The Golden Rule of Success

Welcome to this weekend contact podcast child. Family guidelines are in operation all the time. Today's podcast points believers to the principle of sowing and reaping.

Learn why and how this works attitude shapes our future and when I think about how all this works for you I think about this way, we have to direct thoughts control her emotions. If we're going to enjoy success in life will one single verse of Scripture.

Jesus told his gay bars. One of the most important keys of success to be found anywhere the Scripture is a very simple keyboard. It's a very profound one, without which, if you and I violate this particular attitude we are going to be successful no matter who we are and what we do in life. In fact, this is so simple that even a child can understand this principle.

But it's one that is so profound in the light that apart from the Holy Spirit. None of us would be able to carry it out.

Remember that our definition of success is the continuous achievement of becoming the person God wants us to be in accomplishing or achieving those goals that he's helped us to set for a life while you turn if you will, to the sermon on the Mount and you recall that's Matthew five, six and seven. Turn, if you will, to the seventh chapter of Matthew and the title of this message is the golden rule of success and I want you to begin if you will.

In this particular passage in verse seven where Jesus is talking about prayer and he says, asking that you be given you seek and you shall find, knock and it should be open to everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened. Or what man is there among you when his son shall ask the local to give him a stone are the answer at this need will not give him a snake will he.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask him and then he says therefore that is based on what you just said however you want people to treat you so treat them but this is the law and the prophets. Now, he said. Therefore, because he had just finished saying how much more with the heavenly father give you that is the good things in life. Those of us who asking and then he says therefore based on the fact that God is a good God and desires the best for as it is willing to give us the good things in life. Therefore, how do you want people to treat you so treat them but this is the law and the prophets. Now what in the world. How could this be a principle of success.

Why did Jesus make the state and how does this relate to the whole idea of success. So that's what I want to talk about Primera. I want us to look for example at the law of the Scripture upon which this principle in this law is based someone you to turn to another patch of Scripture turned to Galatians chapter 6 Galatians chapter 6 and I want you to notice what Paul said to the Galatian church very important message here. Galatians chapter 6 look at this beginning in verse six and let the one who is taught the word share. All good things with him who teaches. Do not be deceived, God is not marked for whatever a man sows this.

He will also reap the one who sows to his own flesh showed from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall, from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not lose heart and doing good, for in due time we shall reap, if we do not grow weary so that while we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those of the household of faith is that what in the world is that have to do with success in what no one does it have to do with doing onto others as you would have been doing to you.

It has everything to do with Watson's what is this patch of Scripture say Scripture says be not deceived. That means don't allow yourself to believe something that is not true. Don't allow Satan to distort the truth in some fashion that you believe a lot do not be deceived.

Then he says God is not mocked. That is, you can't change his law break yourself over it.

You can't change it can't circumvent can sneak around and you can listen, you may try to act as if it's not here, but it is here, God is not mocked, be not deceived and then he says whatever a man or woman sows. That's what they gonna reap. He says if you so to your life. Corruption your reap corruption if you so in your life.

The spirit you reap the spirit. The fruits of it. So let's look at the problem when he says we are always sowing and reaping you think about this every morning. You and I get up we start, we wake up we start sowing in our thoughts we begin the so thoughts positive and negative good or evil in our actions or attitudes are habits all day long we are sowing either to the flash on either to the spirit and what is he mean by that what this is simply a principal it's been here all along. From the beginning of time. In fact, summarizes aware that principal begin will think about it for a moment. Every farmer believes that because he does not. So we and expect to get corn. He does not plan apple trees and expect to get oranges, so he knows that whatever he sows. That's what he's going to reap but he also knows the law of God.

He reaps what he sows more than he sows later than he sows. That is an absolutely reversible law of Almighty God. So we see that all around aware that all began.

