1. This is how they/we feel
1.1. Psalm 142:4 (NLT) 4 I look for someone to come and help me, but no one gives me a passing thought! No one will help me; no one cares a bit what happens to me.
2. Eyes
2.1. You have to notice
2.2. Jews were required on religious grounds to bury a neglected corpse.
2.2.1. If he was assumed he was dead and did not look closely he would be free from obligation.
2.3. Proximity
2.3.1. See the need
2.3.2. One of the reasons for church
2.3.2.1. All Nations
2.4. We want to turn away
2.4.1. Discreetly not notice
3. Ears
3.1. Hearing is the first step to understanding
3.2. Hearing communicates love like nothing else
3.3. Eli misunderstands
3.3.1. 1 Samuel 1:12 (NLT) 12 As she was praying to the LORD, Eli watched her.
3.3.2. 1 Samuel 1:13 (NLT) 13 Seeing her lips moving but hearing no sound, he thought she had been drinking.
3.3.3. 1 Samuel 1:14 (NLT) 14 “Must you come here drunk?” he demanded. “Throw away your wine!”
3.3.4. 1 Samuel 1:15 (NLT) 15 “Oh no, sir!” she replied. “I haven’t been drinking wine or anything stronger. But I am very discouraged, and I was pouring out my heart to the LORD.
3.4. We need to listen until
3.4.1. We understand
3.4.1.1. Paraphrase
3.4.1.2. Probe for more
4. Hands
4.1. Compassion is action
4.2. How do we do it.
4.3. Next week Time, Trouble, Treasure.
5. Message Video
6. Pool of Bethesda
6.1. Jesus broke the norms and it got Him killed
6.1.1. John 1:11 (NLT) 11 He came to his own people, and even they rejected him.
6.2. John 5:1 (NLT) 1 Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.
6.2.1. Most likely Passover
6.2.2. "Jewish" holy days for the benefit of the gentile readers.
6.3. John 5:2 (NLT) 2 Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches.
6.3.1. Until the 19th century, there was no clear archaeological evidence for the existence of such a pool, which prompted some "scholars" to argue that the gospel not true.
6.3.2. Conrad Schick
6.3.2.1. Found the ruins and the five porches
6.3.2.2. In your face egg head Bible Doubters.
6.4. John 5:3 (NLT) 3 Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches.
6.4.1. Wait what, why is verse 4 missing?
6.4.1.1. John 5:4 (NASB95) 4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.
6.4.2. very ancient explanation has somehow crept into the text
6.4.3. The manuscript evidence makes it certain that this is no part of the original Gospel
6.4.4. We will see in verse 7 that the added verse, though not original makes sense.
6.5. John 5:5 (NLT) 5 One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.
6.5.1. Some kind of paralysis or lameness
6.5.2. You only wait that long is there is no other choice.
6.6. John 5:6 (NLT) 6 When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”
6.6.1. Jesus knew how long he had been waiting.
6.6.1.1. Jesus is Almighty God made flesh
6.6.2. Would you like to get well? ????? But of course... 😩
6.6.2.1. Not everyone wants to
6.6.2.2. "no thanks Jesus, what I am doing has never worked before but I got this.
6.7. John 5:7 (NLT) 7 “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.”
6.7.1. It did not cross the man's mind that Jesus could heal him.
6.7.2. John does not explain it. It makes sense that early transcribers added verse 4.
6.7.2.1. Even so, it is not original, so it's not cannon.
6.8. John 5:8 (NLT) 8 Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!”
6.8.1. The cure is instantaneous and complete.
6.9. John 5:9 (NLT) 9 Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath,
6.9.1. Gets in trouble in verse 10
6.9.2. Shows he does not know Jesus in verse 13
6.9.3. Gets to chat with Jesus later
6.9.3.1. John 5:14 (NLT) 14 But afterward Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, “Now you are well; so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen to you.”