Matthew 9:38 Pray you therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. I. THE FIELD is the world. 1. It is precious, in the very fact that it is a harvest-field. Men are the fruit for the sake of which the world was made. 2. It is plenteous. (1) Pagans. (2) Mahomedans. (3) Papists. 3. It is ripe. 4. It is perishing. II. THE HARVEST LABOURERS. 1. All who try to win souls are in His eye as reapers gathering the wheat into the garner. Labourers are not a high class of functionaries, and need not expect to get all their own will as to the times and places of their toils. 2. In the judgment of our Lord labourers are few. His heart is so enlarged toward a lost world that He will complain, Few are coming. Few, in proportion to the world's need — a contrast to the multitude pressing to the natural harvest. 3. When additional labourers enter the field, they are sent into it by the Lord of the harvest. They are grasped by the Providential hand of God. 4. The Lord of the harvest presses labourers into the field in answer to the prayers of His people. (W. Arnot.) Parallel Verses KJV: Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.WEB: Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest." |
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