WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.080 Welcome Just Handaway Tagalog Sermon podcast, your daily dose of 2 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:11.599 inspiring from heartfelt tagalog. 3 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:14.519 Sermons from different pastors and speakers all over the Philippines. 4 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:16.960 We hope that this podcast finds you any good. 5 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:22.120 Shame and now here's your message. 6 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:27.879 You're listening to a podcast from Victory. A relationship with 7 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:32.200 Jesus promises grace and rest. Dig deeper into this truth 8 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:35.960 in week three of our series Beyond the signs. 9 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:42.240 Our Texas found in John chapter five, verses one to eighteen, 10 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:43.240 and I'll be reading it. 11 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:47.240 I want you to follow along as I read the. 12 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:50.759 Word of God tells us that after this there was 13 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:54.679 a fees of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:57.600 Now there is in Jerusalem by the ship gate a 15 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:02.320 pool now Rami called Bethisda, which has five roof colonies. 16 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:07.879 In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, and paralyzed. 17 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:10.599 One man was there who had been an invalid for 18 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:14.480 thirty eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and 19 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:17.000 knew that he had already been there for a long time, 20 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:17.640 he said to. 21 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:19.840 Him, do you want to be healed? 22 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:22.920 The sick man answered, Sir, I have no one to 23 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:25.280 put me into the pool when the water stared up. 24 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:28.480 And while I'm going, another steps down before me. 25 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:32.159 Jesus said to him, get up, take up your bed, 26 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:32.760 and walk. 27 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:37.359 And at once the man was healed, and he took 28 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:38.920 up his bed and walked. 29 00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:41.680 Now that day was the sabbath. 30 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:44.159 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, 31 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:46.680 it is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for 32 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:49.079 you to take up your bed. But he answered him, 33 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:51.840 the man who healed me, the man who said to me, 34 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:55.920 take up your bed and walk. Now they asked him, 35 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:57.760 who is that man who said, do you take up 36 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:00.719 your bed and walk? The man who had been healed 37 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:03.200 did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn 38 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:04.120 as there was a. 39 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:04.959 Crowd in the place. 40 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:09.000 Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, 41 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:13.039 see you are well, sin no more that nothing worse 42 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:16.319 may happen to you. The man went away and told 43 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:19.360 the Jews it was Jesus who healed him, And this 44 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:22.240 is why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was 45 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:26.560 doing these things on the sabbath. But Jesus answered them, 46 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:30.280 my father is working until now, and I am working. 47 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:32.840 This is why the Jews were seeking all the more 48 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:36.280 to kill him, because not only he was breaking the Sabbath, 49 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:40.120 but he was even calling God his own father. 50 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:43.319 Making himself equal with God. 51 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:48.520 So I want to highlight in this story three things 52 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:53.199 that tells us about who Jesus is. Because in verse 53 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:56.319 we can see here that there was a feast. Jesus 54 00:02:56.639 --> 00:02:59.400 mainly command made Samarama about wedding feast. 55 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:02.479 He was there, and now this was the Jewish feast. 56 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:05.280 In fact, this is the the feast of the Pentecons, 57 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:10.520 where everybody is celebrating the harvest. And really they gather 58 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:16.759 together in this place in Jerusalem just to to enjoy 59 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:20.759 the festivity and the writ walls, and so there was 60 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:24.439 during that time during the feast. Also, imagine if you're 61 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:28.159 a student, this is like your school fair. About everybody's 62 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:30.840 busy bringing the family and the friends. So this is 63 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:35.560 a crowded This is a like Christmas in Green Hills. 64 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:38.879 The traffic while I'm parking, So marame because. 65 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:39.439 There's an occasion. 