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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 1:21&22, “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 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? 1John 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