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WHAT DO YOU MEAN, “SEED PRINCIPLE”?

My son used a teachable moment to illustrate this right after he rode into Jerusalem for what many mistake for the last time on that donkey colt.⁴⁴  Again, my spirit caused the friend to remember what was said and write it down, and I quote:  “. . . unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies, it produces much grain.”⁴⁵

My players must forget who they are or lay down who they think they are in order to become the characters that we are aiming for – those with family resemblance.  In my project, whom they become on stage is reality – not whom they thought they were at audition.  In order to become who they really are, whom they think they are has to go.⁴⁶ The process involves suffering and can be quite painful.  Like I said, actors can be a proud lot.  Nonetheless, it has to be according to script.  My son followed closely my prompting while adding:  “. . . whoever desires to save his life will lose it.”⁴⁷

BUT WHY SPEAK IN PARABLES?  COULDN’T HE TEACH PLAINLY SUCH IMPORTANT MATTERS?

The proper release of information is most critical to my control function.  Basically, the introductory remarks are spiritually discerned.  To be clever, one might even say that the Bible, as you call it, is nonsensical in nature.

ARE YOU CALLING THE BIBLE NONSENSE?  WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?

I’m saying that one has to go beyond what can be naturally learned through the senses in order to understand those introductory remarks.⁴⁸  Oh, there is a history lesson and some genealogy to be sure, but even those are fraught with spiritual meaning to the discerning.

44 “. . . He went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem . . . (and) sent two of His disciples, saying, ‘. . . you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat.  Loose it and bring it here.’  . . . they brought him to Jesus, and they threw their clothes on the colt and they set Jesus on him. . . . as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it” (Luke 19:28b, 29b, 30b, 35, & 41).

45 (John 12:24)

46 “Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:11).  “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God” (Romans 12:1-2).

47 “For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it” (Matthew 16:25).

48 “always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 3:7).