John 5

Get out of Bed

John 5:1-16 (17-18)

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We are in need of healing

John 5:1-3 (ESV)

5 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.

3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed

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House of mercy

Huge feast many sick people vs lost world

John 1:4 Missing

John 5:5 (ESV)

. 5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

Waiting on the world for healing

He was lost

People today are spirtualy invalid unable to walk

Ephesians 2:1-3 (ESV)

2 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Jesus choses you

John 1:6 (ESV)

. 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?”

Today jesus chose you watch or to listen to this online

Seeing others pity ..38 years maybe depended on their money?

Maybe he has just plain given up trying

Getting to the bottom of the rope

What do you want to be well of? Drinking, stealing, gossip, pornography, coveting.. some of us have gotten to used to a life of sin

Perhaps we feel like we cant be forgiven

Have you realized yet that you cannot do it on your own?

What is keeping you from getting out of bed?

John 1:7 (ESV)

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 was looking for mans help not Gods

What are you waiting for? Whats holding you back

Today satan wants you depend on mans way not Gods way

Let Go

John 1:8-9 (ESV)

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.

Wake up

Isaiah 59:2  (ESV)

2 but your iniquities have made a separation     between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you     so that he does not hear.

Deuteronomy 4:29  (ESV)

29 But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Take up your bed

Change yoru way of life

don’t worry about your spot in line

John 3:30 ESV

He must increase, I must decrease.

Ephesians 4:22-24  (ESV)

22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Walk

Share Jesus with everyone

Peripateo. Walk around

Let everyone see you

Mark 16:15-16  (ESV)

15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Get out of the religious Bed

John 1:9a-13 (ESV)

Now that day was the Sabbath. 10 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” 11 But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’” 12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” 13 Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.

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The Rabbis in Jesus day said you are sinning if you “carried a needle in you robe”

Man went to God to give thanks.. at the temple

Missed the miracle… \

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Parents/Dads.. don’t miss the miracle right now…

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Good works will fail you

Titus 3:5  (ESV)

5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Being a good person will fail you

Galatians 3:24  (ESV)

24 So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.

Trusting in the goodness of God will fail you – Romans 2:4 (ESV)

4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Family associations will fail you

Jeremiah 31:29-30  (ESV)

29 In those days they shall no longer say:

“‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,     and the children's teeth are set on edge.’ 30 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Church affiliation will fail you

John 3:3  (ESV)

3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

What I am trying to say, is that anything other than Jesus will fail you as to the salvation of your soul! There are a lot of good things you can do and be involved with, but salvation lies in Jesus and in Him alone,

Paul confronting religious leaders telling them to wake up

Acts 4:11-12  (ESV)

11 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. 12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Where is your trust this morning?

Jesus cares for you.

John 1:14 (ESV)

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.”

The world says you made your bed now lay in it.. Jesus says you made your bed let me get you out of it.

In other words let go of the worlds rope

Jesus has authority to care for us

John 1:15-18 (ESV)

15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. 16 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” 18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

John 5:1-18  (ESV)

5 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 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?” 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.” 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. 10 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” 11 But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’” 12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” 13 Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. 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.” 15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. 16 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

Jesus Is Equal with God

18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.