Hey, this is Stephen Fertig. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your

faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God as moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

Valentine, you guys, you look good, you smell good, you sound real good. And I'm thrilled

to be here. My name is Dustin Stroudland. The campus pastor of our Rona, Virginia location.

I know we've got some people from Rona, here. What's up, Noke? God's doing some amazing

things in Rona, and all of our campuses. And so if you're here at Valentine, I need you

to take that enthusiasm that I feel right here and translate that through the camera to

everyone tuning in online and give them a big welcome. Show them some love. We are one

church many locations and people tuning in, even in cities where we don't have a location.

I'm excited to share the word of God with you today, but the reality is the effectiveness

of me sharing the word of God really depends on your readiness to receive the word of God.

So I need you to do me a favor and turn your neighbor right now. Say, hey neighbor,

are you ready to receive what God has for you? Now turn to your second option. I'm not

going to get into why you chose some second. Say, hey neighbor, I'm ready. Let's go. I'm

going to jump into John 5. You can follow with me on the screen. You guys can stay standing

in honor of reading God's word if you want to. I mean, I'm just saying. But sometime later,

Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem

near the sheep gate a pool, which an era make is called Bethesda, which is surrounded

by five covered at colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie. The

blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for 38 years. When

Jesus saw him lying there, learned that he had been in this condition. Everybody say

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