JESUS SAID:
JOHN 5:1-14
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, WHICH IS CALLED IN HEBREW, BETHESDA, HAVING FIVE PORCHES.
3 IN THESE LAY A GREAT MULTITUDE OF SICK PEOPLE, BLIND, LAME, PARALYZED, WAITING FOR THE MOVING OF THE WATER.
4 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.
5 NOW A CERTAIN MAN WAS THERE WHO HAD AN INFIRMITY THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS.
6 WHEN JESUS SAW HIM LYING THERE, AND KNEW THAT HE ALREADY HAD BEEN IN THAT CONDITION A LONG TIME, HE SAID TO HIM, "DO YOU WANT TO BE MADE WELL?"
7 THE SICK MAN ANSWERED HIM, "SIR, I HAVE NO MAN TO PUT ME INTO THE POOL WHEN THE WATER IS STIRRED UP; BUT WHILE I AM COMING, ANOTHER STEPS DOWN BEFORE ME."
8 JESUS SAID TO HIM, "RISE, TAKE UP YOUR BED AND WALK."
9 AND IMMEDIATELY THE MAN WAS MADE WELL, TOOK UP HIS BED, AND WALKED. AND THAT DAY WAS THE SABBATH.
10 THE JEWS THEREFORE SAID TO HIM WHO WAS CURED, "IT IS THE SABBATH; IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR YOU TO CARRY YOUR BED."
11 HE ANSWERED THEM, "HE WHO MADE ME WELL SAID TO ME, ’TAKE UP YOUR BED AND WALK.’ "
12 THEN THEY ASKED HIM, "WHO IS THE MAN WHO SAID TO YOU, ’TAKE UP YOUR BED AND WALK’?"
13 BUT THE ONE WHO WAS HEALED DID NOT KNOW WHO IT WAS, FOR JESUS HAD WITHDRAWN, A MULTITUDE BEING IN THAT PLACE.
14 AFTERWARD JESUS FOUND HIM IN THE TEMPLE, AND SAID TO HIM, "SEE, YOU HAVE BEEN MADE WELL. SIN NO MORE, LEST A WORSE THING COME UPON YOU."
(NKJV)
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 3:5
"UNLESS ONE IS BORN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
JOHN 3:17-18
FOR GOD DID NOT SEND HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD, BUT THAT THE WORLD THROUGH HIM MIGHT BE SAVED.
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 5:14
"SEE, YOU HAVE BEEN MADE WELL. SIN NO MORE, LEST A WORSE THING COME UPON YOU."
JOHN 5:24
"MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, HE WHO HEARS MY WORD AND BELIEVES IN HIM WHO SENT ME HAS EVERLASTING LIFE, AND SHALL NOT COME INTO JUDGMENT, BUT HAS PASSED FROM DEATH INTO LIFE.
JOHN 5:25
THE HOUR IS COMING, AND NOW IS, WHEN THE DEAD WILL HEAR THE VOICE OF THE SON OF GOD; AND THOSE WHO HEAR WILL LIVE.
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 5:28-29
THE HOUR IS COMING IN WHICH ALL WHO ARE IN THE GRAVES WILL HEAR HIS VOICE,
AND COME FORTH--THOSE WHO HAVE DONE GOOD, TO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE, AND THOSE WHO HAVE DONE EVIL, TO THE RESURRECTION OF CONDEMNATION.
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 5:39-40
YOU SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES, FOR IN THEM YOU THINK YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE; AND THESE ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME.
BUT YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO COME TO ME THAT YOU MAY HAVE LIFE.
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 6:27
DO NOT LABOR FOR THE FOOD WHICH PERISHES, BUT FOR THE FOOD WHICH ENDURES TO EVERLASTING LIFE, WHICH THE SON OF MAN WILL GIVE YOU, BECAUSE GOD THE FATHER HAS SET HIS SEAL ON HIM."
JOHN 6:35
"I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE. HE WHO COMES TO ME SHALL NEVER HUNGER, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME SHALL NEVER THIRST.
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 6:43
"DO NOT MURMUR AMONG YOURSELVES.
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 6:44
NO ONE CAN COME TO ME UNLESS THE FATHER WHO SENT ME DRAWS HIM;
JOHN 6:47
HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME HAS EVERLASTING LIFE.
