SEEDTIME AND HARVEST - POST FLOOD
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Seedtime and Harvest Post Flood
Seedtime and Harvest Post Flood
22 As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”
INTRO:
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MESSAGE:
PLANTING or SEEDTIME — the time for planting seeds. In Palestine or the region of Israel - grain crops were sown in late October or November. The seed for summer produce, such as beans, cucumbers, and melons, were sown between January and March.
Genesis 8:22 gives 3 functions God has set up in the ordered universe: agriculture, weather, and time.
Three things stand as the foundational functions of creation after the Flood:
1. Agriculture - As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest
a. AGRI - is extracted from agriculture, meaning the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land and raising livestock, Ultimately form Latin ager, meaning field.
b. CULT - group of people with a religious connotation that are not orthodox or they are ordinary or normal; the latin root is cultus refinement, to till
c. The living thing is not normal or natural to the ground that it is in. It had to be planted and refined.
2. Weather - cold and heat, summer and winter
45 In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.
7 We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.
8 We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.
9 We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.
10 Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies.
11 Yes, we live under constant danger of death because we serve Jesus, so that the life of Jesus will be evident in our dying bodies.
25 When the storms of life come, the wicked are whirled away, but the godly have a lasting foundation.
3. Time - day and night will never cease.
4 One generation passes away, and another generation comes; But the earth abides forever.
a. For more than 60 years they have been warning about climate change wiping out our existence if not addressed.
b. This world will be here until God is done with it.
c. He is a lot smarter than human scientists.
Each of the 3 functions has a specific purpose!
As good as America is…Planting is still not pleasant!
6 They weep as they go to plant their seed, but they sing as they return with the harvest.
Acute pain is necessary. Those who don’t feel pain die young because they can’t identify infections or injuries and it often leads to early death.
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ILLUSTRATION:
Story of the Seed in Africa
24 I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new lives.
A kernel of wheat is a dead, dry looking seed,
but when it’s planted in the ground it bears forth into a plant and produces more seeds, endless opportunity.
As a matter of fact the multiplication we see in just one seed has the potential to cover the entire earth.
That’s powerful, because we are that seed.
Are you dead to yourself and open to God?
Seeds of Faith
Seeds of Faith
25 “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing?
26 Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are?
27 Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?
28 “And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing,
29 yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are.
30 And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith?
31 “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’
32 These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs.
33 Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.
34 “So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
20 Yes, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit, so you can identify people by their actions.
21 “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter.
20 “You don’t have enough faith,” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.”
Seeds of Faith are something u possess.
The seed leaves your hand but not your life, God will look over the seed to produce a harvest for your life
1 Corinthians 3:4–9 (NLT)
4 When one of you says, “I am a follower of Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you acting just like people of the world?
5 After all, who is Apollos? Who is Paul? We are only God’s servants through whom you believed the Good News. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us.
6 I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.
7 It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow.
8 The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work.
9 For we are both God’s workers. And you are God’s field. You are God’s building.
Proverbs 1:10–19 (NLT)
10 My child, if sinners entice you, turn your back on them!
11 They may say, “Come and join us. Let’s hide and kill someone! Just for fun, let’s ambush the innocent!
12 Let’s swallow them alive, like the grave; let’s swallow them whole, like those who go down to the pit of death.
13 Think of the great things we’ll get! We’ll fill our houses with all the stuff we take.
14 Come, throw in your lot with us; we’ll all share the loot.”
15 My child, don’t go along with them! Stay far away from their paths.
16 They rush to commit evil deeds. They hurry to commit murder.
17 If a bird sees a trap being set, it knows to stay away.
18 But these people set an ambush for themselves; they are trying to get themselves killed.
19 Such is the fate of all who are greedy for money; it robs them of life.