Shalom everyone! God bless you! Today we are continuing the study together of the Gospel of John And we are, today, have arrived to the fifth chapter of the Gospel of John. It is a blessing for all of us to be able to study the Word of God together, to be under the sound of the Word, to be occupied with the person of our Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah. And today I would like to read with you the first 18 verses of John, Yohanan, chapter 5. To remind you that John, his Hebrew name is Yohanan, he was the one that was chosen by our Lord Jesus, our Lord Yeshua, to be this apostle that presented before us this amazing Gospel of Yohanan, of John, which really presents Yeshua Jesus in his divine nature, emphasizing specifically the divine nature of the Messiah.

And this is very important. And in this fifth chapter, which is extremely an interesting chapter, we find the Lord Yeshua, Jesus, again in the city of Yerushalayim, and He is now healing a man in the pool of Beit Chazda, Bethesda. In Hebrew we call it Beit Chazda. Let me read these verses in order to have the Word of God before us. So please follow me as we are reading the first 18 verses of John, chapter 5. And we read, After this, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is a Jerusalem by the sheep gate, in Hebrew Sha'ar Hatzon, a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Beit Chazda.

Beit Chazda, Bethesda in English, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent foe. A blind halt withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water. Whatsoever then first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was made whole. Of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Yeshua saw him lay, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, "Will thou be made whole?" The impotent man answered him, "Sir, I have no man.

When the water is troubled, to put me into the pool. But while I am coming, another steps down before me." Jesus saith unto him, "Rise, take up thy bed, and walk." And immediately the man was made whole. He took up his bed, and walked. "On the same day was the Shabbat. The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, "It is the Shabbat day. It is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed." He answered them, "He that made me whole, the same said unto me, "Take up thy bed, and walk." Then asked they him, "What man is that which said unto thee, "Take up thy bed, and walk?" And he that was healed wist not who it was.

For Yeshua had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place. "Afterward, Jesus findeth him in the temple, "and saith unto him, "Behold, thou art made whole, sin no more, "lest a worse thing come unto thee." The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which made him whole. "And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, "and sought to slay him, because he had done these things "on the Shabbat day. "But Yeshua answered them, "My Father worketh he thereto, and I work." "Therefore, the Jews sought them all to kill him, "because he had not only broken the Shabbat, "but said also that God was his Father, "making himself equal with God." Beloved friend, this is such an amazing passage here in the fifth chapter of the Gospel of John, because in this we learn much about the fact that Yeshua presented himself to Israel, to our people of old, "and as he was presenting himself, "he definitely sought to convey to Israel "that he is not only that he was the promised Messiah, "but that he is indeed a divine person." "You notice what we read in verse 18, "at the last portion for this reading today, "we find out that the Jewish leaders "sought the more to kill him.

"Why? "Because he not only had broken the Shabbat, "but said also that God was his Father, "making himself equal with God." "This is really a challenge for our people of Israel, "of course, historically even today, "but also it is a challenge for all men in this world "to recognize that the Messiah, "that this Yeshua, that this Jesus, "is indeed God the Son. "He is indeed equal with God the Father. "He is one of the triune persons of the Godhead, "and he is the one that enters into this world "in order to provide redemption for sinners such as us all. "You remember we read in the beginning of the Gospel of John "that in the beginning was the Word, "and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

"And then we also read in verse 14, "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, "and we beheld his glory. "The glory is of the only begotten of the Father, "full of grace and truth." "This is fundamental, my dear friend. "My dear friend, if you are ever going to understand "the truth of redemption, salvation for us all "who have sinned and come short of the glory of God, "we must accept the fact that we needed much more than just good works, "good deeds, even the sacrificial system only can cover temporarily sin, "but now there is no temple, there is no priesthood, there is no altar, "there is no bloodshed on an altar, "but all these sacrifices pointed to the supreme sacrifice of the Messiah of Israel, "who would be much more than just another man, God and man in one." "This is essential, and in his humanity, he suffered and died for the sin of this world." But listen to this.

We could see, first of all, in the first nine verses of John chapter 5, we see how Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, heals physically an impotent man. Then in verses 10 to 18, we see not only this man's physical healing, but we see the spiritual healing. And this is an amazing lesson for us to learn, because we need much more than physical healing, because even though we will be healed physically, we need spiritual healing that will provide for us eternal relationship with God. We need healing from our sin and from our sins. And for that, we needed someone to be punished in our stead. So you notice these beloved friends and brothers and sisters, John chapter 5 presented for us, first of all, how Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, cured a sick man.

