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Follow Me
Heavenly encounters.
This evening I want us to think about where we would be without that heavenly encounter.
When you encounter Jesus He tells us to leave something behind and follow Him.
We see evidence of this over and over of this.
Isn’t that true when we think of savlation as well?
Took off the old robe put on the new?
At the altar burdens are left, sin is left, old life laid at His feet to take on forgiveness, grace and mercy and salvation!
The Disciples dropped their nets
Call of Disciples
When Jesus chose his disciples he spoke to them where they were and told them to “Follow Me”.
There are a couple of other examples in and
Wheh Jesus called the response from the disciples was immediate.
They left their nets to follow Him.
There was no hesitation, they obediently followed Him.
Let’s talk about that word “Follow” (Greek akoloutheo) one of the first uses of this word is in the gospel where Jesus calls His first disciples.
Their decision to follow Jesus meant they had to leave somethings behind.
Jesus first priority, number one priority in life.
He was first and all other things were subject to the decision to follow him.
So when the call came “Follow me” they responded obdietly, this decision forever changed the disciples lives and God used them to change the course of history.
Their response was remarkable.
Scripture states that “Immediately they left their nets and followed him (, ).
For the first disciples following Jesus meant leaving some things behind.
Tonight let’s look at another couple examples of being called by Jesus.
Samaritian Woman
The Samaritian Woman had an encounter with Jesus.
She was surprised that Jesus would even talk to her because Jews refused to have anything to do with Samaritians.
Here is another Heavenly encounter.
Jesus asked her for a drink of water because he was resting in the heat of the day and the woman was getting water at the well.
The woman brought up that she was a Samaritian and He was a Jew.
She knew there was a difference between them.
She knew that she had to point out the differences because this lady had already been shunned but we don’t know all that at this point.
But it is not normal for someone to get water in the heat of the day.
She was out at that time because she was hiding.
From what we find out later.
Jesus responds with verse 10.
Doesn’t that bring joy to your heart.
Jesus knew all about their differences.
He knew that she was a Samaritian and that she was hiding something about her life but He offers love and acceptance in the midst of it all.
Jesus’ words sparked interest in her.
Where is this living water you speak of?
In verse 15 is her response
Then Jesus tells her to go get her husband.
This is where things get uncomfortable for this lady.
You can almost see it in your mind her shifting with discomfort.
I am sure she must have said in her mind oh no here we go again, judgement and shunning.
I should be used to this by now.
But to her surprise that was not Jesus’ resonse.
Jesus knew all about her life and her past and the sinful life she was living, but He still offered her a better life.
The woman is amazed that Jesus knew all this, they just met for goodness sakes.
Then Jesus and the Samaritian woman have a heart to heart conversation and you can track that in .
Jesus reveals to this lady that He is the Messiah.
He proclaims His truth to her.
This revelation means something to this lady.
The disciples come back on the scene and are surprised that Jesus is talking to this lady but did not have the nerve to question Jesus on it.
The lady met her Savior that day.
She left her jug at the well and went away from that meeting place transformed by Jesus and had to tell others of this Messiah.
She accepted Jesus and turned from her old life embraced new life in Christ.
She left her jug behind due to her excitement and went away to spread the great news.
And the people came streaming in to see Jesus.
(v.
30).
Jesus knew about this lady’s sin but loved her and offered her more!
And what is great is she accepted it and shared it.
Love is something if you give it away you end up having more.
This is certainly evident here.
Rich Young Ruler
This is found in I want to talk about bits and pieces of this encounter for the sake of time tonight.
But you can look at it later and see this encounter in more detail.
Not every person who met Jesus took Him up on the offer.
This young mand was one of those cases.
As Jesus was traveling His reputation went before Him.
News of who He is and what He had been doing spread like wild fire throughout the land.
As Jesus started to make his way towards Jerusalem a man came running to Him wanting to know what he needed to do to inherit eternal life.
Jesus asks him a question, why do you call me good?
Giving glory to God for who He is.
Then He goes on to tell him the ten commandments.
The man stated that he has obeyed the ten commandments.
Then Jesus felt deep love for him and told him there was one more thing that he would need to do.
Here is the verse that explains it all to him:
Mark 10:
This young man was so excited to meet Jesus.
He could hardly wait for Jesus to reveal the truth of etenal life.
I truly believe he wanted to be obedient but in the end the cost for this man was too great.
He was willing to miss out on eternal life because of material possessions.
What a heart breaking response.
Here He would have gained much more than the things he had here on earth but he could not see past it.
It was just too much for him to leave behind.
Here we see the uniqueness of Christ.
There is no other way to eternal life but through Jesus.
You cannot get there by keeping the ten commandments, doing good deeds, giving money, or through any other god.
It is through Jesus only He is the only way.
Here in the veres we are looking at the evidence is once again clear.
Mark 10:23-
The key is surrender.
The key is submission.
The key is Yield to Him.
Faith is the key that unlocks the door, because when we surrender, submit, yield, have faith in Jesus, we then have relationship with Him.
That is the only way.
I don’t care who has told you differently they are wrong.
Do not be misled!
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