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Notes: Laws of the Harvest
Galatians 6:7–10
SPEAKER:
James MacDonald
WORSHIP TEAM:
Harvest Worship Band
Sunday, February 21, 2016 — 8:00 a.m.
There are laws in Gods word that are as irrevocable as the laws of gravity.
Galatians 6:1-4 NKJV Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
We are to carry our burden and others burden.
Galatians 6:5-6 NKJV For each one shall bear his own load. Let him who is taught the word share in all good things with him who teaches.
Galatians 6:7-10 NKJV Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.
This is the Word of the Lord.
7 laws of the Harvest:
Do not be deceived -
there is something about us that we think that we can escape this principle.
God is not mocked -
this is a serious message, the Lord will not be made a fool of
Fall is when the harvest is reaped.
Paul says life is like farming, you plant and cultivate and reap.
Trials and consequences happen to all of us. Trials require circumstances.
Circumstance: an event beyond your control resulting from forces or influences you did not cause and cannot change.
You submit to a trial, you wait by faith for God to use it.
Job 23:10 NKJV But He knows the way that I take; When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
Galatians 6:7 is not about trials, its about consequences. In consequences, you don’t endure.
You repent of consequences and receive faith.
The clouds of heaven would burst of grace and mercy if you were to repent of the consequences.
Consequence: resulting wholly or in part from me - actions I’ve take - things I’ve said or done - places I’ve gone - priorities I’ve pursued - choices I’ve made.
1a. We harvest only what has been planted.
2 Corinthians 9:6 NKJV But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Edward Gibbon wrote a book in 1787 called The decline and fall of the Roman Empire. He wrote that it was divorce and break down of the home. Higher taxes, mad desire for pleasure, sports getting more exciting and brutal every year. The building of gigantic armaments when the real enemy was inside. The decay of faith and becoming impatient to worn the people.
Gibbon wrote the book over 200 years ago about Rome!
How is it that the people of God have come to a place where they hardly even want to be warned.
Responsibility lies with the individual.
How did Sampson go from a young strong weapon of God to being sideways in the ditch? We harvest only what has been planted.
2a. We harvest the same in kind as we plant.
“What goes around comes around”
Galatians 6:8 NKJV For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
Flesh is self.
The one who sows to self, reaps corruption.
Corruption means death and decay. A hell of a life and hell after life.
This is not the life of a Christ follower.
King ME has got to go.
Instead, I am crucified in Christ.
So often we say its outside of me, but the word of God says, we are harvesting only what has been planted.
3a. We harvest in a different season than we plant.
This is where the deception comes in, we fool ourselves to think we are doing well.
We make decisions when we are young and spend so much time getting over those decisions.
The younger you are the more urgent it is to recognize the message of sowing and reaping.
There are no exceptions to this rule, God is not going to be mocked.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could all plant in the Spring and harvest in the Spring.
It’s the time gaps that prompts the deception.
Poem:
- Invictus
William Ernest Henley, 1849 - 1903
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul. -
Dorothea Day Poem:
MY CAPTAIN
Dorothea Day
(Christian)
Out of the night that dazzles me,
Bright as the sun om pole to pole;
I thank the God I know to be
For Christ the conqueror of my soul.
Since His the sway of circumstance,
I would not wince nor cry aloud.
Under that rule which men call chance
My head with joy is humbly bowed.
Beyond this place of sin and tears
That life with Him! And His the aid,
Despite the menace of the years,
Keeps, and shall keep me, unafraid..
I have no fear, though strait the gate,
He cleared from punishment the scroll,
Christ is the Master of my fate,
Christ is the Captain of my soul. -
After a message like this we should look at ourselves.
If you submit and obey, you will be able to enjoy the fat of the land.
Let’s sow good things, repentance and humility.
