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Notes
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Review
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Lift Up Your Eyes (Part 1)
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Preparation - John 4:1-42
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Select the Passage - John 4:1-42
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Study the Passage
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NIV
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Hebrew Study Bible
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KJV
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The Message
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NASB
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RSV
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Discover the Exegetical Idea
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Follow Jesus in the harvest!
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Analyze the Exegetical Idea
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Explain It: What does this mean?
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Jesus is actively committed to harvesting people for the Kingdom.
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He expects his disciples to follow him in this.
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Lift up your eyes.
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Greek epairo (epairo) - Look at your immediate surroundings.
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John 6:1-15 - Jesus lifted up his eyes and saw the crowds.
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Prove It: Is it True? Do I believe it?
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Jesus travelled through Samaria despite the cultural taboo.
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Jesus spoke with a Samaritan women despite the cultural taboo.
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Jesus used his encounter at the well to teach his disciples.
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Apply It: What difference does it make? So What?
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Doing the Father's will and finishing his work will sustain us just as physical food sustains our physical bodies.
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If we don't follow Jesus in the harvest we aren't his disciples.
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Formulate the Homiletical Idea:
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Lift up your eyes and look at the fields!
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Determine the Purpose of the Sermon (what listeners should do)
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Lift up your eyes.
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See the fields.
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Start harvesting.
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Decide How to Accomplish This Purpose
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Outline the Sermon
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Standing Issues
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From a word Bishop gave me:
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Make sure people do something with God's message.
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Make it plain:
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Use accessible language.
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Use modern day parables based on every day occurrences:
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Sitting at a stop light
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Driving through a green light
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Approaching a yellow light
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Being cut off in traffic
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Going shopping
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Going to a mall
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Going to school; sitting in class
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Going to work; sitting in your office;
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Keep it simple.
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Use illustrations of truth out of my own experience.
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Impart faith to obey the Word and receive God's promises.
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Introduction
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Welcome Cards -
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“I want to call your attention to the Welcome Card that you were given on your way into the auditorium”
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These cards do two things for us:
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They help us get to know our new visitors better.
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They also give anyone (visitors or members) a chance to express a need or to give us feedback.
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By filling it out you will help us to better serve you.
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We're going to provide time for you to complete the cards at the end of our service, but we encourage you to start filling them out now.
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Please use this card:
• if you’re a first time visitor or if you’ve never filled one out before,
• to tell us about a decision you made today,
• to ask us for more information, or to give us feedback.
Please include your contact information unless we already have it. At the end of service we’ll ask you to complete the card and then place it in the designated box or give it to someone from our staff on your way out.
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Transition - "I have brought you glory on earth . . . - John 17:1-5
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Read the Passage - John 4:1-42
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The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?”
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
“I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”
The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
Then Jesus declared, “I who speak to you am he.”
Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”
“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”
Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. And because of his words many more became believers.
They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
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Homiletical Idea: Lift Up Your Eyes!
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Exegetical Idea: Follow Jesus in the harvest!
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What does this mean?
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Jesus is actively committed to harvesting people for the Kingdom.
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He expects his disciples to follow him in this.
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Lift up your eyes.
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Greek epairo (epairo) - Look at your immediate surroundings.
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John 6:1-15 - Jesus lifted up his eyes and saw the crowds.
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Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the miraculous signs he had performed on the sick. Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. The Jewish Passover Feast was near.
When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.
Philip answered him, “Eight months’ wages would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”
Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up, “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”
Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, and the men sat down, about five thousand of them. Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.
When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.” So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.
After the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus did, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.” Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.
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Is it True? Do I believe it?
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Jesus travelled through Samaria despite the cultural taboo.
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Jesus spoke with a Samaritan women despite the cultural taboo.
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Jesus used his encounter at the well to teach his disciples.
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What difference does it make? So What?
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Doing the Father's will and finishing his work will sustain us just as physical food sustains our physical bodies.
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If we don't follow Jesus in the harvest we aren't his disciples.
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Homiletical Idea: Lift Up Your Eyes!
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Purpose of the Sermon (what listeners should do)
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Walk outside your comfort zone.
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Lift up your eyes.
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See the fields.
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Start harvesting.
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Walk outside your comfort zone.
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How did you get here?
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Have you had a recent change in plans (like Jesus leaving Judea)?
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Are you tired and taking a rest?
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Lift up your eyes
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Take a break from focusing on yourself.
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Take a break from waiting for what's familiar.
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Look at your immediate surroundings.
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See the fields
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Who's in your vicinity?
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Someone outside your comfort zone?
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Someone in an unfamiliar situation?
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Be willing to be vulnerable.
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Take a rest outside your comfort zone.
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Ask for help.
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Ask a question.
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Start harvesting
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To be continued!
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Conclusion
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Jesus changed his plans to avoid the perception of competition.
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Jesus chose to travel through Samaria.
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Jesus took a rest when he was tired.
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Jesus asked for help.
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Jesus used confusion as an opportunity to generate curiosity.
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Lift Up Your Eyes (Part 2)
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Preparation - John 4:1-42
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Select the Passage - John 4:1-42
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Study the Passage
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NIV
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Hebrew Study Bible
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KJV
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The Message
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NASB
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RSV
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Discover the Exegetical Idea
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Follow Jesus in the harvest!
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Analyze the Exegetical Idea
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Explain It: What does this mean?
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Jesus is actively committed to harvesting people for the Kingdom.
|
|
|
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He expects his disciples to follow him in this.
|
|
|
|
Lift up your eyes.
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|
|
|
Greek epairo (epairo) - Look at your immediate surroundings.
|
|
|
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John 6:1-15 - Jesus lifted up his eyes and saw the crowds.
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|
|
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Prove It: Is it True? Do I believe it?
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|
|
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Jesus travelled through Samaria despite the cultural taboo.
|
|
|
|
Jesus spoke with a Samaritan women despite the cultural taboo.
|
|
|
|
Jesus used his encounter at the well to teach his disciples.
|
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Apply It: What difference does it make? So What?
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|
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Doing the Father's will and finishing his work will sustain us just as physical food sustains our physical bodies.
|
|
|
|
If we don't follow Jesus in the harvest we aren't his disciples.
|
|
|
|
Formulate the Homiletical Idea:
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Lift up your eyes and look at the fields!
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|
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Determine the Purpose of the Sermon (what listeners should do)
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|
|
|
Lift up your eyes.
|
|
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|
See the fields.
|
|
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|
Start harvesting.
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Decide How to Accomplish This Purpose
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Outline the Sermon
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Standing Issues
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From a word Bishop gave me:
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Make sure people do something with God's message.
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Make it plain:
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Use accessible language.
|
|
|
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Use modern day parables based on every day occurrences:
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|
Sitting at a stop light
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|
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Driving through a green light
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Approaching a yellow light
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Being cut off in traffic
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Going shopping
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Going to a mall
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Going to school; sitting in class
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Going to work; sitting in your office;
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Keep it simple.
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Use illustrations of truth out of my own experience.
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Impart faith to obey the Word and receive God's promises.
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Introduction
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Welcome Cards -
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“I want to call your attention to the Welcome Card that you were given on your way into the auditorium”
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These cards do two things for us:
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They help us get to know our new visitors better.
|
|
|
|
They also give anyone (visitors or members) a chance to express a need or to give us feedback.
|
|
|
|
By filling it out you will help us to better serve you.
|
|
|
|
We're going to provide time for you to complete the cards at the end of our service, but we encourage you to start filling them out now.
|
|
|
|
Please use this card:
• if you’re a first time visitor or if you’ve never filled one out before,
• to tell us about a decision you made today,
• to ask us for more information, or to give us feedback.
Please include your contact information unless we already have it. At the end of service we’ll ask you to complete the card and then place it in the designated box or give it to someone from our staff on your way out.
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Transition - "I have brought you glory on earth . . . - John 17:1-5
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Read the Passage - John 4:1-42
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The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?”
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
“I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”
The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
Then Jesus declared, “I who speak to you am he.”
Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”
“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”
Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. And because of his words many more became believers.
