You reap what you sow

[Shmanu YAH]

shalom mishpacha, first and foremost: "All praises honor and glory continually to the Most High YHWH" - our creator, our sustainer and from where all real blessings come, and baruka ha'bo beh' shem YHWH aka "blessed your coming in the name of YHWH" ->>> YAHushua.

I pray all is well with you and yours and if not, know assuredly it will be according to his will.
Breifly in this particullar inculcation I'd like to expound on a saying from those of the agrarian societies that go all the way back to ancient times, the saying: "You reap what you sew", I'd like us to look deeply into what Yahushua and later the apostle Paul tried to get us to understand and not so much the social promise or warning: "you will get coming to you what you deserve", - but rather look into references about these physical bodies of ours that we love so much.

Certainly we have read the warning YHWH have given us through the prophet Hoshea for transgressing the convenant and law he gave us in Hoshea 8:1&7, "Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of YHWH, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law" [7] For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. ......- this is righteous judgment but not the main issue for this message.
In the basar or good news of Yahchanan aka John 12:23-24, mashiach responded to the listeners: ...and Yahushua answered them, saying, "The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified (the second time). 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn (kernel) of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit"......- Yahushua was obviously refering to himself about his prophecied death and ressurection but we all can glean from his words what we must experience as well.

These fleshly bodies of our often get us into more trouble than they can get us out of and it would be in our own best interest to first get own hearts, minds and souls right while we still have a chance before these bodies have to be "planted". It would behoove most of us to consider during this lifetime: what will be "planted" when our time is up? Many that are unskilled teachers and students in the word don't think that what we do in the line of "works" mean anything, well why did Yahushua speak and Yahchanan write in his basar 15:8, "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. .....- bearing fruit aka "works" TO GLORIFY THE FATHER! and also why did YHWH tell Yahushua to tell his messenger to tell Yahchanan in the book of Revelations 14:13, ....and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, "Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Master from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them". also Rev. 20:12-13, ....and I saw the dead, small and great, stand before YHWH; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. ....- Yahushua wanted us to know that we are to do works till we die and in that day we will be rewarded accordingly! - of course salvation comes from faith in mashiach ... but our reward is from our merit. In the basar of Matthew he even wrote what Yahushua spoke recorded in 15:16, "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven". ....- again To GLORIFY The FATHER!

We have even read and should take to heart what James wrote is his epistle 1:25, ...."but whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed". - and also he penned in 2:17-18, ....."even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works". .....- NOW this is sure proof that many teachers are unskilled in the word! (or maybe they just too lazy to work). Please don't let the false teachers keep you from being a fertile "plant" so when it's you time to be ressurected you prove yourself to also be fruitless.

Now lets look at Paul's take on the "reaped" aspect. Apostle Paul tried to get the readers in Corinth that were concerned about their current life and coming mortality being "the end" to because they were having doubts about the ressurection and were wondering how they would look to understand as he penned in 1st. Corinthians 15:35-50,."....But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 15:36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 15:37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 15:38 But ELOHYM giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. 15:40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 15:43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 15:45 and so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Master from heaven. 15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of ELOHYM; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption". .....- Paul certainly wrote a lot here but what we want to glean from this message is that he reiterated what Yahushua spoke in Yahchanan 12:24 and he also wrote to NOT concern ourselves with what type of body we will receive when ressurected because that will be up to the Most High YHWH for his pleasure and purpose and it will be a heavenly body that will be apportioned according to our merit.

We can now understand against the massive mis-teachings is: that flesh and blood CANNOT enter YHWH's final Kingdom so we better remember whats finally planted in the ground - meaning YOU (embodying your lifetime seed of works and faith) is what YHWH will quicken and will grow.

If you really stop to think about it, we have been either sowing or reaping since the day we were born. Plainly put: If we live a life of lazyness and slothfulness and produce no fruits / works, when we die and get called up on his day of judgement, what we get will be what we deserve - NOTHING! ...... proving we have surely "reaped what we have sown"

.....selah and shalom.