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Speaker 3: in week three of our series Beyond the signs.
Speaker 4: Our Texas found in John chapter five, verses one to eighteen,
Speaker 4: and I'll be reading it.
Speaker 1: I want you to follow along as I read the.
Speaker 4: Word of God tells us that after this there was
Speaker 4: a fees of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Speaker 4: Now there is in Jerusalem by the ship gate a
Speaker 4: pool now Rami called Bethisda, which has five roof colonies.
Speaker 4: In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, and paralyzed.
Speaker 4: One man was there who had been an invalid for
Speaker 4: thirty eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and
Speaker 4: knew that he had already been there for a long time,
Speaker 4: he said to.
Speaker 1: Him, do you want to be healed?
Speaker 4: The sick man answered, Sir, I have no one to
Speaker 4: put me into the pool when the water stared up.
Speaker 4: And while I'm going, another steps down before me.
Speaker 1: Jesus said to him, get up, take up your bed,
Speaker 1: and walk.
Speaker 4: And at once the man was healed, and he took
Speaker 4: up his bed and walked.
Speaker 1: Now that day was the sabbath.
Speaker 4: So the Jews said to the man who had been healed,
Speaker 4: it is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for
Speaker 4: you to take up your bed. But he answered him,
Speaker 4: the man who healed me, the man who said to me,
Speaker 4: take up your bed and walk. Now they asked him,
Speaker 4: who is that man who said, do you take up
Speaker 4: your bed and walk? The man who had been healed
Speaker 4: did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn
Speaker 4: as there was a.
Speaker 1: Crowd in the place.
Speaker 4: Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him,
Speaker 4: see you are well, sin no more that nothing worse
Speaker 4: may happen to you. The man went away and told
Speaker 4: the Jews it was Jesus who healed him, And this
Speaker 4: is why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was
Speaker 4: doing these things on the sabbath. But Jesus answered them,
Speaker 4: my father is working until now, and I am working.
Speaker 4: This is why the Jews were seeking all the more
Speaker 4: to kill him, because not only he was breaking the Sabbath,
Speaker 4: but he was even calling God his own father.
Speaker 1: Making himself equal with God.
Speaker 4: So I want to highlight in this story three things
Speaker 4: that tells us about who Jesus is. Because in verse
Speaker 4: we can see here that there was a feast. Jesus
Speaker 4: mainly command made Samarama about wedding feast.
Speaker 1: He was there, and now this was the Jewish feast.
Speaker 4: In fact, this is the the feast of the Pentecons,
Speaker 4: where everybody is celebrating the harvest. And really they gather
Speaker 4: together in this place in Jerusalem just to to enjoy
Speaker 4: the festivity and the writ walls, and so there was
Speaker 4: during that time during the feast. Also, imagine if you're
Speaker 4: a student, this is like your school fair. About everybody's
Speaker 4: busy bringing the family and the friends. So this is
Speaker 4: a crowded This is a like Christmas in Green Hills.
Speaker 4: The traffic while I'm parking, So marame because.
Speaker 1: There's an occasion.
Speaker 4: Now during that time in this place, there was a
Speaker 4: pool down my lap.
Speaker 1: It's a sheep gate.
Speaker 4: Ntao nila I betista. Yeah, that's the bird's eye view.
Speaker 4: So I want you just to imagine it's empty, but
Speaker 4: imagine there's crowds and crowds of people and going around
Speaker 4: here and there. Now, there's a legend about this that
Speaker 4: if you've noticed in your ESV Bible verse four. We've
Speaker 4: read chapters five, verses one to eighteen in the ESV translation,
Speaker 4: note letters C. But it's actually on the footnote talking
Speaker 4: about the legend of this mysterious place in Bethesda. Because
Speaker 4: the modern translations right now, they they they they saw
Speaker 4: it that it's not actually in the original text. That's
Speaker 4: why they put it as a footnote. Now an in
Speaker 4: pani Anila, it's actually a pagan place where the Jews
Speaker 4: they believe that there's an angel that you know, goes
Speaker 4: there from time to time in pool No no, no, no,
Speaker 4: Palin is a pool, but he's really there's having a
Speaker 4: mysterious steering and that everyone who gets there first gets
Speaker 4: their breakthrough. They're healing their their miracle that they're believing for.
