"All during this time, the good news - the Message of the Kingdom - will be preached all over the world, a witness staked out in every country. And then the end will come." Matthew 24:14 (msg)
"Do you not say, 'There are still four months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!" John 4:35 (nkjv)
"Jesus said, 'The food that keeps me going is that I do the will of the One who sent me, finishing the work He started. As you look around right now, wouldn't you say that in about four months it will be time to harvest? Well, I'm telling you to open your eyes and take a good look at what's right in front of you. These Samaritan fields are ripe. It's harvest time!" John 4:34-35 (msg)
"And Jesus said to them, 'Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.'" Mark 1:17 (esv)
"The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise." Proverbs 11:30 (nkjv)
"How much do you have to hate someone to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?" - Penn Jillette (athiest comedian)
"'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world." - William Booth (founder Salvation Army)
"What are we here for, to have a good time with Christians or to save sinners?" - Malla Moe (Norwegian pioneer missionary)
"Some want to live within the sound of a church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell." - C.T. Studd (English missionary)
It is time to start doing what the Bible talks about. It is time to spread this Gospel to EVERYONE. Why would you not? Surely we don't hate anyone enough to want them to die without Christ. So the only explanation I can think of for why we haven't shared Jesus with the people around us is fear.
But 2 Timothy 1:7 says, "God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."
Also, Philippians 4:13 says "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
God has given us the ability to do what He asked us to do. He took away our excuses.
It's time to start doing what God has commissioned us to do, and spread His life-transforming good news with everyone.
It's Harvest Time!
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