 We are so thankful to you our father for this beautiful morning Thank you that your mercies are renewed every morning and thank you that we are in your presence once again To learn from your word about father. We ask you to bless our teacher We ask you to bless each of our students lot father who are joining in who would be listening on the recording that they would all be blessed In their walk with you as we are being enriched with the world Let the world be a lamp to our feet and light to our path father continue to lead us by the power of your holy All your goodness and faithfulness we stand and father we want to thank you for this privilege We thank you for this platform. We thank you for each of us that we are here Let our hearts receive everything in its fullness above father and be blessed in our walk with you Once again, we thank you and we ask you to bless each of us in your precious and matchless name We ask and we pray amen Amen. Thank you so much Avni All right Uh, yeah, so uh last week we looked at john chapter three and because john chapter three has got some very central truths Uh, which in fact, uh, you would see repeated again and again throughout the book of john So we wanted to focus on just that one chapter. So we devoted, um, and Entire, you know to us to the book, uh, to the chapter three, uh, but now Today we will you know rush forward a little bit. So today we would be covering both chapter four and chapter five Uh, so we may not be able to cover literally every single verse In these two chapters, but we will try to you know, um, uh, touch upon all the main Uh concepts which are there in these two chapters All right, um, and let me keep my chat visible beside me just in case anyone has anything to say Yes All right, um, yeah, you know as usually we could have people read out and uh, like I always say, you know, don't Politely in a christlike manner wait for one another to read just one of you You know just get started so that we don't waste time, you know so that we can Cover as much as possible So if we could have one person read out the first three verses of chapter four John chapter four one two three words When therefore the lord knew how the Pharisee had heard That jesus made and baptized more disciples than john Though jesus himself baptized not but his disciples He left judia and departed again into galey Yeah, so over here. We learn that not only are John's disciples a little upset, uh, that Jesus is gaining more and more followers But we see that even the Pharisees have now found out about that and they too are not very pleased Because most probably even some of their followers are now turning to to jesus so when Jesus Learns about how they are upset With this jesus very quietly withdraws He decides to go away to another place and he chooses not to have a confrontation with these Pharisees at this point of time and So we see here that now jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard That he was gaining and baptizing more disciples and it says in verse three So he left judia and went back once more to galley One very important thing that we see right here at the beginning of this chapter is that Jesus is so careful regarding timing He's aware of he's able to discern the times, you know, uh, there are times when, um, you When you can go ahead with a certain thing that needs to be done because you sense that The father wants it in that timing on the other hand there are times when you can sense the father saying that no, this is not the correct time and then You would need to submit and retreat. So we see this principle over here Jesus never did things at random or on impulse. It was always After carefully discerning what would be right for that particular occasion and so, uh, we too Must be careful in choosing our fights, you know Uh Best not to have arguments and debates and confrontations with people Unless we really sense that this is the right time and the lord is backing us up And then maybe when we argue and we debate, um, maybe the lord, you know, would stir up people's hearts To catch what we are trying to convey and we would have the holy spirit Working in them convicting them even as we speak And then there are other times when people argue and try to You know put down the scriptures And we we sense in our hearts that they're just simply spoiling for a fight They're not really that much interested in knowing the truth They just want to pick a fight and prove that they are superior or something of the sort So at that time, uh, maybe it would be wiser for us to just retreat because The holy spirit would guide us in these things There are times when it is good to step forward and confront and speak in the power of the lord And then there are times when he uh, you know silently indicates to us that it's better to, uh, you know, wait Wait for another occasion when the people would be more receptive to what we have to say So over here on this particular occasion as jesus does not want to confront these people Who would you know probably begin Opposition you know earlier than the timing which god has set for the opposition to increase So jesus withdraws so that the confrontations and the opposition and all of the You know strong You know backlash of these Pharisees would not start before time So that it would uh, so that jesus would still have the freedom to openly move around without any real, um, you know Strife from these Pharisees. So, uh, jesus decides to withdraw And he uh, it says in the next verse now he had to go through samaria and now many scholars point out that, uh, geographically speaking this, uh, particular phrase this little sentence now he had to go through samaria does not make any sense because actually, uh, He was closer to the jordan river at this particular point of time So it would have been easier for him to simply take, um, A road which the road which was going alongside the river But he chooses to uh, to go To go back to galilee using the root of samaria Why because he had to go so it is not because Geographical, uh, you know, um the geographical Contours of that place demanded that he had to go but rather because he felt a leading inside his spirit That that is the correct route to take Uh, so most scholars agree on this so which means god already had in his mind The people uh on that journey that jesus would come across and