"The Harvest And Its Meaning" Part 7

And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved Acts 2:47b
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Today we are on message number seven in this 'reminder' look at the harvest. I don't know about you, but He has been awakening my first love passion and desire to see the lost saved, set free, and added to the kingdom! The words from Acts 2:41, were it says, ...'Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them' along with the ones in verse 47 above where it says that 'the Lord added to the church daily' have stirred up such a hunger for me to see that daily increase of souls being added to the kingdom!

I feel like this is the time. This is the message that the previous six messages were preparing us for. This is the message that will make sure that we know what the harvest is all about and to do that we need to take a look at what the word harvest means. In the Hebrew it comes from 7105 and it means; severed, i.e. harvest (as reaped) the crop, the time, the reaper or fig. also a limb (of a tree or foliage). It comes from a root word, 7114 that means; to dock off, i.e. curtail, especially to harvest (grass or grain).

I don't about you but the words in this meaning that jumped out at me a couple of weeks ago as He was showing me this picture of the Harvest were severed, to dock off, and curtail. These words paint a pretty clear picture of what it means to harvest a crop as well as what it means to us as believers. To harvest a crop, for example grapes, you cut the cluster of grapes off from the vine. If you are harvesting apples from an apple tree you sever the connection and take the apple away from the tree. That's what it means to harvest a crop. You take the fruit and remove it.

So what does that mean for us? Being harvested into the kingdom means that we are cut off from any connection to the curse of sin and death! We are no longer bound by it or the affects of it but instead are cut off, removed from it, and then we are set in a place of freedom and liberty in Jesus Christ our Redeemer. It means that we are called out (cut off) from darkness and called into His marvelous light! 1 Peter 2:9

The enemy had a plan when he planted a tare (false grain) in the garden to harvest or cut humanity off and separate us from God. His plan - to cause us to die and rot away knowing only fear, despair, hopelessness, hardship, suffering, and death, etc. God has a different plan for the Harvest! The Harvest is His plan for restoring us! His plan to cut us off from the works of the enemy in our lives. Jesus' death on the cross makes it possible for us to no longer be bound and left to die in our sins! Instead it makes a way for the harvest to take place. I makes a way for our incredibly loving amazing God to sever our connection to the curse and to harvest us back to Himself! His heart as the vine dresser is to graft us into the true vine, Jesus that we would know the fullness of His presence and provision once again! John 15:1 The harvest is about being cut off from the works of the enemy and being fruit in the Fathers hand. Every person, every soul, harvested matters! Every person, every soul added on any given day brings pleasure to the heart of the Father because its His heart to welcome them home!