Galatians 6
7Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
2 Corinthians 9
6Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
· God set up the Law of Sowing and Reaping.
· If you sow corn you’ll reap corn.
· If you sow potatoes you won’t reap Carrots.
I. God gets blamed for many things he had nothing to do with.
· Satan even gets blamed for things he only wishes he planned.
· God promised: 1 Corinthians 10
13No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.
· Proverbs 18
24 A man of many companions may come to ruin,
but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
II. There are many things that happen that are nothing less then “Self-Inflicted Wounds”.
· There are many that walk around misses fingers, or a hand, or a leg because of “self-inflicted gunshot wounds”
· They are scares that remind them of past failures and mis-haps.
· They are painful and embarrassing, yet no one else can take the blame because they did it to themselves.
· If you abuse your body it is not God’s fault when it breaks down.
· Try to go several days without sleep. Your body will get sleep one way or another.
· You can’t complain about your Liver that’s shriveled up if you drank like a fish for 20 years.
· You can’t complain about lung cancer if you smoke cigarettes all your life.
· You can’t complain about sugar diabetes or heart trouble if you don’t eat right and exercise.
· OUR BODIES ARE TEMPLES OF THE HOLY GHOST.
· 2 Corinthians 6
16What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
· 1 Corinthians 3
16Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? 17If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple.
III. Child Baring is a result of what was sowed by Eve.
· Genesis 3
16 To the woman he said,
"I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing;
with pain you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you."
17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ’You must not eat of it,’
"Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat of it
all the days of your life.
IV. Eli the High Priest was punished because of what he aloud his sons to sow.
· 1 Samuel 4
1 And Samuel’s word came to all Israel.
The Philistines Capture the Ark
Death of Eli
12 That same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line and went to Shiloh, his clothes torn and dust on his head. 13 When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair by the side of the road, watching, because his heart feared for the ark of God. When the man entered the town and told what had happened, the whole town sent up a cry.
14 Eli heard the outcry and asked, "What is the meaning of this uproar?"
The man hurried over to Eli, 15 who was ninety-eight years old and whose eyes were set so that he could not see. 16 He told Eli, "I have just come from the battle line; I fled from it this very day."
Eli asked, "What happened, my son?"
17 The man who brought the news replied, "Israel fled before the Philistines, and the army has suffered heavy losses. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured."
18 When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off his chair by the side of the gate. His neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had led [2] Israel forty years. 19 His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near the time of delivery. When she heard the news that the ark of God had been captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth, but was overcome by her labor pains. 20 As she was dying, the women attending her said, "Don’t despair; you have given birth to a son." But she did not respond or pay any attention.
21 She named the boy Ichabod, [3] saying, "The glory has departed from Israel"-because of the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband. 22 She said, "The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured."
V. David Sinned.
· As Beth Sheba bathed on her roof David peaked and sent for her.
· He committed Adultery and had Uriah her husband placed in the front lines to be killed.
· God sent the prophet Nathan to David.
· The prophet Nathan spoke to David and said 2 Samuel 12 10 Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
· David cried in Psalm 51
1 Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
· When it came time for Beth Sheba to deliver the child the Bible says 16 David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and went into his house and spent the nights lying on the ground. 17 The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.
18 On the seventh day the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, "While the child was still living, we spoke to David but he would not listen to us. How can we tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate."
19 David noticed that his servants were whispering among themselves and he realized the child was dead. "Is the child dead?" he asked.
"Yes," they replied, "he is dead."
20 Then David got up from the ground. After he had washed, put on lotions and changed his clothes, he went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they served him food, and he ate.
· 2 Samuel 13 David had a beautiful daughter Tamar. Her brother Amnon loved her and raped her. When their brother Absalom found out is sister was raped by her own brother he found Amnon and killed him.
· 30 While they were on their way, the report came to David: "Absalom has struck down all the king’s sons; not one of them is left." 31 The king stood up, tore his clothes and lay down on the ground; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
· Absalom fled and David sent his army to destroy his rebels that joined him. He said, “KILL THEM ALL, BUT DON’T TOUCH MY SON. His hair was long and wavy….
· Because of David’s sin his baby died, his daughter lost her innocence, and 2 other sons’ were killed. The sword truly never left his house.
IV.
Jonah 1
Jonah Flees From the LORD
1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 "Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me."
3 But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the LORD .
4 Then the LORD sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up. 5 All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship.
But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep. 6 The captain went to him and said, "How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us, and we will not perish."
7 Then the sailors said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity." They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.
8 So they asked him, "Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?"
9 He answered, "I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD , the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land."
10 This terrified them and they asked, "What have you done?" (They knew he was running away from the LORD , because he had already told them so.)
11 The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, "What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?"
12 "Pick me up and throw me into the sea," he replied, "and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you."
13 Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before. 14 Then they cried to the LORD , "O LORD , please do not let us die for taking this man’s life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you, O LORD , have done as you pleased." 15 Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm. 16 At this the men greatly feared the LORD , and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to him.
17 But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights.
Galatians 6
7Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
2 Corinthians 9
6Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
