The Sown Dying 1 Corinthians 15:36

Paul the apostle told the church members in Corinth, “Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”, and in chapter fifteen and verse thirty-six of First Corinthians, Paul told the church members in Corinth, what they “sow is not quickened, except it die”, where we read:

You fool, that which you sow is not quickened, except it die:

The verse begins, “You fool, that which you sow is not quickened,...” Paul began with the word, “you fool” or “person without reason, senseless, foolish, stupid and without reflection or intelligence” “that which you sow” which means “the scattered seed” “is not quickened” or “does not produce life, make alive, germinating, growing or springing up”. Paul desired for the “foolish” people among the church members to consider a “seed” that is not made “alive”.

The verse goes on to say, “... except it die.” Paul added the word, “except” which means “if not or unless” “it die” which means “the seed suffers a natural death”. Paul declared that a seed did not grow unless it first experienced “death”. Paul's exception to the “seed” growing or being alive was that the “sown seed” had to experience “death” first

When we meditate upon these words from Paul, he declared how the people who asked their questions of the “resurrection” and the “body” would benefit from considering a “seed” that is “sown” into the ground. Unless that seed “dies” and splits open, there will be no plant that grows from it. “Death” is the step necessary for the new life to appear, and since Jesus Christ desires for all people to be “saved”, He sometimes allows the “death” of His believers. However, there is the promise of a “resurrection”, and the “body” that shall appear from that “sown seed” shall supersede any other “body” the person has ever experienced before.

Next time Paul shares with the church members about “bare grain” so “it may chance of wheat”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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