Preached at Merritt Island, FL 2/12/2017 AM Lesson

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2. 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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3. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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?
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FAITH!
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14. 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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15. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
- Philippians 4:13 NASB
REAPING BOUNTIFULLY: Christ is Our Strength
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16. 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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FAITH!
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18. 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!
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20. 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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21. 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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22. "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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