Well, Wednesday night, we're going to continue our through the Bible study.

We left off finishing John chapter four.

So if you would, turn with me to John chapter five.

And if you're just joining us, we go verse by verse, chapter by chapter, book by book, right through the Bible.

So we happen to be in John chapter five.

So we'll pick it up there where we left off.

John chapter five.

Okay. So we'll pick it up there where we left off. John chapter 5. Are you familiar with the statement,

God helps those who help themselves?

It's funny because if you're an old school person,

you know, like me,

maybe you heard back in the olden days where grandma would say, well, the good book says God helps those who help themselves.

And people attributed that to the Bible, which is actually incorrect.

It actually is probably the oldest part of this comes from ancient Greece, where they said, the gods help those who

helped themselves. That was kind of their mantra, the gods, which that we know that's really

paganism, to say the least. But some of the, after the Greeks, the first time the phrase God

helped those who help themselves, it was also illustrated by two of Aesop's fables of all places.

Some people attribute it to Benjamin Franklin in 1757, quoted in poor Richard's Almanac, God helps those who help themselves.

But the earliest English language form of this where a guy

literally wrote this down was in 1698, Algernon, Sydney. The modern, you know, English version

comes in 1698 in a discourse concerning government. He wrote, there's a humorous addition, by the way, to the saying

where God helps those who helps themselves,

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