There is never a moment in ministry when you aren’t being ministered to. The Savior is not just working through you in the lives of others, but He is also working in you as He works through you. He is not just calling you to be an agent of His transforming grace; He is transforming you by the same grace. He is not just committed to the success of your ministry but also to the triumph of His grace in your own heart and life... You are never just a vehicle of His amazing grace. No, you are always also a recipient of that grace.
Paul David Tripp

REAPING

REAPING

REAPING

  1. Is the cutting of the corn in harvest # Job 24:6 Le 23:10
  2. The sickle used for # De 16:9 Mr 4:29
  3. Both men and women engaged in # Ru 2:8,9
  4. THE JEWS NOT TO REAP 4a) The corners of their fields

    # Le 19:9 23:22

4b) During the Sabbatical year # Le 25:5 4c) During the year of jubilee # Le 25:11 4d) The fields of others # De 23:25 5) Mode of gathering the corn for, alluded to # Ps 129:7 Isa 17:5 6) Corn after, was bound up into sheaves # Ge 37:7 Ps 129:7 7) PERSONS ENGAGED IN 7a) Under the guidance of a steward # Ru 2:5,6 7b) Visited by the master # Ru 2:4 2Ki 4:18 7c) Fed by the master who himself presided at their meals # Ru 2:14 7d) Received wages # Joh 4:36 Jas 5:4 8) A time of great rejoicing # Ps 126:5,6 9) The Jews often hindered from, on account of their sins # Mic 6:15 10) Often unprofitable on account of sin # Jer 12:13 11) ILLUSTRATIVE OF 11a) Receiving the reward of wickedness # Job 4:8 Pr 22:8 Ho 8:7 Ga 6:8 11b) Receiving the reward of righteousness # Ho 10:12 Ga 6:8,9 11c) Ministers receiving temporal provision for spiritual labours # 1Co 9:11 11d) Gathering in souls to God # Joh 4:38 11e) The judgments of God on the antichristian world # Re 14:14-16 11f) The final judgment # Mt 13:30,39-43