Be Fruitful

Be Fruitful 1. Created to be Fruitful 2. Flow of Fruitfulness 3. Sowing and Reaping A. Seeds Need to be Sown to Produce Fruit B. Seeds We Sow Determine the Fruit We Grow C. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing d. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow e. Reap in Proportion to How & How Much We Sow

f. We Sow Others Reap – Others Sow We Reap Be Fruitful f. We Sow Others Reap – Others Sow We Reap

We Sow Others Reap –Others Sow We Reap John 4:36-38 He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit that leads to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this is the saying true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not labour. And you have benefited from their labour.

We Sow Others Reap –Others Sow We Reap 1 Corinthians 3:5-8 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gace to each one? I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither is he who plants nor he who waters anything, but God who gives the increase. Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labour.

We Sow Others Reap –Others Sow We Reap We all reap good and bad consequences as individuals and as part of larger groups Individuals Families Communities Countries

We Sow Others Reap –Others Sow We Reap Reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire Divorce & Undermining of the Home Higher Taxes & Large Spending on Public Entertainment Craze for Pleasure & Brutality of Sports (Violence) Building Military; Real enemy = Decadence in Society Decay of Religion

We Sow Others Reap –Others Sow We Reap Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.

We Sow Others Reap –Others Sow We Reap We all reap good and bad consequences as individuals and as part of larger groups Individuals Families Communities Countries Globally Historically

We Sow Others Reap –Others Sow We Reap All people reap good consequences they didn’t sow People Deuteronomy 6:10-12 …when the Lord your God brings you into the land…to give you great and fine cities, which you did not build, and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, And hewn cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you eat and are full, then beware lest you forget the Lord…

We Sow Others Reap –Others Sow We Reap All people reap good consequences they didn’t sow People Matthew 5:45 He (God) makes His sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the just and unjust. God Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works…

We Sow Others Reap –Others Sow We Reap All people reap bad consequences they didn’t sow Satan Matthew 13:24-28 …the kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat… John 10:10 The thief does not come, except to steal and kill and destroy.

We Sow Others Reap –Others Sow We Reap All people reap bad consequences they didn’t sow Satan People Joshua & Caleb

We Sow Others Reap –Others Sow We Reap Romans 5:12-19 Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, so death has spread to all men…For just as through one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one the many will be made righteous. We reap the curse of what Adam and Eve sowed & we reap the blessing of what Jesus sowed for us.

SOIL 1 PATH: HARD HEART & DEVIL Be Fruitful Next Sunday… SOIL 1 PATH: HARD HEART & DEVIL