And you notice we read in verse 1, we read, "For after this, there was a feast of the Jews, and Yeshua went up to Jerusalem." Well, to remind you that according to the book of Deuteronomy, God commended his people, Israel, to come to the city of Jerusalem three times a year for the express purpose that all the Jewish male will come to represent their families in the three feasts that the Lord have instructed them. You notice it says in Deuteronomy 16, verse 16, three times in a year, "Shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place." Where is the place? This is the temple in the city of Jerusalem, in the place which it shall choose in the feast of unleavened bread.

this is Pesach, Chag HaMatzot, Passover and unleavened bread. And then in the feast of weeks, this is Shavuot in Hebrew. And then in the feast of Tabernacles, this is the feast of Sukkot. "And they shall not appear before the Lord empty." So God had commended Israel, the Jewish community, our own people historically, to go three times a year to the city of Jerusalem, and to offer sacrifices on these particular occasions. Very important. So we find the Lord again now on the way to Jerusalem. You remember? We read of him in Cana in chapter 2 of the Gospel of John. Then we read of him back to Jerusalem again in chapter 2 at the Temple.

Then in chapter 4, he's going up toward the Galil and he's finding himself on the way in the Shomron in Samaria. And then he finds himself arriving again to the Galil in chapter 4. And then now he's coming back to the city of Jerusalem. Now, it may have been Pesach once again. We do not know. It may have been the feast of Shavuot, the feast of weeks. But whatever feast it must have been, he, Yeshua, as one among the people of Israel, went to the city of Jerusalem to the Temple in that city. Now, of course, the conditions were not well. And he, Yeshua, is coming now to heal one that was in need.

It says in verse 2 that there was in Jerusalem by the sheep gate. Notice it says in some of the translations, the sheep market. But actually, it is a sheep gate. In Hebrew, we call it Sha'ar Hatzon. In the text, it's supposed to say Sha'ar Hatzon, the sheep gate. Why? That's where the sheep were brought in, in order to be slaughtered on the altar. And there, there was a gate. Through the gate, many sheep have crossed and passed into the area where the temple was in order to provide atonement over the generations in the city of Jerusalem and in the temple. And so, notice it is interesting because it says there that there was a pool which is called in the Hebrew language, in the Hebrew tongue, it is called Beit Chazda.

In English, it says Bethesda, but Beit Chazda. Beit comes from the word house. Chazda comes from the word mercy and grace. It is really speaking about the fact that the name was the house of grace, the house of mercy. And there, there were five porches. And how sad it is, it says in the next verses, my dear friend, that there were so many people there in that area, in the five porches. Now, to remind you that the sheep gate is in the book of Nehemiah, chapter 3 and chapter 12, we learn of the sheep gate in the days of Nehemiah. And it is representing here the name Beit Chazda, simply meaning that God is there providing grace and mercy.

And so we read in the next verses, verse 3, how it says here in these five porches, there lay a great multitude of impotent folks. In other words, people that had, they were sick. In the Hebrew word, it says Cholim. Multitude of people that were sick. And we can have the description of them. They were blind and halt and withered. And they were waiting for the moving of the water. Why? Verse 4 tells us. 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.

So, beloved friend, it is interesting that the scripture teaches us here that an angel went down at a certain season, a certain time, it could be maybe, we don't know how many times a year and so on, but there are certain seasons in which the angel would come down, he would shake the water, and whoever went in, he or she were healed. Now, I know some translations eliminate this verse 4, but if you eliminate verse 4, it's included in this text, then we have a problem, of course, to understand verse 7. It doesn't make sense because he himself, this man that the Lord came to heal, he himself using the same expression about the troubling of the water down in the 7th verse of this 5th chapter of the Gospel of John.

But it is interesting because it is very important for us to understand that in Jewish history, angels, biblically speaking, angels were involved in many, many events in the history of our people, the people of Israel. Biblical history, for example, from the beginning, in Genesis chapter 16, already in Genesis chapter 16, we read that the angel of the Lord said unto her. Verse 7 tells us, and the angel of the Lord found her. This is Hagar, the angel of the Lord spoke to Hagar and gave her, encouraged her, when she had to be taken out of the home of Abraham, our father. In Genesis chapter 18, the first verses, in verse 2, Abraham lifted up his eyes and he looked, and there were three men stood by him.

We find out immediately that one of these men, one of these men is the Lord himself appeared as a man to speak unto Abraham. But if you notice, when we get to chapter 19, we discover very quickly that these remaining two men were actually angels. Genesis chapter 19, there came two angels to Sodom at even, and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. So you can see that angels were involved in the history of our people of Israel, and it is not merely a myth, but God always used angels, messengers, to serve his people, the people of Israel. In fact, beloved friends, we read in the book of Genesis in chapter 22, how in verse 11, after Abraham sought in obedience to God to offer Isaac his son, we read there that God was pleased with Abraham's obedience.

