What does it take to Change your Identity? John 4:1-42 Bro Josphert Kimatu [email protected] .

What does it take What does it take toto

Change your Change your Identity?Identity?

John 4:1-42John 4:1-42Bro Josphert KimatuBro Josphert Kimatu

[email protected]

www.josphert.org

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The mission of JesusThe mission of Jesus

Luke 19:10

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

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A Fruitful MissionA Fruitful Mission

• Jesus ministry was very fruitful.

• It was much better than the one for John the Baptist.

• John said that Jesus must increase but he must decrease. This should be the drive of our service to the Lord,

• He must increase but we must decrease.

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Going through the MissionGoing through the Mission

• There are times when God arranges miracles for us but there are other times when He makes us to go through it all.

• Do all things without murmurings and disputing:. Phil 2:13

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The mission circumstancesThe mission circumstances

• What can you do when you are tired, thirsty and hungry?

• Can you still seek the lost and do the will of God.

Maintain your spirit’s Maintain your spirit’s composure!composure!

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The loneliness of the missionThe loneliness of the mission

• God knows how to arrange circumstances so that your mission can blossom in one day!

• He can use anything! Even a donkey to speak to you!

• A lonely sinner meets a lonely Saviour.A lonely sinner meets a lonely Saviour.

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Our identity in the missionOur identity in the mission

• Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

• The attitude of “we” and “they”

• Jesus has a mission of reconciliationJesus has a mission of reconciliation• And all things are of God, who hath reconciled u

s to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to hath given to usus the ministry of reconciliation;1 Cor 5:18

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The eyes of the missionerThe eyes of the missioner

Be careful what you despise, because God can use any container on earth to pack His

blessings for you.

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The message of the missionThe message of the mission

• Here Jesus gave only three conditions for one to receive the gift of God.

1. You must know the gift of God.

2. He said if you knew who it was who was taking to you.

3. You could have asked for the gift

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The Gift of GodThe Gift of God

•  Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death;

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the gift of God

is eternal life

through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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What is your confidence?What is your confidence?

““are you greater than are you greater than our father Jacob?” our father Jacob?”

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Vanity of vanitiesVanity of vanities

• Whosoever drinketh of Whosoever drinketh of thithis waters water shall thirst again: shall thirst again:

• John 4:13

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The demands of the missionThe demands of the mission

• But Jesus could not change the requirements of God even to a single woman. The order

has always “repent and believe the gospel.”

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The ultimate of the missionThe ultimate of the mission

•  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in tr

uth

• John 4:23

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The revelation of the missionThe revelation of the mission

•This is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of

the world.

• John 4:42