Part of trusting God is a willingness to wait on God rather than moving ahead of Him.

2. John 7:1-3
After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He
would not go about in Judea, because the
Jews were seeking to kill him. Now the
Jews’ Feast of the Booths was at hand. So
his brothers’ said to him, “Leave here and
go to Judea, that your disciples also may
see the works you are doing.
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3. John 7:4-7
For no one works in secret if he seeks to be
known openly. If you do these things, show
yourself to the world.” For not even his
brothers believed in him. Jesus said to
them, “My time has not yet come, but your
time is always here. The world cannot hate
you, but it hates me because I testify about
it that its works are evil.
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4. John 7:8-10
You go up to the feast. I am not going up to
this feast, for my time has not yet fully
come.” After saying this, he remained in
Galilee. But after his brothers had gone up
to the feast, then he also went up, not
publicly but in private.
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6. God’s TIMING: God is not
EARLY, nor LATE, but
always on time.

7. God’s TIMING: God is not
EARLY, nor LATE, but
always on time.
Part of TRUSTING God is a willingness to
WAIT on God rather than moving ahead of
Him.

8. God’s TIMING: God is not
EARLY, nor LATE, but
always on time.
Part of TRUSTING God is a willingness to
WAIT on God rather than moving ahead of
Him.
Jesus is abiding by God’s timing and walking
in God’s WAYS.

9. The feast had a DOUBLE
purpose celebrating the
HARVEST and the EXODUS.

10. The feast had a DOUBLE
purpose celebrating the
HARVEST and the EXODUS.
God’s provision in the PAST and God’s
provision in the PRESENT gave hope for God’s
provision in the FUTURE.

11. The feast had a DOUBLE
purpose celebrating the
HARVEST and the EXODUS.
God’s provision in the PAST and God’s
provision in the PRESENT gave hope for God’s
provision in the FUTURE.
The brothers are telling Jesus to go PROVE
Yourself by doing what we THINK you should.

12. Jesus would not deviate from
God’s PLAN for man’s PRAISE.

13. Jesus would not deviate from
God’s PLAN for man’s PRAISE.
Jesus is abiding by God’s timing and walking
in God’s ways in order to fulfill God’s WORK.

14. Jesus would not deviate from
God’s PLAN for man’s PRAISE.
Jesus is abiding by God’s timing and walking
in God’s ways in order to fulfill God’s WORK.
Jesus was not living to GET ALONG with the
leaders or receive the PRAISE of the world,
but to PLEASE His Father.

15. Jesus would not deviate from
God’s PLAN for man’s PRAISE.
Jesus is abiding by God’s timing and walking
in God’s ways in order to fulfill God’s WORK.
Jesus was not living to GET ALONG with the
leaders or receive the PRAISE of the world,
but to PLEASE His Father.
The path of salvation would be secured not
through our PERFORMANCE, but in a
PERSON, Jesus.

16. Please take a moment to fill out your
Communication Card
NEXT STEPS
( ) Do the home life help (in bulletin)
( ) Meditate on what it means to wait on God
( ) Identify what faithfulness while waiting
looks like
( ) Evaluate if I am living to get along, for the
praise of the world, or to please the Father
( ) Meditate on John 7:1-10 and Luke 9:51-56
( ) Other________________________