Jesus Journey Through Samaria - Living Water part 4

Take your Bible this morning turn with me to John chapter 4. John chapter 4. This morning we will be in verses 35 through 39. Verses 35 through 39. A familiar place for you if you've been keeping up with our study through the gospel of John. We are looking at Christ the Son of God, believe and live. We have been seeing the evangelistic heart of Jesus as he journeyed from Judea to Galilee. But on his way he had an evangelistic campaign there in Samaria. Now we have been in what I have called Jesus journey through Samaria, living water for three verses. In your notes you should see that when verses 1 through 14 that was part 1.

Jesus dealing with this Samaritan woman. Then we had verses 15 through 26, the second part. And then part 3 which was last week verses 27 through 34. And we will continue with that same title as we continue in these verses that we have in chapter 4 this morning. Now we have been progressing through chapter 4 and like I said earlier in this evangelistic event in Samaria. Last week if you remember we reached a place in this journey where we had two parallel stories, two parallel ministerial events with Jesus come together. Remember first we had this Samaritan woman. Jesus goes there to the well. She is there to draw water. She is all alone.

And Jesus began to talk to her about eternal water, living water. He begins to talk to her about eternal life. And of course she didn't understand that at first. She thought maybe he was a prophet. But yet Jesus is unfolding himself and unfolding spiritual things to her. That is the first ministerial event. That is the first ministerial situation, the first story. But the second ministerial event and the second story is Jesus with his disciples. Remember he had sent them away to buy food. But last week we saw that they came back. They came back on the scene in verse 27.

They almost burst into this situation and they didn't understand what was going on. They could not understand Jesus dealing with a woman, dealing with a Samaritan. And again, like the Samaritan woman, they had their eyes and their attention and their understanding on physical things as well. Now in our verses this morning we will see that this is still part of Jesus teaching, correcting and molding the disciples. You know what is interesting is you study through the Gospels. Jesus takes these men. They have been born again. And he is teaching them and he is correcting them and he is molding them and he is getting ready.

Now listen, after the death and the burial and the resurrection, after he fills them with the Spirit, the Spirit pours out on that day of Pentecost, they are equipped to do this thing called apostolic ministry. And this is just part of Jesus teaching, correcting and molding these men. Now as I said previously, we will continue to hold on to this title, Jesus Journey Through Samaria, Living Water. But there is going to be an added theme in this teaching. And this teaching from Jesus brings about the subject of the harvest. We have come across passages like this. I think about Matthew chapter 9. Jesus talks about the harvest.

Open your eyes to see the fields that they are white on the harvest. And we are going to see that Jesus in his teaching with the disciples is teaching them about the harvest. Now it should be obvious to you and me that this is an agricultural illustration. And as we get into the verse, we will see this illustration is teaching spiritual truth to these disciples. And this is really what I call really the crescendo of Jesus teaching to his disciples. Now it changes because the Samaritans come on the scene. But remember starting in verse 27, he begins to teach the disciples and the context was the Samaritan woman, the Samaritan situation.

And this is really, I call it the crescendo of this teaching. This is really where Jesus is trying to go with his disciples. And we will see this, especially when we get into the context of this teaching. So if you are taking notes, you can jot down the title of the message. It is Jesus Journey Through Samaria, Living Water, part 4. And we will divide these verses, verses 35 through 38. We will look at the timing of the harvest, the work of the harvest, the workers of the harvest, and the Lord of the harvest. You can abbreviate those truths, the timing, the work, the workers, and the Lord of the harvest. It is real simplistic.

It is just verse by verse. And that happens to be the way these verses have broken down for me in my study. So we are looking at the timing, the work, the workers, and the Lord of the harvest. Let's go to the verses together. Jesus says starting in verse 35, "Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for the harvest. Already he who reaps is receiving wages, and is gathering fruit for eternal life, that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

For in this case, the saying is true, 'One sows and another reaps.' I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." Very simplistic and very obvious that Jesus is teaching about the harvest. So let's take our time and let's divide these verses and let's look at truth number one, the timing of the harvest. The timing of the harvest. Go back to the text. "Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white right for the harvest." Now, in this verse you might not realize it.

