Gold Nugget 360 - Immortal Seeds
At birth … we are sown into this world – immortal seeds we all are which the hand of the great Husbandman scatters over the earth. … In the grain it is not the germ, but the husk, the shell, which dies. The wrappage of the germ was made to rot. … The human body is the mere shell and wrappage of the man. It was made to die. … The husk is not the germ, the body is not the man. It is his house that must crumble, it is his garment that must wear out.
After death of the grain there is a resurrection of the seed that comes forth into new forms of life and beauty. It is not the husk that rises, but the germ. After the burial of the body the man comes forth into new life. The body rots, the man rises.
Whether Paul refers here to the resurrection of the body from the grave or not, one thing is clear, that at death there is a real resurrection of the soul. As when the husks of the seed rot in the earth the seed itself is quickened, so when the body falls into the dust the soul springs forth into new life – a life of woe or bliss, according to its moral character. There is a resurrection, a standing-up of every soul at death. “The dust returns to dust, the soul to God who gave it.”
Will the body itself rise from the grave after it has gone to dust? It may, and we see some evidence to enable us to cherish the cheering hope. Whether this be a delusion or not, one thing is certain – the soul rises up at the fall of the body to its dust, and this is a most real and solemn resurrection.
We “know that when the earthly house of this our tabernacle is dissolved, we have a building of God above, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
The Pulpit Commentary, I Corinthians p. 502-503, I Corinthians 15:36, (David Thomas)
Gold Nugget 360
Immortal Seeds
