John 5:2 Scripture a Record of Human Sorrow I. There lay about the Pool of Bethesda a great multitude of impotent folk of blind, halt, and withered. This is a painful picture, such as we do not like to dwell upon a picture of a chief kind of human suffering, bodily disease; one which suggests to us... [ Continue Reading ]
John 5:6 Consider whether, over and above the general typical features which we may detect in this miracle, there be not significative circumstances in the history from which, as Christians, we may draw great practical lessons. I. Observe, that it was only at certain seasons that the angel descende... [ Continue Reading ]
John 5:11 The authority for our life I. The principle contained in these words of the healed man is a grand and far-reaching principle. When truly interpreted, it applies to the whole life of every saved man. He that saves the soul has a right to command and govern the life. II. The motive I mean... [ Continue Reading ]
John 5:14 I. We feel interested in hearing that the impotent man was restored to health, and yet, what was the benefit he received? He lived a few years, and then he died. What is life? Holy Scripture saith, "It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." Therefore... [ Continue Reading ]
John 5:17 I do not think there is a better characteristic of the more earnest thinking of these days than its profound reverence for faithful work; its profound sense that if a man have found his work he has found his felicity. In the text we have our Lord's own example, "My Father worketh hitherto,... [ Continue Reading ]
John 5:24 There are two things here which at once stand out to the mind with equal prominence the smallness of the conditions and the magnificence of the offer. The salvation of a man's soul is simply a matter of capitulation. All that God requires of His creatures, who have become by sin first reb... [ Continue Reading ]
John 5:39 Searching Scripture and finding Christ I. It is evident that the failure of many men to find Christ is not from any deficiency in the means of discovering Him. It is this which our Lord so emphatically marks in the case of the Jews. They had the Scriptures, and they searched them. They h... [ Continue Reading ]
John 5:40 The Lamentations of Jesus I. Men, before regeneration, and apart from the salvation of God, are in a state which Jesus counts and calls death. In this plaint of the Saviour the true condition of sinners is seen with awful distinctness. No room is left here for dispute or mistake. In the... [ Continue Reading ]