WEBVTT 00:00:00.201 --> 00:00:03.626 Pick our Bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:03.626 --> 00:00:09.766 Let's say this together say, heavenly Father, thank God for the Holy Ghost. 00:00:09.766 --> 00:00:12.785 I'm thirsty for more. 00:00:12.785 --> 00:00:35.984 I'm learning how to yield more and more, but I'm thirsty for the Word, because I need the Word of God and the Holy Ghost working together in my life to put me in position to see your power manifest in 2023 in an unprecedented manner. 00:00:35.984 --> 00:00:40.954 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:42.060 --> 00:00:50.490 Let's look at John chapter five tonight, and I was preaching this morning about the power of healing. 00:00:50.490 --> 00:01:02.750 This year God gave us a word about this year something to shoot for, something to participate in. 00:01:02.750 --> 00:01:07.269 He wants us prepared and positioned. 00:01:07.269 --> 00:01:12.932 And I want to look here at John chapter five. 00:01:12.932 --> 00:01:14.183 We start with verse one. 00:01:14.183 --> 00:01:17.671 Jesus is ministering here. 00:01:17.900 --> 00:01:22.067 After this, there was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 00:01:22.067 --> 00:01:26.006 Now you gotta think about how many Jews were there in Jerusalem at the feast day. 00:01:26.006 --> 00:01:30.891 I mean, that means people from all over were there crowded. 00:01:30.891 --> 00:01:41.144 Now there is at Jerusalem, by the sheep gate, a pool which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 00:01:41.144 --> 00:01:49.347 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind halt, withered. 00:01:49.347 --> 00:01:54.444 Just think of that word being used in conjunction with a human being. 00:01:54.444 --> 00:01:58.944 Withered Ah, what an adjective. 00:01:58.944 --> 00:02:01.942 Withered people? 00:02:01.942 --> 00:02:04.209 Well, I've seen them. 00:02:04.209 --> 00:02:14.224 I've seen them in India, I've seen them in the Philippines, I've seen them in Mexico. 00:02:14.224 --> 00:02:30.765 They were withered and waiting for the moving of the water Because an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water. 00:02:30.765 --> 00:02:38.471 Whosoever then, first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was made a whole of whatsoever disease he had. 00:02:38.471 --> 00:02:48.085 And a certain man was there which had an infirmity 30 and eight years, that's long term, isn't it? 00:02:48.085 --> 00:02:58.288 When Jesus saw him lie and knew that he had been now a long time? 00:02:58.288 --> 00:03:02.768 In that case he saith unto him will thou be made whole? 00:03:02.768 --> 00:03:09.890 Are you willing to be made whole? 00:03:09.890 --> 00:03:21.294 And the impotent man answered sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool, but while I'm coming, another step it down before me. 00:03:21.294 --> 00:03:28.093 And Jesus saith unto him rise, take up thy bed and walk. 00:03:28.093 --> 00:03:33.311 And immediately the man was made whole and took up his bed and walked. 00:03:33.311 --> 00:03:35.919 And on the same day was the Sabbath. 00:03:36.161 --> 00:03:47.270 So this message, you know, I wanna, no one wants you to miss what I'm saying, but this title of this message is Moving the Spirit. 00:03:47.270 --> 00:03:49.902 I'll explain in a moment here. 00:03:49.902 --> 00:03:50.948 Moving the Spirit. 00:03:50.948 --> 00:03:55.578 You know, the Spirit moves. 00:03:55.578 --> 00:03:56.039 We can move the Spirit. 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:58.878 Oh, that sounds sacrilegious. 00:03:58.878 --> 00:04:03.965 Well, you know, that's why I'm teaching it so we can get on the same page as believers and do what Jesus did. 00:04:03.965 --> 00:04:07.046 Jesus did this. 00:04:07.046 --> 00:04:09.312 He moved the Spirit. 00:04:09.312 --> 00:04:11.174 Now I'll prove it here. 00:04:11.174 --> 00:04:13.228 So get the picture. 00:04:14.171 --> 00:04:26.639 A multitude of feeble, diseased, withered folk were gathered around this pool, right at the edge, because they had to get in there first. 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:28.560 They're in competition with each other. 