And so we read in Genesis chapter 22 and verse 11, And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here am I, Hineni. And the angel, which is, of course, we understand that that was the Lord himself appearing as an angel to Abraham. But the point is that angels had much involvement in Israel's history throughout the history of the nation of Israel. In fact, beloved friend, in Genesis chapter 28 and verse 12, we read in connection with Jacob that he dreamed that, behold, a ladder, verse 12, set up on the earth, the top of it reached to heaven, and behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on that ladder.

Biblically speaking, much information was given to the people of Israel, Abraham, Yitzhak, Yaakov, and so on, from the angels that God have used to serve his people. I don't know if you remember, but in Genesis chapter 31 and verse 11, it says, And the angel of the Lord spoke unto me in a dream, saying, Yaakov, Jacob. And I said, Here am I. And Jacob is sharing how the angel of the Lord has spoken unto him. So angels had much to do, much involvement in the history of the people of Israel. And biblically speaking, we can see this found in the word of God. In Exodus chapter 33, we read in verse 2, And I will send an angel, God is saying to Moshe, to Moses, I will send an angel before thee, and I will drive out the Canaanites, and Amorites, and the Chittites, and the Perizzites, and the Chivites, and the Jebusites, and so on, unto the land flowing with milk and honey, and so on.

So God is always mentioned the angels in reference to the people of Israel. Because they are called in the scripture, those that are serving. They are called servants. The Hebrew word malachim, malach, simply means messengers. And so, beloved friends, the angels are servants of the Lord. It says in the book of Hebrews, interesting, when the apostle wrote to the early Hebrew believers in Jesus the Messiah, he said, But to which of the angels said he at any time sit on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool? And then he continued, and he said in Hebrews chapter 1, verse 14, Are they not, speaking about the angels, all ministering spirit, sent forth to minister unto them who shall be heirs of salvation?

And you see, beloved friends, angels were servants. They are serving God. We don't see them. But angels do exist because God teaches this in his word. And it is extremely interesting. Daniel heard the angels speaking unto him. Gabriel, in chapter 9, in chapter 10, in chapter 12. The angels like Gabriel and Michael ministering to the servants of the Lord. I just also want to mention that in the book of Deuteronomy, we read in chapter 33 in relationship to the provision of the law. We do read in Deuteronomy chapter 33, verses 1 and 2. And this is the blessing where with Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before his death.

And he said, the Lord came from Sinai and rose up from Seir unto them. He shined forth from Mount Paran and he came with ten thousands of saints. The Hebrew word is angels. From his right hand went a fiery law for them. In fact, even the law was given to our people of all the people of Israel through the angels. This is very important to understand it. Very interesting because even Stephen himself, beloved friend, for a moment as I'm speaking about this angel, Stephen himself in Acts chapter 7, we read what he said to the Jewish community, to the Pharisees and to the Sanhedrin. In Acts chapter 7, verse 53, he's speaking about God and about Israel who have received Israel the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it.

The law was given to Israel by the disposition of angels. This is fascinating to learn all these beloved friends. So angels have a lot to be involved in Jewish history, in biblical Jewish history. And just one more verse. In Galatians chapter 3, the Apostle Paul said in verse 19, he said, Wherefore, then serve the law, it was added because of transgression until the seed should come to whom the promise was made. And notice this, beloved friend. And it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. So, as I'm continuing now just to emphasize the importance of angels in biblical history, here we find out that the scripture says in John chapter 5, as we read this text, that an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water.

Whosoever then first, after troubling of the water, step in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And so we read, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends, that this man was now sitting there by the pools in Beit Chazda. So in the next verses, this is kind of sad. Because there was a sick man by the pool there. We read in verse 5, and a certain man was there which had infirmity for thirty and eight years. Can you imagine this man that was sitting there by the pool like many others, who were blind and halted and withered and so on. They are waiting for the moving of the water.

Here is a specific man that sat there that our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, you might say, zeroed on him. He sought to draw him to himself. It is always fascinating, beloved friends, how the Lord is dealing with individuals. In John 2, it was an individual couple that had a wedding. In John 3, it was an individual Pharisee by the name of Nakdimon, Nicodemus. In John 4, there was an individual woman who was a woman of Samaria. Here in John 5, there was a certain man which had an infirmity for thirty and eight years. The Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, came to seek and to save them which were lost.

