1 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:10,680 We welcome you to the We Are Zion sermon podcast. 2 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:13,560 We are a church based out of Chennai, India. 3 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,080 We are thrilled that you tuned in today and hope that you will 4 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:20,760 be refreshed, revived, and energized by what you hear. 5 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,240 Our desire is that you will live life with a renewed sense of 6 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:27,840 purpose that stems from a vibrant faith in Jesus. 7 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:33,640 The year 2025 is 1 where we will be positioned by God to possess 8 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:37,160 our promise. We are celebrating all that God 9 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:40,480 has done and has promised to do over the next few weeks. 10 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,360 Every word that God has spoken will come to pass. 11 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,800 Everything that you have sown into will begin to reap its 12 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,640 fruit. The harvest is here and it's 13 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,200 plentiful. Can we lean into the Lord of the 14 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,200 harvest and hear what He has to say to us? 15 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,000 Hi Judge. It's such a joy and a privilege 16 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,640 to be able to bring God's Word to you today. 17 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:06,480 And even as we take some time to meditate on God's Word, I 18 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:10,240 believe He wants to speak to us even as we've just finished an 19 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:14,120 entire series. We are heading towards a Harvest 20 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:15,520 Sunday that's two weeks from now. 21 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:18,800 And as you were just discussing what we'll talk, we just thought 22 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,080 we'll spend some time in the next two weeks to talk what a 23 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,080 season of harvest looks like. And so the next two weeks we'll 24 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,360 be looking at what is the season of harvest. 25 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:33,760 I believe a lot of us have been doing great things for God over 26 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,600 the years. But as we've been walking 27 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,600 through this Christian life, a lot of times we feel we're still 28 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,000 on barren ground. We still, we feel like we're 29 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,040 still toiling on ground that's not yielding its fruit. 30 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:48,880 And I believe this is where God wants us to rethink and look to 31 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:50,920 what he has to save from his word. 32 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,880 So even as we take some time to look into his word, I pray that 33 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,920 as I speak, God's word will come alive in US. 34 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:00,080 It will come alive into our own very being, that it will start 35 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,280 bearing fruit in due season so that we'll be a blessing to 36 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:07,400 where God has placed us to be. Even as we look into this entire 37 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,840 season of harvest, I believe one of the things we can always 38 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,520 account for is God is the originator of everything. 39 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:20,400 You know, he spoke creation into existence. 40 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,920 He spoke and everything came alive. 41 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:28,080 And so when God speaks, there is life and we many a times, you 42 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,880 know, I always look back and I think I would want to rather be 43 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,240 on God's side and not against God. 44 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,360 And whatever God's willing to give, I'm OK with that because I 45 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,280 believe everything that He gives has life. 46 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,200 And so there will be something good coming out of everything 47 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:46,520 that we are going through. God did not spare anything. 48 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,640 In fact, when you read through all of creation, you see 49 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:52,600 everything is so detailed. You go into every kind of 50 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:57,200 ecosystem, into the water, into the air, into the land, into the 51 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,480 plantations that we see, into the very terrain and the 52 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:02,640 functionality of how the earth is. 53 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:06,280 We see that God's hand was on everything. 54 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:11,040 In fact, when you read about His entire creation, even as you 55 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:15,000 read about His entire creation, we see one characteristic that 56 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,120 comes out very strongly in the six days of creation is His 57 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,880 generosity. And I saw I believe the season 58 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:26,520 of harvest that we are called to celebrate is 1 where we 59 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:30,320 celebrate God's generosity towards us and in turn we 60 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,920 evaluate within our own lives. Are we being this generous as 61 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:38,200 God has been When we look at his creation, we see his creation 62 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:42,160 overflows with generosity. Nothing was spared. 63 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,120 What does that mean? It means that he didn't even 64 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,720 from the very microorganisms, their way of survival, the way 65 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,000 they have to be. Everything was thought through. 66 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,440 He was generous. You know, when we off Lately 67 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:58,880 I've been watching this series which involves horses and when 68 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,840 you see them tending to the horses and giving care, and when 69 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:06,080 you see them running across terrain, you see the beauty in 70 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,080 which he's created. His salvation was generous. 71 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,880 And even when Manson he was generous. 72 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,720 When God sent Adam and Eve outside, he was he. 73 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,160 He had generosity. His love and care was so much 74 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,320 for us. And so when he sent his only 75 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:25,560 begotten Son into the world, that was generosity. 76 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:30,240 And so I believe His salvation was generous through His sons 77 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,840 submission. And so today we can also 78 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:36,760 experience more of this generosity of God if we submit 79 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:41,000 to His will. His eternity is generous to all 80 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,640 who accept His salvation. In fact, His eternity is 81 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:50,480 generous to all who accept Him. Gathering of those who've 82 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,480 responded to his call is one of being generalist. 83 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,200 He's not just having a few. He's not saying, you know, I'll 84 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,040 have a guest list. No, he's saying whoever calls on 85 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,120 me, who's acknowledged me with their lips, who believe with 86 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,000 their heart, who've confessed their sins, and who say Jesus 87 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,320 Christ is Lord is welcome to feast at the table. 88 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,520 So when we've accepted Jesus and we're trying to live out his 89 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:16,880 Kingdom here, we are carrying out this trait of generosity. 90 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,920 The reason why I'm spending so much time in this very 91 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:25,520 characteristic is the season of harvest is the the God who gives 92 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:33,040 us the seeds is generous. The God who allows us to be, you 93 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:36,800 know, to cast seed over the land, who wants us to be 94 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,800 generous. And it's in that toiling and 95 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:46,240 working we see Him showering His grace on us, and in due time 96 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:50,000 they're able to reap a bountiful harvest where we're all able to 97 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,720 experience the generosity God has over our lives. 98 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:57,840 Generosity just doesn't happen. Generosity just doesn't happen 99 00:05:57,840 --> 00:05:59,800 like that. It costs something. 100 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,360 For someone to be generous means that they had done some hard 101 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:08,080 work, some hard work which is yielded and out of that they're 102 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:11,280 willing to share. And I believe being generous is 103 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:13,320 hard work, but we have to be generous. 104 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,800 It has a lot for us to do with willingness. 105 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:21,040 And I pray that we'll be willing today to be generous in his 106 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,720 Kingdom, Generous in the call that God's given upon our lives. 107 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:29,800 When you look at the meaning of generous, it means it's a you're 108 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:33,200 willing to give money, help, kindness, especially more than 109 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:38,440 an usual or expected form. It's something that is an 110 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:41,200 adjective given towards something that is that we're 111 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,520 doing. And so generous in His giving, 112 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,400 generous in his time, generous in His words, generous in His 113 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:50,360 actions. What are we generous today in 114 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:54,320 what God's called us to do? Our biggest example is Jesus. 115 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,800 Nothing about His time on earth was done grudgingly. 116 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:01,120 Everything was done so willingly and obedient in submission to 117 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,120 the Father. And the reason why I want us to 118 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:08,320 go through this is because there is a deep compassion God wants 119 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:13,200 us to have as His followers. When we are called to sow, when 120 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,200 we're called to experience a season of harvest, there's a 121 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,440 definite time for us to sow. There's a definite time for us 122 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:21,440 to do the hard work. There's a definite time for us 123 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:27,160 to reap. And so this all comes only when 124 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,640 we are moved with compassion to what God has called us to do. 125 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,800 Today. You and I are so caught up with 126 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,080 doing what the world expects of us, which is right. 