He says the harvest truly is plenteous and the laborers are few
Pray you therefore the law of the harvest that he'll send forth laborers
Here's the service that's needed
laborers
He didn't say pray and ask God to get the job done he can do it all but know he said pray the Lord the
Harvest to send forth the laborers men are needed
God needs men
He needs laborers in the vineyard he needs laborers in the field to gather the harvest
But what kind of men does he need?
laborers
When you pass by men on the street, do you ever think there is a soul that's going to spend eternity somewhere
Ten million years from there that man's going to be either in heaven or in hell. Do you think about that?
Or you just see him as another fellow who'll soon pass off the stage
Christ doesn't see like we see he placed a value on him
he didn't see him as blades of grass or pebbles by the seashore or grains of sand on the beach, but he saw them as
Ripened wheat
ready to be harvested and
then when he pictured the multitudes as
As a plenty of harvest there's also the thought of danger
You see when a field is ripe and it's ready to be harvested there's a danger
There's the danger of not getting it in
It must be harvested
The harvest won't wait
When a man's fields are ripe and it's ready to be harvested
Immediately, he goes out and begins to hire laborers and get as many people as he can he can't wait
He must have a certain number of people because he's got a crop that must be gathered
Here is an immediate need as well as a danger. It must be taken care of now
He can't get a little bit in September a little more in October a little more in November and a little more in December
The job must be done
There's a danger that's an immediate need I
Don't know what it bothers you not but it certainly bothers me and I'm burdened more than I've ever been about it
What a great potential we have in
how many people they are here to be reached with the gospel and when I look at how little we're doing I
wonder sometimes if
God doesn't look down and and say why don't you speed up?
Why don't you enlist more people?
Why don't some others get busy in the field and and gather in the grain that's already right?
There's a danger once the grain falls too late
When the man dies without Jesus Christ is too late I
Wonder
How much grain is already fallen
And that's gone. There's absolutely no way to go back and get it. Here's a danger once it's lost
It's lost forever when a man dies without Jesus Christ. He goes into hell. It's an irretrievable loss
There's no possibility of ever getting loud
You see there's an immediate need there's a danger implied
And we seem to be unconcerned about
And
When he likened the multitudes to a plenious harvest
There's the thought here that the masses were accessible
I know it's argued nowadays that people won't listen to you. You can tell them they'll turn a day up here, but I I
Beg the differently people will hear you
Man has a hunger in his heart for God. He's built that way
There's an avoid in his heart
There's an aching in his heart that only Jesus Christ can satisfy and man is willing to listen
but the problem is
Not with the harvest but with the labors
Well, you said I went out this fellow wouldn't get say well you quit
Gotta kept going I
Find out that a lot of rebellious young folk. Listen
The truth is you haven't been telling them anything. Oh
You may go down say well you dirty bunch of morons. You ought to go get a haircut
Listen, why don't you lead him to Jesus and Jesus lead him to the barber?
Now listen
The
Harvest tool is plenius. The masses are accessible
But we let the liquor crowd have it. We let the cigarette crowd have it
We let the dope crowd have it and we're afraid to spend any money to reach all the Jews
Cost a lot. Well, wait a minute. Don't you think the souls are worth it?
I'll never be satisfied standing in the edge of the field
Getting one grain occasionally
I'll never be satisfied
Well, I'm not in the middle of the field with a sickle in both hands and it's falling everywhere in somebody's grab
Maybe you will but I can't
There's the idea that the masses were
accessible they're there
Tomorrow in your in your office. You're gonna have three or four people unsaved. They're accessible
You're gonna have lunch tomorrow with somebody's unsaved they're accessible
You're gonna sit there and talk about who done your hair up last week
Are you gonna talk about a new bedroom suit you bought you're gonna waste 45 minutes doing nothing
Day after day to find out that grain falls in the field. No, the multitudes are excessive
The harvest tool is plenius. Here it is boys. They're out there. They're standing up
They're saying come get me