Look at the Harvest!
Here is an excerpt from yesterdays message entitled: “Look at the Harvest.” Let this be part of your bible study for today. Look up the texts and let the Holy Spirit speak to you. Thanks for using your mind to read. It’s the reason I post long blogs.
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“When the Lord sees people in need, going through, victims of devastation, He sees them as sheep having no shepherds. Matt. 9:36 He sees them as people “Without God in the world.” Eph. 2:12 He sees them as lost. Matt. 18:11
Jesus came for the lost. Saints have lost touch with the lost. The righteous have lost touch with the unrighteous. Jesus was the friend of sinners and hung out with corrupt politicians and sinners. Matt. 9:11
Most of the church world, is so busy with CHURCH STUFF that it has lost touch with one of the major functions of being a Christian, sharing our faith with those who need faith. The Holy Spirit is not just for speaking in tongues when you’re with the others church members, it’s for being witnesses unto Jesus when you’re with the lost. Acts 1:8
I personally believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I believe in baptism of the Holy Spirit, with the evidence. I believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking TO EACH OTHER. I believe we are filled with the Holy Spirit to be able to speak to the lost. Acts 2:8 “..we hear them in our own languages.” Being filled with the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost made them “relevant” not “holier”.
Harvey, Irma, Maria and the recent earthquakes have people standing in the streets and battling just to stay alive. It’s all captured by means of all kinds of video recordings. What do you see? We need to see people the way Jesus sees people.
IF WE SEE AS JESUS SEES, AND FEEL LIKE JESUS FEELS, THEN WE CAN DO WHAT JESUS DID.
This is a time to become relevant, not holier. (We can stop thanking God that it was not US now.)
Look at what Jesus did when He was here:
Matthew 9:35
35 Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
Jesus doesn’t stand by when people are hurting and in trouble. He sees them as a harvest. When people are in need they are ripe for harvest. He teaches and preaches and heals.
John 5:35 NLT
35 You know the saying, ‘Four months between planting and harvest.’ But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe for harvest.
He says, “the Harvest is plenteous but the laborers are few.” Matt. 9:37
But, sad to say, most of the church, as we know it, is so comfortable with the blessings of God and what God has done for them, that they forget what God wants to do through them.
2Cor. 5:20
20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”
Look around on your jobs, in your communities, at the restaurants, malls, movie theaters, even in our churches. The fields are already ripe for harvest.
When Jesus showed up, the religious leaders had the people involved in religious activity. Serving God without even knowing God. The religious leaders themselves were self-righteous and trusting their works and not Jesus. They weren’t even preaching Jesus.
Here is what Jesus said:
John 5:39-40
39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. 40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.
We as leaders need to lead people to Jesus. Point people to Jesus. Lift us Jesus. We need to use Jesus as our perfect example of how to see the Harvest.
Matthew 9:36
36 But when He (Jesus) saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.
How do you see the multitudes and multitudes that are in the valley of decision? What are you teaching, preaching and doing to help with their lostness. We can’t condemn them, we can’t just thank God that we are NOT them. We have to do something to help save them.
Look around you. Look at the Harvest. Do something more than sing, usher, asmourbear, play deacon and preach in a pulpit.
Here is what we will answer for in the judgment. It won’t be how big our building were or how many we were “running”.
Matthew 25:34-40 34“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home. 36 I was naked, and you gave me clothing. I was sick, and you cared for me. I was in prison, and you visited me.’ 37 “Then these righteous ones will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry and feed you? Or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 Or a stranger and show you hospitality? Or naked and give you clothing? 39 When did we ever see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 40 “And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!’
Every hurting lost person in need of a human touch is your opportunity to stop just going to church, and having church. This is you opportunity to be the church.
Take a little time out and look up the scriptures and put them in your spirit and become a laborer. The harvest is plenteous but the laborers are few.
LOOK AT THE HARVEST. FOLK NEED THE GOSPEL. (GOOD NEWS).
—Vaughn McLaughlin