Jesus came into this world as God's special seed. This kind of seed was pure and uncorrupted. All men were born of corrupted seed from the first Adam. But God wanted a new crop of people that relate with him. He decided to change the seed by sending Jesus to yield a new harvest of a different kind. In agriculture, you change the kind of harvest by changing the seed type. This is what God did in sending Christ. One day, before His crucifixion, He metaphorically referred himself as seed in saying, "I tell you the truth, a grain of wheat must fall to the ground and die to make many seeds. But if it never dies, it remains only a single seed" (John 12:24). Isaiah in our opening scripture saw this coming and prophesied that after yielding in death Jesus would see His offspring through which He will prolong or extend His days. We are all part of His harvest from the seed planted. It means we are just like Him because like begets like. We have His very life, eternal life. Extending His days means that we are the ones authorized to continue what He was doing when He was here on earth. We continue His influence today in the earth. No wonder He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father" (John 14:12). Since His ascension the Church has been carrying out the works, continuing His influence through the Gospel by the power of the Holy Spirit. Throughout this Church age, the work of Christ has been spreading across the world. We are right now in the closing moments of the Church age. And in these closing times, don't relent in your efforts for the expansion of God's kingdom. In His redemptive work, He saw you and me extending His days — carrying on His influence into people's hearts throughout the earth. He started the work in Israel and the Church takes it to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8) and you are a part of it. Hallelujah.