Reaping bountifully

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Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

- Ecclesiastes 9:10 NASB

REAPING BOUNTIFULLY: Life is Short

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Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men.

- Colossians 3:23 NASB

REAPING BOUNTIFULLY: The Lord Gives Purpose to our Efforts

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"If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done."

- attributed to Thomas Jefferson

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But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ...

- 2 Peter 3:18a NASB

REAPING BOUNTIFULLY: God Expects Growth

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15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

- Ephesians 4:15-16 NASB

REAPING BOUNTIFULLY: God Expects Growth

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24 “And the one also who had received the one talent came up and said, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you scattered no seed. 25 ‘And I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’ 26 “But his master answered and said to him, ‘You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed. 27 ‘Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest. 28 ‘Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.’ 29 “For to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away. 30“Throw out the worthless slave into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

- Matthew 25:24-30 NASB

REAPING BOUNTIFULLY: Parable of the Talents

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Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness;

- 2 Corinthians 9:10 NASB

REAPING BOUNTIFULLY: God Will Provide

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6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. 7 So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

- 1 Corinthians 3:6-8 NASB

REAPING BOUNTIFULLY: We Need to Plant the Seed in Order to Reap the Harvest

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How Do We Sow Bountifully?

How Do We Sow

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FAITH!FAITH!Slide 13 of 23

1 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

- Hebrews 12:1-2 NASB

REAPING BOUNTIFULLY: Christ is Our Example

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I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

- Philippians 4:13 NASB

REAPING BOUNTIFULLY: Christ is Our Strength

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1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. 3“You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. 6 “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned

- John 15:1-6 NASB

REAPING BOUNTIFULLY: We Can Do Nothing Without Christ

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Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.

- 2 Timothy 2:15 NASB

REAPING BOUNTIFULLY: We Need to be God's Workman

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FAITH!

CARINGFOR

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Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

- Matthew 5:16 NASB

REAPING BOUNTIFULLY: We Can Plant the Seed by Helping Others

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3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; 4 do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. 5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross

- Philippians 2:3-7 NASB

REAPING BOUNTIFULLY: Put Others First

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"Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure-- pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return."

- Luke 6:38 NASB

REAPING BOUNTIFULLY: We Will Reap if We Sow

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