I want too, but I cant
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I want too, but I feel as tho I cant
I want too, but I feel as tho I cant
I. Introduction
one of the main topics in the nation right now is the Impeachment proceedings.. What you have is a gentleman with a very important office … position.... title… And his position alone calls for him to act in such a way that makes people respect him…respect the position..... it really doesn't matter if you like him or not..... agree with his personal values or not....
but because his personal values … opinions and character .. has overshadowed.... his ability to respect his own position ....You see just because you have been given a position.. or title ... doesn't mean you are qualified for that position or title..... So now This gentleman has found himself in a public relations nightmare....
And because people now feel as though his character is flawed .. they have began to leak privileged information…as recent as yesterday...
Leaking private or privilaged information is not the issue… But the main issue is why ...
someone shout why!
Growing up as children… our parents told us..if you see something.. say something.... if you see or know of somebody doing somthing they have no business doing… then you better say something.... other wise when i find out...
why is it that
guess what.... im gone get you too...
society and the criminal justice system calls you.... and will charge you as an… accessory...
the issue on the table is not the crime… but why do i have to sneak and tell somebody else.... why do i feel as tho i cant.. tell somebody… why do i feel as thou i cant move on… why is it that i feel as thou i have to except my present circumstances.....
somebody shout FEAR!
wheather it was from intimidation…or past experinces… the reason.. why things are being leaked to the media… instead of the individual coming to the forefront and speaking out… is because of fear … fear of relatioation.. fear of loosing their job… fear of what others would say...
the reason why many of us struggle .. to move out on faith.... to move out of our comfort zone..... to speak those things as tho they are....
the bible says in
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
philippians
the reason why we are stuck is .. fear....
the fear of forgetting… i forgive you.. but i will never forget what you did..
fear of
and the fear of the unknown.... i cant control what may happen… but i know what im not going to let happen....
Repeat after me… God don let the habits of my past, Limit me from receiving what you have for my future...
II. text
1 Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.
2 Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches.
3 Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches.
5 One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”
7 “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.”
8 Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!”
9 Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath,
john 5:1-
1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
5 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
III. Background
In our text we have Jesus leaving Galilee and coming into Jerusalem, Jesus had just spoke a word to a man and his son was healed…
And being strategic about everything he did.. or others may say .. being about his fathers business..on his way to a feast.
Jesus came to a pool called Bethesda.. in Hebrew.. and meant house of the flowing.. because it had underground springs running into it..
and every so often an Angel of the Lord would come and the bible says trouble.. or stir up.. the water.
And Jesus noticed this one man laying down.. and he could tell that he had been laying there for a long time..
And Jesus asked him.. do you want to be made whole…
how many of you know there is a difference in being healed and being made whole..
In being healed.. you can be healed from your condition in your body… but you can still be bond mentally in your mind...
But when you have been made whole..everything in your life..at that particular minute lines up ….
Somebody shout EVERYTHING..
Everything has to line up with the word of God.. when God makes you whole .. I believe everything that… what ever was wrong is now made right..
IV. Get over yourself
Sometimes we get caught up in the land on of hands and the fact that the priest, prophet or whom ever has to be in the same room but sometimes all it takes is a prayer..
All it takes.. is a little faith… as a matter of fact it can be the size of a mustard seed.. #####
Sometimes all it takes is for you to get on your knees.. wait.. before you get down on your knees the Bible says
- humble yourself in the sight of the Lord..
we know all it takes is a word from the Lord to cause our issue .. our problem.. our situation … to be delivered.
But sometimes, like in our text..
you have to get over yourself.....you have to get over your past.... and deal with the right now....
i know it hurt.... i know when someone mentions there name… all the anger just begins to flow...
i know you were embarrassed when the business failed… when the marriage didn't work…
when you stepped out on God… and it didn't happen ....
but i came to tell somebody… to try it again… believe God for that miracle again.... believe God again...
look at the person next to you.. tell them … I know it hurt.... but belive God again...... you know you want to...
v. all in one place
we look at the text.. and read the story .. something stands out....
the bible says.. that at the pool… at the five porches.. in this one place… there were multiudes of people..... thousands of people....who had issues… all in one place… and they knew that after angel troubled the water… only the first person in would be healed.... but they came back every year… yearning… desiring ..
singing.. the song..
someone on the verge .. of a miracle .. if you step out on your faith
someones on the verge ..of deliverance .... this is the day that you will be freeeee
someones on the verge of a breakthrough.... lift your hands and say Lord .....let it be me....
i came to share with you… i came to tell you… that in 2020 we no longer have to wait for the angel to come down to the pool..
you dont have to wait for the preacher.. the mother.. the missionary to lay hands on you…
if your welling to get up… and take up your bed .... move from your place of comfort… move from your place feeling sorry for your self..... move from the place of woe is me.... move from i cant do it.. becasue i dont have any help....
and begin to walk .. walk toward a place of.. i can do all things.. thru christ that stregthns me....
walk towards .. i am the head and not the tail...
im the lender not the borrower…
walk towards.. no weapon form against me shall prosper....
tell your niehbor… God has an expected end for you… and this is not it....
i need everyone here .. to start rebuking the spirit of fear.... Fear the lord rebuke you in the name of Jesus...
Vi. prayer
everyone standing… i need everyone to start praising God.... dont about who is in front of you.. in the back or who is on the side… eveyone begin to praise God… if you have to clap.. if your want to shout shout.... if your wan to run run..
the bible says enter into his gates with thanksgivng.. into his courts with praise...
we dont have to wait for a particular.. season.... we dont have to be the first one to church… but we do need his presence.. and God inhabits the praises of his people.... and there are some people here that need God to work a miracle in their situations right now…
pool waiting for the Angel but also waiting for somebody to help him. the bible says help put him get in the pool,
God aint gone move until we get over ourselves..
I heard a mother once say..aint nobody got to do nothing for you… in other words.. don’t just sit around waiting for somebody to help you.. cater to you.. who do you think you are..
We thinking, hey they should know … they have the holy Ghost.. and God speaks to them.. ok thats fine.. God may put you on someones heart once or twice…but whats wrong with your mouth..
IV. Bethesda
now we come, jerusalem and a place called Bethesda. Bethesda was where the outcast, the sick and shut in , would go to sit to be around others that are also impotent, blind, withered, just in a bad state.
In Nashville there was a place called Tent City.. this is where all the homeless men and women would come and live together.. because No body wants to be doing bad by themselves.
They would all sit around and wait until a angel would come and trouble the water and then after the water had been trouble the first person in would healed, delivered and set free..
I can imagine it being like the game we use to play.. the last one in is a rotten egg.
Jesus noticed a certain man out of hundreds possibly thousands… this one guy had been in a certain condition, that had a infirmity -
The word infirmity simply means-
A physical or mental weakness... such as acute stress disorder(ptsd)..Alzheimer’s, borderline personality disorder, ... caffeine addiction..perfectionism..stress..conceited.. overbearing …
So in other words .. there are a lot more people walking around that are suffering from some type of infirmity than you think... there are a lot more people that should have on one of those little white coats..
.but wait part b says..
An ailment; a disease; a imperfection in body or character....
Now we can possibly see an imperfection in the body.... but what about an imperfection of a persons character
such as- dominant negative attitude.. which is a defensive and potentially destructive pattern of thinking, feeling and acting .. we sometimes just call it a stumbling block...belittling or undervaluing oneself...
Self destruction, stubbornness, greed, arrogance, impatience...
so simply by defining what the word infirmity means.. it looks.... it just looks like that just about every body in here today.. has some type of infirmity...right before you get mad and start saying he ain’t talking about me..
Just lean over to the person next to you and tell them ... just keep it to your self...
V. I need help
Here we have this man who is laying by the pool waiting for the Angel but also waiting for somebody to help him. the bible says help put him get in the pool,
BUT HOW BAD DO YOU WANT IT
The bible said he had an infirmity 38 years.. it didn’t say from birth.. so we can assume since Jesus found him laying down in the same position for a number of days, months or in possibly years..
In my sanctified imagination I can imagine this brother doing pretty good and then all of a sudden..he is afflicted with an issue..
Fast forward 38 years he has heard.. saw many people be delivered .. and possibly people that had not suffered as long has he has.. and now he has just resolved to the fact that I’m not as young as I used to be..
I dont have the strength to lift myself up any more.. the determination to push.. and most of all … I longer have faith or my joy..
And this one man that has no name.. maybe because brother John wanted to you put your name in its place..
Someone here today has been dealing with some stuff for quite a while.. and you did run well.. but time.. age..and your surroundings have gotten you to a place.. where you have just resolved ..
You have just laid down and said this is it.. this is my lot…im going to except it.. theres no longer a reason to fight .. no reason for me to push.. because I’m pushed and prayed/..
Fasted and prayed.. believed and waited.. and every time the water has been trouble.. every time the Lord moved.. he blessed others.. turned it around for others..
Jesus asked if he wanted to be made whole.. his first response was not yep..i sure do.. what do I need to do.. his response was.. I dont have anyone to help..
Someone shout ..HOW BAD DO YOU WANT IT
but the truth of the matter is when you want something bad enough, when you want God to do something bad enough you dont care whose in your way, or what you have to do..
You maybe like the lady with the issue of blood.. and have spent all your resources..you may have given all your time and attention to someone else and now your looking at yourself in the mirror asking.. who am i…
VI. closing/ alter
Do you want be made whole
God is asking you today … do you want to be made whole.…if you do ..
I need you to run to the alter… do you need strength .. I dare you run to the alter this morning.. is there something you need God to do in your life… I dare you run to the alter..
Im not gone ask you to come today.. I’m going to dare you to come… I’m going to challenge you to come..
Because the bible says .. he that cometh to the Lord must first believe that he is ..
It you can believe it.. he can do it..
Will you come..