Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary

spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and

Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

Welcome back to day three of the Daily Blade as we are unpacking

this miracle or this sign that happens in John chapter 5, the healing at the pool of Bethesda.

We're going to reread some of the verses just for context, beginning of verse one. After this,

there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed

colonnades. Do you know what the Bible says that it has five roof colonnades? Because it actually

has five roof colonnades. It is details like this that help us understand that this is not a myth,

this is not a fairy tale. This is an actual event and an actual place and actual details like

this actually happen. Verse three, in these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, and

paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for 38 years.

And when Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time,

he said to him, do you want to be healed? Now, when Jesus asked this question, do you want to be

healed? Don't you think the obvious answer is,

well, of course I want to be healed Jesus? I mean, the brother has been here for 38 years. At first,

it seems kind of like a rhetorical question because you would think the answer is, obviously,

yeah, I want to be healed. Well, in reality, that's a legitimate question. Let me ask you,

do you want to be healed? You see, I've been in full-time vocational ministry for over 30 years.

And one of the things that I've realized is, I don't know that you can make the assumption that

people actually want to be healed. You see, there's a lot of people assumption that people actually want to be healed.

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