When Jesus Christ comes to dwell in a person’s heart, they are born of the incorruptible seed of the divine nature. The life of the divine nature becomes their personal possession when Christ comes to them personally as a seed and takes up residence in them.The Spirit of the Son comes into their heart as the seed of His life. The apostle Peter declared, ‘You have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God’.
Jesus Christ is the full revelation of the word and the life of the Father. He is both the Messenger of God and the embodiment of the message of God. When the Father sends the Son of God, who is the Word, into the hearts of men, the Son brings both life and understanding to those who receive Him.
We recall the words of John, ‘In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men’. In this regard, Christ is much more than a messenger who communicates a message. He embodies the message and He gives the substance of the message to those who receive Him as life! It is this life that enables those who receive Him to be born of incorruptible seed and receive illumination as sons of God.
What is the difference between the life of Christ in the seed, and the life of Christ in His blood?
The seed is the life of Christ that has been given to a believer as their personal possession of the divine nature, as an individual son of God.
The blood is the life of Christ that has been shed for their redemption and is given to them when they join the fellowship of His sufferings. A person only possesses the blood of Christ as part of a fellowship with Him and with others in the many-member body of Christ. It is the fellowship of His life.
1Pe 1:22-23
Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, (23) for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.
Joh 1:1-4 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2) He was in the beginning with God. (3) All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. (4) In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.
2Pe 1:4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.
Php 3:10-11 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; (11) in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, (23) for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.
Joh 1:1-4 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2) He was in the beginning with God. (3) All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. (4) In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.
2Pe 1:4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.
Php 3:10-11 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; (11) in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
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