66 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:43.439 Now during that time in this place, there was a 67 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:45.080 pool down my lap. 68 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:45.840 It's a sheep gate. 69 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:51.680 Ntao nila I betista. Yeah, that's the bird's eye view. 70 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:53.639 So I want you just to imagine it's empty, but 71 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:57.800 imagine there's crowds and crowds of people and going around 72 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:02.560 here and there. Now, there's a legend about this that 73 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:06.759 if you've noticed in your ESV Bible verse four. We've 74 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:11.319 read chapters five, verses one to eighteen in the ESV translation, 75 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:15.000 note letters C. But it's actually on the footnote talking 76 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:19.439 about the legend of this mysterious place in Bethesda. Because 77 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:22.800 the modern translations right now, they they they they saw 78 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:25.600 it that it's not actually in the original text. That's 79 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:27.959 why they put it as a footnote. Now an in 80 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:33.240 pani Anila, it's actually a pagan place where the Jews 81 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:37.040 they believe that there's an angel that you know, goes 82 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:43.240 there from time to time in pool No no, no, no, 83 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:46.240 Palin is a pool, but he's really there's having a 84 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:50.959 mysterious steering and that everyone who gets there first gets 85 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:57.360 their breakthrough. They're healing their their miracle that they're believing for. 86 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:08.279 So Kombula you can develop. Now imagine during the feast 87 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:13.360 so marhamming Tata, it was crowded. So Jesus having been 88 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:15.639 sure of his authority and what he's called to do, 89 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:18.920 goes to this pagan place, but he guys Jesus no 90 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:23.160 parado because he was trying to to make a point, 91 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:27.360 okay that more than getting healed, or he was actually 92 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:32.360 making a point that because he was trying to reveal 93 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.079 himself just as a hitter. He could have healed everyone, 94 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:38.000 but he just chose one so that he could make 95 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:41.480 a public statement about who he is. Now he gets 96 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:45.439 in get throwing some past Some of our pastors went 97 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:50.680 to Israel and one of the most acclaim tour guide 98 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:55.920 ari A Bar David. David said that that crowded maram 99 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:59.519 in Jesus and it was unsafe for him to make 100 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:02.639 a miracule there. So what he did he came in 101 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:06.399 the crowd and whispered to the guy, do you want 102 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:07.000 to get healed? 103 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:08.240 And when? 104 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:11.879 As we'll see, we'll see how how he responded. And 105 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:15.199 maybe you know, most of us right here right now 106 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:19.079 are in that kind of situation where you are paralyzed, 107 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:24.800 may not be physically, maybe emotionally or maybe relationally. Okay, 108 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:29.759 you're in shame or you are a telegapit and there's 109 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:32.079 nowhere to go. I believe this is what God is 110 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:36.160 telling you right now, this afternoon, there is hope that 111 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:39.199 you do not need to be so trapped in where 112 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:41.759 you are that you're missing that. 113 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:43.600 God was actually speaking to you right now. 114 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:48.439 Because this guy, as we'll see, he didn't notice who 115 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:50.639 was the one talking to him because he was so 116 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:57.480 into where he was. The Basabedito one man was there 117 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:00.600 for thirty eight years Mayren chang gannokaramda man. And when 118 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:03.920 Jesus came to him, he asked him, do you want 119 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:04.879 to be healed? 120 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:06.040 Lord? 121 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:12.560 Obviously by the parent gonsan, But the response was not 122 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:16.399 like that. And we'll see that Jesus was actually drawing 123 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:20.000 out the issue that is in his heart. He was 124 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:23.399 asking this question indition that people looso, but he was 125 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:27.600 actually drawing out the very issue that is deep buried 126 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:30.759 in the man's heart. He was trying to draw up. 127 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:35.240 And the issue was he was hopeless. He was already 128 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:38.680 trapped where he was. And what's the first revelation? First 129 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:41.360 inside about who Jesus is here. 130 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:44.240 But it talks to us. It tells us about the 131 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:45.680 Mercian grace of God. 132 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:50.279 That's actually the one who initiates, He's actually the one 133 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:53.759 who makes the first move for us to get to 134 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:58.399 know him personally. Okay, in the Talian glinka in pero, 135 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:00.199 see God, I'm not papa. 136 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:06.800 That Where are you right now? What situation are you facing? 