Are You Sowing to the Flesh?

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 6, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 19.

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Are You Sowing to the Flesh?

1. What eternal law of moral conduct is continually demonstrated in nature?

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Gal. 6:7. "To every seed his own body." 1 Cor. 15:38.

2. What will he reap who sows to the flesh?

"He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption." Gal. 6:8.

3. To what is the flesh contrary?

"For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other." Gal. 5:17. "The carnal [fleshly] mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." Rom. 8:7.

4. What are the works of the flesh?

"The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like." Gal. 5:19-21.

5. What will be the result of such sowing?

"They which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." Gal. 5:21. "He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption." Gal. 6:8. "To be carnally minded [fleshly minded] is death." Rom. 8:6.

6. In thus reaping, what does a man truly do?

"They eat of the fruit of their own way" and are "filled with their own devices." Prov. 1:31. "The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways." Prov. 14:14. "He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity [nothingness, death]." Prov. 22:8. "Hear, O earth; behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not harkened unto My words, nor to My law, but rejected it." Jer. 6:19.

7. That we may be saved from such a fate, what faithful warning does God give us?

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Gal. 6:7.