Today we are going to look at the perfect synchronization between God the Father and God the Son. We’re going to trace a chain of four logic-driven arguments—four massive “For’s"or “Because’s”—and see how the very voice that made a paralyzed man walk is the same voice that determines your eternal destiny.

John 5:19–29 (ESV)- So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

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We’re diving into John 5:1-18. We are going to stand next to a pool called Bethesda, look into the eyes of a man who had been stuck on a dynamic of defeat for thirty-eight years, and watch Jesus utterly shatter the religious status quo.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in a habit, a mindset, or a cycle of excuses, this passage is going to hit close to home.

John 5:1–18 (ESV)

1After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.

3In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

5One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

6When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”

7The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”

8Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”

9And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.

10So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.”

11But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’ ”

12They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”

13Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.

14Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”

15The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

16And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

17But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

18This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

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Today we're looking at John 4:46–54. We're going to eavesdrop on a frantic father who has a lot of political power but absolutely zero control over his son's life. Through this encounter, Jesus is going to challenge the way we approach Him. Are we looking for a spectacular "show," or are we willing to stake our lives entirely on His spoken Word?

John 4:46–54 (ESV)

46So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill.

47When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

48So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.”

49The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

50Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.

51As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering.

52So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

53The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.

54This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

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