Reaps A Sure Reward

Proverbs 11:17-18 – Those who are kind benefit themselves, but the cruel bring ruin on themselves. A wicked person earns deceptive wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Hosea 10:12-14 – Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you. But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your own strength and on your many warriors, the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be devastated—as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.

Haggai 1:6 – You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”

James 3:18 – Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.

Application:

• ·         If Israel would only do what was right, God would bless her.
• ·         Israel had been living a lie—and by lies.
• ·         A land judged by God is unfruitful.
• ·         Discord cannot produce conduct pleasing to God.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV