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The architectural similarities could be found in many other set ups.

What is important is not the architectural similarities between the two set ups but the purpose behind these similarities.

There is a progression from the common to the holy to the most holy.

This is the same progression in the tissue culture set up.

The common place where people come and go then the Laboratory where contamination is reduced by virtue of the vestibule, then contamination free environment in the “Laminar Flow Hood”.

The Recurring Theme

Every time you do tissue culture you must spray the walls and surface of the laminar flow hood with 75% ethanol to disinfect them.

Inside the laminar flow hood you have the Bunsen burner, the tool holder, the scalpel, the 95% ethanol container and the tweezers.

All of these must be contamination free i.e. sterile. The Bunsen burner must be sprayed with 75% ethanol. The tool holder, the scalpel and the tweezers must be sprayed with 95% ethanol then passed over the flame of the Bunsen burner. These must be absolutely contamination free as these will get into contact with the plant material and the media (that is the jelly like substance that will nourish the cells, but that is a different story)

The scalpel and the tweezers must pass over the flame of the Bunsen burner before and after being used on every jar.

Before you use the autoclaved jars containing the media (which is made from agar, sugar, nutrients and hormones) where the plant material will be kept, the outside of the jars must be sprayed with 75% ethanol.

Everything in the laminar flow hood must be contamination free.

The only things left that can be a source of contamination are the human hands. They have to be thoroughly washed then sprayed with 75% ethanol. Every time your hands touch anything outside the Laminar flow hood, you must re-spray your hands. By following these procedures I was able to get 90% of my jars to be contamination free.

And you must never place you hands on top of an open jar.

Before doing any tissue culture work, the laminar flow hood UV light must be turned on for 15 minutes, and then switched off. Then you start the laminar flow hood for an hour to make sure that any possible contamination has been pushed out of the system.

So after decontaminating everything now you are ready to do tissue culture.

The Similarities

Every time I went to prepare the laminar flow hood I was reminded with the Jewish Temple rituals. The most striking similarity between doing tissue culture and the Temple rituals is that everything must be “purified”.

All the boring stuff I wrote in the above section is to illustrate how essential it is that everything is to be purified or sterilized.

Or in the case of God dealing with sin as the writer to the Hebrews put it: “And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood” (Hbr 9:22)

The principle in both is this: In dealing with “life”, there can be no room for contamination. Whether one is dealing with “plant life” or “human life” or “spiritual life” there can be no room for contamination. We can only succeed if we conduct the process of propagating life on “Life’s Terms” not our “own terms”. We will never outsmart Life and we will never cheat Life.

Contamination or infection is the enemy of physical life. Sin the enemy of spiritual life. Paul wrote “The wages of sin is death”.

But the similarities do not stop there. It is what happens inside the Laminar Flow Hood that is most fascinating. But there is some work to be done before you get to do anything in the Laminar Flow Hood.

The Apical Meristem

First you have to get a date palm. You carefully cut the “head” of the date palm. You must make sure that you do not damage the growing tip of the date palm which is called the “meristem”. You then remove the outer leaves. And you keep removing the inner leaves until you end up with the very heart of the date palm. This would be about a cube with side lengths of two and a half centimeters. This contains the meristem of the date palm. But the aim is to get to the “apical meristem”. This is the very “heart” of the date palm. This is the growing tip of the whole date palm. A date palm has only one growing tip.

The Incarnation

The magnificent date palm with its large fronds and thick strong trunk has now been reduced to one cubic inch. This will be reduced again to about one cubic centimeter. And this will be reduced again until we get to the growing tip of the date palm called the “apical meristem”.

Unlike the original plant, this “apical meristem” is very vulnerable, yet very powerful. It is vulnerable because it has lost its “independence”, it has now become dependant. Its cells now are very susceptible to contamination.

The date palm that could resist and survive many verities of funguses and microbes and insects is now very vulnerable to the slightest contamination.

This is why the apical meristem has to be disinfected in the Laminar flow hood and the dissected parts must be kept in autoclaved jars.

