A partial set of notes/Scriptures used: 

 

World circumstances... careening... charging... speeding toward... 

Rom 8:5  For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 

What are YOU SOWING for the Future and what FOUNDATIONS are you setting for your life into Eternity?

Hos 4:6  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. 

Sowing, Reaping, the Harvest all through the Bible... Illustrations of how blessings and cursings come into our lives
Deut 28 and Lev  26 outline all of this for us and we need to have it present in mind.

Joh 10:10  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. 

OUTCOMES are predictable per the Laws of the Garden.

IF we want POSITIVE outcomes for the future, we must SOW for them. GOD will not make the choices for you. Character is a matter of FREE Choice, knowing good from evil and choosing GOOD.

WHAT if your life was played before your eyes and all you did, good and bad, instantaneously played and you saw it and weighed it in?  What account would you give, what judgment would you make?

1 - We reap more than we sow.
The reward of sowing RIGHT SEED... we are blessed with far more than we sow...  we work so we can reap MUCH FRUIT.
Joh 4:37  And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. 
Joh 4:38  I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. 

We are reaping and we continue to sow that our children may reap also.
The pioneers of the Oakland congregation did not give up. Some are still around :) 
Mat 6:25  Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 
Mat 6:26  Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 
GOD is the ONE Who gives the harvest.  OUR job is sowing. IF we sow in the right way we will have a harvest from HIM.  HE is in charge of that.
WE MUST FOCUS ON the sowing, the foundations for the future.

Jas 1:17  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 
Jas 1:18  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 

2 -  We reap the same kind we sow.  
Troubleshoot troubles in your life: 
IF you have Financial problems... chances are root cause ... where will you find it?
IF you have Marital problems... where is the solution?
IF you have health problems... what is the cause?

Finances, what causes financial problems, overall... 
a - Overspending
b - Your decisions
c - No savings
d - No Tithing
To look for a solution you MUST ANALYZE what you are doing/NOT doing.

GOOD deeds beget good results, EVIL deeds beget bad results.

"As a man sows" [ 2nd helping of chicken soup for the soul ]

3 - Reaping comes LONG after you have sown.
If I am going to fish I want ACTION... 
FARMERS sow for the future knowing they are planting for the FUTURE after they keep working and nurturing the plants.

Ecc 8:11  Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 

People get involved in drugs because such things are almost always INSTANT. But this lays the foundation FOR FAILURE in their lives.

OUR greatest blessings will come in the     WORLD TOMORROW ....  not today. Our lives today will still be greatly blessed, but in any measure comparable to that future GOD is setting up for us.

BUT for this we MUST lay the seed now to benefit then.

4 - We reap in proportion to what we sow.  
Pro 6:6  Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 
Pro 6:7  Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 
Pro 6:8  Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. 
Pro 6:9  How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 

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7 - Finally what really counts is WHAT is the NEXT STEP we will take from here with all of this?

“Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.” Samuel Smiles
What are you sowing for your future?