You Reap What You Sow

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Hello and welcome to The Overflow Podcast. My name
is Craig Booker. The title of this

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episode is You Reap What You Sow. A lot of
the material for this week’s episode was

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inspired by Craig Groechel’s book The Power to
Change Mastering the Habits That Matter Most.

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Note: I will talk a lot about mental health but
please note this is not a substitute for therapy

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or mental health care. I am not a counselor or
a physician if you need help with mental health

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challenges, please find a qualified mental health
professional. In this episode, we will be talking

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about You Reap What You Sow. So we’ve been talking
a lot about habits we’ve probably said it a time

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or two that our habits shape your life, and you may
have thought to yourself, where does God tell us in

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the Bible. Where does God tell us this? And the real
quick answer: the short answer is Galatians 6. But

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I want to dive into this in Galatians 6. God talks
about habits, but he doesn’t necessarily just come

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out and say habits so it says God doesn’t use
the word habits he uses the metaphor of seeds in

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in biblical times people lived in Agricultural
Society people back then would understand the

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concept of planting seeds and harvesting crops and
their lives and their economy were largely based

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on farming here in Galatians 6, chapter 6, verse 7
through 9. It says do not be deceived God cannot

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be mocked, a man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows
to please their flesh from the flesh will reap

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destruction. Whoever sows to please the spirit
from the spirit will reap eternal life. Let us

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not become weary in doing good for at the proper
time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

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There’s our basis for where God talks about you
know sowing seeds you could translate to be that

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to be habits. So let’s establish some definitions.
to sow means to plant or to put seed in the ground

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to reap means to gather the fruit the result
of the seed planet so this passage that we

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read starts out do not be deceived the idea here
is don’t be led astray don’t be fooled or stupid

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and it continues God cannot be mocked. The Greek
word translated mocked means to snub or thumb your

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nose at someone. You can do that to someone, but
not God. Don’t be deceived God cannot be mocked.

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You might fool a lot of people, but you’re not
going to fool God. That man reaps what he sows

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that’s what we need to understand and not
be stupid about and that. That’s Craig

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Groeschel’s words. That’s a quote from him. It says
what does that mean you will harvest what you

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plant? So, if you plant seeds of unhealthy
habits you’re gonna reap the consequences of

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those unhealthy habits. You know, if you’re reading
the Bible on a regular basis, you’re gonna reap

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the benefits of that habit. So your outcomes will
be determined by your inputs is how they summarize

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this. And the results of your life will be based
on the decisions you make, the habits you stake,

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and the habits you break. And so we’ve talked about
in past episodes or past weeks. We’ve talked about

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starting new habits to become the person we feel
called to become. Each person is called to become

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someone it’s the who they’re called to become.
And you know that takes some process to figure

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that out and figure out the who you’re called to
become but these habits are what we do to try to

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take steps towards the person where we feel called
to be sowing seeds to the flesh versus the spirit

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I want to discuss this and it says there’s a law
at work not a law like you must do this more like

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how gravity is a law of nature it’s how the world
works you don’t have to like it you don’t have

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to agree with it it says gravity uh work for
you and on the same way it works with everyone

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God tells us there is a lot of sowing and reaping
it’s true in agriculture and it’s in true in

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life if you plant good habits you will get good
outcomes if you plant bad habits don’t be deceived

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and expect good outcomes so if you’re trying to be
healthy one of the things that I’m trying to do is

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eat right so that I can lose weight and that will
lead to me getting better sleep I know that’s kind

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of a odd goal when it comes to eating right but
my goal with eating right is to lower my anxiety

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level by getting great sleep and so if I’m trying
to sow healthy habits of eating right if I go and

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eat a box of donuts and then tomorrow I go and
maybe splurge on another dessert should I expect

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that I’m going to continue to lose weight if I
keep that up I I think it’d be foolish of me to

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you know continue to go beyond uh what I you know
what is reasonable to eat in my diet and expect

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good results so that’s just my personal example
so if you don’t like what you’re reaping change

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what you’re sowing if you don’t like the Harvest
change the seed so each week we have an exercise

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that’s typically listed in Craig groeschel’s book
in this exercise it says here’s the assignment we

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just covered use this pattern for as many areas
of your life as you need to address so he gives

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us kind of two statements and they’re more like
the fill in the blank type statements God I have

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sown blank and have reaped blank because of
my habit of blank okay so that’s the first

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one then the second one it says to change this
outcome I need to start or stop my habit of blank

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so help me to plant the seeds of blank so I can
reap blank so obviously you kind of have to fill

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these in to make sense of it and let’s see if I
can do it on the Fly and it make any kind of sense

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here so if for my habits my two habits that I’m
working on are getting quality sleep and to take

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that a little bit further I’m trying to eat right
so I can lose weight and get better sleep in the

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end so I need to start my habit of eating right so
help me to plant the seeds of and I don’t want to

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go in this blank but maybe it’s you know making
reasonable choices in my meals so I can reap the

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results of losing weight and getting better sleep
obviously my wording and example is not very great

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here but hopefully it helps you get a better idea
of what’s going on in this exercise it’s going to

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help a whole lot if you personalize this exercise
for yourself maybe you’re trying to stop a habit

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um and you can fill in the blanks according
to the Habit that you’re wanting to stop

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and we talked a lot about to become the
person we feel called to become there are

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habits we’re going to have to start and there
are habits that we’re going to have to stop

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um so you know we’ve gone through and I tried to
identify some of those habits uh over the weeks

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and so you know if if you’re looking to do that
feel free to look through past uh episodes of the

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podcast and the notes to help you walk through
that we do have a principle for this section and

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it says if you don’t like what you’re reaping
change what you’re sowing if you don’t like the

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Harvest change the seed the second one is you
will always Harvest what you plant those who

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live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will
harvest Decay and death from that sinful nature

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then we have a verse Galatians 6 7-8 in
the New Living Translation it says but

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those who live to please the spirit will
harvest everlasting life from the spirit

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that’s all for this episode thank you for
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