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Do You Want To Be Well?
Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Apr 4, 2019 (message contributor)
Summary: WE ARE A BROKEN PEOPLE LIVING IN A SHATTERED WORLD, JESUS IS ASKING DO YOU WANT TO BE WELL ?
DO YOU WANT TO BE WELL (JOHN 5:1-8)
INTRO:
Do You Want To Be well ?
We are all Hurting people living in a shattered world.
We all needing someone to fix us.
Only Jesus can make you well.
Do you want to be well?
Jesus is asking “ Do you want to get well”?
TEXT: JOHN 5:1-8
5 After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda[a] in Hebrew, which has five colonnades.[b] 3 Within these lay a large number of the sick—blind, lame, and paralyzed [—waiting for the moving of the water, 4 because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had].[c]
5 One man was there who had been sick for 38 years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had already been there a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to get well?”
7 “Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don’t have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”
8 “Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk!” 9 Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
1. DECIDE IF WE WANT TO BE WELL
2. STOP MAKING EXCUSES
3. DO SOMETHING
1. DECIDE IF WE WANT TO BE WELL
1.) JESUS ALREADY KNEW HIS CONDITION, YET HE ASK “DO YOU WANT TO GET WELL.
2.) THE MAN WAS FACED WITH A CHOICE, DO I REALL WANT TO BE HEALED.
3.) 38 YEARS BEGGING, NOT HAVING TO WORK, IF HE IS HEALED ALL INCOME IS LOST
4.) PEOPLE FELT SORRY FOR HIM. NOW THAT HE HAS BEEN HEALED, HE WILL HAVE TO WORK AND TAKE
RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS LIFE, PERHAPS HE IS CONCERENED
2.STOP MAKING EXCUSES
1.) THE MAN DIDN’T ANSWER JESUS’ QUESTION BUT, MADE AN EXCUSE” I HAVE NO ONE TO PUT
ME IN THE POOL.
2.) HE LISTS HIS TROUBLES
3. DO SOMETHING
1.) JESUS TOLD HIM TO PICK UP HIS BED AND WALK
2.) HE DID
Things that keep us from getting healed:
1. Pride – I don’t want to change, I don’t have to change, I don’t need to change.
2. Unworthiness – I don’t deserve to be healed.
3. Fear – what if I do change?
4. What excuse are you making?
Do you want to be healed?
1. ARE YOU PHYSICALLY SICK
1.) DECIDE IF WE WANT TO BE WELL
2.) STOP MAKING EXCUSES
3.) DO SOMETHING
2. DO YOU HAVE ANXIETY
1.) DECIDE IF WE WANT TO BE WELL
2.) STOP MAKING EXCUSES
3.) DO SOMETHING
3. ARE YOU FULL OF FEAR
1.) DECIDE IF WE WANT TO BE WELL
2.) STOP MAKING EXCUSES
3.) DO SOMETHING
4. ARE YOU PRIDEFUL
1.) DECIDE IF WE WANT TO BE WELL
2.) STOP MAKING EXCUSES
3.) DO SOMETHING
5. ARE YOU INSECURE
1.) DECIDE IF WE WANT TO BE WELL
2.) STOP MAKING EXCUSES
3.) DO SOMETHING
6. ARE YOU FULL OF DOUBT
1.) DECIDE IF WE WANT TO BE WELL
2.) STOP MAKING EXCUSES
3.) DO SOMETHING
7. DO YOU NEED A JOB
1.) DECIDE IF WE WANT TO BE WELL
2.) STOP MAKING EXCUSES
3.) DO SOMETHING
8. ARE YOU IN FINICAL STRESS
1.) DECIDE IF WE WANT TO BE WELL
2.) STOP MAKING EXCUSES
3.) DO SOMETHING
9. ARE YOU IN MENTAL STRESS
1.) DECIDE IF WE WANT TO BE WELL
2.) STOP MAKING EXCUSES
3.) DO SOMETHING
Do you want to be healed?
