Title: Law of reaping what you sow (Galatians...
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Law of reaping what you sow (Galatians 6:7-10) 2001.09.30.
A season of revaluation
There are wild flowers and weeds that grow on their own in the fields or mountains and bloom randomly. There is a big difference in value between the graceful roses planted in the garden and carefully cared for, and those wild grasses. Humans are not beings thrown away or thrown away, but are precious beings that God predestined and brought into existence on this earth according to His pleasing will before the foundation of the world. Humans are not like beings thrown away, but like trees that are planted with all sincerity according to God's foreordained and planned plan.
It is said that spring is the season of investment, summer is the season of perseverance, and autumn is the season of fruit or harvest. We are now at the center of autumn. What lessons does autumn teach life? It teaches the principle that you reap what you sow. The farmer sows in the spring and summer and reaps in the fall what he nurtures. You reap according to the seed you sow, and you reap according to the amount you sow. He who sows bountifully reaps much, and he who sows little reaps little. He who sows early reaps early, and he who sows late reaps late. The saying "whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" is an eternal truth.
Fall is also a season of revaluation. When summer passes and autumn approaches quickly, the green leaves turn into red or yellow leaves, leaving only minimal scars and falling near the roots to become manure. Autumn is the season of falling. The temperature is dropping and the leaves are falling. But there are some leftovers that do not fall off in the fall. It is the fruit of the tree. Have you ever seen a persimmon tree with orange persimmons blooming even after the leaves have fallen? How beautiful are you? The leaves fall, but the fruit remains. The fruits of all the hard work that a person has worked for all his life on this earth will never fall and remain. During the summer, it is hidden from view because of the leaves, but when the leaves are all gone, the hidden fruits appear. Fall is the season to brag about being here. However, the tree that had only been lush with leaves reveals that he is nothing by the fact that there is no fruit. Autumn is a season of revaluation.
Health, beauty, popularity, or material things are valuable and beautiful while living in this world. But it is just a leaf fly that will one day disappear. The leaves are valuable only during the summer and only the fruits are valuable in the fall. He said that goodness, righteousness, and truth are the fruits that children of light will bear. Faith, love, and hope are the fruits that are recognized before God. All things that seemed beautiful in this world will fall away, and only these fruits will be recognized before God. Efforts to faithfully carry out our duties, learn, understand, and stand upright are the fruits that will brighten our lives at the end of our lives. Let's make an effort to become a fruit that will remain in the fall.
Two death row inmates
I told this to many people who had gathered, but God's providence is strange. Among those gathered, my brother, who was an officer in the Vietnam War, had died, and the brother and sister who had been killed by the death row convict came as a member of the choir. So this younger sister started a lifesaving campaign, petitioned the Ministry of Justice, petitioned the president, an article appeared in the newspaper, and this person did not die and his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
Through this true story, we receive a valuable lesson. Two death row inmates, who never know when they will die, are on the same fate line. One took the small chance of life and planted it for the body, so in the end, it harvested the decaying things according to the body and died before half was used. But just before the other person died, everything he had, even though it was a very small chance, he struggled to make atonement for himself, to live a life worthwhile in the end, or to sow at least one good seed at the end. I did. So, his life was saved, and he received such precious eternal life. In this world in which we live, we are supposed to reap what we sow.
There is one eternal and immutable truth that is taught to us in God's creation order. It is the law of sowing and reaping. What are you planting now? In the near future you will reap what you sow. The text teaches us what to sow today.
'To reap, you must sow' This is a life lesson we all need to remember. Because this lesson applies to all of our lives, whether we live in the city, in the countryside, or in any environment. It is the same in our religious life and church life. Our church is preparing for the 2001 New Life Feast, and evangelism is the same. If we do not sow seeds diligently, on the feast day of new life, we must attend this event empty-handed and empty-handed.
Do you want to reap something beautiful? Then, you must know the laws of the harvest that God has established. What is the law of harvest that we must remember through the words of the apostle Paul today? God wrote these words to plant some of the rules of life through Paul in our hearts. God's law of harvest is so simple. First of all, you reap what you sow.
reap what you sow
See verse 7. "Do not deceive yourself; God is not deceived; whatever a man sows, that he will also reap"
Every harvest starts with a seed. The harvest is determined by what and how much you plant. You can't reap anything from a field where you haven't planted anything. Where watermelons are planted, watermelons are harvested, peanuts are harvested where peanuts are planted, and potatoes are harvested where potatoes are planted. This is the God-given law of nature.
The same is true in the spiritual world. You reap what you sow. If you sow honesty and cleanliness, you will reap a beautiful character later. But there are some people around us who don't really think about what they plant. For years they have freely sowed the seeds of pride, dishonesty, anger, and intemperance. And when they begin to reap the bitter fruit of it, they are very upset. When partnerships break up, complaints flow in, friendships break up, marriages collapse, families shake up and children derail, they are shocked. "Why did this happen to me?" Because they don't even think about what they planted.
Job's counselor says in Job 4:7-8: ?쏷hink, who is it that perishes without sin? Where is the cut off of the upright? As far as I can see, he that plows evil and sows poison also reaps.??Look at verse 8. ?쏦e who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh.??
Why do you reap what is rotten? Why reap a broken family? Why reap crooked children? God explains why. Because you planted something that would rot. I tell you not to deceive yourself. They say that if you sow something that is corrupt and try to reap eternal life, you are deceiving you and disrespecting God.