1 00:00:01,801 --> 00:00:02,369 Morning church. 2 00:00:02,369 --> 00:00:04,004 How are we doing? 3 00:00:04,004 --> 00:00:04,671 Good to see you. 4 00:00:04,671 --> 00:00:07,674 Second service. 5 00:00:09,209 --> 00:00:09,576 All right. 6 00:00:09,576 --> 00:00:12,579 Before we jump into our study this morning, 7 00:00:12,812 --> 00:00:15,315 I wanted to share an update from Pastor Carl. 8 00:00:15,315 --> 00:00:17,417 He's been sending text here and there. 9 00:00:17,417 --> 00:00:18,451 He sent one this morning. 10 00:00:18,451 --> 00:00:23,056 He was saying they were doing church from, like, midnight to two hour time, 2 a.m.. 11 00:00:23,056 --> 00:00:24,991 And so sharing the gospel, 12 00:00:24,991 --> 00:00:29,095 sharing the good news, encouraging the new leaders and churches and pastors. 13 00:00:29,095 --> 00:00:32,098 And so he sent us this as he's finishing up his time, he says, 14 00:00:32,832 --> 00:00:35,435 thank you for your prayers. 15 00:00:35,435 --> 00:00:38,438 It was a great day in the front line church. 16 00:00:38,671 --> 00:00:42,509 I preached and it was so fun. 17 00:00:43,009 --> 00:00:44,811 And I love that that hit me. 18 00:00:44,811 --> 00:00:46,012 I share this with first service. 19 00:00:46,012 --> 00:00:48,548 I just think, and I mean this in the most respectful way. 20 00:00:48,548 --> 00:00:50,683 But Pastor Carl, it's like that giddy 21 00:00:50,683 --> 00:00:54,854 child who's so excited, it's like this expected Christmas morning. 22 00:00:54,854 --> 00:00:56,689 Like, that's how your pastor feels 23 00:00:56,689 --> 00:00:59,692 about sharing the gospel and the good news of Jesus. 24 00:00:59,759 --> 00:01:01,528 Yeah, I think that's called. 25 00:01:03,730 --> 00:01:04,697 I've only known him a 26 00:01:04,697 --> 00:01:07,767 year and a half, but I'm very grateful for his leadership 27 00:01:07,767 --> 00:01:11,304 because he'll get up and he'll boldly proclaim Jesus and teach the gospel 28 00:01:11,304 --> 00:01:14,641 and walk through Scripture in a way that is so informative and helpful. 29 00:01:15,041 --> 00:01:16,443 But then he walks the walk, right? 30 00:01:16,443 --> 00:01:19,145 He's not is not talk with him. It is. It is a lifestyle. 31 00:01:19,145 --> 00:01:19,979 It is. 32 00:01:19,979 --> 00:01:21,581 It is an all in mentality. 33 00:01:21,581 --> 00:01:23,216 But then he went on to say, 34 00:01:23,216 --> 00:01:26,519 he said this one man said, you coming here means so much. 35 00:01:26,986 --> 00:01:31,157 People praying is one thing, but you coming and speaking to the unbelievers 36 00:01:31,157 --> 00:01:35,595 in our community, it shows us that other Christians are here with us, right? 37 00:01:35,628 --> 00:01:36,863 They're not alone. 38 00:01:36,863 --> 00:01:39,699 And he said, we believe that step by step, 39 00:01:39,699 --> 00:01:43,837 Ukraine will become a Christian nation with other Christians. 40 00:01:44,504 --> 00:01:47,707 And then this was Carl's just message to the church you this morning. 41 00:01:47,941 --> 00:01:50,043 Thank you, flip side, for your courage. 42 00:01:50,043 --> 00:01:51,878 Thank you flip side for your prayers. 43 00:01:51,878 --> 00:01:52,278 Thank you. 44 00:01:52,278 --> 00:01:55,281 Flip side for your generosity and your ministry. 45 00:01:55,315 --> 00:01:55,915 Right. 46 00:01:55,915 --> 00:01:58,918 The giving that you will part of those who partner with Excel, 47 00:01:58,952 --> 00:02:02,922 planning these churches, equipping these pastors and just walking alongside, 48 00:02:04,257 --> 00:02:04,891 people in 49 00:02:04,891 --> 00:02:08,228 a really difficult situation and circumstance and bringing hope. 50 00:02:08,228 --> 00:02:10,697 And Carl said, you're changing the world. 51 00:02:10,697 --> 00:02:14,300 People are coming to Jesus and churches are being planted. 52 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:16,136 And so if you can continue to pray 53 00:02:16,136 --> 00:02:20,306 for Carl, continue to pray for the leaders there as he he also said this. 54 00:02:20,306 --> 00:02:23,243 He says now, even 18 hour train ride to Poland. 55 00:02:23,243 --> 00:02:25,545 So pray for him in his travels. 56 00:02:25,545 --> 00:02:26,813 But keep praying for Ukraine. 57 00:02:26,813 --> 00:02:29,649 Keep praying for the church. Keep praying for. For what God's doing there? 58 00:02:29,649 --> 00:02:31,985 This this revival of sorts. 59 00:02:31,985 --> 00:02:33,753 And we'll just keep checking. 60 00:02:33,753 --> 00:02:34,754 I'm sure Carl will give us updates 61 00:02:34,754 --> 00:02:39,092 when he gets back and pictures and videos, but yeah, he's super encouraged and 62 00:02:39,626 --> 00:02:43,096 it sounds like God has done a really cool work in Ukraine the last two weeks. 63 00:02:44,330 --> 00:02:44,597 All right. 64 00:02:44,597 --> 00:02:49,269 For our study this morning, if you have your Bibles, turn to John five for Isaiah. 65 00:02:49,269 --> 00:02:50,570 I see some high school face in the room. 66 00:02:50,570 --> 00:02:53,573 It's going to be a little bit of review for you, but I'm I modified it a little. 67 00:02:54,073 --> 00:02:55,642 Our high school, our junior high high school students 68 00:02:55,642 --> 00:02:58,645 are going through the Gospel of John this fall. 69 00:02:59,779 --> 00:03:02,182 And I just think, 70 00:03:02,182 --> 00:03:05,084 this, this these first five chapters, we're 71 00:03:05,084 --> 00:03:09,322 only five chapters in as a youth ministry have been impactful to me. 72 00:03:11,024 --> 00:03:14,027 And this morning, we're going to be just in John five. 73 00:03:14,827 --> 00:03:17,830 But I want to put I want to put this on the screen. 74 00:03:18,731 --> 00:03:22,202 This is kind of what I'm titling the Teaching this morning 75 00:03:22,202 --> 00:03:26,105 or or what we're kind of what I wanted to focus on. 76 00:03:26,105 --> 00:03:29,108 It's this do you want to get well? 77 00:03:29,242 --> 00:03:30,944 Do you want to get well? 78 00:03:30,944 --> 00:03:32,879 That's a big question for believers in the room. 79 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:35,682 That's a big question for the unbelievers in the room. But do you want to get well 80 00:03:37,116 --> 00:03:38,284 know I want to I also want to 81 00:03:38,284 --> 00:03:41,521 frame this morning through the lens that Pastor Carl shared with us. 82 00:03:41,588 --> 00:03:42,722 You know, 2 or 3, 83 00:03:42,722 --> 00:03:46,659 I guess, maybe a month ago now, life, legacy and eternity life legacy. 84 00:03:46,659 --> 00:03:48,494 Eternity. 85 00:03:48,494 --> 00:03:50,697 And so, as you know, right, the New Testament starts 86 00:03:50,697 --> 00:03:53,700 with the four Gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. 87 00:03:54,601 --> 00:03:58,338 And I love that there's a breadth and then there's this fullness 88 00:03:58,338 --> 00:04:00,440 as we read all four Gospels, because they're not the same. 89 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:01,941 They share some similar stories, 90 00:04:01,941 --> 00:04:05,411 but they also share some very unique stories to that particular gospel. 91 00:04:06,212 --> 00:04:09,482 And as we look at, as we look at the gospel, we we get to see Jesus. 92 00:04:09,482 --> 00:04:11,150 I think in four ways. 93 00:04:11,150 --> 00:04:14,020 We get to see Jesus as Messiah and King. 94 00:04:14,020 --> 00:04:15,755 He's the Lord of Lords. 95 00:04:15,755 --> 00:04:19,125 We also get to see him as at times depicted as this lowly servant 96 00:04:19,425 --> 00:04:20,660 come to save the lost, 97 00:04:21,861 --> 00:04:24,130 to die for his creation. 98 00:04:24,130 --> 00:04:26,866 We see him at times, as the Son of Man, right? 99 00:04:26,866 --> 00:04:29,769 We see the humanity side of Jesus as he's fully human. 100 00:04:29,769 --> 00:04:31,337 We also see the divine side. 101 00:04:31,337 --> 00:04:32,605 We see him that he is fully God. 102 00:04:32,605 --> 00:04:34,641 He's the Son of God. 103 00:04:34,641 --> 00:04:37,777 And so I was really convicted this week to, you know, I 104 00:04:37,777 --> 00:04:39,579 sometimes we getting this I read Matthew, I read Mark. 105 00:04:39,579 --> 00:04:42,582 We've had him once we've heard them all and it's like, no, there's so much more. 106 00:04:42,815 --> 00:04:46,686 And what I love about John specifically how God inspired John to write his gospel, 107 00:04:47,420 --> 00:04:50,089 is that he has fewer miracles, but almost 108 00:04:50,089 --> 00:04:53,092 all of them are unique to just this gospel. 109 00:04:53,159 --> 00:04:56,429 And so if you haven't read John, you missed a ton of really impactful 110 00:04:56,429 --> 00:04:57,697 ministry that Jesus is sharing. 111 00:04:58,831 --> 00:05:00,099 And so I guess before 112 00:05:00,099 --> 00:05:04,103 we jump into five, I want to I want to share 113 00:05:04,103 --> 00:05:07,573 the main message John has for this gospel, because we're not going to get there. 114 00:05:07,573 --> 00:05:12,545 It's John 2031 and this is the gospel summed up. 115 00:05:12,545 --> 00:05:15,948 It says this, but these are written that you may believe 116 00:05:15,948 --> 00:05:19,352 that Jesus is the Messiah, Son of God, 117 00:05:19,786 --> 00:05:22,522 and that by believing you may have life in his name. 118 00:05:22,522 --> 00:05:24,590 I love the order of operations here, right? 119 00:05:24,590 --> 00:05:28,328 First, our goal is to believe ourselves and help others to believe 120 00:05:28,328 --> 00:05:29,962 that Jesus is the Messiah. 121 00:05:29,962 --> 00:05:31,397 He is the Lord. He is King. 122 00:05:31,397 --> 00:05:32,999 He is the author, the Omega, the beginning and the end. 123 00:05:32,999 --> 00:05:34,600 He is God like. 124 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:36,536 That's our main focus in life is to 125 00:05:36,536 --> 00:05:39,539 is to believe that with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength. 