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THE Impossible + THE Unreasonable + Jesus= CHRISTIANITY

Today we are talking about the impossible, the unreasonable but when you add in Jesus anything is possible.

What we need more than anything today, More than another light and smoke show, more than a bunch of fair weathered Christians thanking God when things are only good, more than we need another slick 3 piece suited preacher, preaching another feel good message, more than any of those things we need some of that Old Time religion.

When sinners are kissed by the grace of God and made new creations.

Where people get the fear of God back into their lives and quite playing in the devils playground and get their heart and life right with the Lord.

You know today we want to set around and gripe and complain about all the things that are not right in our life.

there used to be a time in the churches history that we believed that if you got yourself right with God everything else would begin to work out.

And you know what God is the same yesterday , today and forever, Those old time principles that worked then will work today.

We are living in a culture today of relative Truth and any morality, which the Bible used to call immorality

If you have your Bibles open up to the book of John chapter 5

JESUS STILL REACHES OUT TO THE One

Now there was a multitude but jesus reached out to the One! Arent you glad today that Jesus still reaches out to the One.

Maybe you came to church this morning, just wondering if this whole jesus thing is real or not!

I want you to know that jesus Still reaches out to the One.

Now again the John whole mission of writing this book is so that believing on the Name of Jesus that He is the Son of God, you may have life in His name

And so the miracles, are really more than miracles.

They are miracles with a message, they are sign with significance.

SIGN 1 Water to Wine- Jesus is the answer to our disappoiontments

We have already seen one other miracle and the word for miracle is is the word sign.

Jesus turned water into wine.

But it wasn’t about the wine, it was about the peoples disappointment.

Can I say to you I may disappoint you, Your mother and uncle may disappoint, but can I say that Jesus never disappoints.

Can I tell you that there are a lot of people that there have tasted the goodness of the Lord, but after a time fall away, usually because they just love darkness, and the love sin, and the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is just too high a cost for them to leave.

But you need to understand that the devil has no happy old people.

There will come a day when you no longer have your youth and your vitallity.

There will come a day when you no longer have that pretty face and that charming smile, there will come a day when your wit will run out and your strength will shrink and your ability to make money will seem old and boring to one.

But can I tell you there is a distinct difference between the older people that I know that have a close and wam walk with the Lord and those that do not.

Now we get to our second sign… Healing of the Invalid

Hebrew tongue Bethesda,”—by the way, that means “house of mercy”

They were Impotent that is they were invalid- That means that they had no strength, were without power

Sin robs us of our inner strength

But Jesus is the solution for our inner strength

Are you disheartened today?

Do you feel like everything around you is zapping you of time and strength?

Introduction to the Man that is without strength

This man had been there for 38 years.

And Jesus asks him a very importantn question

Do you want to be healed?”

Now it seemed like a silly question.

It seemed like an impossible question.

And if we had been standing right there and didn’t know who Jesus was and he asked this m,an that question we would have thought it an unreasonable question.

But the impossible, plus the unreasonable plus Jesus = Christianity

Now question, Jesus was in a place where where there were many people with ailments, with paralyses, with problems, but He only heals the opne man.

Now the question is why?

If Jesus was just a healer, and his ministry focused on healing, why wouldn’t he just heal everyone?

Thats a good question.

He asked the one...

This is what I know about the Lord, He is not in the wholesale business.

He never passed people thrugh like cattle through an auction.

He came to One.... Why?

Because this man is a representative of you and I. THis man is a man without power, a man without strength.

Now this mans powerlessness is physical, but this miracle has a message, it has significance

THE WORD FOR MIRACLE IS REALLY THE WORD FOR SIGN....

He didn’t come as a great healer, he came asz saviour.

and the real miracle is now the Physcial healing that took place in this mans life, but the spiritual healing that took place… And jsut so we don’t think this miracle has anything to do with our spiritual paralysis Jesus tells this man

Jesus is Gods answer for man’s weakness, God’s answer to your utter spirtuial paralyses.

We are born sinner.... and because of sin iut causes weakness.

We are sinner by birth, sinners by choice, sinners by practice.

Now not every sickness is related to our sin.

But this man’s sin was directl associated with his sin.

And Jesus warned this man that He had been made well, Sin no more that nothing worse happen to you.

We are living in a time or truth decay.

Not tooth decay, truth decay.

Where we have turned God’s love into sloppy agape, and we no longer take him seriously.

I.

You Must Validate Your Weakness

II.

You Must Activate Your Will

III.

You Must Initiate Your Walk

HERESA GREAT TRUTH … God doesn’t want you to do anything for him.

He wants to do something through you.

Somme people are so big that God could never be glorified in their life, because if God were to do anything miraculous, something extraordinary they would selfishly soak up the glory for themeselves, puff out their chest and say to everyone yes I am the man.

Listen you are not the man, I am not The man, Jesus is the man, the son of man and the Son of God and when He is liufted up he will draw all men unto Himself.

But listen faith is not inactivity.

It is not l;aziness, it is not an excuse to roll around in your inability.

He doesn;t want you to do anything for Him, but he desperately weants to do something through you.

Have you come to the cross and said not my will but thine be done.

I know a lot of people are saying God not your will but mine be done.

He hasn’t made you to soak, sour and complain because soembody at church didn’t say hi to you today.

He wants to use you as an instrument of righteoiusness, and when you are filled with the Spirit of God, you will have the confidence to say I am a bad man!

In the previous chapter that John went over last week of the woman that Jesus met at the well, we didn’;t get to that, but after Jesus read her mail and called her out, She immediately went out and spread the word and many cam to faith in Him … and later He told his disciples

Listen the field is white with harvest, and some of us need to quite whining about our services and we need to hit the pavement of soul winning through the week.

We need to quite want to be served all the time and get to serving.

We have this Easter thing coming up in a couple of weks.

Do you know how you can use that thing starting today?

You can use it as a conversation strter with your neighbors, your friends with your co workers.

And then steer that conversation to the Lord!!

Dr. Harry Ironside used to be the pastor of Moody Church, and before he was the pastor of Moody Church, this great Bible teacher and expositor worked in the Salvation Army.

And, he said in an article I read many, many years ago that he was holding a street meeting with the Salvation Army, and they had the brass band there, and people were giving testimonies, and so forth.

And, among those giving a testimony was a man who had been a gutter drunkard who had been saved and transformed and been made over anew by the grace of our dear, wonderful Lord.

But, while this man was giving that testimonial, a well-dressed man standing on the periphery of the crowd called out and said, “Mister, you’re living in a dream world.

There’s nothing to that.

You are just dreaming.”

And, that well-dressed man felt then a tug on his coattail, and he turned around to see a little girl with a pretty face.

And, she looked up at him and said, “Sir, that man who’s talking is my daddy.

He used to be a drunkard.

He used to come home and beat my mother.

And, we didn’t have enough food to eat, and I didn’t have enough clothes to wear.

My mother used to cry most of the day.