Don’t Be Asleep During the Harvest

• Let’s go on to Jeremiah 5:23–24. Jeremiah is rebuking the people of his day in Israel. Because they were not aware of what God was doing; they were wrapped up in themselves. In their own carnal concerns. And, they were blind and deaf to what God was saying and doing. This is what Jeremiah says: In chapter 5 verse 23 and following ‘This people – That’s Israel, in the town of Jeremiah- has a defiant and rebellious heart.
• They have revolted and departed from God.’ Now, what’s the evidence? The next verse. ‘They do not say in their heart, “Let us now fear the LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter in its season. He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”’ Notice the rain is given for the sake of what? The harvest, that’s right.
• What was the mistake that Israel made? They didn’t realize that they were totally dependent on God for the rain, and that the rain was given for the sake of the harvest. They missed God’s purpose. And it says there God reserves the appointed weeks of the harvest. That became a startling revelation to me some years ago.
• Actually, I had walked into a restaurant a little earlier. Selected a table that I wanted to sit at. But when I went over to sit at the table, there was a little sign on the table that showed me I couldn’t sit there. Guess what it was. ‘Reserved’. And when I read this passage, I thought, that’s it! God has put a little sign over just a few short weeks in which the harvest has to be gathered in.
• He’s reserved it. He said to Satan: ‘You can’t have those weeks. I’ve set them apart for the harvest.’ Not months but weeks. Those of you who are farmers or who work on the land and have crops —not so much livestock— you will realize and agree with me. What’s the critical season of the year? What’s the busiest season of the year? What’s the season where everybody has to be out? The harvest, that’s right.
• And in Proverbs 10:5, I’m going to read it, it comes better that way. Proverbs 10:5: He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame. Because, at the season when everybody is needed to be alert and active, there he is sleeping. And he causes his father shame. His father’s ashamed of him.

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