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Bulletin

Hymn # 66 “There Is a Name I Love to Hear”
SCRIPTURE READING – Philippians 2:9 - 11

Giving of Selves and Our Offerings
OFFERTORY PRAYER
OFFERTORY MUSIC – Pru Hungate

Praise and Worship
“House of the Lord”​​
“At the Cross (Love Ran Red”
“God You Are”

Proclamation of the Word
Message by Pastor Joe
“Your Son Lives”

PRAYER TIME / Time of Reflection
“Living Hope”
Benediction “There Is Freedom”

Sermon Notes
John 4:39 – 43 Many of the Samaritans believed in Jesus
John 4:44 Jesus says a prophet is without honor in his own country
John 4:45 Jesus arrives in Galilee and the people received Him because they saw what He did in Jerusalem
John 4:46 & 47 Jesus goes to Cana and a royal official from Capernaum meets Him to ask that Jesus come with him to heal his son
John 4:48 Jesus says “Unless you people see a sign, you will not believe”
John 4:49 The royal official is persistent
John 4:50 Jesus tells him “Go his son lives” and the father starts in his belief
John 4:51 & 52 A slave meets the father and tells him his son wass living and there is a conversation when the son was healed
John 4:53 The father and his whole family come to faith
John 4:54 A second sign

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Scritpures

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Transcript of Service

If you have your Bibles, please turn to the Gospel of John Chapter 4 and we're going to start with verse 39. And we're going to keep talking about just the kind of God. That he is. The context. Is simply this. Jesus, having traveled, been travelling from Jerusalem and having spent some time in Judea besides to go through Samaria, which is unlike most religious Jews of the day, they would avoid and take the extra distance to go around Samaria. But Jesus chose to travel. Through it and into his humanity, he was tired, so he rested by a well, and his disciples went to the town of Sychar to buy food, and during that time that the disciples were gone, he had a conversation with the Samaritan woman again, which was unusual as first in that culture, men didn't talk to women who weren't part of the family. And second, she was a Samaritan, and as he starts the conversation, she even mentions that you being a Jew, you're talking to me and you're asking me for water and to have a conversation between the difference of well water and living water. And they go through some other. Theological situations. And Jesus. Plainly tells her. That he is the Messiah after having told her. About her life. And she goes.

To the town when the disciples come leaves her water pot and disciples are kind of a gas. Why he would Jesus would be speaking to this woman. And Jesus says that. He's consumed food that they don't know about, and again, they're confused because they think of physical things and Jesus saying I'm sustained by doing the will of God and accomplishing his work. And then Jesus talks about the fact that they're going to be participating in harvesting, that they had not planted or or some. And as the men from by car were approaching, he had this conversation and that is where we are as the men. Some cycle have come, and they're now here, so they says. So we see the woman say, come see a man who told me all the things that I have done. This is not the crisis it. And so this woman goes after having this conversation with Jesus. And Jesus, having told her about her life. And mainly saying that I am the Christ, I am the Messiah, she goes and she testifies to what she has experienced. She has seen who she believes is the Messiah has of who he has been and what he has done and what he said. So I want you to 1st think when you are intimidated about witnessing. Remember this woman? Her background was less than stellar.

He's married five times and now living with him. She was a Samaritan, which was considered a **** ***** and contemptible, and so she had all of this baggage, if you will. None of us are perfect, and so the question isn't what our background is. The question is, who are we testifying about? So she goes to the town and notice she's talking to me. So she didn't go to a women's Bible. Study she went. And. Went to the men's at I believe I found the Messiah. Check him out. And they went out of the city and were coming to him. And so that's where we see the the men coming and Jesus talking about the field being white with harvest. Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, saying rabbi eat. But he said to them, I have food that you don't know, do not know about. The disciples were saying to one another. No one brought him anything to eat. Did he and Jesus said to them my food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. Do not say that there are yet four months, and then comes the harvest. Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look under fields that they are. White for harvest. Already he who reaps his receiving wages and is gathering food for life eternal so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. Or in this case the saying is true, 1 sows, and another reaps. I sent to you to reap baffle which you have not labored and others labored, and you have entered into their labor. And from that. City many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified. He told me all things that I have done for notice she's witnessing to these people and they are coming to faith from her testimony. Again, she doesn't have a stellar background. She's not a man, she's not a rabbi. And yet, because of her experience with Jesus. They come to faith in him. So when the Samaritans came to Jesus. They were asking him to stay with them and he stayed two more days. Now once you see there is a difference here. Jesus left Judea. Because of opposition. Jesus left because they wanted to get rid of him. They hear these Africans, they hear these people that we're not supposed to come into contact with and they are coming to Jesus in faith. Because of the testimony of this woman. And because they meet Jesus, they go. We want to hear more from you. We want you to teach us.

