Sunday School: THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS
Title: THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS
FOCUS VERSES…
John 5:36 ~ But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
This is WHAT we should take from this LESSON…
- Jesus is God in flesh…
- Jesus is the way, the truth, & life…
- Jesus is the living WORD…
- Jesus is the miracle worker & blesser
- Jesus is visiting you and I today;
WILL YOU BELIEVE
This is what we should apply to our life from this lesson:
- I will be a witness and testify that Jesus is who He says, He is...
- I will believe the word and the works JESUS has done in my personal life - that testifies who HE is…
- When Jesus visits me thru His miracles, His blessings, His word, His salvation - i will believe…
Titus 1:15-16 [AMP] ~ (15) To the pure, all things are pure; but to the corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure; both their mind and their conscience are corrupted. (16) They profess to know God [to recognize and be acquainted with Him], but by their actions they deny and disown Him. They are detestable and disobedient and worthless for good work of any kind.
Psalms 14:1-3 ~ (1) The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. (2) The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. (3) They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
The Scriptures [the laws & prophets] told the Jews that there Messiah would come and how he would come, But they didn’t believe…
And scripture shows us that Jesus fulfilled every prophecy of his coming from the prophets….
And the Jews didn’t believe him when he came & neither did many believe his works [miracles]…
But they still claimed the knew God….
Genesis 3:15 ~ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Genesis 49:10 ~ The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh [He who it is; tranquility or peace] come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Exodus chapter 12 ~ regarding the Passover and blood of lamb on the door post - shadow of Jesus Christ
Numbers 21:6–9 ~ serpents struck Israel for there unbelief; saying God brought them out there to die….
TOLD MOSES PUT BRONZE SNAKE ON POLE…
• John 3:14-15 ~ 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Deuteronomy 18:15–19 ~ The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
1st Timothy 3:16 ~ And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Notice the scriptures where Jesus is trying to show us, who HE is…
But the question is?
- How long will it take for us to see and respond correctly to who HE is?
Jesus said these words to his disciples that should help us know who he is…
Luke 24:44-45 ~ (44) And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
(45) Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
John 5:39-40 ~ 39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
John 8:48-59 ~ (48) Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
(49) Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
(50) And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
(51) Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
(52) Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
(53) Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
(54) Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
(55) Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
(56) Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
(57) Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
(58) Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
(59) Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
John 10:30-38 ~ (30) I and my Father are one.
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Again the UNDERSTANDING of this LESSON is…
- Jesus is God in flesh…
- Jesus is the way, the truth, & life…
- Jesus is the living WORD…
- Jesus is the miracle worker & blesser
- Jesus is visiting you and I today;
WILL YOU BELIEVE
The cripple man at the pool of Bethesda [house of mercy; house of grace]…
He has been this way for 38 years…
John 5:1-18 ~ 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda [house of mercy], having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent [sickly people] folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
13 And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.
14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
Jesus Claims to Be the Son of God…
16 So the Jewish leaders began harassing Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules.
17 But Jesus replied, “My Father is always working, and so am I.”
18 So the Jewish leaders tried all the harder to find a way to kill him. For he not only broke the Sabbath, he called God his Father, thereby making himself equal with God.
Go down to FOCUS VERSES…
John 5:36 ~ But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.