In His Image Ministries

Sunday November 19 Bible Reading:     John 5: 2 - 14 Topic:                  A Greater Need In today’s passage, Jesus encountered a man who had been ill for thirty-eight years and decided to end his ordeal (v. 6). The man was actually seeking an opportunity to be healed (v. 7), and Jesus spoke the word and healed him (vs. 8-9). The Jews reacted negatively to the man's healing as they accused him of working on the Sabbath day by carrying his bed (v. 10). Jesus, not done with the man, found him and told him to sin no more, so that something worse would not happen to him (v. 14). In this story, there were different needs. 1.      The sick man needed good health which God desires for us to enjoy (3 John v. 2); so the man’s desire was right. 2.      The Jews desired strict observance of the...