The Healing at Bethseda The Aftermath The Healing at Bethseda John 5

Controversial Healing Jesus Had Just Healed a Lame Man. The Jewish Leaders Took Offense That Jesus Healed This Man on the Sabbath. Charges Jesus Broke the Sabbath (10) Jesus Made Himself Equal With God (18)

Jesus Responds to the Charges My Father Is Working, I Am Working (17). I Am Doing the Work of My Father (19). Point #1 = The Father Has Given Work to Do! Are We Doing the Work of the Father?

Eph 2:10 “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”

Matt 25:30 “And cast out the worthless slave into the outer darkness; in that place there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

The Typical Congregation 90% of the Work Is Being Done By 10% of the People. Is This True?

What Works? John 5:19 “Jesus therefore answered and was saying to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.” This Shows Our Approach Is The Biblical One

Jesus Responds Point #2 – The Father Has Given Life (21, 26, 28-29) This Is the Main Theme of John’s Gospel. How Important Is It to Us? It’s Not Time to Rest.

Jesus Responds The Father Has Given Judgment (22, 27, 30) The Father Has Given Jesus The Authority to Judge. Will We Be Ready?

1 Thess 5:2-3 “For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. While they are saying, ‘Peace and safety!’ then destruction will come upon them suddenly like birth pangs upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”

Heb. 12:25 “See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.”

How to Escape Judgment John 5:24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.”

Seeing The Big Picture John 5 The Healing At Bethesda