MY FRIENDS, WILT THOU BE MADE WHOLE BY THE MASTERS TOUCH?

Nov. 3, 2014

MY FRIENDS, WILT THOU BE MADE WHOLE BY THE MASTERS TOUCH?

Sometimes we delay our decisions to give it all to the Master because of fear and vulnerability, we are still hung up on the past, overwhelmed by situations and circumstance of our present battles with the god of this world, battles we continue to lose, which in return gives us no hope about our situation for the future.

In addition, confusion settles in, we look at ourselves and around us to attain some glimmer of hope that’s needed to go beyond these doubts we are having. So instead of giving it all to Christ. Our solution is we sit on our mat by the pool of Bethesda for a long, long time.

Let’s go to John 5:5-7 (NKJV) “Now a certain man was there (Talking about the Pool of Bethesda) who had an infirmity thirty- eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, He knew his condition and how long he had been there.

In addition, God needed him to exemplify his faith, as with us, into believing what He is capable of doing because He is God and He is willing to give us what we ask in His name, if we believe. So He ask. “do you want to be made whole?”

The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” Jesus actually ask this question of someone who has had an infirmity for 38 years “do you want to be made whole.”

Why does Jesus ask? I would say, Jesus asked this question because he knew this man had wasted 38 years of his life waiting on the movement of water, in a pool, that had no supernatural power to heal.

I can say this with full assurance, because The very source of life stood in front of him because “we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.”1 John 5:20 (ESV)

How does Christ come in one’s presence and you not recognize Him. Once again why did Jesus ask wilt thou be made whole? Is it also possible to be paralyzed for 38 years and not want to be made whole by the Master’s touch.

Maybe the man had just gotten used to his way of life. The poolside was a familiar, and safe environment. What about us as Christians have we gotten so familiar with our environment, that we don’t recognize Christ or His presence among us.

Are we spiritually sick, while at the same time, living such a comfortable and easy life that we don’t want to change or be made whole. Have we become so complacent, lackadaisical, and self-indulgent, that we have forgotten how to respond to Jesus presence as he knocks at the door of our hearts?

Why, when Christ ask the man wilt thou be made whole he did not cry out “Yes! Yes! Yes! My God Yes! I would give anything to be healed, by the touch of the Master” But His heart did not thrill with anticipation of being healed. Instead, he told Jesus his down and out hard luck story.

For 38 years he was looking for something that He could have had weather he was sick or not, life eternal. My Friends, I’m here to tell you today we can all rise above any and all situations and circumstances through Jesus Christ and be made whole.

As we think of our own lives, we search for answers, and solutions to our problems, problems Christ solved over 2,000 years ago at Calvary. Friends, our Savior did it all for us so that we can received eternal life, now what will we do for Him.

“He was delivered over to death for our sins and then was raised to life “that [we] may have life, and have it more abundantly,” John 10:10 (NASB) and through our faith and Christ we will obtain peace, and hope, as we gain access into His grace and mercy. So today Christ is asking us to respond “wilt thou be made whole.”

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY