Do you want to be made well?
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1 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, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had. 5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” 7 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.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” 9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath.
1. The lame mad was in a place of healing and Jesus asks him a question of Identity.
1. The lame mad was in a place of healing and Jesus asks him a question of Identity.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”
“Do you want to be made well?”
“Do you want to be made well?”
This may seem to be a redundant question.
He’s at the pool right?
He’s at the pool right?
Isn’t that a pretty good indication that he wants to be healed?
Isn’t that a pretty good indication that he wants to be healed?
Why was he there?
Why was he there?
some of us came to the pool and where listened to for the first time with out having to pay the person for the hour.
others of us have found a community for the first time.
Maybe we got her because we have a family member who wants us to be healed.
2. Sometimes my identity can become my hurt habit or hang up.
2. Sometimes my identity can become my hurt habit or hang up.
you have heard me say this before.
because its such a danger to think that we are only worth something because we have a certain past.
being “healed doesn't disqualify you from fellowship.
3. Jesus then heals Him.
3. Jesus then heals Him.
we are here to be healed and to serve people who are.
