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A mother called her son on Sunday morning to make sure he got out of bed and was ready for church.
“I’m not going,” he replied.
“Yes, you are going, so get out of that bed!” his mother demanded.
“Give me one good reason why I should go,” said her son.
“I’ll give you three good reasons.
One, I’m your mother, and I say you’re going.
Two, you’re forty years old, so you’re old enough to know better.
And three, you’re the pastor, so you need to be there.”
I know that some Sunday’s it’s actually hard to get to church.
For whatever reason.
Tired.
Sick.
Or just Sick and Tired.
But I am so glad you came here today.
No matter what is happening in our lives right now there is one thing we all have in common.
Jesus is Worthy.
Jesus is the Lord.
Jesus is Awesome.
Jesus is Great.
He is the WORTHY Lamb.
We look forward to eternity when we get to join that eternal praise crying out HOLY, Holy, HOLY.
Worthy, Worthy, Worthy.
Jesus is the King of Kings.
He is so Worthy.
Today, I encourage you to take the focus off the “issues” of life and focus on Jesus.
When you do I can tell you that your breakthrough is on the way.
We have been in a sermon series called “Hold Nothing Back”.
I hope maybe you’ve been encouraged to hold nothing back in more areas of your life.
Really, holding nothing back is what it’s going to take if we are going to live a purposeful life committed to the kingdom of God.
God is still working in this world.
He’s not done with us and He’s not done with those who are still lost.
He desires that no one would perish, but that everyone would come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour.
God is STILL doing GREAT things and we get to be part of what He is doing.
We might not feel like it sometimes, but inside of us is everything we need to overcome every attack of the enemy.
Inside of us is the authority we need to not only live as overcomers, but the authority to change this ever darkening world.
Inside us, who believe in Christ, is the Holy Spirit who gives Power.
We get to let other people know who Jesus is, what He’s done in us, and that He is still doing great things!
To build faith that causes us to hold nothing back, we are going to focus on a story told by John recorded in chapter 5 of his good news.
We are going look at what happened when Jesus encountered a man who was in need of physical healing.
I really like the gospel of John.
He wrote from a different perspective than the other gospel writers.
He wasn’t writing just to record history, he was writing with a purpose to prove Jesus really was the Saviour and that if people believe on Him the would be saved.
Look at what he wrote in chapter 20
John 20:30–31 (NLT)
30 The disciples saw Jesus do many other miraculous signs in addition to the ones recorded in this book.
31 But these are written so that you may continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing in him you will have life by the power of his name.
John didn’t write just to record history.
He wanted his readers to KNOW that by believing in Jesus they could be saved!
John wrote what is probably the most famous verse in the bible.
John 3:16 (NLT)
16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
This is the good news of who Jesus is and what He did for all of us.
To John this is the most important truth he would have written about, and it’s from this perspective we must read his gospel.
And really, if we want to hold nothing back in our faith, we need to have the same perspective.
The heart and truth of the gospel is that God loves us.
It’s so important to know that God is not “up there somewhere” looking to cast judgement.
Some people never walk in their full potential because they don’t understand how God sees them.
They don’t understand His GREAT LOVE.
Jesus demonstrates this compassion and love that leads to healing in John 5.
When we read this story I want, above all else, for you to see the love of Christ.
Jesus is on display for us to marvel.
This same Lord that had compassion is the same Lord that has compassion for you today.
When you hear what Jesus said that day, you might just hear Him saying that same thing to you today.
He longs to take you from where you are to a place of wholeness.
Healed.
Free.
Walking out of where the enemy has kept you.
As we go through this passage today, we have the opportunity to see Jesus in action.
This is a window into who He was when he walked on this earth and who He is now calling us to believe in Him.
John 5 tells us of a place where there were five porches and in the middle of this area there were two pools.
It was known as the pools of Bethesda.
Here are a couple artist rendering of what it would have looked like.
Here is a picture of the ruins that remain of the pools.
This place was constructed as a bathing pools for people living in the city.
Over time it became a place associated with superstition.
People believed that at certain times and angel would descend to the pool, stir up the waters, and the first person to get in would be healed.
During this time in history there were many people who needed physical healing.
People would come from all around to lay near the pools hoping for a miracle.
One day Jesus was walking through the city and came to the pools at Bethesda.
He encountered a man who had been paralyzed for 38 years.
Jesus simply asked the man if he wanted to be healed.
The man told Jesus that he did, but that he had no hope of getting into the water first after the angel touched it because other people could move more quickly.
Jesus listened to the man and then calmly told him to pick up his bed and walk.
The man did what Jesus said and walked out of there.
What a great story!
It was a miracle.
Everyone there at the pools knew this man had been sick for 38 years.
This man had no hope.
Jesus, in an instant, changed the situation.
Jesus was hope fulfilled.
Jesus can CHANGE your situation!
What he did for that man.
He can do for you.
Jesus was very popular!
He was a healer!
He was doing things that had been prophesied about the Messiah.
It was pretty exciting for most people.
Everyone except the religious leaders were excited about Jesus.
In the same chapter we can read that those leaders were upset with Jesus for healing on the Sabbath.
They didn’t care about the man who was healed.
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