Jn 12:24
A birth is a continuing of a Father, a Progenitor , of whom they [the seed] take their image after. Remember
Gen 5:3-4
3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and
begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:
4And the days of Adam after he had
begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
The word for beget and begotten in this passage is the Hebrew word yalad and means :
to bear,
bring forth, beget, gender, travail
Remember Jesus words In
John 12:24
24Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die,
it bringeth forth much fruit.
Jesus here is actually telling us how one is born again, why one is born again. No doubt the Lord Himself is the Corn of Wheat that is about to fall into the ground and die, and if He dies, the resultant effect is that it will bring forth much fruit.
The word bringeth forth is the greek word phero and means:
To produce
The word fruit is the greek word karpos and means:
the fruit of one's loins, i.e. his progeny, his posterity
Jesus is saying, that if He did not die, He would abide alone as a corn of wheat, but if He dies, This would produce more wheat liken unto Himself, for the law of reproduction is for the seed to bring fort after it's own kind. Lets look at this law put into motion in
Gen 1:11-12
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding
seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind,
whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
And the earth
brought forth grass, and herb yielding
seed after his
kind, and the tree yielding fruit,
whose seed was in itself, after his
kind: and God saw that it was good.
Notice, whose seed was in itself !
Jesus is saying, that as a Corn of Wheat,
He has a seed in Himself, and if He dies, this seed of His will be reproduced,
it will be brought forth , He will be reproduced. Now how does this reproducing take place ?
Its by being Born Again, receiving a New Birth, His death, His dying, falling into the ground and dying, produces this New Birth, His Spiritual Offspring, His much Fruit.
This is why Peter says in
1 Pet 1:23
23Being born again, not of corruptible
seed,
but of incorruptible, by
the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Jesus Christ is that incorruptible seed [Corn of wheat] of which we are born again. How do we know this ? Because His resurrection from the dead showed that He was incorruptible !
Ps 16:10;
Acts 2:27;
13:35
And it is by this resurrection of the incorruptible Seed [Corn of wheat] that we [True Believers, Elect] are born again
1 Pet 1:3
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath
begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
From the dead ! Remember Jesus said if the Corn of wheat falls into the ground and what ? And dies , be dead. But if it dies , it brings forth much fruit, this Jesus said knowing that He would be raised from the dead.
Matt 16:21
From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he
must go unto Jerusalem, and
suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed,
and be raised again the third day.
Matt 17:9
And as they came down
from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man,
until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.
So Jesus knew in
Jn 12:24 that He would be risen from the dead as that Corn of wheat that died !
