All right, family, well, listen, I started a series last week called God Didn't Say That,

and the heart behind this series is to try to address and arrest the weapon of spiritual confusion.

So we want to bring, hopefully, we want to take God's word and give the gift of

clarity to as many people as possible. This is what Jesus said about truth. He says, when you know

truth, truth sets you free. And so that's what we're believing for, believing for this month

through this series. And it's titled titled god didn't say that because we know

that confusion comes from a number of different places it comes from cultural influences it comes

from natural influences but the focus of this series for me as a spiritual leader is to address

the confusion that comes from spiritual influences. So this is what we're tackling

this month and we're believing that God's going to use it in a powerful way. So I want to go

to the book of John chapter number five and I want to read a few verses beginning at

verse number five. John chapter five, I'm going to read a few verses beginning at verse number 5 and it says this one who was there had been an invalid for 38 years and when Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time he asked him do you want to get well?

Sir, the invalid replied, I have no one to help me into the pool.

When the water was stirred and while I'm trying to get in,

someone else goes down ahead of me.

Then Jesus said to him,

get up, pick up your mat and walk.

At once the man was cured, he picked up his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath.

I'm going to give you the topic for this teaching in just a second, but let's just

as a church family, online in in this room, let's welcome in our New Jersey family who's

getting ready to worship with us. This up New Jersey. I want to talk from this subject in our

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