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:31.985 I mean, if you're a believer, they're in competition with each other. 00:04:31.985 --> 00:04:34.526 I mean, if I get in first, it means you don't get it. 00:04:34.526 --> 00:04:35.744 I get it and you don't. 00:04:35.744 --> 00:04:36.927 Ha ha ha. 00:04:36.927 --> 00:04:41.528 I mean, guys just seem so pathetic. 00:04:42.579 --> 00:04:43.665 These are covenant people. 00:04:43.665 --> 00:04:44.884 Healing belonged to them. 00:04:44.884 --> 00:04:48.524 It's in their covenant. 00:04:48.524 --> 00:04:55.173 He's Jehovah Rafa, but there was at that time no teaching priests. 00:04:55.173 --> 00:04:57.000 The priests quit teaching the Word. 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.718 They had the traditions of men that rendered the Word of God to none effect. 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:06.122 The Pharisees, I mean, you know, they later got so offended that Jesus healed this man on the Sabbath day. 00:05:06.122 --> 00:05:09.975 Fuss, fuss, fuss about the Sabbath, sabbath Sabbath. 00:05:09.975 --> 00:05:16.982 They just worried about processes and worried about their traditions more than they did about people. 00:05:16.982 --> 00:05:23.625 And this Bethesda, five porches, this John chapter five. 00:05:23.625 --> 00:05:24.975 Five is the number of God's grace. 00:05:24.975 --> 00:05:26.194 It's just God's grace. 00:05:26.194 --> 00:05:28.884 I tell you he loves people and he wants to heal them. 00:05:28.884 --> 00:05:35.035 It doesn't matter if they're Muslim, mormon or Jehovah Witness or whatever they are. 00:05:35.035 --> 00:05:39.906 You know Jesus can heal anybody through the church. 00:05:39.906 --> 00:05:50.194 You gotta get this idea that people have to somehow be cleaned up, perfected, that they've gotta have a whole bunch of faith. 00:05:50.194 --> 00:05:51.593 You know, sometimes it's no faith. 00:05:51.593 --> 00:05:52.901 They don't have any faith. 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:57.694 I told the story of Ed Rogers this morning. 00:05:57.694 --> 00:05:58.959 I mean, he didn't have any faith. 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:02.033 He wasn't looking for me, he wasn't looking to get healed. 00:06:02.033 --> 00:06:05.125 I just walked in there and told him it was his day. 00:06:05.125 --> 00:06:09.622 Really that was me moving the spirit. 00:06:09.622 --> 00:06:13.500 I didn't know it at the time, I didn't realize at the time. 00:06:13.500 --> 00:06:15.548 You know, we've got the Holy Ghost in us. 00:06:15.548 --> 00:06:17.000 He's walking with us. 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:19.050 He's in us Everywhere we go. 00:06:19.050 --> 00:06:20.814 He's there when the power of God shows up. 00:06:20.814 --> 00:06:21.577 We show up. 00:06:21.577 --> 00:06:22.744 When the power of God shows up. 00:06:22.744 --> 00:06:26.560 We don't have to gin it up, we don't have to have worship team. 00:06:29.475 --> 00:06:39.274 My first trip to India by myself without Brother Osteen Jay was with me and Brother Varghese was hosting the meetings. 00:06:39.274 --> 00:06:47.786 We had a meeting at night that was kind of evangelistic in nature and then in the daytime we had ministers meetings. 00:06:47.786 --> 00:06:51.182 For the ministers, I'd wash their feet and teach them. 00:06:51.182 --> 00:06:58.574 Later that week we did a service to ordain his Bible school graduates into the ministry. 00:06:58.574 --> 00:07:01.322 I laid hands on them and had a service for that. 00:07:01.322 --> 00:07:08.141 But anyway, we were in this church on a corner and we'd just open the doors and windows. 00:07:08.141 --> 00:07:16.526 Open air meeting is hot this is Bombay hot and humid. 00:07:16.526 --> 00:07:24.244 I'm sweating like a hog in there preaching my storm up, preaching a kind of an evangelistic healing meeting. 00:07:25.694 --> 00:07:34.403 But anyway, before I got to that, well, we had a worship service and man, I mean whoo, it was not our worship service that we had tonight. 00:07:34.403 --> 00:07:35.740 It was so bad. 00:07:35.740 --> 00:07:40.701 I mean I'm talking, you know, they had some guys and gals. 00:07:40.701 --> 00:07:42.139 Well, I mean just guys. 00:07:42.139 --> 00:07:43.023 There weren't any gals. 00:07:43.023 --> 00:07:45.002 They gals that couldn't get up there and do anything. 