Sermon Tone Analysis

Would you like to get well?

Prologue:

Do you ever wonder if this stuff is true?

Did any of this really happen or did a group of salty Galilean fisherman pull one over on the whole world constructing an elaborate lie about their murdered teacher Jesus coming back from the dead and then convince enough people to start a world religion?

Hasn’t the Bible been mistranslated along the way?

In fact isn’t this passage proof of it?

Bauer writing in the 1830’s based on his philosophical view of religious development stated John’s Gospel was from the 2nd century by someone who didn’t know Jerusalem.

Others jumped on board and looked for evidence of their theory finding this is the only Gospel which mentions the pool of Bethesda which in the second century didn’t exist.

And in 1830 didn’t exist.

The problem with their brilliant confirmation bias deductions was the actual archeological evidence.

Around 1910 the pool of Bethesda was found near the sheep gate in Jerusalem with two rectangular pools and coverd porches on all four sides including a fifth between the two pools.

What we find here is simply an accurate historical description of the pool from an eye witness.

No other religious text in history has been subjected to the scrutiny of the Bible.

And I would wager no other would stand the test of time as the Bible Has.

We can be confident that the Bible we are reading is historically reliable.

This is important because on of the contentions of earlier historians was that the Bible cannot be trusted because it is not even historically reliable.

Another accusation was that the Bible mentioned a people named Hittites, but there hadn’t been any evidence found of Hittites so the Bible was wrong, until the Hittites were discovered now you can study this ancient civilization.

Time and again the Bible proves historically true.

So strike the argument that we cannot trust the Bible because it is not historical.

Does that mean if it is historically true that the teachings of the Bible are true as well?

Some say no the Bible has been mistranslated.

Look at this passage in your own Bible.

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Notice vs 4 is gone.

Who erased a verse from my Bible?

The better question is who added it?

This piece of writing is easily seen not to be from the original text.

How do we know this? “Well I’ll tell you...” We have been discovering bits and pieces of the Greek NT for over 1000 years.

Let me oversimplify this for the sake of time.

We have manuscripts of the NT going back to 95AD.

One such early manuscript is called the Codex Siniaticus which we know is from 300- 400AD.

This is one of the earliest manuscripts and most reliable that we have of the full NT.

In the book of John we notice in this manuscript and most other early manuscripts that vs 4 was not there.

The vs 4 didn’t show up until after 500AD sometime.

What most likely occurred was a marginal note got added as a verse over time somewhere.

This is the textual tradition which the KJV is based upon but since 1611 when the KJV was translated into english we have found manuscripts like Sinaiticus which predate the texts KJV was based on.

This vs also stands out in it’s use of language, it is as if a jr high student copied and pasted a wikipedia sentence into their paper as if it were their own.

Notice a couple things this doesn’t change anything about Jesus, this doesn’t change anything about the overall story.

It is simply an addition from history which we can leave behind due to it’s later inclusion and different words.

It is important to point out that the Bible is true historically, and has not been mistranslated down through the centuries.

We still have greek manuscripts from 400AD!

So having said all that because it is important to understand these things we get to the point.

Would you like to get well?

Video introduction - tell em what they are going to see and then show them.

Rhetorical question.

Can you relate to the guy in the video.

VIDEO - ex leper

Jesus can Heal.

1-6 - Jesus reaches out to the helpless - I came for those who know they are sick.

7 - 9 - Excuses are like…we all have one.

Rehearsed line this was his job.

Mark05 -and here

Jesus doesn’t condemn just heals.

Jesus didn’t heal everyone.

The tension of faith - God has not created a magical rite by which He.

Faith is to trust God not your assumptions about how the world should be.

You are invited to be part of a bigger story than you can take in all at once and the end is you are like Christ.

Stand up pick your Mat and walk.

- he did it.

Jesus claims to be God - I am always working

10 -13 - 39 categories of Sabbath regulations

Field Work:

Sowing, Plowing, Reaping, Binding Sheaves, Threshing,Winnowing

Selecting Grinding Sifting Kneading Baking

Making Material Curtains:

Shearing Wool Cleaning Combing Dyeing Spinning Stretching the Threads

Making Loops Weaving Threads Separating the Threads Tying a Knot

Untying a Knot Sewing Tearing

Making Leather Curtains:

Trapping Slaughtering Skinning Tanning Smoothing Ruling Lines Cutting

Making the Beams of the Mishkan:

Writing Erasing

The Putting up and Taking down of the Mishkan:

Building Breaking Down

The Mishkan's Final Touches:

Extinguishing a Fire Kindling a Fire Striking the Final Hammer Blow Carrying

Jesus commands this guy to carry!

But what about God? Does He get to work on the Sabbath?

The consensus amongst the rabbis, too, was that God works on the Sabbath, for otherwise providence itself would weekly go into abeyance.

About the end of the first century, four eminent rabbis (Rabban Gamaliel II, R. Joshua, R. Eleazar b.

Azariah, and R. Akiba) discussed the point, and concluded that although God works constantly, he cannot rightly be charged with violating the Sabbath law, since (1) the entire universe is his domain (Is.

6:3), and therefore he never carries anything outside it; (2) otherwise put, God fills the whole world (Je.

23:24); and in any case (3) God lifts nothing to a height greater than his own stature (Exodus Rabbah 30:9; cf.

Genesis Rabbah 11:10).

Whether he breaks the Sabbath or not, God works continuously: all were agreed on that point.

-Carson, D. A.

Jesus confirms and says my father is always working, and so am I.

He didn’t know who healed him!? (GRACE)

They wanted to kill him.

Jesus confronts sin.

Here Jesus looks up throughout history - at all of us.

This man’s true poverty was not material it was slavery to sin.

Jesus is able to deliver.

Jesus is about healing every person from their true malady - SIN!

Sin is actions, attitude, nature, and omission.

Story of conversation??time.

Now you are well stop sinning This seems to imply that the mans condition had something to do with his own.

Jesus teaches there is something worse than the disabled mans condition

Sin leads to death.

Jesus delivers from sin, first then invites us to walk in freedom.