"Be not deceived;  God is not mocked:  for whatsoever a
     man soweth, that shall he also reap."  *** Galatians 6:7


     This is a promise of God.  Today, many choose only to believe
the promises of God concerning prosperity, eternal life and good
health.  They misunderstand the laws of God concerning Sowing and
Reaping.  When Christians suffer trials and tribulations, many
times they are suffering fruits of the sin they have sown in their
lives.  Most Christians understand this in the lives of the
unsaved, but because they have come to the saving grace of Jesus
Christ, they believe that the law of Sowing and Reaping does not
pertain to them.  

     The difference for the Christian is God's grace which sustains
us through the trials, corrections and disciplines.  We must endure
these trials, knowing that it is by these lessons that we are set
free.  We are strengthened in His grace so as not to repeat the
sin.  This is the primary purpose in God putting us through trials.
The writer of Hebrews, in speaking of Jesus, stated, 

     "Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the
     things which He suffered."  *** Hebrews 5:8  

     The word suffered is PASCHO.  It has no limits as to the
suffering incurred, even unto death.  The scriptures reveal that
Jesus was a man of many sorrows, *** Isaiah 53:3.  As Paul wrote, 

     "And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself,
     and became obedient unto death, even the death of the
     cross." *** Phil. 2:8

     Yet today, when it comes to suffering, obedience, dying to
self and the old selfish nature, most Christians turn away and say,
"This is not the God we serve."  They continue to sow to their
flesh and of their flesh they shall reap corruption.  *** Gal. 6:8 

     When we sow seeds of corruption, those seeds bring forth an
abundant harvest in our lives.  They will not only bring forth, but
will bring forth abundantly.  Many forget the laws of
multiplication: "A farmer never sows a single seed expecting to
reap a single seed."  God, in His design of the seed, has provided
that every seed bring forth abundantly.  We are informed in the
book of Genesis:  

     "And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding
     seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose
     seed was in itself, after his kind:  and God saw that it
     was good."  *** Gen. 1:12

     God designed every seed to produce after its own kind.  That
which is sown will produce what is sown.  When we plant a seed of
corn we harvest, or reap, corn.  It will not only produce itself,
but will produce itself abundantly.


     Some Christians look at their diseases and circumstances and
are perplexed that their prayers for healing and deliverance seem
to fall on deaf ears.  They do not understand that their trials are
a result of seed sown with the natural law of multiplication,
increasing their harvest of woes.

     We have all heard the expression of "sowing our wild oats in
our youth", speaking of the frivolous attitude toward life and not
looking to the consequences of our actions.  Many Christians
operate their lives in very much the same way.  They sin and
continue in sin, believing that God's forgiveness wipes the slate
clean each time, believing there will be no harvest of that which
was sown.

     Christians should tremble with fear when the thought of
committing wilful sin comes into their mind.  They do not see
little "pet" sins as seriously as God, nor do they understand the
consequences in this life of harboring those "little" sins in their
hearts.  Secret sins can keep you from the promises and greatness
available to you in Christ.  God's promises are predicated on our
obedience to His Word and His voice.

     Many Christians believe that purification of their lives is
the sovereign work of God, somehow manifesting itself as they sit
under preaching, reading their Bibles and praying, without any
attempt on their part to "mortify the deeds of the flesh,"  ***
Romans 8:13 and *** Colossians 3:5. They misunderstand or ignore
the principle of Sowing and Reaping.

     In all areas of our lives, what we sow will bring forth a
harvest.  Many sow seeds with their mouth that bring forth a
multiplied harvest of sickness, grief and destruction.  Solomon
wrote in the book of Proverbs:  


     "Death and life are in the power of the tongue." ***
     Proverbs 18:21  

     The words we speak can bring forth death or life.  There is
power in our words.  Yet, many Christians have "diarrhea of the
mouth", with no regard as to what they speak or what seeds they are
sowing by their tongue.  Jesus revealed:  

     "But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall
     speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of
     judgment."  *** Matthew 12:36

   The seeds that we sow with our mouths will produce fruit.

     "Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit;  but
     a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.


     A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a
     corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

     Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn
     down, and cast into the fire.

     Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."  ***
     Matthew 7:17-20
 
     We will be judged for that fruit in the day of judgment.  When
the mouth speaks, it manifests a deeper problem that is in the
soul.  Jesus revealed unto the Pharisees:  

     "O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak
     good things?  for out of the abundance of the heart the
     mouth speaketh." *** Mat 12:34

     We speak what is manifest in our hearts.  This is what we talk
about.  If we are thinking about our job, our debts, our family,
our troubles or our God, this is what we talk about, for this is
what our minds are set upon.

     Later, when Jesus was addressing the Pharisees, He, again,
informed them that it was not what went into a man that defiled
him, but that which came out of the mouth that defiled him. ***
Matthew 15:11

     "But those things which proceed out of the mouth come
     forth from the heart;  and they defile the man."  ***
     Matthew 15:18

     Many Christians are being defiled before God because of what
comes out of their mouths.  The words they speak produce a harvest
in their lives, good or evil.  One who speaks of being sick is
sick.  One who always confesses poverty, lives in poverty.  Those
who confess hardship, have hardship.  What they sow with their
mouth they reap in their circumstances.

     "He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity:  and the rod
     of his anger shall fail."  *** Proverbs 22:8

     The word iniquity means "moral evil or unrighteousness" and
the word vanity means "to labor in vain".  If iniquity is sown, the
harvest will be vanity.  He who labors, labors in vain.  We can sow
iniquity with our mouths or by our actions;  but by whatever means
it is sown, it produces a harvest.   Job reveals, 

     "Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow
     wickedness, reap the same."  *** Job 4:8

     There are absolutes in God and God will not be mocked.  When
speaking to His disciples, Jesus brought forth the truth:

     "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart
     bringeth forth that which is good;  and an evil man out
     of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that
     which is evil:  for of the abundance of the heart his
     mouth speaketh."  *** Luke 6:45

     That which our mouths speak is the fruit we will bear.  Jesus
went on to say, 

     "And why call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things
     which I say?"  *** Luke 6:46

     Those who call Jesus, Lord, Lord, and do not the things He
says, are Children of Disobedience.  Peter was given the keys of
the kingdom and relates:  

     "For it had been better for them not to have known the
     way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to
     turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."  ***
     II Peter 2:21

     Today, many who are calling Him "Lord, Lord", have turned from
the way of righteousness and are going the way of the world.  The
word "repentance" has been lost to the Christian lifestyle.  How
much could be done to correct the world's ills if the church had
not forsaken the way of righteousness and had not become a mockery
and a byword by the worldly people in it.  Christians do more to
mock God and to tear down the way of righteousness with their
mouths and their actions than the world does with all their ways. 
If the church had stood strong, God would have fought their
enemies.  But since they have forsaken His way, God has forsaken
them.

     Indeed, much of the present condition in the world will be
laid at the feet of the apathetic, non-productive church. The
church is reaping what it has sown.  What the carnal church
practices in secret, God will make known openly.  And the world
will justify their actions by using the church as an example. 
Jesus spoke to His disciples, 

     "Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be
     heard in the light;  and that which ye have spoken in the
     ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops." 
     *** Luke 12:3

     God is exposing the sin in His church.  He is revealing their
innermost thoughts.  The sin that has been conceived or sown in the
heart is being revealed and proclaimed upon the housetops.  God's
judgment must begin at the house of God.  ***  I Peter 4:17

     Many Christians are witnessing the harvest of the seeds of
iniquity which have been sown in their hearts.  God is bringing the
promised, fiery trials in their lives.  Peter wrote, 

     "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial
     which is to try you, as though some strange thing
     happened unto you."  *** I Peter 4:12

     These fiery trials are to try us that we may come to
repentance and learn.  These trials come upon us so our "loving
Heavenly Father" may become our all in all, and so we may know and
understand that He is a Holy and Righteous God.  God's Word is
established above His name.  All men, especially those who have
laid claim to His name, must meet all the requirements set forth in
God's Word.  

     "...By the law, (God's Word) is the knowledge of sin." 
     *** Romans 3:20

     Jesus' coming did not destroy the law.  Jesus' death did not
destroy the law.  His love and grace were expressed to all mankind
as examples that we may fulfill the demand of the law through a
disciplined life in Christ.  Those who do not fulfill the Word, or
refuse to become the Word of God, will witness the fiery trial that
God is bringing upon His church to purify it.