We want to strengthen our faith and so Jesus stays two more days. He doesn't just travel through America, he stays there. To work. You've been notice this many more believe. Because of his. And so there were those who came to Jesus because of the testimony of the woman. But there were. Others who came to Jesus to find out more about Jesus because they weren't quite convinced with the woman's testimony and having met Jesus, they came to faith. And they were saying to the woman there is no longer because of what you said, that we believe for we have heard for ourselves and know that this one is indeed the savior of the world. So having contact with Jesus and having been around him and learning from him, they said, you know, we started our faith because of your testimony, but because we met. And learned of him. We now believe because of that. And that's why it is so important when we. Lead people to Christ. That we don't just say wonderful and not by Bible. Another soul saved. We need to teach them about Jesus. They need to get into the word and to learn more of him so that their faith is not blessed on our testimony, but rested on the testimony of the one who came. To save them. Because let's face it. If you come based on. There's going to come a time if there hasn't already. Or I'm going to let you down. And you're going to think that I'm not. The Christian I ought to be. But that's why this woman is so great. He was not who she should have been. But she wasn't testifying. Look at me. Her testimony was look at him. And that's what we need to do. We need to testify about Jesus. All too often, we want to say, well, Jesus changed my life and praise God, he does. And I hope he changes it more. But the testimony isn't that he changed my life. The testimony is he's the son of God. He came because he loved us, because he loved the father. He was obedient to the father. They came to save us all. To transform our life. Talk to him. Not about me. And after two days, he went for. From there into Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

Now I've read that the funniest I. Read descriptors. I determine how I'm going to preach, and after I do all that, I read the commentary. The commentaries are all over the place when it comes to what Jesus is saying. Someone saying, well, maybe it's maybe they're holding him before and maybe he should come later and he's in Samaria and and. What is on the? I thought it's very obvious. So I guess I'm really. Ignorant it's. Here's what I think is really odd. Jesus spent two days with the monstrous Americans. Who came to faith? He had to leave Judea because they were against him. He's going to Galilee, where in his own town. They're going to say. Well, isn't he a Carpenter, son? Isn't that the son of Joseph Amir? And that's us, they're saying. He's not impressive. They come only to see signs and wonders and they speak to get rid of them. And there are times when he goes to. The brim when they try to kill him. But to throw him off a Cliff. He's not receiving any honor in his own country. He came to the Jews and they received him not. He's saying I went to a bunch of people and no one cared about and they came to faith fairly easily. I'm going to my people and they keep refusing to believe. Because the profit is without. Honor in his own country and today that's true. So many times.

Young men and women who grow up in the church have to go to a different church to do leadership because they've always thought that that's just little Johnny and he'll never amount to anything and they have to go. Or you may have somebody who actually knows about. But we got a higher electrician. Because this guy doesn't have the briefcase. We're always deciding you've got to have some kind of degree would be that if you didn't go to seminary, you're not worth much. Unfortunately, their whole lot of pastors are a lot better off never having. It done this in there. That applies even today. Now I am the exception to the rule. Because I grew up in this. But only a few of you knew that. So a lot of you only know me as. It's all that. But I mean, but this church is unique in the fact that this kid who started coming to church at the age of 12 actually eventually someday became its pastor. So pray for us because. On the past. And so Jesus is saying I'm without honor and it's obvious because the work is easier. With people. Who aren't my own? But when he came to Galilee, the Galilean received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, where they themselves also went. To the feast. Now this. It's kind of subtle. Notice it said. That they received him because they saw the things. That he did. Which means what they want him to do is do more things. We heard you heal people. We heard you do these things. You did all these show us more signs and wonders. We want to see signs and wonders. The Samaritans came because they heard about a testimony and they came and met Jesus because they found faith. They came the galileans because they want to see Miracle. Which is not unlike a lot of churches today. People go. Because they want to see a mirror.

And and go there to meet Jesus. They go there to see the neat things happening. The wrong reason to come to these? He only does the miracles to validate who he is because you believe him, not his signs and wonders. He has performed one sign. That is all that is necessary for me. He rose from the dead. Now, I believe he walked on water. I believed he turned whining water into wine. I believe what? He's what we're going to be seeing in a moment. I believe all these miracles. But I don't believe that he is savior because of the miracles. I believe in the final miracle that he was raised from the dead, which confirmed that he is the son of God. Americans from from testimony Galileans come because they want to see where they need stuff. Therefore, he came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water. In the wine and there was a royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum. We have a royal official. We have somebody we're not told his ethnic background, he's probably a Gentile. He's a part of the establishment, but he's in the upper class. He's a part of the government. He's a royal official, and so his son is sick. And so when he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into doubling, he went to him and was imploring him to come down and heal his son, where he was at the point of death. Now I understand. This man's fight. I praise God to up to this point. Other than by some accidents, my children or grandchildren never been at the point of death. There was a couple of serious accidents. For us tonight to think that there was over at the point of death, but I I understand when your child is sick, you want to do anything. To heal that child. You can see on television. The various advertisements of children who have childhood cancer. And they and essentially they're doing that. But it tugs at your heart. Because these poor, innocent children are suffering. And you wish it were not so. Or you see other advertisements about birth defects and and other disabilities, and you wish they were not so. And you're glad that there are people who are trying to change it, and so you can understand people wanting and desperate to see that their children are healed and this. Royal official is no different. His son is at the point of death and he's seeking. Whom he believes that Jesus.

