1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:05,200 In the Book of Psalms as David confronted crisis after crisis, 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:09,100 one of the things that he cries out and these songs is I Am 3 00:00:09,100 --> 00:00:15,700 Yours, save me. And tonight we through Jesus 4 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:21,100 Christ belong to God, the Father and Jesus Christ his son. 5 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,700 And although you may be going through hardship, sickness 6 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:28,100 financial difficulty, whatever the difficulties you're having, 7 00:00:28,100 --> 00:00:30,100 if you belong to him tonight. Right. 8 00:00:31,500 --> 00:00:34,400 You're safe in his fold. You have cause to Rejoice. 9 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:36,200 I'm certainly thankful to be here tonight. 10 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:38,100 We're here to study the word of God though. 11 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:41,300 We're here to talk about how we can be better, how we can be 12 00:00:41,300 --> 00:00:45,300 closer to the father. Perhaps, you remember as a 13 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:50,000 child, having a special place, a secret place where you could go 14 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,500 to be all alone? Let me tell you about a boy who 15 00:00:53,500 --> 00:00:57,200 had just such a place in the top of an old fruit tree, on the 16 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:01,500 back of his family's property. The tree was loaded with leaves 17 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:05,200 but it hasn't produced any fruit and years high up in its 18 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,000 branches hidden from view by the leaves. 19 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,100 Was a perfect little secret Hideaway there. 20 00:01:12,100 --> 00:01:16,100 The boy was an astronaut that travel too far off galaxies. 21 00:01:16,100 --> 00:01:20,200 He was Tarzan that face the challenges of the Jungle, he was 22 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,900 a lookout for the Cavalry. Atop a great Ford's. 23 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,000 He resorted to this secret place, whenever he felt 24 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,700 mistreated or A misunderstood. So you can imagine how he felt 25 00:01:31,700 --> 00:01:33,900 when he heard his father telling his mother over dinner. 26 00:01:33,900 --> 00:01:37,800 One night. I think I'll cut down that old 27 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:43,000 fruit tree, it hadn't produced any fruit in years, but what 28 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,700 could he do if you begged his father, not to do it that he'd 29 00:01:45,700 --> 00:01:49,000 have to explain why and his secret Hideaway would be a 30 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,800 secret, no more. Well, he came up with a plan. 31 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,500 Since there were a number of apple trees in a field nearby, 32 00:01:56,500 --> 00:01:59,800 he gathered a whole basket full and that evening, while his 33 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:04,100 parents were busying themselves inside, he climbed the tree and 34 00:02:04,100 --> 00:02:09,500 tied, the stems of does tons of apples to almost every limb of 35 00:02:09,500 --> 00:02:13,200 the old fruit tree. Well, you can imagine the next 36 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,900 morning, the father surprised. When he looked at the old tree, 37 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,700 he was amazed to see. It was Laden with big fat 38 00:02:20,700 --> 00:02:24,000 apples. Father came back inside and said 39 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,400 to his mother, you're not going to believe this but a miracle 40 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,400 took place last night this old fruit tree. 41 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,500 Is full of apples. There are fat juicy apples on 42 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:38,000 almost every Branch. That's incredible. 43 00:02:38,100 --> 00:02:42,800 His wife said, yes, the father said and it's a double Miracle 44 00:02:42,900 --> 00:02:49,300 because that's a pear tree. We chuckle because we all know 45 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:54,000 of God's law of sowing and reaping apple trees. 46 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,900 Don't produce Pairs and pear trees, don't produce apples. 47 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,400 When you so apple seeds, you expect apples when you so para 48 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,600 seeds. You expect pairs because we 49 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:09,600 learned long ago, that what you sow is what you read and that 50 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:13,500 brings us to our Focus this evening and Galatians chapter 6. 51 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:16,100 If you have a Bible nearby, I invite you to read with me. 52 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:23,800 beginning with verse 7, all is really bringing this great book 53 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,000 to a close this great letter to the churches in the region of 54 00:03:27,100 --> 00:03:29,800 galatia. And he has these words to say, 55 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:36,100 Do not be deceived. God is Not mocked for whatever a 56 00:03:36,100 --> 00:03:40,300 manso's that he will also reap for. 57 00:03:40,300 --> 00:03:43,200 He Who sows to his flesh, shall of the flesh, reap corruption. 58 00:03:43,300 --> 00:03:47,200 But he who sows to the spirit will of the spirit reap 59 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:51,700 everlasting life and let us not. Grow weary while doing good for 60 00:03:51,700 --> 00:03:55,000 in due season, we shall reap. If we faint not or if we do not 61 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,800 lose heart, therefore as we have opportunity, let us do good to 62 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:04,400 all men, especially to those Rub the household of faith like to 63 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,200 do. First of all, this is break down 64 00:04:07,300 --> 00:04:10,600 this little passage and see what we can glean and understanding 65 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:12,600 specifically what he's trying to say. 66 00:04:12,700 --> 00:04:15,900 We got a phrase here again, we've noticed earlier in the 67 00:04:15,908 --> 00:04:21,899 meeting, be not deceived. We commented earlier this week 68 00:04:21,899 --> 00:04:23,700 that whenever you see that phrase, there's a number of 69 00:04:23,707 --> 00:04:26,700 times we find that in the New Testament, that's somewhat like 70 00:04:26,700 --> 00:04:29,400 an exclamation mark before what he's about to say. 71 00:04:31,900 --> 00:04:35,100 You better pay close attention to what I'm about to write 72 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:37,700 because a lot of people are going to be fooled and a lot of 73 00:04:37,700 --> 00:04:40,300 people are going to be deceived. What he does here is gives us 74 00:04:40,300 --> 00:04:45,500 the head of a heads-up on our potential for deception. 