Life's Highest Enjoyment
I. The Inner Satisfaction of a Replenishing Christ - John 4:1-19
- A. Christ coming in love to open us up - John 4:1-9; Eph. 2:17; 2
Cor. 5:19-20
- B. Christ revealing Himself as a gift - John 4:10a; Rom. 5:15-17
- C. Christ locating Himself within as a fountain - John 4:10b-15; 7:37-39;
1 Cor. 6:17;
- Rom. 8:9-11, 15-16
- 1. Bringing inner satisfaction - John 4:13-14a
- 2. Possessing an inner reproducing power - John 4:14b; Phil. 1:19
- 3. Replacing the things that control us - John 4:15-19; 2 Pet. 1:4
II. The Inner Reality of a Worshipping Christ - John 4:20-30
- A. Wrong ideas and practices of worship - John 4:20
- 1. Outward places - John 4:20-21
- 2. Without salvation - John 4:22
- B. The new dispensation of true worship - John 4:23-24
- 1. The meaning of worship - "spirit with Spirit contact"
- 2. In spirit and with Christ (the truth) - John 4:23-27; Gal. 4:6;
Rom. 8:15; Heb. 2:12
III. The Outward Activity of Our Inward Enjoyment - John 4:31-54
- A. The enjoyment of doing God's will by sowing and reaping - John
4:31-42
- B. Contacting others with a vision and sense of mission - John 4:34-38
- C. The effect of investing in one person - John 4:39-42
- D. Working where there is openness - John 4:43-45
- E. Giving life to the dead situations - John 4:46-54