Five Fruitful Failures
''Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of his flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap everlasting life.''
Now you see it is true not only that success breeds success, but it is true that failure breeds failure. Some times the most fruitful things in all the world are failures and sin. For sin has a way of multiplying and snowballing to such an extent that sin which once begun is hard to recognize when it gets through.
ILL. The O.T. prophets said that fathers had Eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth were Set on edge.
Sin has a way of doing that. Like a pebble thrown into the lake the ripples seem to be going out. For man cannot sow briars and one day reap corn. It won't happen. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
ILL. When a person sows sinful failures they are going to continue and there is going to be tragedy when a person has forgotten God's principles, that whatsoever he plants he will one day harvest. Whatever sin, whatever it be the sin of commission or omission, we will reap.
We see in the scriptures where men who fail, bore the awful fruits of their sinful decadence and failures.
I. TO DISOBEY IS TO BE DESTROYED
Daniel 5:1-4 Here is a man who had been told by God to clean up his act. God had told him to live righteously and yet he ignored the precepts and the statutes of God. Belshazzer was the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar. He decided he would have a feast (describe the feast). In brief, it was a drunken blast. Dancing girls, the fountains flowing, the night air blowing. Belshazzer decided he would go one step further. He called for all the golden vessels which we would think of as Lord's Supper glasses, from the temple of God. He took an intoxicating beverage and began to pour it into the vessels that had been sanctified to God, then he drank from them. S ...
''Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of his flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap everlasting life.''
Now you see it is true not only that success breeds success, but it is true that failure breeds failure. Some times the most fruitful things in all the world are failures and sin. For sin has a way of multiplying and snowballing to such an extent that sin which once begun is hard to recognize when it gets through.
ILL. The O.T. prophets said that fathers had Eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth were Set on edge.
Sin has a way of doing that. Like a pebble thrown into the lake the ripples seem to be going out. For man cannot sow briars and one day reap corn. It won't happen. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
ILL. When a person sows sinful failures they are going to continue and there is going to be tragedy when a person has forgotten God's principles, that whatsoever he plants he will one day harvest. Whatever sin, whatever it be the sin of commission or omission, we will reap.
We see in the scriptures where men who fail, bore the awful fruits of their sinful decadence and failures.
I. TO DISOBEY IS TO BE DESTROYED
Daniel 5:1-4 Here is a man who had been told by God to clean up his act. God had told him to live righteously and yet he ignored the precepts and the statutes of God. Belshazzer was the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar. He decided he would have a feast (describe the feast). In brief, it was a drunken blast. Dancing girls, the fountains flowing, the night air blowing. Belshazzer decided he would go one step further. He called for all the golden vessels which we would think of as Lord's Supper glasses, from the temple of God. He took an intoxicating beverage and began to pour it into the vessels that had been sanctified to God, then he drank from them. S ...
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