75 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:51,900 For self-deception, Pharaoh deceived himself and so can we 76 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:57,100 in James, chapter 1, verse 26? The Bible says, if any man among 77 00:04:57,100 --> 00:05:02,600 you seem to be religious and bright with not his tongue but 78 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:07,700 deceiveth his own heart, his religion is vain folks, that can 79 00:05:07,700 --> 00:05:09,800 happen to us. One thing we need to keep in 80 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:14,900 mind, this letter, Galatians was written to Christians. 81 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,700 James. Writing to Christians. 82 00:05:17,700 --> 00:05:20,600 We're learning about the potential for self-deception 83 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:22,100 again. We see this Paul writes in 84 00:05:22,100 --> 00:05:25,500 second Thessalonians 2 verse 11 and 12 warns about the 85 00:05:25,500 --> 00:05:27,200 possibility of what we're talking about. 86 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:31,500 He says God will send strong delusion to those who do not 87 00:05:31,500 --> 00:05:34,700 believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 88 00:05:34,900 --> 00:05:38,600 If we're determined that, we're not going to do what the Bible 89 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:39,900 says. You know, what will happen? 90 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,500 This is frightening. God will allow us to be deceived 91 00:05:43,500 --> 00:05:47,500 into thinking that wrong way. Is the right way. 92 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:50,700 Self-deception. We've got to be careful of that. 93 00:05:50,700 --> 00:05:55,400 God's people have to be careful of that be not deceived. 94 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:59,000 Matthew 7:21 through 22. Gives us a preview of the 95 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,800 Judgment people going to be deceived. 96 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:05,700 They're people who are religious and very active religiously. 97 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:08,300 That was no guarantee. Was it? 98 00:06:08,300 --> 00:06:12,700 They were deceiving themselves. They were fooling kidding 99 00:06:12,700 --> 00:06:14,700 themselves. We don't want to be one of the 100 00:06:14,700 --> 00:06:17,100 ones who are surprised on the day of judgment. 101 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:20,800 We can be deceived by others, of course, can't help, but think 102 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,600 about Eve and the serpent in the garden. 103 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,500 Jesus. Matthew 15:13 says, if the blind 104 00:06:27,500 --> 00:06:31,600 follow the blind, they shall both fall into the city, into 105 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:33,700 the dish. We've got to be careful when we 106 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:37,300 listen to others to make sure they're what they're Aang is 107 00:06:37,300 --> 00:06:40,700 really backed up by of us, saith the Lord. 108 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:51,100 Well, next he says, God. Is not mocked. 109 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:57,500 What does it mean by that? God is not going to be fooled. 110 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,600 He's not going to be outsmarted. Literally this word mocked, and 111 00:07:01,608 --> 00:07:04,600 the original means to turn the nose up at. 112 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:09,500 Don't think that you can turn your nose up at God and get away 113 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:12,400 with it. There's a lot of men and a lot 114 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,600 of women in the Bible who thought that God could be mocked 115 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:20,300 men and women who turn their nose up at God, Ahab Akin 116 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:22,500 ananias. There's a long list of folks 117 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:24,700 from a-z who learned the hard way. 118 00:07:24,700 --> 00:07:30,100 Way God will not be mocked. Again, this is issued to 119 00:07:30,100 --> 00:07:33,700 Christians. You can't pull the wool over 120 00:07:33,700 --> 00:07:36,700 God's eyes. You may fool the law, you may 121 00:07:36,700 --> 00:07:40,200 fool your boss, you may fool your co-workers, your neighbors. 122 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,700 You may fool your teachers, your friends, your parents. 123 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:49,900 You may even fool your own spouse, but you listen, you will 124 00:07:49,900 --> 00:07:56,700 not fool God, as we've sung so many times and days gone by, and 125 00:07:56,700 --> 00:08:00,600 it's so true. There's All seeing eye watching 126 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,500 you. Listen, Jesus not only sees what 127 00:08:03,500 --> 00:08:10,500 you do but here's what you say and even knows what you're 128 00:08:10,500 --> 00:08:14,300 thinking this very moments Hebrews 4:13 says, all things 129 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:20,200 are naked bear, laid bare open for God to see at all times. 130 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:25,500 Are very motives which we met foolishly choose, not to explore 131 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:29,700 RS, clear to him, as is the nose on our face. 132 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:35,200 Our God is omniscient. Our God is all-knowing, he reads 133 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,700 Hearts, sometimes people think they can read Hearts. 134 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,700 We can't, he can, that's why we here. 135 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:44,000 And once when we read so much in the Bible about the heart and 136 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,100 God addressing there, would be careful about your heart and The 137 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:51,800 Sermon on the Mount. In Matthew chapter 5, Blessed 138 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:55,900 are the pure in heart. He talks about those whose 139 00:08:56,100 --> 00:09:01,000 actions are reflecting supposedly that their hearts in 140 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,700 the right place, but he says the heart is far from me. 141 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,700 He talks about hardened hearts. In Mark. 142 00:09:06,700 --> 00:09:08,600 Chapter 6, verse 52. Listen. 143 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,900 God sees our hearts. You cannot fool God. 144 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,900 Be not deceived, God is Not mocked. 145 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:22,400 Whatever a man sews. For you youngsters, young, 146 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:23,900 people may not know what that means. 147 00:09:24,100 --> 00:09:28,300 That means, whatever you plant, whatever you saw that will, you 148 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:33,100 also reap Whatever you plant, that's what you're going to 149 00:09:33,108 --> 00:09:37,600 harvest. Folks that is a law that is a 150 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:42,900 law of God and you will not escape the law of the harvest. 