A Compelling Testimony: Maintaining a Disciplined Walk, Christlike Character, and Godly Relationships as God's Servant

Ses s i on 2: The Di sc i p l i ned L i fe

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(3) Isa. 58.11 – And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

(4) Mark 4.28 – The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

3. The application of the principle to our personal discipline and testimony

a. The principle of the certainty of the harvest is a generic moral principle of the universe , applying to the Christian as well as the non-Christian.

b. We can summarize this principle simply: Sow a thought , reap a habit ; sow a habit , reap a character , sow a character , reap a lifestyle ; sow a lifestyle , reap a destiny ; sow a destiny , reap a legacy .

c. All our actions have consequences, and unless there is intervention, they will inevitably follow a path that we ourselves have determined.

B. Law two: Invariably, you and others will reap from the sowing that others have chosen to sow.

1. The biblical support

a. Exod. 20.4-6 – You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. [5] You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers