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Encounters With Jesus

Benjamin Ng

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Jesus’ Encounter with the First Disciples

Jesus’ Encounter with Philip and Nathanael

Jesus Encounter at the Wedding Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Nicodemus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman at the Well

Jesus’ Encounter With The Centurion

Jesus Encounter with the Blind Man Near Bethsaida

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man by the Pool of Bethesda

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Sick of Palsy

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples in the Storm

Jesus’ Encounter with the Blind, Dumb Demoniac

Jesus’ Encounter with the Demoniacs of the Gadarenes

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Issue of Blood

Jesus’ Encounter with the Five Thousand

Jesus’ Encounter with John the Baptist

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples on the Sea

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus’ Encounter with Martha and Mary

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Born Blind

Jesus’ Encounter with the 10 Lepers

Jesus’ Encounter with the Rich Young Ruler

Jesus’ Encounter with Blind Bartimaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with Zacchaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Spirit of Infirmity

Jesus’ Encounter at Simon’s Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter and His Denial

Jesus’ Encounter with Pilate

Jesus’ Encounters at the Cross

Jesus’ Encounter on the Road to Emmaus

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter at the Sea of Tiberias

Father in heaven, thank you so much for this time that you've given to us to come and study your word together, to fellowship even though it be online.

Lord, we know that your presence is with us and we just ask by faith because you've promised that if we ask in your name that you are more than willing, you're more than happy to give the Holy Spirit to them that ask.

So Lord, we are asking for a double portion of your Spirit even now.

With courage, with faith we ask, because Lord, we want to come away from this message knowing that we have been in your presence.

I don't want to offend people with my words.

And I pray that you'd speak through me, that the words that we listen to might be straight from your throne of grace and mercy this evening.

So the study that we'll be studying this evening is Jesus's encounter with the man by the pool of Bethesda.

Let's go to our first text there, shall we?

The Bible says this, After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having 5 porches.

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water." So Jesus, He's now in Jerusalem and he goes by this pool and this place where it has 5 porches, 5 coverings where people are allowed to gather around and lay there and come under the tent during the heat of the day.

And he walks by this place, Bethesda called the house of kindness.

And there's gathered there all sorts of sick people just the sick and then we continue verse 4 for an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water.

Whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had." Now look we don't know whether this was true or not, whether this was just simply tradition, but did really people, did they really get healed when they went into this water because this angel went and troubled the water there and as a result, they got healed?

Or was that really just tradition and no 1 really knows whether people got healed or not?

It probably was more likely tradition but this is what gave the people their hope.

This is the reason why they were gathering around this pool.

Superstition is what we would call it in our days or just pure fairy tale isn't it?

Verse 5, And a certain man was there which had an infirmity 30 and 8 years.

This man had been lying there for 38 years.

We can begin to understand the desperation in his heart because of what he was going through.

Maybe he got this disease when he was 20 years old.

And that at this time he must have been about 58, close to 60 years old.

Some of you that I'm preaching to this evening have not even reached the number 30.

When Jesus saw him lie and knew that he had been there now a long time in that case, he said unto him, wilt thou be made whole?

Jesus asks this man, do you want to be whole?

I mean from his side we know that Jesus is always willing to heal whoever comes to him.

He doesn't turn anybody away who is sick.

Look at what it says in Mark chapter 1 and verse 41.

The Bible says, Jesus, He was moved with compassion, put forth His hand and touched him and saith unto him, I will be thou clean.

But then why does He come to this man and ask, Do you want to be whole?

He's by this pool that apparently heals people.

And there's an obvious answer to it as well.

That was the whole reason why I'm gathered here.

This is the reason why I've been lying in here, lying here.

And on top of that, Jesus was the 1 that approached him, right?

I mean in Mark chapter 1, when you go back to that encounter and look at it, the leper is the 1 that comes to Jesus seeking for healing and seeking for help.

But here, Jesus, He's the 1 that's approached the man.

He knows he's sick and He asks the man, Do you want to be whole?

However, look, there are some that are too sick.

You know, we can't always go to Jesus, so Jesus does come to us.

But yet, we still have to make the effort in a sense.

There is a part for them to play as well.

It's not just simply Jesus is going to wave His hand like a magic wand and everybody in that area is going to be just healed like that.

Jesus did not want people to think by chance that they were healed.

There's a reason why Jesus goes through these steps.

And so he asks the man, do you want to be whole?

The impotent man answered him saying, Sir, I have no man.

When the water is troubled to put me into the pool, But while I am coming, another step is down before me.

You know, Jesus asked the question, do you want to be whole?

And instead of replying, yes, of course I want to be whole, heal me Jesus.

This crippled man gives all the reasons as to why he can't be made whole.

The pool is that which is meant to be stirred by the angel that makes people well.

And on top of that, He doesn't have anyone to help him.

Someone else always jumps in before he does.

And I can relate to this man because you know when Jesus would ask me a question I'll give all the reasons why I couldn't be healed But Jesus How does he respond to this man when he starts throwing out all the excuses?

Jesus saith unto him, rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

Instead of replying to his response, Jesus simply just gives him a command.

With the power of His word, Jesus heals this man.

But before we continue to dig deeper and look at this situation, Let's just read the next verse first, okay?

And immediately the man was made whole and took up his bed and walked, and on the same day was the Sabbath.

So when Jesus gives him the command, immediately the man, he rises up, he takes up his bed, and he begins to walk.

Now look, let's have a look at how this man is healed, okay?

Jesus issues the command, he hears it, the cripple man hears it, and he is simply made whole, takes up his bed and walk.

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