151 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:48,100 My life is an open book before God and so is yours and those 152 00:09:48,100 --> 00:09:51,500 motives, those thoughts, those words and those actions, they 153 00:09:51,500 --> 00:09:58,000 all come with consequences, the wheels of God's justice grind 154 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,000 slowly but exceeding fine. Sometimes it takes years, 155 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:05,300 sometimes it takes Decades of my dad likes, to put it the 156 00:10:05,300 --> 00:10:08,000 chicken. Chickens always come home to 157 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,500 roost. There's going to be a settling 158 00:10:10,500 --> 00:10:12,600 up time, of course, through eternity. 159 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:16,900 But even in this life, we reap. What we sow, Paul didn't invent 160 00:10:16,900 --> 00:10:19,400 this idea. This is one of the more common 161 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,400 ideas found in the Bible. We find it in The Parables that 162 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,400 Jesus taught remember. The farmer, and Matthew 13:24, 163 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,000 who sowed good seed in his field. 164 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,600 What happened while he slept an enemy sowed Bad Seed. 165 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,800 Among the good one day, a servant fabric tears, growing 166 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,600 among the wheat and he told the master one of this telling 167 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:45,900 somebody has planted Bad Seed. Somebody planted these tears 168 00:10:46,100 --> 00:10:48,800 because wheat seed doesn't produce tears and tears seed 169 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:55,100 doesn't produce wheat now down here, you know, because we can't 170 00:10:55,100 --> 00:10:58,500 see so well. We can't always distinguish 171 00:10:58,500 --> 00:11:03,000 between the tears and the weeks, but God doesn't have that 172 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,000 problem. Some people who just kind of 173 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,200 slithering around thinking they can slip in on the judgement day 174 00:11:09,300 --> 00:11:12,700 on the, on the, on the coattails of somebody else, who's living a 175 00:11:12,700 --> 00:11:16,700 Godly Christian Life, and not going to work, God knows who the 176 00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:19,900 but we'd are, and God knows who the tears are and he sees it, 177 00:11:19,900 --> 00:11:22,500 and if you're faking Christianity, he knows it. 178 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:26,000 And you won't get by back in the Old Testament. 179 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,100 The prophet Hosea said in Hosea 87, they have sown the wind, 180 00:11:30,100 --> 00:11:34,200 they shall reap the Whirlwind talking about sowing and reaping 181 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,100 farther back than that. In Exodus 21:24, Moses says an 182 00:11:37,100 --> 00:11:42,900 eye for an eye tooth for tooth. Again, talking about sowing and 183 00:11:42,900 --> 00:11:45,900 reaping all the way back to Genesis chapter one, first 184 00:11:45,900 --> 00:11:49,700 chapter in the Bible verse 11. God said, let the ground bring 185 00:11:49,700 --> 00:11:53,100 forth grass the herb yielding seed and every fruit bearing. 186 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:59,500 Bring forth fruit after its own kind law of sowing. 187 00:11:59,500 --> 00:12:03,000 And reaping, of course, is as old as life itself. 188 00:12:03,700 --> 00:12:08,700 And now this evening, you may not know anything about 189 00:12:08,700 --> 00:12:13,700 gardening, and you may know not a thing about farming, but by 190 00:12:13,700 --> 00:12:16,900 the things you do and by the things you don't do by the 191 00:12:16,900 --> 00:12:19,400 things you say. And the things you fail to say 192 00:12:19,700 --> 00:12:24,300 by the thoughts you think and the attitude, you exhibit If you 193 00:12:24,300 --> 00:12:30,500 are planning a garden and you will reap a harvest. 194 00:12:30,700 --> 00:12:33,400 Question is, how does your garden compared to that? 195 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,500 But the Lord we see the Lord had grown. 196 00:12:37,500 --> 00:12:39,800 How does your garden? Compare that that we find 197 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,300 through the New Testament? That we should be cultivating 198 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,200 and harvesting? Are you sowing tears? 199 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,600 He's sowing wheat. One of the contextual Keys found 200 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:55,200 in this passage is in verse 8. He says for he who shows to the 201 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:59,400 flesh as bad seed, he's been talking about that for about a 202 00:12:59,408 --> 00:13:01,800 pager. So you turn back to Galatians 5. 203 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:05,000 He's talking about that the Flesh and the spirit, he use 204 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,500 those whose flesh will of the flesh reap corruption but he who 205 00:13:07,500 --> 00:13:11,800 sews to the spirit good seed will of the spirit reap 206 00:13:11,900 --> 00:13:18,200 everlasting life. Or in other words you can be 207 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:24,600 filled with yourself. And filled with the spirit. 208 00:13:25,900 --> 00:13:30,600 Galatians 5:16 through 26 obvious, obviously reference to 209 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,200 what he's talking about here. Turn back a page and kind of 210 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,500 follow along here. He's telling us here how you sow 211 00:13:35,500 --> 00:13:38,200 to the Flesh and how you saw the Spirit. 212 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:44,800 He gives us about 17 specific ways details them in Galatians 5 213 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:49,000 away as you can so bad seed. Listen to the list. 214 00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:52,700 He kind of groups them together. First, he notices a, he mentions 215 00:13:52,900 --> 00:13:57,800 sensual sins or moral impurity. He talks about adultery and 216 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:02,900 fornication and uncleanness, and lasciviousness or lewdness, then 217 00:14:02,900 --> 00:14:06,200 he talks about infidelity or the worship of false gods. 218 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,800 He talks about idolatry and sorcery, then he has a big long 219 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:14,200 list of relationship sins. Nine of them, talking about 220 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:20,000 sinful emotions and responses to Sirs, hatred, or enmity, 221 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,600 special. Animosities variants are Strife. 222 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:27,900 Rivalry Discord emulations or jealous. 223 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:32,400 He's getting fired up too early. Talking about envious and 224 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,700 contentious Robert. These folks are bad seed. 225 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:38,800 You're going to reap what you don't want to read when you 226 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:42,200 plant these wrasse. These are explosions are 227 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,000 outbursts of Wrath strive and factions. 