Speaker 4: So Kombula you can develop. Now imagine during the feast
Speaker 4: so marhamming Tata, it was crowded. So Jesus having been
Speaker 4: sure of his authority and what he's called to do,
Speaker 4: goes to this pagan place, but he guys Jesus no
Speaker 4: parado because he was trying to to make a point,
Speaker 4: okay that more than getting healed, or he was actually
Speaker 4: making a point that because he was trying to reveal
Speaker 4: himself just as a hitter. He could have healed everyone,
Speaker 4: but he just chose one so that he could make
Speaker 4: a public statement about who he is. Now he gets
Speaker 4: in get throwing some past Some of our pastors went
Speaker 4: to Israel and one of the most acclaim tour guide
Speaker 4: ari A Bar David. David said that that crowded maram
Speaker 4: in Jesus and it was unsafe for him to make
Speaker 4: a miracule there. So what he did he came in
Speaker 4: the crowd and whispered to the guy, do you want
Speaker 4: to get healed?
Speaker 1: And when?
Speaker 4: As we'll see, we'll see how how he responded. And
Speaker 4: maybe you know, most of us right here right now
Speaker 4: are in that kind of situation where you are paralyzed,
Speaker 4: may not be physically, maybe emotionally or maybe relationally. Okay,
Speaker 4: you're in shame or you are a telegapit and there's
Speaker 4: nowhere to go. I believe this is what God is
Speaker 4: telling you right now, this afternoon, there is hope that
Speaker 4: you do not need to be so trapped in where
Speaker 4: you are that you're missing that.
Speaker 1: God was actually speaking to you right now.
Speaker 4: Because this guy, as we'll see, he didn't notice who
Speaker 4: was the one talking to him because he was so
Speaker 4: into where he was. The Basabedito one man was there
Speaker 4: for thirty eight years Mayren chang gannokaramda man. And when
Speaker 4: Jesus came to him, he asked him, do you want
Speaker 4: to be healed?
Speaker 1: Lord?
Speaker 4: Obviously by the parent gonsan, But the response was not
Speaker 4: like that. And we'll see that Jesus was actually drawing
Speaker 4: out the issue that is in his heart. He was
Speaker 4: asking this question indition that people looso, but he was
Speaker 4: actually drawing out the very issue that is deep buried
Speaker 4: in the man's heart. He was trying to draw up.
Speaker 4: And the issue was he was hopeless. He was already
Speaker 4: trapped where he was. And what's the first revelation? First
Speaker 4: inside about who Jesus is here.
Speaker 1: But it talks to us. It tells us about the
Speaker 1: Mercian grace of God.
Speaker 4: That's actually the one who initiates, He's actually the one
Speaker 4: who makes the first move for us to get to
Speaker 4: know him personally. Okay, in the Talian glinka in pero,
Speaker 4: see God, I'm not papa.
Speaker 1: That Where are you right now? What situation are you facing?
Speaker 4: It might be that God is using that so that
Speaker 4: you would get to know him more personally, more real.
Speaker 1: Because he's a god of mercy and Greece.
Speaker 4: He could have left these people in pagan place and
Speaker 4: allowed a pull, not a person by lario, but he
Speaker 4: went there and did a miracle. Now he's the one
Speaker 4: who goes ahead of us and reaches out to us.
Speaker 1: It's all by God's grace.
Speaker 4: It's not because of our works and our religious duties
Speaker 4: that he would bless us. He goes before us, and
Speaker 4: he goes and reaches out to us to reveal himself
Speaker 4: to us. So Jesus was drawing out what the issue
Speaker 4: of his heart was.
Speaker 1: And as we.
Speaker 4: See the.
Speaker 1: Butts alemn person.
Speaker 4: Now he know that the need, the need was healing, caging,
Speaker 4: and and I know simple answer detO.
Speaker 1: The guy should have answered what yes, yes, yes, put
Speaker 1: in a google.
Speaker 4: But because he was trapped in a situation of hopelessness,
Speaker 4: can I, sir, I have no one to put me
Speaker 4: into the pool revealing that his hope, that his salvation
Speaker 4: is still in that pool. Okay, when the water is
Speaker 4: stirred up while I'm going another steps down before me.
Speaker 4: That many excuses you hear, Are you experienced that point
Speaker 4: where you are hopeless because of repeated failure?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: Maybe you're a student here divide best, got a new
Speaker 4: math problem then feeling more.
