Do You Want To Be Well?

John 5:1-1

The Lord Jesus went to Jerusalem when there was a religious feast.

He came to the pool of Bethesda.

A great crowd of sick people were sheltering under the 5 porches around the pool. They were hoping for a miracle when an angel stirred the waters.

The Lord Jesus singled out a certain man who had been an invalid for 38 years.

He knew all about this man and he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”

The man recognized his own helplessness.

The Lord Jesus told him to take up his bed (a mat which could be rolled up) and walk.

The man was instantly healed!

The Jews (probably Pharisees) were angry that The Lord Jesus healed the man at the pool on the Sabbath day.

They saw the man carrying his bed and this broke their man-made Sabbath laws.

The law forbidding the carrying of burdens was to do with trading on the Sabbath.

These people lacked compassion and did not share the man's joy on account of his healing.

The man did not know that it was the Lord Jesus who had healed him until the Savior sought him out in the temple.

There are some important principles to learn from this passage:-

• Jesus knows all about us and our needs. 
• Just as the man was unable to heal himself, we cannot save ourselves from our sin. We are enslaved by our sins. We can do nothing to save ourselves. We are dead in our sin until God works mightily in our lives through the Holy Spirit. This should fill us with joy and thanksgiving for the grace of God in our lives! 
• We have no need to be enslaved by sin.

If you are struggling with sin in your life, do you really want to be delivered from its bondage?

Some love their sin and refuse to submit to the Lord Jesus.

Do you want to be made well?

Jesus Is The Creator And Controller

John 1:3

Jesus Is The Maker Of All Creation. Everything was made through Him!

Jesus Is The Master Of All Creation. He is the power that holds the universe together (Col. 1:16-17).

Jesus is the Creator and He is in control.

The world is all in His hands and all things are working toward the purpose for which He designed them!

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But the Lord Jesus humbled Himself and became a creature in creation! God became dependent upon a human mother. Jesus stepped out of eternity, laid aside His glory and entered this world as a human baby! The greatest expression of God’s power was when Jesus added humanity to His deity and came to live and die among men (Phil. 2:5-8).

Jesus was born into this world 2,000 years ago as a helpless infant. He lived here in poverty and rejection only to die a horrible death on a cross. He did all of this because He loved us (Rom. 5:8).

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Jesus is our Creator and Controller.

But Jesus is also our Christ, our Messiah, and Savior!