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INTRO
Thank you and invite them to lunch after
Many years ago before I got married, I had a good friend of mine sit me down and describe to me the reality of what marriage would be like.
Before this conversation, my idea of marriage was complete bliss.
It’s going to be amazing everyday, my wife and I will never argue, we will always be happy with each other, it’s going to be a breeze and I will enjoy every day.
But thankfully, by God’s grace this friend of mine prepared me for what the journey of marriage would be really like.
All the ups and downs the challenges the joys in order to prepare for what is will take to walk marriage out.
Today Jesus is going to prepare us as well.
This morning our whole focus is taking the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
This is the call of every Christian and of every church.
But this task will not be easy as we will see, and so let’s all come with humble hearts and let Jesus’ words prepare us, change us, so we can all be a part of seeing the Gospel go to the ends of the earth.
MAIN POINT OF THE SERMON: Since Jesus has called and empowered you, we can face difficulty, danger, and our distractions as we take the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
The call is difficult, dangerous, urgent, but Glorious.
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We can face difficulty
The Lord appointed seventy two others and he sent them ahead of him in pairs to every town where He himself was about to go
Story of missionary to China? died in Taiwan
It will be difficult
“the harvest is abundant but the workers are few”
Jesus is going to describe the work of mission with a farming illustration.
I know we have several farmers in the church, and Franklin county is a farming community.
I want you to imagine a huge field with loads of crops.
Wheat, rye, barley, corn.
It is ripe, it needs to be harvested.
This is what Jesus is describing.
For farmers, maybe I will get an Amen here, harvest time is usually the busiest and hardest time of year.
It’s good, but it’s a difficult process to go and work at bringing the crops in before it rains, or before it ruins.
Not only is harvesting busy, but planting for the harvest is busy.
Here is what Jesus is saying to His apostles and to you.
Taking the Gospel to the ends of the earth, will be difficult.
There will be seasons where you plant and plant and plant just hoping for the rain to come(story of missionary who did this, or us in Taiwan).
Then there will be seasons where it’s going to take work to disciple and bring in the harvest.
The reality of this harvest is not that it’s just abundant, but the workers are few.
Can you imagine trying to plant and bring in a harvest and there weren’t enough workers?
Bad things happen when there aren’t enough workers.
Like not being able to get my side of Guacamole at Chipotole because they are understaffed:)
10/40 WINDOW.
69% of the world’s population live here, 63% of unreached people groups live here, 82% of the world’s poor live here.
Jesus looks at this place and says the harvest is abundant!
With so many unreached people groups here we would think the church is sending all their missionaries here.
But here is the reality: only 3% of missionaries work here, and only 1% of finances go here.
Let that sink in.
Here is a huge harvest that is abundant, and yet Jesus says the workers are few.
How does Jesus say we respond to this need?
Prayer.
Not clever recruiting schemes, not another book, but Jesus says pray to the Lord of the harvest.
But by getting on our knees as a people and begin to pray for these parts of the world.
70,000+ people die everyday in the unreached world without Jesus.
You who are working, pray that He would send more workers into His harvest.
Pastor Feng and praying for the church while he cleaned the bathrooms and mopped the floors.
God answered his prayers.
He is faithful.
They planted 10 churches, baptizing people multiple times a year.
It all began with prayer.
But the good news in all of this, is that Christian since Jesus has called you and He has empowered you, we can face the difficult task of taking the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
Not many people sign up for a difficult task.
There were days for me that I wanted to walk away from the church when we planted.
It is a hard work.
The only way we face is if we remember Jesus has called us to this work and He has empowered us to do it.
2.We can face danger.
“Now go I am sending you out like lambs among wolves”
Not only will this task be difficult.
But church family this will be a dangerous task.
Can you imagine you were one of these seventy Christians and you were listening to Jesus and HE said okay, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
And at that point you were like, sign me up!
I want to go an be a part of this.
But then Jesus continues and says, okay, well Go buddy!
Go get it!
I’m sending you out like lambs among wolves.
Who would sign up for this?
Don’t we want Jesus to say, “I’m sending you out like a conquering army”.
Don’t we wish that Jesus would go Old Testament and say Go out like Joshua, conquer!
No.
We get sent out like lambs among wolves.
Lambs are not a symbol of strength.
I don’t know of one sports team that is called The Lambs.
Why?
Because they are a weak needy creature.
And we all know what happens when a little lamb wanders off and gets found by a pack of wolves.
We’ve all seen discovery channel.
Not pretty.
Jesus is using a very vivid description of what it will be like to obey His call.
It will be dangerous.
To take the Gospel to the ends of the earth will require the church going into some of the most dangerous places on earth.
three times here it doesn’t say everyone is going to listen!
People will reject you.
some of us struggle and say I will believe in Jesus as long there is no risks.
But Jesus makes it plain.
The call of a Christian is to suffer.
Our faith and our obedience to Jesus leads towards danger, towards suffering, not always away from it.
A close friend of mine would go out into the marketplace every week.
I joined him a few times.
We would stand up on a box in the middle of this ridiculously busy market.
People buying fruit people trying to run their businesses.
There is a sea of people.
We would take turns and stand on the box and preach the Gospel in Chinese.
We weren’t stoned, in fact because Taiwanese are so hospitable they would sometimes bring us coffee.
But after months of this, my friend Scott came to me and said that the Taiwanese business owners came to him, and asked if he would please leave.
They said they were just tired of hearing his voice over and over again.
His response, although discouraged, was a belief that because Jesus has called him and empowered him, he can face this kind of rejection.
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