They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
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|
|
Homiletical Idea: Lift Up Your Eyes!
|
|
|
|
Exegetical Idea: Follow Jesus in the harvest!
|
|
|
|
What does this mean?
|
|
|
|
Jesus rested when he needed it - Mark 6:30-44
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|
|
|
Jesus is actively committed to harvesting people for the Kingdom.
|
|
|
|
He expects his disciples to follow him in this.
|
|
|
|
Lift up your eyes.
|
|
|
|
Greek epairo (epairo) - Look at your immediate surroundings.
|
|
|
|
John 6:1-15 - Jesus lifted up his eyes and saw the crowds.
|
|
|
|
|
Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the miraculous signs he had performed on the sick. Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. The Jewish Passover Feast was near.
When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.
Philip answered him, “Eight months’ wages would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”
Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up, “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”
Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, and the men sat down, about five thousand of them. Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.
When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.” So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.
After the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus did, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.” Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.
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Is it True? Do I believe it?
|
|
|
|
Jesus travelled through Samaria despite the cultural taboo.
|
|
|
|
Jesus spoke with a Samaritan women despite the cultural taboo.
|
|
|
|
Jesus used his encounter at the well to teach his disciples.
|
|
|
|
What difference does it make? So What?
|
|
|
|
Doing the Father's will and finishing his work will sustain us just as physical food sustains our physical bodies.
|
|
|
|
If we don't follow Jesus in the harvest we aren't his disciples.
|
|
|
|
Homiletical Idea: Lift Up Your Eyes!
|
|
|
|
Purpose of the Sermon (what listeners should do)
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|
|
|
Walk outside your comfort zone.
|
|
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|
Lift up your eyes and see the fields
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Start harvesting.
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Walk outside your comfort zone.
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How did you get here?
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Have you had a recent change in plans (like Jesus leaving Judea)?
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Are you tired and taking a rest?
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Lift up your eyes and see the fields
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Take a break from focusing on yourself.
|
|
|
|
Take a break from waiting for what's familiar.
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|
|
|
Look at your immediate surroundings.
|
|
|
|
Who's in your vicinity?
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|
|
|
Someone outside your comfort zone?
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Someone in an unfamiliar situation?
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Illustration - My encounter with Al during the neighborhood walk.
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I had three potential parties to engage with:
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The church people I came with. (they already knew Jesus)
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The restaurant owners. (language barrier)
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Al
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I had to choose. I chose Al.
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I wasn't sure initially where he was at.
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He had questions and wasn't afraid to ask them.
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Illustration - Our neighbor's wedding
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We left a previous wedding reception full of believers we knew.
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We had many tables to choose from.
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Our other neighbor's table was full.
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Eva asked if I wanted to sit with our neighbor's adult son.
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I deepened my relationship with him.
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Illustration - "The Love Nest" at Lorenz Island Kuisine
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While picking up a food order I noticed a flyer.
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"The Love Nest": Upcoming singles hookup event.
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"Love Productions Presents"
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"No one is perfect but there is a perfect someone for everyone!"
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"Only singles allowed! Perpetrators will be escorted out!"
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"Prepare to come and meet your soulmate . . ."
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"Are you ready to meet your TRUE LOVE?? Come to a place where everyone in the room is looking for the same thing - a relationship"
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I'm working on some relationship material (postcard form + web site).
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I see this as a harvest opportunity.
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Start harvesting
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Be willing to be vulnerable.
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Take a rest outside your comfort zone.
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Ask for help.
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Ask a question:
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What's your name?
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What do you do? How long have you been doing it?
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Do you enjoy what you do?
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Can you help me with . . .?
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Partner with a harvester.
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Discipleship and mentoring.
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Submit.
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Illustration: Me hanging out with Bishop.
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I listened prayerfully while he shared with strangers.
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Hang out with a connector.
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This often means attending their events.
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Connectors create environments with many opportunities.
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Don't go to places that will tempt you to do the wrong thing.
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Don't be afraid of being uncomfortable.
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Illustration: Champagne at our neighbor's wedding.
