The Harvest is Pentiful

Here are Three Indicators of the Urgent Need

Indicator 1: It is Urgent because of the Biblical Mandate

Jesus said the Harvest is “plentiful” in v.37= The Greek word Polus: “many, numerous, great”

John 4:35 LEB

Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months and the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

Luke 19:10 LEB

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save those who are lost.”

Matthew 28:19–20 LEB

Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the age.”

God uses some of the most unlikely candidates to be his “harvesters”- Moses stuttered. (Ex.3); Amos, was not a prophet or a prophet’s son, but a fig-picker. (Amos 7:14,15); Jeremiah was a developing baby when God placed a call upon his life (Jer.1:5,6); Samuel was a child when God called him (I Sam.3:10); The 12 were unschooled, ordinary men. (Acts 4:13) Paul was bi-vocational, a tent maker, yet highly educated. God expects each of us to respond to His call- there are no excuses!

Indicator 2: It is Urgent because of the Overwhelming Need

There are more than 200 million non-believing people amongst the more than 300 million people in the USA. Approximately 65% of the people in the USA do not attend church regularly.

There are more than 4 billion non-believing people amongst the more than 6 billion people in the world who need to believe in Jesus Christ. Africa has 41.2% of their population under 15 years of age. North America has 20.6% of their population under 15 years of age. Latin America has 29.7% of their population under 15 years of age. Asia has 27.8% of their population under 15 years of age. Europe has 15.6% of their population under 15 years of age. In Asia there are 254 cities of over 1 million people, 11 of which are over 10 million people. 28 of the world’s largest cities are in Asia.

Indicator 3: It is Urgent because of Their Eternal Destiny

Harvest” that is left in the field ultimately rots. Apart from Christ we have no hope.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon said: “Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.”

Mark Cahill writes: “If I threw a birthday party for you where every guest would receive $100,000 in cash & a Mercedes Convertible, and I gave you 50 tickets to your party, how many people would you have at your party? No doubt you’d have 50. In fact, if on the way to your party you realized that you had a ticket remaining in your pocket, and you saw a homeless man, you would probably give him your extra ticket. Isn’t that similar to what God has done for us. He has given us a pocketful of tickets, and it’s our job to hand out ticket after ticket to a place called heaven. Do you realize how many Christians are going to die & stand in front of God with a pocket full of tickets to heaven? You had all these tickets to heaven. You could have given them away to anyone you wanted to. But you died with your pocket filled with tickets to heaven. Our goal should be that as we’re about to die, we hand our last ticket to a police officer or an ambulance driver or an emergency room doctor; & then we’ll stand in front of the throne of God with no tickets left in our pockets.”

Application

Ask God to begin to break your heart and give you eyes for the plentiful harvest. Pray for: “People who will reach people who need to know Jesus.”