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7 Realities of Experiencing God
Part 1
John 5:1-20
GOD IS ALWAYS AT WORK AROUND YOU.
Good Morning, Church.
It's a good day to celebrate God, especially what He has done for and through His people, amen?
After all, He has called us out of the darkness and into the His marvelous light.
He has given us a godly purpose and surrounds by HIS miraculous love.
Let‘s pray.
Today, we begin a new teaching series called the 7 Realities of Experiencing God.
For some, I believe this series will be a life-changing 7-weeks; for others, it will remind us of why we are here and what God is doing in our lives.
As my wife and I have traveled and attended many churches.
We have seen that pastors and churches often get bogged down in life's situations, get used to the problems that come, concentrate on the stuff of life, and take their attention off and ultimately blinds them from the amazing things that God is doing around us.
That is what has happened to us as we have been here.
Can I be honest?
We have kind of lost the sense of doing our ministry, and it can happen to everyone.
Often times people are told of what God is doing, maybe even seen it from time to time, some rarely equate it to His power and presence in our lives.
I think that is where many people are today.
This sermon series is designed to help us see the work of God, see His power, but also to compel us to join with God in His incredible work.
If you have your Bible with you today.
I ask that you open it with me to the New Testament Book of John chapter 5.
If you are unfamiliar with where John is, you can find it as the 4th book of the New Testament Matthew, Mark, Luke, and then you will find the Book of John.
John chapter 5 is where we will be this morning.
In Johns Gospel 17:3, Jesus is speaking, and He says, "THIS IS ETERNAL LIFE THAT THEY KNOW YOU THE ONLY TRUE GOD" This was the prayer that Jesus prayed when He was thinking about us, it's called The High Priestly prayer, and the people who Jesus was praying for and thinking of the most was us.
His desire and purpose was that every man, woman, and child would know the one true God.
As Jesus prayed that one would know God not just by knowing more about God, not about facts or His names.
When Jesus prayed, He did so so that we would experience God because that is how the word "know" is used.
To know God is to be in fellowship with Him, to be in a relationship with Him.
Jesus' prayer is that every one of us would experience God.
So that we could know and engage God in our lives.
God gave us this thing called choice.
We can either do His Will or to do our own will.
We have a choice, and when we say yes to His will and no to our will, God reveals more about Himself to us.
So, my pray over this series is that we would see in our everyday lives where God is at work, and we will join Him.
We will praise His wonderful name for the amazing things that He does each day.
Each week we will be discussing one of the Realities of Experiencing God By Henry Blackaby.
So let's begin.
If you are there in the book of John, chapter 5, begin reading with me from verse 1.
This is the Word of God, and it begins like this;
"After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.
4 For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.
5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"
7 The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me."
8 Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your bed and walk." 9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.
And that day was the Sabbath.
10 The Jews, therefore, said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."
11 He answered them, "He who made me well said to me, 'Take up your bed and walk.'"
12 Then they asked him, "Who is the Man who said to you, 'Take up your bed and walk'?" 13 But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a multitude being in that place.
14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you have been made well.
Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you."
15 The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16 For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath.
17 But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I have been working."
18 Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.
19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.
20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel."
Can I ask you; When was the last time you were amazed by God?
Has it been a while?
I want you to think about that question.
When was the last time you were amazed by God and His work?
You see, The Pharisees were not amazed at the work of God, the paralyzed man walking.
They did not care that God was doing things right in front of them.
They did not care that the man who had been paralyzed for 38 years was able to pick up his mat and walk away.
They did not see that as something to marvel at.
They did not see that Jesus used this man for His work for the work of the Father.
They were blinded by their anger and pride because Jesus broke the man-made Jewish laws of the Sabbath.
Think about that for a moment; you know, we often get so wrapped up in us that the tragedy is when God works in our lives, we don't see, we miss it.
I don't know about you, but I sometimes feel that we get in the way God because of what we want.
We can get in the way of what God wants for us.
You see, God has a greater plan for us than we can ever imagine.
That brings us to our take-home truth today:
Our Take- Home truth is The First Reality of Experiencing God, and that is;
God is always at work around me. (x2).
God is always at work around us, but often we are not looking for Him.
Did you know; That God is at work in your life?
I mean the one true God of the universe.
He is aware of what is going on in your life right now, and you are in the midst of making history.
This history I am telling you of is the history of God, His activity, changing and altering and moving for His purpose.
The Bible tells us in Philippians 2:13, "For it is God who is working in you, enabling you both to desire and to work out His good purpose."
I hope that you can sense the significance of being a child of God, that you will not live just an everyday life, ordinary life, but you will look for where God is at work and that you will join Him.
The Bible tells us in John chapter 12, verse 26, Jesus said, "If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me.
Where I am, there My servant also will be.
If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him."
In other words, where the Master is, the servant must be.
If we are servants of God, our number one priority is seeking Him and being at work where HE is at work.
And I am sure you can agree with me that if there was ever a time that we needed to see God and His activity, it is in today's world.
I believe that the church is in a time of spiritual crises.
The church is facing its own epidemic.
And as such we need to clearly and unmistakably recognize the presence of God and to put our lives where He is.
Jesus used this paralyzed man for a history lesson for us over 2000 years later, where He shows us that God is always at work around us.
Jesus knew the customs and laws of the Sabbath, Jesus was of course Jewish.
He was brought up on the customs and laws of the religion.
Yet He healed the man so that we would understand that God is always at work even when we think He is not.
This story tells us that the Father has Jesus working and that Jesus cannot do anything without the Father.
I believe that there are four reasons for this healing.
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For the man to be healed himself.
2. For the disciples to witness this incredible work of God.
3. To show the religious leaders that God is at work.
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