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All right, welcome to day five this week of John chapter five. I want to ask you a question.

Are you on Team Jesus or Team Pharisee? Now, I know immediately you're going to pick Team Jesus,

but let me ask you, when God does the miraculous around you, do you try to poke holes in it or do you rejoice in it?

Let's see what the text says. John 5, beginning in verse 6, 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?

And the sick man answered, sir, here comes the excuses, 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.

And Jesus said to him, get up, take up your bed, and walk.

And at once, the man was healed and he took up his bed and walked.

Aren't you glad that even when we are faithless, God is faithful.

Now, that day was the Sabbath. So the Jews, and this means the Jewish leaders, so the Jews said to the man who had been healed,

it is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed. But he answered them, well, the man that

healed me, he said to me, take up your bed and walk. I mean, basically, what the cripple guy that just got

healed, he's like, dude, you can say what you want to say. But the brother that just made my legs

work told me too, so I'm going to follow his instructions instead of yours. And verse 12, and they ask him, who is the man who said to you, take up your bed and walk?

And now the man who had been healed did not know who it was,

for Jesus had withdrawn as there was a crowd in the place.

Afterwards, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, see, you are well.

Sin no more that nothing worse may happen to you.

You know what's worse than being crippled for 38 years?

Not following after Jesus and going to hell for all eternity.

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