Sowing and Reaping When a Man Sows, He Expects to Reap. It takes time between the sowing and reaping. He expects to reap more abundantly. Ignorance of

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12 Sowing and Reaping When a Man Sows, He Expects to Reap. It takes time between the sowing and reaping. He expects to reap more abundantly. Ignorance of what we sow makes no difference to what we shall reap We will reap what we sow

13 When a Man Sows, He Expects to Reap.

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20 It takes time between the sowing and reaping.

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23 Ecclesiastes 8:11-12 New International Version (NIV) 11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong. 12 Although a wicked person who commits a hundred crimes may live a long time, I know that it will go better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

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26 Robert Moffat: African Missionary Pioneer ( ) Republic of Botswana These men were faithful and committed to the cause of Jesus Christ. Moffat served seven years before he had the joy of seeing the first convert come to Christ. It was many years before there was a real turning to Christ among the people to whom he was ministering. During that time he mastered the language and began his lifelong translation work. In due time, he printed the whole Bible in the local tribal language

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28 He expects to reap more abundantly. A single grapevine will produce up to twenty pounds/ 9.07 kg of grapes per year and a properly maintained grape plant could last up to forty years!

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32 Who was the most influential person in your life growing up? RZ: I came to know Christ on a bed of suicide when I was 17. So the most influential person in my life was the man who brought me a Bible into my hospital room. Without it, nothing else would have changed. I was on my death-bed. His name was Fred David. He just passed away in February We talked on the phone shortly before he died. He said to me, "Sometimes I've wondered if the sole purpose of my coming into this world was to bring you that Bible in your hospital room." "Fred," I said, "You did a lot more than that." He had an influence on many in my age bracket in Delhi (he was the director of Delhi Youth for Christ at that time).

33 Ignorance of what we sow makes no difference to what we shall reap

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38 Son of Hamas After a cab driver invited him to a Bible study, he was confronted with Jesus injunction to love your enemy. That made perfect sense, he said. From his birth, he had been drilled to regard the Israelis as his enemies. Leaders of the Bible study gave him an Arabic- English Bible. At first they didn t know his terrorist connections. As he searched and questioned, he eventually accepted Jesus as his Savior, and in 2005 he was secretly baptized in Tel Aviv.

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46 Edward Kimball

47 However, the kindness of his Sunday School teacher, Edward Kimball, turned young Moody into his life-long friend, and encouraged him to persist in his church attendance and regular Bible reading. Though Moody did try to read the Bible, he couldn't understand it. Kimball later said he had never seen anyone whose mind was as spiritually dark as Dwight's. That changed on this day, April 21, Kimball came to the shoe store to ask Dwight to commit his life to Christ. Dwight listened closely and became a Christian that day. Immediately he began sharing his faith with others, including his own family.

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50 Wycliffe was also an advocate for translation of the Bible into the vernacular. He completed a translation directly from the Vulgate into Middle English in the year 1382, now known as Wycliffe's Bible. It is probable that he personally translated the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; and it is possible he translated the entire New Testament, while his associates translated the Old Testament. Wycliffe's Bible appears to have been completed by 1384, additional updated versions being done by Wycliffe's assistant John Purvey and others in 1388 and 1395.

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