137 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:09.279 It might be that God is using that so that 138 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:12.920 you would get to know him more personally, more real. 139 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:15.959 Because he's a god of mercy and Greece. 140 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:19.000 He could have left these people in pagan place and 141 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:24.079 allowed a pull, not a person by lario, but he 142 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:27.959 went there and did a miracle. Now he's the one 143 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:30.360 who goes ahead of us and reaches out to us. 144 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:31.839 It's all by God's grace. 145 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:36.000 It's not because of our works and our religious duties 146 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:39.320 that he would bless us. He goes before us, and 147 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:42.759 he goes and reaches out to us to reveal himself 148 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:45.480 to us. So Jesus was drawing out what the issue 149 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:46.399 of his heart was. 150 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:47.399 And as we. 151 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:48.120 See the. 152 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:53.000 Butts alemn person. 153 00:08:57.320 --> 00:09:01.600 Now he know that the need, the need was healing, caging, 154 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:04.960 and and I know simple answer detO. 155 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:11.080 The guy should have answered what yes, yes, yes, put 156 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:14.000 in a google. 157 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:18.960 But because he was trapped in a situation of hopelessness, 158 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:26.240 can I, sir, I have no one to put me 159 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:29.679 into the pool revealing that his hope, that his salvation 160 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:33.480 is still in that pool. Okay, when the water is 161 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:36.039 stirred up while I'm going another steps down before me. 162 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:41.600 That many excuses you hear, Are you experienced that point 163 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:44.039 where you are hopeless because of repeated failure? 164 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:44.919 Okay? 165 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:47.720 Maybe you're a student here divide best, got a new 166 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:50.279 math problem then feeling more. 167 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:55.440 Maybe you've tried the board exams and. 168 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:58.919 You've failed, and you're you're really struggling whether lor can 169 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:00.759 I still believe you that I I could pass this, 170 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:03.639 I could get and pass the board. Maybe you're here 171 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:12.039 and you're experiencing a financial trouble, prosper and you. 172 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:17.320 Go again, and if you tend to think like that, 173 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:18.600 you begin to think like that. 174 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:22.679 And maybe you're here relationally, you've you've got in and 175 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:28.639 out of relationships, and maybe anyone has forever they were 176 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:31.559 gonna means now in a big pastore. 177 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:36.360 Forever and forever more even context. 178 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:41.600 But there is hope because in spite of all our excuses, 179 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:43.840 in spite of our being trapped. 180 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:48.080 Where we are, the word of God still speaks. And 181 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:49.320 when the word of God is. 182 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:53.799 Spoken, it shows us how powerful it is, and it 183 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:56.600 shows us this, this certain scene shows us about the 184 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:00.720 power and authority of Jesus, because he started to speak, 185 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:05.399 said get up, take up your math, take up your bed, 186 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:07.279 and walk, and so demanded. 187 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:09.679 He was healed immediately, the. 188 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:12.080 Bible says, and at once he was healed, and he 189 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:13.720 took up his bed and walked. 190 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:14.720 Amazing. 191 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:18.080 Who, mom, you believe that God still do miracles in 192 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:18.799 our generation? 193 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:19.320 Amen? 194 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:25.559 You know God is still a god of miracles and 195 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:28.440 signs and wonders and breakthroughs. In fact, I want to 196 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:31.240 read the story of a man who who God is 197 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:38.919 healing supernaturally and this guy, uh miraculos stories and testimonies, 198 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:41.799 but this guy is one of my favorite this testimony 199 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:45.519 because it shows us about not just the power of 200 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:50.720 being showing a miracle, but the power of discipleship and 201 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:55.559 the power of following Jesus along with others. This guy, Uh, 202 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:56.720 this guy's testimony. 