Harvest

living today for the coming harvest

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Questions to ask

What role does “harvest teaching” play in the

teaching of Jesus?

Why would Jesus teach on end times?

Is there something we should know that would help

us?

What is a “end of the age?”

How did Jesus deal with “the harvest?”

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Jesus sees the harvest in two ways

As a time of opportunity here

and now

As a time of final judgment

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The Harvest in Jesus’ teaching

Parable of the soils (Mt 13)

Parable of the wheat and weeds (Mt 13)

The farmer who returns for workers for the harvest

(Mt 20)

The rich farmer who seeks to store up for himself (Lk

12)

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6 lessons from “harvest teachings”

1. The joy of reaping and the responsibility of

investment.

2. Fulfilling your created purpose and fruitfulness.

3. Evangelism and glorifying God

4. God’s blessing on His followers and judgment on

the world

5. Testing your moral and spiritual status

6. The process of time in the Kingdom of God

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Providence

“How does God’s causal power

and authority interact with ours?”

“How does God’s sovereign rule

relate to our free choices?” “How

is God’s government related to the

evil and suffering in this world?”

and “Does prayer have any

influence over God’s providential

decisions?” In other words, how

are we to live our lives in light of

God’s invisible hand?

Sproul, R.C. (2012-11-01).

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What Not To Do

Fear

Be Confused

Be Deceived

Develop a hard heart

Loose Faith (trust)

Become cynical, skeptical

Be Disappointed

Try to do what it is not time to do

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Mat 13:24-30 NASB

24 Jesus presented another parable to them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.

25 "But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away.

26 "But when the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also.

27 "The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?'

28 "And he said to them, 'An enemy has done this!' The slaves *said to him, 'Do you want us, then, to go and gather them up?'

29 "But he *said, 'No; for while you are gathering up the tares, you may uproot the wheat with them.

30 'Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"

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Mat 13:35-39 NASB

35 This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet: "I WILL OPEN MY MOUTH IN PARABLES; I WILL UTTER THINGS HIDDEN SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD."

36 Then He left the crowds and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him and said, "Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field."

37 And He said, "The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

38 and the field is the world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one;

39 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels.

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Rev 14:13-20 NASB

13 And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "so that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow with them."

14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one like a son of man, having a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.

15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying out with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, "Put in your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is ripe."

16 Then He who sat on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.

17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.

18 Then another angel, the one who has power over fire, came out from the altar; and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Put in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, because her grapes are ripe."

19 So the angel swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the clusters from the vine of the earth, and threw them into the great wine press of the wrath of God.

20 And the wine press was trodden outside the city, and blood came out from the wine press, up to the horses' bridles, for a distance of two hundred miles.

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Summery for part 1

Live in the Kingdom of God.

Find God’s way for you to live as light in a dark world

In the present moments, live to bear eternal fruit

Overcome fear and the fear of death

Look beyond the natural and develop spiritual sight

to see God at work in our world

Don’t waist your trials

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