June 1, 2008 Sermon
Note: Here is my sermon notes from last Sunday. Feel free to read and critique as you wish. Celebrated my first anniversary in the pulpit last week.
Where is Your Focus?
John 4: 31-38
Introduction
Read the passage
Definition of Focus: a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity.
Jesus had just visited with the Samaritan woman at the well (vss. 7-26)
The disciples were in town getting food (vs. 8)
Why was Jesus and the disciples in Sychar of Samaria?
No Jew went through Samaria, they went around.
They were there because a spiritual need needed to be met.
It was unusual that they were there.
Disciples had probably never been there
They went after food.
Jesus stayed at the well and waited.
How many of you want God to do something awesome through you for His glory?
How many of you want God to do something awesome through Key Heights Baptist Church?
We pray the prayer, God puts us in circumstances to answer that prayer, but we are too busy focusing on the wrong things to be used by God.
The disciples go after food while Jesus sits and waits for his
opportunity to transform someone's life.
The disciples missed it and so do we because we are not focused
on the right things.
In this context Jesus teaches His disciples how to be focused on the right things.
There are 4 things that Jesus taught His disciples
1. The #1 priority of any believer is to accomplish God's will for
their life.
My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to
accomplish His work (v. 34)
Our focus is to be on the Kingdom and its expansion
Matthew 6:25-34
Give your entire attention to what God is doing right
now…… Matthew 6:34 (The Message)
When is the last time you have gone to work thinking how you
could expand God's kingdom that day?
So what is that we are suppose to be doing?
2. God's will for every believer is to be involved in the harvest.
This is what Jesus is trying to teach His disciples.
God may have a different will for each of us, but there are some
things that are the same for all of us.
His will is for us to worship Him.
His will is for us to grow in our relationship with Him.
His will is for us to minister to those around us.
His will is for us to have fellowship with each other.
His will is for us to be involved in the harvest.
The Great Commission commands us all to make disciples as
we go through our life.
Being involved in the Harvest involves several steps and we are
to be involved in each step.
Sometimes we are the ones who plant the seeds in someone's
life.
Sometimes we are the ones who care for the seeds.
Sometimes we are the ones who actually get to harvest the
seeds that have been planted and cared for.
We are to be involved in each area, not just one.
3. Every season is harvest season (vss. 35-36)
Jesus tells his disciples that the harvest is ready to take hold.
He is saying the same thing to us…. The harvest is ready get a
pickin.
We are unable to get the harvest done because we are not
looking, or we simply don't care.
4. There is reward for being the harvest (vs. 36).
Going out into the harvest has rich wages… It is a spiritual
wage.
Everyone involved in that soul rejoices when he/she comes into
salvation.
Conclusion
As Jesus taught his disciples about the harvest, they then got to experience the harvest. (vss. 39-42)
One was saved and she brought others to salvation because of the change in her life.
Jesus has saved us, he has changed us, and it is up to us, to go out and share what Jesus has done for us.
Are you ready to be focused on the real priorities of a believers life? Start today.