127 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:38,960 We are called to work. We're called to earn. 128 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,600 We're called. But there's a deep spiritual 129 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,800 hunger for us to do what God's will is. 130 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:48,760 And I believe if we can come to a place of seeing where is God 131 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:52,160 causing me to have compassion, we will soon realize this is a 132 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,720 place that God is calling me to have and be here and do what 133 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,920 He's called me to do. Why am I saying that is because 134 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,600 when Jesus was walking here on this earth, he was moved with 135 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,480 compassion. He didn't just go to places 136 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,880 where he had a invitation list. His Carlos Phil know he was 137 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,840 there right where people are at, where the need was. 138 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:14,680 That and he was moved with compassion. 139 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:18,440 Reading from Matthew Chapter 9 onwards and this is what it says 140 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:21,160 from 35. Jesus went through all the towns 141 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:24,520 and villages teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good 142 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,120 news of the Kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. 143 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,720 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they 144 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,880 were harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd. 145 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,520 Then he said to his disciples, the harvest is plentiful, but 146 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:42,720 the workers of you ask the Lord of the harvest therefore to send 147 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,240 out workers into his harvest field. 148 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:50,000 And the call for us today in 2025 church is the same thing. 149 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,320 But God is going to deposit his compassion over everyone of us. 150 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:56,080 You and I are going to have a unique compassion if God's 151 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,800 called me and Tina to do certain things here, this space. 152 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:01,640 And I also want to add on to that. 153 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:05,680 He's called individually for us to respond to a compassion 154 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:08,040 that's closer to our heart, not just collectively. 155 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,440 And so individually, what is God calling us to be compassionate 156 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:13,480 about? Because it's in that he's 157 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,880 saying, I'll call you as workers for the harvest. 158 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,240 A lot of us are just thinking, oh, is this a blanket statement? 159 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:23,720 No, it's a very unique calling, very unique calling. 160 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,760 What is it that He's called you? Because when he's called you, 161 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,680 when you find that out, you will soon realize when you get 162 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:32,840 married and when you're praying together, there's a combined 163 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,080 call for your life. That's what unity brings in. 164 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:40,560 That's when you'll realize I am also called to help and aid 165 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:43,120 others fulfill their calling, not just my own. 166 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:46,920 And so today I want to post this in front of you. 167 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,840 Jesus is asking. The harvest is plentiful, but 168 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:54,240 the workers of you, you ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, 169 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:56,120 to send out workers into the harvest. 170 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,640 I want to say, church, we are living in a time and age when we 171 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:05,280 need to say yes to what God's calling us to do Say, God, how 172 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:07,600 can I respond to the compassion you've today? 173 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,840 What is it that's breaking your heart in prayer? 174 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:13,240 There are so many things that can break your heart. 175 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:16,280 Not having enough money can break your heart. 176 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:18,760 Not having a visa to stay in a country can break your heart. 177 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,360 Not having to you know be in in the city of Chennai can break 178 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:23,600 your heart. You know, it's interesting we 179 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,520 live in this particular stretch. As you look in the back of me, 180 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:30,320 we are right on Omar Rd. is lot of paying guests and lot of 181 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,640 young kids come here to work. You can see that they are not 182 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:37,480 happy where God's pleased them. You can see so many couples who 183 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:39,920 move from other cities over here who are happy. 184 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,840 We're not God has placed them, but God is asking how will I 185 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:46,480 deposit compassion when you're not content with the place that 186 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,280 you're in? A lot of you probably come here 187 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,320 and you're like, you know what? I know this is what God has 188 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:53,720 called me to do, but now I, I just think I need time for 189 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,520 myself. God saying rise up, rise up 190 00:10:57,960 --> 00:10:59,560 today. You and I are called to be 191 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:02,880 workers on the field. His Word is what we are called 192 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:08,040 to sow His Word, His out working in US is what we've received, is 193 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:09,880 what we'll be able to sow into others. 194 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:12,160 And I pray that we'll be able to do that. 195 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:15,160 We're just going to go through an entire passage of Scripture, 196 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,800 and I believe This is why God's calling us. 197 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,640 His Word has to work in and through us. 198 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:25,120 So today in your quiet time, is His Word working in you? 199 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:29,240 During the times when you meditate on His Word, is His 200 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:32,160 Word working in you? Let's just meditate on this. 201 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:36,120 In Psalm 19 verses 7 to 14, it says I'm reading from the 202 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:37,840 Passion. Translation is what it says. 203 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:42,800 Yahweh's Word is perfect in every way how it revives our 204 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,440 soul. Yahweh's laws lead us to truth 205 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,480 and His ways change the simple into voice. 206 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,200 Yahweh's teachings are right and make us joyful. 207 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:58,200 His precepts are so pure. Yahweh's commands challenge us 208 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:03,280 to keep close to His heart. The revelation light of His Word 209 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:08,200 makes my spirit shine radiant. Yahweh's decrees are 210 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:12,560 trustworthy, The fear of Yahweh's pure enduring forever. 211 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:16,120 The rarest treasures of life are found in His truth. 212 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:20,560 That's why God's Word is prized like others prize and finest 213 00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:23,920 gold. Sweeter also than honey are His 214 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:28,920 living words, sweetest words dripping from the honeycomb. 215 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:34,280 For they warn us, Your servants, and keep us from following the 216 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:39,920 wicked way, giving a lifetime guarantee great success to every 217 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,760 obedient soul. How would I discern the 218 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,080 waywardness of my heart? Lord, forgive my hidden flaws 219 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:50,840 whenever you find them. Keep cleansing me, God, and keep 220 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:55,640 me from my secret selfish sins. May they never rule over me, for 221 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:59,800 only then will I be free from fault and remain innocent of 222 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,600 rebellion. So may the words of my mouth and 223 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,840 the meditation thoughts and every moment of my heart be 224 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,960 always pure and pleasing, acceptable before your eyes. 225 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,000 Yahweh, my only Redeemer, my protector. 226 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:18,120 The reason why I wanted to spend some time on this is His word is 227 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:21,240 all that we need. His word is revelation. 228 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:22,720 Light. It's just not light. 229 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,120 It's just not. Doesn't just show me pathways, 230 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:29,760 my eyes, but it's a revelation, which means when I read it, it 231 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:33,960 also helps me to understand what he's wanting me to do. 232 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,960 We don't walk aimlessly on a road, we walk with intention on 233 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,160 that road. We are like God, Why am I 234 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,200 walking here? What is it that you're calling 235 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:44,800 me to do? What are you calling me to say? 236 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:47,160 God, if you're calling me to keep good, I'll keep good and 237 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:49,600 I'll profess your word because your word has power, Your word 238 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,320 as life. God, if you're calling me to 239 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,080 speak your word over the situation, help me to speak it 240 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:58,160 and see what is happening. So today when you and I are 241 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,400 called, we are not called with a skill set. 242 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,120 We are called with the very word himself. 243 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:06,440 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and 244 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,320 the Word was God. In Him was life. 245 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,720 He walked here on earth and the earth did not even know him. 246 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:16,400 And today, church, I want to ask you, will we walk with the Word, 247 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,400 not with the skill set, because skill set can be got. 248 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:23,120 You wait 10 years, there'll be an other AI bot that can do your 249 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:25,880 skill set. Skill set will not take you 250 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:28,440 there. Skill set will not take you 251 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:32,400 there. So I want to ask you today, 252 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:37,000 would you allow His word to permeate, to soak through a love 253 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:41,760 which says that in verse 14, the meditations of my heart be 254 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:45,360 acceptable to you, Lord, let the words of my mouth and the 255 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,120 meditations of my heart in passion. 