You Reap What You Sow: Going All Old Testamenty

Yesturday I quoted the proverb from Galatians, "What a man sows, that he will also reap." I saw this same quote on a political blog I look at daily. The writer said something like this: "I do not want to go all Old Testamenty on you, but a man sows what he reaps." I chuckled when I read this, as many of you will recognize, Galatians is in the New Testament. 

This is an example of what I call templates. This is a false template. The Old Testament is not filled with wrath, and the New Testament is not filled with love. Both the Old and New Testaments are filled with wrath and love. 

We have, for example, my daughter Stacy's memory verse for last week from Micah 6:

⁸ He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. 
   And what does the LORD require of you? 
To act justly and to love mercy 
   and to walk humbly with your God.

And we have this from the New Testament:

²⁷ “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. ²⁸ In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Jesus was not too happy with his religious contemporaries. 

Both the Old and the New Testament are useful and usable for us today, it just must be done properly. 

I discussed this in the past in my blog post "Who'd a Thunk it"

So is Jesus the effeminate man pictured in many popular Sunday School pictures? Here is how John describes Him in Revelation 1: 

¹² I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, ¹³ and among the lampstands was someone like a son of man,^[d] dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. ¹⁴ The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. ¹⁵ His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. ¹⁶ In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.

Yes it is good news that Jesus is returning. But it is not good news for all. Yes He is returning, but He is angry with what we have done. You see, we all reap what we sow.