Part 2 | Breaking Free from the Food and Drug System

From John 5

Jesus calls us of the of this world. 

📖 John 5:1–2 (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.

📖 John 5:3–5 (ESV) In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years..

1. It’s easy to get on a .

📖 John 5:5 (ESV) One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

📖 John 5:4 (NKJV) For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.

📖 John 5:7 (ESV) …when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.

2. Jesus our .

📖 John 5:6 (ESV) 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?”

📖 Deuteronomy 2:14 (ESV) And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

3. keep us .

📖 John 5:7 (ESV) 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.”

4. Jesus and break.

📖 John 5:8 (ESV) Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”

📖 John 5:9-10 (ESV) And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. 10 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.”

📖 John 5:11 (ESV) But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’ ”

📖 John 5:12 (ESV) They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”

5. Healing new .

📖 John 5:14 (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.”

Jesus doesn’t just . He from that keep us .

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