There is a debate. There is a debate about the beginning of verse 35. There are those who believe that this first portion of the verse is a proverb or a cultural saying, a cultural proverb. Some have attributed this to even a Greek proverb that would have been common in the day. Now, others, other Bible interpreters and commentators, have said that this refers to a literal time of harvest. If this reference is dealing with a specific time of harvest, it would place this event in the month of December because the month of December would have been four months from the appropriate harvest time.

John MacArthur declares that this refers to a specific time. He notes that there is no evidence, biblical or extra-biblical, of a particular proverb that this could have come from. But I want you to see something very important. No matter how you interpret this portion of the verse, if you believe it is a cultural proverb, even a Greek proverb, or if you believe that it refers to a literal time on the calendar, it really does not matter because the point of the text is to teach about the harvest to grant understanding about the harvest. This is just a teaching tool.

And no matter what stance you take, literal or a proverb, a literal particular time in the calendar or a cultural saying, no matter how you view it, it has no bearing on the meaning of the text. It simply teaches about the harvest and the timing of the harvest. Let's break down this verse. First, I want you to see the command to see the harvest. After this phrase, what does he say? "Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest." Now, all the translations that we look at and we study together basically say the same thing. But I want you to notice how strong this language is.

Jesus says, "I say to you," he says, "lift up your heads and look." Jesus is saying directly that these disciples, remember the context, his disciples, they're in Samaria, the woman at the well had departed, and what does he say? He says, "Look," he says, "lift up your heads directly and look at the harvest." And this is a command. This isn't a suggestion. And I want us to see the command to see the harvest. Second, notice the immediacy of the harvest. Notice the immediacy of the harvest.

Go back to the text, "Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for the harvest." Now, some of us questions about this phrase "white." What does this mean? This term "white" here refers to the heads of grain. They grew wheat, they grew barley, they grew various crops, but one of their major agricultural crops was grain. Why? Because they grew grain to eat. And in that culture and in that day, as the grain heads would ripen, they would turn a grayish color. As they are growing, they're green. But as they are ripening, their color changes. Some of us might be familiar with that.

We grow things in our gardens here. They begin to change colors. Our tomatoes go from green to red. Our pink eye purple hole peas, we begin to watch that hole change. And it's very much the same thing. And what Jesus is saying, "Notice the fields, they are white for the harvest." This speaks of the immediacy of the harvest. Now, no matter how you view the first portion of the verse, we still see the true meaning of the text. The time of the harvest is at hand. And we must see that Jesus is commanding them to look and notice the timing of the harvest. Now, I want to make application in two ways. First, application for the disciples.

We must really hold on to the context. Context means so much. And if we're not careful in our Bible study, we will pull verses out of context and sometime we can misconstrue or misinterpret scripture that way. But in this day, this time, with the disciples in Jesus, he's there in Samaria. Remember, they were astonished to go through Samaria from the beginning. They did not want to go there. They were astonished that he was talking with a woman. They were astonished that he was talking with a Samaritan woman. And had they known the disciples, her reputation, they would have been astonished that he was talking with a woman of bad reputation.

So what we see is the disciples are in a very uncomfortable situation. Culturally, they were men of their times. They would have been formed and molded by the cultural norms of the day. And every good Jew who was Orthodox, most every one of them would have not gone through Samaria. That was a no-no. That was no man's land. They would have gone all the way around Samaria. So with that background and that culture and that context in mind, what is Jesus doing? Jesus is saying, "You are ignoring these people. You do not want to pay attention to these people. You don't want to come in contact with people like this woman.

You want to go around and avoid these people." But he's saying, "I say, look up. Look at these people. They are white for the harvest." You see? I pondered even this morning that this language, "Behold, I say to you, lift up your heads." Were they literally holding their heads down? Were they literally looking away? Have we ever been in those circumstances where we really didn't want to notice people? Have we ever been in circumstances where we did not want to give someone our attention? Maybe we wanted to avoid that person. Maybe that's going on here. I don't know. I can't say that definitively from the text.

But we do know that they did not want to be there. They were men of their times. And Jesus is saying, "You guys need to look. You need to look up and you need to see." And he's not only saying, "Just look at them." He's saying, "These people are right for the gospel. They're right for eternal life." You see? The timing of the harvest is right there. Now, how does that apply to you and to me? How does that apply to us?