00:07:45.002 --> 00:07:52.560 They're sitting on one side and men on the other side Stephen knows, he's been there, he's from India, they have their traditions, you know. 00:07:53.995 --> 00:07:56.163 But I mean it was just off key. 00:07:56.163 --> 00:07:56.755 Of course. 00:07:56.755 --> 00:07:58.060 I couldn't understand anything. 00:07:58.060 --> 00:08:03.625 They were singing and I'm thinking, oh God, you're gonna have to help me. 00:08:03.625 --> 00:08:10.297 I don't have anybody to bring in, any kind of anointing to help me. 00:08:10.297 --> 00:08:12.285 Lord, I'm just. 00:08:12.285 --> 00:08:15.262 And he said well, you know, when I ministered I didn't have a worship team. 00:08:15.262 --> 00:08:24.713 I said, oh yeah, sometimes we think we need all this fall to roll. 00:08:24.713 --> 00:08:31.660 And we got it inside. 00:08:32.654 --> 00:08:33.759 The words are on it. 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:41.125 So I want you to see this situation. 00:08:41.125 --> 00:08:45.200 It's certain season, the angel troubles or stirs and agitates the water. 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:48.162 It doesn't say how often is it once a quarter? 00:08:48.162 --> 00:08:49.004 Is it once a year? 00:08:49.004 --> 00:08:50.679 Is it once a five? 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:51.361 Who knows? 00:08:51.361 --> 00:08:51.943 I don't know. 00:08:51.943 --> 00:08:53.480 It doesn't say certain season. 00:08:53.480 --> 00:09:02.205 So you're sick, and the only way to get healed there's God is in his grace, in his mercy. 00:09:02.205 --> 00:09:19.163 Even though they don't have any faith, even though they don't have any teaching, he wants to heal somebody and create at the same time a hunger after that, you know, to spur something in them. 00:09:19.163 --> 00:09:27.609 And so you know it's five the number of grace. 00:09:27.609 --> 00:09:33.567 So he, they're all grouped near the edge. 00:09:33.674 --> 00:09:36.138 Now just think if you're blind, you have no idea. 00:09:36.138 --> 00:09:37.823 When the water's troubled, you can't see. 00:09:37.823 --> 00:09:41.605 If you're deaf, you could miss it. 00:09:41.605 --> 00:09:44.719 If, unless you're looking right at the pool, cause you don't hear it. 00:09:44.719 --> 00:09:51.600 And if you're lame, well, man, you gotta have a man to put you in the water. 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:52.739 How easy is that? 00:09:52.739 --> 00:09:53.763 And how quick is that? 00:09:53.763 --> 00:10:01.700 I mean, somebody else is probably gonna just fall right in the water and get theirs and go home rejoicing Praise God, I got mine. 00:10:02.934 --> 00:10:21.442 And everybody else, multitude, a multitude, a multitude, a multitude hanging around the water, hanging around hoping, wishing, hoping for God's angel to stir the water up so they can get healed. 00:10:21.442 --> 00:10:29.320 And so Jesus comes along and he focuses on this one man out of the whole multitude. 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:36.024 Now, there were places where Jesus laid hands on everybody and everybody got healed, but not this one. 00:10:36.024 --> 00:10:43.947 He came up on the scene and he found this one man. 00:10:43.947 --> 00:10:46.614 Sir, are you willing to be made whole? 00:10:46.614 --> 00:10:46.956 Sir? 00:10:46.956 --> 00:10:49.003 I don't have a man. 00:10:49.003 --> 00:10:51.019 I'm looking for a man. 00:10:51.019 --> 00:10:52.485 I'm looking for a manifestation. 00:10:52.485 --> 00:10:54.982 I'm looking for a man, I'm looking for a manifestation. 00:10:54.982 --> 00:10:59.841 I've gotta have a manifestation of this water troubled and I've gotta have a man to get me in there first. 00:10:59.841 --> 00:11:01.298 You don't understand. 00:11:01.298 --> 00:11:05.580 I'm looking for a, and he's got the man that he needs right there by him. 00:11:05.580 --> 00:11:16.307 He's got that manifestation right there, but he's telling Jesus I just see he hadn't heard about Jesus. 00:11:16.307 --> 00:11:21.167 I said he hadn't heard about Jesus. 00:11:21.875 --> 00:11:30.091 You know, we couldn't talk about Indonesia this morning because Indonesia is close to the gospel. 