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Once again, good morning. Please turn in your Bibles to Galatians chapter 6. I'm going to look at verses 6 through 10 today. Galatians chapter 6, verses 6 through 10. Verse 6. The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him.

Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will, from the flesh, reap corruption. But the one who sows to the Spirit will, from the Spirit, reap eternal life. Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.

So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith. Well, welcome back. I'm starting to see some of the students making their way back in. Welcome back. It is that time of year. Start looking ahead to fall.

I know a lot of farmers right now are looking toward the fall crop, planting their fields. Likewise, many people are starting to... Get their gardens ready for a fall harvest. Each year, I kind of think, well, this year I'm not going to plant a garden, and then this time of year comes around, and I feel like I'm tempted beyond which I'm able to bear.

And so I start thinking about what kind of garden I'm going to do. Well, regardless of the size of the plot of land or what you're going to plant, there is a law of the harvest. And that law is simply: one must plant in order to harvest. Someone has to plant in order for there to be a harvest.

So this year I'm thinking about some garden plots. So these are what's going on in my head. Maybe an experiment. The first plot, I'm really getting into the recycling business now, and so what I want to do is come up with a hazardous waste-enriched garden plot where I take all the hazardous waste around the house and any that I can find, pour it into a big soil plot, mix it all together, and it looks something like this: hazardous waste garden plot.

I'm going to plant some seeds in there, and the thought is I'd get some vegetables out of there and share them with y'all. Any of y'all want some of the Produce that would come out of this. I've got another garden plot going on in my mind, and this is one that's nutrient-enriched.

And it looks something like this. So you can either have the hazardous waste-enriched soil, or you could have the nutrient-enriched, enriched soil. What do you think is going to make a better crop? I mean, after all, plants do they magic. I mean, they're going to fruit's going to be fruit, right?

If it can grow. Well, think about that for a moment. I want to liken the Christian life to a country farm. Think about a farm. There's uplands, lowlands, there's rich soil, poor soil, good fields, and bad fields. And when we sow, and where we sow, and what we sow, and how much we sow greatly impacts what we will harvest, does it not?

Well, that's the central thought of the passage, or the central thought in the passage this morning. That's very relevant for a new school year as you think about what's ahead. Well, I can tell you, the law of the harvest is going to prevail even in school. What you sow, where you sow, when you sow, and how much you sow.

Is going to impact what you reap. Paul has already stressed the importance in Galatians 5 about being led by the Spirit. He has also stressed the importance of walking in the Spirit. And here, in our passage, he stresses sowing in the Spirit. So think about that. You must be led by the Spirit.

That's Christian life. You must walk in the way that the Spirit leads, and you must give of yourself, investing in the things of the Spirit. And what you reap this year is going to be directly related to what you sow. And so there are three ways to sow to the Spirit that I want to talk about in our text this morning.

I want to talk about these so that you will sow to the Spirit and use your time, efforts, energies, and all that you are and invest it in something that's going to last forever. So, number one, sow to the Spirit by investing in Spirit-led teaching ministries. Investing in Spirit-led teaching ministries.

Look at verse 6. The one who is taught the Word is to share all good things with the one. Who teaches him? Share. And that's the command. You be sharing. You be fellowshipping. It's the word koinonia. You're probably very familiar with that. Be sharing. Be in fellowship with.

And that's to, the idea is to have and to hold something in common. Tonight we're going to have a fellowship meal. What does that mean? We're going to sit around the table. We're going to share something in common. People are going to bring foods of all sorts, and we're going to share.

And so the command in this verse is very clear. The command is for someone to share something with someone else. The command is to share, for someone to share something with someone else. And we're going to ask four questions, four questions that will guide us to a better understanding of exactly what Paul has in mind.

First of all, to whom does this command apply? Well, who is the someone that must share something? Well, the answer is pretty straightforward: the one who is taught the word. The one who is being taught the word. It's the word we get catechism from. The catechizer is the one catechizing, teaching.

And the catechumen is the one being taught. The one being taught in the ways of the teaching. God, ways of God's Word. How can you recognize a Spirit-led teaching ministry? Well, it's very simple. A Spirit-led teaching ministry takes the Word as inspired. The only way we can get out of a humanly inspired message or a humanly inspired teaching is to get something from above.

