Do You Want to be Well

Good morning Church! I love seeing you guys here today. It was a wild and crazy week last week at Church camp but I am looking forward to this week. It was great to see the kids really getting into the spirit of being great Hear-Doers. We too must be able to become focused on God which makes us great at doing what the Word says. And as we continue our study on making God the priority I have but one question for you, do you want to be well? Today’s verse is found in John chapter 5 and the focus is in verse 6, but we will be covering verses 1-10. In verse 6 Jesus asks this very specific question to the man who was crippled and in verse 6 it says: Read

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What is your priority in life, is it your job, your kids, your family? Or is your focus God? When our focus is God we can really find that the other things take care of themselves in proper ratios. When was the last time we served the Lord? Well I helped out with Easter breakfast, I helped with Christmas, I helped with VBS? Do we really put God at the top of our priority list? If He is then people will see this and be convicted but if He is not, don’t we just look like the rest of the world. What sets us apart, is it coming to this building and worshiping on Sunday, if that’s it, it is not enough. We must eat, sleep and breathe God, that is what He asks of us, because He has given us no less. When we don’t, why is it the excuses? That’s what I want to talk about first this morning, the excuses.

I. Do we have excuses?

A. Blind, deaf or disabled –

1. Blind

a. Blind to the Word

b. Easy to fix

c. Read the Scripture

2. Deaf

a. Deaf to the Gospel

b. Deaf to the Power of Forgiveness

3. Disabled

a. Self cripled

b. Only thing holding you back is you

4. Time

a. Only as busy as you want to be

b. Put too much in front of Jesus

c. Got to be Him first

5. All are just excuses

a. A way to avoid

b. Always make time for what is important

i. is it important to us

ii. Is it important to God

c. Remember God is supposed to be #1

II. Jesus Removes the excuses – vs – 8 - 9

A. None are too Disabled! –

1. It is never too late to find healing

2. No one is too far gone

3. No situation is too big

B. Do not be unwilling

1. Think there is no healing for you

2. Think you are the one special case

a. Nobody Knows the trouble I’ve seen

b. God has seen it all

C. Act on faith

2. Faith leads the way

a. Not blind but based on experience

b. Based upon Biblical evidence

3. Hope

a. Not the hope of the world

b. Confident hope

4. Jesus promises healing –

a. Does not tell the man well if you wanna get up

b. Gave the command Get up

III. Do you want to be well?

A. Don’t be a nay sayer – vs 10

1. Enemy is ready

2. Wants to destroy

3. Don’t hold each other back

B. Don’t listen to negativity

1. Overcome negativity with Good

2. Doing good works brings out Christ

3. Allow Christ to work in you

a. Cannot do without you

b. Your focus on Him

c. Your focus on others

C. Jesus works with the worst of us

2. None is out of His reach

3. We all have something specific to bring

Conclusion:

Christ will give you what you need to be well. We can no longer say we can’t, we don’t have enough time, I am not talented enough. That is what the cripled man did, he made up good excuses why he couldn’t but Christ took those excuses away. Jesus doesn’t accept excuses he tells us to pick up our mat and walk. Stop thinking you can’t and use you faith to do. We must stop putting stuff in front of Christ and put Him first in all things. Do not listen to those nay sayers or negative people, Remember Jesus works with the worst of all to accomplish the greatest of works. So just say yes to Jesus and make Him the number 1 priority, so that He may do great things through you.

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