Our
Organic Union With The Father By His Seed
Arthur J. Licursi
“And God
said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the
fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon
the earth: and it was so.” Gen 1:11
Webster’s
dictionary defines “organic” as “that
which is relating to, or derived from a living
organism”. The
organic relationship of life forms reproducing after their own kind is
simple, yet mysterious. The physical creation is a clear picture of our
spiritual reality – the physical is the shadow of the reality, which is
spiritual. Consider our spiritual union with God as our progenitor Father,
as life-giver to His reborn children. This spiritual birth is more literal
and organic than our physical birth because it concerns the divine and
eternal life.
The
visible and physical realm is temporal, but the unseen spiritual realm in
Christ is eternal (2Cor 4:18).
Once this understanding of our literal rebirthing is revealed and seen,
this is a most radical and powerful revelation for any believing child of
God. The apostle Paul himself had such a revelation of which he spoke.
But when God, who
set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased 16to reveal his Son in me… Galatians 1:15-16
Such
revelation and realization changes a Christian’s life forever; knowing
then that they are first and foremost, a literal child born of God as
their true Father (1John 3:2);
not as servants (Gal. 4:7) for
God’s workforce, or church organization members. No, in John 1:12 every
human is seen as a potential “child” of God, as spiritual offspring of
God the Father. Consider, John
1:12 Yet to
all who received him (Jesus), to those who believed in his name,
he gave the right to become children of God (NIV)
We
then see rather that as children of God we are birthed of His spiritual
loins, born into His literal unseen family. Our organic relationship is by
the Father’s very own literal life that is in Christ, with whom Christ
is one, as the Father’s seed (seed, Gk., “sperma”,
Gal. 3:16, 1Pet. 1:23), now
available as the “Spirit
of life” (2Cor.
3:17, Rom 8:2), to be birthed
into our human spirit (Zech 12:1b, Jn 3:6).
God’s very own life, by Christ (“the life”, John 14:6) now flows the
entire Godhead-life (Col. 2:9)
into each believer as that believer’s new life (Gal 2:20).
God’s
life is the only genuine life (divine & eternal).
He is the fountain source of life. “For
with you (God) is the fountain of life; in your light we see
light.” Psalm 36:9 God’s
substance is Spirit (John 4:24a)
as a table may be wooded, but His primary essence is His “life” (“life”,
Greek. Zoë, meaning God’s unique life, as opposed to “bios”,
the physical life or, “psuche”, the psychological life), received
by as being out of His love. John
3:16 "For God
(as Father) so loved the world that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life (His life).
The Father is not a judge to His children, but He is the Life-giver
and eternal lover of their souls.
Scripture
reveals to us that the … Father’s life is … in Christ
(the only begotten Son),
who now is … the Spirit of life … indwelling our
human spirit to be the essence of our organic, living union with our
heavenly Father, as His birthed offspring.
Let’s now consider the “Father, Son and Spirit” in this light.
THE
FATHER:
Consider
the primary title for God, used by Christ relative to Himself and those
who believe, – Father. This title, Father”, speaks of our
organic (living) relationship
in God. Consider that the title “Father”
speaks of the source of life, to be in His children – organically or
livingly. Jesus told the women after His resurrection, John 20:17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am
not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I
ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. This
is a most wonderful and powerful statement of our relationship with the
Father- as His children.
In
the Gospel of John the title Father is used of God more often than in any
other book. Have you considered that we cannot be His children unless He
is our Father and He cannot be our Father, except we be offspring of His
spiritual loins. God as is the source of genuine life, the God-life. Psalm
36:9a “For with thee (God) is the fountain of life:”
Fatherhood in itself
speaks of His life own life flowing to His offspring.
“Beloved,
now are we the sons (literal) of God” 1 John 3:2a, parenthesis
added. Our sonship comes by a
spiritual rebirthing, which is an organic, life germinating event, by the
only life qualified to be called life - God’s life; the eternally divine
and limitless life. Again, it requires a seed from a father to provoke
life.
“But
as many as received him, to them gave he power (force & competency) to
become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:” (John
1:12 authors emphasis added).
“Power” in John 1:12 is more completely translated “force of
competency”. Christ in us is the competent force as the seed of life in
us, by virtue of the eternal God-life in Him, now birthed into us as that
life. It is Christ “Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the
power of an endless life” (Hebrews 7:16 authors emphasis added). All
we need to do is receive Christ - not doctrines, not membership, not by
keeping a Christian code of conduct, or living by Christian principals, or
anything other than Christ Himself. When Paul and Silas spoke of Christ to
the Philippian jailer thee said simply, “believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ ands though shalt be saved…”
THE
SON:
Now
consider the title “Son”. It
also obviously speaks of the same life relationship, and a life received
of the Father. The Son then bears the very life of the Father. Jesus, the
only begotten Son of God, now as the Christ, organically bears the
Father’s life to those who are rebirthed by the Christ as the Father’s
seed (Gal 3:16, 1Pet 1:23) –
simply through receiving Christ (John 1:12).
