This is the 2nd part of a 6-week series on the 7 Signs that Jesus is the Messiah in the book of John. In this sermon, you will learn about the 3rd Sign.

FOR FURTHER STUDY

SERIES CHALLENGE: Look up every time the word Sign is used in the NT (77x in the ESV).

Matthew 12. 1-14; Mark 1.29-31; 2. 23-28; 3.1-6; Luke 4.38-39; 4. 31-37; 6. 1-11; 13. 10-17; 14. 1-6; John 2. 1-12; John 4. 46-54; 20. 30-31; Ephesians 1.18; 4.4 Hebrews 11.1; 6. 18-19

SIGNS DEFINTION: A ____________ work of Jesus that reveals His ____________ identity, points people toward ____________ in Him, and discloses the deeper ____________ reality of who He is and what He came to ____________.

1st Sign:

2nd Sign:

SCRIPTURE BREAKDOWN | John 5. 1-15

John 5:1–3 (ESV) After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

· Up to Jerusalem:

· BETHESDA: A Place of _______________________

John 5:4–8 (ESV) One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”

1. The Invalid’s situation was humanly __________________

2. Jesus asks a penetrating, __________________-clarifying, question

John 5:9–14 (ESV) Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’ ” They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.

3. The Invalid exhibits __________________-filled, obedient faith.

4. The invalid’s _________________-confronts the __________________-of legalism.

3rd Sign:

John 5:14-15 (ESV) Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.” The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

5. Jesus confirms that true __________________-comes from

Salvation, not merely physical __________________

APPLICATION

SURRENDER__________________________________________________

PRACTICE ___________________________________________________

CONSIDER____________________________________________________