Signposts, Part 3

Jesus met a man who had been suffering for 38 years and asked him a life-changing question: ‘Do you want to get well?’ Join us as we dive into John 5 and discover how this miraculous healing reveals Jesus’ power to restore and transform our lives today.

Firm Foundation (He Won’t)
Cody Carnes

Great Are You Lord
All Sons and Daughters

The Greatest Victory
Seven Marks Worship

I Speak Jesus
Charity Gayle

Ian Cron, The Fix
“Not since Adam and Eve were banished from the garden have any of us really felt at home in this world. We are fractions yearning to become whole numbers. We have unnamable desires and unattended sorrows we don’t know what to do with. We are filled with an inconsolable longing for what poet Anne Porter calls that far-off and half-forgotten country…we half remember, and what Christian apologist C.S. Lewis describes as a land we know exists, but have never yet visited. In short, you and I were made for paradise, but we feel like we are stuck in a Motel 6 on the border between heaven and earth.”

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John 1:3
Through Him all things were made; without Him, nothing was made that has been made.

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John 2:11
He revealed His glory, and his disciples believed in Him.

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John 2:23
Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name.

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John 4:39, 42
Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of the woman’s testimony. They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”

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John 4:53
…he and his whole household believed.

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John 5:1-5
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 and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie – the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

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John 5:6
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?”

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John 5:7
“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.”

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John 5:8
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.

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Step One
Get Up – Act on Your Faith

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Step Two
Pick up Your Mat – Own Your Story

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Step Three
Walk – Move Forward in Freedom

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James 2:17
Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

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John 5:9-14
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 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.” But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?” The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. 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.”

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John 5:15-18
The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well. So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” 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.

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