228 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,300 It's a party spirit. Us against them within the body 229 00:14:49,300 --> 00:14:53,700 of Christ seditions or division, splits into heresies. 230 00:14:54,100 --> 00:14:57,400 Envyings feelings of ill-will. And, of course, the ultimate 231 00:14:58,300 --> 00:15:01,900 interpersonal, sin murder, then you list a couple more 232 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:06,300 drunkenness. And revellings which are wild 233 00:15:06,300 --> 00:15:07,900 drinking party. Does we noticed the other night 234 00:15:07,900 --> 00:15:10,300 of Christian has nothing whatsoever to do with that? 235 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:13,600 And then he says and such like in other words Paul says I'm not 236 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,600 listing every single way that you can plant good seed but you 237 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:19,500 bad seed but you get the idea you leave these long, you stay 238 00:15:19,500 --> 00:15:21,800 away from these don't plant. These are you will reap a 239 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,100 harvest that you don't want to read. 240 00:15:25,700 --> 00:15:29,700 And I'm involved in any of these and when you are, were sowing to 241 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:34,200 the Flesh and we're planning Bad Seed, we and remember the 242 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,600 Harvest time is coming. And that the old where Harvest 243 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:42,900 he says, is those who practice such will not inherit the 244 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:45,200 kingdom of God? No, is Anja butts about when 245 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,100 going if we're keep planting that kind of seed. 246 00:15:48,300 --> 00:15:53,600 Paul adds for emphasis in Galatians, 6, verse 8, He's a 247 00:15:53,608 --> 00:15:57,700 Solace to the flesh shall of the flesh, reap corruption, that 248 00:15:57,700 --> 00:16:02,500 term carries with the ideas of rottenness and Decay. 249 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:05,300 That's not where we want to be dabbling. 250 00:16:05,300 --> 00:16:07,700 Any of these failed, repent. You'll be like those in Matthew 251 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:09,400 7. Lord, Lord. 252 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:13,700 I never knew you will be the response we can also sow good 253 00:16:13,700 --> 00:16:15,200 seed. We've talked about this earlier 254 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,000 in the week and Galatians 5, verse 22 and 23, we read about 255 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,900 the fruit of the spirit love joy, peace, long-suffering, 256 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,700 kindness goodness, faithfulness, gentleness self-control. 257 00:16:27,700 --> 00:16:31,600 We don't give these enough attention, but you know what? 258 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:35,400 If we don't plant these We're going to have trouble in our 259 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:39,000 homes. We're going to have trouble in 260 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:44,200 the church. As a going to be a collision. 261 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:46,400 We're on a collision course with our brothers and sisters. 262 00:16:46,500 --> 00:16:48,500 When we're not planting these kinds of seed, we're having a 263 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:51,200 collision course with those in our family, when we don't 264 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:55,600 emphasize these like we should, let's break this sowing and 265 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:59,900 reaping business. Now a little bit further What 266 00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:05,099 you read, is what you sow. As an individual. 267 00:17:09,099 --> 00:17:12,700 We need to take personal what he's saying here, it applies to 268 00:17:12,708 --> 00:17:16,500 me and applies to you just as if he would have mentioned your 269 00:17:16,500 --> 00:17:18,900 very name. And my name right here in this 270 00:17:18,900 --> 00:17:21,099 verse and we need to make sure we get that and we don't miss 271 00:17:21,099 --> 00:17:23,099 it. And this go, this goes not just 272 00:17:23,099 --> 00:17:27,500 in spiritual matters. This goes in in school, at work 273 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:30,200 in our friendships. You decide you're not going to 274 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:31,600 do your homework. You decide you're not going to 275 00:17:31,608 --> 00:17:33,000 study for a test. What's going to happen? 276 00:17:34,100 --> 00:17:35,300 You're going to reap the results. 277 00:17:35,300 --> 00:17:36,900 You're going to fail. You decide you're not going to 278 00:17:36,900 --> 00:17:38,600 show up for work. You decide, you're going to 279 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:40,500 steal from the company. What's going to happen? 280 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:42,000 You're going to pay. You can lose your job. 281 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,500 An eager. But somewhat unscrupulous 282 00:17:45,500 --> 00:17:48,800 salesman was delivering a bid to an engineering firm while the 283 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:52,300 man waiting on him, stepped away from the desk for a few moments. 284 00:17:52,300 --> 00:17:55,200 The salesman noticed, a competitor's bid on the man's 285 00:17:55,200 --> 00:18:00,000 desk but he couldn't read the amount of the bid because it was 286 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,700 a juice. Can on top of the part of the 287 00:18:01,700 --> 00:18:04,200 bid that showed the total amount. 288 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,700 Kept looking at, the can looking up looking back. 289 00:18:07,900 --> 00:18:10,000 The Temptation was just too much. 290 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:14,000 He reached over to move, the can to see the competitors Bid And 291 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,100 as he lifted, the can his heart sank. 292 00:18:17,100 --> 00:18:22,800 As he watched thousands of BB's from the bottomless can scatter 293 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,300 across the floor. He lost the bid, he learned. 294 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:32,100 You're going to reap what you sow this reaping we do as 295 00:18:32,100 --> 00:18:36,300 individuals is also proportional to the amount of sewing. 296 00:18:36,300 --> 00:18:39,700 We do this works in the positive as well as the - we planned. 297 00:18:39,700 --> 00:18:43,200 Just a few good seat and we're going to enjoy a small harvest. 298 00:18:43,700 --> 00:18:46,200 The more seed we plant the greater the Harvest will be in 299 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:48,500 the positive 2nd Corinthians 9 verse 6. 300 00:18:48,900 --> 00:18:52,800 Whoever shows sparingly will also reap sparingly and whoever 301 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:56,300 sows generously will also reap generously. 