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A Special Food of Jesus

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[John 4 : 34]

“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

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Jesus and his disciples went to Samaria called Sychar once.

Jesus shared the gospel with a woman who was alone at the well and came to draw water.

It was after the disciples had gone to the village to get lunch.

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The disciples who went down to the village succeeded in preparing food to eat.

They returned to the well to have lunch with Jesus.

Jesus was still preaching the gospel to the woman.

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The disciples were a little surprised when they saw that Jesus was having a conversation

with a Samaritan woman. Because at that time it was forbidden for Jews to speak

personally with a Samaritan woman.

The disciples were curious, but no one came forward and waited until their conversation

was over.

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After the conversation with Jesus, the woman's face overflowed with joy.

She said that she hurried down to her village without her water jar she had brought with her,

and it was only after the woman had left that her disciples approached Jesus.

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Then they put the food they had prepared in front of Jesus and said.  

“Eat some of Jesus’ food.”

The disciples knew that Jesus was going to eat right away because it was already past lunch time.

But Jesus was not in any hurry.

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Jesus did not eat and spoke incomprehensible words.

“I have food to eat that you do not know.”

After hearing Jesus' words, the disciples were a bit bewildered and asked each other.

“Who brought food for Jesus?”

They thought that someone had served Jesus food while they were on their way to the village.

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Jesus continued his words.

“My food is to do the will of God who sent me, and to complete God’s work is my food.”

The food Jesus spoke of was not real food, but a parable.

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The food Jesus spoke of was about the woman who just came to believe in Jesus.

She expressed that the woman's faith in Jesus was the perfect fulfillment of God's will,

so she expressed that joy was the same as eating food with her whole body full.

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Jesus continued speaking to his disciples.

Don't you say, "Four months will pass before the harvest time?"

But I tell you Lift up your eyes and see the fields.

The crop is ripe and it is time to harvest.”

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Jesus continued to speak.

“For many who have already returned to God, the coming of the Messiah to this earth has been

prophesied through the mouths of many previous prophets.

Now you are getting the fruits of their hard work.”

Jesus told his disciples not to make excuses that it is not yet time.

He told them that if they do the work of preaching the gospel,

as Jesus did, they will bear fruit.

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Jesus came to this earth in obedience to the Word of God to deliver us from our sins.

Even Jesus, who is God, considered it the most important and precious thing to keep the

word of God while he lived on this earth.

So he preached the gospel to the Samaritan woman he met while the disciples

were going to prepare food.

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Jesus did his best to preach the gospel that is pleasing to God.

The fact that the Samaritan woman came to believe in Jesus as the Messiah was so good

that Jesus himself did not feel hungry even if he did not eat.

So he said that when his disciples offered food, there were other foods.

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Jesus tells us, who are disciples, to become people who preach Jesus.

There are already many seniors of faith who worked hard ahead of us and sowed the seeds

of the gospel. Jesus says that if we have the courage to preach the gospel,

we will reap the fruit.

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Jesus, the Son of God, did his best to fully fulfill God's will.

He regarded evangelism to those who did not believe in Jesus as the most important task.

The joy that one person came to believe in Jesus through evangelism was such a joy that he was full even without eating.

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We must ask the Holy Spirit to have the same heart as Jesus.

Also, we must have faith to confess that it is the most joyous thing for a person to believe

in Jesus through evangelism.

You must strive to become a wonderful child of God who can confess as Jesus said.

[John 4 : 34]

“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

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