Harvest of sin

"Harvest of sin" - Psalm 32:10 He who sows sin will reap affliction (sadness, sorrow, regret). Sadness, regret, sorrows of conscience, disappointment, terror, "are the sure inheritance of the sinner in time and then the pains of remorse (regret) and despair "forever."

I. But he who hopes in the Lord will be surrounded by mercy.

A. But the wicked have a swarm of wasps around him, many sorrows (sadness); but we who hope in the Lord have a swarm of honey-producing bees. C.H.S.

1. (Richard Atkins to his grandson Abel) He who hopes in the Lord is surrounded by mercy. I read it in my youth and believed it; and now I read it "in my old age" and thank God, I know it to be true. Oh, it is a great blessing during the joys and sufferings of the world, "Abel," to trust in the Lord. (I leave to Sara, Hanna, Noa, Lilibet...)

2. (Isaiah 17:10, 11) "For you have forgotten the God of your salvation," from the one who have saved you so many times and you did not remember the rock of your refuge, which has so often been your protection and your refuge and without which you would have been broken long ago.

3. Therefore, what Israel plants will be the fruit of misfortune, for (the harvest will be a heap of branches in the day of distress and desperate pain).

4. The only harvest there will be is that of misfortunes.

5. (Jeremiah 12:13) They (the Judeans) sowed wheat, that is, they were anxious to take measures so that they would not lack food, but they reaped (cut) thorns, either because the harvest was a disaster or because the stranger invaded the countryside (the land) a shame for them because their poverty shows that they are under God's displeasure.

6. (Galatians 6:8) Although others may not observe our neglect of God's servants (He sees it), and He gives the corresponding harvest.

7. We reap (cut the crops (the ripe grain at harvest time)) what we sow and reap in greater quantities than what we sowed (the bad, the bad seed multiplies more than the good).

8. The Spirit is not speaking here to sinners about their sins, but to the saints about their meanness (baseness) (despicable under vile).

9. (Job 4:8) It is to be known in a larger sense that "those who will do iniquity and sow injury, reap it (the harvest) and that "those who sow wind reap tempests (storms)."

10. Historian J. A. Froude said: "One lesson and only one that history clearly repeats and that is that somehow the world is built 'on a moral foundation', and that in the long run 'good things go well' to the good, and that in the long run bad things go bad to the bad.

11. (Galatians 6:8) Each of the soils produces something of the same kind; flesh = for it will be destruction (ruin), corrupt flesh gives corruption (degeneracy, decay).

12. Spirit: if you live in the Spirit and have let Him regenerate you (give new being to something that degenerated (if it falls, does not correspond to its first quality) you will have eternal life.

13. (Revelation 14:15) It is a plea or message that comes from God.

14. (Proverbs 6:14) A man of iniquity whose business it is to do evil, especially with his mouth full of falsehood and slander.

15. Winking, shuffling and finger pointing are gestures that indicate the way to pass secret information to those who are "complicit" in some sin.

16. "Evil is thought of", "to do evil for evil's sake" (of the devil).

17. (Proverbs 16:18-20) On his lips there is a flame of fire because, with his wickedness, he "embraces everything that touches his lips," especially the reputation of his neighbor as shown in 28.

18. (Proverbs 22:8) The wicked one, by habit and custom, never loses time for his evil thought against anyone, but this kind of evil also has its companions who one day will not be companions.

19. The evildoer will reap the iniquity (wickedness) that he has sown, that is, the evil that he has done will fall on him.

20. That the rod, a symbol of power and authority for his own; From his insolence "daring", that is, the authority he has used to act unjustly, illegally, will be finished (broken), it will be taken away from him. Amen