Going to church, reading the bible, listening to Christian music will not advance your spiritual life. These activities may give you more understanding but until you are ready to lay down your life and take up your cross this leads nowhere.
What I am talking about is the sacrifice of self to advance the cause of Jesus Christ in the world. There is a destiny that God had for each of us that only we can personally discover. We can discover it only by detaching from the world and making ourselves available for the Holy Spirit. By detaching from the world--now you have time--the commodity that most Christians are not willing to give.
Jesus said, "Self-help is not help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, to finding yourself, your true self. (Matthew 16:25)
"God has planted eternity in the human heart." (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
"Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the work I plan for him is not fit for the Kingdom of God." (Luke 9:62)
"The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me." (Acts 20:24)
"We have been sent to speak for Christ." (2 Corinthians 5:20)
"We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:10)
Albert Finch
www.thekeys2kingdom.com
What I am talking about is the sacrifice of self to advance the cause of Jesus Christ in the world. There is a destiny that God had for each of us that only we can personally discover. We can discover it only by detaching from the world and making ourselves available for the Holy Spirit. By detaching from the world--now you have time--the commodity that most Christians are not willing to give.
Jesus said, "Self-help is not help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, to finding yourself, your true self. (Matthew 16:25)
"God has planted eternity in the human heart." (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
"Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the work I plan for him is not fit for the Kingdom of God." (Luke 9:62)
"The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me." (Acts 20:24)
"We have been sent to speak for Christ." (2 Corinthians 5:20)
"We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:10)
Albert Finch
www.thekeys2kingdom.com
Lord Of The Harvest
Posted 08-15-2021 at 09:39 PM by Albert Finch
We see that the engine of the Gospel message that drives it into the world--is His presence and glory. It is not a tantalizing self-induced experience that produces no fruit, but rather an illuminating light which leads the world to Jesus and becomes the pillar of fire that leads His Church into the world. Yet often in contemporary circles, we see the opposite in effect.
We want to privatize His glory and keep it shrouded in personal experience, assuming the world will simply "catch on".
WE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
Look at the words of Jesus carefully, "No man after he has lit a candle puts it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick so that they that come in may see the light..." (Luke 11:33).
"YOU are the LIGHT of the WORLD" (Matthew 5:14).
We have become the transfiguring light of His presence and are the only hope of the world to see it. "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory..." (Colossians 1:27).
Get ready for God to move you out of the confines and limitations of what you have misunderstood in the past about aggressively advancing His Kingdom.
OUR MISSION
Our job description now is to reveal the Light of eternity in a dark world void of it. We are light to the world and are here to TRANSFIGURE and TRANSFORM it.
In Luke 10:2, harvest is literally mentioned three times, "Then He said to them, 'The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.'"
A "reaping or crop" is not "going" to be ready. It "was already" ripe, and the only hindrance to that reaping were the workers or laborers. That word "laborer" can be interpreted in the ancient text as " teacher." This world needs to be DISCIPLED into the Word of God.
TEACHING AND PREACHING
We can never disqualify the necessity of teaching His Word. It's the very reason the glory was given and that divine power was granted -- to "be His witnesses." Look at Philip as he encounters the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8:26-39.
Philip became the prophet to Africa's royal court sent by God along the roadside. He became the teacher that illuminated the ancient text of Isaiah revealing Christ to him. Then he was a mighty evangelist who baptized the man in water along the way after the eunuch openly confessed, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God..." (verse 37).
STEPPING INTO OUR DESTINY
Rather than dissect God's power into cookie-cutter theologies, let's fully step into the brilliant light of the "Lord of the Harvest" and become His prophets, kings, priests, teachers and evangelists to the world. Three effects of this:
In that exact moment, the world begins to press around us like moths to the flame.
We suddenly realize we have entered a harvest that is a result of the answer to Jesus’ ancient prayer, "..pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest"
You become that laborer and you become that harvester of a great glorious white harvest that continues to unfold as you become instrumental in advancing God’s Kingdom.
GREAT PROPHETIC ADVENTURE
The harvest we face today from the mouth of Jesus two thousand years ago. Like Philip, we run to it! This great adventure awaits us, and His glory will carry us into the white light of His presence because we "are a city set upon a hill that cannot be hid" and we are the "Leukos" or "light of the world."
We want to privatize His glory and keep it shrouded in personal experience, assuming the world will simply "catch on".
WE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
Look at the words of Jesus carefully, "No man after he has lit a candle puts it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick so that they that come in may see the light..." (Luke 11:33).
"YOU are the LIGHT of the WORLD" (Matthew 5:14).
We have become the transfiguring light of His presence and are the only hope of the world to see it. "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory..." (Colossians 1:27).
Get ready for God to move you out of the confines and limitations of what you have misunderstood in the past about aggressively advancing His Kingdom.
OUR MISSION
Our job description now is to reveal the Light of eternity in a dark world void of it. We are light to the world and are here to TRANSFIGURE and TRANSFORM it.
In Luke 10:2, harvest is literally mentioned three times, "Then He said to them, 'The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.'"
A "reaping or crop" is not "going" to be ready. It "was already" ripe, and the only hindrance to that reaping were the workers or laborers. That word "laborer" can be interpreted in the ancient text as " teacher." This world needs to be DISCIPLED into the Word of God.
TEACHING AND PREACHING
We can never disqualify the necessity of teaching His Word. It's the very reason the glory was given and that divine power was granted -- to "be His witnesses." Look at Philip as he encounters the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8:26-39.
Philip became the prophet to Africa's royal court sent by God along the roadside. He became the teacher that illuminated the ancient text of Isaiah revealing Christ to him. Then he was a mighty evangelist who baptized the man in water along the way after the eunuch openly confessed, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God..." (verse 37).
STEPPING INTO OUR DESTINY
Rather than dissect God's power into cookie-cutter theologies, let's fully step into the brilliant light of the "Lord of the Harvest" and become His prophets, kings, priests, teachers and evangelists to the world. Three effects of this:
In that exact moment, the world begins to press around us like moths to the flame.
We suddenly realize we have entered a harvest that is a result of the answer to Jesus’ ancient prayer, "..pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest"
You become that laborer and you become that harvester of a great glorious white harvest that continues to unfold as you become instrumental in advancing God’s Kingdom.
GREAT PROPHETIC ADVENTURE
The harvest we face today from the mouth of Jesus two thousand years ago. Like Philip, we run to it! This great adventure awaits us, and His glory will carry us into the white light of His presence because we "are a city set upon a hill that cannot be hid" and we are the "Leukos" or "light of the world."
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