Find Life, Purpose, and Joy

This little booklet of truth is designed to help you discover life, grow, and find joy in fulfillment. There are three segments.  Please be patient for the graphics to load.

 
 
HOW DOES
A SEED PRODUCE MUCH FRUIT?
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Jesus said,
    Except a corn (grain) of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

    He that loveth his life (soul) shall lose it; and he that hateth his life (soul) in this world shall keep it into life eternal.

    John 12:24-25
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A SEED - has Life within it.


 
 

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But it abides alone.
A SEED - must fall into the ground and die.

seed planted


It must give up it self-existence.
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A SEED - must be receptive to allow the water penetrate it. 


 
 

water stimulates


Water stimulates the life inside the seed.
A SEED - depends upon the water to grow and produce fruit.


young plant
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LIKE A SEED
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crosses
 Jesus had to DIE.
   Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die . . . . (John 12:24)

  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  (John 1:1)

   And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.  (John 1:14)

   And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.  (John 3:14-15)

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LIKE A SEED


sprouted    Jesus sprouted from the groundempty

Jesus arose from the dead
by the Spirit of God

   He (Jesus) is not here: for he is risen.   (Matthew 28:6)

   For Christ also hath once suffer ed for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened (make alive) by the Spirit.  (I Peter 3:18)

   He (God)... raised up Christ from the dead ... by his Spirit. (Romans 8:11)

   Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. (I Corinthians 15:20)

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LIKE A SEED


Jesus produces much Fruit.fruitbowing before Jesus
  Christians are His Fruit.   ref. James 1:18
   But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.  (John 12:24)

    For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotton Son,  that whosoever believedth in him should not perish, but have ever- lasting life.  (John 3:16)

   (Jesus said,) I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it  more abundantly.   (John 10:10)

   Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. (II Corinthians 5:17)

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MAN IS LIKE A SEED
man like a seed
The outer shell - (flesh with the purpose to have physical awareness.

The inner shell - (mind, will, heart) - with purpose to have self-awareness (a creature created by God).

The essence - (the part breathed out by God with purpose to have God -awareness.


 
 
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