be like Christ. When you
receive Christ, God put His seed into your life; a divine seed, a
heavenly protoplasm. He made you alive in God. He took your
spirit and he planted a seed. You are the workmanship of God.
Now, because His seed is in you, that seed will produce after its
kind. Everything will be conformed to the seed.
There is a great battle today among psychologists. They
study human behavior and they say, “What is the greatest
influence on a person? Is it the environment, where you live?
Or is it heredity; genetics.” In all of life the image of the plant
is stamped by the seed. In other words, all life will move to be
like the parent.
My mom and dad were divorced when I was three years
old. I didn’t see my father until I was seventeen years old.
When I saw him, he looked just like me because his seed is in
me. So, we walk like our father, we talk like our father. You
look like your parents. When life begins, it begins with a seed.
I tried to study this with secular books. I’m not a scientist
but I read, and I think this is true, that in the beginning when it
is just a blob of protoplasm, semi liquid white substance, there
is no way that the scientist knows what that will become. They
are not sure if it will be a squash or a tree. At the beginning it
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