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Healing at the Pool of Bethesda Sermon<\/strong> — Sermon Outline by Kevin Cauley on Jesus’ wondrous healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda.<\/p>\n

PROPOSITION: In this sermon we see an 1) unrealized cure, 2) unabashed command, 3) unjustified criticism, 4) unapologetic confirmation.<\/p>\n

Objectives: That each would understand the events that occurred at the pool of Bethesda and learn the lessons of appropriate compassion and sinful apathy.<\/p>\n

Aim: That each would have a better understanding of this event in the life of Christ.<\/p>\n

INTRODUCTION:<\/p>\n

1. Read: John 5:1-17<\/p>\n

2. About the Text:<\/p>\n

1) One of the greatest characteristics of Jesus was his compassion.<\/p>\n

2) The Bible speaks of that compassion frequently.<\/p>\n

3) When we see people who are sick, impotent, helpless, we also feel compassion for them.<\/p>\n

4) So many times instead of trying to help, the temptation is to turn away.<\/p>\n

5) Jesus never turned his compassion into apathy.<\/p>\n

6) In this story, we see these two different attitudes, compassion and apathy.<\/p>\n

7) We also see great confirmation of Jesus’ divinity.<\/p>\n

8) Let’s study together what happened at the pool of Bethesda.<\/p>\n

3. Ref. to S, T, P, O, and A.<\/p>\n

DISCUSSION: In this healing at the pool of bethesda sermon we see…<\/h2>\n

I.   At The Pool of Bethesda We See An Unrealized Cure<\/h3>\n

1. What kind of place was the pool of Bethesda<\/em>?<\/p>\n

1) It was a place of sickness.<\/p>\n

2) It was near the sheep market.<\/p>\n

3) There was a large area by the pool with five porches; we might call them large steps.<\/p>\n

4) On each of these porches those who were infirmed were placed.<\/p>\n

5) John says there were a “great multitude” of them.<\/p>\n

6) They were the impotent, blind, halt, and withered.<\/p>\n

7) The ESV calls them the invalid, blind, lame, and paralyzed.<\/p>\n

8) Those there would have made for a pathetic sight indeed.<\/p>\n

2. Why were the people there?<\/p>\n

1) They were there because they believed and hoped in something.<\/p>\n

2) Verse 3 says that they were waiting for the moving of the waters.<\/p>\n

3) Verse 4 in the KJV offers further explanation but textual studies show that this verse was a man made addition to the text and the ASV and other modern versions omit it.<\/p>\n

4) It ought to be obvious, though, from verse 3 and verse 7 that those who were there believed that if they could get into the water when the waters were troubled, then they would be healed.<\/p>\n

5) They were there to be healed.<\/p>\n

3. Who did Jesus find at Bethesda?<\/p>\n

1) A man was by that pool who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.<\/p>\n

2) How long is thirty-eight years?<\/p>\n

a. I’ve been alive for almost 38 years.<\/p>\n

b. Thirty eight is half of seventy-six. Many don’t live twice that age.<\/p>\n

c. If this were you, then you would have been paralyzed since the year 1968.<\/p>\n

3) Was this man younger? Older?<\/p>\n

4) Even if he was born with this condition, he would have been old for the day.<\/p>\n

5) This was also a man whom people knew had this condition.<\/p>\n

a. If you did any business in the sheep market, you would have known of this pool.<\/p>\n

b. It was on the North side of the city and one had to pass it to go into the temple complex from the sheep gate.<\/p>\n

c. It was a well known area.<\/p>\n

6) For thirty-eight years he had been without a cure.<\/p>\n

4. This ought to teach us some lessons.<\/p>\n

1) How many today simply want to believe in something?<\/p>\n

a. Does that help?<\/p>\n

b. It may provide temporary respite, but it offers no lasting cure.<\/p>\n

c. John 8:24 “I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for except ye believe that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.”<\/p>\n

