Sermon Tone Analysis

Mens quartet - Four part harmony

the Gospels.

John would be the bass.

All the other gospels are from man’s perspective.

John is from God’s perspective.

Going down the highway.

Big Rig.

Car

Convertable

Motorcycle.

John 5:2

Bethesda - House of Mercy

North of Jerusalem- near the Temple

Not sure if this a miraculous occurrence or legend.

Pool was fed by a couple lakes, but it is believed that it was also fed by an intermittent spring, and when this spring water would flow, it had medicinal properties.

Man was ill for 38 years.

John

Man said that he had no-one to put him in the water.

The man became well immediately.

It was the Sabbath.

Jews told him he couldn’t carry his pallet.

Exodus 20:

Jews had created categories of work.

1. Carrying

2. Burning

3. Extinguishing

4. Finishing

5. Writing

6. Erasing

7. Cooking

8. Washing

9. Sewing

10.

Tearing

11.

Knotting

12. Untying

13.

Shaping

14. Plowing

15.

Planting

16.

Reaping

17. Harvesting

18. Threshing

19.

Winnowing

20.

Selecting

21.

Sifting

22. Grinding

23.

Kneading

24.

Combing

25.

Spinning

26.

Dying

27.

Chainstitching

28.

Warping

29.

Weaving

30.

Unraveling

31.

Building

32.

Demolishing

33.

Trapping

34.

Shearing

35.

Slaughtering

36.

Skinning

37. Tanning

38.

Smoothing

39.

Marking

How was this their takeaway?

Jesus said in

The man threw Jesus under the bus.

The guy who healed me told me to pick up my pallet and walk

We don’t know that the man’s illness was due to his sin, but we know that there are worse things than illness if there is not repentance.

Charles Spurgeon writes:

Repentance is a discovery of the evil of sin, a mourning that we have committed it, a resolution to forsake it.

It is, in fact, a change of mind of a very deep and practical character, which makes the man love what once he hated, and hate what once he loved.

“Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves.

Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession...Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”

Diedrich Bonhoeffer

Spurgeon said: “Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.”

The man told the Jews it was Jesus.

“Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves.

Cheapgrace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession...Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”

Jews were out to persecute Jesus.

Now they wanted to kill him.

The Son can only do what he sees the Father doing.

John 5:20-

Jesus goes on to talk about the two resurrections of the dead.

Either resurrection of life or resurrection of judgement.

Then he gives us some bonafides

Why you should trust Christ.

1. John the baptist testified about him.

John 5:

2. His works testify about him.

3. The Father testifies about Jesus

John 5:

john 5:

The Scriptures testify about Christ.

If you seek the truth, you will find Jesus.

The Quo-ran led him to be a Christian.

Mario Joseph - Imam

Who is Jesus?

4 places Muhammad mentioned.

25 places Jesus mentioned.

Mother of Jesus was the only woman mentioned by name in the Quo-ran.

She was a virgin.