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Illustration - "The Greatest Minds"
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Meetings with lots of unchurched people.
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Facebook connections.
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Conclusion
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You can step outside of your comfort zone.
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You can start looking at the opportunities around you.
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You can ask a question.
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You can partner with someone.
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You can help reap the harvest!
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New Material
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Preparation
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Expository Preaching
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Expository preaching is the communication of a biblical concept, derived from and transmitted through a historical, grammatical, and literary study of a passage in its context, which the Holy Spirit first applies to the personality and experience of the preacher, then through the preacher, applies to the hearers.
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Select the Passage
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Study the Passage
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NIV
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Hebrew Study Bible
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KJV
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The Message
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NASB
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RSV
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Discover the Exegetical Idea
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Subject
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Tools: How, Who, What, When, Where, Why
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Complement
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Analyze the Exegetical Idea
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Explain It: What does this mean?
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Prove It: Is it True? Do I believe it?
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Apply It: What difference does it make? So What?
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Formulate the Homiletical Idea
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Determine the Purpose of the Sermon
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Decide How to Accomplish This Purpose
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Make it plain
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Use accessible language and modern parables.
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Make sure people do something with God's message.
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Keep it simple.
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Use illustrations of truth out of my own experience.
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Impart faith to obey the Word and receive God's promises.
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Outline the Sermon
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Give God The Real Thing! (Part 1)
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Preparation - John 4:21-24
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Select the Passage - John 4:21-24
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Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”
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Study the Passage
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NIV
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Hebrew Study Bible
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KJV
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The Message
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NASB
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RSV
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Discover the Exegetical Idea
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Worship God in spirit and truth!
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Analyze the Exegetical Idea
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Explain It: What does this mean?
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God is spirit and not physical or material.
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Exodus 20:1-6
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And God spoke all these words: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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Deuteronomy 4:10-19
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God must be worshipped in spirit.
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It's not about a building.
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It's not about a ritual.
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It's about your personal connection with God.
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Individually
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Corporately
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God must be worshipped according to the truth.
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We must worship God based on how he has revealed himself.
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"I gave them the words you gave me . . ." - John 17:6-12
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"Your word is truth" - John 17:13-19
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Our lives should be consistent with the God we worship
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Justice - Amos 5:20-24
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Prove It: Is it True? Do I believe it?
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Yes - Jeremiah predicted this - Jeremiah 31:31-34
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Apply It: What difference does it make? So What?
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If you don't worship God in spirit and truth:
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You're not a true worshipper!
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You're not the kind of worshipper God is looking for!
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Formulate the Homiletical Idea:
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Give God the real thing!
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Determine the Purpose of the Sermon (what listeners should do)
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Understand the meaning of true worship.
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Know the God they're worshipping.
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Worship the God they know!
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Decide How to Accomplish This Purpose
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Outline the Sermon
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Standing Issues
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From a word Bishop gave me:
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Make sure people do something with God's message.
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Make it plain:
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Use accessible language.
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Use modern day parables based on every day occurrences:
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Sitting at a stop light
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Driving through a green light
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Approaching a yellow light
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Being cut off in traffic
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Going shopping
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Going to a mall
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Going to school; sitting in class
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Going to work; sitting in your office;
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Keep it simple.
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Use illustrations of truth out of my own experience.
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Impart faith to obey the Word and receive God's promises.
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Introduction
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Welcome Cards -
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“I want to call your attention to the Welcome Card that you were given on your way into the auditorium”
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These cards do two things for us:
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They help us get to know our new visitors better.
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They also give anyone (visitors or members) a chance to express a need or to give us feedback.
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By filling it out you will help us to better serve you.
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We're going to provide time for you to complete the cards at the end of our service, but we encourage you to start filling them out now.
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Please use this card:
• if you’re a first time visitor or if you’ve never filled one out before,
• to tell us about a decision you made today,
• to ask us for more information, or to give us feedback.
Please include your contact information unless we already have it. At the end of service we’ll ask you to complete the card and then place it in the designated box or give it to someone from our staff on your way out.
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Transition - ?
