1. Be Fruitful

2. Be Fruitful 1. Created to be Fruitful 2. Flow of Fruitfulness
3. Sowing and Reaping
A. Seeds Need to be Sown to Produce Fruit
B. Seeds We Sow Determine the Fruit We Grow
C. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing

3. d. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
Be Fruitful
d. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow

4. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
Ecclesiastes 3:1, 2, 11
To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven:…a time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted…(God) has made everything beautiful in its appropriate time.

5. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
1. Patience
James 5:7-8
…be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Notice how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until he receives the early and late rain. You also be patient.

6. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
1. Patience
Galatians 6:9
Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not give up.

7. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
1. Patience
Instant living & gratification…
Fast Food
Speed Dating
Quick Fixes

8. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
1. Patience
Danger: Do God’s Work without God
Galatians 4:28
Now we…like Isaac, are children of promise. But as it was then, he who was born after the flesh persecuted him who was born after the Spirit, so it is now also.

9. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
1. Patience
Danger: Do God’s Work without God
Galatians 5:16-17
I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. These are in opposition to one another…

10. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
1. Patience
Key: Wait for God’s Timing
Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11
To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven…He (God) has made everything beautiful in its appropriate time.

11. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
1. Patience
Difficulties = Opportunity to Learn Patience
James 1:2-4
…count it all joy when you fall into diverse temptations, knowing that the trying of your faith develops patience. But let patience perfect its work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

12. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
1. Patience
2. Perspective
Short-Term versus Long-Term
Genesis 25:29
Jacob cooked a stew; and Esau came in from the field and he was famished. So Esau said to Jacob, ‘Please feed me some of that red stew, for I am famished’…Then Jacob said, ‘First sell me your birthright.’ Esau said, ‘Look, I am about to die; of what use is the birthright to me?’ So…he sold his birthright to Jacob.

13. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
1. Patience
2. Perspective
Good Seed
Galatians 6:9
…Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not give up.

14. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
1. Patience
2. Perspective
Good Seed
Time - Eternity
1 Timothy 6:17-19
Command those who are rich in this world that they not…trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who richly gives us all things to enjoy. Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

15. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
1. Patience
2. Perspective
Good Seed
Time - Eternity
Matthew 6:19-20
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroy and where thieves do not break in nor steal, We must learn to do good and wait.

16. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
1. Patience
2. Perspective
Bad Seed
I Got Away with it?
Ecclesiastes 8:11-12
When a crime is not punished quickly, people feel it is safe to do wrong. But even though a person sins a hundred times and still lives a long time, I know that those who fear God will be better off.

17. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
1. Patience
2. Perspective
Bad Seed
I Got Away with it?
Psalm 37:7-9
Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for him to act. Don’t worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes. Stop being angry! Turn from your rage! Do not lose your temper—it only leads to harm. For the wicked will be destroyed, but those who trust in the Lord will possess the land.

18. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
Galatians 6:9
…let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not give up.

19. Reap in proportion to how much we sow and our attitude when sowing
Be Fruitful
Reap in proportion to how much we sow and our attitude when sowing