126 00:05:39,672 --> 00:05:42,875 But then the second part I think is so important and something maybe we 127 00:05:44,110 --> 00:05:45,411 get dropped off 128 00:05:45,411 --> 00:05:48,648 is that we're supposed to find life in only his name. 129 00:05:49,248 --> 00:05:53,553 How often are we looking for a purpose and identity and love and all these things 130 00:05:53,553 --> 00:05:55,621 and all these different spaces when we need to? 131 00:05:55,621 --> 00:06:00,259 Firstly, start with Jesus, that who we find life in and through. 132 00:06:00,893 --> 00:06:03,029 And so I love that that Jesus has finished the work. 133 00:06:03,029 --> 00:06:07,900 And now it's our job through the Holy Spirit, to walk closely with Jesus. 134 00:06:07,900 --> 00:06:10,169 To what? Near to him? To look more like him. 135 00:06:10,169 --> 00:06:11,037 To sound more like him. 136 00:06:11,037 --> 00:06:14,073 To act more like him, to repent often. 137 00:06:14,907 --> 00:06:17,377 And so I just think as we look at John five, 138 00:06:17,377 --> 00:06:18,878 I think this is a good framework to have. 139 00:06:18,878 --> 00:06:23,116 This is the gospel that we would one see Jesus as Messiah and to find life 140 00:06:23,116 --> 00:06:24,217 only in his name, 141 00:06:24,217 --> 00:06:26,619 not through our athletic abilities, not through our knowledge, 142 00:06:26,619 --> 00:06:28,287 not through our marriage, not to anything else. 143 00:06:28,287 --> 00:06:30,289 We find life only in the name of Jesus 144 00:06:31,791 --> 00:06:33,760 and something I share with our students a lot. 145 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,362 Two things I share with them. 146 00:06:36,362 --> 00:06:39,732 I say, hey, we're jumping into a text on a Monday night. 147 00:06:39,732 --> 00:06:42,068 Don't forget what we read prior, right? 148 00:06:42,068 --> 00:06:44,570 So don't forget John one, John two, John three, John four. 149 00:06:44,570 --> 00:06:48,107 Before we get to five and two, find yourself in the text. 150 00:06:49,142 --> 00:06:52,111 Find yourself because God is speaking uniquely to you. 151 00:06:52,345 --> 00:06:54,981 And so my encouragement to you this morning is find yourself in the text. 152 00:06:54,981 --> 00:06:57,984 How is God speaking to you individually? 153 00:06:58,651 --> 00:07:01,621 Now, before we jump into five, I just want to give you a quick, 154 00:07:01,621 --> 00:07:04,590 overview from one, two, three and four because I think it'll help us with five. 155 00:07:04,590 --> 00:07:07,326 And so I love John one one. 156 00:07:07,326 --> 00:07:09,462 This main takeaway, it says in the beginning 157 00:07:09,462 --> 00:07:12,465 was the word, and the word was God, and the word was with God. 158 00:07:12,765 --> 00:07:13,332 Right? 159 00:07:13,332 --> 00:07:14,367 John is connecting. 160 00:07:14,367 --> 00:07:16,436 John one one to Genesis one one. 161 00:07:16,436 --> 00:07:16,669 Right. 162 00:07:16,669 --> 00:07:18,638 He's connecting it because in the beginning 163 00:07:18,638 --> 00:07:19,972 God created the heavens and the earth, right? 164 00:07:19,972 --> 00:07:23,142 So, so John is saying right off the top, as you are introduced to Jesus 165 00:07:23,142 --> 00:07:28,080 and who he is, you need to know he is eternal, that he is God, that he is. 166 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:29,115 He is divine. 167 00:07:29,115 --> 00:07:32,251 It's just that's the first thing I want you to know about this Jesus person 168 00:07:32,251 --> 00:07:35,221 and character that he is God. 169 00:07:35,488 --> 00:07:37,457 He is Messiah. 170 00:07:38,991 --> 00:07:39,659 And then we get 171 00:07:39,659 --> 00:07:42,829 into John two and it's really a fun story. 172 00:07:43,729 --> 00:07:46,732 Jesus and his mother and his disciples at a wedding in Cana. 173 00:07:47,099 --> 00:07:50,603 And I was thinking to myself, how many people can say Jesus was at their 174 00:07:50,603 --> 00:07:53,606 wedding and with his mother and disciples like Holy Spirit was present? 175 00:07:53,606 --> 00:07:54,540 Not mine, of course, but. 176 00:07:54,540 --> 00:07:55,741 And yours. 177 00:07:55,741 --> 00:07:58,711 But Jesus was physically there. 178 00:07:58,744 --> 00:08:01,581 And it says that Mary comes to Jesus. 179 00:08:01,581 --> 00:08:02,882 And she said, hey, there's a problem. 180 00:08:02,882 --> 00:08:03,983 They run out of wine. 181 00:08:03,983 --> 00:08:05,751 We need you to figure that out. 182 00:08:05,751 --> 00:08:08,154 As a mom talks to a son like, you know, hey, figure it out. 183 00:08:08,154 --> 00:08:10,156 Well, you know, we need some help here. 184 00:08:10,156 --> 00:08:12,492 And Jesus is like, he has this interesting interaction with his mother. 185 00:08:12,492 --> 00:08:13,626 It's like, it's not my time. 186 00:08:14,961 --> 00:08:17,363 And then I love it's just a little side note, but 187 00:08:17,363 --> 00:08:20,933 Mary turns to the servants who were there and says, whatever Jesus says, you do. 188 00:08:21,767 --> 00:08:22,268 And then Jesus. 189 00:08:22,268 --> 00:08:24,837 Eventually he changes this water into wine. 190 00:08:24,837 --> 00:08:27,540 And there's this really cool symbol of of this abundance 191 00:08:27,540 --> 00:08:31,410 that Jesus saved the best for last, that that his blood and wine are these 192 00:08:31,410 --> 00:08:35,414 the symbol of, of of, of us being forgiven our sins much. 193 00:08:35,414 --> 00:08:37,783 Right. And why we celebrate communion. 194 00:08:37,783 --> 00:08:41,153 But I love what I take away from John, too, is Mary's words. 195 00:08:41,821 --> 00:08:44,190 Mary says to the servants, Whatever Jesus says, 196 00:08:44,190 --> 00:08:47,193 you do, it isn't that our charge as believers? 197 00:08:47,260 --> 00:08:50,196 Whatever Jesus says, we do, 198 00:08:50,196 --> 00:08:51,397 if he says go, we go. 199 00:08:51,397 --> 00:08:52,532 If he says stop, we stop. 200 00:08:52,532 --> 00:08:56,002 If he says encourage and serve and give, we do those things. 201 00:08:56,869 --> 00:08:58,671 And so I love that we can just miss that. 202 00:08:58,671 --> 00:09:03,309 But John, to do and go and speak as Jesus does. 203 00:09:04,310 --> 00:09:04,977 And then we get 204 00:09:04,977 --> 00:09:08,514 John three four and five and it's testimony, testimony, testimony. 205 00:09:08,881 --> 00:09:09,115 Right. 206 00:09:09,115 --> 00:09:11,317 And I think it just highlights the power of testimony 207 00:09:11,317 --> 00:09:14,854 and also how personal our God is, because he wasn't going to meet 208 00:09:14,854 --> 00:09:18,691 Nicodemus, the woman at the well, and this paralyzed man where they are. 209 00:09:19,292 --> 00:09:19,458 Right. 210 00:09:19,458 --> 00:09:23,229 Nicodemus was this religious leader, devout Pharisee, Sanhedrin. 211 00:09:23,229 --> 00:09:26,132 He checked every box. He was the teacher of Israel, right? 212 00:09:26,132 --> 00:09:28,568 Big dog had it all right. 213 00:09:28,568 --> 00:09:31,270 But he he saw something in Jesus. 214 00:09:31,270 --> 00:09:32,738 He saw that Jesus was different. 215 00:09:32,738 --> 00:09:34,740 He knew that he was from God. 216 00:09:34,740 --> 00:09:37,043 And so by the cover of night, because he had a lot to lose, 217 00:09:37,043 --> 00:09:40,379 he went and met with Jesus and and he had this really cool interaction 218 00:09:40,379 --> 00:09:43,215 where, where Jesus is trying to communicate to him 219 00:09:43,215 --> 00:09:46,152 and share with him what it means to be born again, what it means to put 220 00:09:46,152 --> 00:09:49,155 your hope and your faith in your trust in Jesus for the forgiveness of your sins. 221 00:09:49,255 --> 00:09:52,525 Ultimately, talking about the cross he's talking about about not finding hope 222 00:09:52,525 --> 00:09:55,561 anywhere else, not in your own standing and not anyone else's. 223 00:09:55,561 --> 00:09:57,663 Not in being the teacher of the law, 224 00:09:57,663 --> 00:10:00,199 not in being in the Sanhedrin, of being a Pharisee. That's not enough. 225 00:10:01,300 --> 00:10:01,934 And I love that 226 00:10:01,934 --> 00:10:05,037 Jesus just meets meets Nicodemus where he is. 227 00:10:05,037 --> 00:10:06,539 And then if you go to the end of John, 228 00:10:06,539 --> 00:10:08,274 Nicodemus is one of the individuals that helps you. 229 00:10:08,274 --> 00:10:10,676 This down from the grass prepares him for burial. 230 00:10:10,676 --> 00:10:13,980 You can see his life is transformed because Jesus met him 231 00:10:13,980 --> 00:10:17,550 in his time of need, saw it, and spoke right into his life. 232 00:10:18,050 --> 00:10:20,319 And that's what Jesus does for us too, right? 233 00:10:20,319 --> 00:10:22,788 He is a very personal God. 234 00:10:22,788 --> 00:10:27,126 And then in John four, Jesus had this interaction with a woman at the well. 235 00:10:27,627 --> 00:10:29,929 Right? And it's this, Jesus is traveling. 236 00:10:29,929 --> 00:10:33,466 He's thirsty, is the well of Jacob, and she's a Samaritan, and he's a Jew. 237 00:10:33,466 --> 00:10:35,768 And he asks his, hey, can you give me some water? 238 00:10:35,768 --> 00:10:36,602 I'm thirsty. 239 00:10:36,602 --> 00:10:38,170 And she's so put off by it. 240 00:10:38,170 --> 00:10:39,805 She's like, we don't associate. 241 00:10:39,805 --> 00:10:42,341 We're enemies. We're not friends. Like, why are you asking me for water? 242 00:10:42,341 --> 00:10:45,344 She's just like, she's unsure about this whole interaction. 243 00:10:45,344 --> 00:10:48,414 And it leads to this again, deeper connection between Jesus 244 00:10:48,681 --> 00:10:50,883 and this woman of of. 245 00:10:50,883 --> 00:10:51,984 Because he cuts right to the core. 246 00:10:51,984 --> 00:10:54,987 He says, hey, I know what you're going through. 