1. Be Fruitful

2. 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

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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

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

9. 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

10. 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…

11. 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…

12. 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.

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

14. 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.

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