In a similar way, being stripped of or giving up his glory and place with God the Father, the all-powerful Son of God became a baby born in a cow shed. He was just as vulnerable as any other baby. Ultimately, as a human being, His enemies were able to spit on him, hit him on the head, ridicule him and finally crucify him. But this is when the vulnerability of God became the power or “totipotency” of God as we shall see later.

The “Position”

In our analogy the apical meristem represents Christ.

The position of the apical meristem is in the ‘heart of the heart’ of the date palm.

Jesus is described in John 1:18 as being in the “bosom of the Father”. “No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.” It is not that the Father has a “bosom”. This is another way of saying that Jesus, the “Son”, occupies the position of “the apical meristem” in relation to the Father.

The Divine Revealer

The cells of the apical meristem are “undifferentiated cells”. That is, the cells are not committed to becoming any specific part of the plant. They are capable at this stage of becoming any part of the plant if they receive the appropriate signal. When all these cells become differentiated they become leaves or flowers particular to that plant. The colour and shape of the leaves and the stems, the flower, the variety of the fruit, its taste and smell all come from the apical meristem. Out of the apical meristem the plant is revealed.

Jesus is the revealer of the Father.

Hbr 1:3 who being the brightness of [His] glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power,

Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

The Creator

The “apical meristem” is defined as the “centre of the embryonic activities” of the date palm.

When it is said “embryonic”, it must be remembered that there is no male and female for such embryos to come into existence. Likewise, if Jesus is the apical meristem of the Father, this is from where the embryonic activities take place. Therefore it is very appropriate for Him to be called “the Son of God” without any reference to male and female.

The “centre of the embryonic activities” means that he is the source of all embryos.

The term “Son” is another way of saying that Jesus is the “centre of embryonic activities” of God, that is, the “centre of the creating activities” of God.

“All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” (John 1:3) and the “One by whom God created the whole world”. (Hebrews 1:2).

And (Col 1:16) “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.

He is the centre of all “embryonic activities”.

The Holy Spirit

From the moment you get the small part that contains the apical meristem to the moment it is dissected and placed in the autoclaved jars, clean decontaminated air is gently blowing in the laminar flow hood. The gentle breath of the pure air pushes any possible contamination outside the laminar flow hood. The environment inside the Laminar flow hood must be pure of any germs or bacteria.

Throughout his whole life Jesus was empowered by the “Holy Spirit” (Matt.12:18&28; Luke 4:1, 18). It is interesting that the word “spirit” used in the Bible also mean “wind[2], or a gentle blast[3]”. That describes precisely the air that the “laminar flow hood” produces. The air flow is a “laminar” or smoothly streamlined, not a “turbulent” or disturbed air flow.

God’s “Holy Spirit” was in Him and with him from His inception to the completion of His mission. Without pure gentle air going through the Laminar Flow Hood no tissue culture would be possible.

Jesus however did not live in a sterile bubble or “autoclaved jar”. He lived in our world, yet he was contamination free. As he took upon himself the form of a man, he was contamination free from inception, for he was conceived by the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:35). He was baptized by the Holy Spirit. “And John bore witness, saying, "I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He remained upon Him” (John 1:32) He also lived a sinless life. Jesus challenged his contemporaries saying: "Which one of you convicts me of sin? (John 8:46)

There can be no room for contamination from beginning to end. Only through God’s “Holy Spirit”, was our salvation made possible.

Let us now examine more closely what happens inside the laminar flow hood.

Wounding The Apical Meristem

The cube of two and half centimeters in size, containing the apical meristem, is disinfected using a special chemical solution and then reduced in size again to get as close as possible to the apical meristem. Once you roughly locate the apical meristem, you then begin to cut it into pieces.

When I am doing my tissue culture, it is hard some times to be able to see the apical meristem. But I keep dissecting anyway, aiming at the heart of the apical meristem. I might end up with 20 jars full of plant material, but after one month, the apical meristem makes its presence known. The jar or jars which contain parts of the apical meristem bursts out with beautiful, creamy, whitish, fluffy callus – as beautiful as a bride, and what a glorious sight!

