EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Topics God , Farmer , Paul Harvey. The speech was first published in in Harvey's syndicated column. The speech borrowed a few phrases from a article written by Harvey in the Gadsden Times, which was itself inspired by parts of a definition of a dirt farmer published in The Farmer-Stockman.
The article was copied verbatim by Tex Smith in a letter to the editor in the Ellensburg Daily Record in The speech was given as an extension of the Genesis creation narrative referring to God's actions on the 8th day of creation. Harvey described the characteristics of a farmer in each phrase, ending them with the recurring "So God Made a Farmer". There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review. Community Collections. And they respected him. But more importantly, he had a family who knew he loved them.
You learned your work ethic from him. God made the first farmer in Adam pause and people who are smart enough to know it — they know that farmers are the backbone of society. But every day, 3 times a day, you need a farmer. But even more than that - God WAS a farmer. Jesus told a couple of parables that painted God as the ultimate farmer. With what kind of body do they come?
What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory.
O death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. My point is this: God made a farmer… because God IS a farmer.
And he spoke of farmers, not only because they are the backbone of society, but also because what you DO as a farmer speaks of the hope of the resurrection. He had been a farmer all of his life.
My mom told me that I was the apple of his eye, and my eyes lit up every time he was in the room. As a 5 year old, his death was hard to understand. Scriptures: Genesis , Genesis Back to the Basics. The Best Christmas Ever. The Always God. The Prince of Peace. View all Sermons. And that was Gary… He was hard working farmer a man who did much of what Paul Harvey described. Download Sermon with PRO. Browse All Media Related Media.
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