Speaker 1: Maybe you've tried the board exams and.
Speaker 4: You've failed, and you're you're really struggling whether lor can
Speaker 4: I still believe you that I I could pass this,
Speaker 4: I could get and pass the board. Maybe you're here
Speaker 4: and you're experiencing a financial trouble, prosper and you.
Speaker 1: Go again, and if you tend to think like that,
Speaker 1: you begin to think like that.
Speaker 4: And maybe you're here relationally, you've you've got in and
Speaker 4: out of relationships, and maybe anyone has forever they were
Speaker 4: gonna means now in a big pastore.
Speaker 1: Forever and forever more even context.
Speaker 4: But there is hope because in spite of all our excuses,
Speaker 4: in spite of our being trapped.
Speaker 1: Where we are, the word of God still speaks. And
Speaker 1: when the word of God is.
Speaker 4: Spoken, it shows us how powerful it is, and it
Speaker 4: shows us this, this certain scene shows us about the
Speaker 4: power and authority of Jesus, because he started to speak,
Speaker 4: said get up, take up your math, take up your bed,
Speaker 4: and walk, and so demanded.
Speaker 1: He was healed immediately, the.
Speaker 4: Bible says, and at once he was healed, and he
Speaker 4: took up his bed and walked.
Speaker 1: Amazing.
Speaker 4: Who, mom, you believe that God still do miracles in
Speaker 4: our generation?
Speaker 1: Amen?
Speaker 4: You know God is still a god of miracles and
Speaker 4: signs and wonders and breakthroughs. In fact, I want to
Speaker 4: read the story of a man who who God is
Speaker 4: healing supernaturally and this guy, uh miraculos stories and testimonies,
Speaker 4: but this guy is one of my favorite this testimony
Speaker 4: because it shows us about not just the power of
Speaker 4: being showing a miracle, but the power of discipleship and
Speaker 4: the power of following Jesus along with others. This guy, Uh,
Speaker 4: this guy's testimony.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you his picture. His name is Haime Gabrero.
Speaker 4: And this guy wrote a letter to our pastors telling
Speaker 4: us about the miracle that he experienced. I wanted to
Speaker 4: hear and listen closely. Here is his testimony. He said,
Speaker 4: I was fourteen when I first accepted Christ as my
Speaker 4: personal Lord and savior. I was high school back then,
Speaker 4: in Benign High School High School. Since then, I became
Speaker 4: an active member of Victory. But the problem was when
Speaker 4: I entered college in two thousand.
Speaker 1: And five, I backslid.
Speaker 4: I easily got into a life of sexual immorality in
Speaker 4: college because I thought that was the norm everywhere I go.
Speaker 4: Not only that, I got involved in ungodly relationships and
Speaker 4: I even had multiple sexual partners of the same sex.
Speaker 4: I started to notice that, after three years of living
Speaker 4: in a premiscuous way.
Speaker 1: That I get tired easily.
Speaker 4: Because of this, I suspected that it has something to
Speaker 4: do with my lifestyle. So on September two, two thousand
Speaker 4: and eight, I decided to have myself checked at the
Speaker 4: Manila Health Department. There was fear, there was anxiety and
Speaker 4: guilt that started to set in, and I heard my
Speaker 4: most dreaded diagnosis. I was HIV positive. It felt like
Speaker 4: the end of the world. I was devastated in my mind.
Speaker 4: I was just third year in college and I already
Speaker 4: felt that my life was already over. I knew once
Speaker 4: a person found HIV positive, he is positive for all
Speaker 4: of his life, and so I contemplated ending my life,
Speaker 4: because what was the point of living when I knew
Speaker 4: I was going to die anyway. But I could not
Speaker 4: bear the guilt of killing myself. Instead, for the next
Speaker 4: three years, I poured my life on my work in
Speaker 4: the hopes of forgetting my sickness. But then, however, several
Speaker 4: symptoms started to appear. I was very prone to respiratory diseases.
Speaker 4: That's one of the marks of HIV noms and delishona
Speaker 4: gakasakret spirit already and there were even about twenty boils
Speaker 4: that would erupt on my skin at one time. It
Speaker 4: became very painful that I could not take it anymore,
Speaker 4: even through painkillers.
Speaker 1: What was more painful, though, was.
