The Change (5): From my way to His Way 5 th Sunday of the Great Lent 2014

The Change 1)Is a need 2)From double minded to single minded 3)From Temptation to Victory 4)From Guilty past to shameless life 5)From My way to His Way

Jer 52  31 Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-Merodachking of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison. 32 And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prominent seat than those of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

Jer 52  33 So Jehoiachin changed from his prison garments, and he ate bread regularly before the king all the days of his life. 34 And as for his provisions, there was a regular ration given him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

(St. John Chrysostom)  Hope drives us to the top, and cures us! Never be worried nor in despair lest your hope becomes in vain

Multitude VS a man  In these lay a great multitude of sick people, … Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, …

My Way  The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up;

His Way  8 Jesus said to him, “ Rise, take up your bed and walk.”

Their way  The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.”

His Way  He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your bed and walk.’”

(St. Augustine)  Reveal yourself to Him, who knows you; so that He would reveal Himself to you, who do not know Him

Their way  Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.

His way  But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.”

St Cyril Of Alexandria On Jn 1:12  we too shall be sons of God, not like Him in exactitude, but by grace in imitation of Him. For He is Very Son, existing from the Father; we adopted by His Kindness, through grace receiving I have said, Ye are gods and all of you are children of the Most High.