Stem Cells and the Secret Of Immortality

The Bible speaks of two creations. The first started with Adam and Eve.

The second started with Jesus.

The Apostle Paul wrote:

1Cr 15:45 So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

1Cr 15:46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.

1Cr 15:47 The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.

1Cr 15:48 As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly.

1Cr 15:49 Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

And in Romans he wrote:

Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

Rom 5:15 But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

Human reproduction follows the “seed principle”. It is a sexual production. It is the result of the fusion of the sperm of a male and the egg cell of a female. This is the same principle that produces seeds in plants. The most common form of plant production is achieved by planting seeds.

A seed must grow first to a mature plant, capable of producing seeds. Then from the seeds you can produce the next generation and so on.

This process has been happening since the days of Adam. Adam had to know Eve, to have children. Then the children grow to a certain age before they too have their own children and so on. This process takes generations.

The book of Genesis tells us that God is the Creator. It tells us also that the “destroyer” was there lurking and succeeded in tempting Adam and Eve to mistrust God. And thus, “through one man, sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned” (Romans 5:12)

The first creation got contaminated and thus was doomed. The challenge was on.

The wonderful thing about God is that He can re-create. But the second creation does not follow the principle of procreation though “seeds”. The second creation is “asexual” (i.e. without sex) creation. It is a spiritual creation: “That which is born of the Spirit is spirit” (John 3:6)

The similarities between the “second creation” and plant propagation, through stem cells are astonishing.

The Natural Versus The Supernatural

A seed, if planted and given the right conditions, will naturally become a plant and in time produce other seeds. Tissue culture does not happen “naturally”. It takes place from outside the plant kingdom. If you were a plant you would know about procreation through the seed principle but cloning through stem cells must take place through external intervention.

It takes human initiative to produce tissue culture.

Likewise the new creation is not a natural process. It is a supernatural process.

John 3:6 "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

There are some very special things about the “apical meristem”. “Only plant stem cells embedded in meristems can divide and give rise to cells that differentiate while giving rise to new stem cells. These ‘immortal’ cells divide infinitely.”[4] (emphasis added)

In order to do tissue culture and to obtain thousands of date palms, in just a few years, you must wound the “apical meristem.” You must have a sharp scalpel to cut and wound the apical meristem. When the apical meristem is cut into pieces, those pieces are placed in a sterile medium. After a few weeks, callus will be formed from the wounded parts and this will be the source of thousands of new plants that look very much like the original tree.

No one will dispute the fact that the people of our planet are full of “viruses”. If we had to spend time in God’s “quarantine” we would never be released into his heaven. We must be destroyed; otherwise, heaven would turn out to be like planet earth.

How can God provide a way for a vice and virus infected humanity to be recreated?

To propagate a date palm from seeds is a risky business. For every seed will carry the same viruses as the parent tree. This is true of human kind. All of us carry the vices and the viruses of Adam and Eve’s sin. How can God bring a “virus free creation” into His heaven?

The “seed” of Adam is out of the question. So where can God find virus free “human material” to clone?

God sent His “Son” who is the centre of all embryonic activities who also is called His “Word” to the world. Some two thousand years ago he took the form of a man and became the second Adam. He was not born of the seed of Adam but was conceived by the Holy Spirit. He lived just like us and was tempted in every way, yet did not sin.

Differentiated And Undifferentiated Cells

Cutting and stripping the outside branches of the date palm was done outside the laminar flow hood. When I set about finding the heart of the date palm, which was roughly four cubic inches, the cutting required was done outside the laminar flow hood. To get to the one cubic inch I was still working outside the laminar flow hood. At this point the work needed to be continued in the sterile environment of the Laminar Flow Hood. The one cubic inch was disinfected then reduced to one cubic centimeter, it was disinfected again and then placed on another sterile Petri dish to be dissected. Then I disinfected the dissected pieces again before placing them in the autoclaved jars.

