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Preach The Gospel: It Is Harvest Time
Contributed by Dr. Stanley Vasu on Jun 3, 2007 (message contributor)
Summary: THIS SERMON IS AN URGENT CALL TO PREACH THE GOSPEL AS IT IS HARVEST TIME AND HIGHLIGHTS TEN MAJOR ISSUES FOR CONSIDERATION.
PREACH THE GOSPEL: IT IS HARVEST TIME
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OUTLINE
1. THE HARVEST IS PLENTIFUL BUT THE LABOURERS ARE FEW
2. DO NOT BE ASHAMED TO CONFESS CHRIST BEFORE MEN
3. DO NOT HAVE THE BLOOD OF SINNERS ON YOUR HAND
4. FOLLOW CHRIST AND HE WILL MAKE YOU A FISHER OF MEN
5. LEAD MANY TO RIGHTEOUSNESS AND YOU WILL SHINE AS STARS FOR EVER
6. BECOME ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN IN ORDER TO WIN SOULS
7. BE EMPOWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO WITNESS FOR CHRIST
8. THERE IS MORE JOY IN HEAVEN OVER ONE SINNER WHO REPENTS
9. THOSE WHO SOW IN TEARS WILL REAP WITH JOY
10.BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO ARE PERSECUTED FOR THE SAKE OF CHRIST
THE MESSAGE
PREACH THE GOSPEL: IT IS HARVEST TIME
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1. THE HARVEST IS PLENTIFUL BUT THE LABOURERS ARE FEW
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.
He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.
"My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
Do you not say, ’Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.
Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.
Thus the saying ’One sows and another reaps’ is true.
I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."
2. DO NOT BE ASHAMED TO CONFESS CHRIST BEFORE MEN
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.
What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?
If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
3. DO NOT HAVE THE BLOOD OF SINNERS ON YOUR HAND
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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"Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.
When I say to the wicked, ’O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you do not speak out to dissuade him from his ways, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood.
But if you do warn the wicked man to turn from his ways and he does not do so, he will die for his sin, but you will have saved yourself.
4. FOLLOW CHRIST AND HE WILL MAKE YOU A FISHER OF MEN
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.
"Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men."
At once they left their nets and followed him.
5. LEAD MANY TO RIGHTEOUSNESS AND YOU WILL SHINE AS STARS FOR EVER
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
