The Impotent Man Series

When Jesus encounters you and works in your life, don’t forget that others are involved. Give God the glory for what He has done. It was a work of grace. Don’t turn back to your former lifestyle. Imagine what you do to someone else when you turn back, when you spurn the grace of God, when you live in dependence to some thing instead of yielding your life to God! People are watching – and God is working through you to get to them – so “get up, take up your bed and walk – and don’t come back!”

Conclusion

Let me ask you something this morning: Are you tired of lying there waiting for a miracle? Do you find yourself growing bitter and angry because things in your life aren’t turning out like you wanted them to? Every time it looks like things are going to work out for you something happens and you’re left there waiting and wanting all over again? You see the waters stirring and you get your hopes up and just when you think there’s help someone cuts you off. I know the feeling – it’s a helpless, hopeless feeling, and for all your trying and working and jockeying you’re just left to lie there with nothing.

If you can answer yes to any of that, then let me give you the good news: you’re exactly where Jesus wants you to be. He wants you to be helpless and hopeless, because He wants to come through for you in a big way, but you’ve got to get out of the way and quit trying to do something or help Him or be somebody for Jesus. So long as you’re in the way He’ll just patiently wait, wanting to know if you really want help or not. Get out of the way and let Him have His way.

Perhaps today you’ve never been saved and like never before you feel the weight of the sin in your life. That sin, sin you were born with and the choices you’ve made in life have offended God, and today in His presence you’re just like that man, lying there with nothing to offer, just a sick and helpless man. You’ve offended God, and in that condition you’re destined to spend eternity feeling the weight of your sin, and it won’t get any better. Don’t ignore what you’re feeling. Don’t turn away from Christ today. Jesus wants to revolutionize your life, but it begins with a simple confession that’s not always so easy to make. You can’t help yourself – you’re lost and without Christ and destined for a devil’s hell because of it. You need to come to Christ and experience the riches of His wonderful grace – won’t you come today? Won’t you admit your need of a Savior and trust Jesus and Jesus alone for salvation? “Do you want to be healed?” It won’t happen until you come to the place in your life that you see there’s no other way.