I'm afraid if we're not careful, we might not be looking down, but our attention, the attention of our lives and our hearts can be so directed on our lives, so directed on ourselves, so directed on our jobs and our home and even our own children and our desires and our hobbies and how we want to spend our time. And I'm afraid we can be much like the disciples. We can be in a state where we do not see the harvest and we do not see the timing of the harvest, the immediacy of the harvest. And we can even be so busy that we do not even hear, now listen, the command of Christ to notice the harvest. How many homes do we ride by?

How many people do we just talk to on our jobs? How many neighbors do we have? How many family members do we engage? And we never view them in light of this text. What was Jesus trying to do with these disciples? Listen, if we fast forward, we see that out of the Spirit of God is poured out on Pentecost, those men were filled and anointed and they had the ability to go out and change the world and had they not taken this teaching too hard and not just taken the notes and not just studied on their own time, if they had not allowed this teaching to change them, they would have never been able to go out and change the world.

Now India is on our heart and mind. We do ministry there and I'm thankful. But tradition says that it was the Apostle Thomas who went to India and where history tells us he landed, they have a very strong Christian influence. How could Thomas board a ship and go to a foreign land, a foreign people, a foreign food and foreign gods, had he not, listen, noticed and seen the harvest, the timing of the harvest, the immediacy of the harvest and the command of the harvest? I don't think we need training. I don't think we need any more education. I think we need a work of the Spirit to enable us.

Now listen, to look and to notice the timing of the harvest. Let's continue. Let's look at truth number two. Let's look at the work of the harvest. That comes out of verse 36. Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. Verse 36. Now here we have a transition from verse 35 to verse 36. English Standard, the new American that I read and study from, uses this word already. There is a natural transition in the original text. But what we must see here is that the harvest is people. The harvest is souls. Yes, it's a people group, but it is souls.

I like the text here with this story because it's not just the Samaritans. It's the Samaritan woman. I like that. It's not just a people group. It is a specific individual. And so we must see that the harvest is people. It's men. It's women. It's young people. It's children. And there are people who become, these are people who become true disciples. You hear me? We live in a church culture where people readily identify with Christianity and the church. But that's not the case here. This harvest deals with people, deals with souls, who become true disciples born again Christians. We must understand that before we proceed into the verse.

So let's break this verse down. First, notice the roles of the harvest. The roles of the harvest. What do we see already? He who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life. That he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. We see two different roles right here in the verse. There are those who reap and there are those who sow. Of course, this is that agricultural illustration. In farming, there is one who plants the seed and there is one who harvest the crop. If we garden on our own, maybe we have a garden in the springtime. It could be the very same person who plants, harvests.

Maybe we come along and we plant a garden and we plant those seeds in that soil and we water the seeds in that soil. And maybe it's our friends and neighbors. Maybe our spouse comes along and they harvest the crop. But we understand the illustration. But what are we seeing here? There are those who reap, that's the harvest, and there are those that sow. And in kingdom work, there are those who sow the seed of the gospel and there are those who harvest the souls. And what do we see? The roles that are in the harvest. The second thing I want us to see is the payment of the harvest. The payment of the harvest.

Already, he who reaps is receiving wages. That is the payment of the harvest. All of the translations virtually read the same thing. And this speaks of, listen, this inner satisfaction of participating in kingdom work, knowing that lives are being impacted for Christ and for eternity. You hear that? That is the wage of participating in the harvest. That's that inner satisfaction of participating in the work and watching as people are impacted for Christ. I had a fresh and new reminder of the truth of that this weekend. Many of you know that I went to participate and officiate in a marriage ceremony.

But at that marriage ceremony, I saw an adult and his wife. But this young man in his 30s was part of a particular student ministry that I was in youth pastor years ago. And I began to sit down and we began to reminisce. We began to talk about how I got to know him as an eighth grader at South Jones Elementary School, or excuse me, South Jones High School in Ellisville, Mississippi, unchurched and unchurched family. We had an event in our student ministry where we reached out into the community and that young boy came and he became attached to the group there. There were kids and students who reached out to him.