Speaker 4: The pain of having to hold back the truth from
Speaker 4: my family. I was afraid to be rejected Barhamabat in
Speaker 4: the Lasagen so the other. So another year passed and
Speaker 4: then I decided to go back to church and when
Speaker 4: I get back.
Speaker 1: When I got back.
Speaker 4: To church, I volunteered and became part of the Ushering ministry.
Speaker 4: Because of the relationships that were built, I felt accepted
Speaker 4: and I knew I belonged to a family. My trust
Speaker 4: and confidence grew and developed and after five long years
Speaker 4: of silence without telling anyone of my condition, I decided
Speaker 4: to share it with my Victory group. Amazingly, they did
Speaker 4: not reject me. Instead accepted me and prayed for me.
Speaker 4: They encouraged me not to give up and keep believing
Speaker 4: that God would heel me. In fact, in my mind
Speaker 4: I thought it was impossible for me to be healed,
Speaker 4: but the faith of my Victory group was so strong.
Speaker 1: They encouraged me.
Speaker 4: To get myself tested again. Because they have been praying
Speaker 4: about this on my own, I was hesitant. I didn't
Speaker 4: want to hear yet another disappointing news. So in Febrarity four,
Speaker 4: twenty thirteen, I finally agreed and they took me to
Speaker 4: our Im, Manila to have myself tested. Before the results came,
Speaker 4: I was praying out to God. I was ready to
Speaker 4: accept whatever the results was, and I thought to myself,
Speaker 4: if I have a few years left in my life,
Speaker 4: I'm going to do it my best of it to
Speaker 4: serve God. Waiting for the blood test result was agonizing,
Speaker 4: but finally, when the results were handed to me, I
Speaker 4: could not believe it. First, the test results came negative
Speaker 4: for seaphyllis. Second, it was negative for hepa B but
Speaker 4: most of all it was negative for hivy. God he
Speaker 4: got his miracle, and so he said, I was so overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: We started praising God and hugging each other.
Speaker 4: In spite of my sinfulness, he chose to be my header,
Speaker 4: in spite of my dot and my own belief. He
Speaker 4: chose to prove himself powerful, in spite of my shame.
Speaker 1: He chose to lift me up from the field that
Speaker 1: I was in. In spite of who I was. He
Speaker 1: chose to be the one who give me. He chose
Speaker 1: to do this miracle.
Speaker 4: And I know this is what I like, he said
Speaker 4: last sentence. I know I deserve none of these, but
Speaker 4: I would forever be grateful to my God who was
Speaker 4: rescued me, God who.
Speaker 1: Still works miracle.
Speaker 4: You know, this guy is now one of our active
Speaker 4: leaders and victory pioneer, and he's really reaching out making
Speaker 4: a difference to the people who have the same struggle.
Speaker 4: And this guy received his miracle and has started following Jesus.
Speaker 4: But as we continue in the story, I will see
Speaker 4: that there was this there was something that the religious
Speaker 4: people could not take that instead of rejoicing.
Speaker 1: With the man who got healed.
Speaker 4: They started persecuting him. Sab to the day was the Sabbath.
Speaker 4: So the Jews said to the man who had been healed,
Speaker 4: it is the Sabbath, and it's not lawful for you
Speaker 4: to take up your bed.
Speaker 1: But he answered him, the man who healed me, that
Speaker 1: man said to me, take.
Speaker 4: Up your bed and walk. So what did he do?
Speaker 4: They were continually prosecuting him. Who is that man who
Speaker 4: said to you that take up your bed and walk.
Speaker 4: Now the man who had been healed did not know
Speaker 4: who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn as there was
Speaker 4: a crowd in the place. Now here's what afterward. Jesus
Speaker 4: found him in the temple. You know, the temple is
Speaker 4: symbolic of where God meets his people. And you know,
Speaker 4: amazingly Jesus revealed himself to this guy and say, hey,
Speaker 4: I am the one who has.
Speaker 1: Have healed you, and I see you are well.
Speaker 4: Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you,
Speaker 4: telling us that the condition of this guy may have
Speaker 4: because of his sin. Not now, not all conditions, okay,
Speaker 4: not all sickness is because of sin, or maybe because
Speaker 4: of the fallenness.
Speaker 1: Of our world and our nature. Before this guy it
Speaker 1: was sin.
