Lift Up Your Eyes — Weston Leibee

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Amen. Good morning to all of you and greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I was very blessed by the singing this morning. Thank you all for exhorting each other and exhorting me in the singing.

I am struggling with a cough, so I hope that you will have grace with me. I couldn't enter into the singing like I would have liked to with my voice, but that didn't hold my heart back. And I was so blessed.

God's Immense Mercy

The word that stuck out to me in the singing this morning is the word immense. If you remember the song Amazing Love, how can it be? It talks about the mercy of God. It's immense. How big is immense? The brother talked about a light bulb 13 feet tall.

Is that immense? I don't even know if that's immense, but the love of God, the mercy of God is immense. The entire world fits inside the parameters of the mercy of God. Can you imagine that? God has mercy enough for anyone.

That's immense. So, I praise the Lord for that truth. Well, before we pray, I would like to just share with you a little report that I got. My brother Tanner actually called me this morning at about a quarter after seven, I think, from Ghana.

And I wasn't expecting that call. I was there studying for it this morning. But he called me and I thought, well, that was good. He gave me a couple of things that were going on there and I thought I could share with you some news hot off the press.

And it fit well with what I wanted to share with this morning. So, I'll just share a little bit of what he shared with me. They had just finished a service there at the retreat. And for those of you who aren't aware, our missionaries in Ghana, we have about eight families there now, I believe.

And twice a year, they all meet together in the central city of Kumasi for several days of encouraging each other. For some of them, that may be the only sermon they hear twice a year. That's usually my case.

I preach a lot of sermons. I don't hear many. And there are times where I go out to a village and me and another brother will preach. But, you know, it's a very different experience to just go there at a retreat and sit in a pew on a Sunday morning.

It often brings tears to your eyes to realize what a privilege it is to be fed the Word of God. But they sat this morning. Brother Denny is there with his family and he shared with them. And Tanner was just sharing with me as he had been so blessed and ministered to this morning, which has already happened in Ghana five hours ago.

And so he shared with me about that and I was blessed. But he did ask me to share with you a little bit what God's been doing in their family's life. So this is by way of testimony and praise. I don't know how many of you have been praying for Tanner or were aware that he is building a new home.

Are most of you aware of that, that he's building a new home? And it's been a very stressful month for him, a very busy month. What he does is he leaves his wife and children and he takes a bicycle or a motorcycle, I'm not sure which he's been using, and goes out to a certain finger of the great Volta Lake there, which is the largest man-made lake in the world.

And then he puts his bike or his motorcycle in a canoe and they ferry him across. And then he has another ride until he gets to the village where he and his family are called to live. And he's been building his home there for the last month.

So he'll go there. He'll spend about four days sleeping in the village. And the village has, by just a miracle of God, a totally Islamic village has offered to build him a house free of charge if he'll come live with them.

So he gets there and he sleeps with the people and they built the house. And he said just two days ago, just before he left for the retreat, they were able to finish all of the mud building of the house.

And he was just thrilled. He was sharing with me how amazing it was to, you know, wake up in the morning and these people gather to work all month long. They want him to live there. They're helping him to build a local style home out of mud, which takes about 30 people to get together for about five solid days of work.

So about 150 man days to build a home like this. And they did this all free of charge, opening their lives up to Tanner and his family to come and live with them. And so there now they have their home up to this level, no roof or anything, but the mud is built up and it's the dry season there.

And Lord willing, unless they get a freak rain, the mud should stand until they can get it plastered and put a roof over it. So Tanner was very thrilled and he asked me to share that here as a praise report for those of you who've been praying for him.

His family is very tired from it. He said his poor little boys have lived without a dad for most of the last month and they're suffering a little bit emotionally, but they're all enjoying a time of rest together at the retreat.

Prayer for Missionary Health and Encouragement

And then I have one prayer request that I think after I share, I'd like us all to stand and pray about. I was not aware of this until this morning. One of the missionary families is unable to be at the retreat, and that's Seth and Sarah Barker who live in Accra.

They're from Charity, just down the road here. And Sarah has been hospitalized in Accra with a fairly acute kidney infection. And so she is under a doctor's surveillance in Accra, being administered antibiotics through IV and also giving her fluid.

And they are praying that she would be able to be released from that and join them at the retreat for the last couple of days. So they're missing one of our missionary families there. It seems Satan likes to attack us during this retreat time and keep someone sick and away from enjoying that revitalizing experience.

So why don't we all stand up together and just lift our hearts and voices up. I know with Bless Seth and Sarah, they don't know I'm sharing this here, but some of you know them from over at Charity. Let's just all lift our hearts.

