John 5

5:6 - Would you like to get well? - It is a great question, because a lot of us complain about what ails us, but to be honest we are more comfortable with the pain we know than the process of healing we don't know. So many people today choose their sickness out of fear. I bet God asks us all the time if we truly want to be well. Some of you carry hurt and sin and fear inside of your hearts that cripple you just as much as this man's physical injury and yet when God asks you have no ready response. Trust the God of Heaven and answer yes when He asks if you want to be made well. He would never cause pain in your life that wasn't worth it.

5:9 - The man was healed INSTANTLY. INSTANTLY!!! Can you imagine seeing this?

5:12 - (NASB) Who is the man who said to you, "Take up your pallet, and walk?" - WOW! They didn't even ask about the healing. They were so focused on the Law that they totally missed what God was doing. I wonder when we focus on the mat instead of the healing.

5:14 - Now you are well; so stop sinning or something even worse may happen to you....5:15 - The man goes and tells on Jesus. Incredible.

5:18 - ... thereby making himself equal with God.

5:21 - For just as the Father gives life to those he raises from the dead, so the Son gives life to anyone he wants.

5:23 - ... Anyone who does not honor the Son is certainly not honoring the Father who sent him. - No matter how you look at it, it takes us following Jesus to honor the Father. In our pluralistic age many people want to make it about being good or reverent or holy, but it starts and ends with being Christ's.

5:24 - ... already passed from death to life. - I like the already part.

5:29 - Those who have done good will rise to experience eternal life, and those who have continued in evil will rise to experience judgment. - Those who have made it a habit of their life to live in evil will rise to judgment.

This was from the headings in the NASB

5:33-35 - Witness of John the Baptist

5:36 - Witness of Miracles and Works

5:37-38 - Witness of Father

5:39-47 - Witness of the Scriptures

5:39-40 - You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me! Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life. - Remember that it is not about religious knowledge, but about a relationship based on truth that sets you free. Study the Scriptures to know your God better, not just to have a bunch of answers. Be a practitioner of faith and not just a teacher of it.

5:44 - (NASB) How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another, and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God? - Convicting verse.

5:46 - If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

Love, Michael