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June 16, 2024

My Food is God's Will | The Woman at the Well, pt. 3 of 3

Sermon Series:

It Had To Be Said

John 4:27-42

Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” They went out of the town and were coming to him.

Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”

Main Idea

Jesus Reveals He Has a Job to Do - And So Do We!

Outline

1. Jesus' job is to do God's work (v27-34)
2. Our job is to continue Gospel work (vv35-42)

Pre-Questions

1. Why do you think Jesus used food as an image?
2. What about this message challenged you? What about this message encouraged you?

Discussion Questions

1. Disciples are marked by being people who make disciples. Who in this story models that, and why is that unlikely?
2. What is God's will?
3. Read Psalm 1. Why is doing the will of the Father (or obeying the law) something that Jesus delights in?
4. How can we delight in this too?

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