When Death Lives

When Death Lives

“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.” — John 12:24.

There’s a kind of life that only comes through death.

Not the death of the body, but the death of self — the part of us that clings to control, comfort, and identity apart from Him.

Jesus didn't just speak this verse — He lived it. He became the grain of wheat. He fell through the earth. He was buried, and He rose — not as one, but as the first among many sons of glory.

He invites us to follow Him — not around death — through it.

To die in Him is to live in Him

The world teaches us to preserve ourselves. But the Kingdom teaches us to lay ourselves down.

“If we truly believed, we would welcome death — not with fear, but with faith.”

We would follow Him by way of surrender. Into the grave, into the silence and stillness — knowing that resurrection waits on the other side.

This is not just symbolic. It is the unveiling of heaven's life here on earth. A life that began in Him, now rising from the grave of self.

The Fruit of Death

Many people do good works. But fruit — real, lasting fruit — only grows from a life that has died and been raised in Him.

“You will know them by their fruit.” — Matthew 7:16.

The fruit Christ meant is not just deeds — it is the evidence of a transformed life, a life no longer its own.

So the fruit He seeks is:

• Not just effort, but surrender

• Not performance, but transformation

• Not appearance, but eternal evidence that one has died, been raised, and now lives in Him.

What dies lives

To surrender is to rise. What dies in Him cannot stay dead. It will return — refined, eternal, bearing fruit that no man can steal or destroy.