302 00:18:57,500 --> 00:19:00,400 Consider Joseph. Oh what a great story. 303 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:05,000 This is Genesis 37 or so, through the end of that great 304 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:09,800 and that great book. What happens with Joseph? 305 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:16,700 Trouble trouble fall is in the first half of his life, he but 306 00:19:16,700 --> 00:19:20,600 he continues to live Faithfully. He sold as a slave, by his 307 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:25,300 brothers, his own family, he stays faithful, he perseveres 308 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,200 after. He's in prison, for rejecting 309 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:32,300 the advances of Potiphar's wife, he stays faithful after he was, 310 00:19:32,300 --> 00:19:35,900 forgotten by the butler who promised to reward him by 311 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:38,000 telling the Pharaoh about his gift. 312 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:43,900 He just kept sewing good seed. And eventually you reap the good 313 00:19:43,900 --> 00:19:47,100 harvest. Daniel, you remember continued 314 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,100 to honor his religious convictions even in the face of 315 00:19:50,100 --> 00:19:53,500 what seemed to be certain death and his faithfulness was 316 00:19:53,500 --> 00:19:56,800 rewarded when he was thrown in the Lion's, did the Angels of 317 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:02,300 God protected him and so as you let your life sign as you 318 00:20:02,300 --> 00:20:06,400 exhibit kindness as you do good works as you spread the truth as 319 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:11,000 you stand up for the truth. Sometimes those seem like you go 320 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,300 unappreciated. She ate it or unrewarded but 321 00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:19,200 just keep on sewing. The Good Seed and you too will 322 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,600 reap the Harvest. Of course, this works in the - 323 00:20:21,700 --> 00:20:24,600 Joseph Brothers. Treacherous men. 324 00:20:24,700 --> 00:20:28,500 Sold him as a slave, but as a result of that down the road, 325 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,700 they faced starvation. And imprisonment, they had to 326 00:20:31,700 --> 00:20:34,600 beg for food from the brother that they had. 327 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:39,800 So badly mistreated, belshazzar, you remember profane, the sacred 328 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,200 vessels of the temple in a drunken party. 329 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:47,100 When he was confronted by the handwriting on the wall. 330 00:20:47,100 --> 00:20:51,700 Meanie, meanie, you take many, many take OU's you farsan now 331 00:20:51,700 --> 00:20:55,000 are weighed in the balances and found wanting. 332 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,800 He was slain that very night when Samson began to date. 333 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,300 The worldly. Philistine Delilah, he never 334 00:21:02,300 --> 00:21:06,800 intended to become an adulterer. He never intended to disgrace 335 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,600 his people, to abandon his vow to lose his great strength, to 336 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:13,300 have his eyes plucked out, and finally end his own life. 337 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:17,700 Life but Samson learn that sin will take you farther than you 338 00:21:17,700 --> 00:21:19,900 want to go. Sin will keep you longer than 339 00:21:19,900 --> 00:21:24,300 you want to stay and sin will cost you more than you want to 340 00:21:24,300 --> 00:21:28,600 pay listen, younger, brother and younger sister. 341 00:21:29,100 --> 00:21:33,200 You're making some choices today, you're making some 342 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:37,800 choices some decisions and 2006, they're going to either help you 343 00:21:38,100 --> 00:21:41,700 or haunt you. For the rest of your days you 344 00:21:41,700 --> 00:21:46,000 better remember this rule you better remember this great law 345 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,500 of God, are you sowing to the flesh? 346 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,000 Are you sowing to The Spirit? Well, here's another one. 347 00:21:52,700 --> 00:21:55,900 The individual will reap what he sells but you know what? 348 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:00,600 Your family Will reap what you sow? 349 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:05,400 How many times? How many times have we seen it? 350 00:22:06,100 --> 00:22:10,200 Noah you remember the positive side found Grace in the eyes of 351 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:11,900 the Lord? And as a result of that, God has 352 00:22:11,900 --> 00:22:14,900 designed a plan to save his family. 353 00:22:14,900 --> 00:22:19,000 As a result of that, the human race was preserved. 354 00:22:19,100 --> 00:22:21,800 We could talk about Abraham Abraham, we could talk about 355 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:26,600 Rahab in Jericho Esther, great examples of this very thing 356 00:22:26,700 --> 00:22:30,000 individuals who stood. Up for right and their family. 357 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,900 Reaped, the Harvest. Proverbs 22:6 says, train up a 358 00:22:33,900 --> 00:22:38,600 child in the way he should go. And when he is old, he will not 359 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:42,000 depart from it. Oh, we still believe in the free 360 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,400 moral agency of these little ones as they grow up. 361 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:49,100 But what a legacy, you can leave your family. 362 00:22:49,700 --> 00:22:51,400 What a legacy, you can leave the church. 363 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,900 If you God, the hearts and the spirits of these little boys and 364 00:22:55,900 --> 00:23:00,000 girls as they grow up, Jim 64 fathers do not provoke your 365 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,300 children to wrath but bring them up in the training, the nurture 366 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,500 and admonition of the Lord, the training and instruction of the 367 00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:10,800 Lord. Another translation says, While 368 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,500 we're talking about family, I heard something one time. 369 00:23:13,500 --> 00:23:17,300 That was very impressing. Impressive to me, listen to this 370 00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:24,000 Dad, are you treating your wife the way you want your daughter's 371 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,600 husband? To treat her. 372 00:23:28,100 --> 00:23:30,900 Mom, are you treating your husband the way you want your 373 00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:34,300 son's wife? To treat him. 374 00:23:34,300 --> 00:23:40,400 Well, we're talking about family being impacted by your, by my 375 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,100 actions. Let's notice the negative. 