"The Harvest" -2

"There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth." (Psalms 72:16) When you stop to think about the magnitude of the Good News, there are people all over the world today that would die, and are being killed, for their testimony of Jesus Christ. This might not sound very good, but the impact upon the earth is far more powerful when people are being killed for what they believe, than if they were not. This is part of what is being said, I believe, and it represents the power that is demonstrated in faith that is willing to suffer, all the way to the grave, if that is what it takes. We here in the United States have it really easy compared to a lot of other Christians around the world; so we really don't understand the significance of how persecution of the church causes there to be a boldness and an awakening, that otherwise would lay dormant and doing nothing. We are not talking about anything but pure willingness to share God's love, nothing about violence or protesting or getting riled up; it's more about pressing God's love out, like a wine press; and the wine thereof continues to spread. I believe that the 'workers' Jesus was referring to, in Matthew 9:38, are those that are willing to teach the Word of God; not like teachers would teach someone to read, or teaching for the sake of teaching; but it's more about connecting the dots, which is primarily what the disciple did after Jesus went up into heaven. It was what Stephen did just before he was killed. It is what the Holy Spirit shows us, as He leads us into the Word, showing us the connections from the Old Testament into the New Testament. It was what Jesus did, as He taught from the Scriptures; showing the significance of His life and death, in comparison to the writings of the Law and the Prophets. The main point is that of keeping to the Word of God! Not mixing God's word with the philosophies of men or of the world; if it is outside of the Bible, then it is not fit to be taught. Which reminds me of another "mustard seed" Scripture that speaks to the pureness of the mustard seed...
"At the foot of the mountain, a large crowd was waiting for them. A man came and knelt before Jesus and said, "Lord, have mercy on my son. He has seizures and suffers terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. So I brought him to your disciples, but they couldn't heal him." Jesus said, "You faithless and corrupt people! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy to me." Then Jesus rebuked the demon in the boy, and it left him. From that moment the boy was well. Afterward the disciples asked Jesus privately, "Why couldn't we cast out that demon?" "You don't have enough faith," Jesus told them. "I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it would move. Nothing would be impossible."" (Matthew 17:14-21) NLT