Well, Gide Church. Hope you're doing well. Pastor John Tyson here. Wanted to let you know this summer,

we are going to be looking at the life of Jesus and why, as it says in John's gospel, we should

believe in him because of the signs he did and how in believing we can have life in his name.

We're going to be looking at Jesus' claims about himself, the I Am statements,

and in the miracles of Jesus, why we can trust him to have power over sin, Satan, death, and hell.

I hope this series stirs your faith and passion to follow Jesus with all of your heart

and in so doing experience the life that he truly offers.

Let's get back to the podcast.

The teaching text today is John 5 verses 1 to 18 and it says,

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 in Aramaic is called Bethesite,

Bethesda, thank you, and which is surrounded by five covered 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 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 get in the pool when the water is stirred.

While I am 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.

And so Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, it is the Sabbath. The law forbids you to carry your mat.

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