Growing in God: The Treasure is in the Field

Series: Growing in God
Message: The Treasure is in the Field
3-7-10
We are living in a time where people are living to please themselves and not God.
John 4:34-38 (New Living Translation)
Matthew 13:44 (New Living Translation)
44 “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field. In his excitement, he hid it again and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field

 Didn’t buy the treasure but the field
 Treasures are hidden for reapers only God sees treasure in trash, potential in people, you are valuable to Jesus Christ
 We must focus on the harvest, get involved with what God is doing, and it will always come back to you.
 But in order to find the treasure you must invest in the field, you got to get in the field
 Fields are white unto harvest, and Jesus is in the field
 You want an anointing, get where the needs are
We are living in time where everyone wants the blessing of Christianity, healing prosperity favor good success, all the blessings of being a child of God
 Either no one lives right, or there is a misunderstanding of how to get those treasures
The treasures of Heaven are hid in the fields of evangelism
 Must invest into the field if you want the release of the treasure
Isa 58:6-7 talks about getting on the fast that God has chosen loose the chains that bind people, feed them, cloth them and give them shelter,
 I’ve hid all the blessings and won’t release them till you get involved in the harvest field, the treasure is in the field
 Must return to the fields of evangelism, mission fields, and get the focus off us
This is not a bless me club
 We must start feeding hungry children, 15,000 children die of starvation every day somewhere in the world
 How you gonna do that Dan, how much money you have for it?
 If God said do it, the treasure will be in the field
 If business people would get this it would revolutionize their life, change everything
 Find a field of desperate hungry poverty stricken, hurting broken starving people and sow into the field
The treasure is in the field, God will begin to release treasures back into your life
 He will release money and what money cannot buy, sow into the field, feed people the natural bread and the bread of life.
 Invest into the fields and God releases the treasures, He is the Pearl of great Price
 The anointing is in the field
Ex: Brazil- slums, healing, cancer, tumors, deaf ears
Ex: Marti Gras-Deliverance on the street
 The treasure is in the field! Get in the field and get busy!
 Your field is where you work, school, where lost people are, hidden treasures where you didn’t know God could use you in.
If you take care of God business, He will take care of yours. Don’t chase money, chase God.
 If you chase after God, God will cause what others chase after, to chase after you!
 Get in the field and reap the Harvest- the treasure is in the field
Ruth
She is a destitute widow, she joins God’s people, gleans in the grainfields and risks her honor at the threshing floor of Boaz, a wealthy farmer. She follows a plan from her mother-in-law Naomi, and later Boaz and Ruth are married. Not only does Boaz allow her to glean in his fields, but allows protection and prosperity to come Ruth by marrying her. Boaz redeemed Ruth. And it’s a picture of Christ Redeeming us.
Boaz was really trying to help
Matthew 25:45 (New Living Translation)
45 “And he will answer, ‘I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.
There was a great famine so Ruth went to work in the field, and it was customary for farmers to leave the corners of their fields for others to glean who where impoverished, and it kept the farmers from hoarding, and also served as a type of welfare program in Israel
Ruth was out there and caught Boaz attention, maybe by the raven black flowing hair
Ruth 2:16 (King James Version)
16And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not
 Ruth went to work in the fields and found her soul mate, not in the club, God has someone for you but get busy in the harvest field, the treasure is in the field, reap the harvest
 What others chase after, will chase after you.
Ex: met Ashley working in the fields of Bay City
 Your answer is in the field, not a party, reap the harvest, chase God, treasure in the field, God releases treasures in the field
 There’s protection and purpose for you in the field Ruth 2:9
 Get involved in the field and God will give you your own real estate,
 Want to find your purpose get in the field
 You think that your purpose is to work at the bank, plumber, school teacher, hospital
 If you start tying what you do to the harvest, and leveraging your relationships, then God will connect you
 Whatever field of vacation you are in, is your field
 If you start reaping using leveraging, your influence in the field to witness to people about Jesus- He will leave you handfuls of purpose, find out what to do in life? Get in the field and find handfuls of purpose, but not until your involved in the field
 Ruth met her mate by being involved in the field. God connected her with handfuls of purpose.
 God will connect you when you get involved with the harvest field
Ruth experienced poverty and famine, and because of that she switched religions, as a Moabite, started working in a field of which she had no influence, married Boaz, eventually owning the land she worked as a peasant, made the God of Heaven her God, and later became the great grandmother to King David, and the great, great great grandmother to Jesus Christ, all because she was willing to get in the field.
 She made up her mind to get involved in the field, the treasure is in the field
 Purpose was released in handfuls of blessings, protection, and destiny
 This is the gift and promise of God for you to get involved in the field, hidden treasure in the field
Do you think God allowed the earthquake in Haiti to see if America would respond? And if we do, do you think that God would use seed sown in that field or others to heal our Economy?
I believe God wants to bless America- other nations 36 Million, USA-500 million to Haiti
God has called us to get into the field in this last hour of the church dispensation, and the same work that the apostles performed was planted so that we, in this last hour would get paid the same, with greater works
The treasure is in the field, if you want God to bless you, you must bless others.
 Jesus worked the fields for us with scarred hands and feet, I encourage you to join Him in His suffering for the suffering of this present time is but for a moment, but is not to be compared to the glory to be revealed in us
 Ruth 4:15 (New Living Translation)