That is what we believe about the Scripture: that it is inspired, that it came from above. So, first of all, a Spirit-led teaching ministry pays attention to the inspired word. Another good indication of a Spirit-led teaching ministry is that it believes that the Scripture is inerrant, inspired by God, who knows how to speak, who knows how to communicate, and He has given us His words, and they are without error in their original autographs, so that we can approach them and know exactly what the Spirit says, so that we can be led by Him and so that we can walk in His ways.

Very simple. A Spirit-led ministry seeks to communicate the plain meaning of the text. Question number two: Who is the someone else? Well, the someone else. Someone, the command is for someone to share something with someone else. So we know the one to share something is the one who is being taught, and he is to share something with the one who teaches, the catechizer, the one who is instructing.

Next question: What is the something to be shared? Someone has to share something with someone else. So, what is that something? Look back at the scripture. The one who is taught, the word, is to share all good things. All good things. Plural. The word for all good things involves, can apply to good words, possessions.

In fact, Luther sees this as financial support and spends, and so do a lot of other commentators. Financial support, and in fact, Luther goes on for at length about this. And certainly, all good things would include that. Involves worthy things, all things that are beneficial. The one who is taught should be teaching or should be sharing all things beneficial with the one who teaches.

Supply when there's a need, support when there's a crisis, protection in adversity, and anything else that would be considered good. Paul's very clear: the one who is. Who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him. Now, I recognize for just a moment that this is a little bit awkward because as I teach this, I recognize that I stand in this place as one who receives greatly from the benevolence of this church.

So it's a little awkward. So, what I'm going to do is disclose my conflict of interest, and then we'll get right into the text. I have a conflict of interest. Yes, I am on the payroll for now, and much, but much of my life I was not. And as you know, one of the first things when I came to this church, I wanted to do away with the offering in the sense of passing the plate.

I recognize that it is an expression of worship, but I didn't want the church to be, or my ministry, to be characterized by here, give, give. We're far more interested in you than we are your money. We wanted to make sure that when all the things going on around this world, that you don't associate or be led to believe that that's what we're about.

And so, you know, I don't see the giving records or the amounts of who gives. I feel like there's protection in that way. For me to be able to not make finances one of the issues, I do know who the faithful givers are. Thank you. My family is blessed because you give me time to spend in the Word.

Thank you for your generosity, and I believe that God has laid upon your heart things to give, and this church is a very giving church, and I am very thankful for you. And that is seen not just in this body, it's felt by many in this community. But this is the word: the word is the word, and this word applies to me regardless of what station in life that I'm at.

This is a principle that applies to me even now. I am to invest in spirit-led teaching ministries. And so that's the conflict of interest. Disclose. I don't talk much about giving, except when a passage comes across our normal cadence. That's when you typically hear me bring it up.

And that is not very often. I believe that the support of this church, that God knows how to move his people to give, And it is because I don't want more money than what he intends to give us. It comes with responsibility, but we've never lacked. And to that, I thank God, and I thank the servants in this room who don't have to be prodded, who understand, and who are obedient in that regard.

So, question number four: Now that my conflict of interest is over, what are some implications that we can jump into? What are some of the implications of this teaching? Well, first of all, there's implications for teachers. The God who inspired his words has appointed those who will teach his words.

God is the ultimate teacher, but he has established a teaching enterprise that employs teachers. The great commission cannot be fulfilled without an industry or an enterprise of teachers. God, in his wisdom, did not make the teachers of the church some celestial beings. We don't go out and see like a YouTube screen in the sky with some angel standing out there telling us the way to go.

Instead, he uses people and he raises up teachers who are of the same flesh and blood. Blood as anybody else, and they have the same need as everyone else. Teachers. God is going to raise up teachers, and that's part of his plan. Second implication I want to bring to your attention: proximity.

Proximity. God envisions proximity between the one teaching and the one being taught. The one who is taught, the word, is to share all good things with the one who teaches them. That assumes proximity. Connection. Personal connection. Meaningful interaction. Friends, your primary teachers are not to be just faces on the screen or voices in your ear, but people in your life.