And he was dealing with everyone individually, seeking to draw them after himself. Well, Jesus, in verse 6, we read that he knew of that man. It says when Jesus saw him lay and knew that he had been now a long time in that case. Now imagine. How could he know? How could he know? He is thirty-eight years in a state such as this. And Yeshua know that he was for thirty-eight years in that condition. How did he know? Well, again, beloved brothers and sisters, to remember that the Gospel of John presents Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, in his divine nature. He is God, who became a man, who was born to Miriam, at the city of Bethlehem.

And he came for the express purpose that he will provide redemption for mankind. And he lived here for these thirty-three and a half years in perfection to show that he was the sinless one. But he knows everything about you and I, and about this man. So he saw him. He knew his condition. And then he asked him. Will thou be made whole? Will thou be made whole? This is verse 6. Hachafetz atah lehirapeh, in Hebrew. Do you want to get whole? Do you want to get healthy? If the Lord is going to ask you today, would you like to get healthy? Who of us will say, oh no, I don't.

Everyone would want to be healthy. In fact, that's why we are visiting the doctors and taking the right medication and trying to do everything in order to be healthy. But beloved friends, what we find out that he wanted to do much more for this man. First of all, the first thing that this man had in mind, he was there by the pool because he was for thirty-eight years. He had an infirmity. And he was there, maybe every day coming there, somebody bringing him to this pool in Beit Chazda, the house of mercy, the house of grace, waiting for the water to be shaken by the angels so he will be placed in and he will get healed.

And you see, it is fascinating to learn this spiritual lesson for us all because we all try to fix the needs that we have, the natural need that we had. But you can see how the Lord lead him from the physical need to the spiritual need. From that which is here and now to that which is eternal. And while it is always desirable for us all to be healthy. But because we live in this decayed world, in this decayed body, we're getting older and sicker and we get, as it says, we are groaning within us. And that's why we never can forget our spiritual health.

That's why we need spiritually to be right with a holy and a righteous God. "Will thou be made whole?" And the impotent man answered him, "Sir, I have no man." "I have no man," he says here in verse 7. "I have no man." There is a man, my dear friend, who came from God. If you will notice that a little bit later on in the very same chapter in verse 39. The Lord Jesus, the Messiah said, and we can read it later on. "Search the scripture, for in them you think that you have eternal life, and they are they which testified of me." "I am the man that came down from heaven in order to give myself a ransom for many." That's why John 1:14 said, "And the word became man, became flesh, became human being." "There is a man." Now, of course, this impotent man said, "I have no man." In other words, I don't have any body to carry me and to place me into the water, into the pool, so I will be healed.

And then, while I'm finally trying to arrive there, another step down before me and getting healed apparently. And so the Lord, this is the man. Here's the man. He said, "I have no man." There is a man. There is a man that came from heaven. The man, Christ, Jesus. The man, Mashiach, Yeshua. There is one mediator between God and man. And that is the man, Yeshua, the Messiah. Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach. He is the one that came to redeem. And so look what he does. In verse 8. Our blessed Lord, Yeshua, the Messiah, speak to this impotent man and he is saying to him, "Rise." Number one.

"Take up thy bed." Number two. "And walk." Number three. "Get up, carry your bed or carry your whatever you were laying on and go ahead and walk." Apparently, he could not walk. And immediately, notice that. Immediately, verse 9. The man was made whole. Completely whole. And he took up his bed. And he walked. And notice what the Bible teaches us in this verse 9. "And on the same day was the Shabbat." Same day was the Shabbat day. Now, this is, my dear friend, it is always a challenging conflict that existed throughout the time where Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah was among his people, Israel, the Jewish community. Because the spiritual leaders of Israel have gone, you might say, beyond that which Scripture had given to Israel in the law concerning the Shabbat day.

And that's why you will notice that it's not coincident by the Spirit of God adding here to the healing of this man that this day was a Shabbat day. Does that make any difference if it was the first day of the week or the second day of the week or the third day of the week or the fourth day of the week? The fifth day or the sixth day of the week? Why Shabbat? Because that was an issue that brought about the conflict between the Jewish leaders, the spiritual leaders of Israel, and the Messiah, Jesus himself. In fact, if you turn to chapter 6 of our Gospel, of that sixth chapter, you find out in verses 5 to 14, it's the same issue that he made a miracle and so on.

And it always seems to show us that there was time that he did miracles. It was in connection with the Shabbat day. So he's done many miracles and he happened to do that on a Shabbat day. If you go ahead and you see miracles after miracles, he seems to do some of his miracles on the Shabbat day. We have seen it in a previous chapter, right? In chapter 4, how he performed some healing and so on in a timing that was not suitable for the Jewish leaders. And so the miracles that the Lord have done in the land of Israel, many of them happen to be on a Shabbat day.

