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I’m sure that we all have had the experience of being up late one night...
and as we’re flipping through the channels we come to a late night TV preacher...
…who is asking his audience...
…to SOW a SEED to his ministry...
To give MONEY to his ministry - SO THAT YOU THEN - will reap the benefits of such a decision!
“Have a need…sow a seed!”
As you can see - today we will be discussing the idea of...
SOWING & REAPING
It’s a topic that has OBVIOUSLY been abused by many...
…and i think THAT ABUSE - has lead to this topic also being - misunderstood.
(pause)
First thing - This concept of SOWING and REAPING has really been PROPPED up to ONLY be out SOWING money...
That the term SOWING - ONLY relates to giving money.
I don’t think this term ONLY refers to money in Scripture - and so it’s possible for us to....
Sow TIME to the Lord
SOW our energy, effort, talents to the Lord...
And of course - it CAN also mean to sow our money or possessions…to the Lord...
BUT NO DOUBT - this topic has been abused
And when things get abused... or MISused in society - and it can actually turn people off to the ENTIRE concept of THAT THING...
And so - it’s good for us - to think RIGHTLY about this topic…and it’s something that we as a church have recently walked thru…so it should be fresh in our minds!
So let’s get to our text...
I don’t think it’s too far of a stretch to think - that with all the FALSE TEACHING being pushed in the Galatian churches...
THAT some DOUBT had probably crept into the churches - regarding the current pastors IN THOSE churches!
The Galatians no doubt were at a crossroads in their thinking...
And as WE KNOW - a little LEAVEN - does what?
…leavens the whole lump… And LEAVEN can be MANY different things!
(false teaching, division)
But why does a LITTLE leaven - leaven the whole lump?
HOW?
DIVISION spreads… False Teaching SPREADS!
False teaching is like - WATER...
Water always seeks to find an OPENING / a CRACK in the foundation!
False teaching will find the CRACKS in our theology - and plant a seed of - DOUBT
So Paul - it seems - wanted to speak into that...
Many theologians debate WHY Paul went here to this SPECIFIC teaching...
Most feel like it sticks out a bit...
EITHER WAY...
The teaching - WE KNOW - was needed.
It seems possible - that if “DOUBT in the pastors” had crept into the churches...
SUPPORT for the pastors had possibly waned...
And Paul wanted to combat that thinking...
Paul for the past several chapters - HAS BEEN DEFENDING the truth of the gospel…and THEREFORE -
Defending any pastors PREACHING THAT truth!
And so - Paul ALSO wants to reiterate - that if a PASTOR IS teaching the Word of God - that those he TEACHES should respond in a certain way...
SLIDE: Sowing to Teachers: Sowing to Those Who Sow
Sowing to Teachers
If we go back to our text...
The basic premise of what Paul is saying is...
If you are being TAUGHT spiritual things...
And therefore - you REAP spiritual things in that relationship..
then you should SHARE all GOOD things with the one teaching you...
And this concept isn’t new to the apostle Paul...
What’s the background here…?
Paul is making his way to Jerusalem - to drop off a gift for the poor that reside there.
And this gift - is coming from - Gentiles.
So Gentiles in Macedonia and Achaia are SHARING their material blessings with Israel - BECAUSE - Israel had SOWED spiritually INTO Macedonia and Achaia.
And Paul actually says - They were PLEASED to do it - and INDEED they OWE IT to them!
This same concept was brought up in the Corinthian church...
The implied answers here - are - No one should...
And lest we THINK that this is just MAN’s IDEA....
Man’s way of trying to make a living off preaching the word...
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This is God’s plan.
God’s plan - that those who TEACH - deserve double honor - as Paul says
This is God’s plan - and Paul needed to REMIND the Galatians OF THIS PLAN!
Maybe some had stopped giving to the church…** (play it out)
Thinking they’d be fine stopping altogether...
Paul addresses this in a clear fashion.
Bringing this concept home to us - HERE TODAY -
We know that this past March - after about 10 years of being bivocational...
I was able to leave my job and devote my full attention to the church!
We had PREACHED on the VISION of the church - what we wanted the church to look like - 5, 10, 20 years from now - and it was decided...
That lining up THAT VISION - with my work schedule...
MADE SENSE....
And so - you’ve all lived this out quite recently in a profound way.
We are called - to SOW to those who SOW…Preachers and Teachers of the Word!
Paul then dives in a bit deeper - to give us a glimpse of what’s HOLDING UP this truth!
a couple things we want to pull from this text....
We see the same 2 entities in play - that we’ve BEEN SEEING from Paul for the past several weeks...
The Spirit and the Flesh...
Let’s dive into each side to get a clearer picture of this...
SLIDE: Sowing to the Flesh: Leads to Reaping From the Flesh
Sowing to the Flesh
NOW - this point here on the screen - on it’s own - just reading that - doesn’t SAY MUCH!
My point is - the world would sit here - READ THAT - and think - “Yeah!....isn’t it awesome!!”
The world - PURSUES the WORLD - because the WORLD - LOVES the WORLD!!
NOW - from a BIBLICAL worldview - we look at this and say - YES that’s true… but I want to be DIFFERENT!
If we just look through scripture we can find EXAMPLES of this point being played out...
Let’s go to the beginning...
THE GARDEN
Eve - decides to SOW to the FLESH!
She sowed to her flesh!!
She didn’t PUT TO DEATH what was earthly IN her...
She actually BOWED DOWN to what was earthly IN her...
She disobeyed the COMMAND of God in order to SOW to her FLESH!!
Well - what did Adam and Eve REAP for this?
Our text TODAY says…(half verse)
Well they LIVED THAT OUT - did they not?
They REAPED corruption!!
You will REAP what you SOW!
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