376 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:48,200 Every single time we stand before the grave of a loved one, 377 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,700 we're reaping the Harvest of the seed that Adam and Eve sewed in 378 00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:55,100 the Garden of Eden. Every time we deal with 379 00:23:55,100 --> 00:23:59,700 sickness, every time we're confronted with pain disease. 380 00:24:00,100 --> 00:24:05,000 We're reaping the seed the Harvest that they sewed me about 381 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,200 lat. I think about lot when he 382 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:15,200 arrived at Sodom Genesis 13, 13 says, The men of Sodom were 383 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:19,300 exceedingly, Wicked and sinful against the Lord, but he went 384 00:24:19,300 --> 00:24:21,800 there. Anyway, settled in sin will take 385 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,000 you farther than you want to go and watch the progression with 386 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:28,600 lot Genesis, 13 12, he pitched his tent towards Sodom again. 387 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,300 Like we noticed the other night, it's important where you are 388 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:37,200 today, but it's even more important in which direction are 389 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:38,700 you headed? He was heading the wrong way. 390 00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:42,500 Genesis 14:12 says he was living in Sodom Genesis. 391 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:46,000 In one finally he's sitting at the Gate of Sodom as one of 392 00:24:46,008 --> 00:24:51,000 their key Business Leaders. Lord unfortunately realized too 393 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,400 late that sin will take you farther than you want to go. 394 00:24:54,700 --> 00:24:59,800 He could tell you firsthand how sin Planning the wrong, see 395 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,400 destroyed his family wife turned to a pillar of salt. 396 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:07,700 His grandchildren were also his children because of the heinous 397 00:25:07,700 --> 00:25:10,300 sin that he committed with his daughters and The Offspring of 398 00:25:10,300 --> 00:25:16,400 that Where the moabites and the ammonites gave God's people 399 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,900 trouble down the road. Jacob, and Esau story. 400 00:25:19,900 --> 00:25:22,900 There member Esau sold, his Birthright for a mess of 401 00:25:22,900 --> 00:25:25,800 pottage. Esau's. 402 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,900 Descendants paid for that. Think about David spread himself 403 00:25:29,900 --> 00:25:35,400 too thin with his wives. and in that family, his his family, his 404 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,300 children and all the goings on that took place within them were 405 00:25:40,700 --> 00:25:44,600 we're worse than any soap opera. Some of the things that happened 406 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,000 there. So scandalous. 407 00:25:46,700 --> 00:25:51,300 Proverbs 29:15 says the rod and rebuke, give wisdom, but a Child 408 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:55,300 Left to himself, brings shame to his mother. 409 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,700 Loving discipline and boundaries can spare a whole family grief. 410 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:09,800 And tragedy. Well, not only will you reap as 411 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,000 an individual and will you reap as a family? 412 00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:16,800 The result of the see that you you. 413 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:24,600 So but also the family of God or the church, sometimes there can 414 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,400 be even ripples across the Brotherhood because of decisions 415 00:26:28,500 --> 00:26:33,000 and choices that you make, if they're the wrong ones, or if 416 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,000 they're the right ones, think about Paul, and Peter, in the 417 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,500 positive sense, Peter preached, Jesus, in faith, in the face of 418 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:43,400 certain persecution, And the church Prosper. 3,000 on that 419 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,700 first day. And then thousands and thousands 420 00:26:45,700 --> 00:26:48,600 more because he stood up for what's right? 421 00:26:48,700 --> 00:26:53,600 Paul established strengthen churches throughout the west and 422 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:58,200 we have 14 New Testament letters as a result of his great work in 423 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,000 his great faithfulness. In the negative though. 424 00:27:03,100 --> 00:27:06,300 Think about this Abraham and Sarah. 425 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,000 Look with me, if you will back at Genesis 16. 426 00:27:12,100 --> 00:27:18,800 You talk about implications? Poor choices, wrong decisions. 427 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:22,100 And the result that they can make this is probably the 428 00:27:22,100 --> 00:27:26,900 biggest that was ever made. Now, Sarah Genesis, 16 verse 1, 429 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,000 Abraham's wife had borne him. No children. 430 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,900 God had promised, and God was going to keep his promise, but 431 00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:36,400 that wasn't good enough. It wouldn't happen to quick 432 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,700 enough and she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was 433 00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:43,000 Hagar. So Sarah is said to Abram. 434 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,600 See now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing children. 435 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:53,000 Please go into my maid, perhaps. I shall obtain children by her. 436 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,900 Bad idea and then Abraham went along with it. 437 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,800 Equally bad idea and Abraham heated the voice of Sarah and 438 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,700 what happened as a result of that skip down to verse 11 and 439 00:28:06,700 --> 00:28:11,500 12. She gave birth to Ishmael the 440 00:28:11,500 --> 00:28:13,500 angel of the Lord said to her, behold your, with child, and 441 00:28:13,500 --> 00:28:16,000 shall bear a son, and you shall call his name Ishmael because 442 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,800 the Lord has heard your Affliction, he shall be a wild 443 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,900 man. His hand will be against every 444 00:28:20,900 --> 00:28:24,100 man and every man's hand against him and he shall dwell in the 445 00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:30,800 presence of all his brethren. All the things that are going on 446 00:28:31,700 --> 00:28:34,200 in the lease and the troubles that are going on in the world. 447 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,000 You know how far those can be traced. 448 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,200 Back all the way back to right here. 449 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:45,800 Genesis 16. Just one little decision. 