Speaker 1: Hey everyone, it's Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren. So
Speaker 1: we're continuing with this series called Daring Faith, The Key
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Speaker 1: You can't wait to get to today's message. Here's Rick
Speaker 1: with part one of a message called Daring to Plant
Speaker 1: in Faith.
Speaker 2: Last week, in part five of Daring Faith, we learned
Speaker 2: that God says you can learn a lot about living
Speaker 2: by faith by looking at three kinds of people. Successful athletes,
Speaker 2: successful soldiers, and successful farmers.
Speaker 3: We covered that in pretty good detail.
Speaker 2: But I told you I wanted to come back to
Speaker 2: this farmer metaphor because the Bible compares the Christian life
Speaker 2: to gardening over and over and over again.
Speaker 3: They're on your outlines. This is eight twenty two.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, as long as the earth endures, there
Speaker 2: will be seed time and harvest. There are laws of
Speaker 2: seed time, and there are laws of harvest. In Galatians
Speaker 2: six seven says this don't be misled. No one makes
Speaker 2: a fool of God. Whatever a person plants, he might harvest.
Speaker 2: Though it says that says he what hey will count
Speaker 2: on it circle that word will Now today, one I
Speaker 2: want to teach you is daring to plant in faith,
Speaker 2: and specifically I want to teach you God's laws of
Speaker 2: the harvest, God's laws of planting and harvesting. Or in
Speaker 2: the olden days, it was called the laws of sowing
Speaker 2: and reaping. Most people, if you say the word sowing today,
Speaker 2: they think of like a needle and thread sew, not
Speaker 2: sw But when you talk about sowing and reaping, that's
Speaker 2: the old style. Before there were you know, farm machinery,
Speaker 2: people had to sew seed by hand, and it was
Speaker 2: literally called broadcasting. It was broad casting. You get carried
Speaker 2: a bunch of seed in a sack and as you
Speaker 2: walk through you broad cast it, which is, by the way,
Speaker 2: where we get the terms broadcasting for television and radio
Speaker 2: and things like that. Because you're sowing seed on a
Speaker 2: wide distance. It's not just planning one little seed at
Speaker 2: the time, you're broadcasting it or you are sewing. Now,
Speaker 2: if you ignore the laws of sowing and reaping in
Speaker 2: your life, it's going to hurt you. It will harm
Speaker 2: you if you wisely use the laws of sowing and
Speaker 2: reaping in your life, You're going to be blessed by it.
Speaker 2: And you can use the laws I'm about to teach
Speaker 2: you literally in every single area of your life, daring
Speaker 2: to plant in faith. You can use the laws of
Speaker 2: sowing and reaping and relationships.
Speaker 3: You can use the laws.
Speaker 2: In your health. What you sow, you will reap. You
Speaker 2: can use it in your finances. You can use it
Speaker 2: in your career learning how to plant wisely in your
Speaker 2: career and how to harvest wisely in your career. The
Speaker 2: point that I want to make before I get into
Speaker 2: these laws is this, whatever you need more of in your.
Speaker 3: Life, you need to plant in faith.
Speaker 2: If you need more you feel like you need more appreciation,
Speaker 2: you need to start appreciating other people, plant seeds of appreciation.
Speaker 2: If you feel like you need more talent, you need
Speaker 2: to start using the little talent you've got and God
Speaker 2: will give you more. If you need more time, if
Speaker 2: you need more money, if you need more energy.
Speaker 3: Whatever you need more of, you need to learn.
Speaker 2: The laws of planting and harvesting, or sowing and reaping.
Speaker 2: You need to plant what you need. Now, let me
Speaker 2: go through these laws pretty quickly. Number one, write these down.
Speaker 2: Everything starts as a seed. That's the first law of
Speaker 2: the harvest. Everything starts as a seed. Every idea started
Speaker 2: as a seed. Idea, Every dream started as a dream seed.
Speaker 2: Every achievement, every nation America started as an idea, a
Speaker 2: seed idea of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2: This church started as a seed. Your life started as
Speaker 2: a seed. When your father's seed was connected with your
Speaker 2: mother's egg, your life began. Literally, everything that is living
Speaker 2: on the planet Earth came from a seed. If it
Speaker 2: didn't come from a seed, it's not alive. And so
Speaker 2: everything starts as a seed. Now, in Genesis chapter one,
Speaker 2: God says this, let the land have seed bearing plants
Speaker 2: and trees that bear fruit with seed in it, according
Speaker 2: to their varieties. Now circle that phrase according to their varieties,
Speaker 2: because I'll come back to that a little bit.
