Getting Off The Ground

Fresh Life Church

Pastor Levi Lusko

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt stuck? Like you're never going to get through what you're facing or back to happiness, back on track? If so, take heart and get ready to rise up.

In this message, Getting Off The Ground, Pastor Levi Lusko examines The Chosen's powerful portrayal of Jesus healing the paralyzed man at the Pool of Bethesda, revealing how Christ calls us to leave our wilderness and enter into all He has for us.

From The Chosen Season 2, Episode 4 "The Perfect Opportunity" - witness Jesus's intentional healing of a man who had been paralyzed for 38 years (the same number of years Israel wandered in the wilderness). This wasn't just physical healing - it was Jesus calling someone to completely abandon their old life.

Scripture Focus: John 5:1-15
Watch as Jesus asks the hard question: "Do you want to be made well?" Then commands the impossible: "Rise, take up your bed, and walk." Discover why sometimes the thing we think will cure us is actually the thing keeping us down.
5 Steps to Getting Off the Ground:

Identify False Assumptions
Ask Hard Questions
Do Scary Things
Listen to the Right Voices
Make Different Choices

ABOUT THE SERIES:
Is that in the Bible? That’s the question we’re asking in this five-week series. We’re taking cinematic moments from The Chosen and pressing in—opening the Word, digging deep, and letting Scripture speak for itself. Together, with teachings captured from the set of The Chosen, we’ll wrestle with the tension, lean into the humanity, and see the life of Jesus through fresh eyes.

ABOUT FRESH LIFE:
Fresh Life Church was pioneered by Pastors Levi and Jennie Lusko in 2007. We exist to see those stranded in sin find life and liberty in Jesus Christ. Today Fresh Life’s ministry impacts people with the radical, life-changing message of Jesus’ grace, spilling across Montana, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho… and beyond.

ABOUT THE CHOSEN:

The Chosen is a groundbreaking historical drama based on the life of Jesus, seen through the eyes of those who knew him.
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Is that in the Bible, week to teach in or not.
0:03.0	Have you ever felt stuck one.
0:05.0	Is that in the Bible, week two, teaching, take one.
0:14.0	Have you ever felt stuck?
0:18.0	Like you're never going to get through what you're facing or back to happiness back on track?
0:24.7	If so, take heart and get ready to rise up.
0:28.8	Hello to all those of you at Fresh Life,
0:31.0	those of you at our partner churches through the Open Network,
0:34.0	and to everybody watching online.
0:36.2	We have come to the set of the chosen to ask, is that in the Bible?
0:42.0	Now, I'm a massive fan of the show, and I love how Dallas and Amanda Jenkins have articulated again and again, that they want people to use the show as a springboard into their discovery and study of scripture. They don't want
0:55.3	anybody to take the show and treat it as though it were the Bible, as though it were chosen 316,
1:02.1	but they have said that they long for people to be disciples, for people to grow in their faith,
1:07.8	to study and to figure out what informs what, and to know the difference
1:11.8	between art and the Bible. And that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to take these
1:16.8	clips, take these scenes, and then go to the scriptures themselves, wrestle with them, and let
1:22.6	God change us through His Word. Today, we're going to watch a clip from season two,
1:29.6	episode four, entitled The Perfect Opportunity.
1:39.6	Shalom.
1:41.2	Me?
1:43.3	Yes.
1:45.0	Shalom.
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