When God Heals John 5 1 14 John

When God Heals John 5: 1 -14; John 9; 2 Corinthians 12: 7 -10 Pastor Keone

John 5: 1 -4 1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie-- the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 4

John 5: 5 -9 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well? " 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. " 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. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 5

John 5: 12 -15 12 They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and walk '? " 13 But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place. 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. " 15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Observations about when God heals • God's sovereign choice of whom to heal • Saving faith not required • Sin can lead to sickness • Jesus invites us to have a deeper relationship with Him

John 9: 1 -7 1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? " 3 "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, " said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. "

John 9: 1 -7 6 Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes. 7 "Go, " he told him, "wash in the Pool of Siloam" (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.

John 9: 35 -39 35 Jesus heard that they had put him out, and finding him, He said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man? " 36 He answered, "Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him? " 37 Jesus said to him, "You have both seen Him, and He is the one who is talking with you. " 38 And he said, "Lord, I believe. " And he worshiped Him.

Observations about when God heals • God's sovereign choice of whom to heal • Saving faith not required • Sin can lead to sickness, but not always • Jesus invites us to have a deeper relationship with Him • God answers prayer to bring glory to Himself

2 Corinthians 12: 7 -10 7 To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.

2 Corinthians 12: 7 -10 9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. " Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Observations about when God heals • God's sovereign choice of whom to and whether to heal • Saving faith not required, but having saving faith does not guarantee healing • Sin can lead to sickness, but not always • Jesus invites us to have a deeper relationship with and dependence on Him • God answers prayer to bring glory to Himself

Therefore… • You can pray for God to heal anyone

Therefore… • You can pray for God to heal anyone • If a person is not healed, recognize – Not about them not having enough faith – For believers, it could be (but not always) that they have a sin they need to confess – That God maybe asking you to trust and depend on Him more because our weakness displays his power to the world.