Reap What You Sow

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Today is Thursday January 21, 2010 and we are reading through the Bible in a year. Today's message comes from the reading of the Book of Exodus, chapters 11-13. If you would like to read the chapters along with us here online you can Click Here to read them or copy & paste this URL onto your browser: http://www.readytofollow.com/bible-january-21

Title: Reap What you Sow

The word reap is defined as something that is harvested or gathered from something that was sowed or planted, in other words you reap what you sow, or gather what you have planted. Now, this saying has been around for centuries, it's even in the Bible. Exactly what does that mean? To understand we need to learn about seeds, when a seed is planted in the ground and grows, it flourishes into a plant, tree, or herb to be harvested for food, in other words, if you plant orange seeds, you will harvest oranges. Now, if you want to reap good oranges you have to sow it with the right soil, water, and feed it the right things, if not the oranges will be bad and inedible, hence the term, you reap what you sow. Now, I am not here to give you a science lesson, but I am here to show you that the same thing is applied to people, whether we are sowed with good or bad things we reap what we sow. For instance, as we have been reading through the book of Exodus, we have learned that Pharaoh was fearful of the Israelite's because of their strength and number. In order to control that number he ordered all male Hebrew babies born to be killed. Well, who would have thought that eighty years later the same thing would happen to the Egyptians, but this time the order came from God, only it was not babies, it was all the first born. “And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.........And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts. And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more. But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.” - Exodus 11:1,4-7. Every person and animal that was the first born throughout Egypt was to die, but God made sure that the Israelite's would be saved from this plague.

Now, before the angel of death was to passover Egypt God gave the Israelite's some instructions if they wanted to be saved from this plague. “Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it..........For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.” - Exodus 12:3-7,12-14. Each family was to take a perfect male lamb, kill it, take the blood and wipe it all over the door post, then roast and eat the sacrifice. It was to be just enough for all of them to eat, with nothing to be left over. Now, when the angel of death passed over as saw the blood the people in that house were saved.

This became what is known as Passover and was something they were to do yearly as a reminder of their salvation from death. This is of course symbolic of Jesus Christ, He was the perfect male lamb that was sacrificed to save us from death. Praise God! Every person who accepts the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ applies His blood to our souls and saves us from death! “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” - John 3:16. God sent His only Son to die on the cross to save us from eternal death and adopt us into His family. Our security from this eternal death is through a personal acceptance of Christ as our personal Savior and Lord of our lives. He alone can satisfy both God and the repentant sinner.

The second we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior our soul is planted in the foundation of Christ, if we want it to grow and flourish we need to water and feed it the right things, otherwise we will never reap anything good out of it. The great thing about all this is that while we may have reaped some bad things we have the opportunity to reap good things. Moses killed a man, yet he turned his fate around by accepting God and reaped a bountiful harvest. How can we reap a good harvest? Feed our bodies with the goodness of God, get saved, read His Word, serve Him, and obey Him. We reap God's blessings by sowing His goodness within our souls. Praise God!

God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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