256 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:50,760 It says the words of my mouth, my meditation thoughts, and 257 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:54,800 every movement of my heart be acceptable, pure and pleasing. 258 00:14:55,880 --> 00:15:01,680 So I pray today that we will be able to carry His word into the 259 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,920 places where He's called us. Before we carry it, we need to 260 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:09,200 absorb it, else we'll just be people who are lifting and 261 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:12,880 giving. And God does not need robots 262 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,600 here to do that. He wants someone who'll take His 263 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:20,160 word, put it in Him. It works inside out, and from 264 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,880 this He wants to give. That's what when the Word of God 265 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:25,680 has to go through me, means what? 266 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:31,120 It goes through me, it changes me inside out, and then it goes 267 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:35,480 out so that it will deliver the intended message for a time such 268 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:37,760 as this. And so today in the season of 269 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:40,960 harvest, without compassion, we won't raise, we won't do the 270 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,800 call of God in our lives. We also need to know that 271 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,360 without His word, we will be ineffective. 272 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,440 It's no skill set that will carry us there. 273 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,880 It's His word and the absorption of His word, putting His word 274 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:55,640 into practice and living out, which will help us to be who He 275 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:58,560 has called us to be. So the sermon titled for today, 276 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,600 for this entire series that we're looking for the season of 277 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:06,680 harvest is reaping what we sow. And you're like, Geshom, this 278 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,080 it's a hard sum. And I'm like, yeah, it is really 279 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:10,880 hard. In fact, when I have to think of 280 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaking of this, I'm like, God, why God me? 281 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:15,920 Because I know there are so many areas in my life that I have 282 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,680 still reaping some of the bad things I've sown, some of the 283 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,480 discontentment, selfishness that I've sown in certain areas. 284 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,960 But God's asking us, I want you all to course correct. 285 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,600 I want you all to do certain things so that you'll be able to 286 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:32,240 do live for my glory. Two Corinthians Chapter 9, 287 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:34,040 verses 69. This is a passage for today, and 288 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:36,480 this is what it says. Remember this, whoever so 289 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,080 sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever so 290 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:42,200 generously will also reap generously. 291 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:47,680 Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart, not 292 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:52,640 reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver, 293 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,680 and God is able to bless you abundant, so that in all things, 294 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:00,360 at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in 295 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:02,480 every good work. As it is written. 296 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,160 They are freely scattered, their gifts to the poor, their 297 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:10,599 righteousness endures forever. Whoever so sparingly will also 298 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:14,920 reap sparingly. Whoever so generously will also 299 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:18,119 reap generously. When you look at the background 300 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:21,280 of this, Paul writes this to the Corinthian church to remind them 301 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:28,040 that they are in a position to give and bless for those who are 302 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,400 in need. And he's going back in the 303 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,600 previous chapter to encourage them to say, hey, there's the 304 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:37,520 church, the Macedonian churches, which gave, and I want you to 305 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:40,600 also give. They gave in the midst of severe 306 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,680 trial. They gave through poverty. 307 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,520 In fact, when you read those verses in Two Corinthians 8 308 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:49,360 versus 1 to 4, you'll see that the giving was in the midst of 309 00:17:49,360 --> 00:17:53,000 severe trial. They were said to be poor, but 310 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,280 he said they were compared to being rich when they were given, 311 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:58,880 when they were giving in generosity, they gave beyond 312 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:02,880 their ability, which means what they were because of the cause 313 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:05,160 of the church, their love for God. 314 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:08,880 They gave beyond their ability. They were wanting to share it 315 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,800 with the Lord's people. And this is what Paul sets the 316 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,120 context to before he comes to this passage. 317 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:18,240 And he says, I'm sending my son Titus to you so that he can come 318 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,160 and collect it and don't so sparingly. 319 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:26,040 So generously is what he's wanting us to look at from 2 320 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:29,040 Corinthians 9. And the reason being is many a 321 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,520 times we get into this understanding that I can only 322 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:36,640 sow for myself. But the broader context that 323 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:41,400 Paul draws is we sow for his fellow believers all across the 324 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:42,600 world. And so in this season of 325 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:45,400 harvest, as we're doing this harvest Sunday, as we're 326 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,240 gathering, as you're bringing some of our resources together, 327 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:51,160 it's not for us. It's not for us to get a new AC. 328 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:54,400 It's not for us to do make ourselves comfortable here. 329 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,640 It's for us to give it so that it blesses the larger body. 330 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:00,200 It blesses the extension, blesses the work that they're 331 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,440 doing. And so when we have that, how 332 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:05,240 are we doing it? Are we grudgingly doing it, or 333 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:08,240 are we doing it from a place beyond our ability? 334 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,880 Are we doing it from a place of rising above, from our comfort 335 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,560 zone to rise up and do what He's called us to do? 336 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,280 You're giving not to someone. You're giving it to God. 337 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,080 Why are we giving it to God? Because he's the first person 338 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,960 who gave it back, gave it to us. He blessed the toy. 339 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:27,160 He blessed the work of our hands, and in turn, we are 340 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,680 giving it back to Him. God looks at what we give and 341 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,680 how we give. It's just not. 342 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:35,120 We take care and we just give it. 343 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:38,480 You know how we give it? How we give it matters. 344 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:42,560 God wants us to come to a place where He can trust us with more. 345 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,680 But are we being better stewards with what He's given? 346 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,960 I remember one of our church members talking to us and 347 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,760 saying, I'm in between my job so I won't be able to tithe. 348 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:57,160 And I love that we've we're in a place where we don't know who's 349 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:59,800 tithing, who's not. We're like, this is between you 350 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:02,640 and God. What God is going to oversee, I 351 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:05,760 don't want man to oversee. And it's interesting. 352 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,040 I know what they thought about it. 353 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,360 But when we were just saying. You get to decide when you're 354 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:12,920 tithing, you're you're going to decide when you're going to give 355 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,000 is between you and God. The onus is between you and God. 356 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,720 He sees you. I don't see you. 357 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,480 I'm not going to treat you. I The, the main reason for us is 358 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,160 so that we don't treat you any different based on whether 359 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:27,560 you're giving or not giving. And I believe this is how God is 360 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,400 also with us. Salvation was not forced on to 361 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:31,760 us. You didn't become a Christ 362 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:33,600 follower. You didn't become a Christian. 363 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,040 You didn't become a person who loves Jesus because it was 364 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,120 forced on to you. Yeah, you might have been 365 00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:40,280 brought up in a Christian home. You would have been going to 366 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:42,120 Sunday school. You would have had your parents 367 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:44,840 do all the right things. But till you have a deep 368 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,280 encounter with him, nothing takes effect. 369 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:50,880 And that's where it comes. God wants to come to a place 370 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,800 where we are in direct contact with him, where we are saying, 371 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:56,360 God, I'm doing this because I love you. 372 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:57,920 I'm doing this because I want you. 373 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,480 I'm doing this because I need you. 374 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,280 Salvation is not forced, but rather by invitation. 375 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,800 He stands. Behold, I'm standing at the door 376 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,040 and knock. And when he's knocking, when we 377 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:13,240 choose to open, when we choose to absorb Him and we allow His 378 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:18,240 words to mingle with our sinful nature and oversee over 379 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:22,000 supersede the sinful natures, when we start loving Him and 380 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:27,240 moving towards Him, it causes me to be in the House of the Lord 381 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:31,240 every Sunday because suddenly I realized I can't do this 382 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,600 Christian life alone. I need to do it with others. 