We began to preach and teach the gospel. He later came to know Christ. He's married. He's involved in a local church, raising his children in the local church. And as I sat down for a few moments and we reminisced about days of old and where they were now, I sat back and I enjoyed. Now listen, the payment of the harvest, that inner satisfaction of participating in kingdom work and knowing that a life had been impacted for Christ. You see? The third thing I want you to see is the fruit of the harvest. The fruit of the harvest.

Go back to the verse already, "He who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life." Now notice this phrase, "Gathering fruit for eternal life." This is speaking of souls being harvested. Now all of the translations read the same thing. These are souls being gathered to eternal life, going from death to life, children of wrath to being children of God. The fourth thing I want you to see is the rejoicing in the harvest. Look at the end of the verse. "That he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together." What do we see? There is a rejoicing in the harvest.

Notice that both the sower and the reaper rejoice in this kingdom work. The one who brings the work of sowing the gospel seed and the one who harvests the soul in salvation rejoice together because they are hand in hand in kingdom work. I am reminded of that from time to time when I talked to our friend Brother Ed Lacy. When Brother Ed Lacy came, there were two individuals who were converted. And when Brother Ed Lacy and I talked, most of the time he will ask about individuals in the life of the church. He will ask about you by name. Sometimes he might have trouble remembering your name, but he remembers you.

But if we go back in time, those individuals who were converted when he was here, what do we see? I had the privilege of sowing the gospel seed, sowing the gospel seed, sowing the gospel seed, watering the soil of your heart, tilling the soil of your heart. But yet Ed Lacy comes along as a God called gifted evangelist and he gets to harvest in your heart. But what do we do? We both rejoice because he sees his work in the kingdom. I see my work in the kingdom and we rejoice in the harvest. See, this is the work of the harvest. This is an agricultural illustration.

It's very simplistic, but it clearly communicates the work of sowing and reaping in people's lives. In this verse, it is important to see the eternality of this work because these are souls that are saved from an ultimate damnation. You see? The work of the harvest. Now, again, let's go back to the disciples, the application for their life. Remember, they're in this place that they did not want to be. And Jesus is saying, "Look, look up at this field." And now he's saying, "You are going to work in this field." They were uncomfortable just being there. Can you imagine how they felt when he said, "You're going to work here?

You're going to work in places like this?" But see, for me and you, we must see the work of the harvest. And I think it's important for us to see that there are two different roles. There are some that witness, there are some that love, there are some that share the gospel. And you know what? They might not ever see that individual come to know Christ. And then there are some that have the ability and have the privilege of harvesting. You know that Brother Luke Johnson and I have done ministry for years together. And we have been preaching together in many different events.

And there have been times when I have been the evangelist and there have been times when he's been the evangelist. But what are we doing? We are working in the harvest. Kingdom work. And see, for you, for me, for us, we need to see that it's about being obedient to this work. And it could be that you are the one that is used to lead someone to Christ. The instrument, the tool used on this earth. Let's continue. Let's notice truth number three. The workers of the harvest. The workers of the harvest. Now this is a shorter verse. We'll look at verse 37. For in this case, the saying is true. One sows, excuse me, and another reaps.

Now this verse is in the form of a proverb, a cultural saying, a simple saying. This verse is simple. And Jesus is teaching the disciples that the different roles of sowing and reaping. There is some who sow, the seed of the gospel, and then there are some who harvest. First, the one who sows. Look at the verse. And in this case, the saying is true. One sows, another reaps. This is the one who goes into a situation and teaches the good news of the gospel. I'll give you an example. We see that Paul did this on his missionary journeys. Remember, Paul and Barnabas started off on that first missionary journey. Where?

In Acts chapter 13, as they were sent out at the church of Antioch. Remember, it was the Spirit of God who worked in their life and worked in the life of the church. They had been praying. They had been fasting. They had been worshiping. The Spirit of God set them apart. They laid hands on them. They prayed. They fasted, and they sent them out. That's the mother church sending them out to do the work of evangelism. And what do we see? In Acts chapter 13, verse 5, just as Paul and Barnabas had set off on their first missionary journey, we see that they began to proclaim the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. What do we see?

