Number two, getting someone saved is like and undo having a child, and everything brings
forth after its own kind.
Look if you were to Romans chapter 7.
While you're turning to Romans chapter 7, I'll read for you from Philemon, where Paul
said in Philemon, "I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds."
Now, Paul talks about winning Onesimus unto Christ, and he calls that "I've begotten Onesimus
in my bonds."
I begat Onesimus.
He says to the Galatians in chapter 4 verse 19, "My little children of whom I travail
in birth again until Christ be formed in you."
So he talks about giving birth to them as a woman giving birth to a child.
That's the illustration that's used.
He said, "I begat Onesimus."
He says, "To Titus, my own son after the common faith.
To Timothy, my dearly beloved son, and to Timothy, my own son in the faith."
So over and over again, Paul uses this terminology of begetting, travailing in birth, you're
my son, if he won the--he even says to them elsewhere, he says, "Well, you have many instructors
in Christ, but you only have one father, I begat you."
He says to them, okay, he's saying, "I begat you in the gospel."
So he uses that illustration.
Look at Romans chapter 7 verse 4, "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the
law by the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, even to him who is
raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God."
What he's saying here is that we're married unto Christ.
It's just a metaphor and illustration.
He says we're married unto Christ so that we can bring forth fruit unto God.
What's the fruit of marriage?
Children.
You know, when God told Adam and Eve, "Be fruitful and multiply," what's he telling
them?
He's telling them, "You're going to have children.
Be fruitful and multiply, replenish the earth."
And so here it talks about winning people to Christ as an illustration of, "Hey, we're
dead to the law.
We're married to Christ so we can bring forth fruit unto God."
Oh, just kidding.
We can just bring forth fruit unto God without being married to Christ.
Wrong.
You have to be saved to get people saved, okay?
Everything brings forth after its own kind.
The fruit of oranges is oranges, right?
If we took an apple and that apple brings forth fruit, it'll be apples.
For sure.
Every time.
The Bible says, "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone,
but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit."
You know, the fruit falls into the ground, it rots, it decays, it goes into the earth,
and new life springs up of an apple tree.
And the tree is known by its fruit because everything brings forth after its own kind.