Harvesting The Grain

1. The word look is very important here for it means:

2. To employ one's sight, especially in a given direction or on a given object.

3. To turn one's gaze in a different direction and on a different object.

4. In this situation Jesus is telling them and us to turn our sight or gaze on the whited fields.

a. Many need to examine what there focused on.

b. Apparently these people weren’t focused on the right thing and needed their attention called to the situation.

c. Jesus wanted them to stop looking at the difficult situation they were in and look at the work that needs to be done.

d. To stop looking at their insufficiency and look at His suffice.

e. To stop looking at their limited resources and look at His unlimited resources.

f. We have a song we sometimes sing that says:

HE IS ABLE HE IS ABLE HE IS ABLE TO DELIVER THEEE. HE ROLLED BACK THE WATERS OF THE MIGHTY RED SEA AND HE SAID I’LL LEAD YOU PUT YOU’RE TRUST IN ME.

C. LAST HE STATES THE REASON FOR THE

FIELDS ARE RIPE READY TO BE HARVESTED.

a. Someone wrote a song that says;

ALL MY CHILDREN WANT TO SIT AROUND MY TABLE BUT ON ONE WANTS TO WORK IN MY FIELDS.

b. Preparing the field for the seed sowing the seed weeding the field then reaping the grain is hard work.

1. But there is no place He may ask you to work in that His love won’t sustain you.

2. There is no work He may call one to do but that He gives detailed direction as to how to do the work, help us do the work then bless us for doing what He called us to do and helped us do,

c. But God didn’t create nor redeem us to just set around His table but to work in His field gathering the grain of the harvest.

D. My friend if we are going to enjoy the harvest when the cold dark night sits in we are going to have to gather in the harvest.

a. Without the gathered harvest we will wither up and die.

b. What are you going to do sit around moaning and growing because the church is slowly but surely withering away or go out and harvest the grain?

c. If we are going to enjoy the harvest at the banquet supper of the lamb we are going to have to gather in the harvest.

d. Look at it this way no harvest no banquet

e. If there is no grain to prepare the banquet there can be no banquet.

g. I like the words of the old hymn that says, JESUS HAS A TABLE SPREAD WHERE THE SAINTS OF GOD ARE FED AND HE INVITES HIS CHILDREN TO COME AND DINE.

1. Note too that if there is no harvest there will not only be no grain to prepare the banquet but there will be no one to enjoy the banquet.

2. I want to be thee not only to partake of the banquet Jesus is preparing but to fellowship witht those that have been brought in from the depths of sin.

3. This banquet Jesus is preparing will be the greatest banquet ever for Paul tells us in I Cor. 2:9 eye hath no seen heither has it entered into the hearts of man the things God has prepared for those that love HIM.

4. I believe this could be applieid to the banquet table being prepared fot the husband and his bride as well as to Heaven the home of the newly wedded couple.