Sowing and Reaping [Annotated, Updated]: Whatever a man sows that shall he also reap. – Galatians 6:7

by Dwight L. Moody

Delay is dangerous.

It is wise to exterminate the weeds at once. Beware of remaining longer in sin. The deeper you sink, the more bitter will be your restoration.

Remember that the tares and the wheat will be separated at the judgment day, if not before. Sowing to the flesh and sowing to the Spirit inevitably lead to diverging paths (Galatians 6:8).

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation (Matthew 26:41).

Prevention is better than cure.

Would Jesus have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that the child was not capable of understanding His words?

Canon Wilberforce, walking in the Isle of Skye in Scotland, saw a magnificent golden eagle soaring upward. He stopped and watched its flight. He soon observed that something was wrong. It began to fall, and it soon lay dead at his feet. Eager to know the reason for its death, he examined it and found no trace of a gunshot wound, but he saw in its talons a small weasel, which, in its flight, had drawn near the eagle’s body and sucked the lifeblood from the eagle’s breast. Such is the end of everyone who persistently clings to sin.

Great illustration. The little foxes spoil the vine.

The devil administers many sins in honey, but there is poison

mixed in with it.

I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing; for I have the desire, but I am not able to perform that which is good. For I do not do the good that I desire; but the evil which I do not desire, that I do. And if I do that which I do not desire, I am not working, but sin that dwells in me. So that, desiring to do good, I find this law: evil is natural unto me. For I delight with the law of God with the inward man, but I see another law in my members which rebels against the law of my mind, bringing captive unto the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? (Romans 7:18-24)

He that believes in the Son has eternal life, and he that does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him (John 3:36).

He knows the proud and the self-confident afar off, but the faintest whisper of the contrite sinner commands His attention.

“Have you ever heard the gospel?” a missionary asked a Chinese man whom he had not seen in his mission before. “No,” he replied, “but I have seen it.

Believe and obey Hear and see

If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me.

But if I do, though ye do not believe me, believe the works that ye may know and

believe that the Father is in me and I in him. (John...

If you can’t believe on Jesus from face value, believe the works He has done to believe on him.

Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know (Acts 2:22).

Morality is as universal as humanity,

Christianity never claimed to introduce a brand-new system of morality.

Christianity demands a new birth, regeneration by the Holy Spirit, as the first thing needed:

Ye must be born again (John 3:7).

There was a man living near one of the main highways a number of years ago, who one night saw that a landside had obstructed the train track. He saw by the clock that he didn’t have time to reach the telegraph office to stop the night express, so he grabbed a lantern and started up the track, thinking he might be in time to stop the train. As he was running, he fell, and the light in his lantern went out. He didn’t have another match, and he could hear the train coming in the distance. He didn’t know what to do. As a last resort he stood on the bank, and the moment the train came near enough to him, he hurled the lantern with all his might at the engineer. The engineer saw that something must be wrong, took the warning, applied the brakes, and stopped the train within a few yards of the obstruction.