The Signs Of Your Times Part 3 “Redemption”

The Signs of Your Times – Part 3

Redemption

John has a clear _______________ for recording the miracles that he records. John 20:30-31

The “fun” part is that John doesn’t typically tell us the __________________ between the miracle and his purpose.

John 5:1-16

The Healing at the Pool

Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [4] [b] One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”

11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’

12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”

13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

The Authority of the Son

16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.

I don’t believe that the ________________ for this healing is the _________________ John recorded it.

Whatever God is doing in your life is not ___________________ about you.

God’s primary purpose is ___________________.

If you think God’s activity is ________________ for your benefit, you will likely ______________ most of what God is trying to do.

I think John recorded this healing for the _________________ that it received.

The religious leaders are ________________over the date of this miracle. vs 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”

After this miracle, the _________________ of the desire to kill Jesus is on the _________________. (vs 16, 18)

16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Jesus’ activity should have been cause for __________________ not ______________________.

The leaders wanted to _____________ Jesus because He wanted to ________________ them. 5:24-27

24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. 25 Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.

Jesus’ healing on the Sabbath was an affront to man-made _________________ which was promoted as a way of _____________________.

Have you been ___________________ by Jesus?

 

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