Healing ... Do you want it? 

When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?" John 5:6

Was there a kind of ‘Lourdes’ thing going on at the pool of Bethsaida?

Verses 3a-4 are not in the best manuscripts and yet the man clearly held out the hope that an angel would stir the waters.(v7)

I am more interested in Jesus’ question to someone bed-ridden for 38 years ... 

‘Do you want to get well?’

Wholeness has its price!
Jesus was saying that there is a cost to be paid if you want to walk in wholeness.

Privilege and Responsibility go together.

    As we move from Sickness to Wholeness ...
            We travel from Dependence to Independence ....
                    From Receiving to Giving.

In our walk with God our dependence should be firmly placed on God alone.

For the first time in 38 years this man had to walk home, by himself, carrying his own mattress!

• But he could skip!

• He could dance!

• He could build Kingdom by Walking on the Wild Side!