What You Sow You Reap

A Billy Graham Sermon Summary

​Let’s study the proverb in Galatians 6:7, “You reap what you sow.”
 
First, to reap, we need to sow.
 
To reap salvation, we need to have faith in Christ and live a good life. Salvation is based on God’s mercy, who showers us with His goodness through Christ’s crucifixion (Hosea 10:12, Psalm 126:5).
 
To excel in a profession, we need to put in the effort to study and practice. Similarly, we should keep sowing good deeds, repentance, reading the Bible, and praying.
 
Second, if we sow, we will reap.
 
If we sow to please our flesh, succumbing to lust and pleasure, we will reap destruction. Keep stirring up conflicts, and calamity will suddenly come (Galatians 6:7-8, Proverbs 6:12-15, Jobs 4:8).
 
Unfortunately, we are all sinners who have broken the laws of God. Our sins, big or small, will find us. Evil desire leads to sin, which leads to spiritual and physical death (Numbers 32:23, James 1:14-15). Remaining ignorant of what we sow will not keep us from reaping the consequences. Allowing our lives to be sowed by the devil will reap hell. Upon death, will we be ready to meet God in eternal life or eternal condemnation (John 5:29)?
 
Fortunately, though we are great sinners, we have a great Savior, who can totally transform our lives. Through God’s mercy and grace and by His Spirit, we can and must be spiritually born again. So, confess and renounce your sins, and receive Christ. God will forgive, and you will receive His mercy and grace (Proverbs 28:13).
 
Third, we will reap more than what we sow (Hosea 8:7, John 4:36).
 
Charles Reade said, “Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.”
 
We must repent, change, and put our faith in Christ and the cross alone. Only by God’s amazing grace can we be saved.
 
Through Christ, our numbed conscience is resensitized. God produces within us, love, peace, joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment that we could never know without Him. God enables us to do good work, to feed the hungry and help the poor. And God puts us on the right path to live a life we have never dreamt of (1 John 3:8, 4:4).
 
A Billy Graham sermon summary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3N1B1-m6H8