God's grace is generous. His forgiveness is real. But don't be fooled. Consequences remain.

Take David, for example. He learned the hard way. Though God forgave his sin with Bashiba,

David spent the rest of his life watching

his family unravel in ways that mirrored his own failures, including his son Absalom.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall confronts a dangerous deception that plagues

modern Christians, the belief that confession erases consequences.

In this study, we'll discover that even forgiven people reap what they sow.

Chuck titled his message, Absalom, the Rebel Prince Charming.

Before we look at 2 Samuel chapter 12 and following, I want us to look into Galatians chapter 6.

You turn there, please, and let's locate verses 7 and 8.

I want to give you a principle from these two verses, and then I want to lay on you the consequences that follow in light of the principle.

These two verses are, no doubt, the most familiar in the book of Galatians.

Many of you have quoted these words and didn't really know where they were sourced.

Galatians 6-7 begins,

Do not be deceived.

God is not mocked.

For whatever a man sows,

this he will also reap.

For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption.

Let's stop there.

Here is the principle.

We reap what we sow forgiveness notwithstanding.

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