00:11:30.091 --> 00:11:33.335 That's where the Carlsons are there in Bali. 00:11:33.335 --> 00:11:45.267 She's a Balinese Natalie Natalia is her real name but people die over there preaching the gospel. 00:11:45.267 --> 00:11:49.418 Everything is underground, everything is risky. 00:11:50.895 --> 00:11:57.249 They've set up laws that Hindus have that if you, you know, you kind of born into that place. 00:11:57.249 --> 00:12:02.926 If you're Christian, then you're Christian and you can't spread Christianity legally. 00:12:02.926 --> 00:12:06.822 If you're born a Hindu, you're a Hindu. 00:12:06.822 --> 00:12:08.921 If you're born a Muslim, you're a Muslim. 00:12:08.921 --> 00:12:11.480 A Muslim is later, most of it's Hindu. 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:20.587 But Muslims have made inroads, especially since that great tsunami in 2004 that killed a quarter of a million people there. 00:12:20.587 --> 00:12:31.605 The Muslims came flooding in there and built a mosque right on the site of that place, where, you see, all that damage was done. 00:12:31.605 --> 00:12:34.744 It was a tourist area. 00:12:34.744 --> 00:12:37.394 That's what they do. 00:12:37.394 --> 00:12:46.162 They come into disaster and then they plant their place and they spread their false religion and people are hurt. 00:12:46.434 --> 00:12:51.206 People are, you know, disillusioned and they're open to deception. 00:12:51.206 --> 00:12:57.294 Oh, the church has got a lot of work to do and they're over there doing it. 00:12:57.294 --> 00:13:01.394 Praise God, sir, I don't have a man. 00:13:01.394 --> 00:13:02.950 I need a man. 00:13:02.950 --> 00:13:06.062 In a manifestation, someone always gets in there before I do. 00:13:06.062 --> 00:13:09.961 The whole mosque is just like this man. 00:13:09.961 --> 00:13:15.969 No one said oh, jehovah, rapha, heal me. 00:13:15.969 --> 00:13:24.799 Nobody cried out, nobody actually went directly to God, said, oh Jehovah, according to our covenant. 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:25.923 They didn't know the covenant why? 00:13:25.923 --> 00:13:29.313 Because they're not taught anything. 00:13:29.313 --> 00:13:31.321 A lot of people like that right now. 00:13:31.321 --> 00:13:36.884 They're simply looking for a manifestation and a man. 00:13:36.884 --> 00:13:43.085 Both in the church and out of the church there's people like that. 00:13:43.085 --> 00:14:01.023 They just look, they go from one healing meeting to another, they go from one ministry to another, one YouTube video to another, looking for something new, something that'll tickle their ears, something that they can attach to, that'll change how they are and what they've got. 00:14:03.775 --> 00:14:05.121 Well, you know, I believe in God. 00:14:05.121 --> 00:14:07.548 I believed in God my whole life. 00:14:07.548 --> 00:14:08.394 I was raised in the Catholic church. 00:14:08.394 --> 00:14:10.522 I believed in God from a little kid. 00:14:10.522 --> 00:14:13.261 I never doubted there was God. 00:14:13.261 --> 00:14:19.043 I never doubted there was Jesus, but I mentally agreed I didn't have a relationship with Him. 00:14:19.043 --> 00:14:22.363 That's the way most people are really. 00:14:22.363 --> 00:14:28.335 A lot of people in church just have a mental belief, a mental ascent. 00:14:28.335 --> 00:14:29.821 That's not enough. 00:14:29.821 --> 00:14:31.859 They must be born again. 00:14:31.859 --> 00:14:36.375 They even believe in miracles. 00:14:36.375 --> 00:14:38.394 Catholics, big men, they were big on miracles. 00:14:38.394 --> 00:14:39.697 We believed in miracles. 00:14:39.697 --> 00:14:42.844 Only they were all 100 years ago plus. 00:14:42.844 --> 00:14:50.580 Fatima grew up on Fatima, fatima, old Fatima, lourdes. 00:14:50.580 --> 00:14:53.375 You want to make a pilgrimage to Lourdes. 00:14:54.096 --> 00:14:58.799 I don't doubt that people are healed, but Mary's not the healer. 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:03.865 See, it's just another deception. 00:15:03.865 --> 00:15:10.394 It's another dead end, because Mary is not God and Mary is not the mother of God. 00:15:10.394 --> 00:15:14.004 Mary doesn't have the power to heal anybody. 00:15:14.004 --> 00:15:15.720 They think so. 