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Adult / Kids Sunday School Series
September 7, 2008
What's
In the Gospels "FOR" Us?
Part XV
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Now all these things
happened unto them for ensamples:
and they are written for
our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
I Corinthians 10:11
For
whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,
that
we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Romans
15:4
Remember, the Gospels are still in the Old Testament
doctrinally!
Hebrews 9:16,17
Gospels are not TO us!
However, there is plenty within the Gospels FOR us!
Gospel of John
Chapter Four
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More highlights
from the Gospels that are misapplied today!
Chapter
Four
1: When
therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and
baptized more disciples than John,
2: (Though
Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
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See John
3:22,23
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They thought Jesus
did the baptizing.
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Another rumour
to add to the rumour mill that Christians are so famous for!
3: He left
Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
The
Testimony of a Prostitute
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Is this Samaritan
lady at the well a Gentile lady?
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Is Samaria a Gentile
land?
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** and '______'
= Jewish flavour!
4: And he
must needs go through Samaria.
**5:
Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to
the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
**6:
Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with
his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
7: There
cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me
to drink.
8: (For
his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
**9:
Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a
Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have
no dealings with the Samaritans.
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Because they were
Gentiles? No - see II Kings 17:24-41
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There were a mixed
race of Jews and 'others.'
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Sure, the Samaritans
were despised by the Jews, but not just because they were 'foreigners.'
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When they called
Jesus a Samaritan, they were trying to slander Him (John
8:48).
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Of ten lepers
who were healed, only the Samaritan returned to give thanks (Luke
17:11-19)
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Jesus had to command
later that the Gospel be carried to the Samaritans (Acts
1:8; 8:25).
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Peter and John
were geared to go to the 'Circumcision.' Acts
8:14 - Now
when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received
the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:
10: Jesus
answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it
is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him,
and he would have given thee living water.
11:
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the
well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
**12:
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well,
and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13:
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall
thirst again:
14:
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst;
but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing
up into everlasting life.
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See Revelation
21:6,7
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Again, not to
any Gentile context today!
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Why do folks try
so hard to make these Gospels apply to us today?
15: The
woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither
come hither to draw.
16:
Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17:
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou
hast well said, I have no husband:
18:
For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband:
in that saidst thou truly.
19:
The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
**20:
Our
fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem
is the place where men ought to worship.
21:
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall
neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
**22:
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation
is of the Jews.
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'We' could easily
be including her in the 'we.'
23: But
the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the
Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
24:
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and
in truth.
**25:
The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called
Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26:
Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
27:
And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the
woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
28:
The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith
to the men,
**29:
Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this
the Christ?
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Her testimony
to others was the Jewish testimony, NOT the one Paul preaches and teaches
to us today.
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See verses
39-41
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Many did believe
her testimony.
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Would she be a
Gentile telling Jews especially that He was the Christ?
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See verses
39-41
30: Then
they went out of the city, and came unto him.
31:
In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
32:
But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
33:
Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought
to eat?
34:
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and
to finish his work.
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See
John 6:39,40
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Jesus then passed
this work onto Paul
Fields Ripe
for Harvest Today?
35:
Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold,
I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are
white already to harvest.
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To the Great Commission
plan, not to us today.
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Acts 2:41
- 3,000
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Acts 4:4 -
5,000
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Acts 5:14
- Multitude
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We are in times
of apostasy today, not fields ripe for harvest!
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II Thessalonians
2
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II Timothy
3:1-9
36: And
he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal:
that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
37:
And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
38:
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured,
and ye are entered into their labours.
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SeeI
Corinthians 3:64-9 - For while one saith,
I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? Who then
is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as
the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave
the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he
that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and
he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according
to his own labour. For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's
husbandry, ye are God's building.
39: And
many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the
woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
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Her testimony
sent others to Jesus Himself!
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Our testimony
today should send folks to a Rightly Divided King James Bible - not just
a 'Jesus.'
40: So when
the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry
with them: and he abode there two days.
41:
And many more believed because of his own word;
42:
And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for
we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the
Saviour of the world.
43:
Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
44:
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
45:
Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having
seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also
went unto the feast.
Second
Miracle - often falsely 'imitated' in people's personal testimony today
46:
So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine.
And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
47:
When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto
him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he
was at the point of death.
48:
Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not
believe.
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SeeI
Corinthians 1:22 - For the Jews require
a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
49: The
nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
50:
Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed
the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
51:
And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying,
Thy son liveth.
52:
Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said
unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
53:
So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said
unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.
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We here this kind
of thing all the time these days. Wonders - miracles -God's working
- answer to prayer, etc. Gospel baloney!
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And we all know
the falseness of this stuff, eh!
54: This
is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea
into Galilee.