203 00:11:57.240 --> 00:11:59.960 I'm gonna show you his picture. His name is Haime Gabrero. 204 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:03.759 And this guy wrote a letter to our pastors telling 205 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:06.639 us about the miracle that he experienced. I wanted to 206 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:11.039 hear and listen closely. Here is his testimony. He said, 207 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:14.159 I was fourteen when I first accepted Christ as my 208 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:17.480 personal Lord and savior. I was high school back then, 209 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:21.960 in Benign High School High School. Since then, I became 210 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:25.120 an active member of Victory. But the problem was when 211 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:27.000 I entered college in two thousand. 212 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:28.399 And five, I backslid. 213 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:32.399 I easily got into a life of sexual immorality in 214 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:36.120 college because I thought that was the norm everywhere I go. 215 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:41.159 Not only that, I got involved in ungodly relationships and 216 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:44.759 I even had multiple sexual partners of the same sex. 217 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:48.039 I started to notice that, after three years of living 218 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:49.360 in a premiscuous way. 219 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:52.039 That I get tired easily. 220 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:55.000 Because of this, I suspected that it has something to 221 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:58.279 do with my lifestyle. So on September two, two thousand 222 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:00.840 and eight, I decided to have myself checked at the 223 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:05.600 Manila Health Department. There was fear, there was anxiety and 224 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:10.799 guilt that started to set in, and I heard my 225 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:17.440 most dreaded diagnosis. I was HIV positive. It felt like 226 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:21.240 the end of the world. I was devastated in my mind. 227 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:23.759 I was just third year in college and I already 228 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:27.919 felt that my life was already over. I knew once 229 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:31.639 a person found HIV positive, he is positive for all 230 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:35.240 of his life, and so I contemplated ending my life, 231 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:37.639 because what was the point of living when I knew 232 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:40.559 I was going to die anyway. But I could not 233 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.679 bear the guilt of killing myself. Instead, for the next 234 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:47.039 three years, I poured my life on my work in 235 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:51.600 the hopes of forgetting my sickness. But then, however, several 236 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:56.159 symptoms started to appear. I was very prone to respiratory diseases. 237 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:59.360 That's one of the marks of HIV noms and delishona 238 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:04.720 gakasakret spirit already and there were even about twenty boils 239 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:07.759 that would erupt on my skin at one time. It 240 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:11.039 became very painful that I could not take it anymore, 241 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:12.799 even through painkillers. 242 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:15.000 What was more painful, though, was. 243 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:18.120 The pain of having to hold back the truth from 244 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:21.720 my family. I was afraid to be rejected Barhamabat in 245 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:25.480 the Lasagen so the other. So another year passed and 246 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:28.279 then I decided to go back to church and when 247 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:28.919 I get back. 248 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:29.759 When I got back. 249 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:33.120 To church, I volunteered and became part of the Ushering ministry. 250 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:37.080 Because of the relationships that were built, I felt accepted 251 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:40.320 and I knew I belonged to a family. My trust 252 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:45.039 and confidence grew and developed and after five long years 253 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:49.000 of silence without telling anyone of my condition, I decided 254 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:52.960 to share it with my Victory group. Amazingly, they did 255 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:56.000 not reject me. Instead accepted me and prayed for me. 256 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:59.840 They encouraged me not to give up and keep believing 257 00:14:59.879 --> 00:15:02.759 that God would heel me. In fact, in my mind 258 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:05.000 I thought it was impossible for me to be healed, 259 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:09.080 but the faith of my Victory group was so strong. 