247 00:10:54,987 --> 00:10:56,489 I know you've you've had many husbands, 248 00:10:56,489 --> 00:10:58,257 and the one you're with now is not your husband. 249 00:10:58,257 --> 00:11:00,559 I know you're looking for love. You're looking for acceptance. 250 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:02,862 You're looking for connection in all these wrong places. 251 00:11:02,862 --> 00:11:05,531 Let me give you living water that will quench that thirst 252 00:11:05,531 --> 00:11:08,434 of the things you're looking for in all the wrong places. 253 00:11:08,434 --> 00:11:09,068 Right? 254 00:11:09,068 --> 00:11:11,170 And the power is to just say, you know what, 255 00:11:12,204 --> 00:11:14,073 Jesus, you're enough for me, right? 256 00:11:14,073 --> 00:11:16,075 The power that that is to 257 00:11:16,075 --> 00:11:19,078 to not just say it, but to live it out, to proclaim it, to believe it. 258 00:11:19,545 --> 00:11:22,214 And then she goes and shares her testimony with her people in her village. 259 00:11:22,214 --> 00:11:26,052 And they believe, and they invite Jesus to come and speak and many more believe. 260 00:11:26,052 --> 00:11:27,319 But I think it shows 261 00:11:27,319 --> 00:11:31,290 the power of testimony, but it also shows how incredibly personal our God is 262 00:11:31,724 --> 00:11:35,494 that he meets the very high ranking religious leader, and then this lowly 263 00:11:35,494 --> 00:11:39,632 woman who's just struggling and sin and lost and a little bit broken. 264 00:11:40,933 --> 00:11:42,768 And so wherever we are on that spectrum of people 265 00:11:42,768 --> 00:11:46,172 that God is going to meet us individually, that's who he is. 266 00:11:46,172 --> 00:11:50,276 And we see that here in John five, Jesus is going to beeline for this individual. 267 00:11:50,276 --> 00:11:51,510 He's going to he's going to meet him. 268 00:11:51,510 --> 00:11:54,280 He's going to process life with him, and he's going to he's going to challenge him. 269 00:11:55,614 --> 00:11:57,583 And so I want to 270 00:11:57,583 --> 00:11:58,350 I want to roll through. 271 00:11:58,350 --> 00:12:02,521 We're going to look at the first nine scriptures in John five this morning. 272 00:12:02,521 --> 00:12:05,091 They'll be on the screen behind me. 273 00:12:05,091 --> 00:12:06,358 But let's let's start with verse one. 274 00:12:06,358 --> 00:12:10,563 It says sometime later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem 275 00:12:10,796 --> 00:12:13,766 for one of the Jewish festivals. 276 00:12:13,766 --> 00:12:16,769 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate, a pool 277 00:12:16,769 --> 00:12:19,772 which in Aramaic is called Bethesda, 278 00:12:19,805 --> 00:12:22,808 and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 279 00:12:23,642 --> 00:12:27,113 Here a great number of disabled peoples used to lie 280 00:12:28,214 --> 00:12:31,217 the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed. 281 00:12:31,851 --> 00:12:33,753 One who was 282 00:12:33,753 --> 00:12:37,089 there had been an invalid for 38 years. 283 00:12:38,424 --> 00:12:41,160 When Jesus saw him lying there, and learned that he had been 284 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:45,698 in this condition for a long time, he asked him, do you want to get well? 285 00:12:45,998 --> 00:12:47,466 Which seems like a silly question of like, 286 00:12:47,466 --> 00:12:50,002 of course, I've been paralyzed for 38 years, but 287 00:12:50,002 --> 00:12:52,104 I think there's there's layers to this. Do you want to get well 288 00:12:53,072 --> 00:12:53,973 for seven, sir? 289 00:12:53,973 --> 00:12:54,840 The invalid replied. 290 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:58,410 I have no one to help me when the water is stirred. 291 00:12:58,410 --> 00:12:59,545 So something's going on, right? 292 00:12:59,545 --> 00:13:00,346 We need a little more contact, 293 00:13:00,346 --> 00:13:02,014 but something's going on in this water, 294 00:13:02,014 --> 00:13:04,350 so I have no one to help me get in the water when it's stirred. 295 00:13:04,350 --> 00:13:07,353 When I try to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me. 296 00:13:08,587 --> 00:13:12,825 Verse eight says, Then Jesus said to him, get up with a sword. 297 00:13:12,825 --> 00:13:15,828 Get up, pick up your mat and walk. 298 00:13:16,428 --> 00:13:18,230 And at once the man was cured. 299 00:13:18,230 --> 00:13:22,201 He picked up his mat and he walked right. 300 00:13:22,601 --> 00:13:25,638 So just so that we're we have the same kind of visual picture 301 00:13:25,638 --> 00:13:26,906 of what's going on here. 302 00:13:26,906 --> 00:13:30,242 There's a festival, a feast, there's this something's going on in Jerusalem. 303 00:13:30,242 --> 00:13:32,311 And so if you were of age, you had to bring your sacrifice. 304 00:13:32,311 --> 00:13:34,680 And in the in the story tells us right 305 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:36,949 there, there's this sheep gate where you would go give your offering. 306 00:13:36,949 --> 00:13:38,884 You'd go give your sacrifice. Right. 307 00:13:38,884 --> 00:13:40,953 And then near that was a pool. 308 00:13:40,953 --> 00:13:45,090 And it's called the Pool of Bethesda, which can be translated as House of mercy. 309 00:13:46,792 --> 00:13:47,960 And so what I love is 310 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:51,497 there's those who are blind, who are lame, who are paralyzed, who are struggling 311 00:13:51,497 --> 00:13:54,500 with physical disabilities, all hanging out at this pool. 312 00:13:55,334 --> 00:13:58,103 And Jesus, I just get to see the House of mercy. 313 00:13:58,103 --> 00:13:59,972 We get to see the mercy of God on full display. 314 00:13:59,972 --> 00:14:00,272 I'm sure. 315 00:14:00,272 --> 00:14:03,242 Jesus looked out and his heart was just broken. 316 00:14:03,809 --> 00:14:06,979 But what I love is how intentional God is in Scripture, right? 317 00:14:06,979 --> 00:14:10,149 As we know, Jesus was our offering at that sheep gate 318 00:14:10,749 --> 00:14:12,751 near this house of mercy, 319 00:14:12,751 --> 00:14:15,120 where Jesus is saying, I'm going to help heal this world of whatever 320 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:18,290 disability you have, whatever whatever's plaguing you, I'm going to heal you. 321 00:14:19,091 --> 00:14:20,960 And so just in this little spot in Jerusalem, 322 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,096 you have the sheep gate where Jesus says, our sheep are offering unblemished lamb, 323 00:14:24,263 --> 00:14:27,933 going to slaughter for us for our sins in this house of mercy. 324 00:14:27,933 --> 00:14:29,702 And so even in these little minor details, 325 00:14:29,702 --> 00:14:33,272 we see God talking about the gospel and talking about truth. 326 00:14:33,606 --> 00:14:34,106 Right? 327 00:14:34,106 --> 00:14:38,210 Just always I don't know, it just hit me this week of how intentional 328 00:14:38,210 --> 00:14:39,311 our God is in Scripture. 329 00:14:40,412 --> 00:14:42,147 But what I was reading was 330 00:14:42,147 --> 00:14:45,451 some scholars believe that this was actually it wasn't a true story. 331 00:14:45,985 --> 00:14:46,485 Because if you 332 00:14:46,485 --> 00:14:50,289 if you look if you feel a physical Bible, my Bible jumps from verse 3 to 5. 333 00:14:50,556 --> 00:14:51,991 There's no verse four. 334 00:14:51,991 --> 00:14:54,660 And so what I learned is that scribes went in and and wrote that in. 335 00:14:54,660 --> 00:14:56,161 It wasn't in early manuscripts. 336 00:14:56,161 --> 00:14:58,264 It was, it was, it was written for context. 337 00:14:58,264 --> 00:14:59,298 So there was that. 338 00:14:59,298 --> 00:15:01,066 And then they couldn't find this pool. 339 00:15:01,066 --> 00:15:02,868 And so there was some doubt with Israel, is it not? 340 00:15:02,868 --> 00:15:05,604 Is this gospel valid? Is it not? 341 00:15:05,604 --> 00:15:07,506 And so they end up actually finding the pool. 342 00:15:07,506 --> 00:15:10,142 And what they found was a massive pool. 343 00:15:10,142 --> 00:15:12,845 I was reading that maybe I think it was an Olympic size pool. 344 00:15:12,845 --> 00:15:14,546 Just imagine a huge pool 345 00:15:15,547 --> 00:15:18,250 and remember there's a festival and there's a feast going on. 346 00:15:18,250 --> 00:15:20,319 And so Jerusalem would have swollen up. 347 00:15:20,319 --> 00:15:23,155 There would have been just so many people in the city. 348 00:15:23,155 --> 00:15:26,158 And so maybe even more than normal around this pool at this time. 349 00:15:26,558 --> 00:15:30,095 And so you could think maybe hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people 350 00:15:30,296 --> 00:15:31,230 at this pool 351 00:15:31,230 --> 00:15:34,400 waiting for the House of mercy to be redeemed, for them to receive 352 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,403 this blessing, of being cured of whatever ailment they have. 353 00:15:38,404 --> 00:15:40,706 And I want to read you verse four. 354 00:15:40,706 --> 00:15:42,341 It says 355 00:15:42,341 --> 00:15:45,411 in mind, just a footnote I don't have on the screen, I apologize. 356 00:15:45,411 --> 00:15:49,248 It says from time to time an angel of the Lord would come down 357 00:15:49,682 --> 00:15:52,551 and he would stir up the waters, 358 00:15:52,551 --> 00:15:54,153 the first one into the pool. 359 00:15:54,153 --> 00:15:58,757 After each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had. 360 00:16:00,292 --> 00:16:00,759 And so I 361 00:16:00,759 --> 00:16:03,762 was thinking of my own walk, my own faith. 362 00:16:04,563 --> 00:16:07,967 As I process this out, how much I think I robbed God of His glory. 