What happens to a seed after it is planted in the soil?
After a seed is planted in soil, moisture and sunlight cause it to die, and out of that death comes new growth. Scripture uses this to picture the old Adam being crucified and identified with Christ's death, so that resurrection life in His likeness follows.
Les explains that when you plant something, you put it in the ground or at least in a flower pot—into the soil. When the seed is placed there, moisture and sunlight begin to work, and the seed dies. Out of that death of the seed comes new growth. He then connects this to Romans 6:5, where Paul says that if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, our old Adam has died and must be crucified. If we are identified in His death, we shall also be identified in His resurrection. That resurrection is the next step.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: