Messiah Rejected
The Miracles of Jesus in the Gospel Of John • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 27:12
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ALFRED THE GREAT
• WAS THE NINTH-CENTURY KING
• WHO SAVED ENGLAND FROM
CONQUEST BY THE DANISH.
• AT ONE POINT DURING HIS
WARS WITH THE DANES,
• KING ALFRED WAS FORCED TO
SEEK REFUGE
• IN THE HUT OF A POOR FAMILY.
• NOT RECOGNIZING HER VISITOR,
• THE WOMAN OF THE HOUSE
SAID SHE HAD TO LEAVE
• AND ASKED ALFRED TO WATCH
SOME CAKES SHE WAS BAKING.
• BUT THE KING HAD OTHER THINGS
ON HIS MIND
• AND DID NOT NOTICE THAT THE
CAKES WERE BURNING.
• UPON HER RETURN, THE LADY
• UNKNOWINGLY GAVE HER
SOVEREIGN A HEARTY SCOLDING!
• SOMETIMES THE KING OF KINGS
COMES INTO OUR LIVES
• AND WE DON’T RECOGNIZE HIM
• WE ARE CAUGHT UP IN SOME
DAILY TASK
• LIKE BAKING CAKES
• AND WE FAIL TO RECOGNIZE JESUS
CHRIST, THE KING OF KINGS
• AND LORD OF LORDS…. WORKING
IN OUR LIVES
• WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE PAY
ATTENTION
• TO CHRIST WORKING IN OUR
LIVES…
• HE MAY NOT WORK THE WAY WE
EXPECT HIM TO
• OR WHEN WE EXPECT HIM TO..
OR ON THE PROBLEM
• WE THINK WE NEED HELP ON.
• BUT HE IS THERE IN OUR LIVES
EVERY DAY
• TODAY WE ARE GOING TO LOOK AT
• THE LEADERSHIP OF ISRAEL NOT
RECOGNIZING
• JESUS CHRIST AS THE MESSIAH THE
SAVIOR OF THE WORLD
• TURN TO JOHN 5:1
• JOHN RECORDED TWO
MIRACLES
• PRIOR TO THE ONE WE WILL
LOOK AT TODAY
• BOTH WERE DONE FAR FROM
JERUSALEM
• BOTH WERE DONE PRIVATELY
• AND FEW PEOPLE KNEW OF THEM
• BOTH OF THESE MIRACLES
RESULTED
• IN PEOPLE TRUSTING IN JESUS
CHRIST
• NOW JESUS WILL
PREFORM A MIRACLE
• AMONG A GREAT CROWD
IN JERUSALEM
JOHN 5:1–4
AFTER THESE THINGS THERE WAS A
FEAST OF THE JEWS, AND JESUS
WENT UP TO JERUSALEM. NOW
THERE IS IN JERUSALEM BY THE
SHEEP GATE A POOL, WHICH IS
CALLED IN HEBREW BETHESDA,
HAVING FIVE PORTICOES.
IN THESE LAY A MULTITUDE OF
THOSE WHO WERE SICK, BLIND,
LAME, AND WITHERED, WAITING
FOR THE MOVING OF THE WATERS;
FOR AN ANGEL OF THE LORD WENT
DOWN AT CERTAIN SEASONS INTO
THE POOL AND STIRRED UP THE
WATER;
WHOEVER THEN FIRST,
AFTER THE STIRRING UP OF
THE WATER, STEPPED IN
WAS MADE WELL FROM
WHATEVER DISEASE WITH
WHICH HE WAS AFFLICTED.
A VERY PUBLIC MIRACLE
• JOHN IS NOT TELLING US EVERY
MIRACLE THAT JESUS DOES
• WHEN JOHN DOES TELL US
ABOUT A MIRACLE
• WE CAN KNOW THAT HE TELLS
FOR A REASON…
• THIS IS THE FIRST PUBLIC MIRACLE
JOHN TELLS US ABOUT
• WHEN JESUS TURNED WATER INTO
WINE ONLY HIS MOTHER
• THE SERVANTS, AND HIS DISCIPLES
NEW THE MIRACLE HAD HAPPENED
• WHEN HE HEALED THE ROYAL
OFFICIAL’S SON
• THERE WAS NO SIGN OR WONDER,
NO PUBLIC DISPLAY OF THE
MIRACLE
• BUT IN THE CASE OF THIS MIRACLE
JESUS GOES
• TO JERUSALEM DURING A FEAST,
WHEN THE CITY WOULD BE
CROWDED…
• BECAUSE IT WAS DURING A
FEAST
• AND JESUS DID THIS MIRACLE
IN A VERY PUBLIC PLACE
DURING THE FEAST
• HE DID IT AT A POOL CALLED BET-HESEDA
WHICH MEANS HOUSE OF MERCY
• AROUND THIS POOL;
• “LAY A MULTITUDE OF THOSE WHO
WERE SICK, BLIND, LAME, AND
WITHERED”
• AND IN THIS CROWD, IN JERUSALEM,
JESUS WILL DO
AN UNEXPECTED MIRACLE
• OUR TEXT EXPLAINS WHY ALL
THESE AFFLICTED PEOPLE
• WERE AT THIS PARTICULAR
PLACE
FOR AN ANGEL OF THE LORD WENT
DOWN AT CERTAIN SEASONS INTO
THE POOL AND STIRRED UP THE
WATER; WHOEVER THEN FIRST,
AFTER THE STIRRING UP OF THE
WATER, STEPPED IN WAS MADE
WELL FROM WHATEVER DISEASE
WITH WHICH HE WAS AFFLICTED.
• NOW, THERE IS A STRONG
POSSIBILITY
• THAT THIS VERSE IS NOT IN THE
ORIGINAL TEXT
• NO-MANUSCRIPT BEFORE AD 400
HAS THIS VERSE
• AND MANY OF THE WORDS USED
ARE NOT WORDS JOHN USED….
• EVEN THE GRAMMAR IS DIFFERENT
THAN JOHN’S GRAMMAR
• BUT THE INFORMATION IS STILL
IMPORTANT
• THIS VERSE TELLS US ABOUT A
TRADITION AMONG
• THE PEOPLE AT TIME, THIS
TRADITION
• HAS BEEN VERIFIED BY HISTORICAL
DOCUMENTS
• THERE WAS AN ACTUAL PRACTICE
AND BELIEF BEING DESCRIBED HERE
• DOES THIS MEAN THAT AN ANGEL
ACTUALLY STIRRED UP
• THE WATER AND WHOEVER GOT IN
THE WATER FIRST WAS HEALED
• I DON’T REALLY KNOW, IT DOES SEEM
UN-LIKE ANYTHING ELSE IN THE BIBLE…
• I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO
UNDERSTAND FROM THIS VERSE
• IS THAT THE SICK, BLIND, LAME, AND
WITHERED
• WERE LAYING THERE EXPECTING TO BE
HEALED BY
• BEING THE FIRST ONE IN THE
POOL AFTER THE WATER WAS
STIRRED UP
• NONE OF THEM WERE EXPECTING
THE MESSIAH TO COME AND HEAL
THEM,
• NONE OF THEM WERE EXPECTING
• THE MIRACLE THAT JESUS WAS ABOUT TO
DO
• THEY WERE DEPENDING ON THE WATER
BEING STIRRED UP
• AND BEING THE FIRST ONE IN
• THIS VERSE HELPS US UNDERSTAND WHY
THE MAN
• WHO IS GOING TO BE HEALED
RESPONSES THE WAY HE DOES
JOHN 5:5–9
A MAN WAS THERE WHO HAD BEEN
ILL FOR THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS. WHEN
JESUS SAW HIM LYING THERE, AND
KNEW THAT HE HAD ALREADY BEEN A
LONG TIME IN THAT CONDITION, HE
SAID TO HIM, “DO YOU WISH TO GET
WELL?”
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.” JESUS SAID TO HIM,
“GET UP, PICK UP YOUR PALLET
AND WALK.”
IMMEDIATELY THE MAN
BECAME WELL, AND
PICKED UP HIS PALLET
AND BEGAN TO WALK.
NOW IT WAS THE
SABBATH ON THAT DAY.
