I. EXORDIUM:
Are you immortal?
Not yet, but time will come I will have access on the tree of life.
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers/unbelievers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To show that GOD gave us spiritual food at the same time to enjoy while here on earth, and this food is to accomplish and completely finish His work on earth, the work of winning souls to His vineyard.
IV. TEXT:
John 4:34 (Amplified Bible)
Jesus said to them, My food (nourishment) is to do the will (pleasure) of Him Who sent Me and to accomplish and completely finish His work.
V. THESIS:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You are my Food and Drink that satisfies by focusing on Your will and Your finished work on the cross.
VI. TITLE:
JESUS will do GOD's will and finish GOD's work in me
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Author: John the Apostle, son of Zebedee and Salome, and younger brother of James.
—Life Application Concise New Testament Commentary
B. Date and Setting:
Written between a.d. 85–90 from Ephesus, after the destruction of Jerusalem (a.d. 70) and before John’s exile to the island of Patmos
—Life Application Concise New Testament Commentary
C. Audience:
New Christians and searching non-Christians.
—Life Application Concise New Testament Commentary
D. Purpose:
John 20:31 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)
But these are written so that you may continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing in him you will have life by the power of his name.
VIII. MAIN BODY:
John 4:34 (Amplified Bible)
Jesus said to them, My food (nourishment) is to do the will (pleasure) of Him Who sent Me and to accomplish and completely finish His work.
John 4:34 (New King James Version)
Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.
A. We eat food different from sinners
"Jesus said to them, My food (nourishment)"
We are eating food or meat that the world does not know and can't eat.
John 4:32 (Amplified Bible)
But He assured them, I have food (nourishment) to eat of which you know nothing and have no idea.
For the world eats a different food as well:
Proverbs 4:17 (Amplified Bible)
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
For our food and drink is JESUS:
John 6:33 (Amplified Bible)
For the Bread of God is He Who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.
John 4:10 (Amplified Bible)
Jesus answered her, If you had only known and had recognized God’s gift and Who this is that is saying to you, Give Me a drink, you would have asked Him [instead] and He would have given you living water.
John 4:14 (Amplified Bible)
But whoever takes a drink of the water that I will give him shall never, no never, be thirsty any more. But the water that I will give him shall become a spring of water welling up (flowing, bubbling) [continually] within him unto (into, for) eternal life.
John 6:38 (Amplified Bible)
For I have come down from heaven not to do My own will and purpose but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me.
Job 23:12 (Amplified Bible)
I have not gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have esteemed and treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.
Spiritually speaking, we find comfort and strength in GOD'S WORDS not the physical food we feed our bodies. I have learned this the hard way, and now I'm telling you that in this world, our body needs first of all (priority top 1) is worship and devotion, let GOD'S Presence saturate our soul first, then we do what our hand finds to do, in honor and worship to Him as well. We are spiritually nourished and spiritually strengthened when someone we know will accept the LORD JESUS CHRIST as their own LORD and SAVIOR as fruit of what we do.
1 Corinthians 10:31 (Amplified Bible)
So then, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you may do, do all for the honor and glory of God.
1 Corinthians 15:58 (Amplified Bible)
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be firm (steadfast), immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord [always being superior, excelling, doing more than enough in the service of the Lord], knowing and being continually aware that your labor in the Lord is not futile [it is never wasted or to no purpose].
B. Our food: Do GOD's will and finish GOD's work
"is to do the will (pleasure) of Him Who sent Me and to accomplish and completely finish His work"
Hebrews 12:2 (Amplified Bible)
Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Psalms 110:1 (Amplified Bible)
A Psalm of David. THE LORD (God) says to my Lord (the Messiah), Sit at My right hand, until I make Your adversaries Your footstool.
John 5:36 (Amplified Bible)
But I have as My witness something greater (weightier, higher, better) than that of John; for the works that the Father has appointed Me to accomplish and finish, the very same works that I am now doing, are a witness and proof that the Father has sent Me.
John 17:4 (Amplified Bible)
I have glorified You down here on the earth by completing the work that You gave Me to do.
John 19:30 (Amplified Bible)
When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, It is finished! And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
The LORD JESUS CHRIST Himself the Seed of Abraham, the Hope of Glory does all His will and purposes in our lives and we received and enjoy all the benefits.
Psalms 138:8 (Amplified Bible)
The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy and loving-kindness, O Lord, endure forever—forsake not the works of Your own hands.
Philippians 1:6 (Amplified Bible)
And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ [right up to the time of His return], developing [that good work] and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you.
Colossians 1:27 (Amplified Bible)
To whom God was pleased to make known how great for the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ within and among you, the Hope of [realizing the] glory.
Hebrews 2:16 (Amplified Bible)
For, as we all know, He [Christ] did not take hold of angels [the fallen angels, to give them a helping and delivering hand], but He did take hold of [the fallen] descendants of Abraham [to reach out to them a helping and delivering hand].
GOD loves us so much, that I can't explain and understand. The angels are far more better than us, because they are perfect, spirits with no problematic or sick bodies, but when they sinned, they were never offered grace. It's because they're immortal already. Right now, grace is available to all of us, because we're still in this mortal bodies. Once we become, immortal like the angels, our soul is immortal and will live forever, we will never have a chance at grace again. I appeal to you, if you believe this message, trust and accept the LORD JESUS CHRIST and make Him your LORD and SAVIOR while still alive, and you will be saved from this world and in hell.
Romans 10:9-10 (Amplified Bible)
Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.
Acts 4:12 (Amplified Bible)
And there is salvation in and through no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by and in which we must be saved.
John 14:6 (Amplified Bible)
Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me.
ILLUSTRATION: Hence this is the reason why the LORD GOD forbid Adam and Eve to eat the tree of life, so that they will not become immortal and be disabled from grace forever more.
Genesis 3:24 (Amplified Bible)
So [God] drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden the cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep and guard the way to the tree of life.
But this tree of life will be offered to those who believed in JESUS in grace through faith.
Revelation 2:7 (Amplified Bible)
He who is able to hear, let him listen to and give heed to what the Spirit says to the assemblies (churches). To him who overcomes (is victorious), I will grant to eat [of the fruit] of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
Revelation 22:2 (Amplified Bible)
Through the middle of the broadway of the city; also, on either side of the river was the tree of life with its twelve varieties of fruit, yielding each month its fresh crop; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing and the restoration of the nations.
Because that was the original plan of GOD. Don't be deceived by the god of this world.
2 Corinthians 4:4 (Amplified Bible)
For the god of this world has blinded the unbelievers’ minds [that they should not discern the truth], preventing them from seeing the illuminating light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ (the Messiah), Who is the Image and Likeness of God.
John 10:10 (Amplified Bible)
The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).
IX. CONCLUSION:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You are my Food and Drink that satisfies by focusing on Your will and Your finished work on the cross.
