Reaping What We Sowed

REAPING WHAT WAS SOWED

Gal 6:7 “7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.”

Mark 10:29- “29 “I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

INTRO:

I. THE OBJECTIVE OF SOWING

1. It is a Biblical Principle

2. It is done with compassion

1) “36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.”

1. It is because of gratitude

1) Luke 17:16,17 “15 One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. 16 He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan.”

II. UNJUSTIFIABLE REASONS IN SOWING

1. Wanting others to see what we do

1) Mat 6: “1 “Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

2. Wanting to be rewarded for what we do

1) Mat 6:2 “2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.”

3. Wanting to please certain people

1) James 2:1 “1 My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don’t show favoritism.”

III. THE BLESSINGS OF REAPING WHAT WE SOW

1. We will produce - to make or cause something

1) Mat. 13:23 “23 But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”

2. Reward of 100 times as much

1) Mark 10:30 “30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life.”

3. Time factor

1) In this present age and in the age to come

(1) Gal 6:9 “9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

CONCLUSION”