363 00:16:08,534 --> 00:16:10,469 Sometimes you read these and you're like, oh really? 364 00:16:10,469 --> 00:16:11,103 That happened. 365 00:16:11,103 --> 00:16:12,771 An angel actually descended, 366 00:16:12,771 --> 00:16:16,141 and then you read in other parts of Scripture where we're an Isaiah 38. 367 00:16:16,308 --> 00:16:20,512 God used figs to help with infected boils, like why figs? 368 00:16:21,380 --> 00:16:23,682 And the number 21 venomous snakes were attacks neutralized to him 369 00:16:23,682 --> 00:16:26,685 that gazed upon this bronze snake that would be saved. 370 00:16:27,586 --> 00:16:29,822 And then you have you have, 371 00:16:29,822 --> 00:16:31,023 Naaman. Right. He had leprosy. 372 00:16:31,023 --> 00:16:33,926 And God said, go dip yourself in the water bunch of times and you'll be healed. 373 00:16:33,926 --> 00:16:36,128 It'll go away. 374 00:16:36,128 --> 00:16:37,196 And so I was really convicted. 375 00:16:37,196 --> 00:16:37,963 I want to put on the screen for you 376 00:16:37,963 --> 00:16:41,133 to think about in your own faith and own walk that because he's God, 377 00:16:42,668 --> 00:16:43,268 he has the power to 378 00:16:43,268 --> 00:16:47,740 heal what is broken, to correct what is wrong, and to help us in our need 379 00:16:47,906 --> 00:16:50,909 and ultimately accomplish whatever he wills. 380 00:16:51,276 --> 00:16:52,945 And so I was just convicted the last couple of weeks. 381 00:16:52,945 --> 00:16:55,948 Our students went through this two weeks ago 382 00:16:56,849 --> 00:16:59,752 that I need to not put a ceiling or a cap on God. 383 00:16:59,752 --> 00:17:02,955 Not not not expect him to show up when I want, how I want, 384 00:17:02,955 --> 00:17:06,025 and the way that I want, and that way I think 385 00:17:06,025 --> 00:17:09,128 we rob God of glory because he's like, Michael, I can show up however I want. 386 00:17:09,161 --> 00:17:11,130 People just grab my cloak and they were healed. 387 00:17:11,130 --> 00:17:13,799 I laid my hand, I spit in the dirt, put it on their eyes, and he was. 388 00:17:13,799 --> 00:17:15,401 He could see for the first time ever. 389 00:17:15,401 --> 00:17:18,570 Like God can work in ways that we cannot even fathom. 390 00:17:19,471 --> 00:17:22,674 I heard one pastor say, if you can get behind Genesis one one 391 00:17:22,875 --> 00:17:24,209 where God literally created 392 00:17:24,209 --> 00:17:25,811 everything out of nothing but just his words, 393 00:17:25,811 --> 00:17:28,480 you can believe anything and everything else in scripture. 394 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:29,281 It's all believable. 395 00:17:29,281 --> 00:17:32,651 If you can get behind Genesis one one that God created with his words. 396 00:17:34,353 --> 00:17:35,521 And what I love is that 397 00:17:35,521 --> 00:17:38,724 we get to see this gentleman who hadn't walked in 38 years. 398 00:17:39,124 --> 00:17:42,027 His body still responded to its creator voice. 399 00:17:42,027 --> 00:17:43,062 He said, get up and walk. 400 00:17:43,062 --> 00:17:43,829 And he could. 401 00:17:43,829 --> 00:17:46,832 After 38 years, I joked, the first service I played soccer last night, 402 00:17:46,832 --> 00:17:47,933 I was like cramping. 403 00:17:47,933 --> 00:17:51,403 This morning I could barely get up and this guy hadn't walk for 38 years 404 00:17:52,137 --> 00:17:54,873 and he just got up and walked. 405 00:17:54,873 --> 00:17:57,876 It's amazing what our God can do. 406 00:17:58,610 --> 00:17:59,645 But back to the gentleman, right? 407 00:17:59,645 --> 00:18:02,648 So paralyzed for 38 years, 408 00:18:02,714 --> 00:18:04,716 he can't get into the water. 409 00:18:04,716 --> 00:18:06,518 He said, Jesus, I want to be healed. 410 00:18:06,518 --> 00:18:07,352 Of course I do. 411 00:18:07,352 --> 00:18:08,787 But people are rushing around me. 412 00:18:08,787 --> 00:18:11,790 I can't get to the water first. 413 00:18:12,057 --> 00:18:13,425 And so I got to think, imagine. 414 00:18:13,425 --> 00:18:14,760 Can you imagine for a second? Sit. 415 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:17,062 Sit in his position? 416 00:18:17,062 --> 00:18:18,130 Can you imagine his pain? 417 00:18:20,499 --> 00:18:23,102 Can you imagine his frustration? 418 00:18:23,102 --> 00:18:25,170 I'm like, I'm trying to get there. 419 00:18:25,170 --> 00:18:26,905 I'm trying to get there. 420 00:18:26,905 --> 00:18:29,608 Or maybe the helplessness. 421 00:18:29,608 --> 00:18:31,009 Now I think I'm praying for something for six months. 422 00:18:31,009 --> 00:18:33,479 Oh my God, where are you? What are you doing? 423 00:18:33,479 --> 00:18:37,583 This gentleman, 38 years, 38 years of waiting. 424 00:18:37,716 --> 00:18:40,986 38 years of maybe tomorrow, 38 years of maybe next year 425 00:18:42,054 --> 00:18:45,057 being trampled over. 426 00:18:45,491 --> 00:18:48,360 But I also think there had to be a little hope. 427 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:50,762 Why would you stick around for 38 years 428 00:18:50,762 --> 00:18:53,732 if not for some sliver of hope? 429 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:55,834 And it got me thinking. 430 00:18:55,834 --> 00:18:56,435 I hope this week 431 00:18:56,435 --> 00:18:59,438 I want to put this on screen for you to process in your faith, in your walk. 432 00:18:59,605 --> 00:19:02,641 I think hope can be a powerful gift from God, 433 00:19:03,442 --> 00:19:06,445 but only when it's aimed in the way, in the direction of God. 434 00:19:06,745 --> 00:19:10,883 Hope can be a powerful gift when aimed in the way, in the direction of God. 435 00:19:10,883 --> 00:19:12,818 It can help us get up when we don't want to, 436 00:19:12,818 --> 00:19:16,255 not throw in the white flag to continue on day after day after day, 437 00:19:16,255 --> 00:19:18,423 even though there's a struggle or there's a there's an ailment 438 00:19:18,423 --> 00:19:21,426 or there's a frustration or there's a sin that we can't get past. 439 00:19:21,827 --> 00:19:24,830 Hope is that gift that says Michael, keep going, 440 00:19:25,030 --> 00:19:28,534 keep going, keep going, don't give up. 441 00:19:29,201 --> 00:19:32,004 And so process out that out in your own faith. 442 00:19:32,004 --> 00:19:34,373 What does hope look like for you? 443 00:19:34,373 --> 00:19:35,807 How is it an action for you? 444 00:19:37,876 --> 00:19:39,545 And I think it leads to this inevitable question. 445 00:19:39,545 --> 00:19:41,180 And I 446 00:19:41,180 --> 00:19:43,348 and it's a tough one to vulnerable one. 447 00:19:43,348 --> 00:19:45,384 And it's this what do we do with what we hope for? 448 00:19:45,384 --> 00:19:46,952 Doesn't happen. 449 00:19:46,952 --> 00:19:48,320 What are we doing? What we hope for doesn't happen. 450 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,490 We're earnestly seeking God and His face, and we're submitting to him. 451 00:19:51,490 --> 00:19:53,091 And we're in Scripture and in prayer, in community. 452 00:19:53,091 --> 00:19:54,226 We're serving, we're giving our tithing. 453 00:19:54,226 --> 00:19:57,229 We're doing all the things we're checking every box. 454 00:19:57,663 --> 00:20:00,265 And it's like, but God, why are you not answering my prayer? 455 00:20:00,265 --> 00:20:03,268 Why are you not showing up for me in this way? 456 00:20:03,535 --> 00:20:05,671 Like, how do you and I respond 457 00:20:05,671 --> 00:20:09,041 when God saying, Michael, no, we're not yet. 458 00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:12,878 No to whatever you're asking me or not yet? 459 00:20:13,011 --> 00:20:13,712 How do we respond? 460 00:20:13,712 --> 00:20:15,781 How do you respond? How do you sit in that reality? 461 00:20:17,583 --> 00:20:19,751 And for myself, 462 00:20:19,751 --> 00:20:22,754 humbly, I say this as I'm trying to figure this thing out, 463 00:20:23,855 --> 00:20:25,724 I think the challenge is to not get a hard heart 464 00:20:25,724 --> 00:20:28,760 towards God, to not say, God, why not? 465 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,763 This is not fair. How could you? 466 00:20:31,797 --> 00:20:35,500 I mean, just think of think of Genesis and Joseph's story. 467 00:20:36,368 --> 00:20:38,537 Never once in Joseph's account is it recorded. 468 00:20:38,537 --> 00:20:41,540 God, I don't deserve this. 469 00:20:41,673 --> 00:20:45,677 He was sold into slavery by his brothers, made his way to pawn for his home, 470 00:20:45,677 --> 00:20:48,680 accused of being inappropriate with his wife, which was false. 471 00:20:48,914 --> 00:20:51,016 Found himself in prison. 472 00:20:51,016 --> 00:20:51,483 There are two. 473 00:20:51,483 --> 00:20:53,118 There's a prisoner that got upset. I'll remember you. 474 00:20:53,118 --> 00:20:56,121 That dude forgot Joseph sat in prison even longer. 475 00:20:56,722 --> 00:20:57,422 Right? 476 00:20:57,422 --> 00:20:58,190 Then he finds himself 477 00:20:58,190 --> 00:21:02,227 second in command of all of Egypt, and in that way able to save his family. 478 00:21:02,227 --> 00:21:05,130 Who are who are back right where he's from. 479 00:21:05,130 --> 00:21:07,532 When there's a severe famine that hits like, 480 00:21:07,532 --> 00:21:09,568 we don't know how God's going to work and how he's going to show up 481 00:21:09,568 --> 00:21:11,637 and how he's going to perform, but we know he will. 482 00:21:13,305 --> 00:21:14,106 Amen. 483 00:21:14,106 --> 00:21:15,741 Yes, sir. 484 00:21:15,741 --> 00:21:18,744 But that that challenge us to not get a hard heart, 485 00:21:19,444 --> 00:21:22,681 to not lose that vulnerability with God because he's not showing up 486 00:21:22,681 --> 00:21:24,182 how you want him to show up. 487 00:21:24,182 --> 00:21:27,152 And when you want him to show up. 488 00:21:27,219 --> 00:21:30,322 And here's the second challenge, I think, and this one can be easily hidden, 489 00:21:31,356 --> 00:21:34,693 easily disguised is don't spiritually just start going through the motions. 490 00:21:35,627 --> 00:21:38,163 Don't spiritually keep showing up 491 00:21:38,163 --> 00:21:40,832 tithing and offering and going to church and serving. 492 00:21:40,832 --> 00:21:42,601 But there's no real intimacy with God. 493 00:21:42,601 --> 00:21:45,437 There's no real expectancy that God's going to show up. 494 00:21:45,437 --> 00:21:47,072 There's no real personal connection with God. 495 00:21:47,072 --> 00:21:48,540 You're just going through the motions. 496 00:21:48,540 --> 00:21:51,543 I think that's also a dangerous place to be as a believer 497 00:21:52,044 --> 00:21:55,180 who can be jaded and frustrated and and we can just again throw our hands up. 498 00:21:57,215 --> 00:22:00,218 And this guy's testimony is so challenging. 499 00:22:01,153 --> 00:22:04,589 I mean, he has hope after 38 years 500 00:22:06,024 --> 00:22:07,993 that God will show up for him. 501 00:22:07,993 --> 00:22:09,094 I'm going to keep waiting on the Lord. 502 00:22:09,094 --> 00:22:11,663 I'm going to keep on the Lord. I'm going to keep waiting on the Lord. 503 00:22:11,663 --> 00:22:14,666 And so in that way, I think this about this story, 504 00:22:14,666 --> 00:22:17,569 that this story is a story of hope, 505 00:22:17,569 --> 00:22:19,771 but it's also a story of waiting. 506 00:22:19,771 --> 00:22:23,175 And it's a story of seeking God and not losing our heart 507 00:22:23,709 --> 00:22:26,712 to be expectant, to say yes, father, 508 00:22:27,045 --> 00:22:29,748 you are going to show up, 509 00:22:29,748 --> 00:22:30,482 right? 510 00:22:30,482 --> 00:22:32,551 You're going to show up. 511 00:22:32,551 --> 00:22:33,819 And so process that out. 512 00:22:33,819 --> 00:22:36,355 What does hope look like for you in the name of Jesus? 513 00:22:36,355 --> 00:22:38,490 What is waiting look like for you in the name of Jesus? 514 00:22:38,490 --> 00:22:40,425 What is what is seeking God? 515 00:22:40,425 --> 00:22:43,662 When you've been waiting for a long time, look like in the name of Jesus, 516 00:22:44,763 --> 00:22:45,630 there's our big, very 517 00:22:45,630 --> 00:22:48,700 vulnerable, challenging, don't have healthy answer 518 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:51,703 questions. 519 00:22:52,704 --> 00:22:53,238 The story 520 00:22:53,238 --> 00:22:56,241 is a story of hope and I love that. 521 00:22:56,341 --> 00:22:59,511 Sometimes it God saying, no, Michael, I know you're praying for 522 00:22:59,544 --> 00:23:02,781 and it makes sense to you, but no or not yet. 523 00:23:03,081 --> 00:23:04,483 I need you to wait on me. 524 00:23:04,483 --> 00:23:05,851 I need you to trust me. 525 00:23:05,851 --> 00:23:09,621 I need you to to to submit to me and know that I am God 526 00:23:09,621 --> 00:23:13,492 and I am in control, and I am good, and I'm going to work it out. 527 00:23:14,092 --> 00:23:17,295 And that's where that faith just comes in to say, all right, Lord, I'll wait. 528 00:23:18,096 --> 00:23:19,998 As difficult as it is, I will wait. 529 00:23:19,998 --> 00:23:22,734 And I know there's a lot of waiting in this room 530 00:23:22,734 --> 00:23:25,737 on all kinds of things, whether it be marital, 531 00:23:26,338 --> 00:23:28,673 kids, job, home, 532 00:23:28,673 --> 00:23:32,144 there's so much waiting and so much frustration and so much, 533 00:23:36,047 --> 00:23:39,050 Defeat at times I it exists, 534 00:23:39,751 --> 00:23:41,353 but thankfully the cross is complete. 535 00:23:41,353 --> 00:23:44,256 And like we go we go back to the verse off the top. 536 00:23:44,256 --> 00:23:46,758 We gotta find life in Jesus. 537 00:23:46,758 --> 00:23:49,227 Only in Jesus. 538 00:23:49,227 --> 00:23:49,861 And so when the no. 539 00:23:49,861 --> 00:23:52,864 One, not yet, we get to really display our faith. 540 00:23:53,598 --> 00:23:55,500 But I want to go back to verse six, and I want to put it on the screen 541 00:23:55,500 --> 00:23:57,869 for you this morning, 542 00:23:57,869 --> 00:24:00,906 and I want you to ask yourself this believer, nonbeliever, 543 00:24:01,473 --> 00:24:04,142 do you want to be made well, 544 00:24:04,142 --> 00:24:05,811 right. Again, I said, it seems silly. 545 00:24:05,811 --> 00:24:06,511 I wrote it in my Bible. 546 00:24:06,511 --> 00:24:09,981 It's a silly question, but it's profound because. 547 00:24:11,983 --> 00:24:13,351 I don't think she's asked dumb questions. 548 00:24:13,351 --> 00:24:14,653 I don't think he asked redundant question. 549 00:24:14,653 --> 00:24:16,221 I don't think he asked questions that don't matter. 550 00:24:18,457 --> 00:24:20,992 And so I think as I'm processing, because what I do in one way in 551 00:24:20,992 --> 00:24:21,860 which I prepare is 552 00:24:21,860 --> 00:24:23,728 I read and ask questions or even ask questions, read 553 00:24:23,728 --> 00:24:25,697 and ask questions, and then go learn from other pastors 554 00:24:25,697 --> 00:24:28,700 who've been teaching and preaching and doing it for longer than I have. 555 00:24:29,701 --> 00:24:32,170 But I think that this is the reality. 556 00:24:32,170 --> 00:24:34,172 I know it has been for parts of my life that there are 557 00:24:34,172 --> 00:24:36,308 some people who don't want to be made well. 558 00:24:36,308 --> 00:24:39,511 They're just like, no, I want to hold that grudge, I do. 559 00:24:40,045 --> 00:24:41,713 I want to hold that grudge. I don't want to. 560 00:24:41,713 --> 00:24:43,281 They don't deserve my forgiveness. 561 00:24:43,281 --> 00:24:44,616 They don't deserve it. Right? 562 00:24:44,616 --> 00:24:47,552 We hold grudges. We do. 563 00:24:47,552 --> 00:24:49,321 I do want to gossip. 564 00:24:49,321 --> 00:24:50,222 It makes me feel good, 565 00:24:51,723 --> 00:24:53,925 right? 566 00:24:53,925 --> 00:24:55,327 I want to be bitter. I want to be angry. 567 00:24:55,327 --> 00:24:56,628 I want to be hurt because it protects me. 568 00:24:56,628 --> 00:24:57,095 It drives me. 569 00:24:57,095 --> 00:24:59,798 It keeps me, sane, like I want. 570 00:24:59,798 --> 00:25:02,400 I want these things. I don't want to be made. Well, 571 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,270 I sometimes we lean in and we give in to sin and temptation, and we 572 00:25:05,270 --> 00:25:08,273 and we allow ourselves to live in these ways where we justify it. 573 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,443 And again, I'm not. This is my story. 574 00:25:11,443 --> 00:25:12,444 I live here all the time. 575 00:25:12,444 --> 00:25:14,913 Oh my goodness. 576 00:25:14,913 --> 00:25:17,916 To be made well, we have to humble ourselves. 577 00:25:19,251 --> 00:25:20,852 We have to say sorry to our spouses 578 00:25:20,852 --> 00:25:23,989 even if we're not wrong or especially when we are wrong. 579 00:25:23,989 --> 00:25:26,992 Like we have to stop living intentionally in sin. 580 00:25:29,060 --> 00:25:29,995 To take up our cross 581 00:25:29,995 --> 00:25:32,998 daily like that is so challenging. 582 00:25:33,198 --> 00:25:34,599 We have to submit to God. 583 00:25:34,599 --> 00:25:36,935 I mean, pastor crosses all the time, right? 584 00:25:36,935 --> 00:25:39,771 We're slaves to Christ. We're slaves. 585 00:25:39,771 --> 00:25:41,673 We were bought at an incredibly high price, 586 00:25:42,607 --> 00:25:43,141 no higher 587 00:25:43,141 --> 00:25:46,311 price than the Son of God than Jesus going to the cross for you and for me. 588 00:25:46,411 --> 00:25:47,445 There's no takes vaccine. 589 00:25:47,445 --> 00:25:48,780 So we were purchased. 590 00:25:48,780 --> 00:25:51,182 We are his, 591 00:25:51,182 --> 00:25:52,651 you know, whether you submit to that or not. 592 00:25:52,651 --> 00:25:54,152 We're his. 593 00:25:54,152 --> 00:25:56,755 And if we're if we're saying yes, I want to be healed, we got to say yes 594 00:25:56,755 --> 00:26:00,692 to Jesus and no to so many other things, so many other things. 595 00:26:02,694 --> 00:26:06,865 We often think as we process this out 596 00:26:08,033 --> 00:26:10,702 for the no are not yet. 597 00:26:10,702 --> 00:26:12,370 When you feel like God maybe is taking something 598 00:26:12,370 --> 00:26:15,073 or is challenging us or is teaching us, maybe it's Michael. 599 00:26:15,073 --> 00:26:17,709 Do you love that thing? I took more than you love me. 600 00:26:17,709 --> 00:26:20,512 You love that experience more than I took than me. 601 00:26:20,512 --> 00:26:23,448 Do you love that opportunity more than you love me? 602 00:26:23,448 --> 00:26:26,451 And it's it's really challenging conviction of my heart's saying, well, 603 00:26:26,952 --> 00:26:29,721 maybe I did or maybe I do. 604 00:26:29,721 --> 00:26:32,157 There's an opportunity for me to repent of that. 605 00:26:32,157 --> 00:26:35,827 I don't want to love those things outside about, you know, my my love for Jesus. 606 00:26:35,827 --> 00:26:38,830 Because again, life is found in him, in him. 607 00:26:38,997 --> 00:26:40,832 And so that's a challenge for all of us to say, 608 00:26:40,832 --> 00:26:43,635 no, Lord, I'm going to submit to you and I'm going to be okay if you take 609 00:26:43,635 --> 00:26:45,804 and if you move and if you do challenge and if you 610 00:26:46,871 --> 00:26:49,874 make things a little uncomfortable. 611 00:26:51,176 --> 00:26:53,411 So I'll throw on screen again, 612 00:26:53,411 --> 00:26:55,680 it's a question that I ask myself all week. 613 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,415 Do you want to be made well? 614 00:26:57,415 --> 00:26:59,317 So the answer is yes. 615 00:26:59,317 --> 00:27:02,320 Jesus is going to come in and get rid of all the crap, all the muck, all the junk. 616 00:27:02,821 --> 00:27:05,190 But that's when the real war happens, right? 