the lives which he would be impacting So with those things in mind again over here, we see that jesus is being led in a specific direction and Again, we see over here the importance of being led by the father Because he will speak to us in our hearts and tell us What to do and how to do it and also the timing of when to do it So here jesus feels that it would be better for him to go through samaria rather than just simply taking the route The road which goes along the jordan river and so he goes towards samaria and enters that territory And then now you might have heard of this in many sermons and also read about it in so many articles Where it talks about how people the the jewish people would generally avoid the samaritan region Simply because they had a very low opinion of the samaritans and they probably would feel that they will become Contaminated if they go through that territory because you know those people are so Low and so cheap, you know compared to their jewish heritage. So that was the kind of opinion that people had Regarding the samaritans and again, you might have you know Been taught this earlier in all of the other courses, which you know you have covered that The samaritans were actually an outcome of The babelonian times, you know when the jewish people were taken away into captivity almost All of the people who had any value any skills any position Status they were all taken away as slaves to babelon and it was just only the No, you know the lower most strata of society that was just left behind because The babelonians probably felt that these people would not be of use to them in any way And so they were just left behind in the land And so you had a lot of these people settling around the region of samaria And as time passed by they intermarried with the people the local people From the surrounding, you know areas and that is how the samaritans developed as a ethnic group So they were aware of the law of moses They did continue to you know Follow it But now they are their Understanding of the law of moses got mixed up with a whole lot of other Religious practices belonging to these other nations and so their version of Following the law of moses. This was a very corrupted version. It had a whole bunch of superstitions attached to it now all kinds of pagan rituals attached to it now and Which is why when these Jewish people who had been liberated By kings iris and they were able to come back to their land when they came back They did not like What the samaritans had done to their faith which was passed down to them by Yahweh originally So which is why from that time itself They tried to maintain their distance from the samaritans because the samaritans were so They had corrupted the original faith to to an extent where The law of moses was not really Followed anymore in its true integrity. It had become something else altogether and That is the reason why the samaritans were considered as something low and People generally looked down upon them But here we see Jesus going into the territory of samaria as well Because he not only came to save those who have their entire act together But he has also come to save those who are so completely messed up They'd have no clue what the truth is anymore Even such people he wishes to reach out to them because he is their saviour as well And so we have Jesus deliberately choosing to go into samaria to you know To be able to talk to them about his coming kingdom And that is how we enter into the story of the samaritan woman at the well And if one of us could read out versus five and six, please So he came to a city of samaria, which is called saika Near the plot of ground that jacob gave to his son joseph Now jacob's well was there jesus therefore being weary from his journey Sat thus by the well It was about the sixth hour I'm so sorry the connection I think was weak So I'm assuming that I am audible Yes, ma'am. Yes, we can hear you. Perfect. Thank you so much Yes, so we read out versus five and six and over here we have a small Detail being given about this area. It says This town was situated near the plot of ground that jacob had given to his son joseph So this most probably refers to shekem Because that was given to joseph in genesis chapter 48 verse 22 All right, so they are somewhere in the location of shekem and Jesus is sitting by the well And we have this detail being given by john That jesus tired as he was from the journey sat down by the well we see John doing this in many places where he Brings out the humanness the full humanness of jesus as well because later on they were all these wrong doctrines that came up You know after the time of the early church where people would say, oh no, he was never fully human. He was He was always, you know More god than human But john wanted to always clearly establish that jesus was not only fully god During his entire time on earth, but he was also fully human during his time on earth And so jesus allowed himself to be weak like humans He allowed himself to undergo suffering just like the way we do So in every aspect he identified with us He experienced the things that we experienced as well So here we are told that Jesus was tired and so he sits down at the well and Of course, we see the lady coming and again like they say, you know, they say that most probably You know, she comes in in the Sixth hour, which is supposed to be afternoon. She comes at that time Because maybe she'd not really want to mingle with all the other women who would be coming to collect water Now this is not really something that I ever really understood until I went to a place and stayed there for three years a place where it was quite hot And it was there that I discovered that truly in the afternoon time almost nobody ever emerges out of their houses It's supposed to be a an hour of a time of rest, you know, those two or three hours and I realized that if I made if I make my phone calls at that time People actually resent me for making a phone call because that is the time of rest When you're not supposed to disturb anyone and I being new to that place had not really understood that so because of the intense heat Nobody even steps out and people generally don't work during that time and they just rest So this was that kind of a you know, an environment that we are talking about So in the heat of the day, nobody