     "That He might present it to Himself a glorious church,
     not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing;  but that
     it should be holy and without blemish." *** Ephesians 5:27

     God will have this holy EKKLESIA (called out ones) without
spot or wrinkle.  In order for God to be able to present this
glorified EKKLESIA unto Himself, it will be necessary to bring
judgment upon His house, to purify and cleanse it from all
unrighteousness.

     "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the
     house of God:  and if it first begin at us, what shall
     the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?"  ***
     I Peter 4:17

     In order for God to have a harvest of the righteous, He must
bring judgment upon the unholy seed that has been planted in His
holy people.  Repentance must come to the church before revival can
come, bringing in the last, great harvest of souls.  Most
generally, the church will not accept the idea of judgment, but
rather believes that God has some secret escape plan for His
people.  Many believe He is simply going to return to earth and
make everything OK, throw down all our personal enemies and render
to His people the control of the whole earth.  They seem to have
overlooked the disclosure of the writer of Hebrews:

     "But this man, after He had offered one sacrifice for
     sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;  

     From henceforth expecting (waiting) till His enemies be
     made His footstool."  *** Hebrews 10:12-13

     He spoke nothing of overcoming our enemies.  But it is us who
are going to overcome His enemies.  What are the enemies of God? 
Most would answer satan or the devil.  Did not Jesus defeat satan
on the cross?  Jesus related to His disciples, 

     "Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and
     scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy:  and
     nothing shall by any means hurt you."  *** Luke 10:19

     We have all power over the enemy, over satan and his whole
spiritual realm of darkness.  Most Christians allow satan to
trouble them because they do not know their spiritual authority in
Christ, the Holy Spirit.  They live a defeated life because they
fail to believe the Word of God.  Many Christians, when beset with
trials, begin to rebuke satan, not understanding that they are
really fighting a chastening, loving Father.  Satan is not the
enemy of God, he is the enemy of God's creation.  God has all power
in heaven and in earth, *** Matthew 28:18.  Unfortunately, most
Christians have not been taught their authority.  If God has an
enemy, what is that enemy?

     "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the
     friendship of the world is enmity with God?  whosoever
     therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of
     God."  *** James 4:4

     Are we an enemy of God because we are a friend of the world? 
We must understand that the world in us is the enemy of God.  When
we come to that realization, we then need to seek within ourselves
to see if there be any of the world in us.

     "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and
     the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of
     the Father, but is of the world."  *** I John 2:16

     As long as there is the lust of the flesh or the eyes, we have
not yet dealt fully with the world in our lives.  The pride of life
is those accomplishments that we have obtained which seem to
captivate our conversation, giving ourselves the recognition
instead of God.

     "They are of the world: therefore speak they of the
     world, and the world heareth them."  *** I John 4:5

     These all speak of the world and their worldly accomplishments.
Many have such pride in what they have accomplished for the Lord.  
Their pride of life is the enemy of God and they are sowing seeds of 
destruction in their lives.  God will judge and throw down all the 
pride of life.  We need to deal and deal quickly with all the world 
that is left in us.  Christ is our only hope of glory.

     "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is
     not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." 
     *** Romans 8:7

     The carnal mind is enmity against God.  When we are having
carnal thoughts, carnal ideas and carnal actions, these are enmity
against God. What else is the enemy of God?

     "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."  ***
     I Corinthians 15:26

     This is the living death that dwells in God's people.  Death
can only dwell in the flesh.  There is no death in the Spirit.  As
long as we are dwelling in the flesh, we are subject to death.  But
there is a change coming in those who have called upon their Lord
out of a pure heart when the corruptible have put on incorruption
and the mortal have put on immortality.  *** I Corinthians 15:53

     This is not speaking of going by the way of the grave.  Paul
is talking about in this life, at the last trump of God or the
seventh trumpet, when the kingdoms of this world are become the
kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ,  *** Revelation 11:15.  So
what are the enemies that must be put under His feet before He
returns to this earth for His EKKLESIA without spot or wrinkle,
holy, unblamable and glorious?

      # 1  The world in His people
      # 2  The carnality in His people
      # 3  The living death in His people

     When these are placed under His footstool, then God will claim
His inheritance in the earth.  In order to become part of God's
inheritance, His children must start controlling their tongue and
cease planting seeds which produce unholiness, unrighteousness and
eternal, damnable seeds in their lives.  James warned us:  

     "My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear,
     slow to speak, slow to wrath."  *** James 1:19

     Why are we to be slow to speak?  

     "Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth
     great things.  Behold, how great a matter a little fire
     kindleth!

     And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity:  so is the
     tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole
     body, and setteth on fire the course of nature;  and it
     is set on fire of hell."  *** James 3:5-6

     James goes on to say:

     "But the tongue can no man tame;  it is an unruly evil,
     full of deadly poison."  *** James 3:8

     "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth
     not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's
     religion is vain."  *** James 1:26

     Paul also understood the proper use of the tongue:

     "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth,
     but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it
     may minister grace unto the hearers."  *** Ephesians 4:29

     All corrupt or corrupted communication will sow seed of
destruction in our lives.  If we fail to deal with our mouths, God
will judge every word for every word produces life or death.  Jesus
is our example.  The words He spoke were Spirit and life.

     "It is the spirit that quickeneth;  the flesh profiteth
     nothing:  the words that I speak unto you, they are
     spirit, and they are life."  *** John 6:63

     There was no worldly, frivolous, mocking, insulting, profane,
worthless words spoken by Jesus.  He spoke only Spiritual, life-
giving words. Peter, speaking of Jesus, related:

     "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth." 
     *** I Peter 2:22

     There was no guile in His mouth, no deception, no tainted
words;  only those pure words which would produce life.  

     It is not only our words that sow the seeds of destruction in
our lives, but our actions also.  Most Christians seem to believe
that being forgiven wipes out the penalty for sin.  How untrue! 
Bumper stickers read, "Christians are not perfect, just forgiven". 
This lack of understanding leads them to willfully commit sin,
feeling that God will forgive them anyway, afterwards.  How little
they understand that they must still reap the fruit of that sin. 
From the beginning, God has had a penalty for sin.  That penalty is
separation from the Holy Spirit of God.  In the garden, God
revealed to Adam:

     "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou
     shalt not eat of it:  for in the day that thou eatest
     thereof thou shalt surely die."  *** Genesis 2:17

     God informed man from the beginning of the consequence of his
actions.  Adam had informed Eve about the consequences of partaking
of the fruit of the tree of good and evil.  Eve pronounced the
judgment of her sin with her mouth.  Before she partook of the
fruit, Eve proclaimed God's Word to the serpent.

     "But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of
     the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it,
     neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die."  *** Gen. 3:3 

     The fruit of that tree had the knowledge of good in it, but it
was mixed with evil.  Today, if our good is mixed with evil, it is
not acceptable before God.  Eve would not believe that her actions
would bring forth death.  She chose to listen to satan who said,
"Ye shall not surely die."  *** Genesis 3:4

     Satan proclaimed to Eve that there would be no judgment for
her actions.  After all, God is a loving God.  He will not punish
you.  He knows you are but dust.  He will forgive.  This same voice
of deception is going throughout the land today proclaiming that
there will be no judgment and that all will be reconciled back unto
God.

     "For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then
     your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
     knowing good and evil."  *** Genesis 3:5

     Adam and Eve did not die physically, but the Holy Spirit of
God left them.  He would no longer walk and talk with them in the
cool of the evening.  Eve's words and actions planted death.
Mankind has been reaping this death throughout the ages.

     When David sinned with Bathsheba, he planted much and reaped
the harvest of his sin the rest of his life.  In taking Bathsheba,
David committed adultery.  Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah, the
Hittite, who was one of David's mighty men.  David had Uriah
killed.  David  added to the spirit of adultery, the spirit of
murder. The harvest of adultery came when Ammon, David's son, raped
Tamar, David's daughter.  The harvest of the spirit of murder was
manifested when David's son, Absalom, had Ammon, Absalom's brother,
killed.

     David, with his mouth, pronounced his own judgment.  When God
sent Nathan, the prophet, to point out David's sin with Bathsheba, 
Nathan related to David about a poor man who had one ewe lamb which
a rich man killed.  Then David, thinking this terrible offence had
happened in his kingdom, proclaimed, 

     "As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing
     shall surely die:

     And he shall restore the lamb fourfold..."  *** II Samuel
     12:5-6  
     Nathan then told David, 

     "Thou art the man...Now therefore the sword shall never
     depart from thine house." *** II Samuel 12:7-10.  

     The seed of destruction David sowed in his household would
cost him four sons. He was required to pay fourfold as his own mouth had spoken.  These
four sons were:

     # 1  The baby son conceived in adultery
     # 2  Ammon, murdered by Absalom
     # 3  Absalom, killed by Joab, David's
          nephew
     # 4  Adonijah, killed by the order of
          Solomon

     David had twenty sons and had he said to Nathan, "Let that man
pay twenty fold," it would have cost him every son he had.  It was
said of David that he died an old, old man at seventy, *** I
Chronicles 29:28.  The seeds that we sow do not always sprout and
bear fruit at once.  Sometimes those seed lay dormant for years
and, when the conditions are right, they sprout and bear fruit.  In
David's life it took many years for the seeds he planted in the sin
with Bathsheba to bear fruit.  

     David's sin brought separation between him and God.  He knew
the penalty for sin.  David cried out before the Lord in *** Psalm 51.  

     "Cast me not away from thy presence;  and take not thy
     Holy Spirit from me."  *** Psalm 51:11

     David did not want to lose the presence of the Holy Spirit and
become a castaway as did his predecessor Saul, or as his original
parents, Adam and Eve.  David's heart was broken before God and he
cried out in repentance and desired forgiveness before God. 
Forgiveness was granted, but all the seeds David had sown demanded
a harvest.

     Christians must learn the difference between their "position"
in Christ and the need to "...work out their own salvation with
fear and trembling,"  *** Philippians 2:12.  There was a time of
ignorance when God winked at sin, but now commands all men
everywhere to come to repentance. *** Acts 17:30

     The single greatest need in the world today is the tearful,
sincere repentance of the church.  It is a must that the church
return to a right standing before God to be renewed and regenerated
into the image that has been set before it.

     Today, many Christians who claim to be filled with the Spirit
and claim to have a knowing relationship with the Father, are
filled with fear.  They fear the economy.  They fear the
government.  They fear war, the stock market, the banking system. 
They fear sickness, death and old age.  Yet, we are informed:

     "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear;  but of
     power, and of love, and of a sound mind."  *** II Timothy
     1:7

     We are informed that fear is a spirit, and that fear does not
come from God.  When we fear, we are expressing a lack of faith and
are planting seeds of doubt in our lives that will produce a
harvest.  Our peace in Him is the real measure of our faith. 
Isaiah tells us:  

     "I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their
     fears upon them;  because when I called, none did answer; 
     when I spake, they did not hear:  but they did evil
     before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted
     not."  *** Isaiah 66:4

     God will give us our fears.  Those fears are seeds that are
sown which produce a harvest that will bring separation from God. 
Job proclaimed:  

     "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,
     and that which I was afraid of is come unto me."  *** Job
     3:25

     Job feared the loss of his children.  He feared the loss of
his servants, his cattle and his livestock.  He feared ridicule, so
God sent his three friends.  He feared the truth about himself, so
God sent Elihu.  God allowed all these things to come into Job's
life.  Why?  Because he feared they would come upon him.

     Today, many Christians are fearing the coming wrath;  the
judgment of God upon the whole earth.  God made us a promise
through the prophet Ezekiel,

     "Ye have feared the sword;  and I will bring a sword upon
     you, saith the Lord God."  *** Ezekiel 11:8

     If we have truly placed our lives and all we have into the
hands of our God, we have nothing to fear.  Paul stated, 

     "...For I know Whom I have believed, and am persuaded
     that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto
     Him against that day."  *** II Timothy 1:12

     There are many other areas that pertain to Sowing and Reaping.
One of these areas is "forgiveness".  We are forgiven as we are
willing to forgive.  Jesus stated:

     "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly
     Father will also forgive you:

     But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will
     your Father forgive your trespasses."  *** Matthew 6:14-
     15

     If we sow seeds of unforgiveness, then God will not forgive
us.  When Peter asked our Lord how many times he should forgive,
Jesus stated, "Seventy times seven."  If we sow seeds of
forgiveness, we will reap forgiveness from our heavenly Father and
those we come in contact with.