383 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:36,560 And even for those of you watching online, you're probably 384 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,560 like, you know, you're alone. You're in a place right now, 385 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:40,840 you're unable to come because of your shift, because you're 386 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,720 travelling. But plug yourself with God's 387 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:45,520 people. That's where real encouragement 388 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:47,920 is. Plug yourself with people across 389 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,800 different age groups. That's what the church is. 390 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:54,160 Plug yourself in places where God is calling you to be because 391 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:58,080 sometimes we think we don't have enough till we are amongst 392 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,120 people when we realize we've have more than enough. 393 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,960 Giving again is not forced by God. 394 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,440 He is not forcing us, He's rather inviting us to 395 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,240 participate in it. In Two Corinthians chapter 8, 396 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,280 verses 13 to 15, when Paul is writing to the Corinthian 397 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:18,480 church, he says after he gives his note from the Macedonian 398 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,720 church, he says our desire is not that others might be 399 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:24,000 relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be 400 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,480 equality at the present time. Your plenty will supply what 401 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,160 they need, so that in turn there are plenty will supply what you 402 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,280 need. The goal is equality as it is 403 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,720 written. The one who gathered much did 404 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:40,720 not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have 405 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,640 too little. The beautiful thing about the 406 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:48,200 harvest is that we always are looking in terms of equality. 407 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:52,360 That's why I'm not worried about the field that God has called us 408 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:56,080 to work on. Each of us have our own field. 409 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,680 Each of us are called to till our own soil. 410 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,920 Each of us are called to do what you're called to done. 411 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:04,520 This is where it is beautifully said. 412 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:10,560 It said the goal is equality. Today, the way we do church and 413 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,240 the way the church that's been done across the street, down 414 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:18,200 this way or the other way or across the city is all done in 415 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:22,000 equality. So today when we come here, we 416 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,320 are thinking of God. What are you calling us to do? 417 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:27,160 Because you can only serve 2 masters. 418 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,080 It says the Bible. You can either serve God or only 419 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,120 serve money. And when we serve God, money 420 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:35,320 will be secondary. We will look at money as a tool. 421 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:39,360 We'll be like God. What is if we give this, what 422 00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:42,800 is, what is the X that will expand your work in this space? 423 00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:46,440 Paul's desire in all of this is that we will experience 424 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:50,720 equality, that a giving will also balance out so that 425 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:55,840 everyone will feel the same. Our present plenty helps someone 426 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,760 else. And so as Paul talks to them, he 427 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:00,680 talks to them about sowing and reaping. 428 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:04,520 And I believe that sowing and reaping as we do it, we do it 429 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:08,840 with the right intentions because when we sow we saw with 430 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,000 the right intentions, we get the right yield. 431 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,720 When we saw apple seeds, when we saw a particular fruit seeds, we 432 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:19,960 get apple, apple seeds, apple seeds, we get apple, orange 433 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,480 seeds, we get orange watermelon seeds, we get watermelon. 434 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,760 We're not here to cross it. We're not here to see what can, 435 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,120 what's the hybrid that will come? 436 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:33,560 No, they're called to do put it, put it to work and let's bless 437 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:37,200 others. And I believe many of us are 438 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:38,680 trying to look for shortcuts in this. 439 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,640 Many of us, I, I don't know why, but I believe we are living in a 440 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,520 day and age where we are, we are building storehouses for 441 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,920 ourselves. But God's saying the storehouse 442 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,600 belongs to me. The storehouse belongs to me 443 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,800 because we can have we can work towards building a storehouse 444 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:58,240 and our anchor be completely in the world and not in the world. 445 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,560 We can be so caught up in building the storehouse that we 446 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:07,120 forget that the person who gives is giving with arms open, that 447 00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:09,840 we start surviving with arms closed. 448 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,200 And so as we look into this, there's something that God wants 449 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:17,480 us to do spiritually also, because whatever we are lacking 450 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,080 spiritually manifests in the physical. 451 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:27,000 And so I believe today as we sow into our own lives, into our own 452 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:33,360 spirit, man, we'll be able to reap a harvest in our spirit in 453 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:36,960 a spiritual sense, in a walk with Christ. 454 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:40,240 And in turn, that will diametrically have an effect 455 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,200 into the journey that you're called to take. 456 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,520 Earlier on, I said, your word is a lamp into my feet. 457 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,400 And so when we talk about this revelation, light, it guides me, 458 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,040 yes, which is my physical. But the revelation, we start 459 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:54,760 saying, Oh God, thank you so much. 460 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,480 I will show grace. I'll show grace in this point. 461 00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,320 I'll show your love in this point. 462 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,960 I'll show mercy in this point. I'll show this Lord and in due 463 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,960 time, as we go on that journey, His revelation to light will 464 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,840 help us reap certain rewards. And I have three things that I 465 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,560 wanted to highlight for you. The first one is we sow from 466 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,440 what we've tasted. We sow from what we've tasted. 467 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,600 If you're called to be generous in us sowing, you can only sow 468 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,280 spiritually only what we've tasted from the giver of life, 469 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,760 from God himself. Psalm 34, verses 8 to 9 says 470 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,920 taste and see that the Lord is good. 471 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,000 Blessed is the one who takes refuge in Him. 472 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,560 Fear the Lord you. Who's you? 473 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,320 His holy people. But those who fear Him lack 474 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,560 nothing. When we taste and see that we're 475 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:43,000 able, when we taste and see of God, we're able to see the 476 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,920 difference between a good seed and a bad seed. 477 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,960 We'll be able to taste the difference between what is from 478 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:51,760 God. We'll be able to taste and see 479 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,440 what is from the devil. What is from God is good. 480 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,040 What is from the devil looks good but is not good. 481 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:02,080 What is from God endures, allows me to sustain through time, 482 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:07,880 doesn't crumble, doesn't make me doesn't doesn't put me under 483 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,040 bondage, doesn't yoke me, but rather what comes from the devil 484 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:15,160 yokes me, puts me under a bondage, puts me under a under a 485 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,120 put scales on my eyes so that I'm not able to see. 486 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,840 And so today God wants to deal with that deal with that in our 487 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,600 lives. What are some of the good seeds 488 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:28,320 that we are struggling to sow because we have so much having 489 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,960 those bad seeds in our life. You know, when we look at the 490 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:35,080 farmer, when he takes seeds to sow, he's not taking like this 491 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,560 like salt pea and just sprinkling of, you know, he 492 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,920 takes a handful and he's doing it before that he looks through 493 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,200 his seed, whether the seed is good or not. 494 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:48,280 And I believe today a lot of us have to spend some time seeing 495 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,040 what we are putting into a spirit. 496 00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:53,160 Is it good or not? What does a bad seed entail? 497 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,920 A bad seed entails is what a bad seed is 1, which is hollow, 498 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,120 which doesn't have anything, looks like a seed but has 499 00:27:58,120 --> 00:28:00,920 nothing inside. And I believe a lot of us have 500 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,480 that. A lot of us have generational 501 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,480 anger that's come in, generational discontentment 502 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,960 that's come in. Lot of us have, you know, which 503 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,240 has just been passed down because of the environment that 504 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,160 we are in, because we've been bullied. 505 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:14,760 We are like, you know, we will bully others. 506 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,760 And so that seed of bullies there and so suddenly all these 507 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:24,200 hard seeds which only bear hurt and regret and guilt are there. 508 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:25,880 Whereas the good seeds, there are few. 509 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,640 But we, we because of our life experiences, we have so much of 510 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,480 the bad seeds. But God's saying I want to 511 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,280 change that. Can you taste of me first? 