church notes from Elevation on 6/7/2020

God will dwell wherever he is welcome.
-This Place-
This place is anywhere you ask Him to be.

The building has been closed, but the church has been busy.
"I'm busy. I'm tired."

Our Heavenly Father is our administration he thinks we need a time out.

I'M TIRED

How do you protect your health and protect your sanity?
Being alone.

John 4:1-3 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John- although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.


(The woman at the well, Samaritan.
All you who are weary and heavy laden. )

How are you?
versus
How's your insides?

I'm about my Fathers' Business.
Jesus wasn't even baptizing at this time, the disciples were.

Don't know who or what to listen to anymore.
John 4:4- Now he had to go through Samaria.
(pause)
Jesus didn't HAVE to do anything.

Whose agenda are you following?

think of Samaria as "some area" you want to avoid.
Jesus is confrontational.
He went through Samaria because it was the path of his purpose.

Sometimes you have to send people about because you're tired of them. It doesn't mean you don't love them, you just need a break.
(Jesus sent the disciples into town while He rested at the well.)

41 generations from creation until Jesus came.
John 1:14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

God puts you exactly where He wants you in the timeline of life. Some things that we fight are generational.

Matthew- read the last chapter. (i'm going to)

John- 7 signs that were spoken about (but that's not all there were).
1. What I know of God is not all of Him.
2. Molecular miracles - water into wine.
3. heals an important persons son - (centurion?)
4. healed someone by the pool.
5. feeding the 5 thousand (they only counted men, this is not including the women and children that were there, it was more like 7,000.
6. the man born blind
7. Lazarus- Jesus messed up his funeral.

7 statements.
I AM-
bread of life
light of the world
door for the sheep
good shepherd
the resurrection
the way
the true vine

6 is mans number. 7 is Gods.
TBH- to be honest..
Can we get back to preaching Jesus?
...... WHICH JESUS?......
the Jesus that pets sheep or the Jesus that flipped the tables in the temple?
There's only 1 Jesus. We can't pick and choose what Jesus we talk about. He is one and the same.

Jesus was tired.. He was fully God, but he was also fully man.. and as a man, he was tired.
So he sat on the well.
being weary =/= being weak.
John 4:6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
Isaiah 40:28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.

The direct route is sometimes the divine route.

I worship a God who is powerful enough to give me strength and human enough to be tired.
Faith doesn't prevent fatigue.

What wells are we digging for our children to sit by?
(Joseph got that well from Jacob- it was a family place)

7 days of creation
7 (the Samaritan woman had had 5 husbands, she was with the 6th right then in her life, but Jesus was the 7th man in her life)

this song came into my head- "They that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength! They shall mount up on wings like eagles. They shall run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint. Oh Lord, teach your children to wait."