All the cutting of the differentiated parts has no value. The differentiated parts are those made of cells that have become specific parts of the plant. All these differentiated pieces went into the garbage bin. It was only the one cubic centimeter that contained the apical meristem that is made up of undifferentiated cells, which was dissected and placed in the autoclaved jars that mattered.

It is what happens to the undifferentiated cells that is of importance.

LIFE THAT CONQUERS VIRUSES

The apical meristem could hardly be seen by the naked eye.

For some reason the apical meristem is virus free. Nobody, yet, knows why the apical meristem is a virus free region.

Nothing can stop the spread of viruses. Viruses can roam freely everywhere. The areas around the apical meristem can be full of viruses, but as you move to the apical meristem region, this area becomes virus free. That is why when virus free plants are wanted, tissue culture of the apical meristem is necessary. It is like finding a spring of water. As the water gushes out of the spring, at the eye of the spring the water is “clean”. But as the water flows around the eye of the spring the water begins to get contaminated from the surrounding environment.

The apical meristem is a stagnant mass of cells. It is sitting duck for virus invasion. For it to be virus free there must be something similar to the analogy of the gushing spring. The “apical meristem” is gushing with uncontaminated life.

The apical meristem is the very centre of the embryonic activity that is bursting with life, the right kind of life, pure life! Hence, viruses cannot exist in the apical meristem. Researchers do not know why the apical meristem of plants is virus free. But the kind of life in the apical meristem can conquer viruses.

Just like light that shines in the darkness, the apical meristem repels viruses. (John 1:5)

Earlier we mentioned the verse,“Or in the case of God dealing with sin as the writer to the Hebrews put it: “And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood” (Hbr 9:22)

One might ask: how can blood be a purifying agent?

The Bible tells us that “the life of the flesh [is] in the blood” (Lev 17:11)

It is the life that is in the blood that is the purifying agent. The shedding of the blood is the giving of life. And that is not any life. It is only the life that is found in the apical meristem that can conquer viruses.

For we also read in the book of Hebrews:

Hbr 9:11 But Christ came [as] High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.

Hbr 9:12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. Hbr 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh,

Hbr 9:14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

It is the "given" life of Christ that is the eternal purifying agent. This is the life that swallowed death.

The virus free apical meristem in plants is a reflection of what Christ is and what He did, and that is what God is trying to tell us though this botanical fact.

The Point Of Singularity

To get to the apical meristem you have to cut the date palm. Then you have to remove all the branches. Then you keep carving the head of the palm thus removing the baby branches until you end up with the heart of the palm that contains the apical meristem. At this point the date palm is dead but not the apical meristem. The apical meristem is still full of life. As a matter of fact, the cells in the apical meristem are said to be “totipotent – that is, having unlimited capability.” The cells in the apical meristem are still bursting with life.

Unless the apical meristem sheds its stem cells it remains by itself. If the apical meristem grows again, it will simply become the old tree that it was. But if the apical meristem sheds its stem cells it becomes “billions and billions” of totipotent cells. It is at that same moment at which the apical meristem is “wounded” and virtually destroyed, that the apical meristem becomes totipotent i.e. having unlimited power. This is why the Jesus spoke of the time of his crucifxionas also as the time of his glorification “Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.” (John 13:31)

Here is the point of singularity: Utter humility and utter glorification; Absolute weakness and absolute sovereignty; utter agony and complete pleasure and satisfaction.

The Undifferentiated One

It is not only that the apical meristem is characterized by being virus free. It has another unique characteristic. Its cells are characterized by being “undifferentiated”. That is: the cells have not been committed to becoming a leaf, or bark, or a piece of fruit. These “undifferentiated cells” are waiting to become specialized cells. These cells are forever ready to receive the appropriate signals. Differentiated cells are not good for doing tissue culture, even if they are free from viruses.

This again reflects the nature of Jesus. He is the undifferentiated Word of God. We all have been “differentiated”. That is: we have all made up our minds. We do our own things.

The prophet Isaiah described humanity in the following words: “All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way;” (Isaiah 53:6)

In contrast Jesus lived an undifferentiated life. He never “did his own thing”.

Here is how He described how he lived:

John 5:19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.

John 5:30 "I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

John 6:38 "For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

John 8:28 Then Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am [He], and [that] I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things.

John 12:49 "For I have not spoken on My own [authority]; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.

John 12:50 "And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak."

John 14:10 "Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own [authority]; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.

And before his crucifixion Jesus prayed "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will." (Matthew 26:39)

His life was completely undifferentiated. He was always waiting and ready for the “signals” from the Father.

The Result Of His Wounds

The prophet Isaiah prophesied the following some 600 years before the coming of Christ:

Isa 52: 13Behold, My servant will prosper,

He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted.

14Just as many were astonished at you, My people,

So His appearance was marred more than any man

And His form more than the sons of men.

15Thus He will sprinkle many nations,

Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him;

For what had not been told them they will see,

And what they had not heard they will understand.

Isa 53: 1 Who has believed our message?

And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

2For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,

And like a root out of parched ground;

He has no stately form or majesty

That we should look upon Him,

Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.

3He was despised and forsaken of men,

A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;

And like one from whom men hide their face

He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

4Surely our griefs He Himself bore,

And our sorrows He carried;

Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,

Smitten of God, and afflicted.

5But He was pierced through for our transgressions,

He was crushed for our iniquities;

The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,

And by His scourging we are healed.

6All of us like sheep have gone astray,

Each of us has turned to his own way;

But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all

To fall on Him.

7He was oppressed and He was afflicted,

Yet He did not open His mouth;

Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,

And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,

So He did not open His mouth.

8By oppression and judgment He was taken away;

And as for His generation, who considered

That He was cut off out of the land of the living

For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?

9His grave was assigned with wicked men,

Yet He was with a rich man in His death,

Because He had done no violence,

Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

10But the LORD was pleased

To crush Him, putting Him to grief;

If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,

He will see His offspring,

He will prolong His days,

And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

11As a result of the anguish of His soul,

He will see it and be satisfied;

By His knowledge the Righteous One,

My Servant, will justify the many,

As He will bear their iniquities.

12Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,

And He will divide the booty with the strong;

Because He poured out Himself to death,

And was numbered with the transgressors;

Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,

And interceded for the transgressors.

In Isaiah 52:15 we read “So shall He sprinkle many nations.”

The Hebrew word for sprinkle is “naza”. It means to spurt or to spring

It is very similar to the Arabic word “nadah” or “nazah”. It is used for example when water oozes out or seep out of a clay drinking jar after being filled with water. So the verse means; He shall spurt out many nations.

It is true that many nations came out of Adam. The making of many nations through Adam came through the gradual and slow process over hundreds of years of begetting through the seed propagation.

The making of many nations is not so with the “Servant of the Lord.”

This process is sudden not gradual. It is also takes place on a massive scale, not though one begetting another.

How can one person ooze out, or sprinkle many nations? One thing that parallels that is propagating through tissue culture.

As I watched the stem cells grow inside the autoclaved jars, I was always amazed at the speed and the sudden “waves” of growth of the cells.

Plant tissue culture is a shadow of how Jesus “sprinkled” many nations.

But notice how the “servant of the Lord” is described in Isaiah 53:2 “He grew up before Him like a tender shoot and like a root out of parched ground”. The Hebrew word for “tender shoot” is “suckling” still on the breast.

The word “parched” used in “parched ground” means “desert”, “wilderness” and “arid”.[5] The picture the prophet is painting before us is of someone who is like a “tender shoot” in a “desert”.

In the language of tissue culture, he is the only plant material and the rest of humanity is a desert with no life.

He is also “tender” enough to be described as “suckling”, still on the breast, according to the root of the original Hebrew word.

So what happens to this “tender” shoot?

We read in verse 5 “But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities.” Or as other translations put it: “He was wounded for our transgressions.”

And in verse 10 and 11 we read

“But the LORD was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief; if He would render Himself as a guilt offering, he will see His offspring, he will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

As a result of the anguish of His soul, he will see it and be satisfied; by His knowledge the Righteous One, my Servant, will justify the many, as He will bear their iniquities.”