260 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:10.080 They encouraged me. 261 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:13.960 To get myself tested again. Because they have been praying 262 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:17.320 about this on my own, I was hesitant. I didn't 263 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:22.120 want to hear yet another disappointing news. So in Febrarity four, 264 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:26.480 twenty thirteen, I finally agreed and they took me to 265 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:31.159 our Im, Manila to have myself tested. Before the results came, 266 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.720 I was praying out to God. I was ready to 267 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:37.399 accept whatever the results was, and I thought to myself, 268 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:40.440 if I have a few years left in my life, 269 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:42.919 I'm going to do it my best of it to 270 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:47.480 serve God. Waiting for the blood test result was agonizing, 271 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:51.679 but finally, when the results were handed to me, I 272 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:55.200 could not believe it. First, the test results came negative 273 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:59.559 for seaphyllis. Second, it was negative for hepa B but 274 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:07.720 most of all it was negative for hivy. God he 275 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:12.840 got his miracle, and so he said, I was so overwhelmed. 276 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:15.120 We started praising God and hugging each other. 277 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:18.399 In spite of my sinfulness, he chose to be my header, 278 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:21.159 in spite of my dot and my own belief. He 279 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:24.919 chose to prove himself powerful, in spite of my shame. 280 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:27.240 He chose to lift me up from the field that 281 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:30.039 I was in. In spite of who I was. He 282 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:35.120 chose to be the one who give me. He chose 283 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:36.720 to do this miracle. 284 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:39.080 And I know this is what I like, he said 285 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:42.720 last sentence. I know I deserve none of these, but 286 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:45.559 I would forever be grateful to my God who was 287 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:48.879 rescued me, God who. 288 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:49.759 Still works miracle. 289 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:54.039 You know, this guy is now one of our active 290 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:57.320 leaders and victory pioneer, and he's really reaching out making 291 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:00.600 a difference to the people who have the same struggle. 292 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:06.240 And this guy received his miracle and has started following Jesus. 293 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:09.960 But as we continue in the story, I will see 294 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:14.119 that there was this there was something that the religious 295 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:17.480 people could not take that instead of rejoicing. 296 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:19.279 With the man who got healed. 297 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:22.599 They started persecuting him. Sab to the day was the Sabbath. 298 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:24.640 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, 299 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:26.880 it is the Sabbath, and it's not lawful for you 300 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:27.720 to take up your bed. 301 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:30.279 But he answered him, the man who healed me, that 302 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:31.480 man said to me, take. 303 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:33.960 Up your bed and walk. So what did he do? 304 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:37.160 They were continually prosecuting him. Who is that man who 305 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:39.000 said to you that take up your bed and walk. 306 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:40.920 Now the man who had been healed did not know 307 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:43.960 who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn as there was 308 00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:48.799 a crowd in the place. Now here's what afterward. Jesus 309 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:51.359 found him in the temple. You know, the temple is 310 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:54.559 symbolic of where God meets his people. And you know, 311 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:58.880 amazingly Jesus revealed himself to this guy and say, hey, 312 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:00.039 I am the one who has. 313 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:02.640 Have healed you, and I see you are well. 314 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:06.519 Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you, 315 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:09.920 telling us that the condition of this guy may have 316 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:14.160 because of his sin. Not now, not all conditions, okay, 317 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:17.400 not all sickness is because of sin, or maybe because 318 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:18.599 of the fallenness. 319 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:20.519 Of our world and our nature. Before this guy it 320 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:20.920 was sin. 321 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:24.559 Therefore, God was instructing him not just to get up, 322 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:27.559 pick up himself, but that his matters and walk to 323 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:30.839 receive his miracle. He was instructing him to follow him, 324 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:33.599 to sin no more. But you know what his response was, 325 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:38.319 Sadly he did not. But instead he went away and 326 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:40.720 told the Jews it was Jesus, so part in the 327 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:50.839 conspired Pasha out Mamagogue, because that was what the Jews 328 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:55.960 were doing. They're gonna threaten you if you believe in Jesus, 329 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:58.599 and so he told them it was Jesus. That is 330 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:01.359 why the Jews were persecuting is because he was violating 331 00:19:01.680 --> 00:19:06.519 the Sabbath. Now, just to make it clear, Jesus came here. 332 00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:10.160 To fulfill the law. He did not violate any of 333 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:12.440 the law of God. That you know. He cannot violate 334 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:13.240 his law. 335 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:16.960 Now in this light, he only violated man made rules. 