A TIMELY MIRACLE
• 38 YEARS IS A LONG TIME TO BE
ILL
• IN THE MIND OF THOSE READING
THIS TEXT
• BEING SICK THAT LONG MEANT IT
WAS A HOPELESS CASE
• NO ONE GOT WELL AFTER BEING
SICK THAT LONG…
• AND JESUS ASKS HIM A
QUESTION;
• “DO YOU WISH TO GET WELL?”
• SOMEONE MIGHT THINK THIS IS
AN ODD QUESTION
• OF COURSE, EVERYONE WHO IS
SICK WANTS TO GET WELL….
• MAYBE JESUS IS ASKING IN ORDER
TO GIVE THE MAN
• THE CHANCE TO ASK FOR HEALING
• BUT INSTEAD OF ANSWERING THE
QUESTION
• THE MAN SAYS;
• “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.”
• HE IS SO FIXED ON HIS EXPECTATION
• HE IS SO DRIVEN BY THIS TRADITION
OF THE POOL
• THAT HE CANNOT ENVISION BEING
HEALED BY ANY OTHER MEANS
• HE THINKS IF HE JUST HAD SOMEONE
TO PUT HIM IN THE WATER
• WHEN IT IS STIRRED UP, HE WILL BE
HEALED
• AND THAT IS THE ONLY WAY HE CAN
EVER BE HEALED
• BUT EVEN THOUGH THE MAN SHOWS
NO FAITH IN JESUS
• EVEN THOUGH THE MAN IS STILL
STUCK ON
• THE BEING FIRST IN THE STIRRED-UP
WATER
• JESUS WILL PREFORM
AN AMAZING MIRACLE
• THE WATER HAD NOT BEEN
STIRRED
• THE MAN HAD NOT BEEN PLACED
IN THE WATER
• JESUS SIMPLY SAYS; “GET UP, PICK
UP YOUR PALLET AND WALK.”
• THIS IS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE
COMMANDS
• CONNECTED TO A MIRACLE
• AND THIS MAN IS GOING TO OBEY
AND DO WHAT JESUS COMMANDED
• IMMEDIATELY THE MAN BECAME
WELL, AND PICKED UP HIS PALLET
AND BEGAN TO WALK.
• I WANT US TO TRY TO PICTURE THIS
EVENT
• IN A VERY CROWDED AREA FILLED
WITH
• SICK, BLIND, LAME, AND WITHERED
• WHO ARE WAITING FOR THE WATER
TO BE STIRRED-UP
• A MAN BECAME WELL, AND PICKED
UP HIS PALLET AND BEGAN TO WALK.
• THIS MAN HAD BEEN SICK FOR 38
YEARS
• WE DON’T KNOW HOW LONG HE
HAD BEEN COMING TO THE POOL
• BUT IT DOES IMPLY HE HAD BEEN
THERE WAITING
• FOR SOMEONE TO PUT HIM IN THE
POOL
• AND ALL THE SUDDEN…
IMMEDIATELY
• HE GETS UP… PICKS UP HIS PALLET…
AND WALKS
• THIS IS AMAZING.. THIS IS
WONDERFUL……
• GOD BE PRAISED.. OBVIOUSLY THIS
IS A GOOD THING RIGHT..
• HOW COULD THIS BE ANYTHING
OTHER THAN SOMETHING GOOD……
• BUT THEN WE READ THE WORDS….
• NOW IT WAS THE SABBATH ON
THAT DAY.
• THAT DOES NOT MEAN MUCH TO US
• BUT ANYONE WHO KNEW THE
JEWISH PEOPLE
• UNDERSTOOD WHAT THIS PHRASE
MEANT
• THEY WOULD KNOW THIS MEANT
TROUBLE
JOHN 5:10–13
SO THE JEWS WERE SAYING TO THE
MAN WHO WAS CURED, “IT IS THE
SABBATH, AND IT IS NOT PERMISSIBLE
FOR YOU TO CARRY YOUR PALLET.”
BUT HE ANSWERED THEM, “HE WHO
MADE ME WELL WAS THE ONE WHO
SAID TO ME,
‘PICK UP YOUR PALLET AND WALK.’ ”
THEY ASKED HIM, “WHO IS THE
MAN WHO SAID TO YOU, ‘PICK UP
YOUR PALLET AND WALK’?” BUT THE
MAN WHO WAS HEALED DID NOT
KNOW WHO IT WAS, FOR JESUS HAD
SLIPPED AWAY WHILE THERE WAS A
CROWD IN THAT PLACE.
A REJECTED MIRACLE
• THE WAY THIS IS WORDED MEANS
• THIS HAPPENED RIGHT AFTER HE
STARTED WALKING
• THIS MAN HAS JUST BEEN
MIRACULOUSLY HEALED AFTER 38
YEARS
• AND RIGHT AWAY.. THE FIRST
THING ANYONE SAYS TO HIM IS
• IT IS THE SABBATH, AND IT IS NOT
PERMISSIBLE FOR YOU TO CARRY
YOUR PALLET.”
• NOT….PRAISE GOD YOUR HEALED
• NOT….IT’S A MIRACLE
• JOHN TELLS US THE JEWS WERE THE
ONES SAYING THIS…
• THIS PHRASE IN THE BOOK OF JOHN
MEANS THE JEWISH OFFICIALS
• THEY WERE NOT INTERESTED IN
MIRACLES THEY WERE INTERESTED
• IN THEIR TRADITION, THEIR MANMADE RULES
• AND THE MAN WHO WAS HEALED….
• IS NOW FACING ALL KINDA TROUBLE
• JUST FOR CARRYING HIS PALLET.. ON
THE SABBATH
• SO, THE MAN FEARING THAT HE
MIGHT BE PUNISHED REPLIES
• “HE WHO MADE ME WELL WAS THE
ONE WHO SAID TO ME, ‘PICK UP
YOUR PALLET AND WALK.’ ”
• IF THESE LEADERS DID NOT KNOW A
MIRACLE HAD HAPPENED BEFORE
• THEY DO NOW, HE JUST TOLD THEM
SOMEONE MADE HIM WELL
• AND INSTEAD OF ASKING ABOUT
THE MIRACLE
• ABOUT HOW HE HAD BEEN HEALED
• THEY ASKED HIM, “WHO IS THE
MAN WHO SAID TO YOU, ‘PICK UP
YOUR PALLET AND WALK’?”
• NOT, WHO HEALED YOU…
• NOT, HOW DID HE HEAL YOU…
• BUT, WHO TOLD YOU TO CARRY
YOUR PALLET AND WALK
• THESE JEWISH LEADERS HAVE JUST
COMPLETELY
• IGNORED… REJECTED…A MIRACLE
• AND THEY DID THIS WHILE
STANDING IN A PLACE
• FILLED WITH THE SICK, BLIND,
LAME, AND WITHERED
• IN A PLACE FILLED WITH PEOPLE
WHO NEED HEALING
• THEY REJECT THE ONLY ONE WHO
CAN HEAL THEM…
• THEY REJECT THE MESSIAH….
• SO, THE MAN ANSWERS THEIR
QUESTION
• BY SAYING HE DOES NOT KNOW
WHO HEALED HIM
• BECAUSE JESUS HAD SLIPPED AWAY
IN THE CROWD
JOHN 5:14–18
AFTERWARD JESUS FOUND HIM IN THE
TEMPLE AND SAID TO HIM, “BEHOLD,
YOU HAVE BECOME WELL; DO NOT SIN
ANYMORE, SO THAT NOTHING WORSE
HAPPENS TO YOU.” THE MAN WENT
AWAY, AND TOLD THE JEWS THAT IT WAS
JESUS WHO HAD MADE HIM WELL.
FOR THIS REASON THE JEWS
WERE PERSECUTING JESUS,
BECAUSE HE WAS DOING THESE
THINGS ON THE SABBATH. BUT HE
ANSWERED THEM, “MY FATHER IS
WORKING UNTIL NOW, AND I
MYSELF AM WORKING.”
FOR THIS REASON THEREFORE
THE JEWS WERE SEEKING ALL THE
MORE TO KILL HIM, BECAUSE HE
NOT ONLY WAS BREAKING THE
SABBATH, BUT ALSO WAS CALLING
GOD HIS OWN FATHER, MAKING
HIMSELF EQUAL WITH GOD.
A MIRACLE RESTATED
• JESUS WENT LOOKING FOR THIS
MAN AND FOUND HIM IN THE
TEMPLE
• THE FIRST THING JESUS DOES WHEN
HE FINDS THIS FELLA
• IS REMIND HIM ABOUT THE MIRACLE
• HE SAYS
• “BEHOLD, YOU HAVE BECOME WELL;
• NOT, YOU ARE WELL, BUT YOU HAVE
BECOME WELL
• JESUS IS POINTING HIM TO THE
THING THAT MADE HIM WELL
• THE MIRACLE THAT HAD TAKEN
PLACE
• AND THEN JESUS GIVES THE MAN
ANOTHER INSTRUCTION
• DO NOT SIN ANYMORE, SO THAT
NOTHING WORSE HAPPENS TO YOU.”
• SOME PEOPLE WANT TO SAY THIS
MEANS THE MAN’S ILLNESS
• HAD BEEN CAUSED BY SIN, AND
THAT IS POSSIBLE
• SOME HAVE SAID THAT JESUS IS
REFERRING TO THE MAN
• TELLING THE JEWISH OFFICIALS
THAT JESUS TOLD
• HIM TO PICK UP HIS PALLET AND
WALK
• AGAIN, THAT IS POSSIBLE
• IN EITHER CASE THE MAN FAILS TO
FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTION
• THE MAN WENT AWAY, AND TOLD
THE JEWS THAT IT WAS JESUS
WHO HAD MADE HIM WELL.
• I DON’T KNOW IF YOU NOTICED
• BUT THIS MAN’S RESPONSE TO THIS
MIRACLE
• IS NOT LIKE MANY OF THE OTHER
RESPONSES WE SEE IN THE BIBLE
• HE IS NEVER SAID TO “BELIEVE” OR
HAVE “FAITH” IN JESUS
• HE NEVER THANKS JESUS, HE NEVER
GIVES GOD GLORY…
• WE DON’T KNOW WHY HE GOES TO THE
JEWISH OFFICIALS
• JOHN DOES NOT TELL US
• I THINK….THE KEY TO WHY JOHN PUT
THIS MIRACLE HERE
• IS FOUND IN HOW THESE JEWISH
LEADERS RESPOND WHEN THEY FIND
OUT JESUS IS THE ONE
• WHO HAD HEALED THIS MAN
MESSIAH GOES UNRECOGNIZED
• THESE LEADERS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• WERE LOOKING FOR THE MESSIAH
• THEY HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR HIM FOR
A LONG TIME
• THEY HAD CERTAIN EXPECTATIONS OF
WHAT HE WOULD BE LIKE
• THAT HE WOULD BE A MILITARY
LEADER
• THAT HE WOULD FREE THEM
FROM THE ROMANS
• BUT THEY ALSO HAD SCRIPTURE
FULL OF STATEMENTS ABOUT
THE MESSIAH
• SAYING HE WOULD COME AND HEAL
SICK, BLIND, LAME, AND WITHERED
• AND HERE JESUS HAS JUST HEALED
A MAN SICK FOR 38 YEARS
• AND THESE LEADERS UTTERLY FAIL
• TO RECOGNIZE THE MESSIAH
STANDING BEFORE THEM
• NOT ONLY DO THEY NOT RECOGNIZE
JESUS AS MESSIAH
• THE TEXT SAYS;
• THE JEWS WERE PERSECUTING
JESUS, BECAUSE HE WAS DOING
THESE THINGS ON THE SABBATH.
• THE KEEPING OF THE SABBATH HAD
BECOME VASTLY IMPORTANT
• TO THE LEADERS OF THE JEWISH
PEOPLE
• THERE WAS EVEN A
SUPERSTITION AMONG SOME
JEWS
• THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD NOT
COME
• UNTIL THE PERFECT KEEPING OF
ONE SABBATH BY THE NATION
OF ISRAEL
• SO HOW COULD THIS MAN
• WHO BROKE THEIR MAN-MADE
SABBATH RULES
• POSSIBLY BE THE MESSIAH
• BUT HE ANSWERED THEM, “MY
FATHER IS WORKING UNTIL NOW,
AND I MYSELF AM WORKING.”
