Sunday January 7 2018

Sermon: “Law of the Harvest” 
        Pastor Kim Wenzel
Law 1: The harvest is limited to the planting. 
You can only harvest what you have plant. in other words, if you haven't sown it, GOD can't multiply it!

 Galatians 6:7 NASB

⁷ Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.

Law 2: The harvest comes later than the planting. 
We live in a generation of instant gratification. Real change takes time to grow. Dandelions take 24 hours, shade trees take 24 years. 
Story: Time to aerate the lawn & plant seeds. 
Results take time, what you sow today, you won't see the return of until the next season in life. Sowing is all about the future.

Law 3: The harvest is greater than the planting.
Jesus talked about a harvest of 30, 60, 100 fold.
Mark 4:20 NASB
 ²⁰ And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”
It challenges his disciples to be generous with their money because "where your treasures are, there your heart will be also." It's the same principle, invest your treasure in Heaven, and watch your heart follow it. Having your heart set on Heaven is a far greater gift than having more cash!
2 Corinthians 9:6 NASB
⁶ Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows ^[e]bountifully will also reap ^[f]bountifully.
Footnotes
e. 2 Corinthians 9:6 Lit with blessings
f. 2 Corinthians 9:6 Lit with blessings 

Law 4: The harvest is proportional to the planting. 
Plant one seed and you will get one plant, (hopefully) Plant a dozen seeds, and you will get a dozen. Invest minimally in God's Kingdom, and you will reap minimally; invest greatly, and watch as God brings in a harvest you can not contain! 
 Here's a startling biblical truth;Your generosity toward God and others determines his generosity toward you. Here's how Solomon put it: "Whoever is kind to the poor is lending to the Lord - the benefit of his gift will return to him in abundance."
Proverbs 19:17 ISV
17 One who is gracious to a poor man lends to the Lord,
And He will repay him for his ^[l]good deed.
Footnote
I. Proverbs 19:15 Lit soul
Solomon was himself a man of generosity. For example, it was a tradition for the King to sacrifice one bull during his inauguration. But 1 Chronicles 29:21 Tells us that Solomon  sacrificed a thousand bulls. How's that for giving "Above and beyond?" Is it any coincidence that the only time God said to someone, "Ask me for whatever you want, and I'll give it to you." He said it to an extravagant giver? To the excessively generous, God is excessively generous. You can not out-give God!

Law 5: We can not do anything about this years harvest, but we can change next year's.
You reap today what you sowed yesterday. The financial difficulties you are experiencing, the materialism in your kids, the dissatisfaction in your own heart .... these may be a harvest of an ungenerous past.

Verse of the day
Sunday, January 7 Ezekiel 11:19
I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.