John 5:1–13 (ESV) 1 After this, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. 10 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” 11 But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’ ” 12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” 13 Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. The Pool of Bethesda Bethesda: House of Mercy.
The Missing Verse? John 5:4 (NKJV) For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.
His Broken Hope 1. Broken Hope in People Our hope is not in others
2. Broken Hope in Methods Psalm 20:7 (NIV) Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
3. Broken Hope in Timing “We are not trusting timing; we are trusting God in the tension of timing.”
“We are not waiting for an event to happen, we are living from an event that already happened.”
4. Broken Hope in Resources “Scarcity is the language of the system. Abundance is the language of the Kingdom.” “Jesus is our source.”
Ephesians 3:16 (NIV) I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being.
Jesus showed him Real & Living Hope 1 Peter 1:3 (ESV) According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. “Jesus doesn’t provide stirred water; he provides living water!”
John 5:8(ESV) “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” 1. Get up 2. Take up your bed “What you were once bound to now speaks your breakthrough!” 3. And walk.
John 5:14 (ESV) Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”
“Don’t confuse a moment with Jesus… for a life in Jesus.”
1 John 1:6–7 (ESV) 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
