Tue.'s Devo -Move Upon Our Waters

Read John 5:1-17
In the Old Testament God gave the Jews 7 feasts that they were suppose to observe every year. They happened at the 3 different harvest times. Every Jewish man was to come to Jerusalem with his sacrifice and celebrate the feast together. Jesus never missed a feast. This feast was the fall feasts of Roshashana, Yom Kippor, and Tabernacles. These feast have to do with the final harvest, repentance, and the 2nd coming of Jesus just to name a few. So Jesus goes to the place the sheep are kept to a pool of water that is believed to have healing powers when the angel comes down and stirs the water. There is a whole multitude of people that are crippled, blind, withered, and dying waiting for the moving of the water.
One day Jesus is going to come back with the angels for those who are waiting. These that are waiting realize the state of their humanity: that they are crippled, blind, withered, and dying and need the spirit it move on their behalf. And Jesus is going to ask them "Do you want to be made whole?" We, like this impotent man will answer that we can't do this by ourself and Jesus will say to us, "Rise, take up your bed, and walk" and we will walk right out of this world into the next.
This man was a type of what is going to happen but he was still on this earth so he got questioned about carrying his bed on the Sabbath. He told them that the man who healed him told him to take up his bed and walk. He just wasn't sure who he was. So Jesus found him later and proclaimed over him again that he was whole and that he shouldn't sin anymore or something worse would happen to him.
By this one statement he knew it was Jesus and he went back to the Jews and told them that it was Jesus that healed him. So the Jews went to find Jesus to persecute and kill him because he had done this on the Sabbath. When they did find him and asked him about it his reply was, "My Father works, so I work." Sabbath in the Greek means "a day of weekly repose from secular avocations" so what better day to do spiritual work. We'll talk more about this response tomorrow.
I find it interesting that Jesus didn't get them saved first then heal them, he just healed everyone he met. Grace is a free gift and healing is too. Jesus never judged anyone except the religious that taught false doctrine. He is jealous over his word.
Lord, may we freely give out what you have given us to everyone we meet saved or not saved.