SERMON 10/15

The Work & Witness of Jesus Christ

Scripture

John 5:31 – 47

Joh 5:31 If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true.
Joh 5:32 There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true.
Joh 5:33 You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.
Joh 5:34 Not that the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
Joh 5:35 He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
Joh 5:36 But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
Joh 5:37 And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,
Joh 5:38 and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.
Joh 5:39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
Joh 5:40 yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
Joh 5:41 I do not receive glory from people.
Joh 5:42 But I know that you do not have the love of God within you.
Joh 5:43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
Joh 5:44 How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Joh 5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
Joh 5:46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.
Joh 5:47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

Sermon Insights

1. A Flimsy Assertion

2. A Fivefold Affirmation

3. A False Aspiration

SERMON

Pastor Gary Findley

“The House of Mercy”

John 5:1-17

I. A Prolonged Affliction

II. A Pedestrian Agility

III. A Pointed Accusation

The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath
Joh 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Joh 5:2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.
Joh 5:3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.
Joh 5:5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
Joh 5:6 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?”
Joh 5:7 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.”
Joh 5:8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”
Joh 5:9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.
Joh 5:10 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.”
Joh 5:11 But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.'”
Joh 5:12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”
Joh 5:13 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.
Joh 5:14 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.”
Joh 5:15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.
Joh 5:16 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
Joh 5:17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

SERMON
Pastor Gary Findley

“Our Trustworthy Savior”

9/19/23 | “Our Trustworthy Savior” | Series: The Word Speaks to Our Lives | Pastor Gary Findley~

Pastor Gary Findley

“Hometown Reunion”

Scripture

John 4:43-54

Joh 4:43 After the two days he departed for Galilee.
Joh 4:44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)
Joh 4:45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast.
Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
Joh 4:46 So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill.
Joh 4:47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
Joh 4:48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.”
Joh 4:49 The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
Joh 4:50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.
Joh 4:51 As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering.
Joh 4:52 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
Joh 4:53 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.
Joh 4:54 This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

Insights

1.  A Spirited Crowd
2.  A Serious Condition
3.  A Superficial Confidence