1 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day. . . 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” (Genesis 1:9-13 and 20-28).

     Once we understand the ramifications of mankind’s fall into sin, there are perhaps no more frightening statements in the Word of God than the three little words that define God’s Law of Reproduction incorporated within the Creation. This three frightening little words are, “after his kind.”

     God’s Creation was intended to expand beyond the original numbers and continue through procreation. The idea of procreation is revealed in the words “whose seed is in itself.” In other words, within the original Creation, God created life with the ability to reproduce (create) other life like that which God put in that created species. The governing principle of this Reproductive Law is that a particular plant or animal could only reproduce another plant or animal like itself. The means for that to be accomplished was the “seed . . . in itself.”

     Within Creation, God built a harmony for continuing existence. There is an incomprehensible complexity of existence built within the original Creation. Living things were created with the intricate detail for self-sustenance. Plants were created with the ability to take moisture from the ground and from the air through various means. Plant life was created with the ability to assimilate carbon dioxide for survival with a byproduct (waste) of oxygen. Animal and human life was created with the ability to assimilate oxygen for survival with a byproduct (waste) of carbon dioxide. Plants were created to provide for humans and humans were to till the ground and have dominion (Lordship or governing control and responsibility) over all of God’s Creation to insure that procreation continued. Creation was intended to be symbiotic and harmonious.

     We do not know for sure when angels were created. They may have been created prior to Genesis chapter one. Angels may have been created at the time of Genesis chapter one. Although angels were able to enter into the physical creation, they were different. They were not part of the symbiotic and harmonious Creation we find in Genesis chapter one. Yet, once Adam was created, God gave dominion (Lordship) of all of God’s Creation (including angels) to Adam. That is, God gave Adam dominion over everything in the Creation but one tree in the midst of the Garden. The “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” was forbidden to Adam. The importance of this is that, although God gave sovereign dominion of everything in Creation to Adam, God retained Sovereign Dominion over Adam.

     The vast majority of the angels kept their appointed estate submissive to the Sovereignty of God and became the servants of man according to the dictates of their Creator.

“1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art {as} a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: 3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: 4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: 5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; 7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. 8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. 9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be {as}a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. 10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. 19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more” (Ezekiel 28:1-19).

     Satan did not like God’s order of sovereignty. He rebelled against God’s order of Sovereignty and infected Creation with selfishness. Satan’s selfishness created a wake of selfish influence that “drew the third part of the stars of heaven {angelic hosts out of God’s heavenly realm of existence}, and did cast them to the earth.” This satanic, selfish influence was not content with corrupting one third of the angelic hosts, Satan sought to infect mankind with it by deceiving Eve. Eve was deceived and ate of the forbidden “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” and was corrupted with selfishness herself. Adam, on the other hand, was not deceived. Adam made a selfish choice of his will. He chose to love his wife more than he loved God. As a result, he was infected with selfishness. Although Satan is the father of sin, Adam became its progenitor in the human race. The sin that brought condemnation upon all of the first Creation was the sin of selfishness from which all kinds of vermin and corruption springs forth.

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Romans 5:12).

     Although mankind was originally created in the image of God and the image of God was the Seed that was in Adam and was the Seed Adam was to procreate in, the seed of man was now infected with selfishness and with that seed of selfishness came the condemnation of death (separation from God). From the point of Adam’s infection forward in history, every individual descending from Adam was born with that corrupted seed. This is “the kind” we will all reproduce after positionally and practically unless we make some radical changes in our lives.

     All sin may spring forth from the seed of selfishness, but it produces all forms of selfishness within the species of selfishness. Selfishness will come forth from the womb of the “flesh” in many forms of expression. Look to Galatians 5:13-21 and note that the text is written to “born again” believers who now, since their salvation, once again possess the Seed of Life and, with it, the possibility to reproduce the “image of God.” Being “born again” will not be a Magic Wand waved over your life automatically eradicating the satanic seed of selfishness that is part of your fallen nature.

“13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh {selfishness}, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh {selfishness} are manifest {openly visable}, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God” (Galatians 5:13-21).

     Notice, ‘the works of the flesh” (selfishness) are manifested (exposed) by selfish actions, selfish attitudes, and selfish outcomes. If you see any of these actions, attitudes or outcomes in ANYONE’S life, that person is manifesting the satanic seed that is in him or her. Unless the seed of selfishness is killed by repentance, resulting in changed actions, attitudes and outcomes, it will infect everyone and anything that tolerates it.

     Selfishness is destructive. Sadly, selfish people are also willfully blind to their own selfishness. They would rather destroy or be destroyed by their own selfishness than admit they are being selfish. The “angel of the bottomless pit” is known as Abaddon in Hebrew and Apollyon in the Greek (Rev. 19:11). Both names mean destroyer. Selfishness is the Sword the Destroyer uses and he gets selfish people to turn that Sword upon themselves and everyone selfish people involve themselves with.

     The Word of God warns about selfish people. The Word of God defines the characteristics of selfishness in terminology that should make selfish people readily apparent. In fact, selfishness will be the predominant characteristic of people in the world during the last days before the second coming of Christ.

“1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away” (II Timothy 3:1-5).

     If you continue wanting to have your way instead of God’s way, you are going to continue to procreate the Seed of Satan in the lives of everyone you influence. You will infect your husband/wife. You will infect your children. You will destroy your life, your marriage, and your children’s lives. You are in fact working in partnership with the Destroyer. In it all, Satan will laugh at you in derision.

     However, the one thing that professing Christians, who continually live in selfishness, should really be concerned about is if their testimony of salvation is genuine. With such evident hypocrisy in their lives there is a high probability that they are still lost in their sins and have never been “born again.”

“3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked” (I John 2:3-6).

     Selfishness is the seed of Satan in our lives. It is not something that should be cultivated, watered, and fertilized. Selfishness is a destructive weed that must be pluck out by the roots and burned on the altar of self-sacrifice.

“7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting” (Galatians 6:7-8).

To continue to live in selfishness is a carnal resolution to corruption. You not only will destroy your life, you will destroy your marriage, your children, your testimony and any hope for spiritual fruit from your life.

“I have said to corruption {the grave and spiritual death}, Thou art my father: to the worm {the eating away of decay and rot due to sin}, Thou art my mother, and my sister” (Job 17:14).