617 00:27:05,190 --> 00:27:07,559 For the unbeliever comes to repentance and faith. 618 00:27:07,559 --> 00:27:10,462 Now that you have the flesh and you have the spirit, and they're at 619 00:27:10,462 --> 00:27:13,465 they're at war with each other, that's real. 620 00:27:13,865 --> 00:27:14,933 Because we want to please the spirit. 621 00:27:14,933 --> 00:27:17,936 We also want to please the flesh. 622 00:27:18,169 --> 00:27:19,771 And it's this whole dependance 623 00:27:19,771 --> 00:27:22,807 on God, every moment of every day 624 00:27:23,341 --> 00:27:26,111 that Jesus is more important than anything and everything else. 625 00:27:26,111 --> 00:27:27,479 And I love my wife and kids dearly, 626 00:27:27,479 --> 00:27:29,948 but I have to put Jesus first so that I am better for my life. 627 00:27:29,948 --> 00:27:32,183 I am better for my kids, right? 628 00:27:34,586 --> 00:27:35,120 So Jesus 629 00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:38,123 challenges this gentleman, do you want to be made well? 630 00:27:38,957 --> 00:27:42,460 And Jesus is talking physically, but he's also talking spiritually. 631 00:27:43,828 --> 00:27:45,830 Do you want to be made well? 632 00:27:45,830 --> 00:27:48,199 And then I love verse seven. 633 00:27:48,199 --> 00:27:50,468 This is his response, sir. 634 00:27:50,468 --> 00:27:53,638 I have no one to help me get into the pool when the water is stirred. 635 00:27:53,638 --> 00:27:57,442 I says it says while I'm trying to get in, someone else gets down ahead of me. 636 00:27:59,577 --> 00:28:02,580 And Jesus, I think he's he's he's standing there front of this guy, 637 00:28:02,580 --> 00:28:05,717 knowing his way, knowing his authority, knowing his glory. 638 00:28:06,551 --> 00:28:08,286 And he's like, I have another way, man. 639 00:28:08,286 --> 00:28:11,923 Like, don't get so fixed on the external. 640 00:28:11,923 --> 00:28:13,892 I'll get so fixed on this pool. 641 00:28:13,892 --> 00:28:16,828 I know you put your hope and trust in the angel of the Lord who's coming down. 642 00:28:16,828 --> 00:28:18,530 Who is still of God, is still good. 643 00:28:20,165 --> 00:28:21,266 But I think, can that be you and me? 644 00:28:21,266 --> 00:28:23,635 Sometimes we're so hyper focused 645 00:28:23,635 --> 00:28:26,638 and fix it on something else that we miss Jesus right in front of us, 646 00:28:27,572 --> 00:28:29,774 whether it be through a Sunday morning or whether it be through 647 00:28:29,774 --> 00:28:32,777 a conversation with a spouse or a coworker, or a friend or a neighbor, 648 00:28:33,011 --> 00:28:36,014 or an interaction at the grocery store or whatever. 649 00:28:36,448 --> 00:28:39,451 But Jesus, as we've seen, shows up with figs and heals. 650 00:28:39,751 --> 00:28:41,920 Water heals. Just his words. 651 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,355 Heals like Jesus can show up in any and every way he wants to. 652 00:28:44,355 --> 00:28:47,992 So why not through a casual conversation like why not through 653 00:28:48,827 --> 00:28:51,830 talking to a buddy at the gym or on the soccer field? 654 00:28:52,530 --> 00:28:54,399 You can show up in any and every way he wants possible. 655 00:28:54,399 --> 00:28:57,736 So this it just unlocks this infinite possibility that we can find 656 00:28:57,736 --> 00:29:00,772 God in every interaction we have all day long. 657 00:29:01,005 --> 00:29:02,674 For the rest of our lives. 658 00:29:02,674 --> 00:29:05,910 And so it's that idea to be expectant and to not say, I don't see you, 659 00:29:05,910 --> 00:29:09,314 God is to say, I'm going to look for you, God, I'm going to find you today. 660 00:29:09,314 --> 00:29:12,383 God, I want to submit today to you, God. 661 00:29:15,153 --> 00:29:17,322 That Jesus was right in front of this guy's face. 662 00:29:17,322 --> 00:29:20,325 And you still looking at the pool past him 663 00:29:20,725 --> 00:29:23,928 now, just like, no, like, just be present with me right here. 664 00:29:24,129 --> 00:29:27,132 Let me take care of you. Let me heal you. 665 00:29:27,432 --> 00:29:30,435 Let me provide for you. 666 00:29:32,237 --> 00:29:33,571 And I think that I've been processing 667 00:29:33,571 --> 00:29:36,574 this out to in terms of ministry. 668 00:29:37,776 --> 00:29:39,878 And one pastor I, I listened to from time to time, 669 00:29:39,878 --> 00:29:43,948 he says walking this walk as believers is just one beggar helping another beggar. 670 00:29:44,816 --> 00:29:47,819 Just one person to pin on yourself in another person depend on Jesus. 671 00:29:49,254 --> 00:29:50,588 And I think I've been really convicted this week 672 00:29:50,588 --> 00:29:53,825 to to see the one in front of me, Jesus on Nicodemus. 673 00:29:53,825 --> 00:29:56,327 He saw the woman at the well and he sees this gentleman around. 674 00:29:56,327 --> 00:29:58,663 There's hundreds and hundreds of other people that he could have, 675 00:29:58,663 --> 00:30:00,465 he could have gone to, but he went to this guy. 676 00:30:00,465 --> 00:30:01,699 Jesus sees the needs of one. 677 00:30:01,699 --> 00:30:03,001 He sees the individual right in front of you. 678 00:30:03,001 --> 00:30:04,803 And so that's a challenge for you and for me. 679 00:30:04,803 --> 00:30:07,939 Who's the one that you need to serve the one that you need to provide for, 680 00:30:07,972 --> 00:30:10,975 the one that you need to you need to walk alongside? 681 00:30:11,075 --> 00:30:12,510 Who is that one in your life? 682 00:30:12,510 --> 00:30:14,946 Start with your family, with your neighbors, with your community. 683 00:30:14,946 --> 00:30:16,147 Who is that one here at church? 684 00:30:16,147 --> 00:30:19,150 Who is the one when you hear Trisha get up like, hey, join us. 685 00:30:19,217 --> 00:30:20,251 Like we're going to three services. 686 00:30:20,251 --> 00:30:22,320 We need some support, we need some help. 687 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:23,655 And maybe that's for you. Maybe it's not, 688 00:30:24,722 --> 00:30:26,491 but pray about it. 689 00:30:26,491 --> 00:30:28,526 What does God have for you? Who is the one? 690 00:30:28,526 --> 00:30:29,127 What is the ministry? 691 00:30:29,127 --> 00:30:32,130 What is it up to you right in front of you. 692 00:30:32,931 --> 00:30:34,833 This is one bigger helping, another bigger. 693 00:30:34,833 --> 00:30:38,803 I told Jamie for us this to have a Bible study Monday 694 00:30:38,803 --> 00:30:41,806 nights and bleeds into the youth group a little bit, 695 00:30:41,873 --> 00:30:44,142 and she was talking about getting up on stage and getting a little nervous. 696 00:30:44,142 --> 00:30:46,110 And I joke with I was like, I get I get nervous every single time 697 00:30:46,110 --> 00:30:48,046 I get up here with you guys, like I get with youth. And it's easy. 698 00:30:48,046 --> 00:30:50,815 I get up in front of you and I'm super nervous for some reason. 699 00:30:50,815 --> 00:30:54,252 I don't know what it is, but God said, do it, so I'm gonna do it. 700 00:30:55,186 --> 00:30:55,653 And so 701 00:30:55,653 --> 00:30:59,090 if it's nervousness or if it's frustration or if it's lack of qualifications, 702 00:30:59,757 --> 00:31:02,193 like Carl says, say yes on the front and then we'll figure out the rest. 703 00:31:02,193 --> 00:31:05,430 Like jump into a ministry here, serve somewhere. 704 00:31:07,565 --> 00:31:10,068 I liken serving to working out right. 705 00:31:10,068 --> 00:31:11,936 You have a really long night. 706 00:31:11,936 --> 00:31:12,804 Kids are up all night. 707 00:31:12,804 --> 00:31:14,973 You're exhausted. But, you know, you need to go work out. 708 00:31:14,973 --> 00:31:16,941 You're like, dang, I know the energy. I can't get there. 709 00:31:16,941 --> 00:31:19,944 And then you go work out and you sweat and you feel so much better after. 710 00:31:19,944 --> 00:31:20,979 I think that serving, 711 00:31:20,979 --> 00:31:23,781 you're like, man, I got to take away time from my wife and my kids. 712 00:31:23,781 --> 00:31:25,817 I it's that's difficult. 713 00:31:25,817 --> 00:31:28,386 But then when I leave YouTube, I'm like, it was the freaking best. 714 00:31:28,386 --> 00:31:30,088 Like, I love this. It's amazing. 715 00:31:30,088 --> 00:31:32,790 I think that serving right you do have to sacrifice. 716 00:31:32,790 --> 00:31:34,392 You do have to say no to other things. 717 00:31:34,392 --> 00:31:36,861 But then you leave and you're like, this is awesome. 718 00:31:36,861 --> 00:31:40,565 I love this and so shameless plug there if you want to serve, join us. 719 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,803 But I want to ask another question. 720 00:31:46,304 --> 00:31:47,739 I don't know the answer, but I want to ask you. 721 00:31:47,739 --> 00:31:48,539 I want you to process. 722 00:31:48,539 --> 00:31:51,476 Have you ever felt stepped over? 723 00:31:51,476 --> 00:31:53,611 Have you ever felt stepped over? 724 00:31:53,611 --> 00:31:55,680 Right. Only one person got healed and they got in that water. 725 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,683 The first person in. 726 00:31:58,883 --> 00:32:01,886 I think that we asked that question of God a lot. 727 00:32:02,553 --> 00:32:04,656 I God, what did I lose this or why did I not experience it? 728 00:32:04,656 --> 00:32:06,157 Why is my son struggling with bullying? 729 00:32:06,157 --> 00:32:08,493 Or why was my daughter having to go through that? 730 00:32:08,493 --> 00:32:09,060 My spouse? 731 00:32:09,060 --> 00:32:12,297 Why have your health stepped over, 732 00:32:13,097 --> 00:32:16,100 not provided for your prayers, not answered 733 00:32:17,101 --> 00:32:17,702 right? 