1. Do you want to be well? Pastor Nathan Weller March 19, 2017
Series: Questions Jesus Asked

5. The questions Jesus
asks can
change your life

7. --John 5.1-6 (ISV) 1 Later on, there was another festival of the
Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Near
the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem is a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew. It has five colonnades,
3 and under these a large number of sick people were lying—blind, lame, or paralyzed—waiting
for the movement of the water. 4 At certain
times an angel of the Lord would go... (cont’d)
--John (ISV)

8. 5 One particular man was there who had been ill
...down into the pool and stir up the water, and whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.
5 One particular man was there who had been ill
for 38 years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
--John (ISV)

10. Do you want
more from life?

12. If we consider the unblushing promises of reward
and the staggering nature of the rewards promised
in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds
our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are
half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us,
like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine
what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.
We are far too easily pleased.

14. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.
--John (NLT)

15. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.
--John (NLT)
Rejoice in the Lord always. I say it again: Rejoice!
--Philippians 4.4 (NIV)

16. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.
--John (NLT)
Rejoice in the Lord always. I say it again: Rejoice!
--Philippians 4.4 (NIV)
You will show me the way of life, granting me
the joy of your presence and the pleasures of
living with you forever.
--Psalm (NLT)

18. 7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to
help me into the pool when the water is
stirred. While I am trying to get in,
someone else goes down ahead of me.”
--John 5.7 (NIV)

20. Do you want to
be changed?

22. 8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up
your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
--John (NIV)

24. 9b The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to
the man who had been healed, “It is the
Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”
11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ” (cont’d)
--John 5.9b-13 (NIV)

25. --John 5.9b-13 (NIV) 12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who
told you to pick it up and walk?”
13 The man who was healed had no idea
who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into
the crowd that was there.
--John 5.9b-13 (NIV)

27. Are you ready to live with a purpose?

29. 14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
--John 5.14 (NIV)

31. The person who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I, too, will love him and reveal myself to him.”
--John 5.21 (NIV)

33. How blessed is the person... 2 But he
delights in the Lord’s instruction and meditates in his instruction day and night.
--Psalm (ISV)

35. Do you want to be well? Pastor Nathan Weller March 19, 2017
Series: Questions Jesus Asked