Morning Dew with Pastor Abraham (WE REAP THE SAME IN KIND AS WE SOW)

 Pastor Abrahama

LAW 2:

WE REAP THE SAME IN KIND AS WE SOW

If anyone had told David before or even right after his affair with Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11) that he would break  one of this laws, he would have denied it with all his might and replied that they were more than just a little crazy. But the laws of sowing and reaping and this law in particular, “we reap the same in kind as we sow,” strongly stress our need to follow the admonition to “take heed lest we fall.”

Before this incident was over, David:

• Coveted his neighbor’s wife; 2 Sam. 11:2, 3,
• Committed adultery; 2 Sam. 11:4,
• Committed murder; 2 Sam. 11:15,
• Stole; 2 Sam. 11:4 and,
• Bore false witness; 11:8, 21.

David’s downfall into sin posts a serious warning to each of us of the deceitfulness of sin and its dire consequences in the law of sowing and reaping:

Hebrews 3:13; But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

This was just the beginning because each of these sins would be reaped within his own family.

Genesis 1:24; Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. Genesis 5:3; When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth. In the six days of creation, God ordered every creature to produce “after their kind”). We all recognize that this is true in the biological and zoological world, but what is true in the physical world is also true in the spiritual world. Adam was created after the image of God and he would reproduce that image from generation to generation.

Because he was created for fellowship with God and to walk in dependence on Him, Adam would likewise reap the results of his actions. When he took of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil he reaped the results: spiritual death in his own life and the life of his posterity. As a further consequence of his negative choice to live independently, his sinfulness was transmitted from generation to generation. Psalm 51:5; Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me. Psalm 58:3; The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth. Romans 5:12-18; Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned for until the Law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification. For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

Apart from divine intervention, the fall halted man’s ability to sow and reap spiritual fruit and experience any fellowship with God. Adam reaped spiritual death (loss of fellowship with God) and began to die physically.

Galatians 6:7-8 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap eternal life. Whatever we sow, we reap; so that, if we sow good, we will reap good. This principle as stated in Galatians 6 is an absolute law. No one can sow evil and produce good. We cannot sow discord and produce unity. We cannot sow lies and produce truth. We cannot sow sin and produce holiness. If we sow to the Spirit, we reap of the Spirit. If we sow to the flesh, we reap of the flesh. If we sow evil, we will reap evil. If we have filled our minds and hearts with what is evil, we cannot bring forth what is good. Matthew 12:34-35; You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart. The good man out of his good treasure brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth what is evil.

If we sow indifference to God and spiritual values and priorities, we reap the fruit of indifference ignorance, hardness, greediness, futility, and frustration (Eph. 4:17-19). Here is something for us to think about:

Ø  Sow a thought, reap an act;

Ø  Sow an act, reap a habit;

Ø  Sow a habit, reap a character;

Ø  Sow a character, reap a destiny.

Psalm 7:12-16 If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready. He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons; He makes His arrows fiery shafts. Behold, he travails with wickedness, and he conceives mischief, and brings forth falsehood. He has dug a pit and hollowed it out, and has fallen into the hole which he made. His mischief will return upon his own head, and his violence will descend upon his own pate.

Proverbs 11:18; The wicked earns deceptive wages, But he who sows righteousness gets a true reward. Proverbs 22:8; He who sows iniquity will reap vanity and the rod of his fury will perish. Proverbs 26:27; He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone, it will come back on him. Esther 7:10; they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.

Jacob schemed to get the blessing belonging to the firstborn, and Laban later tricked him with the rights of the firstborn. Genesis 29:26; Laban said, “It is not the practice in our place, to marry off the younger before the first-born.”Religious activity does not necessarily mean spiritual activity. We can be religious and still be sowing to the flesh. The following passage are a standing commentary on the barrenness of external religiosity or on what happens when we go through the motions of religion, but keep our hearts from God.

May His Grace abide with us all Amen!!