John 5:1-9, "Get Up and Walk"

1. Jesus seeks out the blind, lame and paralyzed (vv. 1-3)
2. Jesus offers healing to the most needy (vv. 5-6)
3. The invalid thinks his healing must come in the pool... just like I think that my "healing" will come through some material means (v. 7)
4. True and complete healing is found only through Jesus—who heals spiritual invalids, too, through HIS taking up not a mat and walking, but a cross and dying (vv. 8-9)
5. Then I am able to get up and walk and live a new life of grace, peace, faith, hope and joy