What Joy at the Harvest Key Passage Even now, the person that harvests the crop is being paid. He is gathering crops for eternal life. So now the person that plants can be happy together with the person that harvests. It is true when we say, One person plants, but another person harvests the crop. I sent you to harvest a crop that you did not work for. Other people did the work, and you get the profit from their work. — John 4:36-38 ERV (Read Full Text) Key Thought When people come to Christ, when they repent and turn their lives from sin, there is joy. This is the joy of Gods harvest. For the vineyard owner, it is the fresh taste of ripe grapes, it is the sweet juice running down his chin, and it is the joy of a full harvest. For the planter, it is the dusty smell of grain as it runs through his fingers, the heaviness of bags of freshly milled flour, and the smell of baking bread. For the gardener, it is the sweet taste of fresh vegetables bursting with flavor. For those of us in the Kingdom, it is the wet embrace of one newly baptized, it is the cry of Hallelujah! from each friend who has prayed for this moment, and it is the celebration of angels as the lost have been brought home to God. The harvest is about joy! Lets anticipate, pray, and work for the great harvest of God! Prayer O dear Father, God of heaven and earth, please let me experience the joy of your harvest in my day like in the days written about in the book of Acts. Make this time the day of salvation and make me one of your instruments of the harvest. In the name the Lord of the harvest, Jesus the Redeemer, I pray. Amen. Related Scriptures Then Jesus told them this story: Suppose one of you has 100 sheep, but he loses one of them. Then he will leave the other 99 sheep alone and go out and look for the lost sheep. The man will continue to search for the lost sheep until he finds it. And when he finds the sheep, the man is very happy. The man carries the sheep to his home. He goes to his friends and neighbors and says to them, Be happy with me because I found my lost sheep! In the same way, I tell you, heaven is a happy place when one sinner changes his heart. There is more joy for that one sinner than there is for 99 good people that dont need to change their hearts. Suppose a woman has ten silver coins, but she loses one of them. The woman will take a light and clean the house. She will look carefully for the coin until she finds it. — Luke 15:3-8 So Jesus came to them and said, All authority (power) in heaven and on earth is given to me. So go and make followers of all people in the world. Baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach those people to obey everything that I have told you. You can be sure that I will be with you always. I will continue with you until the end of the world. — Matthew 28:18-20 The kingdom of heaven is like a man that owned some land. The man grew grapes on his land. One morning, the man went out very early to hire some other people to work in his field. The man agreed to pay the workers one silver coin for working that day. Then the man sent the people into the field to work. At about nine oclock the man went to the market place and saw some other people standing there. These people were doing nothing. So the man said to them, If you go and work in my field, I will pay you what your work is worth. So the people went to work in the field. The man went out again about twelve oclock and again at three oclock. Both times the man hired some other people to work in his field. At about five oclock the man went to the market place again. He saw some other people standing there. The man asked them, Why did you stand here all day doing nothing? The people said, No person gave us a job. The man said to them, Then you can go and work in my field. At the end of the day, the owner of the field said to the boss of all the workers, Call the workers and pay all of them. Start by paying the last people I hired. Then pay all of them, ending with the workers I hired first. The workers that were hired at five oclock came to get their pay. Each worker got one silver coin. Then those workers that were hired first came to get their pay. Those workers thought they would be paid more than the other workers. But each one of those workers also received one silver coin. When they got their silver coin, these workers complained to the man that owned the land. The workers said, Those people were hired last and worked only one hour. But you paid them the same as us. And we worked hard all day in the hot sun. But the man that owned the field said to one of those workers, Friend, I am being fair with you. You agreed to work for one silver coin. Right? So take your pay and go. I want to give the man that was hired last the same pay that I gave you.I can do what I want with my own money. Are you jealous because I am good {to those people}? So the people that have the last place now will have the first place in the future. And the people that have the first place now will have the last place in the future. — Matthew 20:1-16
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