512 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,440 Because when you taste of me, I can change it. 513 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,200 You know, there's a seed separated test. 514 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,880 Basically, they put seeds and they'll allow it to sow up. 515 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,720 They put it on water. Whatever the bad seeds will be 516 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,240 floating, whatever the good seeds will go right down. 517 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:56,000 And it got me thinking. It's in the washing of the 518 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:01,480 world, in our lives that we will be able to be good seeds that we 519 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,200 can sow into our own lives. It's in the washing of the 520 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,600 world. You and I have to allow God's 521 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:13,680 word to wash us, to wash us, to wash every crevice, to wash 522 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,760 every area. When you dunk something in, all 523 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,600 of it gets it gets to experience the water. 524 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,240 And so today, what area of our lives are we willing to allow 525 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,640 God in? What are the hollow areas of my 526 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,720 life because I was unloved as a child? 527 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:34,440 God, I want to love your living water to come in and so that it 528 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:38,000 will permeate into my life. When we read from Ephesians 5 529 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,960 verses 25 to 27, it says husband loves your wife just as Christ 530 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,600 loved the church and gave himself up for her. 531 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:51,800 So make a holy cleansing her by the washing with water through 532 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:56,160 the world, and to present her to herself as a radiant church 533 00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:01,440 without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and 534 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,040 blameless. Holy and blameless. 535 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,040 When I read it in the Passion, this is what it says. 536 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,440 For he died for us, sacrificing himself. 537 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,560 This is Jesus Christ who makes us holy and pure, cleansing us 538 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,720 to the showering of pure water of the Word of God. 539 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:23,080 Pure water is where you sit, not diluted. 540 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,400 You're not listening to a revelation from another pastor, 541 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:29,720 from another person. You sit, you ask God, reveal 542 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,720 this word to me, wash me inside out. 543 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,440 A lot of us why are we struggling in our marriages is 544 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:40,920 because we are not allowing ourselves to be washed by Christ 545 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,520 through His Word. I am not. 546 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,960 My love has become very conditional. 547 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,400 Oh only if my spouse does this for me will I love them? 548 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:54,000 No, but when I wash myself with God's Word, I love God to work, 549 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,560 I love for God's timing to work. I love for God to see. 550 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:02,280 And so because his love for the church was so much, because his 551 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,640 love and God's asking us as husband's, would you love your 552 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,440 wife like that? You'll wash her with the word. 553 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,720 And so, but I can't wash something which I've not tasted. 554 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,640 And so God is asking today, would you move into all the 555 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,520 seeds that you've been putting? A lot of us sometimes are 556 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,080 putting seeds, are sowing seeds so that it'll read something 557 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:27,880 that we will have a hook on. How many of us have friends who 558 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,360 does help for us but will remember it and then we'll call 559 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,920 out a favour later. God's not like that. 560 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:36,800 But God wants us to come to a place. 561 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,400 But he's like, you'll keep doing it because you love me. 562 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:41,480 You're not going to call him the favour because what I've 563 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,560 received from God is far bigger. What I've received from God 564 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,720 doesn't have. I can't, there's no line item. 565 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,840 What I've received from God, won't I? 566 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,200 Whatever I do, I won't come close to it. 567 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,560 God is asking, would you allow those bad seeds of hollowness of 568 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:04,960 being 2 faced or being worldly of which has written I or me all 569 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,800 over? Would we surrender it to the 570 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,720 washing of the world? And so it's beautiful when just 571 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:16,360 imagine when the Master Creator puts his hand, we suddenly see 572 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:23,760 him changing things in our life. We suddenly see He is maturing 573 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:28,160 us for his pleasure. He's maturing us so we become a 574 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,360 source of praise to Him. He's maturing us so we become 575 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:35,440 glorious and radiant and beautiful without fault. 576 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,440 I want to ask you today when I was preparing this, I was like, 577 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,800 God, there are seeds of anger in my life. 578 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,880 And today I want to allow your word to wash me through anger 579 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,680 because probably got some of the things that were not dealt right 580 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,600 in my life. And so because of that, I feel I 581 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,560 can deal it like this with with induced with anger. 582 00:32:55,560 --> 00:33:00,840 And so I put that around, but God's saying, would you allow me 583 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,680 to wash it? And I can visibly say that God 584 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,240 has caused me to come to a place where I trust him with the 585 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,480 outcome. There was this instance in our 586 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:13,480 in our with with us as a family, where when our kids were growing 587 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:19,640 up, one kid drew this diagram where, you know, had I put 2 588 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,160 coffin boxes and put both our kids names on it. 589 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:26,720 And I remember I was heartbroken when I got to hear about it, but 590 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,840 the the only thing I could do is go, go take it to God. 591 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,520 I'm so hungry right now. What do I do, Lord, do I do I 592 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,960 confront them? Why did their child do this? 593 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,920 Lord, what did we do to them? There was nothing that we did. 594 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:45,920 And when I started a loving God, he said, allow me to work, allow 595 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,720 me to work, allow me to work. And it's interesting when you 596 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:54,680 allow him to work, you are filled because you're like God. 597 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,000 It it hurts me. That doesn't make me less of a 598 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,200 father for not reacting and acting, but Gods, and I'm 599 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,120 watching. I'll I'll fight that battle for 600 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:07,600 you. And I remember seeing God's hand 601 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,360 come through to me. And so today when I'm here, when 602 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,199 I'm saying is because we what I took it to God and I showed that 603 00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:16,520 to God and I said, God, you deal with this. 604 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:22,000 He named me to to sow back forgiveness and just do it 605 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,360 because I love God so much. In turn, what I reaped was 606 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,719 different compared to what I would have done had I reaped 607 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:33,679 anger and judgement and hate. We no longer are seeing this 608 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,719 with just a me lens. We're seeing it with His lens, 609 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,600 His body. And we're asking God, what are 610 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:45,400 you asking me to do today? What are you asking me to do 611 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,440 today? Some of us are probably like in 612 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,639 this place where Lord God, I don't know what to do. 613 00:34:49,639 --> 00:34:51,400 Lord God, say take this step of faith. 614 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:56,239 So this extra bit of time into this person, you will see them 615 00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,200 flourish and in turn you'll find your life's purpose. 616 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:03,440 A lot of us are confused in what God's calling us to do because 617 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,160 we have tasted a bit of God, but we are unwilling to act in 618 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:11,080 faith. God saying act in faith, act in 619 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:17,720 faith, step out in faith, step out in faith, and I pray and ask 620 00:35:17,720 --> 00:35:19,720 that you and I will be able to do that. 621 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,360 One thing that I can remember when as I'm seeing this is this 622 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,560 will only come from a place of gratitude. 623 00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:30,680 When we go back to God and say God, I want to cast the seed 624 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,720 out, but I want it to be washed by a word. 625 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,360 I want it to be washed by me soaking in. 626 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,000 I want to taste you and then I want to sow this. 627 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:42,400 God will delightfully work in and through our lives. 628 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:45,640 We must be grateful for every seed. 629 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,920 With Thanksgiving we will be able to have revelation of what 630 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:54,200 God needs for us to do. Today I came across this court 631 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,640 and it says gratitude for the seemingly insignificant, the 632 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:01,520 seed this plants, the giant miracle. 633 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:08,720 I believe God wants us to come to a place where this gratitude 634 00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:12,840 we would have for every seed, whether it is insignificant or 635 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,920 significant in our eyes, what comes out of it will be 636 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:22,800 something far bigger for God to work in and through us because 637 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,360 we are committed to sowing. I pray that we'll be able to sow 638 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:30,120 what we've tasted. You know, many of us times we 639 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,320 are trying to just say, oh, God will heal. 640 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:36,120 Oh God will do this without even tasting it for ourselves. 