would come to collect their water This is something that all the women would do early in the morning where while when the heat has not yet quite set in So if she's coming now with this order, it's most probably because she doesn't really want to mix with the others most probably because of the kind of life that she is living you know where she has been having to Go with many many different men because one by one they have all you know Rejected her and so finally now she has taken up with a man who is not even willing to marry her So he's not even a husband. He's just she's she's just living you know with him so Rather very very sad situation Where she her life has been reduced to a point where she has experienced so much rejection again and again and now She is such She she has been gossiped about so much that she'd rather come in the heat of the day to collect her water Rather than you know mingle with these other people that is her state at this particular point of time And then the conversation with jesus begins Maybe we can look at verses nine 10 11 if we could have someone read out verses nine 10 and 11 please Am I not audible? Could someone please read out 9 10 11 Oh, yes, please. Yeah, okay. Come come please. Uh, please read Okay The woman was surprised for jesus refused to have anything to do with samaritans She said to jesus you are a jew and i'm a samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink? jesus replied If you only knew the gift of god You the gift god has for you and who you are speaking to you would ask me and I would give you living water But sir, you don't have you don't have a rope or a bucket. She said and this world is very deep Where would you get this living water? all right, um I'm noticing that My voice is getting transmitted through the microphone but then when You people speak It's coming out through this um Mike system here Uh, am I my speech is perfectly clear? Is it I mean because I do not want the uh recording to get affected Uh, as I'm speaking is my voice completely clear You're clear All right, then in that case, we'll just go on as it is Uh, yes, so over here, um jesus says, you know I actually know where you can get some living water and um as the commentaries explain to us the word living water Just basically means spring water. What is the water that is springing out of the uh from from underground sources? um And so they can't they just use the term living, you know alive water, which is alive because uh, They meant that um, it's not just stagnant water, but this is water which is literally springing out Out of a underground source. So they would call it living water. So, uh, this Lady probably assumed that there's maybe some hidden spring somewhere nearby and jesus knows about that particular thing and So the so she takes it in that sense and of course, we know that jesus was speaking in a spiritual sense He was using a physical Um metaphor to talk about something or spiritual and um, so the conversation kind of goes on for a few verses. Um, and um Jesus says everyone who drinks from this water, they would be never be thirsty again And then in verse 15, she's finally kind of interested. So she thinks, okay, this would be something good So she says, uh, sir, give me this water so that I may never be thirsty And then uh, jesus very deliberately brings the conversation around uh to her situation The life that she has been living. Uh, so if one of us could read out verses 16 17 18 For god so loud the world Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry Jesus said unto her Go call thy husband and come in here the woman answered and said I have no husband Jesus said unto her You have well said I have no husband for you had already five husbands and he Who you now has is not your husband In that says now Okay, so over here um, um She is forced to admit what her life has been and uh, so Jesus um touches upon that topic because he is supposed to be a doctor a physician a physician doesn't pretend that the disease is not there He points it out Even if the patient may not be aware that they have that particular sickness It becomes the doctor's duty to put his finger on that and point out and say see here is an issue that you have And uh, it needs treatment. It needs to be dealt with So, uh, Jesus in that sense, you know being the doctor who has come To take care of the sick to attend to them. Uh, so uh here he He makes this point of uh confronting her with the sinful life that she has been leading But at the same time we see that he has taken the effort to come and Start a conversation with her. So he Very much is against the sin in her life but he's not against her personally and uh This attitude that we see of Jesus towards this, uh, Samaritan woman is Something very important which maybe we all as believers should um integrate into our into our own lives because Sometimes uh because we know the truth and because we have been walking with the lord and we have been enjoying his blessings we somehow Sometimes end up feeling superior about ourselves and when we look at the other people of the other faiths and we especially when we see the The way they you know the rituals that they perform and some of the meaningless things that they do um Sometimes I have heard people, you know Laughing and kind of mockingly talking about them and saying what fools they are look at the things they do I mean anyone with even a little bit of logic could understand that doing that is definitely not going to yield any results and uh, so they kind of you know Mock the people Uh, but I think that is something that we should never ever do Every person However blinded they have they might have become you know through the evil one They have been formed in the image of christ and uh, they deserve to be treated with dignity. So, uh, yes Obviously the things that they are doing are meaningless and it's not going to result in anything. Uh, you know good but We cannot just uh mock them or criticize them for it. They deserve to be treated with much dignity Because one day, you know the lord will remove that blindfold from their eyes and they too will join His kingdom So it is very important for us to Never look down on a person or speak to them in a You know a kind of condescending manner uh But we must also be people who will be willing to point out that hey here There is something