If you go all the way back first chapter the Bible first chapter of Genesis Genesis chapter 1 and listen if you will, what he says early in this chapter. In verse 11 when he speaking of the creation. How did God create this world is what he says. Then God said that the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, which means apple trees that are apples not peaches and oranges are payer and so he says trees bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them on the earth and it was so. That is, from the very beginning his what God is said whatever you so that's what Yuri cannot change that law absolutely unchangeable so that when he says now so if we so to the flesh. What is immune what's the flesh well every single one of us came in this world with an old sinful nature, and that sinful nature is what causes us to be bent away from God instead of toward him. That's the nature that causes a little child to act up.

At the age of two or three years of age or whatever it may be, you say, do not touch that, but he's going to touch it in the way that is not the holiness of the righteousness of God.

When you say to mother day your child has a sinful nature. She does not wear yes she does now taking the time he reaches 23 you will agree she has a sinful nature, suffered somatic of your love. Overcoming the reality of things that we all came the world that what happens there is, is this.

We keep it we keep that old sinful nature, and then one day the Lord Jesus Christ transforms your life redeems you of your sinfulness gives you new nature. A say what the Bible says old things are passed away.

All things are become new years. But what about these feelings I have these. Still, I have these feelings of maybe owning the sin once in a while I choose to be disobedient to God and doing what I know is not right. Well even though he's given your new nature.

He did not take away this body and its five senses and we still have that naturalness left within us, which Paul calls the flesh or carnality. It's that naturalness which means that I still have the capacity and can exercise the desires the sin against God. So when we talk about the whole idea of selling and reaping corruption selling to the flesh what it means is simply this.

We have the capacity and we can choose to allow ourselves to make choices where in our sinful desires dominate our conduct and dominate our behavior and so when ever you are not choose we think. First we choose to allow our flesh and naturalness to dominate and so when we do we retaliate when somebody wrongs all we take advantage of someone or say something about him that is not right or gives them in some fashion. What's happened. What we are doing is we are sowing bad see we are sowing those characteristics of the flesh, that is, we are allowing our naturalness to dominate rise to the surface and we are allowing them to control for those moments.

What we do now, what is it we're doing so we can hold it right there. Then we have another choice, every single believer.

The Bible says has been not indwelt by the Holy Spirit. So all of us who believers have the spirit of God living on the inside of us. Now we have the privilege of responding in a different fashion, because the spirit of God, he will always respond in us and through us. If we elect to do so in a godly fashion will be able to be forgiving to those who have wronged us will be able to encourage those who have maybe discourage the will be able to be generous toward those who have been stingy and greeted toward us will be able to fly because now we're allowing the Holy Spirit who lives on the inside of us we allowing him to dominate our thinking and therefore predominates our thinking.

Therefore, our actions and our behavior will be the result of the work of the Holy Spirit in their life and so therefore even though we have and naturalness. It does not have the dominate us because we can submit to the will of the Holy Spirit submit is control my life and we will live a godly life no matter what someone does or does not now. What in the world does this have to do with doing onto others as you would have been doing to you. And secondly, what is it had to do a successful think about and remember what the principle is whatever we so we all so what which means if I retaliate take advantage of abuse in some fashion. I'm sending forth the seeds that are corrupted by nature and you know what's happening that coming back whatever we so we going to reap we going to reap what we sow more than we so later that we so that is the whole basis of what Jesus was saying here. He doesn't want us treating people the way we treat them because you know what we going to be the ones who get her whatever we so we gonna reap what we sow more than we so late in the miso so he said this would be to treat people we think about how we want someone to treat us.

That's the way we want to treat them if we had wrong someone would we want to be forgiven. Yes, we would that what must we do, we must be forgiving so if we failed to forgive refuse to forgive them what we're doing is we're sending out both thoughts and actions and behavior that is corrupted by its very nature because an unforgiving spirit is a very corrupt attitude is an unguarded attitude and corruption speaks of the K and their watches what happens to us if we begin to send out that kind of attitude and that kind of behavior is what happens. Not only is it coming back, but it's coming back. The Scripture says we can reap what we sow our very character is going to be handed because what we think we going to get the consequences of that and more than likely begin to become more angry and more bitter and more vengeful. What happens what we do is we damage our own character by a wrong response. For example, let's say for example that you wrongs about and you didn't even know it.