They went first to the synagogue of the Jews, and then they went to the Gentiles. And what are they doing? They're sowing seeds. They're sowing seeds. They're telling the good news about Jesus. They're sowing the seeds of the gospel. And so everywhere they went, they preached Jesus. The gospel, sowing seeds. Then second, we see the one who reaps. This is the one who gathers or harvests the souls to eternal life. Now, if we fast forward in this first missionary journey, we come to Acts chapter 14.

At the end of Paul's missionary journey, he and Barnabas made full circle, and they came back to Antioch to give a report for all that they had done. And notice what they say in verse 27. "And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they began to report all things that God had done with them, and how he," that's God, "had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles." What do we see? They sowed seeds and they harvested souls. They sowed seeds with the Jews. They sowed seeds with the gospels. And God granted the increase. God saved the souls, and they are giving a report of doing what? Being workers in the harvest field.

And we know the story. They were astonished at the great harvest there with the Gentiles. And again, this is in the form of a proverb, but it communicates simplistically the workers and kingdom work, reaching souls for Christ. And we see a great synopsis of this work again in Paul. What does he say in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 6? "I planted, a palace watered, but God was causing the growth." Paul understood there are some that sow, and there are some that harvest. Now, what about the application for the disciples here? They needed to see that they had jobs in kingdom work. They were going to sow the seeds, and they were going to harvest.

Now, we know Paul was not here, not here yet, because he was later converted. But these disciples would do exactly what Paul did. And what do we see? Jesus is teaching them, when the right time comes, when the time is fulfilled, you will sow and you will reap. Those disciples ultimately did that. And see, for you, for us, we need to see that we are to be about doing this work. It's very simplistic. Sowing the seeds, evangelizing, loving individuals, sharing the gospel, sharing our testimony, always expecting. I believe always having an eye open for that one person that we would be able to lead to Christ. Is it us who leads them to Christ?

No, it's the Spirit who leads them to Christ through us. And God simply uses us as a tool or an instrument. The fourth truth, the last truth, is the Lord of the harvest. Notice the Lord of the harvest. Look at verse 38. "I sent you to reap that which you have not labored, others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." Now, you might not understand it, but verse 38 can be a little tricky. As far as the text tells us, Jesus has not enabled the disciples to do anything among the Samaritans of that region. We must see that Jesus is speaking in general terms. He is referring to their calling, and this is a future calling.

This is a preparation for what they will do. But notice about this Lord of the harvest, this verse in verse 38. First, the expectation to labor. "I sent you to reap that which you have not labored, others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." There is an expectation to labor here. It is clear here that Jesus expects them to labor among people, and people such as these. The entire situation is to teach them about what is expected of them. They are not to just hold up with the Jews. They are to go to people like the Samaritans. There's an expectation to labor. Second, the work of the present.

"I sent you to reap that which you have not labored, others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." This is the work of the present. This speaks of their work, which is at hand. Jesus is engaging in kingdom work, and he's placing them in kingdom work. This is a present work. This is a future work. This is a present work in their life. But also, notice the work of the past. Look at the verse. "I sent you to reap that which you have not labored, others have labored." You catch that? "Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." Now, this speaks of the prophets.

This speaks of the spiritual leaders who had been doing kingdom work prior to Jesus coming. Remember, they were Samaritans, and they had an altered view of Judaism. But in this area, in Palestine, from Moses to the Old Testament prophets, all the way to John the Baptist, there were men of God who labored among the people and around these Samaritans. As a matter of fact, John the Baptist had even ministered in this area of Samaria according to chapter 3 of verse 23. You see? So there was a work of the past, and what we see is their work of the present and they came behind the work of the past because that's what he's saying.

"I sent you," there's the expectation, "I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored, others have labored, and you have entered into their labor, for they came behind these other men of God." And here in this verse, we see a culmination of Jesus' teaching on the harvest. He is bringing these two stories together spiritually. You see? The Samaritan woman, the Samaritan people, and their story, and what Jesus was doing in the disciples. He is turning their attention full-faced to the Samaritan situation, and he's bringing these situations together. So let's look at the disciples. What is he trying to do?

