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Introduction
Socrates put his strong hands on the man's shoulders and pushed him under.
Thirty seconds later Socrates let him up.
"What do you want?" he asked again.
"Wisdom," the young man sputtered, "O great and wise Socrates."
Socrates crunched him under again.
Thirty seconds passed, thirty-five.
Forty.
Socrates let him up.
The man was gasping.
"What do you want, young man?" Between heavy, heaving breaths the fellow wheezed, "Knowledge, O wise and wonderful..."
Socrates jammed him under again Forty seconds passed.
Fifty.
"What do you want?" "Air!" he screeched.
"I need air!"
"When you want knowledge as you have just wanted air, then you will have knowledge."
This morning we are going to look at the difference desire makes in our life…Desire on the right things and in the right person
“Some time later” — Again John uses this phrase to move the narrative along.
We don’t really know how much time has passed nor do we know the feast being referenced here.
But we do know Jesus is in Jerusalem at a pool on the northeast corner of the city called the pool of Bethesda.
The pool was fed by a large reservoir called Solomon’s pools and intermittent springs.
It was when these springs fed the pool that the waters were stirred.
It was superstition of the day that an angel moved these waters and that the first one who touched the water after the stirring of the angel would be healed.
Naturally such belief led to a great number of blind, lame and paralyzed people to camp out around the waters of the pool waiting for them to be stirred.
Jesus looked upon these poor people and spotted a man in such a condition and began to talk with him.
He learned that the man had been an invalid for 38 years.
And then Jesus asks a question which, on the surface, might have seemed ridiculous.
He asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
Why would Jesus ask such a question?
Wouldn’t it be obvious the man wanted to get well?
Who wants to be an invalid?
He was sitting by the waters in order to have a chance to enter them when stirred.
Certainly it should be obvious that he wanted to get well!
Jesus could have just taken the initiative, went over to the man and healed him without ever even addressing him…but He doesn’t.
And this is a very important point…Something of the character and nature of God is revealed to us here...
Jesus intended to heal someone on the Sabbath.
In doing so He intended to teach something important about the Sabbath itself as well as His own identity (we will get into this next sermon).
What Jesus really asked the man if he wanted to be a part of what God was doing in the world around him and in the process get healed!
The paralyzed man was the most unlikely of characters to be used by God that day.
He had not sought Jesus out…He was not a follower of Jesus…in fact we never even see any indication that he becomes one.
This man could have said no…could have brushed aside any offers of help from the Lord.
He could have neglected and rejected the blessing right in front of him.
If this was not the case why ask the question in the first place?
This fella was a coward who tried to avoid trouble with the authorities by blaming the one who healed him when asked why he was carrying his mat on the Sabbath (v11).
He is so dull as to not even get the name of the one who healed him (13) and once he finds out the name of his healer, he reports him to the authorities!
(15) He was perhaps the most unlikely of all participants in God’s plan that day!
But God gave Him the choice to be on mission with Him...
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