![]() In John 4:35 after Jesus ministered to the woman at the well He told His disciples, “Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” Now is the time. Today is the day we don’t know about tomorrow. Everywhere He went in His earthly ministry, He taught, He preached, and He healed all kinds of sicknesses. Jesus did not wait for the people to come to Him, He went into “all the cities and villages.” Even when not welcomed, He never overlooked even the slightest village. Let me recount three key qualities we need as laborers from the model Jesus left us: zeal, compassion, and cost. As His very disciples we too must go work in the harvest. Jesus already made the call to His disciples to labor in the harvest. Leaders, the King will come again soon! The urgency of the hour requires the heralding of the trumpet message for the arrival of King Jesus for us to hear. In the Old Testament, it signaled impending danger or the arrival of a king. The Lord of the Harvest, Jesus-God incarnated in flesh, was calling disciples to multiplication as missionary laborers in the field. He saw a great and plentiful spiritual harvest ready to reap, yet few laborers. Jesus couldn’t help but view the multitudes around Him through the lens of mission. ![]() (37) Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. The author recounted the narrative of the harvest saying:Īnd Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.(36) But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Matthew 9:35-37 segues between Jesus healing and restoring the multitudes and commissioning of His 12 apostles.
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