Sowing And Reaping

We are living in a day of “Spiritual Forgetfulness.”

Men are forgetting God.

Forgetting His church.

Forgetting the Lord’s Day.

Forgetting the Lord’s tithe.

But the fact remains, we must and will pay for neglect and forgetfulness. Hebrews 2:3

No truer text in the Bible. It still applies to every area of our life. John 14:1; John 3:16; 1 Peter 5:9

Four thoughts tonight

I. A Solemn Warning: “Be Not Deceived”

a. God has issued many warnings, and each one God issued has always been for man’s good.

1. Proverbs 29:1; Hebrews 10:31

2. Deuteronomy 32:35-36

b. There is a “Deceiver”.

1. Revelation 12:9; Ephesians 4:14

2. Deceiveth the whole world. Started with Eve.

c. We can and do allow ourselves to be deceived. Proverbs 4:23

d. God warns us not to be deceived.

1. Concerning false Christs. Luke 21:8; 2 John 1:7-8; 1 Timothy 2:5; John 10:9-14;25-31

2. Concerning eternal life. 1 Corinthians 6:9; Revelation 21:8

3. Concerning “holy and godly living”. 1 Corinthians 15:33; James 1:22-26; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

e. First a warning. You and I can be deceived; tricked; fooled.

II. “God is Not Mocked”

a. God sees all; knows all. Psalm 90:8; 139:1-13

b. We may hide our sin from friends and family…. but not God.

c. God has all power

1. Proverbs 28:13; Numbers 32:23; Ecclesiastes 8:11-13

2. Pastor Adams did not say; God said, “God will not be mocked!”

d. How foolish is the man who thinks he can live as he pleases and escape the judgment of Almighty God! Proverbs 1:24-29

1. No excuses when we stand before God.

2. 1 Corinthians 3:10-15; 2 Corinthians 5:10

III. A Great Responsibility “Whatsoever a Man Soweth”

a. What does that really mean?

1. We have a choice…. good or bad.

2. No such thing as “off the record” never a time out. Colossians 3:17

3. No such thing as it affects only me and no one else. Romans 14:7

b. It means you and you alone control your life’s actions.

1. Ask the Prodigal Son. Luke 15:11-24

2. Ask King David

3. Ask Peter

4. Ask Joshua. Joshua 24:14-15

5. Luke 9:57-62; 9:23; “If”

IV. An Unchanging Law “That Shall Ye Also Reap”

a. The Seed

1. The harvest is not according to how much we know

2. But how much we sow.

b. The Principle

1. We reap Exactly what we sow.

2. We reap later after we sow.

3. We reap more than we sow.

c. Galatians 6:7; Be not deceived, God is not mocked, whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap…. True or False?