I'm going to pray, but I would just ask you all to pray in your hearts and with your amens or with your thoughts lifted toward God as we pray for this family. Lord, we do come before You in Jesus' name, and we think of our brother and sister Seth and Sarah Barker, Lord, alone in Accra, and maybe a bit discouraged, Lord, that they're not able to come together with believers in this rare instance for these workers in Ghana, Lord, to come together and be encouraged in the Word of Christ.

And I pray, Lord, that You'd bless Sister Sarah, Father. I pray that You would heal her, Lord. You are the Great Physician, Lord. You know our bodies. You remember our frame that were but dust. And I pray that You'd heal this young lady, Lord, and touch her, Father.

She has a young baby too, Lord. I pray that You would just touch their family, have mercy upon them, and work a miracle, Lord, that even the doctors would not recognize and that they would be able to be dismissed and go and join this time of spiritual renewal, Lord.

It's our prayer that You would smile upon them this morning and encourage them and fill that little room in an African hospital with Your holy presence, Lord, that we just encourage them and lift them up in the Lord.

Strengthen their hand in God. That's our prayer for them this morning, Lord. And we do pray for this time together in Your Word. Thank You for Your people. Thank You for songs and praises of God in our mouth.

And Lord, I pray that You'd meet with us and open the Word of God to us. In mercy, Lord. In Jesus' name, Amen. If you would turn to the Gospel of John, chapter 4, for this morning's text. I would like to preach on John, chapter 4, verse 35, but I believe that we will read the story for the sake of context.

I believe that context is very important and this verse was given in the middle of a story. And so, I don't think it would waste our time to read the story before we share. I'm going to read this and then I'll give a little bit of introduction.

So, let me read this story to you and with you if you'll just follow along. John, chapter 4. We'll read verses 1 through 38. When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus Himself baptized not, but His disciples.

Then He left Judea and departed again into Galilee, and He must needs go through Samaria. Then cometh He to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Now, Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with His journey, sat thus on the well, and it was about the sixth hour or twelve noon. There cometh the woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

For His disciples were going away unto the city to buy meat or food. Then saith the woman of Samaria unto Him, How is it that Thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water. The woman saith unto Him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.

From whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again.

But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life. The woman saith unto Him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband, for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband.

In that saidst thou truly. The woman saith unto Him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what. We know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father seeketh such to worship Him. Praise God. God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.

The woman saith unto Him, I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ. When He has come, He will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am He. And upon this came His disciples, and marveled that He talked with the woman, yet no man asked or said, What seekest thou, or why talkest thou with her?

The woman then left her waterpot and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come and see a man which told me all things that ever I did. Is not this the Christ? Then they went out of the city and came unto Him.

In the meanwhile, His disciples prayed Him, saying, Master, eat. But He said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. Therefore said His disciples, one to another, hath any man brought him ought to eat?

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish His work. Say not ye there are yet four months, and then come at the harvest? Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest.

And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life eternal, that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And herein is that saying true. One soweth and another reapeth.

I sent you to reap that world, and ye bestowed no labor. Other men labored, and ye are entered into their labors. Amen. Thank the Lord for His Word and for a beautiful story. I wish that we could even look at the discourse between Christ and the woman.

I would like to focus on the discourse between Christ and His disciples that they had while the woman went to call the village out to hear the Lord Jesus. But, I will just give due honor to the discourse that Jesus had with the woman.

It's a beautiful discourse and a beautiful model for how to answer the questions of sinners. A very, very precious passage. I would like to preach this morning on missions. The title of the message is Lift Up Your Eyes.

Missions as a Privilege and Joy

And I don't know what you think about when you hear that when I share that I'm going to preach on missions. I hope that this message today will be positive and enthusiastic. I hope it will be contagious.

As contagious as the flu that's been going around that we're sharing with one another. I hope that this will be a contagious experience for you and that it will be a blessing from the Lord. I know that sometimes because of the immensity of the task of missions and the challenge before us and the suffering that it involves, perhaps it has become a bit negative in some of our minds.

I hope not. I hope that it will be a positive blessing this morning. I know speaking for the testimony of our family, one of the biggest reasons my dad and I were speaking the other day about this, and I think dad and I agree that one of the three great reasons that our family moved to Pennsylvania was to engage our family better in world missions.

The little church we were going to in Florida was a great blessing. We were going to a little Baptist church and they were very good to us and we learned a lot there. But there wasn't much chance for us to get involved in mission ourselves, personally.

It was more in the evangelical realm where the church is just a little bit of a couple missionary support and they weren't really involved. And we said, let's move up there and maybe we'll get involved more in missions.

