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Luke chapter 10, verse 2, and Jesus said to them, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

Oh, there's so much here in this short verse.

Obviously get the imagery, just talking about harvest,

which we see all throughout Scripture as a picture of, one, bringing in the fruit of the harvest, the grain in the

field. At the same time, we also see all throughout scripture, harvest as a picture of judgment

for the chaff and the imagery is clear.

There is coming a day when every single person in the world,

including each one of us and every single person around us that we will interact with today,

will one day stand before Jesus as judge and our eternity,

their eternity will hinge on whether or not we trusted in Jesus for salvation from our sin.

That judgment day is coming. And what Jesus is saying here through this imagery

is the harvest is plentiful. There are people ready to hear this salvation, ready to be brought

into the kingdom all around you and all around the world. It's plentiful. The problem is not there on people who are ready

to hear the gospel to be saved. The problem is there are few laborers who are going into the

harvest field and doing the work of making Jesus known. So Jesus says, pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest, the Lord over the harvest, intercede before

him to send out laborers into the harvest fields. Don't miss this. Jesus is commanding you and me to pray

for more laborers, for more men and women fill with his spirit

going into the harvest fields right around us and all around the world making the good news of

his love known the problem is not there aren't people ready to hear the problem is there

aren't followers of Jesus going into

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