734 00:32:17,702 --> 00:32:20,705 A little bit of frustration 735 00:32:20,705 --> 00:32:22,473 and I kept coming back to this same song this week. 736 00:32:22,473 --> 00:32:24,876 It's called refiner and it's one of those either love or hate. 737 00:32:24,876 --> 00:32:25,710 It's like a 12 minutes sign. 738 00:32:25,710 --> 00:32:27,645 So sometimes I love that song knowing like, jeez, Louise, 739 00:32:27,645 --> 00:32:29,514 I've heard the same lyric for like 14 minutes. 740 00:32:29,514 --> 00:32:31,783 I need to turn it off. But it's a great song 741 00:32:31,783 --> 00:32:36,888 in terms of processing, waiting when we get a no or not Yet. 742 00:32:38,256 --> 00:32:38,756 I'm not going to 743 00:32:38,756 --> 00:32:41,759 sing it for you, but I'll tell you the lyrics. 744 00:32:41,993 --> 00:32:44,996 It says you're a refiner. 745 00:32:45,396 --> 00:32:46,664 I'm sorry, you're a fire. 746 00:32:46,664 --> 00:32:49,367 The refiner. I want to be consumed. 747 00:32:49,367 --> 00:32:51,469 It says I want to be tried by fire. 748 00:32:51,469 --> 00:32:54,472 I want to be purified. 749 00:32:54,539 --> 00:32:55,807 You take whatever you desire. 750 00:32:55,807 --> 00:32:58,810 Lord, here's my life, right? 751 00:32:59,377 --> 00:33:01,512 And we think right to be refined. 752 00:33:01,512 --> 00:33:03,247 There's fire and heat involved. 753 00:33:03,247 --> 00:33:07,752 It may feel uncomfortable to be refined, but that's our charge. 754 00:33:07,752 --> 00:33:11,255 Not to be refined and made more into the image 755 00:33:11,422 --> 00:33:14,392 and likeness of Christ. 756 00:33:14,392 --> 00:33:16,461 You're a fire Lord, the refiner. 757 00:33:16,461 --> 00:33:19,464 But I still want to be consumed because I have lots of rough edges 758 00:33:19,731 --> 00:33:21,432 and I want to look more like you. Jesus. 759 00:33:21,432 --> 00:33:23,034 I want to talk more. I'll let you. Jesus. 760 00:33:23,034 --> 00:33:24,869 And so I need to be in the fire a little bit. 761 00:33:25,970 --> 00:33:26,971 I do, 762 00:33:26,971 --> 00:33:28,940 and so maybe it's not running from the fire and saying, 763 00:33:28,940 --> 00:33:31,709 all right, God, what do you have for me in this fiery season? 764 00:33:31,709 --> 00:33:33,544 What am I supposed to learn here? 765 00:33:33,544 --> 00:33:35,847 I don't like it. It's uncomfortable. 766 00:33:35,847 --> 00:33:38,316 But if the outcome is I look more like you, Jesus, than not. 767 00:33:38,316 --> 00:33:41,319 I'll gladly sit in this because here's my life, right? 768 00:33:41,386 --> 00:33:42,687 That's the posture we're supposed to have. 769 00:33:42,687 --> 00:33:46,958 Easier said than done, of course, but that's the posture to look more like 770 00:33:46,958 --> 00:33:48,459 Jesus. 771 00:33:48,459 --> 00:33:51,462 And so here's kind of my takeaway as I process that out is this, 772 00:33:51,662 --> 00:33:52,430 that you and I, 773 00:33:52,430 --> 00:33:55,867 when we don't understand what God is doing or why we're in the season we're in, 774 00:33:56,401 --> 00:34:00,838 we have to cling to the reality that God is good all of the time. 775 00:34:01,339 --> 00:34:05,576 If we can cling to that reality, that, all right, God, this season's tough, 776 00:34:06,110 --> 00:34:08,513 but I know and remember when you showed up here 777 00:34:08,513 --> 00:34:11,082 and when you provided there and when you were helping me through this. 778 00:34:11,082 --> 00:34:13,418 If we can cling to that, that God is good. 779 00:34:13,418 --> 00:34:18,022 Same as Joseph, same as Daniel, that God is good amongst our circumstances. 780 00:34:18,022 --> 00:34:19,891 Yeah, life is tough, but God is good. 781 00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:22,760 It's going to help us to have that hope. 782 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,763 And that gift of hope is going to keep us going. 783 00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:27,932 It's going to keep us going. It's going to keep us going. 784 00:34:27,932 --> 00:34:30,902 This is the reality that God is good all the time. 785 00:34:30,902 --> 00:34:33,905 Can we hold on to that long enough for God to work and move 786 00:34:35,073 --> 00:34:38,042 and allow us to mature in Christ likeness? 787 00:34:39,210 --> 00:34:42,380 And then verse eight and nine, if we jump back into the text, 788 00:34:42,380 --> 00:34:45,383 Jesus with authority says, get up, 789 00:34:46,184 --> 00:34:49,187 pick up your mat and walk. 790 00:34:50,855 --> 00:34:52,690 And at once his body was healed. 791 00:34:52,690 --> 00:34:54,759 Just in those few words again. 792 00:34:54,759 --> 00:34:55,393 Can you imagine? 793 00:34:55,393 --> 00:34:55,960 From the brain 794 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,897 to the spine to the legs, that he could physically just do that, right? 795 00:34:59,897 --> 00:35:04,368 Just get up and walk and then to have the muscle ability to physically do it. 796 00:35:05,803 --> 00:35:08,806 And this dude just walks off. 797 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,142 I don't know, I've read this a lot and it's just like, 798 00:35:11,142 --> 00:35:13,311 just gloss over like, oh god, use it on the miracles. 799 00:35:13,311 --> 00:35:14,479 Like what? 800 00:35:14,479 --> 00:35:15,546 Don't rob garbage glory. 801 00:35:15,546 --> 00:35:18,282 Sit in this reality that God is amazing. Again. 802 00:35:18,282 --> 00:35:20,351 Like I said, 803 00:35:20,351 --> 00:35:23,087 this body still remembers its creators voice, 804 00:35:23,087 --> 00:35:26,457 and it still remembers like the authority that God has in its life, 805 00:35:26,457 --> 00:35:29,460 whether it's sinful and broken and knows yes or not. 806 00:35:30,294 --> 00:35:33,297 Our our body, you know it's creator's voice. 807 00:35:34,065 --> 00:35:37,068 Get up and walk. 808 00:35:37,201 --> 00:35:38,669 This guy's restored. 809 00:35:38,669 --> 00:35:41,005 And then just to kind of finish the story, 810 00:35:41,005 --> 00:35:42,940 the Pharisees are frustrated because it's a Sabbath 811 00:35:42,940 --> 00:35:44,909 and they're annoyed, but they don't want to give God the glory. 812 00:35:44,909 --> 00:35:47,011 And there's this whole back and forth and 813 00:35:47,011 --> 00:35:49,547 and then verse 14, I want to share that with you. 814 00:35:49,547 --> 00:35:50,948 I don't have it on the screen, but it says, 815 00:35:50,948 --> 00:35:53,084 This is Jesus talking to this gentleman. 816 00:35:53,084 --> 00:35:56,087 See, you are well again, like you're physically well again, 817 00:35:56,154 --> 00:35:59,490 but stop sinning or something worse may happen to you again. 818 00:35:59,490 --> 00:36:02,426 It's speaking to your your physical health. But where are you at spiritually? 819 00:36:03,361 --> 00:36:05,897 Where are you putting your hope and your faith in your trust spiritually? 820 00:36:05,897 --> 00:36:08,633 Again, it's that same question do you want to be made well? 821 00:36:08,633 --> 00:36:11,636 Do you want to be made well? 822 00:36:13,571 --> 00:36:14,772 I just I'm kind of blown away 823 00:36:14,772 --> 00:36:19,043 by by God's sovereignty here, his authority, his graciousness to heal. 824 00:36:19,410 --> 00:36:21,879 And I want to put this on the screen and kind of circle back 825 00:36:21,879 --> 00:36:24,882 to what Carl threw out maybe three weeks ago or four weeks ago. 826 00:36:25,082 --> 00:36:27,518 Life, legacy and eternity 827 00:36:27,518 --> 00:36:29,587 and process that through this story, 828 00:36:29,587 --> 00:36:32,590 life, legacy and eternity. 829 00:36:33,057 --> 00:36:36,060 Because as I process this story out, 830 00:36:36,394 --> 00:36:39,397 the story isn't just about a man being healed. 831 00:36:40,398 --> 00:36:43,801 It's about a bigger picture of Jesus bringing abundant lives. 832 00:36:44,869 --> 00:36:47,805 He's calling us to live a faithful legacy. 833 00:36:47,805 --> 00:36:49,607 He's preparing us for eternity with him. 834 00:36:50,942 --> 00:36:52,710 That's the story 835 00:36:52,710 --> 00:36:55,012 of life, legacy and eternity. 836 00:36:55,012 --> 00:36:57,148 I mean, think live for a second. 837 00:36:57,148 --> 00:37:00,151 Jesus meets us in our brokenness 838 00:37:00,918 --> 00:37:02,887 and he speaks life into us. 839 00:37:02,887 --> 00:37:05,890 He speaks life into you, and he speaks life into me. 840 00:37:06,257 --> 00:37:07,592 And here's this kind of application. 841 00:37:07,592 --> 00:37:10,895 I process it out that Jesus wants to breathe new life into us. 842 00:37:11,462 --> 00:37:13,197 He wants to heal our hearts. 843 00:37:13,197 --> 00:37:16,200 You know, it's a store of hope, and he wants to give us purpose right now. 844 00:37:16,300 --> 00:37:19,737 What does that purpose look like for you and him in union together? 845 00:37:20,371 --> 00:37:21,973 What does that purpose look like? 846 00:37:21,973 --> 00:37:24,976 He wants to bring you abundant life 847 00:37:25,443 --> 00:37:27,678 about legacy. 848 00:37:27,678 --> 00:37:30,781 Jesus calls you to live in a way that points others back to himself. 849 00:37:31,282 --> 00:37:32,116 That's the legacy. 850 00:37:32,116 --> 00:37:33,784 The work is finished. Jesus did it. 851 00:37:33,784 --> 00:37:37,488 We're just called to to share the good news and share the gospel. 852 00:37:39,824 --> 00:37:40,191 And so our 853 00:37:40,191 --> 00:37:43,194 application, our kind of our processing is, 854 00:37:44,095 --> 00:37:47,098 is what legacy are we leaving behind in the name of Jesus? 855 00:37:47,198 --> 00:37:50,201 What legacy are we leaving behind? 856 00:37:50,801 --> 00:37:51,369 And I love this. 857 00:37:51,369 --> 00:37:53,504 Do we carry bitterness? 858 00:37:53,504 --> 00:37:54,805 Do we carry frustration? Do we? 859 00:37:54,805 --> 00:37:56,841 Do we carry the hurt? 860 00:37:56,841 --> 00:37:59,977 Or do we carry our mat as a witness of God's glory and power in our lives? 