And I mean they get upset. I mean, they become vengeful. I mean, they become hostile and angry and bitter. You don't even know it and ask who is hurt the one who's feeling the anger and the bitterness and resentment or hostility when you and I send out bad seed corrupt.

See we send out seeds of dissension we send out seeds that are ungodly fleshly things. What happens eventually, if we send it out. It's coming back because we're gonna reap what we sow. Therefore, it's impossible for us to act ungodly toward someone else and expect in return. To receive the blessing of the Lord. This is why the believer who walks obedient before God is going to win every time.

You can't lose being obedient to God. You say, but look what they did to me. They took this morning. I did this and that and he said he said God's going to vaporize is a will. They'll never pay me back now listen this carefully. My friend who's wronged you, how much they cost you, but this much I know I know the laceration if you will respond in a godly fashion. God will replace what you lose no matter what you say but they'll never change.

I didn't say come through them. I said God would favor you he will favor you in ways that you can ever imagine. You see the something far more important than money in life.

You see when you not respond the right fashion. God not only builds a fair character, but he bills and faith in him. He builds a sense of endurance. He builds a sense of quality into our life member. He said if you sow to the flesh reap corruption, but if you sow to the spirit you reap eternal life. We have two choices out conduct in our behavior toward other people can either be expressions of corruption and decay and death. All they can be expressions of life and so when when he speaks of eternal life. Here we have the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ. But from the moment you are not saved every good work that comes from us every active service from us. What's God doing what he is laying up rewards frozen have sold the one hand, we receive the continuous rewards that we receive by doing good. Being obedient to God, having right attitudes is the children of God. So think about it and also this way when somebody wrongs you and you turn the other cheek when somebody requires of you something that you know is not right and you refuse to be obedient to them and you obey God, but instead you have the right attitude toward them.

You know what's happening. They are providing you the opportunity God to bless you, providing you the opportunity of God rewarding you and remember this earthly rewards on the temporary eternal rewards are in eternal and therefore whatever rewards God places upon us.

Some will be here and some hereafter will enjoy. They are eternal in their existence. We will for ever and ever.

Enjoy. So that the person who wrongs ours loses both ways. And when you not respond right we win both ways.

Because what happens is this they are wronging us gives us the opportunity of being obedient to God, demonstrating a godly spirit and we going to be rewarded by. Secondly, it also gives us the opportunity of responding to that person in the right fashion making a very clear godly statement to them and in the process of selling good seeing the truth is it is coming back to us and it is going to be not corruption and decay, but life and energy and joy and peace and all the rest. Here is the principle of success.

Treat others the way I want to be treated within the business relationships in church and family among friends, even among my enemies and the promise of God is because it is based upon the law of sowing and reaping. I am going to come out blessed.

I'm going to reap good I'm going to have God's favor.

Every single time. No matter what that make this is favor and blessing may come from a direction that never even crossed my mind, it may be from someone that I didn't even know it may be from somewhere at yonder that I never even thought about one thing for certain, God makes no promises.

He does not keep the best of life is offered for every single person success in who you become and what you have is yours for the asking when we said the very beginning our attitude shapes our future and their attitude of grace and love and forgiveness and kindness and generosity and helpfulness and encouragement.

That's the kind of attitude that will shape your future because as you give it you'll get it in return and father how grateful we are that this simple principle even understood by Littlechild but so often so difficult to practice by us, that you would impress it upon our heart interested in the rat thinking seal it. Father in our spirit. Let it not escape under any condition reminding us that it is an eternal principal and eternal law, that can never be changed and I pray that every single person who hears this message would be willing to examine his and her life and asked the question, what does it profit me the wrong others and what does it prosper me to writer's but we ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Thank you for listening to the golden rule and thinks that if you like to know more about child family more intense ministries.

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