Global Care CCC 5 Mar 2017

Global CareGlobal Care is an international Christian charity providing relief,

development and education for vulnerable children.

Global CareGlobal Care is an international Christian charity providing relief,

development and education for vulnerable children.

Kukena Makayi

9 years oldLives with her

grandmaMother died,

father left

Grade 1 at school

John 7 – Is anyone thirsty

Comes at the turning point of John's gospel

End of John 6 Peter says:“We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”

John 7

Should Jesus go to Jerusalem for the Festival of Tabernacles (or shelters)?

Brothers say he should goJesus says go without me

BUTJesus goes in secret

John 7 vs 11 - 13

• Jewish leaders try to find Jesus• People asking who is Jesus• Some say he is a good man• Others say he is a fraud

John 7 vs 14 - 36

• Jesus teaches – others surprised by his teaching• Message not his own – comes from God• Healing on the Sabbath• Who is this man• Some believed• Others could not understand

Festival of Tabernacles

Who is invited

Deut 16 13 Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress. 14 Be joyful at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.

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Today

Zech 14 8 On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter. 9 The LORD will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one LORD, and his name the only name.

Here Jesus is repeating the offer of God the Father (Is 55:1):

"Come, all you who are thirsty,

come to the waters"

Remember

What: Sojourn in the wilderness God with them, God’s provision

living in tents around Jerusalem. Who: Everyone invited - Gentiles as well!

Orphans, widows! All come together.

Good to celebrate God’s goodness Remember together

Who is invited – all, even the outsiders, orphans and widows!

Who is he?

When people ask who is this Jesus,don’t water it down!

Outcome of encounter with Jesus

“rivers of living water will flow from within them”What comes out of us depends on what is in us

Holy Spirt gives living water

In Zambia clean water brings blessings - health, community and less work

The “water that comes out of us” does it;- bring health and support to relationships? - bring the community together and into contact with the living God?- bring rest for your soul?

Some can choose to continue to go to the river to collect unclean water but there is a cost!

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Global CareGlobal Care is an international Christian charity providing relief,

development and education for vulnerable children.