True North Church
The Farmer (Take Another Lap, Part 3)
Locations & Times
Fairbanks Campus
2830 Airport Way, Fairbanks, AK 99709, USA
Sunday 8:00 AM
Sunday 9:30 AM
Sunday 11:00 AM
Sunday 12:30 PM
2 Timothy 2:3-7 NIV / LB
Endure hardship with us like a GOOD soldier of Christ Jesus. No one serving as a soldier gets tied up in civilian affairs—he wants to please his commanding officer. Similarly, if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not receive the victor’s crown unless he competes according to the rules. And the hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops. Think about these three illustrations, and the Lord will help you to understand how they apply to you.
Endure hardship with us like a GOOD soldier of Christ Jesus. No one serving as a soldier gets tied up in civilian affairs—he wants to please his commanding officer. Similarly, if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not receive the victor’s crown unless he competes according to the rules. And the hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops. Think about these three illustrations, and the Lord will help you to understand how they apply to you.
Endure = long minded
Let’s keep fighting. We will win!
Let’s keep running our race. We will finish!
Let’s keep planting. We will harvest!
Let’s keep fighting. We will win!
Let’s keep running our race. We will finish!
Let’s keep planting. We will harvest!
Genesis 8:22
“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.”
Galatians 6:7-10
“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. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith”
“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.”
Galatians 6:7-10
“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. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith”
THE 7 LAWS OF THE HARVEST
1. We reap only what has been sown.
What we reap was planted either naturally or purposely, either by God or man, for either positive or negative results. We are benefactors of much for which we have done no labor.
2. We reap the same kind as we sow.
Whatever we sow, we reap. So, if we sow the good, we will reap the good. If we sow bad, we will reap bad.
3. We reap in a different season than when we sow.
No harvest comes the moment the seed is planted. It must wait until God’s appointed time.
4. We reap more than we sow.
When we sow the wind, we reap the whirlwind. We we sow good, we reap bountifully from God. The harvest is always greater than the seed planted. If this were not true, no farmer would plant anything.
5. We reap in proportion as we sow.
If we sow little, we reap little. But if we sow much, we reap much. The more ground we sow, the greater harvest we will have.
6. We reap the full harvest of good only if we persevere; the evil comes to harvest on its own.
Weeds grow by themselves. But this is not true with my vegetables in my garden. These require constant care.
7. We cannot do anything about last year’s harvest, but we can about this year’s.
Last year is history and cannot be relived. We can do nothing about the past. Our concern needs to be for what we are producing right now.
1. We reap only what has been sown.
What we reap was planted either naturally or purposely, either by God or man, for either positive or negative results. We are benefactors of much for which we have done no labor.
2. We reap the same kind as we sow.
Whatever we sow, we reap. So, if we sow the good, we will reap the good. If we sow bad, we will reap bad.
3. We reap in a different season than when we sow.
No harvest comes the moment the seed is planted. It must wait until God’s appointed time.
4. We reap more than we sow.
When we sow the wind, we reap the whirlwind. We we sow good, we reap bountifully from God. The harvest is always greater than the seed planted. If this were not true, no farmer would plant anything.
5. We reap in proportion as we sow.
If we sow little, we reap little. But if we sow much, we reap much. The more ground we sow, the greater harvest we will have.
6. We reap the full harvest of good only if we persevere; the evil comes to harvest on its own.
Weeds grow by themselves. But this is not true with my vegetables in my garden. These require constant care.
7. We cannot do anything about last year’s harvest, but we can about this year’s.
Last year is history and cannot be relived. We can do nothing about the past. Our concern needs to be for what we are producing right now.