Victory In Sowing And Reaping Series

Take another example. It used to be that if you ate junk food, you got fat. Now, we have Olestra, a fat substitute, so we can eat greasy potato chips and ice cream to our heart’s content without raising our cholesterol. Over the years, we’ve developed a multitude of artificial sweeteners – cyclamates, saccharin, aspartame – so we can drink all the sodas we want without rotting our teeth and expanding our middles. And if you do happen to eat something with actual fat or calories, you don’t need to go to the gym to lose weight. All that sweating and huffing and puffing is so 80’s. Now, you just make an appointment with your friendly local liposuctionist, and for a couple of thousand dollars, he’ll suck that fat right out.

*Here’s the simple fact: We don’t have a choice. We are going to reap what we have sown!

III. YOU WILL REAP MORE THAN YOU SOW

ILLUS: A farmer plants about 15 – 20 bushels of seed corn. Is he planning on harvesting about 15 – 20 bushels of corn? No way! He expects to reap much more than he sowed! We not only reap WHAT we sow….we also reap MORE than we sow! No matter what we’re sowing!

A. You sow a sin…..but reap the harvest of much sin and heartache.

- You sow the sin of unbelief, not trusting Christ as your Savior, and you reap eternal Hell!

- You may think you’ve gotten away with it, but remember that reaping doesn’t come immediately after sowing. Sometimes it takes a while for it to come back and bite you! There is usually a delay between cause and effect!.

B. Whether for good or bad, you will reap more than you’ve sown!

ILLUS: A girl had a nice little piggy bank. Her father wanted to teach her about saving, so he talked to her about putting her money into a savings account at their bank. He very carefully explained to her that when she put money into her account, the bank would pay her interest on her money and that her money would grow that way.

The big day came. They went to the bank. She gave her piggy bank to the woman opening her account. Then she just stood there and stared at the woman. "Is there something else I can do for you?" the woman asked.

The little girl answered, "No, I’m just waiting on my interest!"

The girl didn’t understand that there was a delay between sowing her money in that account and reaping the harvest of her interest. That’s the way it is in life. Since that is the case, you need to understand a couple of very important facts about today:

1. The things happening in your life today are the results of what you have sown in the past. You are reaping the harvest of what you sowed a week ago, a month ago, a year ago.

2. What will happen in the future will be determined by what you sow into your life today. If you want to change your future, then you need to change what you are sowing today.

*Hosea 8:7 says “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind….” If you sow the wind in sin, you must expect to reap a whirlwind in judgment!