Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Thanksgiving SERIES (Spurgeon): The Harvest of Pentecost

 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness;
and thy paths drop fatness.
Psalm 65:11

"Furthermore, beloved, we have heard of heavenly harvests, the outflowing of the upper springs, which, in days of yore, awakened the Church of God to loudest praise. 
 
There was the harvest of Pentecost
Christ having been sown in the ground like a grain of wheat, sprang up from it, and in his resurrection and ascension was like the waved sheaf before the Lord. 
Let us never forget that resurrection which crowned the year of
God’s redeemed with goodness.  
 
It was a terrible year indeed; it began in the howling tempests of Christ’s poverty, and want, and shame, and suffering, and death; it seemed to have no spring and no summer, but yet it was crowned with an abundant harvest when Jesus Christ rose from the dead. 
Fifty days after the resurrection came the Pentecost. The barley-harvest had been passed wherein the wave-sheaf was offered; then came the days of wheat-harvest. 
---Peter, and the eleven that were with him, became the reapers, and three thousand souls fell beneath the gospel sickle
It is recorded that the saints ate their bread with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God. 
 
Pentecost was a crowning mercy, and it was remembered by the saints with crowning thanks."
Charles Spurgeon