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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 and 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 and 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 all looks the same. Will it be a fish? Will it be a
bird? Will it be a man or a woman created in the image of God?
At first it all looks the same. But the seed will produce the life
of the parent. The seed is in the 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 rebel 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