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:19.260 God is so kind, he wants people. 00:15:19.721 --> 00:15:26.043 Well, we were talking about the witch doctors that they have to come up against. 00:15:26.043 --> 00:15:29.864 They've got witch doctors in Hindu places, witch doctors. 00:15:29.864 --> 00:15:39.087 They have the curanderos in the Hispanic community, healers, but they use witchcraft. 00:15:39.087 --> 00:15:41.398 It's real. 00:15:41.398 --> 00:15:47.394 They can take one infirmity off of people, but usually it just moves to another area of the body. 00:15:47.394 --> 00:15:49.062 They're really not free. 00:15:49.062 --> 00:15:56.938 They just got rid of one thing and picked up another, but they've got to do something to get the money they get paid. 00:15:56.938 --> 00:16:06.923 So these people that Lee and Natalia are ministering to, they expected, they thought maybe they were going to have to pay money. 00:16:06.923 --> 00:16:08.476 No, no, no. 00:16:08.476 --> 00:16:13.245 They just can't even believe that they got healed and didn't have to pay anything. 00:16:13.245 --> 00:16:16.859 They're just like this man right here. 00:16:16.859 --> 00:16:24.900 They're out there, they're where you walk and go. 00:16:24.961 --> 00:16:41.277 Every day there's people just like this, and so a certain manifestation, a certain meeting, and so sometimes, god and His mercy, he's merciful, he loves people, he wants to heal them. 00:16:41.277 --> 00:16:46.160 But a lot of people go without. 00:16:46.160 --> 00:16:48.620 Nobody has to go without. 00:16:48.620 --> 00:16:51.375 I said nobody has to go without. 00:16:51.375 --> 00:16:55.544 When you walk around, there's nobody has to go without. 00:16:55.544 --> 00:16:58.861 I said nobody has to go without. 00:16:58.861 --> 00:17:02.119 I said nobody has to go without. 00:17:05.756 --> 00:17:09.367 He asked then and he asked now will you be made whole? 00:17:09.367 --> 00:17:11.394 Are you willing? 00:17:11.394 --> 00:17:13.670 Are you willing to be made whole? 00:17:13.670 --> 00:17:16.380 What a question, jesus. 00:17:16.380 --> 00:17:20.096 He has amazing hey. 00:17:20.096 --> 00:17:23.500 Hey, are you willing to be made whole? 00:17:23.500 --> 00:17:29.330 Dude, I have not a man. 00:17:29.330 --> 00:17:37.630 They all beat me down there, and so you know. 00:17:37.630 --> 00:17:42.008 In effect, he's just saying you don't need a man, you don't need a manifesto, you just need me. 00:17:42.008 --> 00:17:44.148 I'm the one you're looking for. 00:17:44.148 --> 00:17:45.031 You just don't know it. 00:17:45.031 --> 00:17:47.511 See, a lot of people are looking for what you've got and don't know it. 00:17:47.511 --> 00:17:52.213 Ed Rogers, the guy this morning. 00:17:52.213 --> 00:18:00.595 He wasn't mentally looking for me, but his heart was crying out in the midst of 32 years of migraine headaches. 00:18:00.595 --> 00:18:03.146 Praise God. 00:18:07.724 --> 00:18:17.190 And so Jesus told the man rise, rise, take up your bed and walk. 00:18:17.190 --> 00:18:19.529 The word rise is the Greek word. 00:18:19.529 --> 00:18:22.067 A gyro means to arise, it means to wake up. 00:18:22.067 --> 00:18:28.434 Wake up and do what I tell you and you'll be made whole. 00:18:28.434 --> 00:18:31.268 He woke up. 00:18:31.268 --> 00:18:36.232 Just like that, woke up, just like that, got up and took up his bed and walked right out of there. 00:18:36.232 --> 00:18:41.010 You'll wake up and do what I tell you. 00:18:41.010 --> 00:18:41.933 You'll be made whole. 00:18:41.933 --> 00:18:43.791 See, no great faith on the man's part. 00:18:43.791 --> 00:18:45.731 He had faith to just do what he was told. 00:18:45.731 --> 00:18:48.814 Now he was, you know, lame. 00:18:48.814 --> 00:18:49.907 I mean, just think about that. 00:18:49.907 --> 00:18:53.670 And then he got up, just like that. 00:18:53.670 --> 00:18:55.555 Well, that was Jesus. 00:18:55.845 --> 00:18:58.673 Well, jesus ministered here as a man anointed of God. 00:18:58.673 --> 00:19:04.769 How Jesus of Nazareth went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him. 00:19:04.769 --> 00:19:08.654 So he did not heal as the son of man or the son of God. 00:19:08.654 --> 00:19:16.412 Rather, he healed as the son of man, he re-ealed as a human being anointed of God, and so, therefore, he moved the spirit. 