Jesus said, «Truly, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much fruit. Those who love their life destroy it, and those who despise their life in this world keep it for everlasting life. Whoever wants to serve me, let him follow me and wherever I am, there shall my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him».
Source: http://evangeli.net/gospel/
Analysis
Today's passage is a very short three verse passage, but may be one with one of the greatest implications for Jesus' odd mind. Here, Jesus tells that if the grain dies, it will produce fruit, if it doesn't it will stay seed. Anyone who love their life will lose it and those who hate it will keep it. They who serve Him must follow Him and wherever Jesus is, the servant will be there also. If they serve Him, God will honor the one who serves Jesus. Well then, let us start dissecting this passage, shall we?
It is fairly obvious that the seed refers to Jesus, if He dies, it'll be good, if He doesn't die, He'll be what He still is, but really what is the actual meaning of this? Jesus dies for other people, so why is it that He only spoke of Himself, that is the grain of wheat? As such, I will complete it for Him, the complete version would be this. If the grain of wheat does not die, then all other plants will die, but if the grain falls and dies, it will grow and multiply, providing much food for other plants. Is that not the meaning of Jesus' death? That is to surrender His eternal life for others? To let His body be divided and eaten?
While the core message of the "They who keep their life will lose it ..." is practically obvious, that is if we become attached to our material life and material pleasures we will actually lose it, but here Jesus uses very strong words. He in fact uses the word love and despise, very strong words indeed. As such, according to Jesus, if we cherish our life, we will lose it, but if we despise it and loathe it, we will keep it, is that not contradictory to each person? The person who wishes life will lose it, but the one who clearly wants death is given life instead. This is not just about if we are attached to our life, but this is about whether we love or hate our life, which is wholly different from attachment. One can love life without being attached to it, so do we have a solution for the hate problem? In my opinion, it most likely means that if we hate our material life, or we are dissatisfied with the current systemic oppression of the human mind, then we will gain a better life in the kingdom. On the other hand, if we love the systemic oppression of the human mind, we will only lose that life, and may find the resulting conflicts about the truth absolute hell, or feel that the new order of truth is hell and so on.
The third verse is just another phrase of Jesus' fantasies of grandeur, and calls people who listens to Him and does what He wishes to do, that is the upholding of the truth, to be His servants. And that He will be served, this seems to contradict His words in Matthew 20:28, that is "just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many," Furthermore, calling them servants makes no sense as this would contradict Jesus' core relationship with the Father, which I have not written about at all, but I will when the time comes. Basically, Jesus is separated from the world, for He is the literal other half of the Father, and thus everything else that exists is part of the Father. So Jesus is saying that the Father is the servant? Well that makes no sense at all. But again, Jesus is in the end, still human, as such we must understand His limits. There is not much I can say else about His messages, as such that is all I can say for now, have a nice day and see you tomorrow.
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