JOHN 6:53
"UNLESS YOU EAT THE FLESH OF THE SON OF MAN AND DRINK HIS BLOOD, YOU HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU.
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 7:24
DO NOT JUDGE ACCORDING TO APPEARANCE."
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 7:37
"IF ANYONE THIRSTS, LET HIM COME TO ME AND DRINK.
JOHN 8:7
"LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN, THROW THE FIRST STONE."
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 8:12
"I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. HE WHO FOLLOWS ME SHALL NOT WALK IN DARKNESS, BUT HAVE THE LIGHT OF LIFE."
JOHN 8:31-32
"IF YOU ABIDE IN MY WORD, YOU ARE MY DISCIPLES INDEED.
AND YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE."
JOHN 8:34
"WHOEVER COMMITS SIN IS A SLAVE OF SIN.
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 8:51
IF ANYONE KEEPS MY WORD HE SHALL NEVER SEE DEATH."
JOHN 10:11
I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD. THE GOOD SHEPHERD GIVES HIS LIFE FOR THE SHEEP.
JOHN 11:25-26
"I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE. HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME, THOUGH HE MAY DIE, HE SHALL LIVE.
AND WHOEVER LIVES AND BELIEVES IN ME SHALL NEVER DIE.
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 13:34-35
A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE TO YOU, THAT YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER; AS I HAVE LOVED YOU, THAT YOU ALSO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
BY THIS ALL WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE MY DISCIPLES, IF YOU HAVE LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER."
JOHN 14:6
"I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME.
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 14:15
"IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.
JOHN 14:26
THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHOM THE FATHER WILL SEND IN MY NAME, HE WILL TEACH YOU ALL THINGS, AND BRING TO YOUR REMEMBRANCE ALL THINGS THAT I SAID TO YOU.
JOHN 15:1-2
"I AM THE TRUE VINE, AND MY FATHER IS THE VINEDRESSER.
EVERY BRANCH IN ME THAT DOES NOT BEAR FRUIT HE TAKES AWAY; AND EVERY BRANCH THAT BEARS FRUIT HE PRUNES, THAT IT MAY BEAR MORE FRUIT.
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 15:5-6
I AM THE VINE, YOU ARE THE BRANCHES. HE WHO ABIDES IN ME, AND I IN HIM, BEARS MUCH FRUIT; FOR WITHOUT ME YOU CAN DO NOTHING.
IF ANYONE DOES NOT ABIDE IN ME, HE IS CAST OUT AS A BRANCH AND IS WITHERED; AND THEY GATHER THEM AND THROW THEM INTO THE FIRE, AND THEY ARE BURNED.
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 15:12-13
THIS IS MY COMMANDMENT, THAT YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU.
GREATER LOVE HAS NO ONE THAN THIS, THAN TO LAY DOWN ONE’S LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.
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JESUS SAID:
JOHN 19:11
"YOU COULD HAVE NO POWER AT ALL AGAINST ME UNLESS IT HAD BEEN GIVEN YOU FROM ABOVE.
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 19:28
"I THIRST!"
JESUS SAID:
JOHN 19:30
"IT IS FINISHED!"
JESUS SAID:
REV 1:11
"I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, THE FIRST AND THE LAST”,
REV 1:18
I AM HE WHO LIVES, AND WAS DEAD, AND BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE FOREVERMORE. AMEN. AND I HAVE THE KEYS OF HADES AND OF DEATH.
REV 16:15
15 BEHOLD, I AM COMING AS A THIEF.
REV 22:12-13
"AND BEHOLD, I AM COMING QUICKLY, AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME, TO GIVE TO EVERY ONE ACCORDING TO HIS WORK.
I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END, THE FIRST AND THE LAST."
JESUS SAID:
REV 3:20
BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK. IF ANYONE HEARS MY VOICE AND OPENS THE DOOR, I WILL COME IN TO HIM AND DINE WITH HIM, AND HE WITH ME.
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JOHN 5:14
"SEE, YOU HAVE BEEN MADE WELL. SIN NO MORE, LEST A WORSE THING COME UPON YOU."
