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John chapter 12 verse 24

truly truly I say to you

unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone.

But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

Think about what Jesus just said. So these are the words of Jesus as he's

preparing to go to the cross and he says unless a grain of wheat falls when the earth and dies, it remains alone.

But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

So according to Jesus, what's the key to a seed bearing fruit?

It has to die. You hold a grain of wheat in your hand, you keep it there, it won't do anything. But you plant it in the ground and it dies, it bears all kinds of fruit life that you couldn't have imagined before.

Jesus is saying in order to live you have to die.

Death is necessary for life. Now the context here as I mentioned Jesus

is about to go to the cross he's literally physically about to die. He's talking

about the life he will bring to others through his death.

He died on a cross so that we might live.

The fruit from his death is life and you and me and for the nations. Jesus died so that we might live.

But what's interesting is right after this in verse 25, he says,

whoever loves his life loses it, whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

So Jesus is not just talking about his death. He's also talking about our lives.

And Jesus is saying to us in John 12 here, to you and me like right now, if you and I want to live, we have to die.

That's what the language he's using that whoever hates his life in this world.

This is what we see all over.

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