THE GREAT COMMISSION OR THE GREAT OMISSION?

HARVEST THE GREAT COMMISSION OR THE GREAT OMISSION?

GO & OBEY • Galatians 5:14-15 Love your neighbour as you love yourself. But if you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying one another

LAST WILL & TESTAMENT • Matt 28:19-20 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

THE HARVEST • John 4:34-39: Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. Matt 9 : ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask/Pray the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

HARVEST ANALOGY • Matt 9 : 19-20 The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask/Pray the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.

GOD’S GARDEN • Cor 3:5-9 Paul writes, “What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.

FACTS TO REMEMBER • we are servants / labourers • we work for God • we all have different roles and responsibilities in God’s garden. • God is the One who causes the growth. we are all one in God’s program

3 KEY PRE-REQUISITES • COMPASSION : Jesus went through all the towns all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Matt9:35-37

KEY PRE-REQUISITES • HEART FULL OF FAITH • THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: Acts 1:8 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

4 STAGES IN SOUL GARDENING • 1.prepare the soil • 2 sow the seed • 3 cultivate the soil • 4 reap the harvest

PREPARE THE SOIL • 1 THES 5:17 NEVER STOP PRAYING 1 TIM 2:1-4 PRAY FOR ALL PEOPLE BECAUSE GOD DESIRES ALL MEN TO BE SAVED AND TO UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH. • WE MUST HAVE A PRESENCE

Stage 2 SOW THE SEED. TELL T : TRUTH OF OUR OWN LIVES E: EXPLAIN L: LIVING I Thes 2:8 so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well. L: LEAD

STAGE 3 CULTIVATE THE SOIL • Jesus was called “a friend of tax collectors and sinners” (Matt 11:19) • The average person requires 7-14 presentations of the gospel before they are finally persuaded

STAGE 4 REAP THE HARVEST 1.Jesus “prepared the soil” when He asked the Samaritan woman for a drink. 2.Sowed the seed: He knew everything she had done / yet offered her the living water of eternal life. 3.Cultivated the seed -got involved in her personal circumstances / answered her theological questions. 4.Jesus reaped the harvest. John 4.

URGENCY OF THE END TIME Luke 21:25–26strange signs in the sun, moon, stars…nations will be in turmoil, perplexed…people will be terrified… • a fruitful harvest requires a faithful witness • “the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.”

THE GREAT COMMISSION OR THE GREAT OMISSION?