00:19:16.412 --> 00:19:18.712 I mean, there was no atmosphere, there was no faith. 00:19:18.712 --> 00:19:22.474 Now, generally, jesus went about teaching, preaching and then healing. 00:19:22.474 --> 00:19:24.510 He created that atmosphere. 00:19:24.510 --> 00:19:31.190 There was no atmosphere of believing or faith in his hometown and he could there do no mighty work because of their unbelief. 00:19:31.190 --> 00:19:32.730 Remember that one. 00:19:33.585 --> 00:19:41.672 So let's not get stuck on that when we're going about individuals, I mean you're not going to have a praise team, you're not going to have time to preach a message. 00:19:41.672 --> 00:19:48.288 You're not going to have time to do anything except have compassion on that person that you're dealing with. 00:19:48.288 --> 00:19:50.508 You can move the spirit. 00:19:50.508 --> 00:19:56.648 Y'all are looking at me kind of funny. 00:19:56.648 --> 00:20:00.509 You're not bossing them around, it's just that he's in there. 00:20:00.509 --> 00:20:11.714 He goes where you go and he thought just hitchhiking when you release through your words and through your hands, laying your hands on people. 00:20:11.714 --> 00:20:15.874 Jesus didn't lay hands on him, he just told him to wake up and get up and walk. 00:20:15.874 --> 00:20:18.148 Wake up your bed and walk, and he did it. 00:20:18.148 --> 00:20:26.015 So the Holy Ghost wasn't moving to the Holy, but Jesus moved the spirit. 00:20:26.015 --> 00:20:29.295 I know that you're going tilt, so let's keep reading here. 00:20:29.404 --> 00:20:30.046 Verse 17. 00:20:30.046 --> 00:20:36.809 Can we minister like Jesus or not? 00:20:36.809 --> 00:20:40.186 Is he the head of the church? 00:20:40.186 --> 00:20:40.909 And where the body? 00:20:40.909 --> 00:20:43.453 Is the head different than the body? 00:20:43.453 --> 00:20:47.510 So what the head does, the body can do. 00:20:47.510 --> 00:20:51.671 Where the head goes, the body goes. 00:20:51.671 --> 00:20:53.248 Where the body goes, the head goes. 00:20:53.248 --> 00:20:58.828 Can I get an amen at least? 00:20:58.828 --> 00:21:03.367 Okay, they were on the same page and so you know. 00:21:03.387 --> 00:21:09.810 Of course it was a Sabbath day and here's this man walking through, you know, carrying his bed, doing work. 00:21:09.810 --> 00:21:10.613 He shouldn't have done that. 00:21:10.613 --> 00:21:11.214 What are you doing? 00:21:11.214 --> 00:21:12.627 What are you doing. 00:21:12.627 --> 00:21:19.474 What man verse 12, what man is that which said unto thee, take up your bed and walk. 00:21:19.474 --> 00:21:25.036 And he that was healed didn't know who it was, but Jesus had conveyed himself away. 00:21:25.036 --> 00:21:26.351 A multitude had been in that place. 00:21:26.351 --> 00:21:27.929 See, I told you it was a feast day. 00:21:27.929 --> 00:21:29.271 So there's Jesus from everywhere. 00:21:31.405 --> 00:21:38.833 And afterward Jesus find him in the temple and said unto him Behold our made whole, send, no more less the worse thing come unto you. 00:21:38.833 --> 00:21:46.557 So some sort of besetting sin that he had been involved with had cost him his health. 00:21:46.557 --> 00:21:50.575 There again, he's Jewish, but he's not getting any of the word. 00:21:50.575 --> 00:21:54.435 He's not getting the sacrifices, the peace offerings, the trespass offerings. 00:21:54.435 --> 00:21:58.355 I mean, they're only saved by the offerings that they have made. 00:21:58.355 --> 00:22:02.535 And they've got to take it to the priest and have sin offerings. 00:22:02.535 --> 00:22:05.032 They've got to basically confess their sins and realize. 00:22:05.032 --> 00:22:06.247 And so he was just. 00:22:06.247 --> 00:22:16.276 You know, he was walking in a place of curses because he didn't have his covenant energized. 00:22:16.587 --> 00:22:17.644 What didn't bother Jesus? 00:22:17.644 --> 00:22:21.135 Jesus didn't tell him first that he had to repent first. 00:22:21.135 --> 00:22:22.329 He got him healed first. 00:22:22.329 --> 00:22:31.059 He made him whole first and then addressed the sin thing, made that point this morning. 00:22:31.059 --> 00:22:31.346 I mean. 00:22:31.346 --> 00:22:35.972 You know, it's a dangerous place to be, where we've got to be Everybody's judge, jury and executioner. 