Friday | 07 November 2025
In response to a believer’s confession that God is their Father, He sends forth the seed of the Spirit of Christ into the believer’s spirit. This is not the Person of the Son; He continues to dwell in their heart. Rather, it is the unique seed of their name and life as a son of God, which Christ brought forth through His travailing journey from Gethsemane to Calvary.
We know that before the creation of ‘the heavens and the earth’, when Yahweh Son emptied Himself and was begotten by the Father as the Son of God, the sonship names of every person who would ever live were written in Him. When He rose from the dead, three days after He had finished His offering journey from Gethsemane to Calvary, these names were now individual ‘seeds’ in Christ, the one Sheaf of firstfruits. 1Co 15:20. Although the name in each seed is unique, every seed contains the life and Spirit of the first Seed, Christ. This is the divine life and nature of the Father, which He granted to the Son to have in Himself when the Father brought Him forth as the Son of God, before. Joh 5:26.
The incorruptible seed of the divine nature is sown in the believer’s spirit by the word of the Father proceeding from Christ through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The word itself is not the seed but, rather, the seed is carried by the word. Marking this distinction, the apostle Peter said that a person is born again, ‘not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever’. 1Pe 1:23.
When this seed is planted in ‘the ground’ of a person’s spirit, it is germinated by the Holy Spirit and they are conceived as a son of God. They have been born anew of the divine nature, and have become a totally new creation. The new‑creation life of a son of God was depicted by Jesus in His parable of the seed and the grounds as being a new ‘plant’! Mat 13:5,20-21.
Further Study:
1 Peter 1
References:
1Co 15:20
But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Joh 5:26
For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.
1Pe 1:23
Having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.
Mat 13:5
Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth.
Mat 13:20-21
But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.