Rick Warren - Daring To Plant In Faith Part One

Hey everyone, it's Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren. So

we're continuing with this series called Daring Faith, The Key

to Miracles. And in this series you're learning how to

have a bold, unshakable faith. And so far this series

is giving all of us powerful tools to share our faith,

a faith that gives you courage to impact the world around.

You can't wait to get to today's message. Here's Rick

with part one of a message called Daring to Plant

in Faith.

Last week, in part five of Daring Faith, we learned

that God says you can learn a lot about living

by faith by looking at three kinds of people. Successful athletes,

successful soldiers, and successful farmers.

We covered that in pretty good detail.

But I told you I wanted to come back to

this farmer metaphor because the Bible compares the Christian life

to gardening over and over and over again.

They're on your outlines. This is eight twenty two.

The Bible says, as long as the earth endures, there

will be seed time and harvest. There are laws of

seed time, and there are laws of harvest. In Galatians

six seven says this don't be misled. No one makes

a fool of God. Whatever a person plants, he might harvest.

Though it says that says he what hey will count

on it circle that word will Now today, one I

want to teach you is daring to plant in faith,

and specifically I want to teach you God's laws of

the harvest, God's laws of planting and harvesting. Or in

the olden days, it was called the laws of sowing

and reaping. Most people, if you say the word sowing today,

they think of like a needle and thread sew, not

sw But when you talk about sowing and reaping, that's

the old style. Before there were you know, farm machinery,

people had to sew seed by hand, and it was

literally called broadcasting. It was broad casting. You get carried

a bunch of seed in a sack and as you

walk through you broad cast it, which is, by the way,

where we get the terms broadcasting for television and radio

and things like that. Because you're sowing seed on a

wide distance. It's not just planning one little seed at

the time, you're broadcasting it or you are sewing. Now,

if you ignore the laws of sowing and reaping in

your life, it's going to hurt you. It will harm

you if you wisely use the laws of sowing and

reaping in your life, You're going to be blessed by it.

And you can use the laws I'm about to teach

you literally in every single area of your life, daring

to plant in faith. You can use the laws of

sowing and reaping and relationships.

You can use the laws.

In your health. What you sow, you will reap. You

can use it in your finances. You can use it

in your career learning how to plant wisely in your

career and how to harvest wisely in your career. The

point that I want to make before I get into

these laws is this, whatever you need more of in your.

Life, you need to plant in faith.

If you need more you feel like you need more appreciation,

you need to start appreciating other people, plant seeds of appreciation.

If you feel like you need more talent, you need

to start using the little talent you've got and God

will give you more. If you need more time, if

you need more money, if you need more energy.

Whatever you need more of, you need to learn.

The laws of planting and harvesting, or sowing and reaping.

You need to plant what you need. Now, let me

go through these laws pretty quickly. Number one, write these down.

Everything starts as a seed. That's the first law of

the harvest. Everything starts as a seed. Every idea started

as a seed. Idea, Every dream started as a dream seed.

Every achievement, every nation America started as an idea, a

seed idea of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

This church started as a seed. Your life started as

a seed. When your father's seed was connected with your

mother's egg, your life began. Literally, everything that is living

on the planet Earth came from a seed. If it

didn't come from a seed, it's not alive. And so

everything starts as a seed. Now, in Genesis chapter one,

God says this, let the land have seed bearing plants

and trees that bear fruit with seed in it, according

to their varieties. Now circle that phrase according to their varieties,

because I'll come back to that a little bit.

Now, what are we talking about when we're talking about planning?

A seed?

A seed is anything? Write this down. A seed is

anything value that I give away. A seed is anything

valuable that I give away. When you give away praise,

there's value to that. When you give away advice, that's

good advice. There's value to that. When you give away

your time, there's value to that. When you give away

your money, there's value to that. When you give away

your experience to help other people, there's value to that.

Anytime you give any.

When you give your love away, there's great value to that.

A seed is anything that I give away in order

to help somebody else.

So it all starts as a seed.

It could be time, money, appreciation, wisdom, energy, whatever. By

the way, words can be seeds. Words can be seeds

that you plant in people's mind, all right, and they

can grow, they grow, they do grow, and they bear fruit.

And so you need to choose your words wisely, especially

when you're talking with people that you love, children, husband,

your wife, your friends.

Those are seeds.

