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In each case I’ll give a Bible illustration. And to discuss
the starting point I’d like to go back to the beginning. God
wrote a principle in nature. He wrote that principle in nature
because that principle illustrates the spiritual truth. Genesis
1:11&12, “Then God said, ‘Let the earth sprout vegetation,
plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind,
with seed in them, on the earth’; and it was so.” Genesis
1:20&21, “And then God said, ‘Let the waters teem with
swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in
the open expanse of the heavens.’ And God created the great
sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, with which
the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after
its kind; and God saw that it was good.” Genesis 1:24&25,
“Then God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures after
their kind; cattle and 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 seeds 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