And it seems to be that he have done it also purposely to show that he was the Lord of the Shabbat. From here on in verse 10 on, you can see now that the Lord is now dealing directly with the issue that the Jewish leaders had a problem with. And so we read in verse 10, the Pharisees, they were not pleased that he have done this on a Shabbat day. What happened in verse 10? It says here, the Jews therefore said unto him that was cute. It is not, it is a Shabbat day. It is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed. You cannot carry thy bed on a Shabbat day.

Now remember, in previous times in Israel's history, God did not want Israel to do business on a Shabbat day, to carry things back and forth, in and out, and to buy and sell, because he wanted them to devote this day to him. And that's correct. And that's correct. But this is healing of a person who was sick for 38 years. For 38 years. And could not he be healed on a Shabbat day and be happy to take his bed? He is not going there to be, to have business made. He is not going there in order to, you know, to please himself in a sense of doing things that will be not devoted to the Lord.

But here, on a Shabbat day, he is carrying his bed, because he was laying on it for 38 years. And he is walking. And they should be so glad for him. But you see, we read that they asked him, they said to him, it is not lawful for you to carry thy bed. Now again, it is so sad that sometime, beloved friends, we are going beyond what the Word of God teaches us. And we end up, become a religion rather than spiritual engagement with the Lord. The Shabbat is such a beautiful day that was given to our people of Israel. It's a day that God gave.

It was not instituted by Israel. It was given by God himself in the law. But once we've gone beyond it, then we fail to honor the Lord. You know, you notice even here in the beginning of the chapter, it says in chapter five, verse one, after this, there was a feast of the Jews. See, the feast will belong to the Lord. And when we are taking the feast that belonged to the Lord, it becomes what we please with it. It's no longer the Lord's feast. It becomes our own feasts. And this is not pleasing to God. You see, this is exactly the issue that the Apostle Paul had to instruct the believers at Corinth.

They took the Lord's table and make it their own. The danger is the same in our present day age in which we have to be very careful. And the Lord wants us to recognize that this is his feast. This is his Shabbat. This is his table, not ours. That's why it is so important. And we read, for example, 1 Corinthians chapter 10. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and the table of demons. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? Don't you know, he was telling to the Corinthians.

And you see, this is sad. It's happened to God's people in every generation. When we go beyond scripture. When we go beyond what God has intended. Shabbat was given for men and not men for the Shabbat. It was given for Israel to enjoy the Lord's presence. And to give time for the Lord's fellowship with the Lord. But this is where it goes beyond what the Lord has intended. And that's why they went and they said to him. You cannot do this. You cannot carry your bed on that Shabbat day. So he answered. Now, here you can see now in the next verses. It's interesting because in these next verses.

Beloved brothers and sisters. From here for verse 10 on. You can see that now this man not only received physical healing. But now he has, he can enjoy spiritual healing to recognize who Yeshua is. And so in the next verses. Very interesting. In verses 10 to verse 15. You notice that in these verses. We find out this communication. It says in verse 10. The Jews said unto him that was cured. It is a Shabbat day. It is not lawful for you to carry thy bed. In verse 11. The man that was healed responded to the Jewish leaders. And he said to them. He said he that made me whole. The same said unto me.

Take up thy bed and walk. You see. He didn't even. At first didn't even realize. Who was the one that made him whole. In verse 12. The question. By the spiritual leaders of Israel. They said. They asked himself. What man is that? Which says unto thee. Take up thy bed and walk. And he that was healed. Did not know. Verse 13. Who it was. Because Yeshua had conveyed himself away. A multitude being in the place. In the place. You notice. When the Lord Jesus. The Messiah. Performed this miracle. He did it publicly. And at the same time. You could see. That now. There will be. A public.

Position. By the leaders of Israel. At the first coming of the Messiah. To him. There will be an opposition. He did it publicly. Multitude was there. Multitude saw that he healed that man. That for 38 years. Was an impotent man. Could not walk. Could not go into the pool. Now he's walking. He's carrying his bed. And he's whole. And so. The Lord Jesus. Withdrew himself. But you notice what it says here. Very interesting. Because. In verse 14. Jesus. Find. That man. In the temple. Apparently. This man. Went now. To the temple. Remember. That. Beit Hasda. The ship. Gate. And where the. Pools. And there was. Five porches.

Is not too far. From the. A temple. From Beit Hamikdash. Because. The ship. Would come through the gate. And they will be taken. To the temple. And the temple. By the altar. They will slay them. And will ultimately. Offer their. Sacrifices. Unto God. Well. This man. Went to the temple. To give praise. To God. Because now. He is healed. And so. Yeshua found him. Right in the temple. And he said to him. Notice. He said. Behold. Thou art made whole. And then he ends. He says. Sin. No. More. Lest. A worse. Thing. Come. Unto thee. Apparently. From the context. Of all these passages. When Yeshua.

