Title: Planting and Harvesting (Psalm 126:5-6)
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The text teaches the difficulties of sowing, the joy of reaping, and the iron rule that if you sow, you must reap.
“The life of faith is a life of sowing and reaping” (Galatians 6:7-8).
① The life of faith is a life in which God lives in me and I live in God. ② This is compared to the work of planting and reaping living seeds. The life of faith means “life movement, living movement, saving movement, production, creation movement, and prosperity. I mean "exercise." ③ The planted seed fights against everything that surrounds it, conquers it, eats them as food, and grows, so it is called “conquest victory success movement”. ④ It is an “investment movement” that is profitable when you plant one plant and reap hundreds of thousands of times. ⑤ By faith, all the living lived and became victorious and wealthy. ⑥ The word planting means that all things one owns, such as life, body, strength, health, time, knowledge, wisdom, etc., received from God, are used to fulfill God's will and disappear or disappear due to concessions or losses, sacrifice and persecution. it says take away
“A life of planting is a life of tears.”
The life of planting is ① because it is not a life to enjoy but a life to make sacrifices, not a life to earn an income, but a life to temporarily disappear by investing all one’s own possessions, seeds and capitals Crying ③ Planting is painful because it has to overcome severe opposition from internal and external things ④ The life of planting is persecuted, yielding one's profits, giving up, and sometimes suffering losses, so it is difficult and we cry because it is difficult to plant without these tears. can not do.
“The life of sowing is the life of fighting the good fight.”
① The fight for perishing to fulfill the lusts of the flesh, not the fight for death. ② For the desire of the Holy Spirit, it is the good fight for life. (2 Timothy 4:7~8) Saints must fight the right fight. ③ The fight for the lusts of the flesh is death for me, and even if I win, it is death. ④ When a seed falls to the ground and is buried in the soil, all things such as soil, moisture, temperature, oxygen, nitrogen, bacteria... etc. rush in and try to feed themselves. When a believer tries to plant the seed of faith, internally, he is the old man in himself. You have to fight and win because of this repulsion, and you have to fight and win because externally, the devil and the reality of the world repulse and rush at you. ⑤ You must first win the internal war to win the external war. If you lose the internal war, you will also lose the external war.
“The life of planting strives to distinguish the seed to be planted, the time of planting, and the place to be planted” (2 Corinthians 9:6-15).
① A wise farmer prepares seeds for planting and waits for spring. ② The spring of planting the seeds of faith is the spring of the day, night, dawn, etc., which comes in common on a regular basis, and ③ there is the spring that comes individually through neglect. It is the reality of an environment like spring, summer, autumn and winter, where each individual member of the church meets in various colors when the Holy Spirit suddenly moves. ④ No matter what seasons you encounter, you must find and plant seeds that fit that reality. The summer Bible school or retreat is the time to sow the seeds of faith. ⑤ Plant it in the soil with a grateful heart, instead of planting it on the roadside, in a rocky field, or thorny bushes with grudging grudges and complaints.
“From the time of planting to the time of harvest, you must have a strong connection with the Lord and persevere in the position of a servant” (Luke 17:5-10).
① The devil deceives the person who planted it, saying that God will recognize you and reward you because you have done a great and meritorious work, so he leaves the servant's position and steals the fruit. ②“You are a useless servant. I just did what I had to do.” (Luke 17) You must persevere to the end and do not leave the above position. ③ He gives seed and food to those who sow, so that they have more abundance. Fill it 30 times, 60 times, 100 times. If you do not sow, you cannot reap the sheaf of joy. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully, and he who sows sparingly will also reap little.