He's saying, "Listen guys, look up, pay attention. There is a tremendous harvest here, and it is right here in front of us, and some of you will sow, some of you will reap, and this is a harvest, and I am Lord of this harvest, and I expect you to work in this harvest field, and by the way, there were others here before you." You see? That's what the disciples needed to see. See, you and I need to be the same way. We need to see that Jesus Christ is Lord of the harvest. No matter how lost your family member may be, no matter how wicked your coworker may be, no matter how unreachable your neighbor might seem, Jesus is Lord of the harvest.

He can save that lost soul, and he can equip you to be a witness. He can equip you to engage in their life. You can't do it, but he can equip you to do it. Jesus is Lord of the harvest. Now, this text can be greatly illustrated for us if we will take the time to study church history. Now, I know we're all busy, but I think if we were to get honest, I think first we would see that we spend an unusual amount of time on ourselves, and I think that second we would see that we are horribly ignorant of church history. I try to be a good student of church history.

I try to read about missionaries and pastors and ministers of old, some known and some unknown. But this summer I ran across an individual that many of you have never heard of, and his name was Frank Drowne. He was a simple Iowa farm boy. In his testimony he talks about a mother and father who loved the Lord, and he grew up in a small Baptist church. He talked about the great influence his mom had on their family, and he professed that all of his brothers and sisters came to know the Lord before the age of 21. He had a solid biblical conversion, Frank Drowne did.

But God called him to the mission field, and God called him to the mission field, and he goes to Bible college and he meets his wife, her name was Marie. And he and his wife spent 37 years in the jungles of Ecuador among what is called the Shawar people. They were the largest lowland Indian group in the Amazon basin. They went to Ecuador in December of 1945, and they left there in 1982. But what's interesting about his story, it is a story of harvest. You read about how it took them five days to journey on terrible trails off the road to their mission station.

Yes, they had children and they raised them there, and they lived in very primitive conditions. But Frank Drowne, by his own testimony, said that when he went there, there were no converts among the Shawar people, and six years later their first convert was a child with children's ministry and education. And he said 37 years later when he left, there were 50 strong churches governed and led by indigenous people. They were not dependent on foreign missionaries. Great harvest. But if you pay attention, you will see names of women and men. One of the couples that I read about in his biography was a couple named Ernest and Jean Johnson.

You see, they were there before Frank Drowne and his wife, and they labored among the people for years. Now listen with no converts. More primitive conditions, more isolation, more hardship. And so a man like Frank Drowne really in a way might get all of the glory. What we see is when we study his life, we see there were those who went, and they went as pioneers, and they went in those hard times, and they sowed the seeds. They sowed the seeds, and they spent years sowing the seeds, doing the groundwork. And they never got to enjoy the harvest. But then someone else comes along, and they enjoy the harvest. Now, why do I tell you that story?

First of all, I would like to excite you to study about men like Frank Drowne. You can purchase his book, his biography. It's called "Mission to the Headhunters." You might say headhunters? Yes, they were headhunters. They practiced this tribal, inter-tribal warfare, and they would take warriors that they had killed, and they would lop off their head, and they engaged in this practice of shrinking that head, a very gruesome reality in that world. They would have those heads around as a symbol of power. Of course, it was tied into their culture, and their demonic worship, their witchcraft. So he did not go to this tame, loving people.

Headhunters, headshrinkers. And you can study and read about Frank Drowne, "Mission to the Headhunters." Now, why do I tell you that story? There are others. I've told you a lot about Elizabeth Elliott, whose husband Jim Elliott died at the hands of the Waddonnie people. They did pioneer work, spilling their life's blood to take the gospel. But there were others who came behind him. What am I showing you? Some sow the seeds, and some reap the harvest. And I think we need to understand the Scripture. We need to understand the nuts and bolts of this. But I'm afraid most all of us are stuck right here in verse 20-35, because what does he say?

"Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, and then the harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look.'" I'm afraid most of us are too busy doing the things of our own life, and we never have the ability to look. What do we see? Jesus is journeying through Samaria. He's about giving living water to this Samaritan woman, and we will see to this Samaritan people. And the disciples had to be told to look and look at this harvest. Lord, help us to see the harvest around us. Lord Jesus, I thank you for the simplicity of these verses in this text, this message.

And I pray that by the power and the work of the Spirit, that you would shake us and change us, correct us and teach us, and mold us into a people that will have vision to see around us.