Life Is in The Seed

By Tammy Lacock

“Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.” (Galatians 3:16, KJV)

“Being born again, not of the corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.” (1 Peter 1:23, KJV)

“Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” (1 John 3:9, KJV)

In this new study of “Christ, the Seed,” Warren Litzman explains the importance of believers knowing what actually happened to them when they believed and what it means to be born again.

When we believe in Christ as our Savior, by His death, burial, and resurrection, our Heavenly Father, in an act of love, literally (not figuratively) places in us Christ, God’s seed. The old sin, Satan nature, the corruptible seed, is replaced by the incorruptible seed of Christ. Jesus shares this truth with Nicodemus, a Pharisee and ruler of the Jews, when he says, “Ye must be born again. (John 3:3, 7). We become an entirely new creation, partakers of the divine nature, Christ, the seed, birthed in us (1 Peter 2:4).

The seed has to do with who we are now. When we understand just what took place when we believed in Christ, we can get a better understanding of who we are and ultimately a better understanding of Christ, who is our new life. Before the foundation of the world, we were chosen in Him (Ephesians 1:4). We were in God’s plan before he created anything. He knew that the only way we could live a new and eternal life was by the giving of His Son’s life. He loved us so much and wanted us to return to Him that He took a part of Himself, called Him His Son, and died so that we too would die to this life. And in dying to this life, awaken and arise again with Him to an entirely new life in Him. Out with the old life and in with our new life in Christ. By God’s grace, our slates are wiped clean and we our brand-new creations.

The problem is that because we had been living with that corruptible seed of Satan for so long, allowing him to rule and reign in our souls, our minds (our thinking) have become a battlefield between letting go of our old selves and allowing the seed of Christ, our new life, to bear fruit. We bear fruit as we grow in our understanding of Him and who we are now in Him. We grow as we allow the Holy Spirit to help us understand that we are total and complete in Christ. We are no longer subject to the law, what we must do or not do to be sanctified. We begin to realize that the battle is not between Satan and God, as we know God always wins, but a battle in our thinking.

We must know now that we are saved and going to heaven, our Father’s heavenly home. However, Warren explains, through Paul’s epistles, that it’s of utmost importance to know who we are now. When God birthed His Son in us, we had power beyond description. His seed gave us new life! Yet we didn’t know it. He likens it to a natural birth, where the seed of a father is placed in a woman and yet she’s unaware that any change took place in that act of love, and only aware of her outward feelings and emotions. It’s not until sometimes eight weeks or more later when she knows she has a new life, the seed planted in her. It’s the same with the seed of Christ. Once we know and understand what took place when we believed, we can really start to grow up in Him. Our new life is in the seed of Christ! We can finally begin the love affair He desires with us.

In 1 John 5:12 (KJV), John tells us, “He that hath the Son hath life; and he who hath not the Son of God hath not life.” By the help of the Holy Spirit in our minds, we can now understand our new birthing. We can now understand that our new life comes only by the seed of Christ placed in us, and which can never be taken away.

In order to grow in our knowledge of Christ and therefore, alleviate the battle in our minds, Paul tells us we must “let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 2:5 KJV)

We must give our minds over to Christ so that His seed in us will begin to bear fruit through us and we can truly live our new life in Him.

Life is in the seed. Life is Christ.