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All right, welcome back to day four, as we have been doing a deep dive

on John chapter five. We're going to pick it up in verse two. This is the event of the healing

of the pool of Bethesda. Before we jump in, I've got to ask you a question. Do you tend to make

excuses or to make it happen? I mean, anybody that I've

ever met that makes excuses are not the kind of people that make it happen. So, do you make

excuses or do you make it happen? John 5.2. Now, there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool in an Aramaic called Bethesda,

which has five roof colonnades 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 here's the

million dollar question do you want to be healed now again like we talked about yesterday seems like

the obvious answer is of course i want to be healed but look at what the sick man answers the sick man

answered him sir i have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up.

And while I am going, another steps down before me.

There were some ancient traditions that are listed in some of the older manuscripts,

but not all manuscripts, that there was this myth or tradition that an angel would stir up

the water and whoever got into the water first

was the one to be healed. And so this man is sitting there for 38 years and whenever he saw the

water stirred up, he wasn't able to get in. And when Jesus asked him the million dollar question,

the maker of all things, the maker of miracles himself,

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