That was our testimony. And God has been very good to us and of us three children that have become married, I guess three of us have become involved in world missions. And I say that as a privilege and a joy and a testimony to the Lord's allowing us to be involved in something that's such a blessing.

I count it a great privilege to be involved, that God has allowed us as a church and as a group of churches to get involved in what God is doing in the world. And I hope that you too see that as a privilege to be involved with a people who put such high emphasis on the Kingdom of God being expanded in the whole world.

It is a joy. Not every church has that emphasis and I praise God for the emphasis that has historically and even more recently in the last few years that has been amongst our churches for this. You know, it's strange that I would be so excited about missions because I'll be very honest with you.

My involvement with missions in the last few years has brought much suffering into my life. It has not enriched me. Someone was surprised recently to learn that my bank account has not grown any in the last few years because of my living on the field and I just chuckled at them.

Missions is not good for your finances. It's not very good for your health. It's not very good for your family. It's not very good for a lot of things like that. It doesn't go with the prosperity gospel very well at all.

Missions has brought only suffering to me and as I look into the future and consider a life lived out for the cause of missions, I can't imagine anything short of a lot of pain. But it has brought a wonderful joy with it.

I don't know how to share with you the mixture of those two things that is so strange that many people have remarked about missionaries that they're very strange. David Livingston, and I don't advocate everything he did in his life, but he suffered a lot and he came home and made a last minute speech right before he died to a group of students and he said, I've never made a sacrifice.

You just wonder how he could make a statement like that. Listen to this statement by Samuel Zwemer. I don't know how many of you are aware of him. He was the first missionary to Saudi Arabia years ago before Saudi Arabia was so closed politically.

In 1897, Samuel Zwemer and his wife and his two daughters sailed to the Persian Gulf to work among the Muslims of Bahrain. Their evangelism was largely fruitless. In July 1904, seven years after arriving there, both of their daughters, ages four and seven, died within eight days of each other.

Nevertheless, 50 years later, Zwemer looked back on this period and wrote, The sheer joy of it all comes back. Gladly, would I do it all over again. That is the strange blending of suffering and joy that has been my experience in missions.

I have not lost my two daughters within eight days of each other. But as I read this man's testimony, he looked back and said, The sheer joy of it all comes back. Gladly, would I do it all over again.

Samuel Zwemer also said this, and I want you to just listen for a moment here. Try to grasp this. Our willingness to sacrifice for an enterprise is always in proportion to our faith in that enterprise.

As much as you believe in something, you'll suffer for it. The unoccupied fields of the world must have their Calvary before they can have their Pentecost. And that has been some of my limited experience.

I do not say that to boast, but just to try to explain to you that while I'm thrilled with missions, and while I pledge until I die to do everything I can to get as many people involved in world missions as I can, it is not a bed of roses, and it is not all a fun experience, but it is a joyful thing to be involved in what God is doing.

Why is it so exciting? Just flip over for a minute to Romans 15. Paul looked at it as an honor, the work that the Lord had given him to go and spread the Gospel to the Gentiles, and Paul got approximately 40 people involved.

That's what most people feel like counting the names up in the New Testament of the people that worked with him. Paul got about 40 people involved in taking the Gospel out to the Gentiles. And this is Paul's comment after having been beaten by the Jews that received 40 stripes, save one, like on three different occasions, and all that he went through.

His comment still in Romans 15, is he says that because of the grace that is given to me of God that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles. You know, in other words, what he's saying is it's this honor, this privilege that God has given me to go out there and preach to the Gentiles.

And you would think after all that he went through, he would think of it as a burden. But he says, no, this is the grace of God that's been given to me. This is a joy that the Lord has given to me. You can flip back to John 4.

Just to read a couple of other verses to you to show you how Paul was thrilled to be linked together in the work of God in 2 Corinthians 5, Paul says that he has given to us the ministry of reconciliation.

Now, when you give someone something, it's a gift. It's not a chore. It's not a burden. It's not a grievous. It's a gift. Paul says he takes the ministry of reconciliation as a gift. And in 2 Corinthians 6, Paul says we are workers together with him.

Maybe that is what's the most exciting thing about all of us getting involved in world missions. Is that God is in the business of redeeming people and building a kingdom for His Son. And He is offering us, He's offering you a position as a partner in His business.

Isn't that incredible? You know, when I think of my salvation, I think if God would have saved me and just made me a little slave in the corner somewhere, that would have been great. I mean, gotten out of hell and out of my miserable self and just given me a tiny little corner in heaven as a servant.

Praise God, right? That's probably how you and I would have designed it if we would have been in charge of it. But no, God says, no, I'll do something beyond that. I'll adopt you and make you a son. And you think, wow!

