THE MAN AT THE POOL of BETHESDA
John. 5:1-16
The Water is Troubled(Medley) - George Banton - YouTube
This story is very interesting, because it reflects on the Christian attitude toward the disadvantage. Sometimes we are in such a hurry that we will pass by many opportunities that have presented themselves and is in favor to do us some good, but at the time we fail to see the opportunity for whatever reason.
I wanted to share a usurp of this story with you to remind you that this is the season when many folks would love to do simple things, but as youthful as we are in our traveling to and fro, remember check on someone that is less fortunate than you. Offer a hand and help restore the love of God in them.
This story starts out in a season of (the Feast of the Jews). Every year the feast of the Jews would occur, and it took place in Jerusalem. It was one of the three feast that God commanded them to take to represent the exit from Egypt (Ex.23:14-19)
As you can see at that time in Exodus, it was the dispensation of the Law, but it is still the mind of God. As the feast was continuing God was doing something of a greater magnitude back in the low-end the mall (if you will). God sent an angel down to the pool in Bethesda (a pool of waiting for the moving of the water) to trouble the water. The angle would arrive each year, and trouble the water, and whosoever needed help after the water was troubled, could step in and be healed. The only problem was those that had no help. They were (sol) So out of Luck. It was a place were all the impotent or afflicted would attend to receive healing (Pool/Church). The place was also at a sheep's market. This is somewhat parallel to Naaman and the dirty waters of Jordan.
Eight Years of Waiting
Some of us would never receive our blessings or healing, because we are looking for them in grandiose rather than accepting the simple version of healing. Believe and receive, ask and it shall be given. The Bible states, "Jesus went to Jerusalem/the mall, he took a detour by the sheep's market, where many of the towns most impotent and afflicted people were lying around and standing in lines to receive healing. Some of the people were blind, halt (lame on the feet), withered, and impotent (lacking power and ability) and diseased. They lay around the five porches of the pool waiting to somehow get in. What captivated me was that Jesus took a detour to think about somebody else other than himself. The scripture said, "this was the feast of the Jews", thus Jesus went into this area that wasn't so neat and clean, an he observed. He noticed a certain man that was helpless for a prolonged period of eight long years, and he knelt beside him and said, "Wilt Tho be made whole? The man, like all of us when some one ask us how are we doing, we are going to say, well, my feet hurt, my leg is broke, and I don't have anybody to help me. Remember, I said that Jesus detoured from the festivities long enough to check on this one man. He asked him Wilt tho be made whole? Jesus saw that the man was caught up in his pain and uncertainty of getting in the pool. Jesus cut through the chase and spoke the anointed word, Rise and take up thy bed and walk.
The Man Heard Jesus
Don't miss this part. The man heard Jesus, and he immediately picked up his bed and walked. He was made whole, and walked out among Jesus enemies. It is something when Jesus thought enough of you that he did a miraculous thing on the Sabbath, because he knew this was the hour for your healing or deliverance, and he knew that you would not get this chance again. The thing that I can relate with most is when you see someone in a difficult situation, and you attempt to help them, and you realize the external and internal negative and demonic forces will attack you, but you assist that person because you know they need the opportunity to heal.
The 30 Days to Help
This takes me to a story about a friend of mine who was in a very serious accident, and I was lead to walk with them through the whole thing, until I was release from the assignment. My friend had taken a serious lick on the head an had a concussion. I knew some about caregiver and the medical field, so who else better could have helped this friend. In my friends worst moments when it looked so hopeless, and everyone feared whether the person would walk again, I became the arms, legs and mouthpiece for the person. I paid strict attention to the medications given, and when the doctor would stop certain Meds. Long story short the message I shared with my friend was assigned, and I relayed it. "The message was to be still and know that I am God, I am with you and I will bless you through this". I delivered that message, and stayed day and night until I was release by the Lord to leave their side. Weeks later, we were gathered together and the person said to me, "They said I would not get the help I need, so what am I going to do now". And I reminded them of the message I gave them from day one. I reminded the person that when God will have someone to take a detour out of their life and he to sends someone to watch over your soul, he's got this. Trust God. One week later, my friend called to tell me the good news.
If He Promise It to You, Wait On It
God is not slack concerning his promises to us. The man that received healing was immediately met by the external and internal agents of Satan. Let me explain this. Jesus had enemies because God has enemies. Therefore, what ever he would do to help others God's enemies were so controlling that they felt they had the only religion that could be counted as the real thing. It had to be performed on a particular day, season, hour, etc. Are you glad for the Blood of Jesus that will never lose its powers? It reaches to the highest mountains and flows to the lowest valley, the blood that gives us strength from day to day, it shall never lose its power. Jesus had not finished ministering to the man, and I admired his cleverness in the way he handled his enemies. He knew they were sticklers about days, and he knew they were watching him, so he escaped them and went inside the temple to wait on the man as the man made his way pass the haters to the Holy Ghost inspectors to affirm his healing was legit. It would seem that as Christians we would be ecstatic when one of ours are healed, and welcome them to the wonderful body of Believers. But Jesus had these haters. They scoped him from the time he was born. They are still skeptics of the great works he is doing in his children's lives today. Jesus made it back to the man to let him know that this healing is contingent upon he should not sin any more, or something worst will come upon him. Jesus risked being captured by his haters to find this man, because he knew that this simple piece of advise was needed, and he made sure he told him so, in order for him to have the tools to do battle, now that he had been made whole.
Glad About the Blood of Jesus
Are you glad that Jesus left you a word that will help you fight your haters? We should read this message and consider how many times Christ has taken a detour to assist us in our lives, and help us in our most difficult moments. When we were about to turn back and abort our missions to follow some wild and crazy scheme or scam that would have taken us so far away from our destiny. This story is not complete, but I will leave this for you to chew on for now. Scriptures I will share (Mat. 23:1-39 focus verses 13-16).
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