Section 11
referring to the life-imparting aspect of His death. The dying of this grain of wheat was not for re demption; it was absolutely for imparting into the many grains the life that was in the original grain. On the negative side, Christ's death re moved our sins; on the positive side, it imparted the divine life into us. As we believe in Him today, our sins are removed by His redemptive death, and eternal life is imparted into us by His life- imparting death. This life-imparting death is also the life-releasing, life-propagating, and life- multiplying death. It is the generating and re producing death.
Consider a grain of wheat. Its life is confined within the grain. By death, the life in the grain is released. Likewise, by His death on the cross, Christ's divine life was released. Hence, His death was the life-releasing death. Since His divine life was not only released out of Him but also im parted into us, His death was the life-imparting death. On His side, it was the life-releasing death; on our side, it is the life-imparting death. More over, it is the life-propagating death, for by it life is spread in many directions. Furthermore, it is the life-multiplying death, causing the multiplica tion of life. It is also the life-reproducing death, for the one grain has been reproduced in the many