JOHN 5:1-9
1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus
went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a
pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda,
having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of
blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the
water.
4 For an angel went down at a certain season into
the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then
first after the troubling of the water stepped in was
made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
5 And a certain man was there, which had an
infirmity thirty and eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had
been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him,
Wilt thou be made whole?
7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no
man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the
pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down
before me.
8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and
walk.
9 And immediately the man was made whole, and
took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day
was the sabbath.
THE WORD OF GOD FOR THE
CHILDREN OF GOD
VERY BRIEFLY IF I COULD GET A
BAPTIST AMEN- A METHODIST NOD
AND A SANITIFIED CHURCH
HALLELUJAH
I WANT TO REASON WITH YOU ON
THE THOUGHT
(WHEN JESUS REWRITES YOUR
STORY )
MY BROTHERS AND MY SISTERS
WHAT EVER JESUS HAS DONE FOR
YOU
IT`S WORTH TALKING ABOUT
BECAUSE JESUS HAS NOT DONE
FOR YOU WHATEVER HE HAS DONE
FOR YOU TO BE QUITE AND
RESERVED
BECAUSE WHEN JESUS DOES WHAT
HE DOES
HE DOES NOT DO IT FOR NOTHING
BUT HE DOES IT THAT MANKIND
MAY REPORT IT ---THAT JESUS
REWROTE OUR STORY
THEREFORE WHATEVER JESUS HAS
DONE FOR YOU IS WORTH TALKING
ABOUT
IF THE LORD HAS ANSWERED YOUR
PRAYERS
LIFTED YOUR BURDENS -AND
THOSE HE DID`NT LIFT HE GAVE
YOU STRENGHT TO BEAR THEM
IF THE LORD HAS LED YOU INTO
THE GREEN PASTURES OF PLENTY
AND WALK WITH YOU BESIDES THE
STILL WATERS OF PEACE
PREPARED A TABLE FOR YOU
BEFORE YOUR HATERS
DRIED YOUR TEARS
MENDED YOUR BROKEN HEART
MADE AWAY OUT OF NO WAY
MADE YOUR ENEMIES YOUR
FOOTSTOOL
( REACH OVER AND GIVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR A HIGH FIVE AND TELL
THEM
–JESUS REWROTE YOUR STORY
IN THE TEXT BEFORE US
JESUS REWRITES THE STORY OF A
MAN WHO WAS LAME
AND IN BY DOING SO HE REVEAL TO
US HIS POWER OVER TIME
BECAUSE THIS MAN HAD BEEN IN
THIS SAD CONDITION FOR THIRTY
EIGHT YEARS
AND HIS CONDITION WAS OLDER
THAN JESUS TIME HERE ON EARTH
THE RECORD REVEALS THAT
JESUS IS ON HIS WAY TO THE
FEAST OF THE JEWS
FOR HE HAD JUST REWROTE THE
STORY OF THE NOBLEMAN`S SON IN
CANA OF GALILEE BY SPEAKING
LIFE INTO HIS SON SITUATION 20
MILES AWAY IN CAPERNAUM
AND JOHN SAYS THAT
HE ENTER JERUSALEM BY THE
SHEEP GATE
AND THERE BY THE SHEEP GATE
WAS A POOL CALLED BETHESDA
AND AT THE POOL WAS SEVERAL
GROUPS OF PEOPLE WHO WAS
BLIND ,HALT AND WITHERED
BUT JESUS SAW A CERTAIN MAN
AND REWRITES HIS STORY
FOR THIS MAN IS IN A SITUATION
THAT ONLY THE LORD CAN FIX
AND I WONDER IS THERE ANYBODY
HERE THAT EVER FOUND YOURSELF
IN SOME SITUATIONS IN LIFE THAT
ONLY THE LORD CAN FIX
IF THE TRUTH BE TOLD
IT`S SOMEONE SITTING ON THE
SAME ROW YOU`RE SITTING ON
JUST MIGHT BE SITTING IN THE
SAME SEAT YOU ARE SITTING IN
WHO IS SICK IN YOUR BODY
IT MIGHT BE SOMEONE WHO HAS
BEEN STRUGGLING IN 2017
STRUGGLING WITH FINANCIAL
ISSUES
STRUGGLING WITH LEGAL ISSUES
STRUGGLING WITH A WAYWARD
CHILD
STRUGGLING WITH A DEMONIC
ATTACK FROM THE CORRIDORS OF
HELL
AND THE WORD THAT GOD HAS FOR
YOU TODAY IS
HE`S ABOUT TO REWRITE YOUR
STORY
BECAUSE HE IS ABOUT TO FLIP THE
SCRIPT IN YOUR STORY
