Friend Day 2022
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Main Point:
Main Point:
INTRODUCTION:
1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Only leave in if I can figure out which feast it was.......
2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.
Sheep gate -
The Sheep Gate was the first gate to be restored, and it was rebuilt by the High Priest and his fellow priests. Note: This was the only gate that was consecrated (set apart as holy), as it was used for bringing in sacrifices for the temple.It was called the Sheep Gate because it was the entrance for sheep entering into the Temple compound from the sheep markets (where lambs were sold for sacrifice in the Temple) and the sheep pool (later known as Pool of Bethesda), where sheep were washed for sacrificing.Thousands of years later, when Jesus was on earth, He always entered Jerusalem via the Sheep Gate (except for the Triumphal Entry). The Sheep Gate also led to Golgotha, the path Jesus took to the crucifixion.
Bethesda - house of mercy.
Right outside of temple. Where priests would come to get water.
in Jeresulem - yes, but outside the wall. significant. Becuase unclean people could not come into the city????? Not exactly true.
3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.
disabled folks - They were hopeless back then. Think about it. You had a bad broken leg. You could be crippled the rest of your life.
Levi???
3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Likely added later. So think of this as historical data. Probobobly wasn’t true, but probobly what they thought was true.
5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
He was desperate. 38 years. 1984. There was no hope for him other than this.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”
knew - how did he nkow?
Do you want to be healed? Seems like a dumb question. Of course. But the question could be asked of you? If you had to change the whole life around. If you had to leave that old sinful habit.
....Not feel better, but be healed. That would be a radically different life.
7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”
He had no one. He had put himself in a spot where it would heal him , but no one areaound to actually help.
He would be fighting for his life. But he could never make it in time.
He only sorta answered his question.
8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”
9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.
Now that day was the Sabbath.
14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”
God is waiting on you for you to get up, not for him to come down.