Possessing The Land_pt3: Harvest In The Land

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Possessing The Land_pt3: Harvest In The Land

Possessing the land… is there something you are seeking to posses? A promise you are holding onto? Fighting for? Believing for?
This concept comes from the promised land for the Children of Israel.
[WEEK 1] - We learned from the author of Hebrew, that the Israelites entering Canaan (Promised Land), was NOT God’s rest…
It was promised to them...
There was “rest” and “blessing” there...
But, His rest was always righteousness in Christ!
Here’s our theme verse (in light of possessing the land (or promise))...
Matthew 5:5 NIV
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
[WEEK 2] - We learned that following Christ is following after Him, into the Most Holy Place!
Walk in the Spirit (Holy Spirit, candle stand)
Obey the Word (Word, table of showbread)
Offer yourself (Worship, altar of incense)
[THIS WEEK] - Let’s revisit story that came up last week: Jesus with the woman at the well in Samaria.
Let’s observe the meekness that is present in this passage.
Let’s observe where this attitude or disposition between shepherd-and-sheep, master-and-student takes the people involved.
[TAKE AWAY] - There must be a shift in the Church, when it comes to the concept and faith surrounding “possessing the promise” or “possessing the land.”
Each of us are holding onto something - personally - that we are “believing God for.”
[PAYOFF] - But, we have to also consider His heart and His purpose: His Will.
Possessing the land in your own life, must include a personal investment in “THE HARVEST!”
John 4:1–42 NIV
Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John—although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?” Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.” “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.” “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.” Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?” Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” They came out of the town and made their way toward him. Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?” “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a 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.” Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. And because of his words many more became believers. They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
[PAYOFF] - This woman, who was hopeless and in a very bad place, soon took on the very same mission as Christ. In her meekness, she became a minister in a very big way!
God’s mission is the harvest.
Christ died for the harvest.
Our “possessing the land,” includes a personal investment in the harvest.

Harvest in the land

Matthew 9:
Matthew 9:36–38 NIV
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.”
Who are those workers?
Is this not His plan for you? What He has prepared for you?
[QUESTION] - Why do the meek inherit the land?
Because the meek take on the Master’s purpose, and the Mast wants that land!
In this land, we have....

New eyes

Matthew 9:36 NIV
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
We receive HIS eyes!
Thank God for His eyes! It took those eyes to see ME!
Now, I want to see others!
John 4:35 NIV
Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.
In this land, we have....

New mission

Matthew 9:38 NIV
Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
John 4:27 NIV
Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
John 4:32 NIV
But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
John 4:32
John 4:34 NIV
“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

New purpose

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John 4:28–30 NIV
Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
[POINT] - Don’t miss that this newly restored woman, set out on her own mission that day...
John 4:39–42 NIV
Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. And because of his words many more became believers. They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
It’s in interesting observation to note that the Disciples went into the same town, with the same knowledge and experience of Christ, that the woman now had. (Remember, they were doing all the baptising, lately)
They came back with bread (food for flesh)
She came back with harvest (food for spirit - mission/purpose)

Take Away

Matthew 9:35 NIV
Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.

Possessing the land includes The Harvest - Your community!

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