Focus
I. Introduction
- I wear glasses to sharpen my focus.
- We have just had an election and if we are not careful, we can _____________ our focus.
- As a believer in Jesus, we must not lose our focus.
II. A Look at the Text
- The context.
- Jesus must go through _____________.
- Jesus rests by a _____________ in Sychar as the disciples go to town to buy food.
- He engages in a _____________ with a Samaritan woman who comes to the well.
- Jesus must go through _____________.
- Jesus reveals himself as the _____________ to her.
- The _____________ return and are surprised that Jesus is talking to a Samaritan woman.
- Jesus talks to the disciples about what has just _____________.
- Jesus’ sustenance is to do the Father’s _____________.
- His disciples must focus on the _____________.
- Jesus’ sustenance is to do the Father’s _____________.
- Many Samaritans _____________ in Jesus.
III. God is Speaking to Us.
- For God’s plan to come about, we must focus on the _____________ of souls.
- The answer is the _____________, but we are too much like the disciples in this story.
- Focused on our physical _____________.
- Bound by our _____________.
- Focused on our physical _____________.
- We must be like the Samaritan woman:
- _____________ the vision.
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- _____________ the vision.
- We must have the same _____________ as Jesus:
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IV. Conclusion