I came into the world the first time to deal with sin, not mainly to deal with sickness.

I'm going to deal with some sickness.

I'm going to show what the age to come is going to be like.

I'm going to point to the glorious day.

Will there be no more crying, no more sickness, no more disability, no more lameness, no more blindness, no more depression.

I'm pointing to that.

I'm doing it here and I'm doing it there.

But mainly I came to attack the worst thing this world has ever known.

Sin.

So why did Jesus heal?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper opens John 5, verses 1 to 18,

to reveal that Christ's miracles are not just about health, but about holiness.

The sermon was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on August 23, 2009.

Now, something happens very abruptly here, very abruptly.

You don't expect it.

When he says it, you don't want it.

I don't want it.

I don't want this story to go this direction.

He says, at the end of verse 9, now, that was the Sabbath.

And you say, oh, no.

Jesus.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

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