Speaker 3: Now, what are we talking about when we're talking about planning?
Speaker 3: A seed?
Speaker 2: A seed is anything? Write this down. A seed is
Speaker 2: anything value that I give away. A seed is anything
Speaker 2: valuable that I give away. When you give away praise,
Speaker 2: there's value to that. When you give away advice, that's
Speaker 2: good advice. There's value to that. When you give away
Speaker 2: your time, there's value to that. When you give away
Speaker 2: your money, there's value to that. When you give away
Speaker 2: your experience to help other people, there's value to that.
Speaker 3: Anytime you give any.
Speaker 2: When you give your love away, there's great value to that.
Speaker 2: A seed is anything that I give away in order
Speaker 2: to help somebody else.
Speaker 3: So it all starts as a seed.
Speaker 2: It could be time, money, appreciation, wisdom, energy, whatever. By
Speaker 2: the way, words can be seeds. Words can be seeds
Speaker 2: that you plant in people's mind, all right, and they
Speaker 2: can grow, they grow, they do grow, and they bear fruit.
Speaker 2: And so you need to choose your words wisely, especially
Speaker 2: when you're talking with people that you love, children, husband,
Speaker 2: your wife, your friends.
Speaker 3: Those are seeds.
Speaker 2: What kinds of Let me just ask you, what kind
Speaker 2: of seeds are you planning in your relationships? Are you
Speaker 2: planning seeds of trust? Are you planning seeds of distrust?
Speaker 2: Are you planning seeds of kindness? Are you planning seeds
Speaker 2: of crankiness and anger and bitterness meanness? Are you planning
Speaker 2: seeds that build up? Are you planning seeds that tear down?
Speaker 3: You will reap whatever you sew. Okay, number two long
Speaker 3: number two.
Speaker 2: Nothing happens until the seed is planted. Nothing happens until
Speaker 2: the seed is planted. It must be given away. It
Speaker 2: can't do any good in a bag. Now, Jesus used
Speaker 2: this principle explain why he came to die in John
Speaker 2: twelve twenty four. Jesus said this, unless a grain of wheat,
Speaker 2: that's a seed. Unless a grain of wheat is buried
Speaker 2: in the ground, it cannot reproduce. But if it dies,
Speaker 2: it produce much fruit. You know, a year ago I
Speaker 2: bought some pumpkin seeds and they never sprouted.
Speaker 3: I forgot to plant them. They're still in the packet.
Speaker 3: I found them this week.
Speaker 2: Okay, no wonder, no wonder that a seed is worthless
Speaker 2: in a bag. Now, imagine a farmer going to a
Speaker 2: feed store, buying a big sack of feed or a
Speaker 2: seed for some crop he's going to grow, and then
Speaker 2: he puts it in his barn, and then he's afraid
Speaker 2: to give it away, and he goes.
Speaker 3: Oh, you know, I want to hold onto it. I
Speaker 3: might not have enough.
Speaker 2: I might not have We would say that is foolish.
Speaker 2: Seeds are meant to be planted. Seeds are meant to
Speaker 2: be given away. What I'm teaching you is that planting
Speaker 2: and sewing is an act of faith. It's an act
Speaker 2: of faith because it's saying, when I plant the seed,
Speaker 2: I believe that something great is going to happen. Because
Speaker 2: I plant this seed, something great will happen. Because I'm
Speaker 2: gonna give away what I've got. I'm not gonna keep
Speaker 2: it in my bag. I'm gonna give it away, and
Speaker 2: I believe it's gonna produce some fruit. Now, planting seeds
Speaker 2: is also risky because you can't see what's happening under
Speaker 2: the dirt.
Speaker 3: Most of you know, I'm a farmer at heart.
Speaker 2: A couple of years ago, I actually grew fifty six
Speaker 2: kinds of vegetables that year. This year, I've cut it
Speaker 2: way way back, but I am growing a lot of kale,
Speaker 2: and I'm going you know, vegetables and tomatoes and peppers
Speaker 2: and all kinds of different stuff. Now I can't go
Speaker 2: out to my garden and every day dig it up
Speaker 2: to see if it's growing. When you plant a seed,
Speaker 2: it's covered up and it's buried, and you don't know
Speaker 2: is that thing gonna sprout or not? Is it gonna
Speaker 2: sprout or not? And That's where the faith comes in.