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NOTICE ---NOTICE ---NOTICE
THE MAN AT THE POOL HAD BEEN
THERE 38 YEARS
AND HIS STORY HAD BEEN SAD FOR
38 YEARS
BUT JESUS PASSES BY THE SHEEP
GATE JUST TO REWRITE HIS STORY
WELL THE 1ST THING I NOTICE IS
--- THE LORD POSES A QUESTION TO
HIM
FOR HE ASK THE MAN DO YOU
WANT TO BE MADE WHOLE
FOR THE WORD WHOLE IS
OPPOSITE OF THE WORD
SHATTERED
IN SHORT – JESUS IS SAYING TO
HIM
I CAN SEE THAT YOUR LIFE HAS
BEEN SHATTERED FOR 38 YEARS
BUT ARE YOU READY FOR ME TO
TAKE YOUR SHATTERED PIECES
AND TRANFORM YOU IN TO A
MASTERPEICE
BUT THE SHOCKER IS
INSTEAD OF THE MAN SAYING YES
HE BEGINS TO FOCUS ON HIS PAST
WHICH SUGGEST THAT HE WAS NOT
READY TO GET UP BECAUSE HE
HAD BECOME CONTENT WITH HIS
PAST
BUT WHEN THE LORD IS ABOUT TO
REWRITE YOUR STORY NOT EVEN
YOU CAN STOP HIM
EVEN THOUGH JESUS ASK THE
MAN A 5 WORD QUESTON
AND THE MAN GAVE HIM A 26 WORD
ANSWER
JESUS TELL HIM TO RISE TAKE UP
THY BED AND WALK
AND THAT’S A WORD FOR
SOMEBODY HERE THIS
MORNING/EVENING
BECAUSE YOUR PAST STORY GOT
YOU LYING DOWN
BUT JESUS IS TELLING YOU TO GET
UP
YOUR PAST STORY GOT YOU
LOCKED OUT
BUT JESUS IS THE KEY TO LET YOU
BACK IN
YOUR PAST STORY GOT YOU SICK
BUT JESUS IS A HEALER WHO
DECLARES THAT BY HIS STRIPES
YOU ARE HEAL
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WELL NOT ONLY WILL JESUS FLIP
THE SCRIPT AND REWRITE YOUR
STORY
BUT THE TEXT ALSO SUGGESTS
THAT WHAT USE TO MAKE YOU CRY
IN THE PAST JESUS WILL GIVE YOU
A REASON TO SHOUT ABOUT IT IN
THE FUTURE
NOTICE ---NOTICE –NOTICE
JESUS DID`NT JUST TELL THE MAN
TO RISE
BUT HE TOLD HIM TO RISE AND
TAKE HIS BED WITH HIM
YOU SEE MY BROTHERS AND
SISTERS
THE BED HAD BEEN A SORE SPOT
FOR HIM
BECAUSE THE BED HELD 38 YEARS
OF TEARS ,HURT AND PAIN
BUT JESUS TELLS HIM TO TAKE
THE BED
AND THE REASON WHY IS
FOR 38 YEARS THE BED CARRIED
HIM
BUT WHEN JESUS REWROTE HIS
STORY NOW HE`S CARRYING THE
BED
IN OTHER WORDS
WHAT USE TO MAKE HIM CRY
WOULD NOW BE THE SOURCE OF
HIS SHOUT
BECAUSE EVERYTIME HE WOULD
LOOK AT THE BED IT WOULD
REMIND HIM HOW JESUS REWROTE
HIS STORY
IT WOULD REMIND HIM WHAT
JESUS HAD DONE
WHAT JESUS WAS DOING
AND WHAT JESUS WOULD
CONTINUE TO DO
BECAUSE WE SERVE A GOD WHO
CAN TAKE THE PROBLEMS OF OUR
PAST AND MAKE IT BECOME THE
SOURCE OF OUR PRAISE IN OUR
FUTURE
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WELL NOT ONLY WILL JESUS FLIP
THE SCRIPT IN YOUR STORY
AND TAKE WHAT USE TO MAKE YOU
CRY IN THE PAST AND GIVE YOU A
REASON TO SHOUT ABOUT IT IN THE
FUTURE
BUT HE TEXT ALSO SUGGEST THAT
WHEN JESUS REWRITE YOUR STORY
YOU HAVE TO TELL IT
Once this healed man left the
presence of Jesus, he made his way
to the temple.
On his way to the temple, the Jews
were saying to him that it was not
permissible for him to be carrying the
burden of his pallet on the Sabbath.
He had carried the burden of his
sickness for thirty-eight years and no
one criticized him for carrying that
burden.
But just when he started to carry
what was a visible reminder of his
past, the religious hypocrites began to
criticize.
This healed man did not put his pallet
down, he told the Jews that he was
following the command of the man
who had healed him.
If Jesus had the authority to call
sickness out of this man’s body, he
also had the authority to tell the man
what to do on the Sabbath.
After all, the Sabbath was made for
man and not man for the Sabbath. And
Jesus is the Master of the Sabbath
(Mark 2:27-28).
Once this healed man met Jesus in
the temple, he began to confess him
before men. He left the temple and
told the Jews that it was Jesus who
had made him well
