3/15/2020
2020 Vision – P10
John 5:24 “I tell you the truth, whoever hears My Word and believes Him Who sent Me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life!”
The Bible Is God’s Accurate Account Of Christian Faith
John 5:1-2 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. 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.
Healthcare Will Always Be A Need Until We Are Given Our Eternal Bodies
John 5:3-4 Here lay a great multitude of blind, lame and paralyzed people, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at certain times into the pool and moved the water: whoever got in first afterwards was made whole of the disease he had.
The Lord Always Asks The Question That Reveals Our Main Problem
John 5:5-7 A man there had been 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.”
The Immediate Command Of The Lord Overrides Previous Instruction
John 5:8-9 Jesus saith unto him, Arise! Take up thy bed and walk! Immediately the man was made whole, took up his bed and walked: that same day was the Sabbath.
Manmade Tradition In Law and Religion Become Impossible To Live With
John 5:10-12 The Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.” 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?”
Mark 2:23-28
Mark 7:5-9
Luke 13:14-17
Luke 6:6-11
The Word Of The Lord Warns Us Of Sin’s Consequence (It can also deliver us from it!)
John 5:13-14 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.”
Returning Evil For Good Is Utterly Sinful
Proverbs 17:13 If a man pays back evil for good, evil will never leave his house.
John 5:15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus Who had made him well.
Matthew 26:14-16 Judas Iscariot–went to the chief priests and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty silver coins. From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand Him over.
The Sin Nature In All Of Us Will Attack The One Who Can Deliver Us From It!
John 5:16-18 Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, so the Jews persecuted Him. Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at His work to this very day, I too am working.” For this reason, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him; not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
Romans 8:6-9 To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. The carnal mind is at enmity against God; It is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be. They that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit; If the Spirit of God dwells in you! If any man has not the Spirit of Christ, he is not of His!
Romans 8:31-39