Jesus. The Messiah. Said to him. Sin. No. More. Lest. Worse. Thing. Will come. Upon thee. It seemed to be. That the condition. That he found himself. As an impotent man. Was a result. Of. Something. That he may have done. You remember. Remember. What the Bible. Teaches us. Be sure. Your sins. Will find you out. God said. To Israel. When Israel. Came out of the land. Of Egypt. In fact. The apostle. Paul. Said. Whatsoever. Man soweth. That shall he reap. In the book. Of Galatians. The sin. Brings. Consequences. Now. Sometimes. More than others. But the point is. The Lord. Is telling him. You see. You are made whole.

Verse 14. And therefore. He says. Sin. No more. Isn't that amazing? Because. Paul. In Romans. Chapter 6. Because. The Romans. Were in dangers. To neglect. To. Appreciate. The grace of God. So. The apostle. Paul. Said. What. Shall we. Say. Then. Shall we. Continue. In sin. That grace. May abound. In other words. Some. Are in dangers. Of saying. Well. God. Has shown. Me. So. I can continue. In sin. In other words. How shall we. That are. Dead to sin. Live. Any longer. Therein. In other words. Did you know. That so many. That have been. Baptized. Into Yeshua. The Messiah. Were baptized. Unto his death. When we became. Believers.

We have accepted. The Messiah. We should seek. To live a life. That is pleasing. To the Lord. And here is. What the Lord Jesus. The Messiah. Says to this. One. That was once. An impotent man. He said to him. Look. Behold. You are now. Made whole. Sin. No. More. Lest. Notice that. A worse thing. Will come. Upon thee. And so. We read here. Now. In verse 15. Notice that. And the man. Departed. And he told the Jew. That it was Jesus. Which had made. Him. Whole. Whole. Here you can see. Now. That he can testify. That this is Yeshua. This is Jesus. He is the one.

That made. Him. Whole. That healed him. And I can assure you. Beloved. Friend. That this was the time. Where he was not only healed. Physically. From being. An impotent man. Now. He became. A man. That have accepted. The fact. That the one. Who healed him. Is Yeshua. Is. Jesus. The. Messiah. Now. From here on. From here on. Beloved. Friend. You can see. The controversy. The conflict. That existed. Between the Lord Jesus. The Messiah. And the spiritual. Leaders. Of Israel. Who are called. Once and again. The Jews. The Jews. The Jews. In the Gospel. Of. John. I would like to remind you. That. There are over.

One hundred and ninety times. That the New Covenant. The New Testament. Used the word. Jews. Why? Because. It was a Jewish event. The Jewish story. A Jewish. Situation. Especially. In the Gospel. In the early days. Of the book of. Acts. It was specifically. In connection. With the Jewish land. With the Jewish people. People. And so. The Apostle. John. By divine. Inspiration. Used the word. The Jews. The Jews. The Jews. In the Gospel. Of John. More than. In any other. Of the Gospel. Some seventy times. He used the word. Jews. And almost. Not all. But almost. All of these times. That he used the word. The Jews.

In Hebrew. He applied them. To the Jewish. Leaders. The spiritual. Leaders. Of Israel. That opposed. The Messiahship. Of Jesus. The Messiahship. Of Yeshua. To remind you. Yeshua. Was a Jew. The Apostles. Were Jews. This man. In Bet Hasda. Was a Jew. The impotent man. The people. Who were there. Were Jews. And all the population. The multitude. That read of them. Were all Jews. It was an event. That occurred. Among the Jewish people. But here. You can see. That he. Distinguished. Between the Jewish. Leaders. Who did not. Accept. Yeshua. As the Messiah. And the rest. Of the Jewish nation. Who. Were. Struggling. To know. Whom. To follow.

After. It's like us. Today. In the world. There are many nations. But there are those. Who oppose. Jesus. The Messiah. Do not. Reject him. And do not. Acknowledge him. He is indeed. The Savior. The Redeemer. The Redeemer. But then you have others. Who are just. Struggling to find out. Whom should I follow after. But many. Praise God. Turn. To the Savior. To the Lord Jesus. As their Lord and Savior. So let. Let me just. Point to these three verses. Sixteen. Seventeen. And eighteen. Not as beloved friend. That Yeshua. In verse sixteen. In verse sixteen. First of all. The Jews. Notice what it says here. They began.