But then God goes and says, you know what? I'll move beyond that. I'll make you a partner. I'll make you a joint heir. I'll make you a fellow worker with Me. Isn't that amazing? I'm not just going to make you a son to sit at My table and eat My meal.

I'm going to say, now, son, now that you've eaten My table and eaten My meal with Me, I have something I'd like to go and do. How would you like to join Me in that? What a great work that God has given us.

Now you can see why Paul says, yeah, I have been nearly killed on several instances and I've suffered my whole life and I have this thorn in the flesh that won't go away. But it's a gift. It's an honorable gift to minister to the Gentiles.

So I just want to lift that up to you brothers and sisters and I realize that many of you are partaking in this grace of God both through local missions here in the States and through involving yourself in world missions.

And I just want to lift up at the beginning of this message that this is entirely positive. We have nothing to lose but our very lives. And we have everything to gain. So let's go to John 4. I want to especially make a fairly detailed study of verse 35 here.

First, let's get the mood of the passage. Jesus is very excited here. Can you see that? That's why I read the story. Jesus is very excited. Jesus is also very tired. According to the passage, it's 12 o 'clock noon and it's very hot and they've been walking most of the day.

The Bible says they were walking from Jerusalem up to Galilee. So they had spent the entire morning walking. They surely got started at 5 or 6 in the morning to beat the heat of the day. He's been on the road for hours.

He's very tired. He sits on a well and the disciples offer, Jesus, should we go buy a meal in Samaria? And Jesus says, sure. Evidently, He was too tired to go with them. And that's all I can assume other than the fact that He wanted to meet the woman there.

So He sat on the well and they trooped into town to buy, like we do in Ghana, not to buy a nice meal at the Olive Garden, but just to buy some food off of the shacks by the side of the road and bring it back.

And Jesus is sitting there and He has this discourse with this woman and is able to share the Lord with her and she runs into town to get people. And the disciples come back and evidently they spread out the meal and start eating.

And He says, Lord, Lord, eat. And He says, I'm not hungry. Now, He was hungry before because He had allowed them to go into town and get me, but He says, I have food. You guys have no clue. That food is not anything to me.

You know, I'm paraphrasing it, but Jesus says, I had a different kind of food. I'm not even hungry. And this is the enthusiasm that Jesus is in the middle of. And then Jesus says to them, and they're saying to each other, do you think somebody brought Him something to eat?

He doesn't even seem hungry. And then Jesus opens His mouth and starts sharing. My meat. My food. My passion. My burning desire. That which makes me satisfied and full is to do the will of Him that sent me and to finish His work.

The Five Parts of John 4:35

Now, that's the backdrop against which we get into verse 35, which I would like to spend the next half hour or so studying. I would like to break verse 35 into five parts. If you want to take notes, I'll try to be distinct.

Into five parts. The first part is the disciples' view of the harvest. Which is given to us in the first part of the verse there. They are yet four months and then cometh the harvest. The second part is behold.

I'd like to look at the word behold. The third part is Jesus' view of the harvest, which is found in the end of the verse. They are white already unto harvest. And then the fourth and fifth parts are the two action verbs that are found in the middle of the sentence.

And those are the two verbs lift up and look on. So, those are the five parts of this verse that I'd like to look at. So, let's start with the disciples' view of the harvest. So, Jesus says to them, don't you say, in our King James here, it's put as a question.

Don't you say that there are still four months until the harvest. Now, here in the King James, we have it with a question mark. I'm not sure that they use question marks in the Hebrew or the Greek. And as I looked at this, some Bible versions put this as a sentence.

Do not say there are yet four months and then come at the harvest. You see how it could be that way. Say not ye. And some put it as a question. So, either Jesus was asking them the question, don't you have a saying or don't you guys think that there are still four months to the harvest?

Or Jesus is saying to them, don't think that there are four months to the harvest. But either way, it has the same meaning. And then Jesus later on is going to explain what He says. So, this reminds me a little bit of the Sermon on the Mount.

As Jesus gets into this verse, if you remember in the Sermon on the Mount, He did this several times where He would say, you say this, but I say this. It was said this, but I say unto you this. He's going to correct their thinking.

So, their view is there are yet four months and then cometh harvest. Now, there's two ways of looking at this that they said. It's possible that they were speaking of the actual harvest. They were speaking of the actual harvest in Palestine at that time.

It's possible that Jesus was saying, you have a proverb that there are four months to harvest. Or it's even possible that this very date that they spoke this, there was four months until the Jewish harvest.

Like they were exactly four months before their harvest. That's one possibility. The second possibility is He's speaking spiritually. That you feel that the spiritual harvest is still sometime in the future.

