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Let’s do it justice
The passage (Jn5:1-15)
The pool (vv.1-4)
The question (vv.5-6)
The reply (vv.7-9)
The controversy (vv.10-13)
The warning (vv.14-15)
The Text
Simply Christians study and glean from God’s word and that is what we will do together.
Then will get to look at what we can see, learn from the passage.
We read the passage last, week, we read it again tonight
Anything stick out in this passage?
A very quick review of the text.
Follow with me.
Why was Jesus going back to Jerusalem (v.1)?
The feast they are going back for is unknown, and it is insignificant to the divine appointment and teaching that is going to happen.
What gate was the pool located, and what was it called (v.2)?
Sheep gate and called Bethesda
Who was at the pool, and why were they there (vv.3-4)?
multitude of sick
Desiring to be made well when an angel stirred the waters
How long Had the man been ill (v.5)?
38 years
What was Jesus question (v.6)?
Do you want to get well
What was the man’s response (v.7)?
No man will put me into the pool.
What was Jesus words (v.8)?
Get up! Pick up, walk!
What did the man do (v.9)?
He immediately picked up his pallet/bed, and began to walk
Who accused the man of breaking the Sabbath, and why (v.10)?
The Jews, for carrying his bed
Did the man know who healed him (vv.11-13)?
No, he did not
There is an implication by Jesus in (v.14), what is it, and why is it said?
Go and sin no more, so that he was a sinner
What did the man do after that (v.15)?
He told the Jews it was Jesus who had made him well.
That is just a brief gleaning of the scripture so that we pull the facts now we can build from there.
Jesus was in Jerusalem for a purpose, more than just the feast (v.1);
He had a divine purpose at this pool.
Jesus on divine time schedule, with divine appointments is very intentional in everything He does.
We see some intentionality here in His question.
I like the way the NKJV says it
A certain man - divine appointment
You can also see that Jesus sought out the man
While there was a multitude of people, Jesus sought out this man.
Jesus knew the condition of the man for a long time.
Well, that is as far as we made it last week.
So tonight we will press on with the reply, the controversy and the warning.
The Reply
The replay was not the reply that you would expect from a man in this state for 38 years.
The man gave excuses, did not say “yes.”
The man was limiting God
The man thought the healing was in the water; and only for the one who gets in first when the water is stirred up.
Did we think at one time there was something we had to do for God to heal us, deliver us, save us?
Do we know people who think “God if He knew what I have done would want nothing to do with me.”
Or I better get cleaned up, then I will get God.
Yet Jesus told him what to do, and the man did it!
Jesus, who spoke the world into existence (Gen1:1); Jesus who had the words of of eternal life (Jn6:68) whose words was God and was with God (Jn1:1-3) spoke to the certain man.
The man immediately got up.
He had a measure of faith, not in Jesus but in the words that Jesus spoke.
God can heal in many fashions and many ways.
From the anointing, the laying on of hands, in response to personal faith, or even the faith of someone else, yes even by medical treatment.
But these healings do not equate that you are right with God and going to heaven.
(Transition) now arises a controversy
The Controversy
What’s a good healing without a good controversy.
Many of the healings Jesus did were on the Sabbath as you will continue to see in our studies.
But let’s look at the one before us now.
The Jews, this is leadership, not all Jews, and the controversy was with the certain man.
The certain man blamed an uncertain person of doing it.
The Jews had made many man made laws, traditions, gave definitions of work on the Sabbath and carrying a bed/mat/pallet was in violation of them.
The man truly did not know it was Jesus for He had exited himself for there was a multitude of sick, blind, lame, people and that was not the divine reason He was there.
The reason we will get to next week.
(Transition) - This does lead now to Jesus coming back on the scene, now in the temple
The Warning
Have you ever had anything really good happen, then warned about it?
Well, that is what happens with the certain man, as the divine appointment continues now.
Again, Jesus sought out the man
Jesus had a divine appointment with the woman at the well.
She did not seek him out.
Jesus had a divine appointment with the certain man who did not seek Jesus out.
Not all healing come because you seek Jesus, some come because Jesus seeks the person.
Jesus acknowledged the healing
There was no denying the fact, the man was healed and now was in the temple, surely to offer the appropriate sacrifice.
There was no denying to fact to the multitude that saw the man, who was afflicted for 38 years suddenly walking without being put into the pool when it was stirred.
There was no denying the fact that those in the temple that walked by the pool often going to the temple knew the man who was now standing in their midst.
Jesus admonished sin
Jesus told him to sin no more, so what does that mean?
It means he was a sinner.
And that he could be in a worse state if he returns to sin.
Was it sin that afflicted the man for 38 years, it could be.
What we can also see, or not see, is that there is no mention of forgiveness of sins.
There is no confession of belief in Jesus
So, there was a healing but it did not mean there was a forgiveness of sins.
Jesus did it from a place of love, grace, mercy, but God is just and sin must be dealt with and the man had to face that.
The man sold-out Jesus to the Jews
Why did he do it?
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