#1,042 – Send Out Laborers into the Harvest (Matthew 9:35–38)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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May we constantly be on our knees calling out to the Lord of the harvest to raise up laborers for the advancement of the gospel to the ends of the earth.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net.
0:05.0	Matthew chapter 9 verses 35 through 38
0:10.0	and Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction.
0:19.0	When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them because they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a
0:26.6	shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
0:35.0	Therefore, pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. I read this whole passage, Matthew 9, 35 to 38, because more than just
0:51.5	about any other place in the Bible, this informs how we pray for people who have never heard the gospel.
1:06.2	The whole picture here is Jesus seeing
1:10.7	crowds of people who are like sheep without a shepherd.
1:17.0	So picture when we talk about unreached people,
1:20.0	talk about people who have never heard the gospel. They are the epitome of sheep without a shepherd, without the good shepherd. They have no knowledge of Jesus. It's not just like people around me in Metro Washington, D.C. who have knowledge about Jesus, most, most people, there's isolated instances where this may not be the case, but most people have
1:45.4	knowledge of Jesus, awareness of Jesus.
1:48.5	And yes, like we long for them to come to know Jesus, But when we talk about the unreached, we're talking about people who
1:56.1	don't even have knowledge about Jesus as the good shepherd, as the one who died on a cross.
2:02.1	Like I'm thinking about people I've met in remote regions where
2:07.0	they've literally never even heard his name.
2:10.0	What do you know about Jesus?
2:12.0	I don't know anything, like is that somebody in a nearby village? I have no idea who that is
2:16.1	Sheep without a shepherd and Jesus says he has compassion for them. He loves them. He desires their salvation.
2:26.0	Even the language of harvest is a picture. We've seen this ever since the beginning of
2:31.2	Matthew, Matthew chapter 3 3 harvest is a picture of
2:34.7	coming judgment. We see this all throughout the Gospels that there's coming a day
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