The Joy of the Harvest

The work of Christ ushers in a new age.

John 4:31–38 ESV

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. 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.”

The laws of nature hold that harvest follows an intervening period after the sowing of seed.

The kingdom of God operates on a different principle.

In the Kingdom sowing and harvest operate simultaneously.

Amos 9:13 ESV

13 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.

The work of Christ is not about cultivating plants but saving people.

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.”

Our mission is to connect sinners to the Savior.

Harvest Day is not about a building it is about the body.

Christ didn’t commission us to raise walls but to reach the world.