Be in a church. God envisioned it. Be in a church where meaningful interaction with your teachers can occur. Another implication: relationship. Relationship. God envisions positive relationships between teachers and those who are taught. He wants positive association, not adversarial tension. Listen, if you are in constant debate with your teachers, there is something wrong.

With either you or your teachers. That's not how God envisioned it. Sharing good things. Teachers and students. Listen, we're all teachers in some capacity, and we're all students in some capacity. Fourth implication: community. God wants people talking about His words and thereby fellowshipping around His words. Just like we're going to share a meal together around the table tonight, what God envisions for the community of His people is to share life together with His words being the main course and the hors d'oeuvres and the dessert and everything else.

Our life is to be centered around His Word. It's to be the center of our community. This is the same thing that God expected of Israel. I read Deuteronomy 6 earlier. In verse 7, he says, You shall teach them diligently, speaking of the words, to your sons, and shall talk of them when you sit, and in your house, and when you walk by the way.

It shall be everything in your communal existence. It should be the substance of why you. Gather, the things you talk about, how you talk about, how you relate them, how you enjoy them, how you carry them out, and the celebration. And in this way, what we do is we keep ourselves from forgetting God and turning to idols.

Forgetting God always precedes idolatry. That's why God was so adamant about Israel when He's sending them into the land. He's saying, Whatever you do, don't forget my words. Because what's the very next thing that happens? When you forget the words, you start turning to other gods. And when you forget God, by virtue of forgetting his words, you end up inevitably pursuing something else that is not God.

But also, not only does when we develop our community around centered upon God's word, we keep ourselves from forgetting God and turning to idols, but also we fellowship with God and we fellowship with one another. You see, interaction around God's word is the basis for fruitful relationships and an enduring community.

Keep bringing the words before us. So there's one more implication. I've talked about there's implications for teachers, implications for Proximity, relationships, community, but finally, there's an implication for investment. The teaching enterprise of the church involves ongoing interactions on multiple levels. Sometimes you may be in your life in the church, you may be in, you'll certainly be in a student role all your life.

There may be some pockets where you play a more predominant teaching role. And you may only do that for a while and then you go back to the primary student role. But whatever it is, there are teaching interactions in the church that are going to go on until Christ returns.

It's necessary for the Great Commission. Teach them everything that I have commanded you. A community centered around God's Word, teaching. So investment. Invest yourselves in the teaching ministry. Invest in the spirit-led teaching ministries. What does this involve? Well, at a minimum, it involves participation. At a minimum, it involves appreciation, but it goes beyond this to include all that is necessary to maintain a robust teaching ministry in the local church.

And whatever local church that you're in abroad, building this up. And that can be directly into personnel, but also indirectly through the space. You think about what we're doing here. We're sitting in a place. It takes time, money, personnel to keep a place up like this, just to set the platform for which the Word of God can be taught.

We've got a fellowship hall over there that we're building and expanding, and that too is indirectly involved. But it goes beyond just personnel and facilities. It goes to the whole everything necessary to maintain and to strengthen a robust teaching ministry. And friends, this is the best stock tip the world has ever imagined.

If I told you, if I gave you a great stock tip and said, okay, this is how you invest your money. Go back years. There's this company called Microsoft. There's this company called, and I could, you invest, or you just go back and you find whatever stock that comes to your mind.

And if I told you, yeah, here, invest in this because it is going to pay a return on your investment that you cannot imagine. You would thank me for that investment, would you not? I'm telling you, what is before us is the greatest investment the world has known.

Only born-again believers are going to enter into heaven. And every born-again believer will come to Christ through the teaching enterprise of the Great Commission. Every one of them. That's what's going to endure forever. So invest. Invest in spirit-led teaching ministries. That's sowing to the Spirit, something that's going to endure.

Second, sow to the Spirit by promoting Christ's likeness in your personal life. Look back at verse 7. Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. There's a mindset to be avoided here. Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. Do not, here's another command. Do not let yourself be led astray.

Do not let yourself be deceived, bamboozled. It's a command. Do not think for a moment that God, you're going to be able to mock God and get away with it. The word mock means being snubbed. It's the idea of turning your nose at, ah, turning your nose at someone.

Paul is saying, do not be deceived. God is not being mocked. Even though people are rejecting him, turn away from him. Don't think for a second that you can mock God and get away with it. You see, there's this mentality that thinks I can disregard God and do whatever I want to do without consequence.

