Sunday, May 26, 2013

We Are All Sowing. Some Will Harvest Decay. Some Will Harvest Eternal Life.

Today we find ourselves at the end of Paul's warning to the Galatians. There is a famine of hearing the Word of God in our day. The warnings from God are rarely heard. Teachers have moved away from God and think they have a better way. They teach their own doctrines. Just tune into Joel Osteen who heads the largest "church" in the nation and you will see this clearly. He is a poster child for tickling ears and teaches doctrines of demons. Unless he repents, he will have blood on his hands from deceiving countless thousands.

Friends, today is the day of salvation. We must turn from our sins and follow Jesus the Messiah. If you are not living this, today I plead with you to repent and be reconciled to God. Please do not trade eternal things for things that exist only in a vapor.

Galatians 6 ISV
1Brothers, if a person is caught doing something wrong, those of you who are spiritual should restore that person gently. 
  • Watch out for yourself so that you are not tempted as well. 
  • 2Practice carrying each other’s burdens. In this way you will fulfill the law of the Messiah.a 
  • 3For if anyone thinks he is something when he is really nothing, he is only fooling himself. 
  • 4Each person must examine his own actions, and then he can boast about his own accomplishments and not about someone else. 5For everyone must carry his own load.
  • 6The person who is taught the word should share all his goods with his teacher. 
7Stop beingb deceived; God is not to be ridiculed. A person harvests whatever he plants
  • 8The person who sows through human means will harvest decay from human means
  • but the person who sows in the Spirit will harvest eternal life from the Spirit. 
  • 9Let’s not get tired of doing what is good, for at the right time we will reap a harvest—if we do not give up. 
  • 10So then, whenever we have the opportunity, let’s practice doing good to everyone, especially to the family of faith.
11Look at how large these letters are because I am writing with my own hand! 12These people who want to impress others by their external appearancec are trying to force you to be circumcised, simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of the Messiah.d 13Why, not even those who are circumcised obey the Law! They simply want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your external appearance.e 

  • 14But may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah,f by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world15For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. 
  • Rather, what matters is beingg a new creation
  • 16Now may peace be on all those who live by this principle
  • and may mercy be on the Israel of God. 
17Let no one make any more trouble for me, because I carry the scars of Jesus on my own body.


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