It's Harvest Time!

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Resurrection Sunday 2023

Passover—Ex 12:5 w/ out blemish undefiled

Unleavened bread—1 Corinthians 5:6-7-a little leaven, purge out the old for Christ our Passover

First- fruits— Leviticus 23:10-11 wave offering of the sheaf 2L/harvest/type of a tithe

Pentecost—

Its Harvest Time!

Harvest/resurrection        [This world is hostile to the seed of the gospel]

  • Matt 13:1-5 parable of the sower- [fowls, stones, thorns]— man look, there is all kind of stuff against you but what are you going to do sit back and let the devil has his way? — He wants to produce a harvest in you—starts w the seed

  • 1 Cor 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered, God gives the increase- Lord of the harvest, neither he that plants nor he who waters is anything but God that gives the increase, he that plants and he that waters are one, every man shall receive his reward, we are laborers together with God, you are the field of God               Col 4:12 Epaphras [lovely]—fellow prisoner labours fervently in prayer for you

  • Matt 9:38 The harvest is plentiful, the laborers few—Pray to the Lord of the harvest that He would send forth laborers                           Spectators many—gate wide, way broad-gate straight, way narrow

  • Matt 3:11-12 the fan is in His hand- it requires wind to winnow, the grain is in the barn, the chaff burned up.                                        What does it mean to winnow grain?

He didn’t just resurrect—He is the Resurrection 1 Corinthians 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept—the firstfruits  Jesus, it’s ripening-harvest time

                Martha your brother will rise again—I believe in the last day…Resurrection

John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live— He raised Lazarus from the dead, before He raised from the dead, because he wanted to help them believe— if you let Him in, He will prove Himself to you, He will live in you, Resurrection will enter your heart

Believing in the resurrection is essential to the faith. You can’t be a believer if you don’t believe in the resurrection

Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved-say it-I believe you died, believe u rose

Understand that this is a temporary life, we can spend it on temporary pleasures or we can plan on being resurrected to eternal life—free will choice

Okay, but talk to me about now- Power of Resurrection! Romans 8:11

Romans 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:-Philippians 3:10-11 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

There is hope in Resurrection power when things look dead

Job 14:7-9

7 “For there is hope for a tree, When it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And its shoots will not fail. 8 “Though its roots grow old in the ground And its stump dies in the dry soil,9 At the scent of water it will flourish And put forth sprigs like a plant.

Matthew 12:20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.