194 The Fundamentals made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of ONE, And to thy SEED, which is Christ” (Gal. 3 :16). Finally, as David’s seed He is the rightful Heir to the king dom, which he will establish on the earth in the coming age. In promise of this there are many passages such as these: “I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom” (1 Chjron. 17:11). “Upon David, and upon his seed and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace forever from the Lord” (1 Kings 2:33). “I have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sworn unto David My servant, thy seed will I establish forever, and build up thy throne to all generations” (Psa. 89:3, 4). “His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me” (Psa. 89:36). Thus Christ is set forth as the Seed of the woman, as the Seed of Abraham, and as the Seed of David. But the great purpose.of a seed, and its marvelous in herent power, is to reproduce its kind; and the designation “seed” as applied to the Son of Man has this significance also. He Himself takes up this great lesson when he refers to Him self as the kernel of wheat, saying: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn [kernel] of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit” (John 12:24). Thus the One who alone had a title to live as a man of flesh and blood, laid that life down, submitting voluntarily to the power of death, in order that, instead of dwelling forever “alone” (as. man) He might bring forth “much fruit.” These are His generations, the “many sons” which He brings into glory (Heb. 2:10), the “children” of whom He speaks saying, “Behold I, and the children which God hath given Yne” (Heb. 2:13). If we keep in mind the fact that the grains of wheat in the ear are all reproductions of the original seed, we shall see how forcibly and beautifully the parable of the “corn of wheat”
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