Turning Point |John 5:1-18

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Turning Point |John 5:1-18 Doug Sachtleben, Lead Pastor January 28, 2017

Through His healing of a lame man, and the aftermath that followed, Jesus Christ exercised sovereignty that only God possesses, leading the religious leaders of His day to charge Jesus with blasphemy and to declare Him worthy of death.

Background

The Reliability of Scripture in Light of John 5:4

Rabbinical Distortion of the Sabbath

Connecting Sin and Sickness (cf. John 9:1-3)

Reminder: The Theme of John’s Gospel (John 20:31)

1. Sovereign Initiative

2. Sovereign Knowledge

3. Sovereign Mercy

4. Sovereign Power

5. Sovereign Judgment

6. Sovereign Authority

Questions to Consider 1. What was a turning point in your life, and how did God work through it to alter your life? 2. How do you address the absence of John 5:4 from many modern translations of the Bible? 3. From verses discussed in the sermon, as well as others in the Bible, what do we know about the connection between sin and sickness? 4. How would you define the word sovereignty? What is the sovereignty of God? 5. What are some of the ways in which Jesus exercised divine sovereignty in this passage? 6. Why does it matter that Jesus claimed equality with God?

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