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July 4 - John 5 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's shown here. It is Thursday, it's the 4th of
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  July. Well it is for a number of you,
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  but I've been having a look at when people are listening to the
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  different episodes and well, people keep on dipping back into
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  episodes so I've got no idea what day it is for your friends.
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  I just hope that whatever day it is Thursday or later that you
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  are doing well. Good to have your company, but
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  whatever day it is, do you know, I need to well, I need to add a
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  little correction, a correction into what I said a couple of
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  days ago. I was listening to the podcast
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  Oha couple of days ago and I thought, hey, Sean, you got it
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  all wrong because I was introducing the gospel of John
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  saying, isn't it wonderful to be a fly on the wall as we get to
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  listen to what Jesus is doing and saying with his disciples.
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  And I thought, you know what, friends, we are never just a fly
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  on the wall. We are actually a character in
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  this story. This is not.
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  Did you remember reading or not reading?
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  Do you remember watching the never ending story when you were
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  a kid? And you're watching it thinking,
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  wow, that book, it's real. It interacts with its reader.
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  That's incredible. Well, this this book is even
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  more incredible than that because it is the words of the
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  living God spoken by God himself through John to us and you and I
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  friends, we are today Jesus disciples.
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  And so as we hear his words, those words are not just to his
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  disciples around him at that time, but they are to us as
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  well. These words travel through time
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  and space, right to our hearts. Isn't that something?
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  So fly on the walls, eat your heart out.
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  We are disciples of the living God.
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  Let us hear what the next chapter of John brings.
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  You ready? Ohhhhh Yeah, me too.
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  Let us enter into the story once again, as captured in John
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  chapter 5. Afterward, Jesus returned to
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  Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.
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  Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the Pool of Bethesda
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  with five covered porches. Crowds of sick people, blind,
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  lame or paralysed, lay on the porches.
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  One of the men lying there had been sick for 38 years.
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  When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he
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  asked him, Would you like to get well?
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  I can't, Sir, the sick man said. For I have no one to put me in
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  the pool. When the water bubbles up,
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  everyone else always gets there ahead of me, Jesus told him.
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  Stand up, pick up your mat and walk.
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  Instantly the man was healed. He rolled up his sleeping mat
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  and began walking. But the miracle happened on the
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  Sabbath. So the Jewish leaders objected.
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  They said to the man who was cured, You can't work on the
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  Sabbath. The law doesn't allow you to
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  carry that sleeping mat. But he replied, the man who
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  healed me told me pick up your mat and walk.
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  Who said such a thing as that? They demanded the man didn't
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  know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd.
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  But afterward Jesus found him in the temple and told him, now you
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  are well, so stop sinning or something even worse may happen
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  to you. Then the man went and told the
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  Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him.
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  So the Jewish leaders began harassing Jesus for breaking the
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  Sabbath rules. But Jesus replied, My Father is
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  always working, and so am I. So the Jewish leaders tried all
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  the harder to find a way to kill him, for he not only broke the
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  Sabbath, but he called God his Father, thereby making himself
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  equal with God. So Jesus explained, I tell you
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  the truth, the sun can do nothing by himself.
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  He does only what he sees the Father doing.
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  Whatever the Father does, the sun also does.
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  For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is
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  doing. In fact, the Father will show
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  him how to do even greater works than healing this man.
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  Then you will truly be astonished.
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  For just as the Father gives life to those he raises from the
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  dead, so the Son gives life to anyone he wants.
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  In addition, the Father judges no one.
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  Instead, he has given the Son absolute authority to judge so
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  that everyone will honour the Son just as they honour the
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  Father. Anyone who does not honour the
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  Son is certainly not honouring the Father who sent him.
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  I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe
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  in God who sent me have eternal life.
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  They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have
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  already passed from death into life.
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  And I assure you that the time is coming.
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  Indeed, it's here now when the dead will hear My voice, the
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  voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live.
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  The Father has life in himself, and He has granted that same
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  life, giving power to His Son, and He has given Him authority
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  to judge everyone, because He is the Son of Man.
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  Don't be so surprised. Indeed, the time is coming when
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  all the dead in their graves will hear the voice of God's
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  Son, and they will rise again. Those who have done good will
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  rise to experience eternal life, and those who have continued in
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  evil will rise to experience judgement.
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  I can do nothing on my own. I judge as God tells me.
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  Therefore, my judgement is just because I carry out the will of
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  the One who sent me, not my own will.
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  If I were to testify on my own behalf, my testimony would not
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  be valid. But someone else is also
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  testifying about me, and I assure you that everything He
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  says about me is true. In fact, you sent investigators
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  to listen to John the Baptist, and his testimony about me was
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  true. Of course I have no need of
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  human witnesses, but I say these things so you might be saved.
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  John was like a burning and shining lamp.
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  And you were excited for a while about this message.
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  But I have a greater witness than John, my teachings and my
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  miracles. The Father gave me these works
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  to accomplish, and they proved that He sent me, and the Father
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  who sent me has testified about me himself.
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  You have never heard His voice or seen Him face to face, and
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  you do not have His message in your hearts because you do not
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  believe me, the one He sent to you.
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  You search the scriptures because you think they give you
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  eternal life, but the scriptures point to Me, yet you refuse to
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  come to Me to receive this life. Your approval means nothing to
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  me because I know you don't have God's love within you.
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  For I have come to you in my Father's name, and you have
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  rejected me. Yet if others come in their own
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  name, you gladly welcome them. No wonder you can't believe, for
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  you gladly honour each other, but you don't care about the
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  honour that comes from the one who alone is God.
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  Yet it isn't I who will accuse you before the Father.
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  Moses will accuse you. Yes, Moses, in whom you put your
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  hopes. If you really believed Moses, he
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  would believe me because he wrote about me.
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  But since you don't believe what he wrote, how will you believe
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  what I say? Lord Jesus, you are such a game
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  changer. Not because you are the new
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  thing, but because you shine a light on the old ways.
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  In you we see the living embodiment of these thousands of
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  years of revelation of the one and only God, All those prophets
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  writing about you all that time, our Heavenly Father pointing
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  toward you his ultimate revelation of himself to us.
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  Oh Jesus, thank you that when you come showing us what God is
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  like, you don't come with judgement, but you come with
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  love. You come with the gift of
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  eternal life to offer that to us, to draw us ever by your
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  side, to spend eternity with you in your embrace, in your love.
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  And so we choose you. We choose to live lives of good,
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  to turn our back on those evil, broken, sinful ways that seem to
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  ensnare us and draw us away. That no, we turn our back on
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  that and we face you, our loving, living Saviour, the
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  eternal God in human form. Now, we love you, Jesus, and we
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  recommit our lives to you right now.
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  And it's all in your name that we breathe, that we live, and
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  that we pray. Ah, man.