Jesus’ Words in Red "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

Jesus’ Words in Red

"I have food to eat that you know nothing about."  

What food was Jesus talking about?

Food has to be harvested

Jesus had just finished giving Living Water to the Samaritan Woman

This fed His spirit and energized Him

"My food," said Jesus,

"Is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

What are we doing to finish His work?

It is harvest time

Time to feed the spirit   

"I have food to eat that you know nothing about" 

The issue of food comes up

a lot in the teachings of Jesus.

At one time Jesus’ mother and brothers think

He is out of His mind and go to take charge of Him

because He is not eating like they thought He should.

Mark 3:20

We are very concerned with food.

Sadly, most of our concerns with food do

not have to do with health, but pleasure.

Food is to give us energy.

 It is the fuel the body needs to be active and that

activity brings strength to the body by building muscle.

Food is necessary to the body but not as

necessary as most of us make it out to be.

 

Jesus, after speaking to the Samaritan

woman at the well, became energized.

Jesus told His disciples He has just eaten

food that they could not understand.

The food Jesus was talking about is…

Food for the spirit.

Jesus became full and energized when He saw

the Samaritan Woman who had been seeking to

be a true worshiper, drinking of the “Living Water”.

The disciples had just went into town to get food.

Food they did not plant or harvest,

others did the work for them.

Jesus was saying the same thing

but He was talking of spiritual food.

Jesus did not sow the seed that caused the

Samaritan woman to have a hunger for true worship.

Yet, Jesus reaped the harvest not only

of this woman, but a whole village.

 You can see Jesus was energized by

what He saw take place in her life.

Just before the woman came to the well,

 Jesus was tired and His disciples felt

He should rest while they go get food.

The words Jesus shared with the woman were

 in Him, but it was not giving Him energy.

You and I are the same way.

 The seed God gives us that turns into food has to be planted.

Jesus says don’t say there are yet four months till harvest.

There is a harvest all ready to be harvested.

Your spirit needs this harvest to eat.

 It is important we feed our spirit.

And Jesus says your harvest is ready.

If you have ever shared the things of God

with others and felt your energy level

 increase, you know what Jesus was talking about.

All the Bible readings, all the worship you do,

 is to equip you to go get the harvest.

The harvest has always been where the food is.

This should challenge all of us to go into

the harvest and share the Living Water.

For our spirits are hungry.

"My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of

Him who sent me and to finish His work.

What are we doing to finish His work?

It is harvest time.

Time to spiritually eat.

 

Scripture Reading

 John 4:32-42 NIV

32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about." 

33 Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?"

34 "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor." 

39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did." 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And because of his words many more became believers.

42 They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."