00:22:35.972 --> 00:22:38.132 Listen, people need healing. 00:22:38.132 --> 00:22:41.991 We don't have to go get all involved in their personal life to get them healed. 00:22:41.991 --> 00:22:46.170 They may not be saved. 00:22:46.170 --> 00:22:48.009 Well, what good does it do? 00:22:48.009 --> 00:22:48.653 Well, you know what. 00:22:48.653 --> 00:22:50.324 They might get saved down the road. 00:22:50.324 --> 00:22:54.253 Somebody else might come along and they realize that there is a God, amen. 00:22:57.125 --> 00:23:06.990 So the man departed, told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole, and therefore the Jews persecute Jesus and sought to slay him because he had done these things on the Sabbath day. 00:23:06.990 --> 00:23:13.512 Were they happy, this lame man who had been made whole, that had been laying there at that pool where they were joicing? 00:23:13.512 --> 00:23:14.809 No, they weren't. 00:23:14.809 --> 00:23:17.251 They were mad because he didn't do it on the right day. 00:23:17.251 --> 00:23:22.692 That's a theme, by the way, if you read your gospels, that's a theme all the way through the gospels. 00:23:25.164 --> 00:23:33.359 His biggest enemies were the religious crowd, jesus, verse 17. 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:38.016 Answered them, my father worketh hither to and I work. 00:23:38.016 --> 00:23:49.012 Therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill him because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but also said that God was his father, making himself equal with God. 00:23:49.012 --> 00:23:52.972 Well, they just had a whole lot of hangups, didn't they? 00:23:52.972 --> 00:24:01.878 They're the children of Abraham, father, abraham, father, abraham, you know. 00:24:01.878 --> 00:24:07.809 Jesus said, you know, my father can make children of Abraham out of these rocks. 00:24:07.809 --> 00:24:15.396 Before Abraham was I am, ooh man that set him on fire. 00:24:21.586 --> 00:24:46.204 Then answered Jesus and said unto them verse 19, verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do, For what things, whoever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise, for the Father loveth the Son and showeth him all things that himself doeth, and he will show him greater works than these that ye may marvel. 00:24:46.204 --> 00:25:03.009 So here Jesus in John chapter five, is talking about greater works, and he didn't bring greater works up again until John 14, when he's talking about the works that I do, shall you do also, and greater works that I do, greater works than these shall you do, because I go to my Father. 00:25:03.009 --> 00:25:09.173 If Jesus did the works of his Father, can we do the works of the Father as well? 00:25:09.173 --> 00:25:21.989 For as the Father raises up the dead and quickeneth them, even so, the Son quickeneth whom he will Glory to God. 00:25:21.989 --> 00:25:39.056 So you know, we don't have to have a praise team, we don't have to have a intercessory prayer team. 00:25:39.056 --> 00:25:52.888 We don't have to have all these teams, we don't have to have anybody but you and the Holy Ghost and your compassion on people when you know the need, when you know the problem and your heart is touched. 00:25:52.888 --> 00:25:57.692 Follow that love, follow that compassion. 00:25:58.285 --> 00:26:01.413 Jesus moved or worked. 00:26:01.413 --> 00:26:03.076 He moved and worked. 00:26:03.076 --> 00:26:04.430 Same freak work. 00:26:04.430 --> 00:26:06.108 He moved with compassion. 00:26:06.108 --> 00:26:07.753 He worked with compassion. 00:26:07.753 --> 00:26:10.433 Compassion is mercy. 00:26:10.433 --> 00:26:14.431 All of this was mercy. 00:26:14.431 --> 00:26:16.652 The pool of Bethesda was mercy. 00:26:16.652 --> 00:26:18.810 All of that was mercy. 00:26:18.810 --> 00:26:19.990 God has mercy. 00:26:19.990 --> 00:26:21.189 We're looking for faith. 00:26:21.189 --> 00:26:23.029 Okay, we've got it. 00:26:23.724 --> 00:26:26.493 The person you're ministering to probably doesn't have it, but you've got it. 00:26:26.493 --> 00:26:28.250 You can get them healed on your faith. 00:26:28.250 --> 00:26:30.892 Well, what good does it do, father? 