336 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:21.599 Because the Jewish leaders they had added thirty nine rules 337 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:25.599 about the Sabbath, and one of that is bowelbuhat nangamut 338 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:28.799 from point A to point B. And so Jesus, you know, 339 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:31.480 he came here to fulfill the law. He wasn't breaking 340 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:34.160 any law, but he was breaking the tradition that was 341 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:39.359 made by the religious people. Now Jesus answered them why 342 00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:42.480 he was doing it, and he said, my father's working 343 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:47.000 until now, and I am working. The Jews agreed that God, 344 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:51.000 who he is calling Father, is still working, because they 345 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:55.240 believe that God, when he did creation on the seventh day, 346 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:59.240 he rested, but after that he continued working, sustaining all 347 00:19:59.319 --> 00:20:03.160 creation daily, bearing the burdens of his people, and so 348 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:04.319 they believe. 349 00:20:04.039 --> 00:20:06.920 That God is still working until now. Now. 350 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:10.039 When Jesus said that, grisel, my father is still working now. 351 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:13.759 But when he said and so I am working, he 352 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:17.799 was putting himself equal with God all the more. That's 353 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:21.480 why the Jews wanted to kill him. Not only he 354 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:24.839 was breaking Sabbath, but he was calling God his own father, 355 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:29.559 making himself equal with God. So in violation, escalate, So 356 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:31.480 only violate my young beating the red light. 357 00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:34.720 Let me cast on Jesus agating frustrated murder. 358 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:39.359 To Maskalu grabbing a man. Tig was a realimn God. 359 00:20:39.400 --> 00:20:42.400 But that was actually the point why he came to 360 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:46.519 that place to publicly to start, you know, declaring that 361 00:20:46.599 --> 00:20:50.240 he is Jesus, He's Jesus, he is God. Okay, that 362 00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:53.119 he's not just a person of mercy in Greece. He's 363 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:57.079 not just a person of power and authority, but he is. 364 00:20:57.039 --> 00:21:02.440 In fact our God and our Savior. He spoke the 365 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:06.680 world to creation. You know, he turned water into wine 366 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:08.880 because he was God. He could heal. 367 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:11.359 From afar because he is our God and he is 368 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:12.000 our Savior. 369 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:16.400 No, sadly, the guy got his miracle, but he missed 370 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:17.599 the messiah. 371 00:21:17.880 --> 00:21:21.759 He got his breakthrough, but he missed the miracle worker 372 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:23.640 who was Jesus Christ with. 373 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:25.279 God and our Savior. 374 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:28.079 The one thing I want us all to take a 375 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:31.240 miss this. You know, God reveals himself to us many 376 00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:34.880 ways in our breakthroughs, in miracles and science, so that 377 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:38.680 we would follow Jesus, so that we would follow. The 378 00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:43.119 question now we have this afternoon, is are we ready 379 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:47.039 to follow Jesus we've never followed him? Or if you 380 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:51.079 have started following him, are you still following him till today? 381 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:53.799 Are you still going to trust him for who he 382 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:57.039 said he is and what he called us to do? 383 00:21:57.079 --> 00:22:00.440 Because that's the point. We are to follow him for 384 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:01.519 who he said he is. 385 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:05.079 And maybe you are here today just as the man 386 00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:07.920 who missed his mirror, he is a miracle worker. He 387 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:11.480 got his miracle, but he never followed Jesus. That's a 388 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:13.640 sad thing. And I pray that you maybe you're here 389 00:22:13.640 --> 00:22:16.680 believing God for a breakthrough. I pray that once God 390 00:22:16.759 --> 00:22:20.039 gives that to you, you would yearn for him, you 391 00:22:20.079 --> 00:22:23.759 would seek him, You would say God, I surrender my 392 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:25.559 life and I want to follow you for the rest 393 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:26.119 of my life. 394 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:29.720 I pray that that as we have looked into the scriptures, we. 395 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:32.400 Will not fail about what God is calling us to 396 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:37.039 believe in Him, to follow Him for all of our life. 397 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:41.039 Thank you for listening to this message. 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