AE 911 - Life; Harvest; The Lord's Gift to Us

AE 911 [3, 15, 17]

. . . to live a natural life or the life of the world,
. . . is sleep as compared with spiritual life,
which is wakefulness.
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Jesus said to His disciples,
The harvest is plentiful
but the laborers are few.
Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore,
to send out workers into his harvest field.
(Matthew 9:37-38, Luke 2)

The "harvest" here means all with whom
the church was to be established by the Lord,
thus also the church in general;
and "laborers" mean all who will teach from the Lord.
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. . . although the Lord works all things,
and a person nothing from self,
yet He wills that a person should work
as if from self
in all that comes to his perception.
For without a person's co-operation
as if from self
there can be no reception of truth and good,
that no implantation and regeneration.
For to will is the Lord's gift to a person;
and because the appearance to a person is that
this is from self
He gives him to will
as if from self.