LABORERS FOR KINGDOM

LABORERS OR WORKERS

we are Gods children, we are Gods chosen, we are Gods Holy Priests, Royal Kingdom.

But God also sees us as Laborers in His harvest.

1 Corinthians 3:9

9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field,

We like to enjoy being loved.

We like to enjoy being served

we like to enjoy receiving.

But when we are assigned to do work, that becomes problem.

it is good to sing a song I am child of God. but we dont see a song, am a fellow laborer of God

We are fellow laborers

Work -> Gods plan for man is to work. there is a job for man to do.

man was never called to be idle.

Genesis 2:15

15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.

But the work became a toil after the sin.

Genesis 3:16

17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

“Cursed is the ground for your sake;
In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.
118 Both thorns and thistles it shall [f]bring forth for you,
And you shall eat the herb of the field.
119 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread

Let us look at one mans work in his life 

Jacobs first job - It is the work for  love.

Genesis 29:18

18 Now Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.

You love the work - you wanted a career, even if it is less pay you want to do it anyway,

work for commitment

27 Fulfill her week, and we will give you this one also for the service which you will serve with me still another seven years.”

After 7 years you might not have love for the work, you might have commitment to do your work, to finish your bills.

Work for saving.

Genesis 30:

29 So Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me. 30 For what you had before I came was little, and it has increased to a great amount; the Lord has blessed you [l]since my coming. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?”

Now Jacob wants to provide for his own house.

He wants to do something that his family will have something.

But Jacob , through his work at Labans house for love of his life, for his commitment, and even for his own house...

in this process ,  he raised 12 sons, that became 12 tribes.

and these 12 tribes became the nation of Israel.

He raised 12 sons.

He rebuked when Simeon and Levi struck the people of Shechem.

He raised Joseph, He raised Judah.

He was not simply working for his own self.

Everybody in the home saw that his steps were ordained by God.

His work was blessed by God, so the people raised at his home were blessed.

He became a prophet and at the end , he prophesied by blessing his children, all the 12 tribes.

He raised a Kingdom. a nation.

He was a kingdom worker.

It is easy to say that they are his physical children. but remember Jacob when he was working, each step of his life, Gods stamp was there.

pilgrimage

Genesis 49:28

28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them. And he blessed them; he blessed each one according to his own blessing.

Matthew 9:35-38

35 Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease [i]among the people. 36 But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were [j]weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. 37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. 38 Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”

Harvest is plenty, laborers are few.

Compassion drives your work for God.

John 6:27

 27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”