God's Great Plan

1. Cor. 15:36 says, “Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:”

After God created the earth and all the beasts on the earth and saw that it was good, He said; “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…”. God saw that it was good; that all of his creatures had companions and He wanted to have a companion also. God’s great desire is to have a people that can have fellowship with Him. So He started that great journey of the creation of His “mate”, who is perfect, holy as He is, and a spiritual being like Him.

This journey started at the Garden of Eden. He created the first Adam. He created a seed. He wasn’t the finished product, he was just a seed of a greater spiritual man, a true companion of God. That "seed" contained the great potential to become a holy, godlike companion to God. But still, it was only a seed, a natural seed (1. Cor. 15:44 - “It is sown a natural body…”) and not the plant, the finished product. Everything starts with a seed.

1. Cor. 15:36 says, “Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:” Although Adam was perfect, he wasn’t perfect as God is. That "seed" was a corruptible seed, a seed that could perish, and we see that it sure did. but God had a plan for this even before it happened and that plan was the Lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world. Adam fell, but it was part of the process of the birthing of the holy people of God. He had to die so that he could be "quickened". “Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:”

“…by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin…”. Adam fell and sinned so death came. His falling wasn’t the end of his relationship with God, but it was a beginning of a journey to the greater relationship with God. Yes, it was the end of a certain relationship with God, but it wasn’t “the end”. The seed has to die, before it can be quickened, and become a quickened spirit, it has to die before it can become something greater, and can put on a greater “body”.

God wanted somebody like Him, and He is Love. He wanted somebody to love Him, because His being is Love. Why do we love God? “We love him, because he first loved us” (1. John 4:9). But how does He show His love towards us? “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Rom. 5:8), "Commendeth" in the Greek means: to introduce, to exhibit. So Adam was perfect in the sense that he never sinned before the fall, but was he perfect as God? Jesus commands us to “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” (Matt. 5:48). I believe that Adam didn’t experience God's unconditional love before his fall. How could he know that God loved him no matter what, if he had never done anything that would make him unworthy of God's love? He shows His love toward us in that, while we were yet (still) sinners, Christ died for us. God’s love was introduced to man after the fall, by Jesus’ sacrifice and without knowing and experiencing this love, we can’t love. “Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.” (Luk. 7:47). This being said, how much did Adam experience love before the fall? God is love. Adam was perfect, but was he like God? God is love.

I wrote all these things so we can look on our sanctification in a different way, so you can see the glass half full and not half empty. What I mean is that; the daily dealings we are going through are not because we fell and need to make it right, but it is simply just a stage of our growth into becoming God’s perfect companion. The seed has to die! So you don’t need to be upset if you mess up because God created the seed and He knows it’s tendencies and He knows that it’s just a station and not the destination. Just get up, repent, receive God’s love, the sacrifice of the Lamb, and go on to perfection.

Let me go back to 1. Cor. 15:36-54

v.36 "Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:"
v.44 "It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body." There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
v.45 "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit."
v.46 "Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual."
v.50. "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption."
v.54 "So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."

Our flesh (our present state) is mortal, but God is immortal.
We are natural, but God is a spirit.

The only way we can even start to become His true companion, if we have a spiritual body (glorified body). I am not saying we can’t have communion with Him before, of course we can because our spirit is saved But I am talking about seeing Him face to face and continually dwelling with Him, and seeing Him as He is.

The only way we can be quickened, or have a spiritual body, is if we die (v.36). Sin brings forth death. The first Adam was natural, made out of dust, so he had to die in order that God could quicken him, and make him spiritual. God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden, knowing that Adam will fall. He used evil for good. Our natural body, our fleshly nature is destined to die. The finish line is our perfected spiritual soul and body.

First is the natural, and out of it’s death comes forth the spiritual. This is just the course of life.
The seed first dies, then comes out in a more glorious form.
Death is a servant to make us God’s true companion. His hand hath formed the crooked serpent, He created good and evil.
Death is just a vehicle to take us to something greater.

The fall of Adam wasn’t the end, but actually the beginning of our redemption and the creation of our spiritual being.

Adam (the first Adam) was the seed that God sowed, but unless he dies, he cannot bring forth fruit and his body cannot change into a spiritual body. The second body, much more glorious.
God exhorts us to be perfect (perfect=complete in labor, growth, mental and moral character), complete. He is prompting us because we’re not complete yet, we haven’t finish yet. We must go FORWARD to perfection, not BACK to perfection. This also shows us that the natural man is just a birthing stage of the perfect godly man and not a step back. Everything with God is onward and upward. God doesn’t want to restore what was, He is doing a new thing, He’s creating His companion.

This encouraged me because I’m amazed at how God the Father planned all these things, before the foundation of the world, to the completion of His creation just so that one day He will have a companion. He decided to go through all these heartaches and betrayals so that one day he can behold His true and holy people. Glory to our precious Jesus!