Seed ProducingAfter Its Kind

Seed Producing After Its Kind

• Genesis 1

Seed Producing After Its Kind

• Genesis 1–Plants (9-11)

Seed Producing After Its Kind

• Genesis 1–Plants (9-11)– Fish & birds (20-23)

Seed Producing After Its Kind

• Genesis 1–Plants (9-11)– Fish & birds (20-23)– Land animals (24-25)

Seed Producing After Its Kind

• Genesis 1–Plants (9-11)– Fish & birds (20-23)– Land animals (24-25)–Mankind (27-28)

Seed Producing After Its Kind

• Genesis 1–Plants (9-11)– Fish & birds (20-23)– Land animals (24-25)–Mankind (27-28)

• “after its (their) kind”

Seed Producing After Its Kind

• Genesis 1–Plants (9-11)– Fish & birds (20-23)– Land animals (24-25)–Mankind (27-28)

• “after its (their) kind”• “be fruitful and multiply”

Seed Producing After Its Kind

• Genesis 3: “And I will put enmity…between your seed and her seed…”

Seed Producing After Its Kind

• Genesis 3: “And I will put enmity…between your seed and her seed…”–Cain & Abel (Gen. 4)

Seed Producing After Its Kind

• Genesis 3: “And I will put enmity…between your seed and her seed…”–Cain & Abel (Gen. 4)– Sons of God & daughters of men (Gen. 6)

Seed Producing After Its Kind

• Genesis 3: “And I will put enmity…between your seed and her seed…”–Cain & Abel (Gen. 4)– Sons of God & daughters of men (Gen. 6)–Babel (Gen. 11)

Seed Producing After Its Kind

• Genesis 3: “And I will put enmity…between your seed and her seed…”–Cain & Abel (Gen. 4)– Sons of God & daughters of men (Gen. 6)–Babel (Gen. 11)– Jacob & Esau (Gen. 25 & 27)

Seed Producing After Its Kind

• God’s intention (Genesis 22:18): “In your seed [pl.] all the nations of the earth shall be blessed…”

Seed Producing After Its Kind

• God’s intention (Genesis 22:18): “In your seed [pl.] all the nations of the earth shall be blessed…”

• The seed, Israel, fails to produce after its kind(Isaiah 5:1-7).

Seed Producing After Its Kind

• God’s intention (Genesis 22:18): “In your seed [pl.] all the nations of the earth shall be blessed…”

• The seed, Israel, fails to produce after its kind(Isaiah 5:1-7).

• God repeatedly uses imagery of seeds & plants to paint pictures of restoration(Isaiah 55:6-13).

Seed Imagery In James

Seed Imagery In James

• 1:18, “brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits”

Seed Imagery In James

• 1:18, “brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits”

• 1:1, “to the twelve tribes who are dispersed [Gr. diaspora = dia + spora]”

Seed Imagery In James

• 1:18, “brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits”

• 1:1, “to the twelve tribes who are dispersed [Gr. diaspora = dia + spora]”

• 1:21, “receive the word implanted”

Seed Imagery In James

• 1:18, “brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits”

• 1:1, “to the twelve tribes who are dispersed [Gr. diaspora = dia + spora]”

• 1:21, “receive the word implanted”• 3:17-18, “seed whose fruit is righteousness”

Seed Imagery In James

• 1:18, “brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits”

• 1:1, “to the twelve tribes who are dispersed [Gr. diaspora = dia + spora]”

• 1:21, “receive the word implanted”• 3:17-18, “seed whose fruit is righteousness”• 5:7-11, “the farmer waits for the precious

produce of the soil”