God has only one Son and all believers are born of that one Son-seed -
making them also joint heirs, participants in the one Son of God as the
members of “the Church, which is His body” (Eph 1:22b, 23).
We are offspring
of the Father’s spiritual loins. This organic life comes to us by a
birthing, by the living Father placing Christ, as His Son-seed (Gal.
3:16), into our human spirit (2Tim 4:22, 1Pet 1:23). Hence, “that which is born of the
Spirit (Christ’s) is spirit (our human spirit):” (John 3:6,
parenthesis added).
Many speak of
the brotherhood of man and they all being God’s children – WRONG!
Created humans are not God’s literal children. They are
created “as sons” but they are not born “sons” of His loins. The
only means of entrance into the literal eternal family of God is by being
organically regenerated, as Paul calls it, or as James calls it,
“born-again”, by the life of God the Father, in Christ, as the
Spirit/Seed in our spirit womb. By this we gain the literal life of Christ
into our spirit. “He that hath the
Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1
John 5:12).
“And
the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind,
and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind:
and God saw that it was good.” Genesis 1:12
Every
life reproduces after its own kind. We see this in the natural as an
example of the spiritual. One could not be a son unless he has the literal
life of his father flowing within him.
E.g.,
My father in the physical is Joseph Licursi. He by his life right is now
in me by his life flowing in my veins. Actually, I existed in him before I
was born, just as I was in Christ “before the world began”
Eph 1:4. The physical
life of my father lives on in me.
With
God, His eternal life lives on in all the offspring of His spiritual
loins. My earthly father’s human life flows in my veins (the life is in
the blood) since I became a recipient of his physical life by his seed. I
thereby may also look like him, express his mannerisms, and express his
earthly nature. Our heavenly Father has shared His life and nature with us
by the life of His resurrected Son, who is now our very life. “I
am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ
liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the
faith of the Son of God, who loved me,
and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20
Every
Life has it’s inherent nature (dog, cat or human, or God) passed on in
the DNA of its progenitor Father; so it is with our new rebirthed
spiritual nature (2Per 1:4) from
God our Father in His Seed bearing His DNA to us. Formerly we were “by
nature, children of wrath” (Eph
2:3b), but now children of God (Gal
3:26).
THE
SPIRIT:
Now
consider the title “Spirit“. The
Spirit of Christ is the reality of Christ, for our union with the Fathers
organic life, sent in the Son. Christ comes, as the “Spirit of
life in the Christ Jesus” (Rom 8:2),
into a man’s human spirit (John 3:6, 1Cor. 6:17, Zechar. 12:1).
Christ then flows out from our spirit via our soul (mind,
emotion and will) as the
expression or glory of His life (John 7:37-38, 2Cor. 3:18).
Christ
was processed via the steps of incarnation, human living, and death of the
cross, principally to become “the life-giving Spirit”. “…
the last Adam, a life-giving spirit” (1
Cor. 15:45b). So we see that
“Now the Lord is the Spirit” (2Cor. 3:17).
The
word “Spirit” is derived from the Greek word “pneuma”,
also translated, breath, wind, or air. Christ’s Spirit of life is
like the air, so available to be received and taken in by as many as
receive Him (John 1:12, 20:22). We
may be able to live without food for several days, without water for about
2 days, but we cannot have His life healthily sustained in us without
having first received Him and then continually breathing in the breath of
life. The Spirit of Christ is now available to be taken in as our new life
by a rebirthing. We also need to gain Him in our soul’s being
(Rom 5:10) where we have been
soul-sick. This we do by abiding in Him (in our spirit)
continually (John 15:5),
permitting Him to be Lord (governor)
of our life.
First Children, Then Sons
In
time, either here on earth or hereafter, all the Father’s organically
birthed sons will grow to express His life and nature flowing within their
spirit. In John 1:12 the promise is that we may become sons of God. “But
as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on his name:”
John 1:12 We
first are rebirthed to be children of God, but some may grow to become
sons, as we learn to obey Him. Romans 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we
are the children of God: Romans 8:14 For as many as are
led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. These
sons are the grown up children of God. Compare this to the physical, though
we have been born physically – we still need to maintain the health of
life by breathing, eating and drinking. Breathing is not as an event that
is completed - it must be continual. Receiving Christ’s as the seed of
life as the Spirit by our rebirth is a one time primary event; but
“abiding in spirit” (John 15:1-6, Gal 5:16, 25)
is our daily continual abiding in dependence upon Him. This is key to our
daily life of rest in Christ, as physical breathing is key to our health
being undisturbed physically.
Christ
in us is life generating and life sustaining of His organic life. John
5:26 For as the
Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in
himself. Jesus is the
Life and also the sustainer and nourisher of life; by all that He is, as
the organic spiritual life supply to man. He is just as the vine tree,
which supplies the life and nourishment to the branch (John 15:4-5). The
following lists some of the elements necessary for God to impart and
nurture His life in man. Christ is all of these to us.
