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A MIRACLE OF MERCY

by Lenny Ports

Scripture: John 5:1


A Miracle of Mercy
Lenny Ports
John 5:1


Key Scripture

John 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. 3In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" 7 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." 8 Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your bed and walk." 9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath.

Everyone is looking for something beyond themselves. We love to experience new things and especially things that are not of this earth. We love to go to new movies to experience the fantasy of life as Batman, or Spiderman, or the Avengers. We want someone to take us somewhere we we have never been before. Steven Spielberg gained his fame by writing and producing science fiction and adventure movies such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET the Extra Terrestrial, Indiana Jones, Jaws, Men in Black, and Jurassic Park. Steven Spielberg movies have grossed over $3.9 billion and brought viewers to another a whole different world.

Listen, everyone wants more in life than what they have now and if there is a way to get it, they go after it. In this country, we can dream it, and earn it, and make it a reality. President Obama stated this week that if you are successful, it is because som ...

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