(A Bridge That Leans Over Troubled Water)

JOHN 5:7-9 THE IMPOTENT MAN ANSWERED HIM

SIR` I HAVE NO MAN ,WHEN THE WATER IS

TROUBLED TO PUT ME INTO THE POOL; BUT WHILE

I`M COMING ,ANOTHER STEPPETH DOWN BEFORE

ME

8. JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM ,RISE,TAKE UP THY BED AND WALK

9.AND IMMEDIATLEY THE MAN WAS MADE

WHOLE,TOOK UP HIS BED AND WALKEDAND ON

THE SAME DAY WAS THE SABBATH

THE WORD OF GOD FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD

(A BRIDGE THAT LEANS OVER TROUBLED WATER)

MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS

IN THE TEXT BEFORE US

JESUS IS AT THE FEAST OF FEASTIVLS

AND HE ENTERED THIS FEAST BY THE SHEEP GATE AND CAME TO A POOL CALLED BETHESDA

AND THERE AT THE POOL WAS SOME SICK FOLKS

WHO WHERE IMPOTENT,HALT ,BLIND AND

WITHERED

AND THESE PEOPLE AT THE POOL OF BETHESDA

WAS IN SOME SITUATIONS THAT THEY DID`NT

WON`T TO BE IN

AND IF THE TRUTH BE TOLD WE ALL FIND

OURSELVES IN SOME SITUATIONS THAT WE DON`T

WANT TO BE IN

YOUR SITUATION MIGHT BE ONE THING AND MINES

MIGHT BE ANOTHER

BUT IN LIFE WE ALL FIND OURSELVES IN CERTAIN

SITUATIONS

FOR IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT WE FIND OURSELVES IN 3 SITUATIONS IN LIFE

AND THAT IS GOING INTO A SITUATION

IN THE MIDDLE OF A SITUATION

OR COMING OUT OF A SITUATION

AND JUST IN CASE THERE IS SOMEONE UNDER THE

SOUND OF MY VOICE IS COMING OUT OF A

SITUATION I NEED TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO GET

READ UP –PRAYED UP AND SUITED UP IN THE

ARMOR OF GOD BECAUSE ANOTHER SITUATION

JUST MIGHT BE HEADED YOUR WAY

THAT WE DON`T WON`T TO BE IN

SOME SITUATIONS THAT ARE UNWANTED

SITUATIONS THAT ARE UNFAVORABLE

SITUATIONS THAT ARE UNCOMFORTABLE

SEE WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF WITH MORE BILLS

THAN MONEY –YOUR IN A BAD SITUATION

WHEN YOUR FRIENDS TALK MORE ABOUT YOU THAN TO YOU -----YOUR IN A BAD SITUATION

WHEN YOU SPEND MORE TIME AT ANNIE MAE`S

AND THE CABBAGE PATCH THEN YOU DO AT THE

LORD`S HOUSE ---YOUR IN A BAD SITUATION WHEN YOU RATHER PLAY LOTTERY TICKETS THAN

PAY YOUR TITHES AND OFFERING- YOUR IN A BAD

SITUATION

THESE PEOPLE IN THE TEXT WHO ARE AT THE POOL

OF BETHESDA WAS IN A SITUATION THAY THEY

DID`NT WANT TO BE IN

THE RECORD REVEALS THAT THESE PEOPLE WERE

AT THE POOL

BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE IN A CERTAIN SEASON THAT

AN ANGEL CAME DOWN AND STIRRED THE WATER

AND WHOEVER GOT IN FRIST WOULD BE HEALED

OF WHAT EVER

BUT WHAT THE PEOPLE AT THE POOL FAIL TO

REALIZE

THERE WAS NO NEED TO WAIT ON THE ANGEL

BECAUSE IN THER MIDIST WAS A BRIDGE THAT

LEANS OVER TROUBLED WATER

AND YOU DO KNOW THAT JESUS IS ABRIDGE THAT

LEANS OVER TROUBLED WATER

THE TEXT REVEALS THAT AT THIS POOL WAS MAN

THAT HAD BEEN BOUND BY HIS CONDITION FOR 38

YEARS

WHO HAD AN IMFIRMITY AND WAS CRIPPLE

AND JUST LIKE THIS MAN WAS CRIPPLED

PHYSICALLY

THERE IS A LOT OF US WHO PROFESS TO BE THE

BLOOD BOUGHT SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD

WHO ARE CRIPPLED SPIRITUALLY

YOU SEE MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS

WHEN YOU COME TO GOD`S HOUSE LIFTING UP

HOLY HANDS BUT WON`T LIFT A HAND TO HELP

SOMEBODY -----YOUR CRIPPLE

WHEN YOU COME TO GOD`S HOUSE RASING $

10.000 WORTH OF HELL AND WON`T EVEN PUT A DOLLAR IN THE COLLECTION PLATE YOU ARE –

CRIPPLED

WHEN YOU GOSSIP MORE THAN YOU SHARE THE GOSPEL ---YOUR CRIPPLED

WHEN YOU SPEND MORE TIME ON THE HELL OF

PHONE THAN YOU DO THE WORD OF GOD YOUR

CRIPPLED

A BAD ATTIDUDE WILL CRIPPLE YOU

WHEN YOU RATHER BE A SUNDAY MORNING

STANDOUT AND A WEDNESDAY NIGHT BIBLE CLASS

YOUR CRIPPLED

THIS MAN IN THE TEXT WAS CRIPPLE FOR 38 YRS BUT WHEN JESUS SHOWED UP .

AND YOU DO KNOW WHEN JESUS SHOWS UP HE

ALWAYS SHOWS OUT

BECAUSE WHEN JESUS SHOWED UP (GRACE &

MERCY SHOWED UP

WHEN JESUS SHOWED UP HEALING SHOWED UP

A DOCTOR IN A SICK ROOM SHOWED UP

WHEN JESUS SHOWED UP DELIVERANCE SHOWED

UP

YOU SEE MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS

WHAT THIS MAN NEEDED THE MOST COULD NOT

BE FOUND IN THE POOL

BUT WHAT HE NEEDED THE MOST WAS JESUS

CHRIST

BECAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE JESUS YOU HAVE ALL

YOU NEED

THE RECORD REVEALS

THAT JESUS ASK THIS MAN A 5 WORD QUESTION

AND THE MAN IN THE TEXT GAVE JESUS A 27 WORD EXCUSE

BUT I NEED TO PULL OVER AND PUT ON MY

EMERGENCY PRAISE FLASHERS

AND LET YOU KNOW THAT JESUS IS ASKING US THE

SAME QUESTION

WILT THOU BE MADE WHOLE

BUT WHAT KIND OF EXCUSE OR YOU GIVING JESUS

YOU SEE MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS

WHEN JESUS ASK THE MAN WILL THOU BE MADE WHOLE

JESUS WAS TELLING THE MAN TO TAKE HIS MIND