450 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,800 How, how badly could that affect anyone? 451 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,600 Outside of the two of them, it's affected the whole world because 452 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,300 of that. You don't Islam a thorn in 453 00:28:56,300 --> 00:28:58,200 everybody's side. Where'd that? 454 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:02,100 Come from You know where the split comes with our 455 00:29:02,100 --> 00:29:04,800 understanding and there's the biggest part of the split, they 456 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:09,500 believe it wasn't Isaac, there was offered on the altar but it 457 00:29:09,500 --> 00:29:13,600 was Ishmael and right there is when it all chains and it all 458 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:18,800 becomes very different, could trace at all the way back, the 459 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,000 tragedy of 9/11, all these things are going on all the way 460 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,200 back to this one man. And this one woman's poor 461 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:29,000 decision. Hitler, you remember. 462 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,200 So the seed of genocide and no one in Germany rose up against 463 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,000 him as a result, Germany was turned to rubble and only in 464 00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:37,900 relatively recent years. Have they recovered? 465 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:46,300 as one man or one woman, you have a tremendous capacity 466 00:29:46,300 --> 00:29:51,100 either for helping or hindering the church. 467 00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:53,900 And even the Brotherhood at large, you can have a positive 468 00:29:53,900 --> 00:29:59,700 or negative impact. If you so Strife listen you 469 00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:03,600 aren't going to reap piece. I like what one man said he said 470 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:10,700 we are all manufacturers. He said making good making 471 00:30:10,700 --> 00:30:16,500 trouble or making excuses which of these defines you tonight 472 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,000 which of these will Define you which of these will Define me in 473 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,500 the future. My the kind of person who's 474 00:30:21,500 --> 00:30:26,200 going to be Making trouble. I'm out of town of person is 475 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:31,200 gonna be making excuses for not doing what I know I should Why 476 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:37,100 be making good? if you're capable of doing, 477 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,000 Great work. And you're only doing good work. 478 00:30:42,300 --> 00:30:46,300 For the Lord, is that not sin. Is that not like the man, the 479 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:47,700 one Talent, man. We read about. 480 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:52,400 We spoke about last night. Part of the success of the early 481 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:57,700 church was their ability to develop momentum and maintain 482 00:30:57,900 --> 00:30:59,600 that momentum. That's what we want to do right 483 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,100 here at plans row. You've got some momentum, 484 00:31:02,300 --> 00:31:05,400 there's a illustration given enough Business book, good to 485 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,500 great, talking about how it takes a while you have to keep 486 00:31:08,500 --> 00:31:10,600 pulling it. He used the idea of a flywheel. 487 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,800 The idea of America around is easier for me to relate to and 488 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:15,900 you know how when you get a bunch of people in a 489 00:31:15,908 --> 00:31:20,300 merry-go-round, you have to be pulling or pushing and pulling 490 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,100 And get that thing at slow at first slow and you just have to 491 00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:25,400 keep working and working. But once you get that thing 492 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,100 going, then you just it doesn't take as much effort. 493 00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:29,800 Doesn't take as much. We just have to keep going. 494 00:31:29,900 --> 00:31:33,900 You just have to stick with it. So it is in the church. 495 00:31:35,700 --> 00:31:38,300 But you know what happens, sometimes we get that thing 496 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:43,200 going and then all of a sudden somebody wants to jump in and 497 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,400 stop the Merry-Go-Round so to speak. 498 00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:50,100 It's one thing. If because of your situation, 499 00:31:50,100 --> 00:31:53,000 your circumstances, you're not able to help get that thing 500 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,600 going. That's one thing, that's one 501 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,300 thing. But don't you get in the way of 502 00:31:57,300 --> 00:32:01,200 those who are working, you work with them, you support them or 503 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,000 you get out of the way. Don't be one of those who are 504 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,100 making trouble. Two men were riding a Bicycle 505 00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:10,200 Built for Two. And they came to a long Steep 506 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,100 Hill, it took a great deal of struggle for the men to 507 00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:17,500 complete, but proved to be a very steep climb when I got to 508 00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:21,300 the top, the man in front of the other and said, boy, that. 509 00:32:21,300 --> 00:32:23,800 Sure was a hard climb the fell in the back reply. 510 00:32:24,100 --> 00:32:26,300 Yeah. And if I hadn't kept the brakes 511 00:32:26,300 --> 00:32:28,500 on all the way, we would certainly have rolled down 512 00:32:28,500 --> 00:32:32,100 backwards. Sometimes that's what's going on 513 00:32:32,100 --> 00:32:34,400 in the church. We've got people working and 514 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,700 working up heel and up heel. We got people throwing food at 515 00:32:37,700 --> 00:32:41,400 it, throwing Tomatoes at up, trying to get things stirring up 516 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,900 trouble with in the church, don't let that be you because if 517 00:32:43,900 --> 00:32:47,400 that is you listen brother sister, you're going to reap, 518 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,900 you're going to pay the price down the road. 519 00:32:49,900 --> 00:32:51,600 You write it down, it's going to happen. 