Speaker 2: Because you can't see it. What if it doesn't sprout,
Speaker 2: You're tempted to dig it up.
Speaker 3: What if it fails. What if I give my seat
Speaker 3: away nothing comes.
Speaker 2: Of it, Then I'm up a creek without a paddle.
Speaker 2: That's where the faith comes in. Jesus said it like this,
Speaker 2: Mark chapter four. The Kingdom of God is like someone
Speaker 2: who plants seed in the ground.
Speaker 3: Notice this is a parable of the Kingdom.
Speaker 2: The Kingdom of God is like someone who plants seed
Speaker 2: in the ground night and day.
Speaker 3: Whether the person is asleep or awake.
Speaker 2: The seed is still growing, but the person doesn't know
Speaker 2: how it grows. You can't see it until it sprouts.
Speaker 2: And that's the element of faith. Okay, number three. When
Speaker 2: I have a need, I should plant a seed. When
Speaker 2: a farmer looks out on his barn crop a baron
Speaker 2: field and he sees no crops in his field, he
Speaker 2: doesn't gripe, he doesn't complain, he doesn't even pray, He
Speaker 2: just starts planting. There's sometimes you should not pray. There's
Speaker 2: sometimes you should plant instead of prey. The farmer can
Speaker 2: look at a barnfield go, oh, God, please make my
Speaker 2: corn crop grow, and God saying, did you plant any seat?
Speaker 3: No? But I really make it grow? Did you plant
Speaker 3: any seed?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: But make it grow. It isn't going to happen. Sometimes
Speaker 2: you don't pray, you plant. This is the law of
Speaker 2: sowing and reaping. And so he just starts planning because
Speaker 2: no sowing, no harvest. The Bible says this an Ecclesiastes eleven.
Speaker 2: Do your planting in the morning, and by the way,
Speaker 2: he says, in the evening too.
Speaker 3: In other words, all the time.
Speaker 2: You never know whether it will all grow well, or
Speaker 2: whether one planting will do better than the others. Have
Speaker 2: you ever heard the phrase don't put all your eggs in. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what investor's saying. This is what the Bible said
Speaker 2: this year. By the way, that verse, that idea is
Speaker 2: from the Bible. It's from Ecclesiastes. But here's another example.
Speaker 2: He says, when you sew, sew in a bunch of areas,
Speaker 2: plant in a bunch of areas. Do your planning all
Speaker 2: the time. You should be planting good seeds all the
Speaker 2: time with your life, because you never know where it's
Speaker 2: going to grow. Now, let me just be re lost.
Speaker 2: Some of you think you're waiting on God, and you're not.
Speaker 2: He's waiting on you. Some of you think you're waiting
Speaker 2: on God for a job, or for a miracle, or
Speaker 2: a spouse or something that you want. God is waiting
Speaker 2: on you. He's waiting on you. To start planting seeds.
Speaker 2: When I have a need, I plant a seed. If
Speaker 2: you don't make a deposit, there is no return. So
Speaker 2: whatever I need more of, I need to give it away.
Speaker 2: If I need more energy, I use the energy in
Speaker 2: the gym to get more energy. If I need more talent,
Speaker 2: I give away what I've got, and I get more
Speaker 2: talent by using what little i've got, time, money, anything.
Speaker 2: Whatever I need more of, I give it away when
Speaker 2: I haven't needed Plant of seed number four. Whatever I
Speaker 2: plant is what I will reap. This is the law
Speaker 2: of reproduction. Whatever I plant is whatever I will reap.
Speaker 2: If a farmer plants a field with beans, what crop
Speaker 2: should he expect to get?
Speaker 3: Watermelon? No?
Speaker 2: If I plant corn in the ground, do you think
Speaker 2: I'm gonna expect zucchini? No, You're gonna get in life
Speaker 2: whatever you plant. This is an inviolable rule of the universe.
Speaker 2: It'll either work for you or against you. He doesn't
Speaker 2: wonder about what's gonna grow. He doesn't doubt what's gonna grow.
Speaker 2: If I plant corn, I'm gonna get corn, because whatever
Speaker 2: I plant is what I'm going to reap. Galatians sixty seven.