As a result of wounding him and crushing him, this one shoot will have an offspring and he will justify the many.”

This takes us to the first thought found in Isaiah 52:15 we “So shall He sprinkle many nations.” Through his wounds he shall sprinkle many nations.

A New Creation

What God did in Christ was more than forgiveness and more than reconciliation. God was making a new creation.

It is fascinating to note that in plant tissue culture, the new plants are called clones. That is they look like the original plant. The Bible of course does not use the word “clone”, but the description of the end result is strikingly the same. Here is how the end result is described:

“For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.” (Rom 8:29)

“to be conformed to the image of His Son” simply means to be like His Son.

“For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” (Heb 2:10)

Jesus is called the Son, but God is bringing in him “many sons”.

“Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” (1Jo 3:2)

And John puts simply saying: “we shall be like Him”.

Obedience Not Pain

We now turn to the opening comment by Emma Goldman: “Compared with the delicate, frail Spiridonova who underwent the most terrible tortures, the most horrible indignities, without losing faith in herself or her cause, Jesus is a veritable nonentity.”

But why was the delicate frail Spiridonova tortured? She shot General Luzhenovsky in the face with a revolver at the provincial railway station of Borisoglebsk.[6]

She was part of the Russian revolution, but was ultimately executed by the revolution.

I am sure there are many better examples than “delicate, frail Spiridonova” who suffered innocently.

As we have seen earlier, one can do tissue culture only on undifferentiated cells. Trying to do tissue culture on differentiated cells is useless exercise.

But then again, if pain is what was required, then animal sacrifices, and plenty of them, would have been sufficient to affect any aspect of salvation.

What is required by God is “perfect obedience”. This perfect obedience is manifested in the life of Christ in spite of pain and the sin of mankind.

Unlike many innocent sufferers, who would have avoided torture and shame, if they could help it, Jesus did not try to escape. On the contrary, he was capable of subduing his captors, but he willingly placed himself in their hands. Here is how John described it: “Jesus therefore, knowing all things that would come upon Him, went forward and said to them, "Whom are you seeking?" (Jhn 18:4)

It is the undifferentiated will of Jesus that made all the difference, as it is written:

Hbr 10:9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God”…

Hbr 10:10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].

And in the word of the Lord Jesus himself:

"But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here. (John 14:31)

It was not the nails that kept Jesus on the cross, it was not “my sin” either. It was his love for the Father that kept him there.

Neither sin nor death can boast that they have part in our salvation. Jesus obeyed in spite of them. He obeyed because he loved the Father. It is because of his undifferentiated life, his obedience to the point of death, the death on a cross that he is the Savior of the World.

You And Eternal Life

It is no wonder that the Saviour of the World said of himself:

Jhn 14:6 "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Jhn 6:35 "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

Jhn 6:51 "I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world."

Jhn 10:9 “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.”

Jhn 7:37 “On the last day, that great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.”

Jhn 8:51 “Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death.”

Rev 3:20 “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.”

Dust was the media of the first creation. We, human beings, are the media of the new creation.

Or to use the analogy of tissue culture we are the “jars” containing the media of the new creation. The above verse says Jesus “knocks at the door” that is, he only knocks. Jesus does not knock the door down. Jesus will never force himself on anyone. We must be willing to open the door. The human “jars” must open the “lid”. When the “lid” is open he will come in by his Spirit and impart Life, his Life, into that “human jar”.

And IF ANYONE opens the door, Jesus said “I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me”.

There can be no more beautiful picture, honour or privilege than to dine with the apical meristem of Life, with the apical meristem of the Father, forever.

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[1] . http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/goldframe.htm

[2] . 4151 pneúma – properly, spirit (Spirit), wind, or breath. http://concordances.org/greek/4151.htm

[3] . http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G4151&t=KJV

[4] . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_stem_cell

[5] . http://concordances.org/hebrew/6723.htm

[6] . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Spiridonova