PHILIPPINE FIELDS RIPE FOR HARVEST (john 4:35) John 4 35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. (KJV) PHILIPPINE FIELDS RIPE FOR HARVEST (john 4:35) Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. [By Ron Halbrook]
Philippine fields ripe Introduction: 1. Jesus speaks of souls waiting to be saved 2. Applied where least expected 3. Study context: John 4:27-42 4. Apply in every place!
Philippine fields ripe I. Jn. 4:27-42 Samaritan Fields Ripe A. Vv. 4-26 Jesus Convinced Samaritan Woman 1. Vv. 4-15 Offered spiritual water
Jn. 4:13-14 13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Philippine fields ripe I. Jn. 4:27-42 Samaritan Fields Ripe A. Vv. 4-26 Jesus Convinced Samaritan Woman 1. Vv. 4-15 Offered spiritual water 2. Vv. 16-18 Exposed her sin, proving he is a true prophet 3. Vv. 19-26 Answered her question on true & false worship— the Messiah has come!
Philippine fields ripe I. Jn. 4:27-42 Samaritan Fields Ripe B. Vv. 27-30 Disciples Marvel at Jesus, Samaritan Woman Spreads Good News
JN. 4:27-30 27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? 28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, 29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? 30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
Philippine fields ripe I. Jn. 4:27-42 Samaritan Fields Ripe B. Vv. 27-30 Disciples Marvel at Jesus, Samaritan Woman Spreads Good News 1. Vs. 27 Disciples marvel: Jesus teaches Samaritan woman
Philippine fields ripe 1. Vs. 27 Disciples marvel: Jesus teaches Samaritan woman Jews & Samaritans: enmity Mixed blood & religion (2 Kgs. 17:24-41) Mt. Gerizim temple 409 BC Penteteuch only, modified Dedicated temple to Zeus John Hyrcanus destroy their temple 129 BC
Philippine fields ripe 1. Vs. 27 Disciples marvel: Jesus teaches Samaritan woman Jews & Samaritans: enmity Jesus travel Judea to Galilee via Samaria
Philippine fields ripe 1. Vs. 27 Disciples marvel: Jesus teaches Samaritan woman Rabbi: “A man should not salute a woman in a public place, not even his own wife” Rabbi: “Blessed art thou, O Lord … who hast not made me a woman”
Philippine fields ripe I. Jn. 4:27-42 Samaritan Fields Ripe B. Vv. 27-30 Disciples Marvel at Jesus, Samaritan Woman Spreads Good News 2. VV. 28-30 Woman gave evidence Jesus is Messiah
Philippine fields ripe I. Jn. 4:27-42 Samaritan Fields Ripe C. Vv. 31-38 Jesus Points to Ripe Samaritan Fields
JN. 4:31-38 31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. 33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest 35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. 36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. 37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. 38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
Philippine fields ripe I. Jn. 4:27-42 Samaritan Fields Ripe C. Vv. 31-38 Jesus Points to Ripe Samaritan Fields 1. Vv. 31-34 Jesus: greater joy in spiritual than material endeavor 2. VV. 28-30 Woman gave evidence Jesus is Messiah
Philippine fields ripe I. Jn. 4:27-42 Samaritan Fields Ripe C. Vv. 31-38 Jesus Points to Ripe Samaritan Fields 2. Vs. 35 Must harvest when crops ripe! Seize the opportunity Prepare for hard work Urgent: reap or lose harvest
Philippine fields ripe I. Jn. 4:27-42 Samaritan Fields Ripe C. Vv. 31-38 Jesus Points to Ripe Samaritan Fields 3. Vv. 36-38 Sow, reap, rejoice! All who labor rewarded Reapers & souls won enter eternal life Sowers, reapers: toil of all needed
Philippine fields ripe I. Jn. 4:27-42 Samaritan Fields Ripe D. Vv. 39-42 Great Harvest in Progress 1. One sinful, outcast soul won— she brought many more
JN. 4:39-42 39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. 40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his own word; 42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
Philippine fields ripe I. Jn. 4:27-42 Samaritan Fields Ripe D. Vv. 39-42 Great Harvest in Progress 2. Hungry souls plead: teach us more!
Philippine fields ripe “How unlike the treatment of Jews & Gadarenes, of scribes & Pharisees! There were some who besought him to depart from them, others who stoned him, Herodians & Pharisees who plotted to destroy him. But these hated Samaritans yearned for more of his fellowship, more of his words & searching glance, more of the Word of life” (Pulpit Commentary).
Philippine fields ripe II. Philippine Fields Ripe to Harvest A. Four Trips in 2005 1. 280 baptized, train preachers 2. 50 baptized, train preachers 3. 30 baptized, train preachers 4. 30 baptized, train preachers TOTAL: 390 BAPTIZED, TRAIN PREACHERS
Philippine fields ripe II. Philippine Fields Ripe to Harvest B. Nov. 28-Dec. 19, 2005 Trip 1. Steve Reeves, Harry Osborne, Ron & David Halbrook 2. Manila with Ben Cruz
Philippine fields ripe III. Harvest Ripe Fields at Home A. Many Lost Like Samaritans 1. Immorality 2. False religions Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
Philippine fields ripe III. Harvest Ripe Fields at Home B. Look on Fields 1. Wicked, outcasts may be overlooked 2. May thirst for better life 3. Jesus convinced one— she brought others Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
Philippine fields ripe III. Harvest Ripe Fields at Home C. Learn from Jesus 1. Get priorities right: focus more on serving God than material goals 2. Must harvest souls while we can 3. Sow, reap, rejoice Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
Philippine fields ripe Invitation: 1. Jesus speaks of souls waiting to be saved 2. Alien sinners may come: Acts 22:16 3. Erring saints may come: Acts 8:22