Sunday Re Cap (27th May 2007)

Asking the Relevant Questions
By Michael Stubbs

Click here to listen (recorded in Victory Fellowship, Emporia, Kansas)

John 4: 1-30
Some points to note:

1. v7: People want to be INVISIBLE for many reasons i.e. sin. Don’t be INVISIBLE anymore!
2. v14: eternal life is supposed to a perpetual spring of living water DEEP inside of us. Not just droplets here and there.
3. For real transformation to take place we need to ask ourselves relevant questions. Jesus kept asking this woman; and now to us all these relevant questions.
4. Through these questions God wants us to move from superficiality to depth in our believe system and emotional maturity.
5. v28: God works many times through a “suddenly anointing”. Sometimes we need to keep pressing on and on for the truth with no apparent results. However, when we think nothing is happening, that’s when God is at work in people’s lives and ours.
6. We need to stop making everything a personal issue. We need to ask why? Why? Why?
   Sometimes the reason for this goes all the way back to childhood.
7. There must be a willingness to be vulnerable before God; only then can we change. The Samaritan woman kept being defensive (v20, 25).
8. We can be vulnerable before God by being repentant, by opening up ourselves to correction through the Word of God, through prayer.
9. When God asked Adam and Eve “Where are you?” it was an opportunity to repent and be vulnerable. However they missed that opportunity and suffered the consequences to this day. It was the same with Cain when God asked him “Where is your brother?” The purpose of the question was not because God did not know where he was but it was an opportunity to repent and to be vulnerable before God.
10. Emotions are not evil. They help us be vulnerable before God.
    
    

Conclusion
Our Christianity must go beneath the surface. If the heart is right then everything will be right. Let every area of our life be saturated with God-even the good, bad, pain, sorrow, joy-EVERYTHING!