Vision for Mission: Nurturing an Apostolic Heart

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Vi s i on for Mi s s i on: Nur tur i ng an Apos to l i c Hear t

The Laws of Sowing and Reaping, continued

4. Prov. 24.14 – Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off. 5. Luke 6.35 – But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. 6. 2 Cor. 9.10-11 – He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sow ing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. [11] You will be enriched in every way for all your generosity, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. B. The exegetical interpretation : This is a permanent, unchanging, fixed law of the moral universe, and no amount of praying, shifting, or begging will alter it. 1. This refers to our complete certainty about the nature of the universe and the harvest: God has built into the very structure of the cosmos the law that whatever is sown will be reaped. It speaks to the surety of the harvest . 2. This law of the certainty of the harvest was infused into the created order from the beginning, Gen. 1.11-12 – And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. [12] The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 3. God makes the analogy explicit between his ability to cause things to bear after their kind and his ability to work his will in the lives of his people.

a. Isa. 61.11 – For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout