Matthew 09:35-38 Are You Laboring? audio

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Text: Matthew 9:35-38

Introduction

• • The word labor means to exert one’s power in mind or body especially in continuous effort to accomplish a determined goal. In Genesis 11:1-8, the people had one language and had determined to build a tower and they exerted their mind & body to accomplish this goal until the Lord changed those plans.
• You and I as Christians need to be continuously employing ourselves at laboring in the vineyard of the Lord. In Matthew 9:35-38, we find Jesus is employed at going about the cities and teaching in their synagogues preaching the gospel and healing the sick and was moved with compassion on the multitudes because they’re as scattered sheep having no shepherd.
• Sometimes we may labor to do the wrong things in which will not profit us. But Jesus admonishes us to labor not for the meat that perishes but for the meat which endures to everlasting life (John 6:27-29).

God Expects Us to be Members of the Body

And Labor in His Vineyard

• God labored for six days as He created the world, and on the seventh day God rested from His work (Genesis 2:1-3). To enjoy the rest that God has prepared for you, you must work as God worked to entered into His rest (Hebrews 4:9-11).
• When you obeyed the gospel of Jesus Christ, God added you to the body of Christ (church). Each member of the body of Christ has a job or function that must be performed if the church is to function properly (Romans 12:4-8).
• Christians must take time from daily schedules to work for the Lord (1 Corinthians 15:58). Let us be encourage to labor for the Lord now since we will all have to give account the things done in the body before God (2 Corinthians 5:9-10).
• In Galatians 6:7-8 the Bible teaches, you will reap what you sow, therefore you must spend time sowing things of the Spirit and not of the flesh, so you can reap everlasting life.

Why Will Some Refuse to Work?

• Many Christians & members of the church will refuse to work in God’s vineyard because they have not been converted (Matthew 13:15; Matthew 18:3).
• Others will refuse to serve God because they love worldly living more than they love God. These will try to appear spiritual in the assembly of the saints, but Jesus lets us know you will know them by their fruits (Matthew 6:24; I John 2:15-17).
• Let us all be encouraged to labor in the vineyard of the Lord that we might rest from our labors (Revelations 14:13).
• If you are laboring in the vineyard of Satan, and have burdens you can no longer bear, why come to Jesus? (Matthew 11:28-30).

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