Message: Do You Want To Get Well?
I.
Introduction
a.
Our goal this
year is to see you get more rooted in Christ as we grow together
b.
One way we are
doing this rooting is through sermons about questions found in the Bible.
II.
Body
a.
Tonight’s
question is “Do You Want to Get Well?” and it is found in…
b.
Read Jn. 5:1-9 – “Some time later, Jesus went up to
Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. 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. Here a great number of disabled people used
to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 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?” “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.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Get up!
Pick up your mat and walk.” At
once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was the
Sabbath,”
a.
There is a
missing verse here, which wasn’t found in the earlier copies of the Bible, so
they footnote it. You’ll notice it helps
explain a little bit of what is going on.
At this pool, there was a believe that when the water stirred it was
because an angel was stirring it and the first one in would get healed.
b.
This man had been
lying there, weakened by what whatever his brokenness was, for 38 years. He was hoping that one day he would be able
to beat everyone else into that pool, which may actually bring about
healing.
c.
Jesus sees him,
learns how long he has been there, and asks him, “Do you want go get
well?” In this case the word for well,
means to be made whole. Jesus wants to
know if he wants to be whole instead of broken.
Do you want to get well?
d.
Then Jesus heals
him, he gets up, cured, and able to walk.
After 38 years of hoping for healing from this pool, instead he found
healing from Jesus.
c.
We are all broken
a.
Some of us are
physically broken: blind, can’t walk, cancer, AIDS, flus, colds, tired, etc…
b.
Some of us are
emotionally broken: depressed, lonely, angry, fearful, etc…
c.
Some of us are
spiritually broken: addicted, unforgiving, lost
d.
Are there any
here that would be willing to admit you are broken?
d.
We often look to
pools to find healing
a.
We look at all
kinds of things that we think can heal us, but often just mask what is going
on, without bringing about healing, they are empty pools
b.
Empty pools:
drugs, alcohol, entertainment, having, popularity, fame, relationships, porn,
food, work, volunteering, etc…
c.
None of these
things will bring you healing, and many of you have been sitting by that pool
for 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 65 years
d.
Are there any
here that would be willing to admit you have been trying to find healing from
an empty pool?
e.
Jesus can make
you whole
a.
Jesus is the only
one able to make us whole, and he is asking the question tonight, “Do you want
to get well?”
III.
Conclusion
a.
Karen Austin –
Alcoholism
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