The persecution. Of Jesus. The Messiah. It says in verse sixteen. And therefore. Did the Jews. Persecute Jesus. Persecute Yeshua. And they sought. To slay him. Why? Because he had done. These things. On the Shabbat day. You notice that. It is sad. Isn't it? Very very sad. That the Shabbat. We need to be kept holy. According to scripture. Yes. It was given to Israel. As a nation. To be. A set apart. What holy means. To set this day apart. For God. To devote time. To the Lord. And to. The things of God. But. To heal. A man. On a Shabbat day. To heal. An impotent man.

On a Shabbat day. Was that wrong? Was that. A dishonoring. To God. Could that be. So much. That there. Is wrong in it. That they could not be happy. For this man. Because he have done it. On a Shabbat day. Now you see. The. Traditions. Of the scribes. And the Pharisees. Were challenged. Challenged. It was challenged. As we read. Actually. In the. Matthew. Chapter 12. That was the time. Where. Israel. The spiritual leaders. Of Israel. Committed the. Blasphemy. Against the Holy Spirit. As is mentioned. In verses 9. On. In the Gospel. Of Matthew. It is kind of sad. Because. He. Also. The Lord Jesus. Healed a man.

That had a wither hand. In the. In the. Senagogue. On a Shabbat day. And then you can read. That the. Jewish leaders. Blamed. The Lord Jesus. The Messiah. That he have done it. In the. Power. Of. The devil. Rather than the power. Of the spirit of God. That's why we read in. Matthew. Chapter. 12. In verse 24. The Pharisees. Heard it. Said this fellow. Does not. Cast out demons. But. By. Baal. Zvuv. The prince. Of the demons. And you see. This was wrong. From the nation. From the spiritual. Leaders. Of Israel. To do so. And you can see. That since that time. That Yeshua. Was rejected. Up till today.

For some. Two thousand years. The nation. Of Israel. As a nation. Is not yet. Restored. To the place. That God. Had in mind. For the nation. It will. It had been. Postponed. To the future day. And so. In verse 16. Of John. Chapter 5. It says there. That the Jews. Persecuted Jesus. And sought. How to slay him. Because he had done. This thing. In verse 17. The Lord. Is. Claiming. To. The work of God. The work of God. The father. Jesus answered. And said. My father. Worketh. Hitherto. And I work. In other words. You say. We should not. Have done. This work. On a Shabbat day. And. I am telling you.

That God. My father. Is working. Hitherto. And I work. Also. In other words. My dear friend. While God. Had rested. On the seventh day. From the work. Of creation. Of creation. But. Since sin. Came on. God. Never rest. From the. Need. Of the provision. Of the work. Of redemption. Men. Have sinned. And men. Need. To be redeemed. And that's the reason. Why Yeshua. The Messiah. Came. Already. From the beginning. When sin. Entered. Into this world. God. Is not. Resting. In seeking. More people. To himself. He began. Even. When. Adam and Eve. Have. Sinned. In the garden. He began. To provide. Redemption. There. For them. To close.

Their. Nakedness. And their. Sinfulness. With the sacrifice. And all the way. Up till the time. When Yeshua. Came. Is working. To provide. Redemption. For mankind. And so. He rested. On the seventh day. From creation. But he does not. Rest. As Yeshua said. My father. Worketh. He thereto. And I. Work. You see. In other words. Yeshua. Jesus. The Messiah. Teaches us. And. The people of Israel. Of the fact. That he. Is come. In order. To provide. Redemption. For men. In John 9. Verse 4. Yeshua. Jesus said. I must. Work. The works. Of him. That sent me. While it is day. The night. Cometh. When. No. Man. Can. Work.

In other words. The night. The night. Of judgment. Coming. That work. Will not be done. Because God. Had to judge. Sin. Rose. I need. To die. For sinful. Men. I must. Do so. In order. To. Provide. Redemption. In. John. Chapter. 10. In. Verse. 30. We read. These words. I. And. My. Father. Are. One. He's. Claiming. To be. With. The. Father. One. With. The. Jews. Took. Up. Stone. Again. To stone. Him. And. He said. To them. Many. Good. Works. I show. You. For. Here in the context is the Jewish leader, not every Jewish person, but the Jewish leaders who oppose the Messiah and his Messiahship. The Jews answered and said unto him, For good work we stoned thee not, but for blasphemy, because that you being a man maketh yourself God.

In other words, he claimed to be divine. And here in this fifth chapter, beloved friend, is where our Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, is emphasizing the fact that he is the Lord of the Shabbat. He can heal on the Shabbat, but he can do as he please in order to bring a blessing for mankind. And while on the other hand, the Jewish spiritual leaders of Israel have taken that Shabbat day of rest, which was supposed to be resting and enjoying God's presence, that you can't even do good on that Shabbat day and heal a man that was sick for 38 years. And so notice how sad.

