Memory Verse for the Week: John 5:6 (ESV) 

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Intro: How much does context affect a message?

OUR MERCIFUL GOD
What is significant about Jesus asking the man about what he wanted?

SOMETHING BETTER, SOMETHING WORSE
How was Jesus’ work to heal this man also a direct challenge?

THE SABBATH & ITS LORD
What exactly was Jesus claiming, and why does it matter?

YOU CAN PRAY WITH US …

1. Worship the LORD for His kindness to comfort us in our sufferings, especially to erase our deepest emptiness and fill us with His Grace. Praise Him, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, that He is the LORD who heals.

2. How have you lived in self-pity and envy? Confess your pride and unbelief to Jesus, asking Him to cleanse you and fill you with His Holy Spirit to love others and rejoice with those around you who are blessed.

3. Give thanks to Jesus for the mystery of His sufferings to save our lives! Thank Him that, possessing both maximum goodness and ultimate power, He lost both willingly in order to atone for us and conquer death on our behalf.

4. Who do you know that is sick, broken, or weak (and not necessarily physically)? Pray for them, asking the Father to give them relief and wholeness in Christ, and that He would work for their healing.

5. Ask the Holy Spirit to work true humility into your heart. Pray that He would help you rethink and grow beyond your non-biblical assumptions about evil, suffering, or ultimate goodness, and to trust Jesus instead.