Woman at the Well (The Foreknowledge of God)
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Most Hated Doctrine
Most Hated Doctrine
the sovereignty of God
most attacked, because it clashes with our sense of justice/fairness
God’s justice is not by human standards
this doctrine we cant ignore, its a large part of God’s word
we cant say; “I don’t believe it because, its not fair”
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
just as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” What then shall we say? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be! For to Moses he says, “I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion.”
Must Go
Must Go
read John 4 1-9
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the normal route for a priest is to go the long way
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the conflict between the Jews and Samaritans goes back for centurys
Jews saw Samaritans as unclean, unpure, a dog
V 4 must needs go KJV
Needed to go NKJV
Necessary for Him to go LEB
Had to pass through ESV
Before time began The Father predetermined that Jesus KNOW this woman
Jesus had to go and talk with her
I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
The woman will have a a life changing, love finding, close encounter with the Creator
and it was none of her doing, because sh like the rest of us is
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
So Jesus MUST come to her
The Foreknowledge of God
The Foreknowledge of God
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Fore know does not mean fore-sight
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
a love in the most intimate, special way
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
“You only have I chosen of all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
God chose to love the Israelites in an intimate, special way
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
the secret things, things we don’t understand
IS IT FAIR? not in the eyes of man
is it fair to, God yes
do I understand it? no
we are the fallen, sin natured people
The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
this I know there are the woman at the well people that Jesus KNOWS, that need to meet Him.