So, I'd like to look at both of those. Let's look at the physical one first. Let's say that the disciples were four months away from harvest. That, you know, as they looked on the fields in those times, there was just a little teeny plant out in the field and there was yet four months.

I believe that the winter wheat crop is a long crop. You might have four months in there. And they really were four months away from harvest. So, Jesus says, I know that you guys are thinking that we're four months away from harvest.

That is your opinion. Well, let's think about that a little bit, brothers and sisters, and what that means to us. So, that means that they were operating in a different sphere than the Lord Jesus. They, as they looked around them, they were looking at the tiny little wheat crop just bursting through the ground.

And Jesus was looking at a different harvest. They were looking at the natural things of this world. And that is not wrong. However, we do have to remember that Jesus said, after these things, do the Gentiles seek.

What do the Gentiles seek after? They seek after what to eat, wherewithal to be clothed. Is there something else? Maybe where to house themselves. These are the things that the Gentiles seek. These are carnal things.

Now, the word carnal as the way I'm using it does not necessarily mean what we think of. You know, when we think of the word carnal, we think of like going to the mall and playing video games and you know, really like evil, worldly, bad influence stuff.

But Jesus isn't talking about carnal as in you're just, you love the world and you're bent against the Father. This speaking of carnal here is just simply natural. The word carnal, from where we get our word carnivorous or meat eating, simply talks about the meat or the flesh.

And Jesus Jesus doesn't use the word carnal here. Paul uses it later in his books of the Corinthians. But we could say that this is a carnal reasoning. They're thinking in the world. You know, there's yet four months to the wheat harvest.

They have their eyes very solidly focused upon the wheat harvest, which would have been their manner of living. We could compare that to having our eyes focused on our job or on the new house that we're trying to buy on our payments or whatever it is.

So Jesus says, I know that you guys, you disciples, your mind, your heart, your thinking is on the harvest, which is still four months away. And you know, I just want us to think, brothers and sisters, that it is very natural for us to think on those things and I perfectly understand that.

It's very natural for us to think about our jobs as men and the house that we'd like to get or the food for us ladies and the next grocery store trip that we need. Those things are natural and it was natural that the disciples sitting there eating were probably looking at the fields and thinking about that.

But I will warn us that we have to be very careful with our minds, don't we? Because Paul said to be carnally minded is death. But to be spiritually minded is life. Now, he's not just meaning to be evilly minded, to be thinking about evil things, but to continually have your mind focused on carnal things kills spiritual meditation.

Is that right? I'm not talking about evil things. I mean carnal things. To continually be thinking about my job and house payments and the auction that I should go to. This will deaden spiritual life down.

To be carnally minded is death. But to be spiritually minded is life. These patterns of thinking do work against patterns of spiritual thinking. They choke out spiritual meditation. And Brother David spoke of this a couple weeks ago in the Other Things.

And it seems that the disciples were unable to see the spiritual harvest that Jesus brings out later because they were focused on the wheat harvest. Again, nothing wrong with the wheat harvest. It needs to be engaged in.

But it can't consume our minds. Well, let's look at the second way that the disciples may have been thinking. I believe that Jesus might have been speaking a bit tongue-in-cheek or maybe a better word would be in parables.

Jesus often had a double meaning when He spoke. And I believe, as I understand the Jewish thought at that time about the harvest of the Gentiles and the Samaritans and all these people, that the Jews pushed that harvest out into the future.

I think that most of the Jews in reading the Old Testament would have felt like there was probably a time coming in the end when Jerusalem would be lifted up and all nations would flow unto it and there's some passages that would intimate those things.

And so spiritually they would have also been feeling like there's yet four months. In other words, there's yet a season. We are not in the harvest season. We're not in the dispensation when the nations of the world are gathered in.

There's still some time coming before that. I believe that's how the Jews would have perceived it. So this was a different view of missions. A view that said there is still time. It's not our responsibility.

They didn't sense the urgency that Jesus sensed because there was still four months. And that's a very reasonable excuse. If there are still four months, then it's no need to sharpen your hoe today or your sieve.

It's no need to lay aside other responsibilities in terms of the harvest because after all, there's still four months or there's still a space of time. So Jesus says to them, isn't that what you're thinking?

That there is still time before the harvest. And I would encourage us, brothers and sisters, that I think sometimes that we tend to go that way in our hearts and minds too. Now, I know that all of us in this room, I'm quite sure we believe that we live in the day of grace.

And this is the dispensation of grace. This is the time for the peoples of the world to come to the Lord Jesus. He's been lifted up so all men can be drawn unto Him. We would know all of those things.