• NOW, THERE ARE A COUPLA
THINGS
• WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WHAT
JESUS JUST SAID
• SO THAT WE WILL UNDERSTAND
WHY THE JEWISH LEADERS
• RESPOND THE WAY THEY RESPOND
• FIRST, WE NEED TO NOTICE THAT
WHEN HE REFERRED TO GOD
• HE SAID MY FATHER… HE DID NOT
SAY…
• YOUR FATHER…OR EVEN… OUR
FATHER… HE SAID… MY FATHER
• THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE OFTEN
CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD
• IT WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE TO
REFER TO GOD AS.. OUR FATHER..
OR YOUR FATHER
• BUT THE WAY JESUS WORDS THIS
• IMPLIES GOD IS MY FATHER AND NOT
YOURS
• SECOND, WHEN JESUS SAYS MY FATHER IS
WORKING UNTIL NOW
• HE IS TALKING ABOUT GOD WORKING ON
THE SABBATH
• WHICH WAS ACTUALLY PART OF
RABBINICAL TEACHING
• THE RABBIS TAUGHT THAT GOD DID
WORK ON THE SABBATH
• BY KEEPING THE UNIVERSE WORKING,
HOLDING ALL THINGS TOGETHER
• SO, THEY WOULD HAVE AGREED WITH
THIS POINT
• BUT THEN JESUS SAYS; AND I MYSELF
AM WORKING
• THE WORD JESUS USES THAT WE SEE
TRANSLATED AND
• IS A CONNECTING WORD THAT
MEANS TWO THINGS ARE SIMILAR
• OR EQUAL OR AT THE VERY LEAST
LOGICALLY CONNECTED
• AND JESUS USES THE SAME WORD
IN THE SAME FORM FOR THE WORK
• GOD THE FATHER IS DOING AND THE
WORK JESUS IS DOING
• SO, BASICALLY JESUS JUST TOLD
THESE LEADERS OF HE NATION OF
ISRAEL
• THAT GOD IS HIS FATHER, NOT THEIRS
• AND THAT HE IS DOING THE SAME
WORK GOD IS DOING
• AND SINCE HE IS DOING THE SAME
WORK
• AND IT IS OK FOR GOD TO WORK ON
THE SABBATH
• IT IS OK FOR JESUS TO DO THIS
SAME WORK ON THE SABBATH
• ONCE WE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS
IS HOW
• THE JEWISH LEADERS WOULD HAVE
HEARD WHAT JESUS SAID
• THEN WE ARE NOT SHOCKED BY HOW
THEY RESPOND
• THEREFORE THE JEWS WERE SEEKING
ALL THE MORE TO KILL HIM,
• THAT IS A PRETTY STRONG REACTION
• NOW I DON’T KNOW IF YOU KNOW
THIS
• BUT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO SAY
JESUS NEVER SAID HE WAS GOD
• ACTUAL BIBLICAL SCHOLARS,
PEOPLE THAT TEACH THE BIBLE
• THAT SAY JESUS NEVER SAYS HE WAS
GOD
• BUT, SEE… I THINK THE JEWISH
LEADERS
• WOULD DISAGREE WITH THESE
FOLKS
• JOHN TELLS US THE REASON THEY
WANTED TO KILL HIM
• BECAUSE HE NOT ONLY WAS
BREAKING THE SABBATH, BUT ALSO
WAS CALLING GOD HIS OWN FATHER,
MAKING HIMSELF EQUAL WITH GOD.
• THAT LAST PHRASE MAKING HIMSELF
EQUAL WITH GOD.
• THAT MEANS THE JEWISH LEADERS
• UNDERSTOOD THAT WHAT JESUS
WAS SAYING
• WAS THAT HE WAS GOD
• THE WORD TRANSLATED EQUAL
WITH
• CAN ALSO BE TRANSLATED THE
SAME AS OR IDENTICAL TO….
• MANY OF THE MIRACLES IN THE
BOOK OF JOHN
• ARE CONNECTED TO, RELATED TO
FAITH AND BELIEF
• THAT IS NOT THE CASE WITH THIS
PARTICULAR MIRACLE
• SO, THE QUESTION IS… WHAT IS THE
POINT OF THIS MIRACLE?
• WHY DID JOHN INCLUDE THIS MIRACLE
IN HIS GOSPEL?
