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[0:00] A pastor's reflections. Sent into harvest. John 4.38. I sent you to reap. Isaiah 6.8.

[0:11] Also, I heard the voice of the Lord saying,! Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I. Send me. James 5.7.

[0:25] Be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth and has long patience for it until he received the early and latter rain.

[0:39] Sent. As a disciple of Jesus Christ, there are certain givens that we can be assured of. We can be assured of the Lord's presence, protection, and his power.

[0:53] We can also be assured that he has a call upon our lives. As disciples of Jesus, we can be assured that just as Jesus was sent into this world, so we are too.

[1:06] John 20.21. Then said Jesus unto them again, Peace be unto you. As my Father has sent me, even so send I you. You.

[1:17] Have you acknowledged God's sending in your life? To be sent is to be ordered to go, but it also means to allow to depart. God has sent you into his field for his work.

[1:32] Have you allowed yourself to go? Or do you hold back, thinking that God will send someone else instead? As much as we may wish for God to send someone in our place, there is a portion of the harvest that has been set aside for our labors alone.

[1:51] To reap. Have we stopped to consider the reason for our sending? So often we focus on the details of the sending that we forget the purpose for why we are sent.

[2:02] 2 Corinthians 5.19. That God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself. What a message we have to take into the harvest.

[2:15] Not that God sent his son to cut down sinners, but to gather in the lost. What a privilege and a joy to labor alongside the one who sought us out.

[2:27] Of all the wheat in the field, Jesus singled each one of us out to be a part of his harvest. Now, he asks which of us will go back into the harvest and join him in the labor of gathering in.

[2:43] I sent you. Do we hear his voice? Do we realize who it is who sends us? Have we come to terms with the place that that voice holds in our lives?

[2:56] The same voice that said, come, now calls us to go. Matthew 11.28. Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

[3:12] Mark 16.15. Go you into all the world and preach the gospel. Father, thank you in advance for the harvest that you will reap through the labor of my life.

[3:25] Thank you that you have called me to come so that I might now be sent to go. We do not labor in the field alone. Thank you that the Lord of the harvest labors by our side.

[3:36] Amen. Matthew 9.38. Pray you, therefore, the Lord of the harvest. My god has the harvest. My god has the harvest. My god has the harvest. My god has the harvest. My god has the harvest.

[3:47]  My god has the harvest. My god has the harvest. My god has the harvest. My god has the harvest. My god has the harvest.