Listen to one of the strongest admonitions in the Old Testament that I think I've ever come across. Deuteronomy 29, 19. It shall come about when he hears the words of this curse that he will boast, saying, I have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.

In other words, yeah, I know what God says about curse, but I'm going to continue in my way, and I'll be fine. I'll be fine. Listen to what God's response is in Deuteronomy 29, 20. The Lord shall never be willing to forgive him. But rather the anger of the Lord and his jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.

Listen, to think that you do not have to take God seriously is a grave error. We're not teaching works here. This is Paul. It's grace. But to receive God's grace, guess what? You're going to have to recognize who Jesus Christ is, and that the command is to come to him.

And you can't thumb your nose at Revelation and think you're going to receive grace. Yes, you'll receive grace. Come to Christ. He's not teaching works here. But what he is teaching is that you cannot snub God and think you can get away with it. That's a mindset to get out of your mind.

Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. It goes on in verse 7: For whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. This is why you must avoid it. Don't let this mindset come over you. You can snub God and get away with it, because whatever a man sows, this he will reap.

This is the law of the harvest. The idea for sowing is that of scattering seeds. Think of your life as one of scattering seeds. That's the literal aspect, but metaphorically, think of it as the investment of your time, the thoughts, your actions. This year, as you approach the new school, you're going to be investing who you are in many different things.

Whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. What you sow, You will harvest in kind. Whatever you sow, you're going to gather in, whether reward or punishment. It's a promise. Listen, whatever you are sowing today is going to be the harvest of tomorrow, if it waits that long.

Listen, you can't defy the law of gravity. and not suffer for it, can you? Think for a moment. Suppose you're on the tenth floor of a building and you have three options to get down to the ground. You got the elevator, you got the stairs, or you got the direct route right through the window.

What would you think about a person who says, I don't need an elevator. They're for sissies. Or stairs. What kind of an engineer would put stairs in the building? No, the quickest way to the ground is right out that window, and that's where I'm going. What do you think would happen to them?

Say, you can't defy gravity like that. Yeah, it is the quickest way to the ground. Be your last trip to the ground. You see, you can't thumb your nose at God and not suffer the consequences. Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. For whatever you sow, you are going to reap.

And then he goes on in verse 8, and he speaks about two kinds of harvest. Look at verse 8. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

It's a promise. He will reap. It says it twice. The one who sows to his flesh, he will reap one thing. The one who sows to the Spirit, he will reap another thing. So think about the analogy here, what Paul is using. This scattering seeds analogy. Seeds, what are they?

They are your moments of time. They are your thoughts. They are your deeds. That's the seeds that you scatter every day. You invest yourself into something. What is the field? Well, the field is where we invest our moments and our thoughts and our actions and deeds. What field are you pouring yourself into?

Well, there's two possible fields. First of all, two kinds of fields that are going to produce two kinds of harvest. There's one that comes from the field of your own flesh. The decaying, rotten, perverse. Corrupt, toxic ground of your flesh. Notice, but the one who sows to his own flesh, literally to your own desires, to your own impulses, to your own passions, whether they're long-term passions or short-term passions, if they're all about you and advancing yourself, that is the kind of soil.

That's what he means by flesh, the fallen flesh. Listen, many of you are starting college for the first time. You have a lot more freedom than you've ever had before. What are you going to do with that freedom? Where are you going to invest yourself? What are you going to invest yourself in this year?

Is it going to be in the field of your own flesh? I can tell you what you're going to reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. That's your promised harvest, if this is you. What is corruption? It's something that's decaying, something that's decomposing, something that's trending towards destruction and ruin.

That's what the outcome is. You wouldn't want to eat anything out of my garden. Garden, where I scattered seeds in this soil, would you? Don't think God is going to enjoy any fruit that comes out of your life if it's sown into the field of your own perverse desires, no matter how good they look on the outside.

But then there's a second field: that's the field of God's Spirit. But from the one who sows to the Spirit, will from the Spirit reap eternal life. The one who spends his thoughts investing into the thoughts of God, who invests himself into what the Spirit of God has revealed about God and His ways and His people.