“Light
of life” (John
8:12). In the Bible
"light" always precedes the generation of life. In Genesis 1:2-3
we see that darkness covered the earth and that the first element of the
recreation was God created “light”. Jesus came first as the “light
of the world”. In our own experience God shined His light of the world
upon us subjectively, before we believed and received Him. Revelation
comes by the light of life shining in our soul and we submitting to that
light of life.
“Breath
of life” (John 20:22)
Christ now as the Spirit of Christ is our life (Rom. 8:2). “And
when he had said this, “…he breathed on them, and saith unto them,
Receive ye the Holy Ghost (breath):” (John 20:22, authors emphasis
added). Note that the
regenerating Spirit came out from Christ. “….
The Spirit of life in Christ Jesus”
(Rom. 8:2a). Christ,
as the breath of the God-life, enlivens us.
“Living
water” (John
4:10, 7:38) is none other than
the water of Christ’s life as the spirit of life. We have been
regenerated by the water of His life (Titus 3:5).
Recall that, out of Jesus’ side came blood and water when the Roman
soldier pierced His side. The flow of blood is for redemption and the flow
of water is Christ’s life flowing, to bring life to man. Recall that Eve
came out of Adam’s wounded side. She was an extension of His very own
life. By blood and water there is both a termination of our “old
self,” the old independent self-seeking and self-destructive person, and
germination of new man by a new life in Christ. (Rom. 6:3-5)
“Bread
of life” (John 6:48) His
life germinates in us and also that same life nourishes and sustains us -
by the continuous flow of His life within our spirit. In Egypt the Jews
ate ALL the lamb before crossing the Red Sea. The lamb’s blood on the
doorpost covered them from judgment. But it was the eating the roasted
(judged) lamb, the taking of ALL of the lamb into himself or herself by
morning, which nourished and strengthened them to leave Egypt. Hence Jesus
said, “For my flesh is meat
indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.” John 6:55.
The
Believer Needs Only Christ Within - Nothing Outside of Himself
Isaiah
53:2 says, “For he shall grow
up…as a root out of a dry ground” (italics added).
We can see here that, though the environment may be dry, Christ’s life
is ever alive in us. Christ needs nothing to sustain His limitless life
because He has life in Himself. John 5:26 says “For
as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have
life in himself;”
Fruit
of the Spirit only comes out of our maintaining our organic union with
Him. True fruit in our life is the result of an organic union. Fruit is
not of us, it is the result of the flow of His life through us. Branches
in a vine have no life of their own. They are simply living vessels
containing a life that flows through them, and they then only can bear the
fruit of that life of the vine. Christ’s life flowing through us bears
fruit. The organic life of God, in Christ, as the Spirit, comes into a man
and spontaneously flows out of a man, as the fruit of the Spirit of
Christ. Jesus said “Abide
in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it
abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5I
am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the
same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing” (John
15:4-5).
Here we see that the vine is the source supplying a flow of life to the
branches. The branch has no life of its own. The life is of, or emanates
from, the vine. We bear his life as a dependent branch, bearing His life.
His
life has the power to renew, by the force of its organic life flow. The
olive tree discussion by Paul in Roman’s 11 may or may not apply to the
born-again directly; nevertheless it demonstrates the vitality of organic
union as corollary to the living spiritual union. Consider also that we
Gentiles as “wild olive tree
branches” had to be cut out of the wild olive tree and grafted into
the “good olive tree” for
union to the divine and eternal organic life. The riches of the root flow
from the root and vine to us, as branches. We branches are conduit or
containers to bear His life, which will ultimately, in its time, produce
fruit spontaneously by Christ’s the organic life flowing in them. Paul said “… and thou,
being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them
partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; 18….thou
barest not the root, but the root (bears) thee” (Romans 11:16-18).
“For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and
wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree:” (Romans
11:16-18, 24, italics added). A
branch has no part (by willing, trying, or making a good effort) in
producing fruit – it just happens according to the life flow in the
tree, by nature, and in its season.
From
these Romans 11 scriptures we can also see that the life of the root is
the source to supply the fatness or richness. The power of the Christ’s
life flowing from the root also transforms the contrary nature we had as
the wild olive tree branches. “….
and if the root be holy, so are the branches” (Rom. 11:16b).
That
flow of the Christ’s life transforms a grafted wild olive tree branch;
such as we are - simply by the flow of His life, purging and purifying our
souls. God’s transformation power is in the flow of His life, in Christ,
as the Spirit of life in us. We are purified by the flow of His life in us
just as flowing water purifies a dirty pipe. We branches have no life of
our own; but as organic containers we bear and express the life of that
Holy Root, Christ. Our relationship in this aspect is as Eve who simply
bore the life of Adam, and as the moon that simply reflects the light of
the Son. - END
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