Lessons From Jacob’s Well (Part 3): Follow The Master’s Example

Posted on January 22, 2021

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Lessons From Jacob’s Well (Part 3): Follow The Master’s Example

And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? Then they went out of the city, and came unto him. In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. John 4:27-39

The ‘undesirables’ were the target of the Lord’s ministry (John 4:27, Luke 4:27-30) – another prejudice that must be broken. Church life as taught by church leadership has created ‘status’ believers that have been hardened and become incapable of reaching out to the ‘agberos’, the  ‘area boys’, the touts, the addicts, the harlots, the sick and men of violence; those the Lord referred to as the halt and the maimed in Luke 14:13,21. They don’t come to church and can only be found in the streets and in the lanes of the city! Let’s point and draw them to Christ.

And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. Matthew 21:13-14

This is a call for the transformation of our mindset that we all may offer our reasonable service to the Lord. Selah.

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