And that's what sowing to the Spirit is: it's investing your time, your actions, your thoughts, your deeds into that which God has revealed and calls us to do. Being led by the Spirit and walking in the Spirit, that is a whole different field than sowing to your flesh.

And what, if you give yourself to this, What is the promised harvest? Eternal life. The one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. That's the promised. And the eternal life is something more than just duration. It's quality, something that endures. In contrast to the one going to destruction, is the one trending toward fruitful living.

Do you want a fruitful life? Sow to the Spirit. Don't sow to your flesh. It's very predictable what the outcome's going to be. And it's very predictable if you are led by the Spirit and you walk in the Spirit and you sow to the Spirit by putting your thoughts, energy, and time into the things of the Spirit, which He has revealed for us to do, the outcome there is certain.

You're sure to live a significantly fruitful life here and enjoy that life forever. What else would you expect? It's the law of the harvest. Whatever you sow, you will reap. And listen. Listen, friends. The harvest isn't decided by the reapers. The harvest is determined. By the sowers, both in kind and quantity.

If you sow sparingly, you'll reap sparingly. If you sow trash, you'll receive trash. Very straightforward. But if you want an eternal harvest, give your daily moments to advancing in the Christ-like way of the Spirit. That is what's where the Spirit leads, in the Christ-like way. Not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of Christ-likeness.

And you can be sure, the fruit that comes out of that soil, God celebrates. It's eternal, and it blesses those around. Sow to the Spirit by investing in the Spirit-led teaching ministries, by promoting Christ's likeness in your personal life, and by doing good to all people. Verse 9 and 10.

In these last two verses this morning, there's something we shouldn't do, and there's something we should do. Look at verse 9. Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not lose. Grow weary. There's something we should not do.

And you know what that is? Lose heart. That is, let us not be losing heart. Let us not be becoming discouraged or giving up or losing enthusiasm for the things of the gospel. Do not lose heart in doing good. It's the same word in verse 6. Keep doing good.

This is the essence of what sowing to the Spirit is about. Doing good involves doing good. It involves maintaining a disposition of doing good to all people all the time. This truth certainly doing good implies to your own personal life as you would choose the good, reject the bad, sow, be led by, walk in, and sow to the Spirit.

But it also applies to all of one's relationships, and that's what Paul is in view here. You see, but there is a temptation in doing good. Continuing with enthusiasm in the way that God has called us. And I know that there's a temptation there because Paul would not have had to encourage people if there wasn't.

He says, don't lose heart. Do not be losing heart in doing good. You see, life in a fallen world can be very discouraging, can't it? People will let you down. You will let yourself down. You can easily slip into a why-bother mentality. Why should I do good? Why should I care anymore?

And with such thinking, it's easy to just withdraw from the world and indulge in some kind of mode of life that is self-focused. People do this all the time. They withdraw into some sort of fleshly mode of life. And that may take the form of an escape into some kind of self-indulgent lifestyle, some kind of consumption of something.

It can take the form of a withdrawal into some kind of self-care absorption. You can get absorbed with yourself. Or it can manifest itself in a retreat into some kind of melancholy isolation. But all of them, whatever how this escape looks or withdraw, all of these are about sowing to the flesh in some way, shape, or form.

You see, in order to cease to do good, you have to want to appease the flesh. And it's easy to get discouraged and to withdraw. But Paul says, why should we not? He gives us a reason. He says, let us not lose heart in doing good. For, for, that means he's telling you why.

For in due time, we will reap if we do not grow weary. In other words, the reason you shouldn't lose heart is because in time you're going to reap. That's the encouragement. We will reap. It's a promise. You will gather in. Keep going. See, the harvest is the exact opposite of sowing.

Sowing is the scattering. The harvest is the bringing in, the collecting. It's a very personal harvest, by the way. Personal, private, unique, specific. In Greek, it has one's own, for in due time, we, for all of us, will reap our own, one's own harvest. Very specific. If, but look, there's a condition, if we do not grow weary.

What does growing weary mean? Well, it means losing heart, giving up. Think about a march breaking cadence and then coming to breaking cadence or falling off the back or going to the sidelines. That's the idea of growing weary to the point of being sidelined. What happens when a sower grows weary and goes to the sidelines?