IN THE BEGINNING, IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, THERE WAS NO SIN. THEN SIN ENTERED OUR WORLD AND FLAW, ERROR, DEFECT AND IMPERFECTION CAME WITH IT.
THIS IS WHY THEY BELIEVE THAT ALL SICKNESS AND DISEASE IS CAUSED BY SIN.
THE MAN JESUS HEALED WAS CONFINED TO HIS BED FOR 38 YEARS. JESUS TOLD HIM SIN NO MORE, LEST A WORSE THING COME UPON YOU.
WHAT COULD BE WORSE THAN CONFINEMENT TO BED? ETERNAL DEATH! ETERNAL DEATH IS THE WORSE THING THAT CAN HAPPEN TO US. HELL WAS COMPARED TO THE VALLEY OF HINNOM, AND THAT’S WHERE SOME WILL END UP, FOREVER!
I HEARD BILLY GRAHAM THE OTHER NIGHT, HE ASKED THE QUESTION HE HAS ASKED A THOUSAND TIMES. HOW MANY OF YOU ARE 100 % SURE YOU WILL GO TO HEAVEN WHEN YOU DIE?
THOUSANDS REMAIN UNSURE. BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE. ALL WE HAVE TO DO TO GET STARTED IS TO EITHER COMMIT OR RE-COMMIT OUR LIVES TO CHRIST.
HOW MANY OF YOU ARE 100 % SURE YOU WILL GO TO HEAVEN WHEN YOU DIE? BEFORE YOU ANSWER THAT THINK FOR A MOMENT.
SINCE YOU WERE BAPTIZED, SINCE YOU COMMITTED YOURSELF TO CHRIST, SINCE YOU LAST CONFESSED AND REPENTED, HAVE YOU SINNED?
THE ANSWER IS YES. NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU HAVE TRIED NOT TO SIN, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU HAVE REPENTED, SIN REMAINS IN YOUR HEART.
IF YOU ARE ANGRY WITH SOMEONE AND WILL NOT FORGIVE THEM, GOD SAYS HE WILL NOT FORGIVE YOUR SINS.
IF THERE IS HATRED IN OUR HEART, SCRIPTURE COMPARES US TO A MURDERER. AND THERE IS NO PLACE IN HEAVEN FOR MURDERERS.
HAVE WE BROKEN ANY COMMANDMENTS? HAVE WE LOVED GOD WITH OUR WHOLE HEART?
HAVE WE BEEN AN OBEDIENT CHURCH? HAVE WE DONE GOD’S WILL, BROKEN ANY OF HIS LAWS, REBELLED AGAINST HIS LOVE?
HAVE WE LOVED OUR NEIGHBORS, HAVE WE HEARD THE CRY OF THE NEEDY? HAVE WE DONE EVERYTHING JESUS SAID?
THE ANSWER IS NO, AND THIS MORNING EVERY ONE OF US SHOULD BE UP HERE AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS, BEGGING FOR FORGIVENESS.
HOW MANY OF YOU REMAIN 100 % SURE YOU WILL GO TO HEAVEN WHEN YOU DIE?
WE ALL HAVE DOUBTS AND SIN, WE ARE HUMAN. WE DO NOT THINK IN TERMS OF PURE LOGIC. WE ARE SINNERS.
BUT WE DON’T HAVE TO HAVE DOUBT ABOUT OUR SALVATION. WE CAN REPENT, CONFESS AND RE-COMMIT OURSELVES TO CHRIST TODAY.
AND WE ALL SHOULD! THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT WE WILL LIVE UNTIL TOMORROW. WE COULD GO HOME AND DIE FROM A HEART ATTACK.
THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT WE WILL EVEN GET HOME. THIS MAY BE OUR LAST CHANCE TO TAKE THAT FIRST STEP OF GUARANTEEING OUR SALVATION.
PAUL SAID: ROM 10:10
FOR WITH THE HEART ONE BELIEVES UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND WITH THE MOUTH CONFESSION IS MADE UNTO SALVATION.
2 COR 6:2
BEHOLD, NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME; BEHOLD, NOW IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.
2 COR 7:10
FOR GODLY SORROW PRODUCES REPENTANCE LEADING TO SALVATION,
PLEASE COME NOW. DON’T WAIT ANOTHER MOMENT. YOUR ETERNAL LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT!
