I'm preaching from John 5:1-9 but I also touch versus' 10-14. While prepping for this sermon, it struck me that Jesus heals this man and the man just gets up and walks away. This guy has been a cripple for 38 years and BAM! you're healed. I would be dancing, singing and celebrating because I'm whole, but who just came up and asks "Do you want to be healed". Then this dude (I am not trying to be disrespectful to Jesus, dude is just my internal dialogues use of terminology for identification) say's, "Get up, take your bed and walk", BAM!, there would be dancing from this man, hugging and kissing anybody who wasn't faster then my amazingly healed self.
John 5:1-9 All scripture is from the English Standard Version (ESV)
5 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic[a]called Bethesda,[b] which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.[c] 5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.
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