The seed is the perfect fruit of the flower to which all parts of the flower are subservient. The flower must die to develop the seed in its completeness. The gospel of Christ is the seed to which everything in God's Word is subject. Not until Calvary did we have a complete gospel, which is therefore the final product of God's thought. It was necessary that Christ should die that you and I might have that seed which contains the very life of God.

—A. S. Gumbar