September 1, 2024 Messages

UNEXPECTED GREATNESS

From John 4:1-5 ESV

1. is one of God’s

📖 Luke 14:12-14 ESV “He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers[b] or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. ¹³But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, ¹⁴and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.””

3 Types of Harvest Fields:
1. relationships.
2. of the community.

📖 Luke 14:21 ESV “So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’”

3. Unseen .

📖 Luke 14:23 ESV “And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.”

2. God has for the .

📖 Luke 4:27-30 ESV “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?” ²⁸So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, ²⁹“Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” ³⁰They went out of the town and were coming to him”

📖 John 4:26 ESV “Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.””

God has a to .

📖 Luke 12:11-12 NIV “When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say, ¹²for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.””

📖 Matthew 10:19-20 ESV “When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour. ²⁰For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.”

3. Jesus to be to the and .

📖 John 4:39-42 ESV “Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. ⁴¹And many more believed because of his word. ⁴²They 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.””

Jesus to and with the in our !

Notes:

📖 Psalm 18:6 NIV “In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.”

📖 Psalm 28:1-2, 6-7 NLT “I pray to you, O Lord, my rock. Do not turn a deaf ear to me. For if you are silent, I might as well give up and die. ² Listen to my prayer for mercy as I cry out to you for help, as I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary … ⁶ Praise the Lord! For he has heard my cry for mercy. ⁷ The Lord is my strength and shield. I trust him with all my heart. He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy. I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.”

📖 Psalm 46:1 NLV “God is our safe place and our strength. He is always our help when we are in trouble.”

📖 Proverbs 18:10 ESV “The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.”