The Weeping Redeemer Matthew 9:36-38 Until this point, His disciples have been listeners and onlookers. He has been preparing them for ministry. Now, He began to move them to personal involvement and ministry. As He makes this transition, He shows them a reason and need for ministry.God desires every generation to have a great force of laborers. He wills for every man, woman, and child to be reached with “the gospel of the kingdom”. He wills for none to be lost. It is God who is to send forth laborers, not men. He is to do the selecting, calling, ordaining, and sending. Our task is to pray for laborers, and when God raises them up we are to support them by utilizing every means possible. God raises up people with very special gifts to harvest the fields. The harvest is God’s. It is to be harvested as He says and wills, not as we may wish. No man has the right to harvest by using his own message and ideas. Christ has clearly instructed and demonstrated that “the gospel of the kingdom” is to be preached.