Jesus' Farm

Intro: During the autumn of 1621, at least 90 Wampanoag joined 52 English people at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, to mark a successful harvest. It is remembered today as the “First Thanksgiving,” although no one back then used that term. In fact, much of the so-called First Thanksgiving story was created decades and centuries later. As a result, many assumptions about the festival at Plymouth and its connection to Thanksgiving traditions today are based more in fiction than fact. In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the 1621 harvest celebration, this display explores some lesser-known perspectives on the event and the origins of the federal Thanksgiving holiday.

Working at the the trucking yard in the Alfalfa field. the seed planted, the weeds pulled, water moved, the drying, the bailing

Interrogative: what dos it look to be working in the field for Christ.

Prop: We all need to be working for the salvation of others.

Trans: we will see this in the seed sower, the growth given, and Harvest Handled

The Seed Sower

John 4:25–26 ESV

The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”

New Testament (4:7–26—A Gift for a Samaritan Sinner)

Later Samaritan documents explain the Samaritan concept of a messiah: the Taheb, or restorer, was a prophet like Moses (Deut 18:15–18)

John 4:27–29 ESV

27 Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”

Disciples Return Confused

Don’t ask the Woman what do you want?

Don’t ask Jesus why do you walk with her?

She Runs !!

With the new focus she leaves her jar behind

Her testimony worthless 1. woman, 2. her sin

Her staging - John 4:29

John 4:29 ESV

29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”

Ill: that's how we should be when we see the truth we should leave the shame and the guilt behind and strive towards telling People what God has Done, To us and for us

Trans: Now that we saw how we can be working for the salvation of others. through The Seed Sower. lets watch

The Growth Given

John 4:30–34 ESV

30 They went out of the town and were coming to him. 31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

Here you see people coming to Jesus and the care Disciples have for Jesus

As people crowd around Jesus they are concerned for Him.

I have food that you do not know.

Matthew 4:4 ESV

4 But he answered, “It is written, “ ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”

Luke 2:49 NKJV

49 And He said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?”

When we do the lords work it can be so Exiting we may even forget about are self's

John 4:35–38 ESV

35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. 36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

Jesus talking in Human termes

4 months = From seeding to Harvest

White Harvest= Barley turned white at harvest time

The same farmer that planted harvested

Jesus Talking About Spiritual

some will sow = Giving the Gospel

on average a person will hear the Gospel 3-4 times before being saved

some will have people as examples = Kenny / swearing

others will harvest = lead them to Christ

you just might be present for this

you may not prayed in agony over them.

Isaiah 9:3 ESV

3 You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.

2 Corinthians 2:15–16 ESV

15 For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, 16 to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

Luke 15:7 ESV

7 Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Ill: completing a checklist satisfaction. how much greater to be working for God.

Trans: now that we saw how we can be working for the salvation of others. through The Seed Sower and The Growth Given. lets watch

The Harvest Handled

John 4:39–40 ESV

39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.

A simple testimony: this was me. this is me now because of Jesus

Hes told me Everything I have ever DONE!!

John 4:41–42 ESV

41 And many more believed because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”

But it shouldn't stop there.

they need to be tout = Discipleship

Jesus lived with them for a couple of days

Ill:

Conclusion