Some benefits of Fruitfulness

MESSAGE FOR SUNDAY THE 13^TH OF MARCH 2016

Topic: Some benefits of Fruitfulness

Introduction: Last week we began to look at this theme of being fruitful and multiplying. We saw among other things that this was a core purpose of God in creating man in the first place. Then we sought to look at why we must be fruitful and multiply.

Today, we want to examine some of the benefits of obeying this command to be fruitful and multiply so as to receive understanding of this great redemptive right in the covenant of grace to which we now belong. The beauty of this injunction is that even when man sinned, he could still be fruitful even though he was limited in understanding. With Jesus Christ bringing us redemption, our status in fruitfulness has been enhanced to the place God wants it to be. All we need to do to actualize it is to cultivate a relationship with our heavenly father through the Lord Jesus Christ so that we can begin to walk in the newness of life that would help us actualize the blessings.

To gain more understanding in this grace we shall be looking at what we benefit from being fruitful and multiplying. 

Benefits of Fruitfulness:

1.     The blessings that go with obedience become ours: Some of these blessings are listed in Deu.28:1-15; Ps.1:1-3 and Jn.15:1-5, 8, 16.

2.     The ability to spread out and grow into the place of leadership in your field as a professional. See the story of Joseph in Gen.37-41 and Daniel in the book of Daniel. In both cases, these people became masters in their field in what looked like an overnight thing. However, we know that Joseph had faithfully served and followed God for years before he became prime minister in Egypt and Daniel already purposed in his heart to maintain his purity before God and was faithful before he came to limelight and sustained relevance outliving several kings for a period that spanned about seventy years.

3.     This is what will guarantee the continuity of your family, business or ministry even beyond your lifetime. See the story of the Rechabites in Jer.35.

4.     When you are fruitful in your body, the legacy of the blessing of God for the next generation is guaranteed. God is transgenerational because He is eternal and causes His blessing to pass from parents to their children. This explains why He is said to be the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. See Ex.3:15 and Deu.7:9. The power to get wealth for instance is in order to keep a covenant to an earlier generation of people as we see in Deu.8:18. When there are no children, the blessing could be stopped. Thank God that this will not be our case because of Gal.3:13-14.

5.     Protect the next generation from corruption and destruction if they were taught to walk in the ways of God. Fruitfulness as God intends would always yield the positive result of people walking in the ways of God as they have learnt from a previous generation. When the next generation is not taught the ways of God, the land would stand the risk of extinction except something is done about it on time. See the examples of the children of Israel in Judges 2:10 -16 and the example of the Rechabites in Jeremiah 35:1-19

Access to this grace was freely available to man until the devil came in to mess things up by luring man into sin which resulted in his separation from God [Gen.3; Rm.3:23 and 6:23]. Thankfully, the Lord Jesus Christ already came to solve the sin problem for us. However, we are required to embrace His sacrifice by believing in Him and receiving God’s free gift of salvation through faith. See John 3:16-18.

If you have not yet received this free gift, you can do so right away by saying the following prayer out loud in faith and you shall be saved:

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name!

Amen.

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Remain on top of your challenges in Jesus’ name!