1. Just Who Is this Jesus? Seven Signs

2. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Review SEVEN SIGNS Each sign joins together to point to the ultimate confirming sign Each sign has an outflow into other activities around it which introduce or illustrate it

3. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Review SEVEN SIGNS John 2 :18,19 The Jews responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”

4. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Review SEVEN SIGNS John 2 :18,19 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”

5. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs ReviewJohn 2:1-11 Cana, Miracle at the Wedding Jesus is Lord of … PHYSICAL Nature MORAL Nature HUMAN Nature

6. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs ReviewJohn 5:1-15 Cana, Healing at 25 miles Jesus brings life … To The PHYSICAL - HEALING To The SPIRIT – NEW BEGINNING To the SOUL – QUALITY

7. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Introduction Seven Signs SIGN THREE: The Healing of the Paralyzed Man

8. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs John 5:1-15 1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews.

9. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs John 5:1-15 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.

10. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs John 5:1-15 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed – and they waited for the moving of the waters..

11. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs John 5:1-15 4 From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had.

12. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs John 5:1-15 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

13. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs John 5:1-15 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?“

14. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs John 5:1-15 7 "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.“

15. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs John 5:1-15 8 Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,

16. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs John 5:1-15 10 and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat." 11 But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'“

17. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs John 5:1-15 12 So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?" 13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

18. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs John 5:1-15 14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you." 15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

19. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs INTRO: John 5:1-15 The man was found… Near the Sheep Gate Near Bethesda Among the ill, blind, and lame Paralyzed As close to the temple as they were allowed.

20. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs ILLUSTRATION: John 5:1-15

21. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs ILLUSTRATION: John 5:1-15

22. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Point 1: John 5:1-15 Jesus can heal physical paralysis

23. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Point 1: John 5:1-15 38 years meant atrophied muscles 38 years meant nerve pathways asleep 38 years meant the brain simply quit sending the signal Jesus intervened…mercy poured by the bucket load…everything came into complex order NOW.

24. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Point 1: John 5:1-15 Under law mercy rarely came around Under Jesus mercy is new every morning, grace flows like a torrent, and physical things CHANGE!

25. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Point 2: John 5:1-15 Jesus can heal paralysis of the soul (mind, will, emotion) – Jesus apparently checks with the SOUL before he touches the SPIRIT or BODY

26. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Point 2: John 5:1-15 Our MIND is the way we take what we know or believe and control our BODY – we can be paralyzed in our THINKING.

27. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Point 2: John 5:1-15 Our WILL is the biases and the decision processes which guide our thinking – we can be paralyzed in our WILL and DETERMINATION.

28. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Point 2: John 5:1-15 Our EMOTIONS are the powerful feelings that accompany our living – we can be paralyzed EMOTIONALLY and either be enslaved to them or lack the full and healthy expression of them

29. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Point 2: John 5:1-15 Jesus has an answer of grace for our MIND, WILL, and EMOTIONS – he desires to bring WHOLENESS and WELLBEING – but he ASKS FIRST!!!

30. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Point 2: John 5:1-15 We need to get up from our PSYCHOLOGICAL, MENTAL and EMOTIONAL MAT and walk into the promise of his WELLNESS!

31. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Point 3: John 5:1-15 Jesus can heal paralysis of the spirit (dead in trespass and sin) – but we need to recognize our paralysis!

32. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Point 2: We enter the world blind, paralyzed, diseased, and lame Some of us suffer choices and victimization that furthers the damage The hardest case is paralysis.

33. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Point 3: John 5:1-15 The man was physically touched on the Sabbath and was found in the temple. He had been barred from there for 38 years. Jesus knew exactly where to find him and close the deal.

34. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Point 3: John 5:1-15 Turn from your sinful life – or something worse… What could be worse than 38 years of paralysis?

35. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs Point 3: John 5:1-15 An eternity with a paralyzed spirit and no hope in sight – not even a random act of an angel’s hand for one lucky contestant. Leave your sin just like you left your paralysis – GET UP FROM YOUR MAT AND WALK!

36. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs CONCLUSION JESUS has the answer for paralysis: BODY SOUL SPIRIT

37. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs DECISION POINTS: Only Jesus can touch your physical situation and intricately transform it – you are powerless He is powerful!

38. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs DECISION POINTS: His punishment was enough…

39. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs DECISION POINTS: Only Jesus can deal with your MIND, WILL, and EMOTIONS paralysis cannot stay there.

40. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs DECISION POINTS: His WORD and HIS PROMISE is ENOUGH

41. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs DECISION POINTS: Jesus can touch your SPIRIT and bring it alive – He is the answer for the toxin of sin that renders you helpless and powerless.

42. Just Who Is This Jesus? Seven Signs DECISION POINTS: His BLOOD is enough to pay for your sin and counteract the poison of sin!