Deliverance- Stuck In Your Story
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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. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 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?” 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.” Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.
Now that day was the Sabbath. 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.” But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’ ” They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. 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 man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.
john 5:1-15
1001 Illustrations that Connect Illustration 331: Your Worth
If someone offered you a twenty-dollar bill, would you take it? What if that person wadded up the bill and threw it on the ground—would you still want it? What if he stepped on it, kicked it, and even spit on it? Could you still go to the store and spend it?
The answer is yes. That bill has value because of what it is, not because of how it looks, where it’s been, or what it has been used for. A crisp, clean twenty-dollar bill is worth the same amount as an ugly, old, abused one.
You may feel like you’ve been stepped on, beat up, or kicked around. You may feel dirty, unworthy, or useless. But be encouraged by the twenty-dollar bill—no matter what you’ve been through, you still have value to God!
I. The Place Deliverance ()
I. The Place Deliverance ()
I.The Bethesda of (Grace & Mercy)
I.The Bethesda of (Grace & Mercy)
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.
JN 5:1-3
5:1. Jesus … later returned to Jerusalem for a feast. The feast is not named (some mss. read “the feast”), but it may have been the Passover. Jesus attended three other Passovers (2:23; 6:4; 11:55). John probably intended only to give a reason why Jesus was in Jerusalem.
5:2. To the north of the temple area was a pool … called Bethesda (see the map showing the pool’s location). The excavations of a pool near the Sheep Gate have uncovered five porticoes or covered colonnades, confirming the accuracy of the description given here in the Fourth Gospel. The pool was actually two pools next to each other.
Bethesda has been said to mean “grace or mercy so we would be able to call this place the house of mercy or the house of grace. Everyone around who were invalid or low down sick as people would say in some parts of the USA. It was a condition for some to be “too sick to move”. Many times in humans can be depressed or discourage to the point of wishing they could die.
Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.” Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
1 Kings 19:1-4
IL1
Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations 6066 Stubborn Disease
6066 Stubborn Disease
At least a quarter-million and possibly a million citrus trees in California suffer from “stubborn disease,” according to Dr. E. C. Calavan, University of California plant pathologist.
While the cause of “stubborn disease” in citrus is not known, the cause of “stubborn disease” in man is no mystery. This ailment can be traced back to the Garden of Eden
AP1. The COC for eternity is called the pillar and ground of truth
AP1. The COC for eternity is called the pillar and ground of truth
if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.
1 tim :
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness:
He was manifested in the flesh,
vindicated by the Spirit,
seen by angels,
proclaimed among the nations,
believed on in the world,
taken up in glory.
The COC is the sphere of grace in which those who were save by grace through faith stand.
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
romans 5:1-5
II. The Case For Grace And Mercy()
II. The Case For Grace And Mercy()
In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
jn 5:3-5
The text reveals to us that there are all kinds in invilids there at Bethesda. The house named for Grace or mercy. Among them is a “certain” man who have been an invilid for 38 years. One may ask the question why did he come to the same place for 38 years without any real opportugnity to be healed.
The text does not give us information on what he was thinking or even if he was thinking but his persistance to keep going to Bethesda reveals a kind of hope which he was not ashame. It may have looked from his friends and neighbors point of view he was down and out but his patience and consistancy was about to be rewarded. Springs of grace and mercy was about to flow in his desert of despair. His bitter waters was about to be turned sweet Grace and the light of the world was about to take him to higher hights.
IL2
Humility is needed for our victory in Christ.1
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
1 Peter 5:6
casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
1 Peter 5:7
7603 “Humility Gate”
There is a church in Palestine the doorway of which is so low that one must stoop to enter it. This was to prevent medieval raiders from riding their horses into the church and disrupting the worship. The door is called “Humility Gate.”
When we are stuck in an impossible circumstance “hit the floor” our humility will get God’s attention faster then attitude “i don’t deserve this attitude”
For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”
Romans 15:3
III. The Christ of Grace And Mercy ()
III. The Christ of Grace And Mercy ()
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?”
jn. 5:6
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.” Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.
Now that day was the Sabbath. 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.” But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’ ” They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” 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. 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.”
Jn. 5:7-14
As the Christ of Grace and Mercy for the man had an answered Christ to take away blame perhaps but we do know that Christ has no need for a man to tell Him the truth or what a man believes. Christ seemed to operated beyond the man’s conscious mind and knew what is really on all men’s mind.