641 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:40,080 I pray, let us taste, let us be, let us have a posture of 642 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,360 gratitude. That's why I love asking the 643 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,960 church when you're praying, let us all in our own words, start 644 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:47,960 praying and saying who God is to us. 645 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,880 Because if we don't have a personal experience of who God 646 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,320 is for us, we won't be able to cast out the right seeds. 647 00:36:55,480 --> 00:37:01,480 It will fall on hollow ground. The second thing is when we are 648 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:06,360 called to sow, we sow because we've tasted it from God. 649 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,480 The second we sow diligently, which means one thing is 650 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:14,320 consistently where we are doing it, but diligently means we're 651 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:18,760 doing with utmost care. For any seed to bear fruit and 652 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:22,120 to grow and for the reaping to happen, there has to be 653 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,480 diligence on our part. Diligence is we are aware of the 654 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:27,600 situation. Diligence is we're looking 655 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,000 beyond. This is just showing up. 656 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,400 We are like, what does the season entail? 657 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,360 What should I be aware of? What worm is going to come? 658 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,640 What is the climatic condition? Have I planting the right seed 659 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,920 for a season like this? This is where God is calling us 660 00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,200 to see him and we did earlier in Two Corinthians Chapter 9. 661 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,080 I want to go back to verse 7. It says each of you should give 662 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,040 what you've decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly 663 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,120 or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 664 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,240 What does that mean? It means that there is a 665 00:37:54,240 --> 00:37:57,280 decision that we make in our heart every time when we show 666 00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:01,000 up. So today in August, when you're 667 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,240 here, God, what is it that I have to do today? 668 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:04,760 What is it I have to be watchful of? 669 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:08,280 It was interesting. I was doing a shoot for a fellow 670 00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,600 pastor friend and I was talking to his dad and he said in this 671 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,240 particular Adi Maso month, the evil spirit is moving among 672 00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:17,600 people. You will see a lot of suicides 673 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,000 happen. You will see so many things 674 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:20,720 happen. Why does that happen? 675 00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:23,280 Because you're diligent. You are in the midst of sowing. 676 00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,600 You're aware of what is happening around. 677 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,040 And so today there will be discord that comes. 678 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,600 There'll be things. We bind everything in the name 679 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,840 of Jesus. We no longer are just doing 680 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:39,400 things by rote, but we are also aware when I'm diligently sowing 681 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:44,200 God's seeds, which he's called me to sow, I'm also actively 682 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:48,680 being present right there. What are some of the bad seeds 683 00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,760 that I'm allowing God to deal in my life right now? 684 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:57,880 Insecurity when I look, the body dysmorphia that I struggle, I've 685 00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:59,960 probably ingrained that within me. 686 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:04,080 But then every time when I have allowed and been washed by God's 687 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:08,080 word, I understand that the creator was not someone else, 688 00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,120 but the Creator was God himself and he creates everything 689 00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:14,520 perfect. It's sin which caused all of 690 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,600 these things to really muddle me up. 691 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,800 Suddenly there's weightage to the colour of our skin, that is 692 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,480 weightage to the way we look. There's weightage to our 693 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,560 circumstances and the socio economic things that we have. 694 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:32,480 But when I realized that God is a God for everyone and anyone, I 695 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:36,280 start seeing things differently. I start seeing things the way 696 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,600 God intends for me to see it. And So what happens? 697 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,920 Immediately I realized He's the one who stitched me. 698 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,480 He is my creator. I go back to him and I say God. 699 00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:49,280 I want original design. I learnt to receive his love. 700 00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:53,240 Hollow ideas which were once filled have all been expelled 701 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:58,320 now because of Him working in and through me. 702 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:02,440 I daily go diligently. I'm aware, I'm aware if this 703 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,520 particular person comes, is going to target my identity, 704 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:09,360 God, I don't want to receive it. Let it fall on hollow ground. 705 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,560 I realize what situation I'm placing myself in. 706 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,080 I realize where I'm at today so that I'm not desiring for 707 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:20,600 something that I don't have. Genesis 127 says for God created 708 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,200 mankind his own image. In the image of God, He created 709 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:28,640 the both male and female. God was diligent with everything 710 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,280 that he did. We are called to be diligent in 711 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,960 everything we do. As a farmer's diligent. 712 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:38,560 When you see a farmer, he's up before Daybreak, he goes in, he 713 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,200 does his watering, he does everything that's needed. 714 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,560 He waits patiently for the rain. But it beyond that, he also 715 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:49,000 tends to everything that has to be done there in the in the 716 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,680 garden and in the in the place where he's doing his produce. 717 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,120 We learn to enjoy the process every day. 718 00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:02,880 His mercies are new every day. Problem is the world has gotten 719 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:07,440 to think us differently. The world wants us to think of 720 00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:09,920 yield. Suddenly we also are thinking, 721 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:11,880 God, I'm I've been sowing so much. 722 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:15,000 Why is it not turning around? God, what happened? 723 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,520 God, I've, I've been doing so many things, but why isn't? 724 00:41:17,720 --> 00:41:20,560 But the diligent are not looking for yield. 725 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:27,040 The diligent are just looking to enjoy the fact that their maker 726 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,560 is with them. And that point of time today 727 00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,280 when you go to the fruit market and the vegetable market, you 728 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:37,000 can visibly see apparently what is GM or what is genetically 729 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,880 modified. Genetically modified is done in 730 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,640 the seed level just so that it'll yield better. 731 00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:46,000 It'll it'll, it'll meet the demand that is there today. 732 00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:52,320 But today when God's calling us into the harvest field, he's not 733 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,640 calling us for genetically modified. 734 00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,960 He's calling us for those who've tasted him so that we will be 735 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,320 God modified to be workers there. 736 00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:06,040 Because if we are working for genetically modified, I will 737 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,360 look at a person and see if this person will healed enough for 738 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,640 me. And otherwise I won't pour out 739 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,320 into them. God is saying, would you look at 740 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,680 them as being God modified? Because God modified something 741 00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,960 in me. He turned that seeds. 742 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:23,080 He's turning every part of my seed, every area of my seed, 743 00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,600 every stage of my seed, he's changing it. 744 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,600 And as I'm working and realizing God, you're doing so much the 745 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:33,280 Potters working things out, He's putting his hand in and so 746 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:37,960 suddenly you aren't fighting the world with all its ideologies in 747 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:41,520 terms of identity with self, sexuality with self interests, 748 00:42:41,720 --> 00:42:45,800 money which feeds and which which thinks of money as a as as 749 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:53,960 as something that which is more of a pursuit, a more like a God 750 00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,480 relationship with a self-centered in which to 751 00:42:56,480 --> 00:43:00,200 protect our own interests work, which is so one track which just 752 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:04,320 is about me climbing up God. They talk about God, but it's 753 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:06,600 pluralistic. They have so many freedom where 754 00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,200 we they're called to lower their freedom. 755 00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,440 All these are all genetically modified. 756 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,200 But God is saying, I want to modify all that. 757 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:18,480 And so today, as we work in this, as we did in Genesis 127, 758 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:24,160 we are called to undergo a God modification diligently is when 759 00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,160 you look at the meaning. It's a way that is careful and 760 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:34,400 uses a lot of effort. So you and I will be required 761 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,520 for us to put in a lot of effort today. 762 00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:41,760 Are we ready to do that? Because we can only do that when 763 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,520 we enjoy the place that God's placed us in. 764 00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:49,320 We can only be diligent in the place where God's placed us in. 765 00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,560 You know, when we look at our cycle of harvest here in India, 766 00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:57,920 we have 3 cycles, the monsoon, then we have post monsoon and we 767 00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,040 have summer. And typically different things 768 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,800 are sewn in all these three seasons because of the weather 769 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,640 pattern, because of the rains, because of the heat. 770 00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:11,880 But what is sewn is also harvested. 