Key 7: Your new seed

The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of God will overshadow you… and blessed are you who believed there would be a fulfillment of what God said to you… (Luke 1:28-45, paraphrased)

Mary asked the messenger:  How can this be?  By believing God’s Words, you now have God’s good Seed in you.  What’s so great about God’s seed?  Peter said your faith in God’s Words about Jesus’ life and death are an imperishable seed.

You need faith the size of a mustard seed…  It’s such a small truth to believe.  It doesn’t require a lot of learning.  The Apostles were “uneducated ordinary men”.   And the Holy Spirit promises to teach you everything you need to know.

By baptism ALL SINS are forgiven, original and all personal sins, as well as ALL punishment for sins... In those who have been reborn, nothing remains that would impede their entry into the Kingdom of God.  (CCC 1263)

Christ’s disciples have put on the new man, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.  (CCC 2475)