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people
jn 2:23-24
The man was an invalid and also sin appears to be the reason for his sickness. In 1 cor.11:31
But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.
1 cor. 11:31
That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.
1 cor.11:30
The Christ tells a man who is sick and had sin to :Take up his bed and walk. Grace and mercy was not extended to the invalid because he was moral but because
Christ is God and full of grace and mercy
Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations 4096 “Incurable” Disease
4096 “Incurable” Disease
Charles Kettering, the famous research scientist, is impatient with people who speak of insurmountable obstacles. “It is like the doctors with their incurable diseases,” he says. “Did you ever stop to think what an incurable disease is? It is one the doctor doesn’t know how to cure.”
The Break Through
The Break Through
The invalid was crushed on both sides Physically and Spiritually but the day he meet the Christ of grace and mercy was the end of all his misery and mental pain. He did as Christ told him to do and believe with the Son of God he could walk and no be cripple and be free from sin.
We have an epidemic in the USA caused by the doctors of trying to cure sin with pain pills. People are committing suicide trying medicate themselves to cope with a sin filled life. I offer to you the Christ of grace and mercy who is full of truth. He specializes in the impossible to give you victory!
But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.
mk. 9:27
Tan, P. L. (1996). Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times (p. 1654). Garland, TX: Bible Communications, Inc.
1 tim 3
You have made known to me the paths of life;
you will make me full of gladness with your presence.’
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
acts 20:28
acts 2:28
Salvation belongs to the Lord;
your blessing be on your people! Selah
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Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Ex 3:7-8
There is no deliverance by other gods
There is no deliverance by other gods
Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
There is no escape from God
There is no escape from God
Also henceforth I am he;
there is none who can deliver from my hand;
I work, and who can turn it back?”
Deliverance may be declined
Deliverance may be declined
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Different kinds of deliverance
Different kinds of deliverance
From danger
From danger
And David said, “The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you!”
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From illness
From illness
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From trouble
From trouble
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From slavery
From slavery
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
From enemies
From enemies
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From Satan
From Satan
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From the fear of death
From the fear of death
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
From all fears
From all fears
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From sin
From sin
who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
See also ; ;
From the coming wrath
From the coming wrath
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Deliverance for God’s people
Deliverance for God’s people
God promises deliverance
God promises deliverance
The Lord said, “Have I not set you free for their good? Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress?
See also
God’s people are to pray for deliverance
God’s people are to pray for deliverance
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
See also ;
The means of deliverance
The means of deliverance
Direct intervention by God
Direct intervention by God
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Deliverance by angels
Deliverance by angels
And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands.
Deliverance by human agency
Deliverance by human agency
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God’s people as deliverers
God’s people as deliverers
Abraham
Abraham
When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan. And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus. Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his possessions, and the women and the people.
Moses
Moses
“This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
See also
Gifted Christians
Gifted Christians
And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.
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Joshua
Joshua
Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.
The judges
The judges
Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
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Samuel
Samuel
And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.” So the people of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and they served the Lord only.
Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.” So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the Lord and fasted on that day and said there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah. Now when the Philistines heard that the people of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the people of Israel heard of it, they were afraid of the Philistines. And the people of Israel said to Samuel, “Do not cease to cry out to the Lord our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines.” So Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. And Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him. As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to attack Israel. But the Lord thundered with a mighty sound that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion, and they were defeated before Israel. And the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and pursued the Philistines and struck them, as far as below Beth-car.
Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, “Till now the Lord has helped us.” So the Philistines were subdued and did not again enter the territory of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
Saul
Saul
And they said to the messengers who had come, “Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have salvation.’ ” When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad. Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.” And the next day Saul put the people in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
Then the people said to Samuel, “Who is it that said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring the men, that we may put them to death.” But Saul said, “Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the Lord has worked salvation in Israel.”
Jonathan
Jonathan
Then the people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As the Lord lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day.” So the people ransomed Jonathan, so that he did not die.
e to deliverance
e to deliverance
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Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
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Ministers and others through the gospel
Ministers and others through the gospel
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The proper response to deliverance
The proper response to deliverance
Praise
Praise
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Delight
Delight
And Hannah prayed and said,
“My heart exults in the Lord;
my horn is exalted in the Lord.
My mouth derides my enemies,
because I rejoice in your salvation.
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving
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Trust
Trust
I waited patiently for the Lord;
he inclined to me and heard my cry.
He drew me up from the pit of destruction,
out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
making my steps secure.
He put a new song in my mouth,
a song of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear,
and put their trust in the Lord.
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