He stops planting. And when you stop planting, guess what? It impacts the harvest. So don't grow weary. In the Christian life, there is a time of sowing, there is a time of harvesting, there's a time of investing ourselves in the things of the Spirit, and there's a time of experiencing the return.

I think much of this life is about scattering seeds, the temporal life of investing ourselves. The second is eternity to come. It's going to take an eternity to enjoy the harvest. We plant for a little while. We enjoy the harvest for eternity. It's the best investment to give up what you can't keep.

And invest it in that, which you'll never be able to lose. But in verse 10, it shows us something we should do. Something we should do. Verse 9 tells us something we shouldn't do. Verse 10 shows us what we should do. So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

So then, beginning of verse 10, so then, in light of the promise of a harvest, there's something we should do. There's a when of this something, there's a what of this something, and there's a who of this something. When? While we have opportunity. So then, while we have opportunity, what is opportunity?

It speaks of a favorable time, a moment that is fleeting, a window of opportunity. That's the win of the occasion. Whenever that occasion, that favorable time for you to do good to all people, to anyone, that's an opportunity that it presents itself. The what? Let us do good.

While we have opportunity, let us do good. Let us be doing good. When we have the opportunity, there's a favorable time for us to be doing good. Working things that are good, carrying out things that are good. Let us do good. While we have an opportunity to do good or to do evil, let's do good.

Thinking good thoughts, acting upon good thoughts, accomplishing the good deeds that come out of those thoughts, seeing them through from conception to delivery. This is what being led by, walking in, and sowing to the Spirit involves. Notice the who of what we should do. Then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people.

That's everyone in this world, everyone that God brings into your life, especially to the household of faith, one particular family, those who are of the household of faith. There's one family that's going to inherit it all. There's one family who is going to inherit the new heavens and the new earth, and it is the household of faith.

There isn't another family that's going to. So, especially, give yourself, whenever there's an opportunity to do good to one of your brothers and sisters, invest yourself. Listen, the law of the harvest, it's very straightforward. If you sow harshness with each other, guess what you're going to reap? Bitterness.

If you sow anger with someone, expect hostility. This isn't hard to understand. If you sow jealousy or envy, get ready for discouragement and depression. They're coming. That's going to be your lot. If you sow enmities, get ready for war. But if you sow forgiveness, you'll receive forgiveness. If you sow kindness, guess what you're going to expect?

Guess what's going to happen? Goodwill. If you sow generosity, you will see abundance. If you sow loyal love, guess what? You're going to reap devotion. If you sow gentleness, you're going to see peace. I'm going to go ahead and call the music team forward as they come and take their place.

I just want to call upon you guys to sow to the Spirit. Sow to the Spirit by investing in Spirit-led teaching ministries, by promoting Christ's likeness in your personal life, by doing good to all people. And if you do that, if you invest in a Spirit-led teaching, promote Christ's likeness in your own life, and do good to all people, you can ensure that you're going to have a very fruitful year.

May not be an easy year, may not meet with success that the world definitions, but in God's eyes, you will have a fruitful year, a meaningful year, a successful year. Significant year. So, to what can I compare the Christian life? Imagine for a moment you have a distant relative whom you hardly know.

He's very wealthy. He has a vast fortune, but he has few heirs. And you just happen to be one of them. And then one day you discover that he left to you a great estate encompassing many lands, farms, and resources with incredible production potential. It's so vast, and the possibilities are so great that you must abandon all other callings in your life to take care of it.

Such is the Christian life. It was never intended to be a hobby, but a way of life. So I encourage you this morning to sow in such a way as to reap the full benefits of Christ's redeeming work. It is a vast estate. Pursue it. Pursue Him with everything that you have.

Christ is never intended to be a hobby. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we bow before you this morning, thanking you. For all these truths you've laid before us this morning, giving us such a vast inheritance in the new heavens and the new earth, and that is what's to come.

But, Father, even now, there are great potentials, possibilities, and great things all around us. Father, help us to sow to the Spirit. Forgive us for all the days and times and hours that we've wasted sowing ourselves to the flesh, scattering our time and energies to that which does not profit and even harm.

Father, forgive us where we have harmed. And now change our hearts. Give us a vision. Give us your vision for our lives. Help us to walk in your Spirit, be led by your Spirit, walk in his ways, and sow in Him. In Christ's name we pray. Amen.