Memory Verse - Deut 4: 24 For the LORD your God is a

consuming fire, a jealous God [my God wants all of me].

Pericope: John 5:1-9 -Some time later, Jesus went up to

Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in

Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called

Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.

3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind,

the lame, the paralyzed. 4 From time to time an angel of the Lord

would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the

pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever

disease they had. 5 One who was there had been an invalid for

thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned

that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him,

“Do you want to get well?” 7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no

one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am

trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” 8 Then

Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once

the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on

which this took place was a Sabbath,

Sermon Text: John 5: 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and

learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he

asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

Sermon Title: I’ve Fallen and I Got to Get Up

Setting/Context: vs. 2-5 -2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the

Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and

which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great

number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the

paralyzed. 4 From time to time an angel of the Lord would come

down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each

such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had. 5

One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

Point 1: The Pool Party vs. 1-5 Some time later, Jesus went up to

Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in

Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called

Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.

3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind,

the lame, the paralyzed. 4 From time to time an angel of the Lord

would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the

pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever

disease they had. 5 One who was there had been an invalid for

thirty-eight years.

Point 2: The Pity Party – vs. 6-9 . 6 When Jesus saw him lying

there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long

time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” 7 “Sir,” the invalid

replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is

stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down

ahead of me.” 8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your

mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his

mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,

Point 3: The Pull Party – vs. 10-13 - 10 and so the Jewish

leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath;

the law forbids you to carry your mat.”

11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick

up your mat and walk.’ ”

12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it

up and walk?”

13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus

had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

Point 4: The Forward Party – vs. 14-16 - 14 Later Jesus found

him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop

sinning or something worse may happen to you.” 15 The man

went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had

made him well. 16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on

the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him