Title: The Harvester's Mission
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Sunday day sermon
Text: John 4:27-38
Title: The Harvester's Mission
If you look at the farmers, they sow seeds in spring and take care of the rice so that it grows well by fertilizing it with weeding in the summer. Then, in the fall, when the rice turns yellow, it is cut with a sickle, brought into the house, and then piled up by making ragi sticks in the yard of the house. Then, the blade is caught and threshing is performed. The farmer worked so hard from spring to autumn to see this very day.
God's work is the same as that of a farmer. From the human eye, it seems that 6,000 years have passed so far, but from God's point of view, only spring (2,000 years) has passed, and summer (2,000 years) has passed and the harvest (2,000 years) is coming to an end. All that is left for the farmer (God) is to put the straw sheaves collected from this rice paddy and that paddy field into the thresher and pick up only the grains. Here, when we speak of a harvester, the harvester must first be fully armed.
This is especially important when classifying people into wheat and chaff. At any rate, if he himself cannot stand right in the truth, so he classifies the wheat as chaff, and classifies the chaff as wheat, he himself has no way of avoiding the judgment of hellfire with the chaff. Even for this reason, the mission of the harvester can be said to be very important.
If we were given the task of sorting out God's wheat in our present form, we would all put in a colander for those who are just like us. If we make such absurd mistakes, we will never be able to survive the sin of disturbing God's work. Even if I die for my sins, God's work must never be revealed by mistake. Therefore, the mission of the harvester is to stand in the truth, starting with himself. This is because it is possible to sort the grains without mistakes.
The fact that God entrusted us with the mission of a harvester through the grace of Jesus Christ does not mean that we are good enough to entrust us with the mission of a harvester. Even when I look back at you and myself, there is nothing we can be proud of. If there is something we should be proud of, it is that we have more envy, jealousy, and greed than others. will be able
But God calls these wicked people who are too weak and says that he will wash them with the word and use them as harvest workers in the last days. Even for the sin of not living according to the Holy Spirit fully, we have to be tortured three or four times already to be cheap. Where is that? How much have we all abused the Lord who has come in spirit, and have we not explicitly rejected the Lord's words according to our own thoughts?
Nevertheless, the Lord was scourging us with the rod of unchanging love for all of us until the end, hoping that we would all be well until the end. Thanks to the Lord's bitter rod, we were all able to look back on ourselves even this much.
Now we all have to run non-stop on the last remaining part of the 8th ridge. As for the thought of the flesh, since we have only looked ahead and ran, you may want to take a break at this point. But this is not a place for us to rest. We must not forget that this is an enemy camp infested with enemy troops. The only place where we can rest comfortably is in the arms of the Lord.
And everything we eat and drink in this world is poison to us. The bread given by the world looks delicious and full at the moment, but it is just the bread that only makes the body fat. If we want eternal life, we must eat even the bread of the flesh as the Lord gives us. And you must know how to receive and eat the bread of eternal life that comes from the Word.
The words of the spiritual Lord, no matter how insignificant or insignificant they may appear, there is life in them, so those who receive them and eat them will come to life even if they are dead. However, no matter how glamorous and plausible the words are, the words that do not come from the Lord cannot save the soul.
In order for us to fulfill our duty as harvesters in the last days, we must stand in a position where we ourselves can share the bread of life. There are many good words to listen to with rhetoric in the world. But those words can never save a soul.
Even though I am lacking in speech and lack of personality, those who have the Lord in me can fulfill their mission as a harvester in the last days. There is no other way to become a harvester. It is only if I die and Christ lives in me. To that end, earnestly yearn for me today with the hope that I die and that Jesus lives in me!