     We are aware of the "golden rule" which is a perfect example
of Sowing and Reaping.  Do unto others as we would have others do
unto us.  This is the law of the prophets.  *** Matthew 7:12

     Another area of Sowing and Reaping where many fall short in
their relationship with God is in the law of giving and receiving. 
The tithe is a perfect example of sowing and reaping.

     "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there
     may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith,
     saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the
     windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that
     there shall not be room enough to receive it."  ***
     Malachi 3:10

     If we follow His law of tithing and giving, we are promised a
multiplied harvest in receiving.  God will open the windows of
heaven and pour out a blessing we will not have room enough to
receive.  Praise God! This is also true when we give up houses,
brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, or wives, children or lands
for His name sake, *** Matthew 19:29.  These are all seeds sown in
the kingdom.  What is God's promised harvest?  We shall receive a
hundred fold return and shall inherit everlasting life.  

     This is also an example of giving and receiving.  Those who
are willing to forsake all for the kingdom of God's sake shall
receive an hundred fold return on that which they have given up. 
This is an unchangeable promise of God.  We can do nothing for Him
that He does not give us a multiplied harvest.  Those who learn
this truth of His Word shall inherit everlasting life.

     When we are obedient to His Word, His blessings flow.  When we
are disobedient, God must correct us even as we must correct our
disobedient children.

     God does not take pleasure when He has to correct His
children.  We have His Word that He only chastises those He loves,
*** Hebrews 12:6.  And when He chastens us, He is only dealing with
us as sons.  *** Hebrews 12:7

     When God brings to harvest the seeds we have sown, it is to
teach us and to build us that we may not continue to repeat these
same sins over and over in our lives.  God's whole desire is that
we come into His image and likeness so that we may become like Him
in all aspects of our lives, sowing only good productive seed.  

     God is not only speaking to the unregenerate sinner, He is
also speaking to the saved sinner.  (Those who refuse to repent of
the seeds sown, will have a multiplied harvest.)  The prophet Hosea
proclaimed:  

     "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the
     whirlwind."  *** Hosea 8:7

     When we sow, we reap the multitude.  God would have us pray
for "crop failure", that the seeds sown do not come to full
maturity and begin to grow before we are willing to repent before
a holy, just and righteous God.  In his letter to the Galatians,
Paul stated:  

     "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."  *** Gal. 6:7-8

     God desires that we sow to the Spirit and not to the flesh. 
We are to sow in faith.  Faith is a fruit of the Spirit, ***
Galatians 5:22.  It is impossible to have faith without the Spirit.
When speaking to the multitude, Jesus related that the kingdom of
God was like a grain of mustard seed that is sown in the earth. 

     "...It groweth up, and becometh greater than all
     herbs..." ***    Mark 4:30-32

     If our faith is sown in good earth, it will produce the
kingdom within that cometh without observation, *** Luke 17:20. 
Many have encased their mustard seed faith and tied it around their
neck.  We need to get it out of our plastic life and sow it in good
earth.  Hosea related:  

     "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; 
     break up your fallow ground:  for it is time to seek the
     Lord, till He come and rain righteousness upon you."  ***
     Hosea 10:12

     We are to sow in righteousness and reap in mercy.

     "And let us not be weary in well doing:  for in due
     season we shall reap, if we faint not."  *** Gal. 6:9

     We truly need to break up the fallow ground in our lives and
seek the Lord.  God is desiring a repentant people.  The psalmist
stated, 

     "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy."  *** Psalm
     126:5

     If we sow the tears of repentance, we will reap everlasting
life with joy.  David wrote, 

     "For His anger endureth but a moment;  in His favour is
     life:  weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in
     the morning."  *** Psalm 30:5

     Those who are weeping in this night season are sowing the
tears of repentance.  They will witness the joy that comes in the
morning.  The morning brings a new day, and that new day is His
seventh day of rest.

