Reaping What You Sow – The Saturday Morning Post
Today’s Passage – Deuteronomy 6 – 8 (Click on the references to listen to the audio – Click here to view the passage from Blue Letter Bible)
(Second Milers also read – 2 Corinthians 1 – 4; Proverbs 3; Psalms 11 – 15)
Read the “0303 Evening and Morning” devotion for today, by the late Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
“Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.” (Deuteronomy 7:9-10)
“And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” (Revelation 20:11-15)
Good morning. What kind of nation teaches it’s kids to want to grow up and become the best school shooter? What kind of nation teaches it’s kids that they came from a glop of goo? What kind of nation teaches it’s kids that there is no God. What type of nation teaches it’s kids that abortion is okay even though the babies feel the pain of being ripped apart in the womb? What kind of nation teaches it’s kids to hate the “One Nation Under God” way and embrace the godlessness of Socialism? What nation’s leaders would vote fifty-five years ago to take the Bible (on which this nation was created) out of the schools along with prayer?
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” (Galatians 6:7-8)
So why would a kid walk into a school with a gun and start shooting? America is reaping what it has sown. God is repaying right in the face of the liberals, and they can’t even see it. You tell a kid that there is no God, that he evolved over millions of years from a blob of goo, and his brain will think like a blob of goo.
“For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” (Galatians 5:13-21)
“Thou shalt not kill.” is what the Bible says in Exodus 20:13. Kill means to dash into pieces, to murder. If you are thinking as a blob of goo, then maybe you think murdering someone is doing the world a favor. After all, we all came from goo, but my goo is superior, so it is okay if I kill you. That’s just the manifestation of the works of the flesh. If we start teaching kids that there is a real and true living God, they have a chance to receive Him as their Saviour. Then they are teachable. Then they know that they were created in the image of God for His purpose. They will begin to show signs of that by walking in the Spirit…
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. (Galatians 5:22-6:7)
Peace.
Posted in Devotions by Pastor Ted Stahl with 1 comment.
Amen