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Read the Passage - John 4:21-24
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Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”
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Exegetical Idea: Worship Got in spirit and truth!
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Homiletical Idea: Give God the real thing!
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Purpose of the Sermon (what listeners should do)
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Understand the meaning of true worship.
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Know the God they're worshipping.
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Worship the God they know!
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Understand the meaning of true worship.
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True worship comes from a desire to know God and connect with him.
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Not everyone actually wants to know God.
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Not everyone who "goest to the altar" really wants to know God.
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Some people do outrageous things and claim to be Christians.
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Real Christians know God. - Jeremiah 31:31-34; John 17:1-5
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Real Christians want to know God better. - Ephesians 1:15-21
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Real Christians want to connect with other believers. - Acts 2:42-47
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True worship acknowledges that God is spirit.
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Exodus 20:1-6
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And God spoke all these words: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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Deuteronomy 4:10-19
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True worship is spiritual.
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It's not about a building.
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It's not about a ritual.
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It's about your personal connection with God.
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Individually
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Corporately
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True worship aligns with the truth: God's revelation of himself.
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We must worship God based on how he has revealed himself.
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"I gave them the words you gave me . . ." - John 17:6-12
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"Your word is truth" - John 17:13-19
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Our lives should be consistent with the God we worship
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Justice - Amos 5:20-24
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If you don't worship God in spirit and truth:
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You're not a true worshipper!
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You're not the kind of worshipper God is looking for!
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Know the God you're worshipping. (for next week)
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Worship the God you know! (for next week)
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Conclusion
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Altar Call / Welcome Cards / Communion ?
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Welcome Cards - refer to script
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We're almost ready to close this portion of our service, but first we want to give you a chance to respond to what you've heard.
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Earlier in the service we mentioned the welcome cards and we encouraged you to begin filling them out.
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Right now we want you to complete your welcome card. We especially want you to use this card if:
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if you’re a first time visitor
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if you’ve never filled one out before,
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if you want to tell us about a decision you made today,
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if you want to ask us for more information, or to give us feedback.
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Please be sure to include your up to date contact information unless we already have it.
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MC & Worship Team continue with tithes, offerings, and worship
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Benediction - Numbers 6:24-26
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“‘“The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.”’
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Men's Prayer
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Life Group Material
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Life Group Word Material
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These are sample discussion questions / topics. Your life group leaders may choose to adjust these questions, substitute new ones, or spend the Word section of the meeting in a different way altogether.
Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV) Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
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John 4:21-24 (read John 4:1-42 for context)
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Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”
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Discussion Questions / Topics:
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What does worshipping God in spirit mean to you?
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What does worshipping God in truth mean to you?
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Are you a true worshipper of God? Are you the kind of worshipper the Father seeks? Discuss.
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Exodus 20:1-6 and Deuteronomy 4:10-19
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Exodus 20:1-6
And God spoke all these words: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy 4:10-19
Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.” You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness. Then the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice. He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets. And the LORD directed me at that time to teach you the decrees and laws you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
You saw no form of any kind the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air, or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below. And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars — all the heavenly array — do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
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Discussion Questions / Topics:
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How do you imagine God? Is he made of "stuff" or not?
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How does your worship of God reflect the fact that he is spirit?
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How well do you connect to God outside of church services?
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“I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name — the name you gave me — so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.
“I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.
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Discussion Questions / Topics:
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Jesus gave the disciples the word that the Father had given him. Describe how God's Word affects your worship?
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Are the things you believe about God backed up by the Bible? Discuss.
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Life Group Witnessing Activities
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Key Passage - John 4:21-24
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Activities
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Spend some time worshipping God together.
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Scriptures For 07/11/2010 Life Church Sermon
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Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV) Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
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John 4:21-24 (read John 4:1-42 for context)
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Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”
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Exodus 20:1-6 (see also Deuteronomy 4:10-19)
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And God spoke all these words: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:
“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
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“I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name — the name you gave me — so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.
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“I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.
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“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
“Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”
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For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.
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For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
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“The time is coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. “This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,” declares the LORD. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the LORD. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”
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