771 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:16,280 And I believe today God wants us to move to a place where we are 772 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:22,800 aware of what land we have, what season we are in, because a lot 773 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,360 of us have got everything warped. 774 00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:28,280 A lot of us have been have warped it so much that you're 775 00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,280 planting something what has to be planted in summer and monsoon 776 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:35,400 and we're struggling with it. I believe that when we wash 777 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,760 ourselves with the Word, we will have this Holy Spirit's 778 00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:42,440 discernment of what to do well. Are we weary? 779 00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:46,280 Are we unsettled in the fact that this won't yield? 780 00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:51,680 I pray maybe move from being genetically modified because 781 00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,960 that is all about me, to making it more God modified. 782 00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:57,200 So we'll see all about what He has. 783 00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,960 Sometimes the harvest that God's calling us to harvest is 784 00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,400 lifelong. We'll see people seeing their 785 00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:07,760 miracles after 5-10 years. But can we be diligent in 786 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,920 anything that we do, in everything that we do? 787 00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:16,160 And the reason why I want us to be diligent is because a lot of 788 00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:21,040 us are struggling to accept the very land that He's placed us 789 00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:25,320 in, the very land, the very job, the very marriage, the very 790 00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:29,000 thing that He's called us to be. And a lot of us are struggling 791 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,640 to still come to terms of the very family that He's placed us 792 00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,760 in. And I pray that you and I will 793 00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:40,400 come to a place where we'll say, God, we will sow diligently, we 794 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:44,320 will show up diligently, we'll put in the effort. 795 00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,200 Lord, it's not sowing and reaping. 796 00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,120 God wants diligence. More than anything, He wants 797 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,240 diligence. It's in our diligence that he 798 00:45:53,240 --> 00:45:58,120 can trust us with more. It's in our diligence he trains 799 00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:03,520 us to see hope being realized. We can show up diligently only 800 00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:06,080 when we love the place where we are placed at. 801 00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:09,000 A lot of us are struggling in that. 802 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:14,560 I I pray if you're diligent in the place that you placed at, 803 00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,760 you will flourish. You will flourish and the 804 00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:21,960 flourishing won't be seen. Oh, you won't have to talk about 805 00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,080 it. It'll be witnessed by people 806 00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,600 around. It'll be witnessed by people 807 00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,200 around. It'll be witnessed by the people 808 00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:33,160 around and they will testify that God is doing something here 809 00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:38,640 in the flourishing. Hebrews chapter 6, verse 11 from 810 00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,360 our verse that we've taken for the year, it says we want each 811 00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,280 of you to show the same diligence to the very end so 812 00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,920 that your hope may be fully realized. 813 00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,720 This diligence that you're called is a lifelong thing that 814 00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:55,160 he's calling us. The sowing and reaping is a 815 00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:56,920 lifelong thing that he's calling us. 816 00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:01,640 The third thing we see is we reap in Thanksgiving and God 817 00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:05,560 multiplies it. Sowing and reaping you might 818 00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,000 feel like, but you didn't emphasize. 819 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,440 The idea is that as we are washed by his word, we'd only 820 00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:15,840 sow what is good if we sow evil and discord. 821 00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:21,240 That's what we will get if we so disrespect. 822 00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,760 That's what you will get if we sow unhealthy choices. 823 00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,280 That's what we will get. We will reap that if we sow 824 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:34,160 divisiveness. That's what we'll get if we are 825 00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:38,320 tending to break relationships and things that God's kept in 826 00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,400 our lives. If you are, if you are a 827 00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:45,480 self-destructive person, that's what our reaping also will look 828 00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:49,640 like today. What is God wanting us to do 829 00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,880 when it's time to reap? Because many a times when you 830 00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:57,080 come to reaping, we forget God. When we come to celebrating, we 831 00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:59,080 forget God. That's where we make the 832 00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:01,800 mistake, where we take the glory for ourselves. 833 00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,320 And this is where God is saying, when we reap in Thanksgiving, 834 00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,440 God multiplies it. I pray that there'll be 835 00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:12,000 Thanksgiving on our lips. I pray when you're reaping, 836 00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:15,840 we'll be in a season to say, God, grateful for all that 837 00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,680 you've done, grateful for the rain, grateful for the sun, 838 00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:22,960 grateful for everything. Reaping with Thanksgiving 839 00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:24,400 because it was worth trusting God. 840 00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:25,920 Because you are not alone in this journey. 841 00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:27,600 Because you are dependent on God. 842 00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:31,240 Because godliness with contentment is great gain. 843 00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:36,520 And I love what God had actually spoken about in the Old 844 00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,640 Testament. Because when He talked about 845 00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:43,720 collecting, you can see when God had taken the Israelites out and 846 00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:47,000 He started providing Munna, He said go and take enough. 847 00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,960 I will provide you every day and on the 6th day I'll provide you 848 00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,600 even for the 7th day so you can observe the Sabbath. 849 00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:57,000 Now that carried forward into the work that God called them to 850 00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:58,360 do. He said on Sabbath rest 851 00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,320 everything rest, even the rest, even the animals and everything 852 00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:05,360 and take rest. So which means God told you can 853 00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:08,360 come to a place where that one day you're called to take a 854 00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:09,920 break. You can trust me with that. 855 00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,280 And then there's an interesting after that when you read, he 856 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:16,280 says do the same thing with the lamb, give the rest an entire 857 00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:21,040 year worth of rest. And this is where it got me 858 00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:26,200 thinking, with Jesus coming, He's wanting us to extend that 859 00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:30,840 further into our everyday, what was a week, what was a, what was 860 00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:34,360 after six, the 7th year. He's saying do it every day. 861 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:39,440 That is every day we get to reap off His goodness in our lives. 862 00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:41,760 Are we doing it with Thanksgiving? 863 00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,240 Because when we do it with Thanksgiving, we'll be able to 864 00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:46,840 see the multiplication of it. We'll be able to see the 865 00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,480 multiplication of it. The way I see it with regard to 866 00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:52,520 sowing and reaping, we are sowing in some areas. 867 00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,160 We are reaping in some areas. Everything is happening 868 00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,400 simultaneously. Everything is happening 869 00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:01,080 simultaneously. And so when we are called to do 870 00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:05,280 that, we need to have an everyday attitude of 871 00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:09,440 Thanksgiving. Why was that Old Testament thing 872 00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:11,720 important? Because it always brought down 873 00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:15,120 to a heart check of what my dependence is on. 874 00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:19,400 Is it on the work of my hands or is it the work of God? 875 00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:22,880 Is it in my provision that comes through my hands, or is it the 876 00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:27,280 provision that comes by giving thanks to God who provided it 877 00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:31,080 for me? Is Thanksgiving on my terms or 878 00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:32,960 is it Thanksgiving on God's terms? 879 00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:38,640 I love how we recently visited one of our church family friends 880 00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,600 and they had a dining table and I don't remember telling them 881 00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:44,320 that there's these new tables which you can extend. 882 00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,400 And it's interesting because you don't give thanks only when it's 883 00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:49,800 small, even when you extend the table. 884 00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:52,480 So you open it from the center and you move to the side and 885 00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:56,120 then there's another shelfing unit that just comes from below 886 00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:58,040 and attaches. And then what was just a four 887 00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:01,120 seater now is now an 8 seater and it can accommodate more. 888 00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:04,200 You give thanks not only when you're less in number, but you 889 00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:05,520 also give thanks when you're more. 890 00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,640 You share of not only when it's just your family, you share of 891 00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:12,880 when you're with others. And so this constant thing that 892 00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:16,120 keeps running in my mind is when we are called to deal with 893 00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:20,440 compassion like Jesus because of his word, when he's calling us 894 00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:23,360 into the work field, we are reaping with Thanksgiving. 