861 00:38:00,611 --> 00:38:02,713 You can carry bitterness and be justified. 862 00:38:02,713 --> 00:38:04,515 There's a lot of letdowns in life. You can carry frustration. 863 00:38:04,515 --> 00:38:05,283 You can carry the pain. 864 00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:08,886 It exists, and it's not a constant like we all experience all of these things. 865 00:38:08,886 --> 00:38:10,888 It's real. 866 00:38:10,888 --> 00:38:12,156 Or we can say, all right, God, I'm going to leave. 867 00:38:12,156 --> 00:38:13,658 You're good all the time. 868 00:38:13,658 --> 00:38:16,661 I'm going to carry this man as a witness of your power 869 00:38:16,827 --> 00:38:19,230 and your authority and your might and your faithfulness 870 00:38:19,230 --> 00:38:22,099 and your goodness and your love and your whatever. 871 00:38:22,099 --> 00:38:22,333 Right. 872 00:38:22,333 --> 00:38:25,403 Like we can just sit in the power of God and carry that mat. 873 00:38:27,438 --> 00:38:29,940 And then eternity. 874 00:38:29,940 --> 00:38:32,943 Jesus secured your faith beyond this world, 875 00:38:33,044 --> 00:38:36,047 life with him forever. 876 00:38:37,081 --> 00:38:37,381 And it's 877 00:38:37,381 --> 00:38:40,384 this idea that I know we all want physical healing, 878 00:38:40,551 --> 00:38:42,553 but that's temporary. 879 00:38:42,553 --> 00:38:45,423 Physical healing is temporary eternity. 880 00:38:45,423 --> 00:38:47,158 That's what we look forward to, and that's what 881 00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:48,993 we have to have our hearts broken towards this world. 882 00:38:48,993 --> 00:38:51,996 Eternity. Who can we help save? 883 00:38:52,463 --> 00:38:54,999 Not because we're doing the work, or just because we're walking in lockstep 884 00:38:54,999 --> 00:38:57,034 with Jesus and sharing his goodness. 885 00:38:57,034 --> 00:38:58,536 He did the work. 886 00:38:58,536 --> 00:38:59,670 Physical healing is temporary. 887 00:38:59,670 --> 00:39:01,405 Salvation is eternal. 888 00:39:01,405 --> 00:39:03,641 Jesus didn't come to fix bodies. 889 00:39:03,641 --> 00:39:06,644 He came to save souls, came to save souls. 890 00:39:07,511 --> 00:39:10,081 And he says, Michael, I want to use you. 891 00:39:10,081 --> 00:39:12,817 I want, I want, I want you to go and I want you to do. 892 00:39:15,086 --> 00:39:17,154 I heard one song, it, you know, it highlights. 893 00:39:17,154 --> 00:39:18,956 Like God, there's so much brokenness in this world. 894 00:39:18,956 --> 00:39:21,959 I don't know, the lyrics just came to my head. 895 00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,495 And so there's so much brokenness is so much hurt, there's so much pain. 896 00:39:24,495 --> 00:39:26,697 And he said, yeah, I know I'm sending you. I've given you my spirit. 897 00:39:26,697 --> 00:39:29,600 Go and heal in my name. Go and live in my name. 898 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:30,534 Go and provide in my name. 899 00:39:30,534 --> 00:39:33,337 Going and bring encouragement in my name. 900 00:39:33,337 --> 00:39:35,906 I know there's brokenness and hurt, but go. 901 00:39:35,906 --> 00:39:38,042 I've given you the same spirit that Rose used from the dead. 902 00:39:38,042 --> 00:39:40,411 It lives in you, the same authority, same power. 903 00:39:40,411 --> 00:39:43,381 Go and do. 904 00:39:45,116 --> 00:39:48,452 And so it's cool that Pascale on our behalf and excel 905 00:39:48,452 --> 00:39:50,721 and what God's doing has gone and he's going and doing 906 00:39:50,721 --> 00:39:53,591 and I know many of you do here locally and on missions, 907 00:39:54,692 --> 00:39:56,861 but that's our encouragement 908 00:39:56,861 --> 00:39:58,763 this morning to is to not lose hope, 909 00:39:58,763 --> 00:40:02,233 to not go through the motions, to not to not have a hard heart towards God. 910 00:40:02,366 --> 00:40:03,300 That when the enters, no 911 00:40:03,300 --> 00:40:06,804 or not yet to be to to sit in the reality that God is good all the time, 912 00:40:07,171 --> 00:40:08,973 to not give in to the temptation to say, you know what? 913 00:40:08,973 --> 00:40:10,241 This isn't fair. 914 00:40:10,241 --> 00:40:11,876 I'm done. 915 00:40:11,876 --> 00:40:12,877 Live a life like Joseph. 916 00:40:12,877 --> 00:40:14,211 Live a life like Daniel. 917 00:40:14,211 --> 00:40:17,214 Ultimately, live a life like Jesus. 918 00:40:17,882 --> 00:40:18,983 And I want to do a little bit of you. 919 00:40:18,983 --> 00:40:23,454 See stuff with you this morning as we wrap up every week, we come together. 920 00:40:23,454 --> 00:40:25,623 So we'll be together tomorrow night. 921 00:40:25,623 --> 00:40:27,992 Dinner games, worship, teaching. 922 00:40:27,992 --> 00:40:29,760 And then we go to small groups in the night. Right. 923 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:31,862 And I always give leaders small group questions. 924 00:40:31,862 --> 00:40:34,532 And so I want to put this question on the screen for you this morning. 925 00:40:34,532 --> 00:40:37,101 This is what our, what our leaders and kids do every week. 926 00:40:37,101 --> 00:40:39,970 Because how many times you go home and you have lunch and you take a nap 927 00:40:39,970 --> 00:40:42,239 and you wake up, be like, what did we talk about at church? 928 00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,409 I already forgot, I we're in John five, but what the heck do we talk about? 929 00:40:45,409 --> 00:40:47,478 And so I have these put it out for you 930 00:40:47,478 --> 00:40:49,380 there in the back of the room there in the welcome center. 931 00:40:49,380 --> 00:40:51,182 Take it if you want it as a bookmark 932 00:40:51,182 --> 00:40:54,118 in your in your Bible, or just take a picture of it. 933 00:40:54,118 --> 00:40:56,454 These are five questions for you to answer this week. 934 00:40:56,454 --> 00:40:58,522 How for you to process the text? 935 00:40:58,522 --> 00:40:59,256 And the first one is this. 936 00:40:59,256 --> 00:41:01,025 The man at the pool waited 38 years. 937 00:41:02,793 --> 00:41:05,262 How do you think his hope and expectations change over time? 938 00:41:05,262 --> 00:41:08,265 And what does that teach us about waiting on God? 939 00:41:08,466 --> 00:41:11,469 Question two Jesus asked, do you want to be healed? 940 00:41:12,703 --> 00:41:13,871 Why do you think he asked that? 941 00:41:13,871 --> 00:41:16,874 And what might that question look like in your own life right now? 942 00:41:17,308 --> 00:41:19,710 Question three the man was focused on the pool 943 00:41:19,710 --> 00:41:22,713 instead of Jesus sitting right in front of him. 944 00:41:22,980 --> 00:41:25,983 What are some pools or distractions or false hopes 945 00:41:26,116 --> 00:41:28,886 that we tend to focus on instead of Jesus? 946 00:41:28,886 --> 00:41:30,821 Question for 947 00:41:30,821 --> 00:41:33,824 have you ever felt like God showed up for someone else, but not for you? 948 00:41:35,192 --> 00:41:38,195 How do you wrestle with those moments while still trusting God's goodness? 949 00:41:38,329 --> 00:41:41,532 And the last one is, as the story showed, Jesus noticing the one person 950 00:41:41,532 --> 00:41:41,999 in the crowd, 951 00:41:42,933 --> 00:41:44,134 how can we live like Jesus 952 00:41:44,134 --> 00:41:47,171 and see the one that golfing right in front of us? 953 00:41:48,339 --> 00:41:52,309 So challenging questions and good, honest I think processing questions. 954 00:41:53,143 --> 00:41:56,146 And so if you want one, take one please. 955 00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:57,982 Pascal will be back with us. 956 00:41:57,982 --> 00:42:00,985 We're going to get to hear fun stories and celebrate with him next week. 957 00:42:01,018 --> 00:42:02,353 So come on back. But let's pray. 958 00:42:02,353 --> 00:42:04,722 And we're going to do one more song together. This morning 959 00:42:04,722 --> 00:42:06,223 okay? 960 00:42:06,223 --> 00:42:08,893 God, you are good. 961 00:42:08,893 --> 00:42:11,896 We thank you for your faithfulness. 962 00:42:11,929 --> 00:42:14,932 We thank you that. 963 00:42:15,199 --> 00:42:16,200 You are patient with us. 964 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:17,535 We thank you that you are personal. 965 00:42:17,535 --> 00:42:19,970 We thank you that you are loving and kind God. 966 00:42:19,970 --> 00:42:23,207 And we thank you that you have sought us out and you have redeemed us. 967 00:42:23,607 --> 00:42:25,276 You have made us a new creation. 968 00:42:25,276 --> 00:42:29,480 Lord, help us to be bold in that newness and to live for you 969 00:42:30,881 --> 00:42:32,550 and to process what you have for us. 970 00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:33,117 When the answer is 971 00:42:33,117 --> 00:42:37,087 no, we're not yet to live in the reality that we don't have all the answers. 972 00:42:37,087 --> 00:42:40,090 But God, you are good. 973 00:42:40,257 --> 00:42:43,260 Help us, Lord, to encourage each other and to see the one 974 00:42:44,495 --> 00:42:46,997 that you have called us to serve, 975 00:42:46,997 --> 00:42:49,266 and to see you right in front of our face. 976 00:42:49,266 --> 00:42:52,870 Lord God, we want to give you glory 977 00:42:52,870 --> 00:42:56,340 and we want to repent for the sins of our lives. 978 00:42:56,340 --> 00:42:58,175 Lord, 979 00:42:58,175 --> 00:43:01,178 please continue to inspire us to lean in as a community, 980 00:43:02,279 --> 00:43:04,014 to be in your word 981 00:43:04,014 --> 00:43:06,517 and to be in service of others. 982 00:43:06,517 --> 00:43:08,252 We thank you for this morning, for this space. 983 00:43:08,252 --> 00:43:10,287 We pray this all in your name, Jesus. Amen.