SEED OF THE NATION

Amos 9:13 (BBE)
See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into streams of wine.

(ISV)
"Look! The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when the one who sows will overtake the harvester and the treader of grapes will overtake the planter. Fresh wine will drip down from the mountains, cascading down from the hills.

GOD'S WORD IS GOD'S WORK
-This verse is a promise of abundance, overflowing and great harvest
-the very reason that our lives remain unfruitful because of sin, a sinful life is a barren life
 -Barrenness cost unfruitfulness, it is a cursed life.
-you, we, the church was barren, unfruitful because still living in a disobedient, sinful life and  we do not understand the power of Christ's death and the cross.
-as we pass through the cross...as we understand the power of His death...cursed life has been cancelled and we transfer to the blessed life.
-our life is like a seed, before it bears fruit...it must die first.

*John 12:24:  "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

 **Increase in seeds, increase in harvest

a. SOWER  OVERTAKES THE HARVESTER
-The Seed of God -   JESUS CHRIST
-It is not the teaching nor the works of Christ to be multiplied  (though that would be a by-product.) (We are to do greater works. John. 14:12). 
-What to be multiplied was Himself, Jesus the Seed planted in mankind. 
-God sent His Son (the SEED) to the earth, not to remain alone but to die that (the Seed) He planted in man bring forth life in us, His very image. 
-Jesus was to multiply Himself in man and each new generation of enchristed ones to further multiply the Christ in others.
-sower of the seeds will overtake the harvester because many seeds are dying to self
- you die, we die....dead from lustful desire, emotion, reasoning
-your old life is dead...and you have a new life today ready to reproduce.

b. OVERTAKE  - Multiplying
-we are the fruit that bears the Seed of God
-now more seeds are dying that would bring great harvest
-reproducing Christlike character in every man

c. LIFE OF ABUNDANCE
 - blessed life - John 10:10
 -OVERFLOWING

-when Jesus died...He was able to reproduce Himself to Peter and His disciples...and the disciples died to themselves...reproduce the church...and the church must die to herself....
-WE ARE SEED OF THIS NATION who live to die...die to live and to bear much fruit, fruit that will last
-ang BUHAY NATIN NGAYON AY HINDI NA UNFRUITFUL KUNDI FRUITFUL NA AT OVERFLOWING PA...AT BLESSING PA SA IBA....AT MULTIPLYING PA DAHIL PATAY NA ANG DATING IKAW. NOW THE CHURCH WILL BE OVERTAKING....YOUR LIFE OF SEED WILL REPRODUCE A GREAT HARVEST!!
 -PAG LABAS NYO NG ENCOUNTER NA ITO...YOU ARE THE SEED OF THE SOWER...