895 00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:27,120 We are reaping because many a times we've just played the part 896 00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:29,520 of sowing, or we just play the part of watering, or we're just 897 00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:32,840 playing the part of reaping. Whatever it is, all glory goes 898 00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:37,360 to Jesus. And I love how some of these 899 00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:40,240 things start happening because our sowing and reaping, many a 900 00:51:40,240 --> 00:51:42,040 times we make the reaping all about ourselves. 901 00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:46,960 But when you look at the story of Ruth, we see that the reaping 902 00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:50,520 makes room fathers, God says in the Old Testament. 903 00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:53,480 And when you read the book of the laws, he says make room, 904 00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:56,440 don't glean, don't go all the way to the corners and take 905 00:51:56,680 --> 00:52:00,240 leave the ones at the corner so that the poor, those who are 906 00:52:00,240 --> 00:52:03,680 unable to take, unable to afford, can take from your land. 907 00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,000 And that and that brings me back to what I spoke to. 908 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,360 He's back on margin. What are some of the margins 909 00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:13,560 that we are allowing people to participate in, participate in? 910 00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:19,400 A lot of us might find a route if we make room. 911 00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:24,160 A lot of us might find a breakthrough when we make room. 912 00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:27,920 What was happening when Boaz met Ruth? 913 00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:31,520 He said you just go like the women, pick up whatever you can 914 00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,560 with the when the harvesters are going, that's yours. 915 00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:40,560 A lot of us will learn to live in the overflow because many 916 00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:41,840 others are living in the overflow. 917 00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:45,080 I didn't understand this concept till a couple of years when God 918 00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:50,360 taught me as to why He wanted to bless the company. 919 00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:54,280 And I realized the blessing that was happening on the company was 920 00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:57,240 I was just probably on the top of the many others who are 921 00:52:57,240 --> 00:53:01,400 getting blessed right below. And I started understanding and 922 00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:04,720 I said, thank you God, I won't make this about me, it's all 923 00:53:04,720 --> 00:53:07,120 about you. I won't make it about me, it's 924 00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,640 all about you. When we read from Hebrews 6 925 00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,560 verse 10, this is what it says. God is not unjust. 926 00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:16,240 He will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as 927 00:53:16,240 --> 00:53:19,120 you have helped his people and continue to help them. 928 00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:23,760 And so today in our reaping may be filled with thanks, because 929 00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:27,080 gratefulness has to come every step of the way. 930 00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,960 And when we do this, we tend to multiply. 931 00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:35,360 So what happens is with this reaping that we do, we suddenly 932 00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:41,400 realize we are asked to give to others who are around. 933 00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:45,640 The children that God's calling us to raise are not for us are 934 00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:48,480 but for His Kingdom. The people that God's calling us 935 00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:53,240 to lead are not for us, but are for His Kingdom, the people that 936 00:53:53,240 --> 00:53:56,520 we are called to do life with a call for his Kingdom. 937 00:53:56,520 --> 00:54:00,640 And so today are we willing to participate in this weeping with 938 00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:04,120 Thanksgiving because we don't know what our part is, but we 939 00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:07,920 know the mission that is fulfilled is far bigger than 940 00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:12,760 what part we've played. Two Corinthians Chapter 9. 941 00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:15,800 I want to read verse 11 and conclude with that and encourage 942 00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,400 you. It says from verse 10 onwards, 943 00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,480 this generous God who supplies abundant seed for the farmer, 944 00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:25,240 which becomes bread for our meals, is even more extravagant 945 00:54:25,240 --> 00:54:27,560 toward you. First, He supplies every need 946 00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:31,760 plus more than He multiplies the seed as you sow it so that the 947 00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:33,960 harvest of your generosity will grow. 948 00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,520 You will be abundantly enriched in every way as you give 949 00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:41,960 generously on every occasion. For when we take your gifts to 950 00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:47,240 those in need, it causes many to give thanks to God in our 951 00:54:47,240 --> 00:54:50,920 reaping. Are many able to give thanks to 952 00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,840 God Are many others able to give thanks to God? 953 00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:58,200 I want to be known that that God I was obedient to the call of 954 00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:02,200 God so that when we reap many others are able to give thanks 955 00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,280 to God because they're able to be benefactors of things that 956 00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:09,880 were reaped here through the obedience that I was able to 957 00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:13,840 that my family was able to do so church. 958 00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:16,040 I don't know what you're struggling with. 959 00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:19,800 Probably you've been you, you, you feel like you know all this 960 00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:23,080 while I've just sewed for myself. 961 00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:25,200 It's OK. You can come back to him. 962 00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:27,480 You can make it still back to God. 963 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:31,120 For those of you who feel like, you know, if I don't deal it 964 00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:34,440 with this, this way of sewing, I, I can't protect myself. 965 00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,080 But God is a far bigger protector. 966 00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:39,440 I want to come to a place for those of you who are like, you 967 00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:40,920 know what? I want to give up on this. 968 00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:43,760 I'm so discontent. I, I don't feel like sowing. 969 00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:45,520 I don't feel this is the land that I belong. 970 00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:48,480 But God can't take you to another place if you don't tell 971 00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:50,600 this. Well, if you don't tell this, 972 00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:53,080 well, if you don't make things grow in this. 973 00:55:56,080 --> 00:56:00,720 I'm just praying and asking that God will work in and through our 974 00:56:00,720 --> 00:56:02,480 lives. It's, it's a hard sermon. 975 00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:05,840 Sowing and reaping is a hard thing. 976 00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:10,400 If I didn't sow right when my children were growing up, I 977 00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:15,040 can't reap something from them what was not sown. 978 00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:17,600 And so these are these are lifelong things which you'll 979 00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:21,120 have to go and it's it's many times you can't put it all on 980 00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:22,600 yourself. You'll crumble, you'll break. 981 00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:25,640 You need to bring God in. You need to bring his word in. 982 00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:29,760 You need to allow His word to permeate and work in and through 983 00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:33,680 you because what God wants to change are the patterns that you 984 00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:36,920 were brought in to a place where he's taking it to original 985 00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:39,600 design, where He's saying, I want you to be who I've created 986 00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:43,040 you to be, who I've made you to be so that you can run 987 00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:47,080 effectively. Do things with an anointing that 988 00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:50,840 could be far greater than what you've thought of or imagined. 989 00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:56,320 So even as we pray, maybe sow from what you've tasted, maybe 990 00:56:56,320 --> 00:57:00,520 show up diligently, maybe reap the Thanksgiving so that God 991 00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:04,080 multiplies it and others will be able to give thanks for what God 992 00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,840 has done. And we just look to God in 993 00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,760 prayer and conclude, Lord, we thank you, Lord, for this time. 994 00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:12,280 Thank you, Lord, for your word. Thank you, Lord, for the season 995 00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:14,720 of harvest that we are all in. Lord Jesus, I believe you're 996 00:57:14,720 --> 00:57:17,560 doing something marvelous. I pray that, Lord, your word 997 00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:19,920 will come into our hearts, into our minds. 998 00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:21,800 I pray a revelation light will guide us. 999 00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:23,920 Your revelation light will show us the way. 1000 00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:26,520 Lord Jesus, it will not only show us the way, but it will 1001 00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:28,680 work in our minds. Lord, I pray that you'll be with 1002 00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:30,840 each and everyone, strengthen each and everyone. 1003 00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:33,840 I pray for those who lack diligence, who've been showing 1004 00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:37,240 consistently, but Lord, who've who've been not putting in the 1005 00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:39,520 effort, I pray you'll enable them to put in the effort. 1006 00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:43,680 I pray for those who have been reaping it for themselves, will 1007 00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:46,560 be able to confess and independence will be able to 1008 00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:49,560 reap with Thanksgiving. Lord Jesus, we give you the 1009 00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:50,880 glory. We'll give you the honor. 1010 00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:54,240 Go before us, strengthen us, be with us, take charge. 1011 00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:57,440 Lord Jesus, I pray that Lord, you would be with us every step 1012 00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:00,280 of the way. We give you the glory and the 1013 00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:02,640 honor. Lord Jesus, be glorified. 1014 00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,720 In your most holy name we pray, Amen. 1015 00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:08,280 Amen. I pray that you have a blessed 1016 00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:10,760 week ahead. I pray that even in the season 1017 00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:15,120 of harvest that as you sow and reap, you'll be able to see God 1018 00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:19,200 clearly than ever before. I pray that God will bless the 1019 00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:22,720 work of your hands, strengthen your feet and your body so that 1020 00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:25,440 you'll be able to accomplish all that He's called you to do. 1021 00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:29,360 And remember this, that whoever finds Jesus finds faith. 1022 00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:33,600 God bless you all. Thanks for listening to this 1023 00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:36,720 message. 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