Brethren, your own danger is more nearly encompassing and is more infinitely terrible. +II. The import of the apostle's statement.+--We have largely the making or the marring of our own future--that in the thoughts we harbour, in the words we speak and in the silent deeds, which, beaded on Time's string, are told by some recording angel as the story of our lives from year to year, we shape our character and therefore our destiny for ever. There are three special sowers to the flesh--the _proud,_ the _covetous,_ the _ungodly._ They are all spiritual sins--sins of which human law takes no cognisance, and to which codes of earthly jurisprudence affix no scathing penalty. There is the greater need, therefore, that these spiritual sins should be disclosed in all their enormity and shown in their exceeding sinfulness and in their disastrous wages, in order that men may be left without excuse if they persist wilfully to believe a lie.--_W. M. Punshon._ Vers. 7, 8. _The Double Harvest._ +I. Our present life is a moral trial for another to come.+--On till death is our seed-sowing; after death is the sure and universal harvest. On till death is our moral trial; after death is the life of judicial retribution, alike for the just and the unjust. +II. Human life has one or the other of two great characters, and will issue in one or the other of two great results.+--1. They sow to the flesh who live under the influence of their natural inclinations and desires, pleasing only themselves and despising or neglecting the holy will of God. They live to the Spirit the whole current of whose being has been supernaturally reversed under the grace of the Gospel. 2. The sowers to the Spirit live. And this true and proper life of man, in its maturity and full perfection, is the great and glorious reward which, by Divine appointment, shall eventually crown the labours of the sowers to the Spirit. The sowers to the flesh sow seed which brings forth death. Even now their life is death in rudiment, and in the end, they must reap it in its full and external development. Degraded existence, miserable existence, everlastingly degraded and miserable existence. +III. We are liable to delusions with respect to these great verities.+--All history and experience teem with illustrations of the spiritual spells and juggleries which men, prompted by the invisible potentate of evil, practise upon themselves, that so they may reduce to their convictions the sinfulness of sin, and may tone the booming of the great bell of Scripture menace down to the gentle whisper of an amiable reprimand.--_J. D. Geden._ _On the Difference between sowing to the Flesh and to the Spirit._