John 5:1-15 [NIV]
3 Bad Beliefs That Trap You.
1. Grace Is Complicated.
1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 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.
John 5:1-3 [NIV]
4 ”On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. 5 No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised. 6 Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, “Live!”... 8 When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine,” says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:4-6, 8 [NIV/NKJV]
8 But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8 [NIV]
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 [NIV]
2. My Circumstances And People Won’t Let Me Move Forward.
5 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?”
John 5:5-6 [NIV]
9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” 10 He answered, “I heard You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” 11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” 12 The man said, “The woman You put here with me — she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Genesis 3:9-12 [NIV]
9 His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!” 10 He replied, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
Job 2:9-10 [NIV]
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]
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 5:8-9 [NIV]
3. My Rules Can Determine My Outcome.
9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. 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.”
John 5:9-10 [NIV]
38 “He that believes in Me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”
John 7:38 [JUB]
15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.
John 5:15 [NIV]
6 For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Hosea 6:6 [NKJ]
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 3:27 [NKJV]
