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4. Implications for evangelism and church planting: Messiah Jesus’ high place grows out of God’s intent to exalt him above all others , save himself.

C. Messiah Jesus has been given absolute authority over the harvest field and the work: he is Lord of the harvest.

1. He alone sends out laborers into the harvest field of God.

a. Matt. 9.35-38

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b. Matt. 10.1

2. Jesus sends out his workers and laborers with the same kind of mandate, calling, and burden that he had when the Father called him, John 20.20-21.

a. They are sent with the same agency and representative authority .

b. They are sent with the same stigma and scandal .

c. They are sent with the same Spirit of power .

3. Christ’s calling is closely associated with his intercession and consultation with the Father, Luke 6.12-13.

4. Implications for evangelism and church planting: church planting and ministry is not a science of well-schooled techniques ; rather, evangelism and church planting is a divine calling and burden .