Will cause his son to live and the sun won't die because of what Jesus does. And so Jesus said to him, unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe. Now fortunately EU is plural. So he's not only talking to this royal official, he's also talking to the galileans. That's why I said they came to see miracles. Then come to be the presence of the Messiah they came to see the greatest show on Earth. Kind of like the kid who's Mom has never gone to church before and she didn't want to go. So she gives him a dollar to put in golfing plate. He goes to church. You know, they sing some songs. There's a German or whatever fits the dollar in the offering plate. And he goes home and the mother says, what do you think her church? She goes. It's pretty good show for a dollar. And that's kind of what we have. Here everybody's going. Jesus is the greatest show on Earth and we don't have to pay a dollar. We just get to watch. Did you think you simply will not believe unless you see signs in one? But the royal official said to him here come down before my child died. You see that? The father is desperate. The father doesn't want his son to die. And he is going to be persistent in his outreach to Jesus to come and save his child's life, because that's the loving father will do, and he's not taking the hope for an answer. Jesus said to him well. Your son live. The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started off. Notice he didn't say. Well, wait a minute.

The premium is a ways away. And we're in Canada. You need to come and you need to heal him the way I think you need to heal him. You need to lay your hands on him and you need to speak magic words and you need to do all these things. And Jesus says no, your son will live. Once the Samaritans believe. Galileans won't. Royal official, who may be a Gentile, believes that the word of Jesus. And instead of continuing to import Jesus to come, he believes Jesus. And leaves. And as he was now going down his slave. Met him, saying that his son was living. Now you've gone from space. The reality? You have now been confirmed, Jesus said my son, your son will live and I he believed it, and before he even gets home, he doesn't have to wait for the word. The slave comes and says your son's living. Good news. So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him yesterday at the 7th hour, the people left. Though he was precise. In when the child started getting better. And the father knew that it was at the hour in which Jesus said to him your son lives, and he himself believe. And his whole household. He came to faith. All the more because that initial steps of faith of believing that Jesus was true to his word when he said your son would. And then in fact, his son live. And so not only did the father come to faith, but it says the whole household. Which means. The other children and probably of their slaves and servants. Because of what Jesus did.

But here's the thing. That the man didn't realize. His desperateness was for his son to continue living in this. He got more than he asked. Because by the father and the whole household coming to faith, as Jesus said, then they have eternal life. Their son lives not just because he's going to continue and survive this illness, but because he will have eternal life. And not only will the son have eternal life, the father, the mother and the whole household will have eternal life. He went there expecting a miracle of health. And receive a miracle of salvation. And here's what bugs me about me. And y'all. By all, I mean our church and other people. We will get so desperate about health. Or finances or other problems. But we never seem as desperate about ourselves. We we come to God saying heal me or heal my family or heal this or do that or do whatever thing, but we never come in the same desperation of God save me. God save this person. God work a miracle in their lives that they may be believers. Because let's face it. The sun. Will eventually die. And or die of old age. I want to get run over. By a chariot.

And fall out of a tree. Something will happen to this young man at some point. But because of the father's desperation about. The physical heal. Now the sun has eternal health and eternal life. And I wish we were as as desperate about. Help me to believe and help my unbelief help me to be as desperate. My salvation and provide the salvation of my family and those around me as much as I care about their health. But this again is a second sign that Jesus performed when he had come out of Judah. Into battle. The first sign that. John is talking about is when he turned water into wine and this is the second side. Jesus performs many other signs, but John is going to tick off a couple of signs. It's going to show who Jesus is. This is his creator with the water into wine.

He's is his healer because of what he's done and he's going to show us who he is by what he does. But let's stop looking at what he does and start looking at who he is. He is our living. He's not our past hope. He's not our hope that wants to live and die and is there. He is our living hope. And he's coming back.

OK.

His ministry. Was to teach. And everybody wants to teach and talk about how he taught us. To be better us. And in essence, he taught us. About who he is. But the way life have faith in him. I hope we all get better. If we all can use the improvement. It can be a fine rural, upstanding person. And be lost. Be sure to see. I'm abstaining. Moral. It is they. I wish to save more. Have a little. More fruit in their life. Whether we want to see. For salvation. And this. Stay in his rest. Just like this, American Jesus, stay with us longer. Teach us more. We was we just want to be with you. You don't have to perform anything. Matter of fact, you didn't have to teach anything. Just be here. It's simply your present. It's the greatest joy I can. And let's face it, Jesus is who Jesus is, that the mere presence of Jesus. Help us learn more of who we get.

By simply being in this. Our living hope desperate. Desperate for that?

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