What kinds of Let me just ask you, what kind

of seeds are you planning in your relationships? Are you

planning seeds of trust? Are you planning seeds of distrust?

Are you planning seeds of kindness? Are you planning seeds

of crankiness and anger and bitterness meanness? Are you planning

seeds that build up? Are you planning seeds that tear down?

You will reap whatever you sew. Okay, number two long

number two.

Nothing happens until the seed is planted. Nothing happens until

the seed is planted. It must be given away. It

can't do any good in a bag. Now, Jesus used

this principle explain why he came to die in John

twelve twenty four. Jesus said this, unless a grain of wheat,

that's a seed. Unless a grain of wheat is buried

in the ground, it cannot reproduce. But if it dies,

it produce much fruit. You know, a year ago I

bought some pumpkin seeds and they never sprouted.

I forgot to plant them. They're still in the packet.

I found them this week.

Okay, no wonder, no wonder that a seed is worthless

in a bag. Now, imagine a farmer going to a

feed store, buying a big sack of feed or a

seed for some crop he's going to grow, and then

he puts it in his barn, and then he's afraid

to give it away, and he goes.

Oh, you know, I want to hold onto it. I

might not have enough.

I might not have We would say that is foolish.

Seeds are meant to be planted. Seeds are meant to

be given away. What I'm teaching you is that planting

and sewing is an act of faith. It's an act

of faith because it's saying, when I plant the seed,

I believe that something great is going to happen. Because

I plant this seed, something great will happen. Because I'm

gonna give away what I've got. I'm not gonna keep

it in my bag. I'm gonna give it away, and

I believe it's gonna produce some fruit. Now, planting seeds

is also risky because you can't see what's happening under

the dirt.

Most of you know, I'm a farmer at heart.

A couple of years ago, I actually grew fifty six

kinds of vegetables that year. This year, I've cut it

way way back, but I am growing a lot of kale,

and I'm going you know, vegetables and tomatoes and peppers

and all kinds of different stuff. Now I can't go

out to my garden and every day dig it up

to see if it's growing. When you plant a seed,

it's covered up and it's buried, and you don't know

is that thing gonna sprout or not? Is it gonna

sprout or not? And That's where the faith comes in.

Because you can't see it. What if it doesn't sprout,

You're tempted to dig it up.

What if it fails. What if I give my seat

away nothing comes.

Of it, Then I'm up a creek without a paddle.

That's where the faith comes in. Jesus said it like this,

Mark chapter four. The Kingdom of God is like someone

who plants seed in the ground.

Notice this is a parable of the Kingdom.

The Kingdom of God is like someone who plants seed

in the ground night and day.

Whether the person is asleep or awake.

The seed is still growing, but the person doesn't know

how it grows. You can't see it until it sprouts.

And that's the element of faith. Okay, number three. When

I have a need, I should plant a seed. When

I have a need, I should plant a seed. When

a farmer looks out on his barn crop a baron

field and he sees no crops in his field, he

doesn't gripe, he doesn't complain, he doesn't even pray, He

just starts planting. There's sometimes you should not pray. There's

sometimes you should plant instead of prey. The farmer can

look at a barnfield go, oh, God, please make my

corn crop grow, and God saying, did you plant any seat?

No? But I really make it grow? Did you plant

any seed?

No?

But make it grow. It isn't going to happen. Sometimes

you don't pray, you plant. This is the law of

sowing and reaping. And so he just starts planning because

no sowing, no harvest. The Bible says this an Ecclesiastes eleven.

Do your planting in the morning, and by the way,

he says, in the evening too.

In other words, all the time.

You never know whether it will all grow well, or

whether one planting will do better than the others. Have

you ever heard the phrase don't put all your eggs in. Yeah,

that's what investor's saying. This is what the Bible said

this year. By the way, that verse, that idea is

from the Bible. It's from Ecclesiastes. But here's another example.

He says, when you sew, sew in a bunch of areas,

plant in a bunch of areas. Do your planning all

the time. You should be planting good seeds all the

time with your life, because you never know where it's

going to grow. Now, let me just be re lost.

Some of you think you're waiting on God, and you're not.

He's waiting on you. Some of you think you're waiting

on God for a job, or for a miracle, or

a spouse or something that you want. God is waiting

on you. He's waiting on you. To start planting seeds.

