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Intro/Scripture
Pray
Hook.
God’s will
Context
John 4 is a well known text but maybe not for the verses we just shared together.
Remember, dont want to rip it out of context and here the literary context is important.
John 4 has Jesus and the disciples traveling from Judea to Galilee…first verses said that he had to go to Samaria.
Not a good relationship between the Samaritans and Israelites.
Divine Appointment, he did not have to go through Samaria.
They come up on a water well, a woman, in the heat of the day, is there drawing water when normally any sane woman would come early in the morning to get it.
When they get there Jesus sends the disciples away to get some food and Jesus interacts with this woman.
You might know the story...
Jesus asks if she will get him some water.
She is shocked by this....A Jewish man, asking a Samaritan women for a drink.
Jesus responds with the declaration that he can give the living water, whatever that is.
The stuff that will never leave you thirsty again....what are you talking about Jesus?
Go, get your husband, oh you have 5.
She has this incredible revelation…where she comes to know that Jesus is the messiah, the one that she had already learned about.
Boom, the disciples show up again…they grabbed Taco Bell in town and they were ready to grub…a little confused about the scene with the lady but really just hungry.
Woman takes off, leaves her bucket, runs to town to tell everyone about Jesus.
Disciples roll out the taco box…here you go Rabbi.
Jesus: I have food to eat that you know nothing about
Disciples....ummmm ok.
Who gave him food?
check out rest of dialogue in 34 again:
What do you hunger for?
In this series we are considering what it means to hunger for God.
What do you work towards?
Not just what you think.
Because I imagine most of us would say, “yes I would like to do the will of God.”
But that is not our telos.
It is not what drives us.
James K.A. Smith is helpful here:
The place we unconsciously strive toward is what ancient philosophers of habit called our telos--our goal, our end.
But the telos we live toward is not something we primarily know or believe or think about; rather, our telos is what we want, what we long for, what we crave.
It is less an ideal that we have ideas out and more a vision of "the good life" that we desire”
― James K.A. Smith, You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Jesus again turns back to Deuteronomy in this interaction like last week in Matthew’s gospel and the facedown with Satan in the desert.
This section of the old testament is about when the Israelities were in the wilderness having been rescued from slavery and they are complaining about the menu.
God is providing their portion, mana, miraculously put in place for them.
God is teaching them a place of dependence but also intimacy.
God is setting the dinner table for his children each day to have dinner with them.
But he is also teaching them to not depend on the food.
To trust the one who brings the food.
Jesus has this dependence and intimacy.
He is already finding nourishment, dependency, and intimacy not in eating food provided but in joining God in God’s work in the world.
His food is doing the will of God.
What is the will of God?
This is a phrase we love to use.
We throw it around all the time and it has lost its meaning.
We use it in desperate times, in terrible times, etc.
We do not even know what it means when we use it.
When there is a tragedy or cancer or something and we hear/say “must be God’s will.”
What in the world do you mean by that?
We also get very hung up about being “in the will of God.”
Or knowing what God’s will is for your life.
Leslie Weatherhead
1. God’s Intentional Will – These are the desires of God’s heart for us, His ideal plan, flowing out of His goodness, such as that none should be lost [Mat.
18:14].
His intentional will is that you would find hope, joy, peace, love.
That you would experience the fullness of humanity.
Healing and wholeness.
That justice would corporately flow like rivers.
That all people would know his love and salvation.
His intentional will is that your marriage and your relationships would be marked by his love.
That the church would be an outpost of his love in the world.
2. God’s Permissive Will – This is what God will accept, given our choices, good or bad, in particular circumstances, so as to not limit the free will He has given us.
He accepts that some will be lost [1 Cor.
1:18].
This is the harder one for us to wrap our minds around and when we flatten this out then we miss it.
God’s will also makes room for our agency to act and make decisions.
Was it God’s will/plan that Jesus would be crucified?
I dont know if we can say that in the plainest sense.
Let me give you an example from scripture...
What if God’s will was that people would follow Jesus.
Even if God the Father knew this wouldnt happen, his character and love desired that they would.... so Luke says the Pharisees rejected God’s purpose for them.
Which leads to the next category.....
3. God’s Ultimate Will – This is how God achieves His ends, given man’s choices, be they good or bad.
He works all things together for the good of those He called, who love Him [Rom.
8:28].
This means he can ultimately get His good in spite of man’s bad.
God’s sovereignty and his mission of salvation will not be thwarted.
Crucifixion did not have the final word....it did not put a stop to what God had in mind.
It is not simply God’s will that Russia and Putin and evil would reign even momentarily.
It is not simply God’s will for people to suffer and die.
Except in the sense that he has given humanity agency to choose good or evil.
To love or not.
And that is loving of Him to do so....
But Revelation is a book of the bible that reminds us that Jesus will return, that the new Eden and the new city is in front of us.
It is where Romans 8:28 comes into play:
So we hunger for God’s intentional will.
We hunger for his character and love to take place.
And we say with Jesus....
Your will, your ultimate will be done, even when I/we choose wrong.
When the world does not recognize you.
Your will be done.
This is what Jesus is doing in John 4. Hungering for the heart of God to be manifest in the world, for people to know God in the way He does.
So the disciples come back wondering who fed Jesus and how he is full already and he tells them to look at this other food....
It is God’s will that we work the harvest
A couple of things to close us out....
Yesterday i was in a coffee shop finishing this very message.
And a woman came up to the table next to me and interrupted to other young woman that were unprepared for what was about to come.
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