Healing At The Porch

The porch

Most people give up at 40%.

John 5:1–3 ESV

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

Surround yourself with healed people

Invalid for 38 years

Surrounded by sick people. They don’t see anything wrong with it. No wonder. They’re sick.

WHEN YOU FIND THEM KEEP THEM. A new study from researchers at the U.S. Census Bureau and Harvard University says nearly 60% of young adults – the study measured people at age 26 – live within 10 miles of where they grew up. Eighty percent live within 100 miles.

Made excuses - once a year. What was he doing the other 365 days and 5 hrs.

SURROUND YOURSELF WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE

STAY HUNGRY

John 5:4 NKJV

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.

John 5:5–9 ESV

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.

2. Stay hungry “pursuing goals, knowledge and achievement”

Jesus asks, do you want to be healed?

Jesus said get up, take your bed, and walk.

Did the man want more?

At once the man was healed.

No excuses. BE THE RIGHT PERSON.

ALL THESE EVENTS ATTRACTED ATTENTION..

3. Be ok with Pharisees being upset

Not everyone wants to be free and not everyone wants you to be free.

Girl with spirit of divination Acts 16:19 when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace

Invalid - debilitating weakness; limitations

4. Sin no more v. 14

Take sin seriously

Matthew 12:43–45 ““When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.””

2 Peter 2:20 “For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.”

Keep doing the things that got you out, got you strong