Vision School
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Vision School Highlights
Vision School Highlights
Congratulations!
You completed 8 weeks of VS. Hope these were one of the most meaningful 8 weeks of your life.
Congratulations!
What do you remember the most?
Some of you want to take up the challenge of Vision School and have that true desire to go on at least a short term mission trip.
Pray for the Lord’s leading.. apprehensions
Wherever you go:
You are not initiating a new work, God is already preparing the work for you.
1 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.” 27 Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30 They went out of the town and were coming to him. 31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. 36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.” 39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.” 43 After the two days he departed for Galilee. 44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) 45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast. 46 So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.” 49 The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. 51 As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. 52 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household. 54 This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.
35 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm. 36 And they were all amazed and said to one another, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”
John 4:
35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. 36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
John 4
Jesus is the sower.
Story behind this..
Jesus visited a village unreached by the gospel, found the woman of peace who spread the word..
But before He even started preaching the gospel He said the “fields are ripe”
When you go..
Jesus healed her mother.
Jesus changed Padina’s heart.
Jesus transformed both Padina and her mom from Muslims to becoming missionaries for Jesus Christ.
Other stories.. dreams and visions..
When you go..
2. You are reaping the blessings of those who obeyed before you.
38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
Week 2 when they talked about missionaries.. what struck you the most.
William Carey - in India
The Moravians to the West Indies
The Moravians to the West Indies
Hudson Taylor in China
David Livingstone - in Africa
Mary Scranton - Missionary to South Korea
Jim Elliot and Nate Saint - among the headhunters in the Incas
Adoniram Judson - Who wanted to go to India, God opened no convert for years, after what he described as six soul-crushing, heart-breaking years he saw the first decision for Christ.
Adoniram Judson - Who wanted to go to India, God opened no convert for years, after what he described as six soul-crushing, heart-breaking years he saw the first decision for Christ.
They may have not seen the fruits of their labor in their lifetime. God chose to bless others who who will reap the fruit and the greater blessing. people before them..
Actually, the more complete statement is that they did not see the fruit of their labor on earth, but they already see it in eternity.
You don’t lay your foundation points #1 and 2.
But some of you are called to be trail blazers and pioneers.
20 and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else’s foundation,
3. We are not called to complete the work in Jerusalem and Judea, until you reach your Samaria and the uttermost parts of the world.
Jesus said in
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Acts 1:
Some Christians use this as reason not to go out..
I have to complete work in my Jerusalem first..
I have not even talked to my neighbor across the street..
Forget about the 1040 window! I haven’t even reached out to the guy outside my window!
I have not even seen the conversion of my whole family let me focus on them first..
But do we really get to focus on them? you stay busy here in America that we don’t really find the time.
What if we do dedicate the time to do short term missionary.
The famous account in :
Jesus has not completed work in His hometown, in fact His hometown rejected Him and His message, but what did He tell His disciples to do?
2 And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 3 Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.
Luke
They went..
Where did they go, to where the harvest is plentiful, yes? But the disciples and we are called to go where the laborers are few..
Go where the laborers are few.
What happens to fruit or crop that is ready for harvest but remains unharvested?
It spoils.
Let me encourage you today, not so with the word of God. We are just called to be faithful, we are called to be obedient, once we plant the seed of God’s word, he will not get back a fruit that is rotten or spoiled.
The word of God never spoils!
There is power in the word of God!
31 but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Isaiah 50:
7 The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass.
When you enter into God’s harvest, think of it as picking a low lying fruit..
Fruit of God’s word and fruit of your obedience, and you as God’s laborer and you will celebrate with the Lord of the harvest.
One new thing I heard from VS - Jesus Himself will thank you!
The heart of Christ.
Do you know which time in the Bible Jesus actually celebrated in Joy? It is when His disciples came back from the mission field
21 In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. 22 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
Luke 10:21
Jesus said something else in this same passage of scripture..
23 Then turning to the disciples he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! 24 For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”
Luke 10
He said something else
Not exclusively for the disciples..
Story of Jim Elliot
“He is not a fool who gives up what he cannot keep. To gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliott
Padina’s Story (short video)
In Padina’s story, it was the Christian man on television that talked to Padina and her mother but who did the greater work?
Mark 16:
Jesus healed her mother.
Jesus changed Padina’s heart.
Jesus transformed both Padina and her mom from Muslims to becoming missionaries for Jesus Christ.
Other stories.. dreams and visions..
Remember when you choose to obey God’s vision and went to the mission field either as a short term or long term missionary..
15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
It is not a matter of knowing if you are called to go. We are already called, we are called to go.
Shared Vision
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