2) How many today will place their faith in the power of a THING to heal them?<\/p>\n

a. The old snake oil salesmen used to play upon this.<\/p>\n

b. Some have lucky charms that they carry around.<\/p>\n

c. Others will pump their life savings into the latest fad or gadget that promises “wellness.”<\/p>\n

d. In Acts 19:4 we find another example of people who placed their belief in a thing. “Great is Diana of the Ephesians” they said of their idol.<\/p>\n

3) How long will we go under such circumstances?<\/p>\n

a. This man went for thirty-eight years.<\/p>\n

b. Others spent countless years pursuing this or that cure.<\/p>\n

c. If one believes hard enough in something, then one will invest his time and efforts in that thing.<\/p>\n

d. Time is a thing we need to value for the Lord; Colossians 4:5 tells us to redeem our time.<\/p>\n

II.  At the Pool of Bethesda We See An Unabashed Command<\/h3>\n

1. Jesus asked this man if he wanted to be whole.<\/p>\n

1) There is no indication that the man believed on Jesus as the source of his cure at all.<\/p>\n

2) We learn later that this man didn’t even know who Jesus was (verse 13).<\/p>\n

3) The man didn’t answer Jesus question directly.<\/p>\n

4) The answer was obvious: of course he wanted to be cured!<\/p>\n

5) But he didn’t have anyone to let him down into the water before another got in and he wasn’t expecting a cure without such.<\/p>\n

6) No doubt he thought that Jesus was going to put him in the water as this seemed to be his only concern.<\/p>\n

2. Jesus cures him.<\/p>\n

1) He tells him to “Rise, take up his bed, and walk.”<\/p>\n

2) What went unstated was that Jesus made this man whole without the man asking for it.<\/p>\n

3) Here is the command that Jesus was unashamed to give.<\/p>\n

4) And the man immediately rose and took his bed and started walking.<\/p>\n

3. Again we learn some lessons from this.<\/p>\n

1) We ought not be blind to other possibilities.<\/p>\n

a. This man could only see his cure coming through the pool.<\/p>\n

b. Jesus, however, saw other possibilities.<\/p>\n

c. How often are we blind to our own preconceptions?<\/p>\n

d. Luke 18:27 says, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”<\/p>\n

2) Jesus gave the man what he needed, not what he wanted.<\/p>\n

a. How many times in this life do we think our wants are our needs?<\/p>\n

b. They taught us in the computer business to get people to tell us what they needed not what they wanted.<\/p>\n

c. Matthew 6:8 “for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.”<\/p>\n

d. We need to tell God our needs, not our wants.<\/p>\n

3) We need not be ashamed of compassion.<\/p>\n

a. 1 Peter 3:8 “Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:”<\/p>\n

b. We need to be a compassionate people.<\/p>\n

c. I have to wonder how many Jews walked by this man over the course of the thirty-eight years this man was ill.<\/p>\n

d. Do we remember the parable of the good Samaritan?<\/p>\n

III. At The Pool of Bethesda We See An Unjustified Criticism<\/h3>\n

1. The Jews immediately criticized this man being apathetic of his previous condition.<\/p>\n

1) It was the Sabbath day.<\/p>\n

2) No kind of work was supposed to be done on this day.<\/p>\n

3) Carrying a bed was, according to the tradition of the Rabbis, “work.”<\/p>\n

4) Hence, they criticized, “It is not lawful for you to carry your bed.”<\/p>\n

5) After all those years of this man being paralyzed this is the first thing they can say to him.<\/p>\n

6) They don’t rejoice that he is healed.<\/p>\n

7) They only criticize him for carrying his bed on the Sabbath.<\/p>\n

8) The truth is that they had failed this man for thirty-eight years.<\/p>\n

9) They failed to have compassion on him.<\/p>\n

10) They, like the priest and Levite in the parable of the good Samaritan, simply walked by.<\/p>\n

