THE BOOK OF JOHN CHAPTER 5:1-18 SICK OF SOUL

Mike teaches today. 12/04/21

JOHN CHAPTER 5 VERSES 1-18
SICK OF SOUL

VERSES: Exodus 15:22-27; Psalm 95:9-11; Revelation 3:17

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JOHN CHAPTER 5 VERSES 1-18 SICK OF SOUL (“Wilt thou be made whole?”… the healing of the soul resides in the will of man)

John records the 3rd Sign to Israel (and is specifically noted to be in Jerusalem where the seat of Government was), which declared that the Glory, with promise of ‘life’ and ‘life more abundant, being unsought, had yet returned to Israel, in the eternal form of Jesus the Christ (John 2:11), but this reappearing was not in answer to Israel’s keeping of the Law. On the contrary, Jesus their Messiah wished them to see that a new Dispensation based upon faith and Grace had begun. He had hoped they would recognize that He was that Prophet of the promised ‘New Covenant’ (Jeremiah 31:31) Whom Moses foretold them to give heed. (Deuteronomy 18:18) He was to be the revelation to Israel of their not having been made holy through the Law, and was testifying that their condition of infirmness was the result of disobedience and being woefully out of favor with God, and that only by His Son, the Messiah and King of Israel, may they now find the means unto holiness and fulfillment of their call as a Nation. But the ‘keepers’ of Moses Law did not believe they were unrighteous sinners in danger of losing their inheritance, and were pleased with their perspective of the Mosaic Covenant and would not abide in Him Who would set aside Moses as their guide.

So John writes that Jesus returns to Jerusalem for the second time to an unnamed Feast. And sets forth this Third Sign, which was unlike the first two Signs, where He was sought out by someone. In this Sign, He seeks out and heals a certain ‘impotent’ man at the Pool of Bethesda (which means 'place of healing’) and then draws out the animosity of the Jewish religious zealots in authority, by healing him and then instructing him to take up his mat. By that, He then increased their earnestness to kill Him in that they refused His justification for the deed; for He declared, “My Father worketh (it is His work of the Restoration of all things after the Fall of Adam) hitherto (since then to now; typical of His 6 days of work in the re-Creation (Genesis 1:2-31), and I (His Son) work (accordingly to that un-discerned end).”

The ‘great multitude’ of sick, blind, lame, and withered on the five (5=grace) porches at the pool of Bethesda and the constantly pathetic scene of selfish ambition (to beat all others to the water) is one reflective of the Nation of Israel’s spiritually sick, blind, lame, and withered condition. (Deuteronomy 28:15, Isaiah 1:4-6) The fact that sins committed and diseases manifest can be linked together is Scripturally undeniable. And is a stated fact of the Old and New Testaments (1st Corinthians 11:30, James 5:14,16), wherein the Old Testament, God had declared to Israel that if they kept His Covenant with its Commandments they would not be sick. The scene of our text in John 5 reminds of Exodus 15:22-27… And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree (representative of the Tree of Life), which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee… (it is here by the waters of Marah, where all the hopeless complainers of Israel were gathered, that God made Himself known miraculously, not only as Israel’s healer, but on condition He now bestows upon them divine health. “And was not one feeble person among their tribes.”- Psalms 105:37) Christ’s healing of the lame man at the Pool of Bethesda was a sign to show Israel where they could be if they chose Him, but because of their rejection, it now speaks to the loss of Divine health. Exodus 15:27 continues… And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water (this destination in the number 12 shadows the perfect completeness in Theocratic Government and divine life and health God will eventually lead His People into), and threescore and ten palm trees (Seventy has a sacred meaning in the Bible that is made up of the factors of two perfect numbers.....

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