2 Corinthians 9:10 -
TITLE: GOD, Seed And Harvest Time
2 Corinthians 9:10
Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
Parallel Verse:
Isaiah 55:10-11
10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
INTRODUCTION:
3 Points
I. God is the Supplier Of Seed
II. Who's The sower?
III. The Harvest
DISCUSSION:
We'll talk more about GOD compared to the sower and the harvest!
I. God is the Supplier Of Seed
- We have overlapping roles and symbolism, so don't be confused.
GOD IS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN OUR DAILY LIVES.
GOD THE FATHER,GOD THE SON AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT IS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN OUR DAILY LIVES.
A. God's Role In The Seed:
1. God the Father is both the Supplier and the Gardener (One Who Makes The Seeds Grow)
John 15:1
I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
Isaiah 55:11
so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
2. God, the Son is both the sower/farmer/Seed that sows the Seed.
Farmer:
Matthew 13:37
He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.
Sower:
Mark 4:14
The farmer sows the word.
The Seed Is God's Word, Jesus Is the Living Word
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
3. God, the Holy Spirit Is The Water.
Isaiah 44:3
or I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.
There are other, many symbols of the Holy Spirit such as :
dove
Luke 3:22
and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
fire
Acts 2:3-4
They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
GOD IS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN OUR DAILY LIVES.
GOD THE FATHER,GOD THE SON AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT IS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN OUR DAILY LIVES.
THE DIVINE TRINITY IS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN OUR DAILY LIVES.
GOD THE FATHER PLANTED THE SEED, THE SEED IS GOD, THE SON AND GOD, THE FATHER WATERED GOD, THE SON WITH THE LIVING WATER, GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT!
John 4:24
God is Spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
HOW CAN A SPIRIT GIVE BIRTH TO PHYSICAL? HOW CAN THE TRINITY OR DIVINE GODHEAD GIVE EXISTENCE TO PHYSICAL THINGS?
B. The Seed
Seed - Greek word: sperma means something sown, implication offspring, a remnant kept over for planting, issue, seed.
Accurate tagalog: punla, o binhi
The Seed Can Be the Word Of God, Seed can be seed money or the offering
2 Corinthians 9:10
Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
Seed is the offering, seed money, ourselves or the Word. First it's the Word, then the Word reproduced another seed, which is the money
2Co 9:6 Remember this: The one who plants few seeds will have a small harvest. But the one who plants a lot will have a big harvest. (ERV)
Romans 4:17 As the Scriptures say, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is true before God, the one Abraham believed--the God who gives life to the dead and speaks of things that don't yet exist as if they are real. (ERV)
HOW CAN A SPIRIT GIVE BIRTH TO PHYSICAL? HOW CAN THE TRINITY OR DIVINE GODHEAD GIVE EXISTENCE TO PHYSICAL THINGS?
Rom 4:17 as the scripture says, "I have made you father of many nations." So the promise is good in the sight of God, in whom Abraham believed---the God who brings the dead to life and whose command brings into being what did not exist. (GNB)
Rom 4:17 As it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations." Abraham acted in faith when he stood in the presence of God, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence things that don't yet exist. (ISV)
THE SPIRIT GIVES BIRTH TO THE PHYSICAL. THE SPIRITUAL GOD CALLS PHYSICAL MONEY INTO EXISTENCE.
GOD PROVIDES YOU WITH PHYSICAL MONEY EVEN THERE'S NO PHYSICAL MONEY TO BEGIN WITH. GOD CALLS IT INTO EXISTENCE.
PROSPERITY STARTS IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD, SPIRITUAL REALM, BEFORE WE CAN PROSPER WE NEED TO KNOW THE GOD IS SPIRIT AND CALLS BOTH SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL THINGS TO EXISTENCE FOR EXAMPLE COINS, CHECKS, GOLD, SILVER AND PHILIPPINE PESO.
IF GOD IS WITH US, WE OWN ALL THINGS, FOR THE CREATOR AND CALLER OF ALL THINGS BOTH PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL ARE WITH US, THEN WE OWN ALL THINGS.
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON!
II. Who's The sower?
Sower (Greek word: speiro = spi-ro) which means to scatter, sow, idea of extending, receive and sow seed
A. Sower is God and Christians are sowers too.
1.
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.
2. We have seeds to sow or money to sow and we have bread to eat.
Isaiah 55:10
10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
We are all workers whom God ministered first and then with that same encouragement we can encourage another brethren.
Testimony:
My wife's sick last Saturday, until Sunday and it's 2nd Sunday I have invited couple of sales ladies from Waltermart but they can only attend at 5am Sunday at COG, so I need to leave my sick wife and my special son at home and proceed going to church last Sunday at 4:15am, before I did that I prayed to our Father, Father, indeed you are far more a perfect Father than me, and now I'm leaving my wife and my special son to your care so I can proceed to minister to people being 2nd Sunday and I muttered this since I think I'll be needing you to minister first to me seeing my current situation and He just said to me Go!
So I did attended the 5am service and to my surprise have seen my colleague a mother with a special daughter with autism as well, boy she's wild, she's jumping all around and flapping hands here and right and running around jumping while in the worship, then I approached my colleague and she's almost about to cry, and pointed out her daughter to me, being at the same situation as her, the Holy Spirit impressed upon me, see, how this woman brought her special daughter in the church to worship at 5am and your son is even more disciplined than her, so there's no reason for you to leave your son at the house while you worship me, take him with you. Seeing at the eye of my colleague filled with tears, I thought to myself I can't tell her that my son is more disciplined and that her daughter is very wild, I can't do that to encourage another, though I'm very discouraged, I asked God in a short prayer to pls. help me encourage her and what to tell her. So I just raised my hands to worship God and that mother with special daughter, imitated me, she just worshipped and suddenly it fell upon me the exact words I need to tell her. I said "Sister, take a look at this daughter of yours, she really knows how to worship and praise God, while we are very dignified of ourselves and very formal, what are we protecting? And she started smiling and I started crying inside and said that word hit me, we have no excuse we need to excel in worshipping and praising God being first witnesses of His miracles in our lives.
Shellane never run dry. My wife was so worried about the Shellane that was about to ran out, and this is last, last week. The Shellane obviously ran out being at it's 3rd month of usage, but after my wife started cleaning the dogs, and returned to the kitchen and while me trying to catch a jeep to go to mom's house to borrow money to buy Shellane,my wife texted me and told me of a miracle that Shellane never ran dry and up to now, the empty Shellane is still cooking our food, Miracle of all miracles.
III. Harvest Time
Luke 10:2 He said to them, "There is such a big harvest of people to bring in. But there are only a few workers to help harvest them. God owns the harvest. Ask him to send more workers to help bring in his harvest.
A. Three Important Factors of the Harvest:
1. Our store of seed will increase
Acts 20:35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive
Matthew 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
a. give money to God's work
b. give of ourselves to God
2. God will enlarge our harvest
Matthew 9:37 So he said to his disciples, "The harvest is large, but there are few workers to gather it in.
Matthew 9:38 Pray to the owner of the harvest that he will send out workers to gather in his harvest."
We are all the answers to that prayer. We don't know how many people have prayed to get us save and now it's our turn to do it for God.
3. It's a harvest of righteousness
Matthew 28:19 So go and make followers of all people in the world. Baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. (ERV)
CONCLUSION:
Summarize 2 Corinthians 9:10
Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
God will give anything to the sower or worker in order to accomplish his task to the world, God both planted us as seeds and sower to the world, and He expects His harvests from us.
