Hebrews 4:16 - 17

"We have a High priest who is able to sympathize with our 
weaknesses. He was tempted in every way that we are, but 
he didn't sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne 
of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help 
in time of need."

Deuteronomy 32:11&12

"As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings. So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him."

Job 39:19-20

 "Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane? Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrifying."

Job 12:7 - 10

“Just ask the animals, and they will teach you. Ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you. Speak to the earth, and it will instruct you. Let the fish in the sea speak to you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? For the life of every living thing is in his hand, and the breath of every human being."

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2 Corinthians 5:17

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new."

Matthew 10:29

"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows." 

Have you ever looked closely at a red apple? Amazingly, right there in the red apple is the gospel story. First, the skin of the apple reminds us of the blood that Jesus shed for our sins on the cross, Hebrews 9:14.

The meat or flesh of the apple shows that this was possible, because He being God was made just like us. He took our fallen human flesh, Romans 8:3. In our flesh He was tempted, but He never obeyed the voice of temptations to sin.

The illustration of how He did this is perfectly packaged right in the core of the apple, the apple seed. It shows us how we too have victory over sin. 

The seed must die or go down into the ground in order to grow up and become a tree that produces fruit. Jesus always surrendered to the will of God the Father, Hebrew 10:7. He was tempted, but He died to the wants and desires of our sinful flesh, Hebrews 4:14 - 15. In this way He built a perfect life for everyone of us and set forth a pattern with which we might also be free. Like the Apostle Paul, we can say "I die daily",
Corinthians 15:31. "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.

So the next time you are tempted remember the red apple, its seeds and what Jesus did for the whole world on the cross. You know you are not in the old sinful flesh anymore. You have died in Jesus who went down into the ground and have sprouted up to a new life in Him, 2 Corinthians 5:21. You do not have to obey the old flesh or do those same sins over and over again anymore, Ephesians 2:4-6. You can have peace because the old sinful flesh is dead in Christ on the cross. 

This is God's faith working by His agape love in you, Galatians 5:6. This is a free gift that cannot be taken back, Rev 3:8. God is holding you in His hands and that is really good news, John 10:27-30! He sees the mature tree you will become. Do you see it too, Hebrews 11:1? Read God's word, the bible, and expect that inside every seed of truth there is the promise of new life for you, Philippians 2:5-8 and Romans 12:2. 

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