     Joel spoke of the day of darkness we live in, but also of the
new day:

     "A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and
     of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the
     mountains:  a great people and a strong;  there hath not
     been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it,
     even to the years of many generations."  *** Joel 2:2

     Those great and strong people are the ones who are sowing to
the spirit and not to the flesh.  They will receive a great
spiritual harvest.  Their mouths are speaking life.  They have not
made a covenant with death and with hell,  *** Is. 28:15, but have
come from death unto life.  These are of the first resurrection; 
those who have come unto God and the Lamb with their whole heart,
have sown to themselves seeds of righteousness and will reap the
mercy of the Lord.


Questions

1.   When Christians suffer trials and tribulations, many times
     they are suffering ________ of the _____ they have ______. 
      
2.   When the mouth speaks, what does it manifest?   Matthew 12:34

3.   What does the word iniquity mean?   Proverbs 22:8;  Job 4:8

4.   Those who call Jesus Lord and do not the things He says are
     what?     Luke 6:46

5.   How do Christians do more than the world to mock God and tear
     down the way of righteousness? 

6.   Where will God's judgment begin?    I Peter 4:17

7.   What are many Christians witnessing a harvest of?  

8.   What is the purpose of fiery trials? 

9.   What does the word "EKKELSIA" mean?      

10.  What must God do in order to have a harvest of the righteous?

11.  Why do most Christians allow satan to trouble them?  

12.  What is the enemy of God spoken of in James 4:4? 

13.  Death can only dwell in the _________. 
     There is no death in the _________.   

14.  What is it that will sow seed of destruction in our lives?  

15.  What kind of words did Jesus speak?  John 6:63

16.  What is the single greatest need in the world today?   

17.  Fear is a __________ and does not come from ______.  II Tim 1:7

18.  How can we come to the place where we have nothing to fear?  

19.  God will not forgive us if do what?   Matthew 6:14-15

20.  What is God's whole desire for us?    


Answer Key

1.   Q.   When Christians suffer trials and tribulations, many    
          times they are suffering ________ of the _____ they have  
          _______.
     
     A.   Fruits, sins sown

2.   Q.   When the mouth speaks, what does it manifest?   Matthew 12:34

     A.   A deeper problem that is in the soul

3.   Q.   What does the word iniquity mean?   Proverbs 22:8; Job 4:8

     A.   Moral evil or unrighteousness

4.   Q.   Those who call Jesus Lord and do not the things He says 
          are what?   Luke 6:46

     A.   The children of disobedience

5.   Q.   How do Christians do more than the world to mock God and 
          tear down the way of righteousness?  

     A.   With their mouths and actions

6.   Q.   Where will God's judgment begin?   I Peter 4:17

     A.   At the house of God

7.   Q.   What are many Christians witnessing a harvest of?   

     A.   The harvest of the seeds of iniquity which have been sown 
         in their hearts.

8.   Q.   What is the purpose of fiery trials?  

     A.   To try us so that we might come to repentance and learn

9.   Q.   What does the word "EKKELSIA" mean?   

     A.   Called out ones

10.  Q.   What must God do in order to have a harvest of the      
          righteous?   

     A.   He must bring judgment upon the unholy seed which has   
          been planted in His holy people.

11.  Q.   Why do most Christians allow satan to trouble them?     
     A.   Because they do not know their Spiritual authority in   
          Christ, the Holy Spirit

12.  Q.   What is the enemy of God spoken of in James 4:4?  

     A.   The world in us is the enemy of God

13.  Q.   Death can only dwell in the __________.  There is no death 
          in the __________ .   

     A.   Flesh, Spirit

14.  Q.   What is it that will sow seed of destruction in our     
          lives?  

     A.   All corrupt or corrupted communication

15.  Q.   What kind of words did Jesus speak?   John 6:63

     A.   Only Spiritual, life-giving words

16.  Q.   What is the single greatest need in the world today?    

     A.   The tearful, sincere repentance of the church

17.  Q.   Fear is a __________ and does not come from ______.  II
      Timothy 1:7

     A.   spirit, God

18.  Q.   How can we come to the place where we have nothing to   
          fear?   

     A.   When we truly place our lives and all we have into the  
          hands of our God.

19.  Q.   God will not forgive us if do what?  Matthew 6:14-15

     A.   Sow the seeds of unforgiveness towards others

20.  Q.   what is God's whole desire for us?   

     A.   That we come into His image and likeness
      

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