Galatians 6:7-8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap.… I. THE PRINCIPLE. 1. There are two kinds of good possible to man; the one enjoyed by our animal being, the other by our spirits. There are two kinds of harvest, and the labour which procures the one has no tendency to produce the other. 2. Everything has its price, and the price buys that and nothing else: the soldier pays his price for glory and gets it: the recluse does not. 3. The mistake men make is that they sow for earth and expect to win spiritual blessings, and vice versa. Christian men complain that the unprincipled get on in life, and that the saints are kept back. But the saints must pay the price: "they have as their reward something better for which they do pay. No man can have two harvests for one sowing. II. THE APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLE. 1. Sowing to the flesh includes (1) open riot, whose harvest is disappointment and remorse. (2) Worldliness whose harvest being with earth perishes. 2. Sowing to the spirit, which is "well doing," the harvest of which is (1) Life eternal; here and hereafter. (2) Not arbitrary but natural: the seed sown contains the harvest. (F. W. Robertson.) Parallel Verses KJV: Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.WEB: Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. |
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