Verse 18, in the conclusion of this ministry meeting for this point of time, in our Bible teaching ministry of the Gospel of John, it says, Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him. Why? Because he has not only broken the Shabbat, you see, that was considered that he broke the Shabbat. But be said also that God was his father, and then notice at the end, making himself equal with God. Making himself equal with God. In other words, they understood very, very well that he made himself equal with God. And you see, my dear friend, this is fundamental. This is fundamental. If the Lord, Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah, is not divine, if he is not God, if he is not equal with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, then he could never become a redeemer.

Because sin has to be paid for. And only sinless one can pay for a sinner. And therefore, it would not avail anything else. God had to enter humanity in order to become the deliverer, the savior of sinners. That's why it is so important, this gospel of John. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. And the word became flesh and dwelled among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. That's the beginning of the gospel of John. The end of the gospel of John, in John chapter 20, and verse 30 and 31.

And many other signs did Yeshua in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book, in this gospel of John. But these, whatever we read now, these are written that ye might believe that Jesus, that Yeshua, is the Christ, the Mashiach. But not only there. But that he is the son of God. Ben ha-Elohim. Mashiach ben Elohim Chaim. And that believing he might have life through his name. My dear friend, this is so important to understand. And that's why, you see, in verses 16, 17, and 18, there was a conflict, controversy, over Yeshua's healing on a Shabbat day. And it went beyond that, because now the spiritual leaders of Israel did not acknowledge that he was the Messiah and rejecting his Messiahship, claiming that he said that he was God.

Now notice that. In chapter 9 of the book of Isaiah, Isaiah said to Israel, Unto us a child is born. This is his humanity. But unto us a son is given. This is his divine nature. This is the Messiah, the Mashiach. This was promised by Isaiah long before Yeshua was born. Some 700, 750 years before Jesus the Messiah was born in Bethlehem. Then it says, And the government shall be upon his shoulder. How could a government be upon his shoulder if he is not more than just another ordinary man? And his name, what will be his name? His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor. The mighty God, El Gibor.

El Gibor. The Father of Eternity. Who is the source of eternity, if not God? The Prince of Peace, Sar Shalom. Who is the one who would be able to say, to provide peace, shalom to this world and to the nation of Israel? Only God. And the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end. And upon the throne of David. And upon the kingdom to rule over it and to establish it with judgment and with justice. Listen, from henceforth, even forever. Who can do that? Who is this Mashiach that was going to come according to the prophet Isaiah? In chapter 7, the sign was given.

In verse 14, the Lord himself shall give to you. He is speaking, of course, to the house of David. Then behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son. Well, a virgin, a maiden that never knew a man, could conceive a son. How is it possible? Unless he was divinely placed in the womb of Miriam. Supernatural, no doubt. And his name shall be called Emmanuel, God with us. Emmanuel in Hebrew means with us. El means God. Now again, beloved friend, it's not easy to grasp it. And it only happened once in history that God entered humanity. It will never happen again. So while, of course, it's easy to say, well, don't you see it?

Jewish people, don't you see it? Can't you understand it? If God will enter today and walk in our midst today as men, what would you do? You see, the point is that the hearts that are tender and are broken before God, recognizing that this is the word of God that promises the Messiah will come and he will be a divine person. But when one goes against the word of God, one becomes an enemy of God. And notice that. They sought to slay him, verse 16. And verse 18, they sought more to kill him. And the only, the reason is because he had done it on Shabbat day, healing a man that was sick for 38 years.

And because he said, my father works hitherto and I work. I do the work that God, my father, does because we have the same nature. We are, God is one. Sh'ma Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad. Hero Israel, the Lord our God is one. Lord, but this one God exists and consists in three persons in the triunity, the father, the son, the spirit, Ha'aba, ha'ben, ha'ruach, one God, three persons. And God, the son, came to this world and entered as a man through the virgin Miriam for the express purpose that he will live here 33 and a half years and then ultimately go to the altar, to the cross to pay for the sin of this world.

That's the truth of the word of God. And praise God that Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah, came and have accomplished this work of redemption for us. And this is amazing as we study this, the Gospel of John, the fifth chapter. And may the Lord help us, my dear brothers and sisters and dear friends. May the Lord help us to be appreciative of who Yeshua is and what he has done in his life, but much, much, much more in his death, burial and resurrection. And may the Lord help many will believe on him for whosoever believeth on him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Well, may God bless his word to us all and I will say Shalom, Shalom, my friend.