When I have a need, I plant a seed. If

you don't make a deposit, there is no return. So

whatever I need more of, I need to give it away.

If I need more energy, I use the energy in

the gym to get more energy. If I need more talent,

I give away what I've got, and I get more

talent by using what little i've got, time, money, anything.

Whatever I need more of, I give it away when

I haven't needed Plant of seed number four. Whatever I

plant is what I will reap. This is the law

of reproduction. Whatever I plant is whatever I will reap.

If a farmer plants a field with beans, what crop

should he expect to get?

Watermelon? No?

If I plant corn in the ground, do you think

I'm gonna expect zucchini? No, You're gonna get in life

whatever you plant. This is an inviolable rule of the universe.

It'll either work for you or against you. He doesn't

wonder about what's gonna grow. He doesn't doubt what's gonna grow.

If I plant corn, I'm gonna get corn, because whatever

I plant is what I'm going to reap. Galatians sixty seven.

Let's read it aloud together. You will reap exactly what

you plant. Now, there's a phrase in jenis Us over

and over that's used, and it's the phrase after its

own kind, and that phrase is talking about here that

we always reap the same thing that we sew. Now again, listen,

this works both ways. It can either work for you

or it can work against you. Whatever I dish out

is what I'm going to get back in life. And

the Bible talks about this a lot. In fact, let

me just show you some verses on the screen.

Here. Look at these. Here's some negative examples.

Job four eight. People who plant trouble harvest it. Look

at the next one, Proverbs twenty two, verse eight. Whoever

sows sin reaps weeds Proverbs twenty two eight. And the

New Living Translation says those who plant seeds of injustice

will harvest disaster.

Hoseah ten thirteen.

You planted wickedness, and now you reaped evil Matthew seven

to two. Whatever measure you you used to judge others

will be used to measure how you are judged.

Oh, what you sew you're gonna reap.

Now, let me show you some positive examples. Proverbs eleven eighteen.

The one who sows righteousness will reap a sure reward.

Hoseah ten twelve. Plant good seeds of righteousness, and you'll

harvest a crop of my love James three four three eighteen.

Peacemakers plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of goodness.

Are you getting the idea that this is not some

minor message of the Bible?

The laws of the harvest.

You will reap what you sew with your children, with

your wife, with your business.

It'll either work for you or it'll work against you.

You sow anger, guess what you're gonna get angry kids,

you sew patients, Guess what you're gonna get patient kids.

You will reap what you sow, and you get exactly

what you put out. I cannot sow irresponsibility and reap success.

I cannot sow laziness and reap reward. I cannot sow

stinginess and reap a bless him. The Bible is full

of examples of this, both negative and positive. Jacob, Jacob,

his name's supplanter meant he was going to cheat people.

And Jacob cheated his brother and cheated his dad.

So you know what happened. His father in law cheated him.

He reaped what he sewed.

Hayman was a man who reaped a bitterness, and he

built these gallows to kill a guy named Mordecai. He

ended up being hung on his own gallows. This happens

all the time. Galatians six seven and eight.

I love this. In a message, it says this.

The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others

and ignoring God, harvests a crop of weeds. That's all

he'll have to chaw for his life. But here's the

good news. The one who plants in response to God,

letting God's spirit do the growth work in him, harvests

a crop, a real, eternal, real life, eternal life. You're

going to harvest whatever you plant. Okay, everything starts a seed.

Nothing happens to the seed's planted. Whatever I have, when

I have a need, I plant a seed, and whatever

I plan is what I'm going to read. Number five,

here's a big one. I'm not the only sower. You're

not the only planter in the universe. Other people are

planting all around you. And by the way, you are

reaping both good and bad from those who went before you.

Some of you grew up sadly.

And I'm sorry for this in families with a history

of abuse and a history of alcohol, and maybe a

history of divorce, and you have to decide the chain

breaks now. I can't control the past, but I'm going

to break the chain now.

I talked to a guy in college one time.

I was a good friend of my name Rick, who

he said, four generations of my family all got divorced.

He said, I am bound intermined. That is not going

to happen in my life. The chain breaks now. You

are harvesting both good and bad from your past because

you're not the.

Only person who sold.

Everything you do has consequences, and by the way, your

life is going to affect future generations.

So you need to take it very very seriously.

What a great message today from pastor Rick. There's something

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