• WAY BACK IN
JOHN 1:11
• HE CAME TO HIS OWN, AND THOSE WHO
WERE HIS OWN DID NOT RECEIVE HIM.
• I THINK THE POINT OF THIS MIRACLE
HERE IN CHAPTER 5
• IS TO EXPLAIN HOW; HE CAME TO
HIS OWN, AND THOSE WHO WERE
HIS OWN DID NOT RECEIVE HIM.
• JOHN WANTED HIS READERS TO
KNOW JUST HOW
• JESUS WAS REJECTED BY THE
NATION OF ISRAEL
• AND THIS MIRACLE AND THE
REACTION BY THE JEWISH LEADERS
• EXPLAINS HOW THIS REJECTION OF
THE MESSIAH HAPPENED
• JESUS JUST MIRACULOUSLY HEALED
A MAN
• JUST LIKE THE PROPHECIES SAID
THE MESSIAH WOULD
• HE JUST TOLD THEM HE WORKS
THE SAME WORKS GOD WORKS
• AND THESE LEADERS DID NOT
RECEIVE HIM, THEY REJECTED
HIM
• AND SOUGHT TO KILL HIM
• JOHN PROVIDES THE ACCOUNT OF
THIS MIRACLE IN HIS GOSPEL
• SO, WE CAN UNDERSTAND WHO
JESUS IS,
• GOD COME IN THE FORM OF A MAN
• AND HOW THE NATION OF ISRAEL
REJECTED HIM
• AND WHY THEY WERE SEEKING TO
KILL HIM…
• THE NATION OF ISRAEL KNEW THAT
MESSIAH WAS COMING
• THEY HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR HIM
FOR 100S OF YEARS
• JESUS WENT TO THE SAMARIANS
AND MANY BELIEVED
• EVEN WITHOUT SIGNS AND
WONDERS THEY BELIEVED
• THE ROYAL RULER TRUSTED IN
JESUS’ WORDS WITH NO SIGN
• BUT WHEN JESUS HEALS A MAN
WHO HAD BEEN SICK 38 YEARS
• RIGHT THERE IN JERUSALEM, NEAR
THE TEMPLE
• THE LEADERS... THE ONES THAT
SHOULD HAVE
• RECOGNIZED THE MESSIAH WHEN
THEY SAW HIM
• NOT ONLY DO NOT RECOGNIZE HIM
THEY SEEK TO KILL HIM….
• WE NEED TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT
WHAT WE EXPECT FROM JESUS
• THEY EXPECTED THE MESSIAH TO
FREE THEM FROM ROME
• IF WE EXPECT JESUS TO FREE US
FROM
• TRIBULATION, CONFLICT, TROUBLE,
STRIFE, SUFFERING
• WE MAY NOT RECOGNIZE HIM
WHEN HE WORKS IN OUR LIVES
• IF WE ARE LOOKING FOR JESUS TO MAKE
LIFE EASIER
• WE ARE LOOKING FOR THE WRONG
SAVOIR
• JESUS CHRIST OFFERS US SALVATION FROM
ETERNAL DAMNATION
• NOT AN EASY LIFE IN THIS WORLD
• HE HAS TOLD US WE WILL FACE TROUBLE
IN THIS LIFE
• BECAUSE WE HAVE TRUSTED IN HIM
IF A KING SHOWED UP AT
YOUR DOOR
• IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR YOU
TO RECOGNIZE HIM
• IF YOU FAILED TO RECOGNIZE
HIM YOU
• YOU MIGHT SAY OR DO
SOMETHING YOU WOULD REGRET
• YOU MIGHT END UP SCOLDING
THE KING
• FOR LETTING THE CAKES BURN…
• WHEN JESUS WORKS IN OUR LIFE
• WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE HIM
• GIVE HIM THE GLORY WHAT
HE DOES FOR US
• GIVE HIM THE HONOR AND
THE CREDIT FOR
• DYING ON THE CROSS TO PAY
FOR OUR SINS
• GIVE HIM THE PRAISE FOR
SECURING OUR ETERNAL
DESTINY
• IF THERE IS ANYONE WHO HAS
NOT TRUSTED IN JESUS CHRIST…
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