Speaker 4: Therefore, God was instructing him not just to get up,
Speaker 4: pick up himself, but that his matters and walk to
Speaker 4: receive his miracle. He was instructing him to follow him,
Speaker 4: to sin no more. But you know what his response was,
Speaker 4: Sadly he did not. But instead he went away and
Speaker 4: told the Jews it was Jesus, so part in the
Speaker 4: conspired Pasha out Mamagogue, because that was what the Jews
Speaker 4: were doing. They're gonna threaten you if you believe in Jesus,
Speaker 4: and so he told them it was Jesus. That is
Speaker 4: why the Jews were persecuting is because he was violating
Speaker 4: the Sabbath. Now, just to make it clear, Jesus came here.
Speaker 1: To fulfill the law. He did not violate any of
Speaker 1: the law of God. That you know. He cannot violate
Speaker 1: his law.
Speaker 4: Now in this light, he only violated man made rules.
Speaker 4: Because the Jewish leaders they had added thirty nine rules
Speaker 4: about the Sabbath, and one of that is bowelbuhat nangamut
Speaker 4: from point A to point B. And so Jesus, you know,
Speaker 4: he came here to fulfill the law. He wasn't breaking
Speaker 4: any law, but he was breaking the tradition that was
Speaker 4: made by the religious people. Now Jesus answered them why
Speaker 4: he was doing it, and he said, my father's working
Speaker 4: until now, and I am working. The Jews agreed that God,
Speaker 4: who he is calling Father, is still working, because they
Speaker 4: believe that God, when he did creation on the seventh day,
Speaker 4: he rested, but after that he continued working, sustaining all
Speaker 4: creation daily, bearing the burdens of his people, and so
Speaker 4: they believe.
Speaker 1: That God is still working until now. Now.
Speaker 4: When Jesus said that, grisel, my father is still working now.
Speaker 4: But when he said and so I am working, he
Speaker 4: was putting himself equal with God all the more. That's
Speaker 4: why the Jews wanted to kill him. Not only he
Speaker 4: was breaking Sabbath, but he was calling God his own father,
Speaker 4: making himself equal with God. So in violation, escalate, So
Speaker 4: only violate my young beating the red light.
Speaker 1: Let me cast on Jesus agating frustrated murder.
Speaker 4: To Maskalu grabbing a man. Tig was a realimn God.
Speaker 4: But that was actually the point why he came to
Speaker 4: that place to publicly to start, you know, declaring that
Speaker 4: he is Jesus, He's Jesus, he is God. Okay, that
Speaker 4: he's not just a person of mercy in Greece. He's
Speaker 4: not just a person of power and authority, but he is.
Speaker 1: In fact our God and our Savior. He spoke the
Speaker 1: world to creation. You know, he turned water into wine
Speaker 1: because he was God. He could heal.
Speaker 4: From afar because he is our God and he is
Speaker 4: our Savior.
Speaker 1: No, sadly, the guy got his miracle, but he missed
Speaker 1: the messiah.
Speaker 4: He got his breakthrough, but he missed the miracle worker
Speaker 4: who was Jesus Christ with.
Speaker 1: God and our Savior.
Speaker 4: The one thing I want us all to take a
Speaker 4: miss this. You know, God reveals himself to us many
Speaker 4: ways in our breakthroughs, in miracles and science, so that
Speaker 4: we would follow Jesus, so that we would follow. The
Speaker 4: question now we have this afternoon, is are we ready
Speaker 4: to follow Jesus we've never followed him? Or if you
Speaker 4: have started following him, are you still following him till today?
Speaker 1: Are you still going to trust him for who he
Speaker 1: said he is and what he called us to do?
Speaker 1: Because that's the point. We are to follow him for
Speaker 1: who he said he is.
Speaker 4: And maybe you are here today just as the man
Speaker 4: who missed his mirror, he is a miracle worker. He
Speaker 4: got his miracle, but he never followed Jesus. That's a
Speaker 4: sad thing. And I pray that you maybe you're here
Speaker 4: believing God for a breakthrough. I pray that once God
Speaker 4: gives that to you, you would yearn for him, you
Speaker 4: would seek him, You would say God, I surrender my
Speaker 4: life and I want to follow you for the rest
Speaker 4: of my life.
Speaker 1: I pray that that as we have looked into the scriptures, we.
Speaker 4: Will not fail about what God is calling us to
Speaker 4: believe in Him, to follow Him for all of our life.
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