520 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,800 Listen, the work of the church, we're talking about the work of 521 00:32:54,808 --> 00:32:56,400 the church. We're not talking about hills, 522 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,300 we're talking about the souls of men and the work of the church 523 00:32:59,300 --> 00:33:02,500 is not my work. And it's not your work. 524 00:33:03,100 --> 00:33:05,300 It's the Lord's work in the church, will reap. 525 00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:10,400 What you sow. Sammy spent his Boyhood Summers 526 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,900 walking through the woods playing with friends and his 527 00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:17,800 favorite by far was fishing in the pond down the road nearly 528 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:19,700 every day. He would dig up some worms and 529 00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:22,700 head off Poland hand for a day of fishing. 530 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:27,100 This steamy hot day was like most others during Sammy summer 531 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,700 break waking early. He could hear the pain calling 532 00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:33,800 so Sammy quietly walked out. The front door, grabbed his 533 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,500 Pitchfork and wormtail and walked into the woods to search 534 00:33:37,500 --> 00:33:40,700 for bait. It's he turned over old stumps 535 00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:45,500 and dug under leaves hoping to find worms under one old. 536 00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:49,500 Stumpy hit the jackpot. The ground was just rising and 537 00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:53,000 in two minutes he had all the baby knitted and in 15 minutes 538 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,100 he was at the pond reaching into his Bait. 539 00:33:56,100 --> 00:33:59,400 Bucket Sammy pulled out a big worm double hooked it and tossed 540 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,500 it into the water. He noticed a stinging in his 541 00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:06,200 hand but he was filled with the excitement of the moment and so 542 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,100 he paid no attention to it within 30 seconds Sammy had a 543 00:34:10,107 --> 00:34:13,199 strike and pulled in a nice catfish. 544 00:34:13,500 --> 00:34:16,300 Wow, he thought I fish in the first minute. 545 00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:19,699 He put the catch on the Stringer, hurried, to rebait his 546 00:34:19,699 --> 00:34:23,699 hook and tried his luck. Again, once again, he felt the 547 00:34:23,699 --> 00:34:27,300 stinging sensation in his hand as he threw his hook into the 548 00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:29,800 pond. Didn't have time to worry about 549 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:31,600 that. Within just a few seconds, he 550 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:36,100 had another large fish, he fumbled the next time, he baited 551 00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:42,000 hook His hand felt numb and stiff but Sammy was still too 552 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,100 excited about catching another fish to give it much thought and 553 00:34:46,100 --> 00:34:48,300 only an hour. Sam had caught eight, large 554 00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:50,500 fish. This was definitely his best 555 00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:52,600 fishing day ever. He was so proud of his outing 556 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,699 that would plenty of day. Lefty through his heavy Stringer 557 00:34:55,699 --> 00:34:58,200 over his shoulder and dash toward home, to show off his 558 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:01,800 cash. The local sheriff happened to 559 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,500 drive up alongside Sammy and started to congratulate him on 560 00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:06,700 his catch with a smile and a victory. 561 00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:08,700 Whoop Sammy. Held up the Stringer. 562 00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:13,400 The sheriff, gassed parked his car and ran to Sammy. 563 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,900 His eyes, hadn't deceived him Sammy's arms, really were red, 564 00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:21,500 and swollen to about twice their normal size. 565 00:35:22,700 --> 00:35:24,200 Exactly. Where have you been and what 566 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,400 bait did you use to catch all those fish? 567 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:31,500 The sheriff ass I found some special bait under an old stump 568 00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:34,000 Sammy. Boasted these worms really 569 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,600 wiggle good. Holding the bucket up for 570 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:41,200 inspection after one, look at the worms, the sheriff. 571 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,200 You salmon the truck, maybe you turn on the dirt road and sped 572 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,700 off to the hospital. That was too late. 573 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:54,700 Sammy died. For the get to town Sammy had 574 00:35:54,700 --> 00:35:56,800 been fishing with baby rattlesnakes. 575 00:35:58,100 --> 00:36:01,200 Sammy's deadly bait. Brought him a good morning of 576 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,500 fishing. But it cost him. 577 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,600 His life had Sammy stop fishing. After the first sting. 578 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:12,300 He could have been saved but Sammy was having too much fun to 579 00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:16,700 be bothered by the throbbing in his hand before it went totally 580 00:36:16,700 --> 00:36:25,400 now Folks playing around with sin, enjoying the pleasures of 581 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:29,900 sin, is like using baby rattlesnakes for bait. 582 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:34,700 The sin that we dabble in may seem harmless, but that's in 583 00:36:34,700 --> 00:36:38,300 releases, a Venom of its own and it will affect you. 584 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,800 Because sin will take you farther than you want to go. 585 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,700 We'll keep you longer than you want to stay and will cost you 586 00:36:46,700 --> 00:36:53,100 more than you want to pay. When you sense that sting that's 587 00:36:53,100 --> 00:36:56,900 your conscience, you listen to that conscious. 588 00:36:57,100 --> 00:37:03,200 And you remember the words that we read tonight, be not 589 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:07,700 deceived. God is Not mocked whatsoever. 590 00:37:07,700 --> 00:37:12,900 Manso's. That will he also reap? 591 00:37:14,900 --> 00:37:17,600 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 592 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:23,300 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. Road in Bakersfield, if you 593 00:37:23,300 --> 00:37:26,400 would like any additional information, or you would like 594 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,600 to receive a free Bible correspondence, course by mail. 595 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:34,000 Please email us at info at her Church of Christ 596 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:38,000 Bakersfield.com. 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