His last command to His followers was one of spiritual reproduction:
Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.
(Mark 16:15)He challenged His disciples with a great vision of spiritual harvest:
Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh 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.
(John 4:35-36)Solomon said:
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
(Proverbs 11:30)The power of the Holy Spirit enables believers to be spiritually fruitful through evangelism:
But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and
ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in
Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. (Acts 1:8)The method of spiritual reproduction is given in II Timothy 2:2:
And the thing that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same
commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
(II Timothy 2:2)
Just as God established a cycle of harvest in the natural world, He established a cycle of
reproduction in the spiritual world. Each believer is to teach the Gospel to people who also
reproduce by teaching others. Just as the natural cycle of seedtime and harvest is unending, so is
the cycle of spiritual harvest.
(Because of the importance of the outer fruit of evangelism, Harvestime International Institute
offers separate courses on this subject. Write for information on "Strategies For Spiritual
Harvest," "Methodologies of Multiplication," and "Leaven-Like Evangelism").