What does the seed analogy teach about the believer's death, burial, and resurrection with Christ?
The seed analogy teaches that just as a planted seed must die before it can produce grain, believers died with Christ, were buried with Him, and arose with Him. His death, burial, and resurrection are applied to them, bringing them out of old Adamic sin into new life.
Les explains that in Romans chapter 6 Paul uses a simple seed analogy: the seed must be planted and die before the plant can come forth and bear grain. The spiritual application is that when Christ died, we died; when He was buried, we were buried; and when He arose from the dead, we arose out of deadness in the old Adamic sins and into new life. This fits the gospel Paul preached, that Christ died for the sins of the world. Les stresses that salvation rests on genuine, Holy Spirit-driven belief, not mere mental assent or human works, because the gospel itself is the power of God unto salvation (Romans 1:16).