Sowing Your Life as a Seed
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· 93 viewsGrace Fellowship in Rusk, Texas Sunday, May 29, 2022 at 10:30 AM
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Sowing Your Life as a Seed
Sowing Your Life as a Seed
Memorial Day: Honoring those Who Gave their Life for Others
Memorial Day: Honoring those Who Gave their Life for Others
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.
Love is unselfish.
Love will sacrifice so others can be blessed.
Love will fight so others can be free.
Love will die so others can live.
Today we honor those who laid down their lives so that we might live and be free.
Jesus Laid Down His Life for Us
Jesus Laid Down His Life for Us
Jesus demonstrated His love by laying down His life for us!
By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Jesus laid down His life as a Seed!
But Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified.
Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.
He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
Jesus laid down His life to save us and bring us back to God!
I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
“Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.
No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”
Consider the many souls that have been saved, delivered and transformed by Jesus!
We are to Lay Down our Lives for Others
We are to Lay Down our Lives for Others
We show our thanks for what Jesus did for us by doing the same for others.
By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am.
If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.
Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Our Life is a Seed
Our Life is a Seed
Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.
We have one life to live and one life to give.
Who will we live it for?
What will we give it for?
A life kept is not saved; it is unfruitful and wasted.
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
A life sowed is not lost; it is invested.
God has given each of us of the gifts of time, talent, treasure, and truth to invest.
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them.
And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey.
Then he who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
And likewise he who had received two gained two more also.
But he who had received one went and dug in the ground, and hid his lord’s money.
After a long time the lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
“So he who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I have gained five more talents besides them.’
His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
He also who had received two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents; look, I have gained two more talents besides them.’
His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
“Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed.
And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’
“But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed.
So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest.
So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents.
‘For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Response to the Word
Response to the Word
Our life is a seed.
Our life and all that we have belongs to God
Will we waste our life by trying to keep it, or will we invest our life by sowing it?
Will we surrender our life to Jesus TODAY and let Him plant us in the field of His choosing?