Speaker 2: Let's read it aloud together. You will reap exactly what
Speaker 2: you plant. Now, there's a phrase in jenis Us over
Speaker 2: and over that's used, and it's the phrase after its
Speaker 2: own kind, and that phrase is talking about here that
Speaker 2: we always reap the same thing that we sew. Now again, listen,
Speaker 2: this works both ways. It can either work for you
Speaker 2: or it can work against you. Whatever I dish out
Speaker 2: is what I'm going to get back in life. And
Speaker 2: the Bible talks about this a lot. In fact, let
Speaker 2: me just show you some verses on the screen.
Speaker 3: Here. Look at these. Here's some negative examples.
Speaker 2: Job four eight. People who plant trouble harvest it. Look
Speaker 2: at the next one, Proverbs twenty two, verse eight. Whoever
Speaker 2: sows sin reaps weeds Proverbs twenty two eight. And the
Speaker 2: New Living Translation says those who plant seeds of injustice
Speaker 2: will harvest disaster.
Speaker 3: Hoseah ten thirteen.
Speaker 2: You planted wickedness, and now you reaped evil Matthew seven
Speaker 2: to two. Whatever measure you you used to judge others
Speaker 2: will be used to measure how you are judged.
Speaker 3: Oh, what you sew you're gonna reap.
Speaker 2: Now, let me show you some positive examples. Proverbs eleven eighteen.
Speaker 2: The one who sows righteousness will reap a sure reward.
Speaker 2: Hoseah ten twelve. Plant good seeds of righteousness, and you'll
Speaker 2: harvest a crop of my love James three four three eighteen.
Speaker 2: Peacemakers plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of goodness.
Speaker 2: Are you getting the idea that this is not some
Speaker 2: minor message of the Bible?
Speaker 3: The laws of the harvest.
Speaker 2: You will reap what you sew with your children, with
Speaker 2: your wife, with your business.
Speaker 3: It'll either work for you or it'll work against you.
Speaker 2: You sow anger, guess what you're gonna get angry kids,
Speaker 2: you sew patients, Guess what you're gonna get patient kids.
Speaker 2: You will reap what you sow, and you get exactly
Speaker 2: what you put out. I cannot sow irresponsibility and reap success.
Speaker 2: I cannot sow laziness and reap reward. I cannot sow
Speaker 2: stinginess and reap a bless him. The Bible is full
Speaker 2: of examples of this, both negative and positive. Jacob, Jacob,
Speaker 2: his name's supplanter meant he was going to cheat people.
Speaker 2: And Jacob cheated his brother and cheated his dad.
Speaker 3: So you know what happened. His father in law cheated him.
Speaker 3: He reaped what he sewed.
Speaker 2: Hayman was a man who reaped a bitterness, and he
Speaker 2: built these gallows to kill a guy named Mordecai. He
Speaker 2: ended up being hung on his own gallows. This happens
Speaker 2: all the time. Galatians six seven and eight.
Speaker 3: I love this. In a message, it says this.
Speaker 2: The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others
Speaker 2: and ignoring God, harvests a crop of weeds. That's all
Speaker 2: he'll have to chaw for his life. But here's the
Speaker 2: good news. The one who plants in response to God,
Speaker 2: letting God's spirit do the growth work in him, harvests
Speaker 2: a crop, a real, eternal, real life, eternal life. You're
Speaker 2: going to harvest whatever you plant. Okay, everything starts a seed.
Speaker 2: Nothing happens to the seed's planted. Whatever I have, when
Speaker 2: I have a need, I plant a seed, and whatever
Speaker 2: I plan is what I'm going to read. Number five,
Speaker 2: here's a big one. I'm not the only sower. You're
Speaker 2: not the only planter in the universe. Other people are
Speaker 2: planting all around you. And by the way, you are
Speaker 2: reaping both good and bad from those who went before you.
Speaker 3: Some of you grew up sadly.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry for this in families with a history
Speaker 2: of abuse and a history of alcohol, and maybe a
Speaker 2: history of divorce, and you have to decide the chain
Speaker 2: breaks now. I can't control the past, but I'm going
Speaker 2: to break the chain now.
Speaker 3: I talked to a guy in college one time.
Speaker 2: I was a good friend of my name Rick, who
Speaker 2: he said, four generations of my family all got divorced.
Speaker 2: He said, I am bound intermined. That is not going
Speaker 2: to happen in my life. The chain breaks now. You
Speaker 2: are harvesting both good and bad from your past because
Speaker 2: you're not the.
Speaker 3: Only person who sold.
Speaker 2: Everything you do has consequences, and by the way, your
Speaker 2: life is going to affect future generations.
Speaker 3: So you need to take it very very seriously.
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