00:26:30.892 --> 00:26:32.048 They're not even in church. 00:26:32.048 --> 00:26:34.805 Well, you know, I don't know, I'm not God. 00:26:34.805 --> 00:26:42.590 I just know he wants to heal people and people are desperate and if we just reach out and give them what we've got, they're better off than they were before. 00:26:42.590 --> 00:26:44.130 Now it's up to them to make a move. 00:26:44.130 --> 00:26:48.729 It's up to them to start considering wow, what in the world? 00:26:48.729 --> 00:26:50.051 What just happened to me? 00:26:50.051 --> 00:26:53.406 What just happened to me? 00:26:53.406 --> 00:27:00.327 Praise God, whoo, hallelujah. 00:27:00.327 --> 00:27:08.209 Now we don't have to worry about you know, the spirit moved. 00:27:08.209 --> 00:27:11.509 Well, you know, I don't know if the Holy Ghost is leading me or not. 00:27:11.509 --> 00:27:13.931 Well, you know, just walk down the street and help people. 00:27:15.505 --> 00:27:16.891 We get so micro-managed. 00:27:16.891 --> 00:27:18.811 I understand what League was saying. 00:27:18.811 --> 00:27:23.172 You know they have limited resources, so they have to pray and let the Holy Ghost help them. 00:27:23.172 --> 00:27:32.715 And they're also in a place that's, you know it's dangerous to do what they're doing, so they have to stay under a certain direction and guidance. 00:27:32.715 --> 00:27:42.654 And so you know he talked about, you know, riding the bikes or walking, you know, and turn left here and turn right there, you know, and the teams were managed that way. 00:27:43.565 --> 00:27:52.153 But we live in America, we're free to talk to people, we're not going to get thrown in jail and you know the Holy Ghost lives on the inside of you. 00:27:52.153 --> 00:27:54.530 So don't just let's. 00:27:54.530 --> 00:27:56.768 To whom much is given, much is required. 00:27:56.768 --> 00:27:57.892 So let's just give it away. 00:27:57.892 --> 00:28:00.049 Let's give it away, give what we've got away. 00:28:00.049 --> 00:28:03.691 We don't have silver and gold that much. 00:28:03.964 --> 00:28:07.872 We can help people a little bit, but what we do have is the true riches. 00:28:07.872 --> 00:28:11.074 We've got healing to give people. 00:28:11.074 --> 00:28:12.528 We've got deliverance to give people. 00:28:12.528 --> 00:28:15.250 We can move the spirit. 00:28:15.250 --> 00:28:16.529 You get anything out of this tonight. 00:28:16.529 --> 00:28:21.795 Come on, lift your hands and receive Little message here challenge you, praise God. 00:28:21.795 --> 00:28:28.375 I believe this year is going to be the year of God's unprecedented display of power. 00:28:28.375 --> 00:28:30.050 He's going to display it through you. 00:28:30.050 --> 00:28:32.588 He's going to use you. 00:28:32.588 --> 00:28:35.112 If you're willing, he'll use you. 00:28:35.112 --> 00:28:37.172 He'll use you to do the greater works. 00:28:37.172 --> 00:28:40.994 We're coming into the place where the greater works have to be performed. 00:28:40.994 --> 00:28:45.492 Yeah, one of the greatest works is getting people saved. 00:28:45.492 --> 00:28:49.711 I mean it's absolutely the greatest miracle of all when people give their heart to Jesus. 00:28:49.904 --> 00:28:53.955 When that Ed Rogers guy got saved, it was a major thing. 00:28:53.955 --> 00:28:55.510 I mean he didn't go to a meeting. 00:28:55.510 --> 00:28:58.493 I didn't have a evangelistic meeting. 00:28:58.493 --> 00:29:04.373 I mean he sat in my van and got saved and we followed up with him, wrote him letters. 00:29:04.373 --> 00:29:07.489 I sent guys by there to check on him, make sure he went to church. 00:29:07.489 --> 00:29:11.433 I mean we dogged his track for a whole year after that. 00:29:11.433 --> 00:29:13.130 After that, I mean I had to let him go. 00:29:13.130 --> 00:29:17.152 If you're not going to get in church and get a pastor, well then you're on your own. 00:29:17.152 --> 00:29:20.990 But you know he'll never be able to stand before God and say I didn't know because he knew. 00:29:20.990 --> 00:29:23.568 Say that's my job is to. 00:29:23.568 --> 00:29:27.211 You know, get him down the road and somebody else can come along. 00:29:27.211 --> 00:29:29.712 Amen, we're a big old relay team. 00:29:29.712 --> 00:29:33.009 You get anything out of this tonight, hallelujah.