Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Message preached in reverse.

Of all the miracles that Jesus performed during his earthly ministry, John records seven.

In Bible, 7 is more than a number.

It’s a sign of completion.

First three are directed at man

Second three directed at nature

Final one directed at both

Healed official’s son

long-distance healing

Healed man sick for 38 years

ongoing sickness

John 5:1–9 (NASB95PARA)

Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes.

In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, waiting for the moving of the waters; for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.

A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, “Do you wish to get well?”

The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”

Jesus said to him, “Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.”

Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk.

Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

Healed man born blind

birth “defect”

John 9:1–12 (NASB95PARA)

As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth.

And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?”

Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work.

While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.”

When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes, and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent).

So he went away and washed, and came back seeing.

Therefore the neighbors, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying, “Is not this the one who used to sit and beg?” Others were saying, “This is he,” still others were saying, “No, but he is like him.”

He kept saying, “I am the one.”

So they were saying to him, “How then were your eyes opened?”

He answered, “The man who is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash’; so I went away and washed, and I received sight.”

They said to him, “Where is He?”

He said, “I do not know.”

Turned water into wine

defies natural laws

Fed 5,000+

supernatural provision

Walked on water

physics defining

Raised the dead

defies all-known natural laws