Lord of the Harvest (Acts 13:1-3)

Introduction:
1. It is the Holy Spirit who choose to send for his harvest.
2. It is the harvest of the holy spirit.
3. Fasting and Prayer is needful for conquest.
4. The Holy Spirit gives us good harvest.
III. The harvest is plenteous.
   a. We need to pray for the Holy Spirit to send laborers.
       1. Pray for our people to be sent.
       2. Pray for our pastors and leaders to be give open doors for the gospel.
       3. Pray for our church to be used by God to reach the lost.
   b. You have to see with your spiritual eyes the great harvest.
       1. Ask God to open your eyes and the eyes of the brethren.
       2. The need to have the vision of the pastor. You must see as your pastor sees.
       3. Before you get the hand you must first touch the heart of the vision.
IV. Develop a close fellowship with the Holy Spirit.
   a. He is longing for you.
       1. He is gentle. He will not force you to if you do not want. But he will prompt you to obey Jesus.
       2. As you obey Jesus the Holy Spirit brings to you all the things you need to accomplish his will.
   b. The Holy Spirit will give you the:
       1. Great harvest.
       2. The wisdom to handle what he entrust to you.
       3. He will guide you into all truth.
       4. He will show you things to come; because God is preparing for your tomorrow. Before you get there, he is already there. All you need to do is obey Him to see His purpose done.
   c. The Holy Spirit is a God of order. We should put in order our life.
           Plant S-M-A-R-T.
            S pecific
            M easurable
            A ttainable
            R ealistic
            T ime Bound

The Integrity of God's Word ( Matthew 24:35 )

Introduction:
1. God's word will not pass away.
2. His word is settled forever in Heaven. (Psalms 119:89)
3. His word framed or holds the universe. (Hebrews 11:3)
I. The Word of God and His promises are trustworthy.
    A. The transfiguration of Jesus. (Matthew 17:1-5)
        1. Jesus is God's fulfillment of His promised Messiah.
        2. God commanded us to hear Him.
        3. Miracles come as we obey Jesus.
    B. The difference between religion and relationship with Jesus Christ.
        1. Religion builds ideologies.
        2. While relationship with Jesus builds love.
        3. Religion injects fear and guilt.
        4. Relationship with Jesus promote assurance and acceptance.
        5. Religion aims to reach salvation by works.
        6. Relationship with Jesus declares the grace of salvation by faith.
        7. Religion is focused on building and people.
        8. Relationship with Jesus is focused on the kingdom.
II. How to treat the Word of God.
        a. It is our top priority.
        b. You have to be decisive. "To obey or not to obey?"
        c. Obey it with integrity.

The Answer To Our Problem (Mark 9:23)

Introduction:
1. All things are possible unto them that believe in God.
2. God snet His Son to be the remedy for our proble.
I. Your faith in God's answer, who is Jesus Christ, will work for you.
    A. Words of faith will slay the enemy.
    B. Faith in action will stir up the power of he Holy Spirit to work through you.
II. The two Feet needed for the Gospel. (Isaih 52:7)
    A. Foot of Holiness.
    B. Foot of Servitude.
III. The two scholls of thought in winning souls and making disciples.
    A. 1 Thessalonians 5:23
         1. We teach them to live godly lives. 1 Timothy 4:16
         The preservatory school of thought.
    B. Matthew 9:37-38
         1.We need to train disciples so that the Holy Spirit may send them.
         2. Our Desire is to be sent by the Holy Spirit to his harvest field.
         The laboratory school of thought.
Let us have a paradigm shift. We need both preservation and sending.

The Conquering King ( I Timothy 6:12-14 )

Introduction:

      1. Like Jesus, we have to fight the good fight of faith.

      2. We have to declare to the world what we stand for.

      A. The God Head in Three Divine Persons.

                   There is the Father who loved us so much.

                   And gave His only begotten Son. Jesus Christ who is God the Son.

                   There is the Holy Spirit that Jesus baptizes us with. He is God the Holy Spirit

                  In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

      B. The Virgin Birth.

           Blessed Mary was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus. According to Isaiah 7:14.

           Why virgin?

           Why Mary? Because Mary was a Jew from the lineage of David. It is told of God to david that the Christ from his descendant.

      C. The Blood Of Jesus.

           The Blood of Jesus is the blood of God.

           The shed blood on the cross paid for our sins.

           Through the blood of Jesus there is:

                  Forgiveness of Sins

                  Healing of sickness

           Divine health and prosperity Change of DNA. From disobedience to obedience.

       D. That Jesus is the Christ.

            He is the anointed One who is the Answer to all our needs. He is the Ultimate remedy.

       E. The Resurrection from the Dead.

            There will be the rising from the dead. The dead in Christ will rise first, and we who are alive will be caught up together with them in the air to meet the Lord in the sky.

I.    Let us not be ashamed of our  Lord Jesus Christ.

      A. Preach the Gospel.

      B. Reach the lost, especially on a one on one basis.

      C. Heal the sick and cast out Demons.

II.  Our Benefits for obeying the Lord in evangelism:

      A. You have power to tread on serpents and scorpions.

      B. You have power over all the power of the enemy.

      C. Your name is written in Heaven. Luke 10:19-20

III.  Jesus is the Conquering King.

      A. He is able to reach the hardest heart.

      B. He is able to change the impossible.

      We need to bring His presence to the people.

      1. Cell Grouping is one of the Holy Spirit's strategy.

      2. Offering is a law of connection.

Let's Go (Luke 8:22-26)

Intro:
1. When Jesus told his disciples to go to the other side - they obeyed.
2. When opposition comes, they were troubled and confessed negative: "We Perish!".
3. Jesus commanded the wind and the raging of water to cease and they obeyed Him.
4. He asked them: "Where is your faith ".., Jesus impliedly asked: Why are you not using your faith?"
5. Faith must be used when we obey Jesus.

I. Where is your Faith?
    A. We have to use our faith in all situation when we obey Jesus.
       1. There may be Opposition.
       2. There may be Tarbulence.
       3. There may be Scarcity and Lack.
       4. The truth is: "God will see us through".
    B. Let us do the qonquest. We are sure winners!!!
II. Fear creeps in when adversities come:
    A. Negative words will destroy you. When you allow them to come because of your confession of negative words, Satan enters.
    B. Example: John the Baptist.
       1. He know his calling to prepare the way of the Lord.
       2. He saw Jesus and testified that he is the Christ.
       3. He doubted the calling of Jesus.
       4. God took him home afterwards. Matthew 14:12
III. Obeying Jesus means trusting his leadership
    ***Let's Go!!!
    ***This Conquest is of the Lord, Just Do it

Conquest the Challenge (John 6:26-29)

Intro:

1. Do not work the meat that perish, but for the meat that does not perish which Jesus will give. The meat of Jesus is to do the will of Him who sent Him. The meat that Jesus gives us is the work that God wants us to do.
2. What is the work of God? The work of God is that, we believe in Jesus Christ!

I. Believing in jesus is entrusting our life to Him in obidience.
   A. The work of God is
        1. Bringing people to Jesus.
        2. Making people obey Jesus.
   B. Abraham obeyed the voice of God and the promise of the seed was given to him. Genesis 22: 17-18
        1. Jesus is the seed.
        2. As we obey God, Jesus will multiply in the lives of all nations.
   C. Whwn we obey Jesus, we are allowing God to work in our lives. heb 3:17-18
II. Paul has declared: imitate me as I imitate Christ.
   A. Paul did not count his life dear to himself.
        1. Like Jesus, he suffered persecution for standing for the gospel.
   B. Paul followed Jesus unto death.
        1. Jesus obeyed His Father till death on the cross.
   C. Paul had the whole world in his heart to win for Christ.
        1. Christ gave His life for the world.
III. We should have the Vision of world conquest.

The Knowledge of the Holy One (Hosea 4:6-10)

Intro:

1. The Priests symbolizes pastors and leaders of the church.
2. If the Priest rejects knowledge, he will not impart knowledge to the people and the people perish.
3. It shall be like people like Priest.
4. Curse came upon Israel, the Nation of God because they ceased obeying the Lord. Same with the church if it cease obeying the Lord.

  I. The Christians need to be founded in the Lord knowledge of Jesus.

     A. Leaders need to know God's will.

     B. Leaders need to teach the people to walk in the knowledge of Jesus by obeying.

  II. The Christians must grow in grace and the knowledge of Jesus. 2 Peter 3:18

     a. It shall be like people like priest.

          1. We have to work it out to let our people obey the Lord or we are going to be like them.

     b. There are 2 schools of thought.

          1. The Refregeration school.

          2. The school of Harvester.

     c. Our role model is Paul.

          1. His passion he considered the loss of everything as dung for the excellence of the knowledge of tears. Phil. 3:8.

          2. His commitment , the incident of Philippians jailer. Acts 16:24-31.

               a. Paul know Jesus wants Him to evangelize Macedonia.

          3. His tenacity. Acts 14:19-20, He went back to the city after being stoned.

    III. change in paradigm.

       1. The truth, 75% of people added to the church through relatives and friends of Christians who evangelize them.

       2. God did not say, do not keep company with unbelievers as some suppose. 1Cor. 5:9-11

       3. God tells us not to go with those naming themselves Christians but are drunkards or immoral or covetous or idolater or extortion.

       4. Let us love the sinner but hate the sin. Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.