2. The healed man explains his actions.<\/p>\n

1) This man told them why he was carrying his bed.<\/p>\n

2) He was paralyzed but made whole.<\/p>\n

3) The one who did this commanded that he take up his bed and walk.<\/p>\n

4) So he obeyed.<\/p>\n

3. The Jews ask additional questions.<\/p>\n

1) They ask the man, “Who told you to take up your bed and walk?”<\/p>\n

2) The man said that he didn’t know, but found Jesus later and then told the Jews who it had been.<\/p>\n

3) One might think that they would want to know so that they could benefit from him as well.<\/p>\n

4) Indeed, even today we tell others our good news so that they will be able to use that news as well for their own good.<\/p>\n

5) But this was not their motive.<\/p>\n

6) Verse 16 says the Jews wanted to persecute and kill Jesus because he had done this on the Sabbath.<\/p>\n

7) They couldn’t see the good for their desire to only see what was evil.<\/p>\n

4. We learn some lessons.<\/p>\n

1) We need to avoid judging others when we have failed them.<\/p>\n

a. Matthew 7:1-5 tells us not to judge when we have our own faults to deal with.<\/p>\n

b. Indeed, if we have failed someone our attitude ought to be penitent and not critical.<\/p>\n

c. Psalm 34:18 says, “The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”<\/p>\n

d. Let’s not just “walk by” when we see others suffering, but lend our helping hand.<\/p>\n

2) We need to rejoice when good has been done to others instead of being apathetic.<\/p>\n

a. What is our attitude when good things happen to other people.<\/p>\n

b. Are we jealous? Do we wish we had had that happen to us? Do we want to strangle them?<\/p>\n

c. Romans 12:15a “Rejoice with them that do rejoice.”<\/p>\n

3) We need to examine our motives when working with others.<\/p>\n

a. 2 Corinthians 13:5 “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”<\/p>\n

b. What are our true motives when dealing with others?<\/p>\n

c. We need to be honest, sincere, and pure of heart to be followers of Christ.<\/p>\n

5. Finally, in this healing at the pool of bethesda sermon<\/strong> we consider that…<\/p>\n

IV.  At the Pool of Bethesda We See An Unapologetic Confirmation<\/h3>\n

1. Without apology, Jesus confirms the Jews accusations.<\/p>\n

1) Jesus said that both He and His Father work on the Sabbath.<\/p>\n

2) It was not wrong for Jesus to heal on the Sabbath.<\/p>\n

3) In Mark 3:4 Jesus asked the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill?”<\/p>\n

4) God had never intended for people to avoid doing good deeds on the Sabbath.<\/p>\n

5) Even the Pharisees allowed men to get an animal out of a pit on the Sabbath.<\/p>\n

6) Matthew 12:11-12 “And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.”<\/p>\n

2. Moreover, Jesus was the Lord of the Sabbath.<\/p>\n

1) Matthew 12:8 “For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.”<\/p>\n

2) Because Jesus was the Lord of the Sabbath he knew that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath (Mark 2:27).<\/p>\n

3. Some lessons.<\/p>\n

1) We need to understand that God’s word is for man’s benefit.<\/p>\n

a. We don’t obey God’s word out of some motive of disciplinarian strictness, but because we know God loves us and wants what is best for us.<\/p>\n

b. 1 John 5:3 “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.”<\/p>\n

2) The miracles that Jesus did confirmed who Jesus was.<\/p>\n

a. Jesus said in John 5:31-32 “If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.”<\/p>\n

b. John 5:26 “But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.”<\/p>\n

3) We ought never to apologize for doing what is right!<\/p>\n

a. Jesus offered no apology to the Jews for “working” on the Sabbath day.<\/p>\n

b. Romans 1:16 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”<\/p>\n

c. Jesus wasn’t ashamed of the truth and neither ought we to be.<\/p>\n

CONCLUSION: [ conclusion of this healing at the pool of bethesda sermon. ]<\/p>\n

1. At the pool of Bethesda we see…<\/p>\n

1) An unrealized cure.<\/p>\n

2) An unabashed command.<\/p>\n

3) Unjustified criticism.<\/p>\n

4) An unapologetic confirmation.<\/p>\n

2. Invitation<\/p>\n

See Also:<\/h3>\n