uh that needs to be dealt with so jesus was very very Direct in confronting her with her. Um, you know sinful lifestyle But at the same time he also treated her with respect. Um, he did not mock her in any way So that probably is a is one particular attitude that we know we could uh adopt for our own lives. Um Maybe we could read verses 19 and 20 I am not very sure why there's been absolutely no response today Uh could maybe you know Two or three of you kind of know decide that you will help me in reading out the verses Um I could read the verses myself It's just that it becomes a total monotone, you know, just me going on and on and on on the other hand if someone else reads Uh, then it just kind of you know, it's like a reminder to people. Oh, okay. Someone is now reading out. Uh, so, um Yeah, if if one of us could read out verses 19 and 20, please The woman said to him sir, I perceive that you are a prophet Our fathers worshiped on this mountain and you do say that in jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship Okay, so uh now that uh She has discovered that Jesus knows things about her which he could possibly not have known unless he is a prophet So once she realizes that she decides to touch upon A topic of interest to her personally. She has always wondered probably in her mind about how these Jewish people look down upon the Samaritans. So now she brings up that point and she says, you know, we have always believed that This is the mountain mount garrison is basically where we are supposed to be worshiping Uh, but then you people the Jewish people you put all your importance and emphasis on Jerusalem So who do you think is right? Okay, so she's just kind of Decides to talk about uh, those things things which are of interest to her And then uh, Jesus says, um He talks about what the what the true nature of worship is that we find in versus 21 22 And uh, 23. So if we could have one person read out versus 21 22 and 23 Hurry, okay Yeah, please go ahead stay go ahead. Yes, please go ahead. Yes Okay, um 21 22 23 Jesus said to her woman, believe me the hour is coming when you will neither On this mountain now in Jerusalem worship the father You worship what you do not know We know what we worship for salvation is of the law of the Jews But the hour is coming and is now When the true worshippers will worship the father in spirit and in truth For the father, so uh, we're very familiar with the statement where Jesus says, um The place of worship the location of worship is not as important as the main thing What is God looking for? He's looking for uh, the attitude with which we worship the location from which you do your worship is not Going to be that important In the future why because now Jesus has come to finish his work on the cross once he has done that All those who choose to believe in him will be sealed with the Holy Spirit So, uh, they will literally be carriers of the spirit of God and so they can do their worship anywhere It would no longer matter Uh, you know, which place whether it's on Mount Gerizim or whether it's in Jerusalem from which they are doing their worship Uh, so then what becomes important would be the attitude So obviously this is something that would apply to all of us We are supposed to be people who will worship in spirit By that of course, it means that we are people who are Worshiping through the help of the Holy Spirit who is living in us But it also means, uh, we are worshiping in spirit in the sense We value the spiritual things that have been given to us by God We we consider those things of higher priority than worldly things Uh, that is is something very important to the Lord Is the person worshiping from a heart which actually loves and values the things of the world Or am I worshiping from a heart which genuinely loves the things of God and loves him and wants to please him So, uh, that becomes important. What kind of out of what kind of a spirit am I worshiping? Okay, it is true that I'm I have the Holy Spirit in me But me what spirit do I have in me? Do I have a spirit that loves the world that rather would rather, you know, spend time With worldly things or do I have a longing deep inside me for the things of God and and do I enjoy those things? So if I am worshiping out of that kind of a spirit which really loves him and Loves the things of God that becomes a deeper kind of worship A more genuine kind of worship So, uh, we are called to worship in spirit And we are also called to worship in truth. So over here. This would mean that um all of The things which have been revealed in God's word on the basis of that we offer our worship um We cannot be people Who conveniently choose portions of scripture and say we will follow these portions And this is our act of worship to God that will not do It would have to be done in truth the worship would have to be We would have to be done in the whole truth So which means the parts which we like and the parts which we do not like All of it, uh Is meant to be followed. Uh, we must submit to all of it So when we are worshiping in truth, if I'm only, uh, you know, uh, Submitting myself to certain areas of the truth and saying these things I choose to follow Then that will not be actually true worship. Uh, it will it will be um Kind of uh, half-hearted worship So over here, we should be people who worship in spirit and worship in the whole truth of God's word We cannot pick and choose the portions that we would like to follow So here is this lady the Samaritan woman, um, who Does not know, um, yeah, I mean does not know many things about the lord and This is this is phrase where Jesus says, uh, you worship what you do not know. Okay, that would be worse 22. Yes um So Jesus points out something important here. He says, uh The you Samaritans worship what you do not know We worship what we do know. Okay. So the Jewish people had been given the The entire truth of um, of God's word So they really knew what they are worshiping why they are worshiping. Yeah way how they are supposed to worship him They have all the details But uh, if you look at um many of them and the way they were living their lives Even knowing the whole truth. They were not Following the lord at all. Um, especially the Pharisees who would have been highly knowledgeable They would have known all the details about worship. Uh, so if they had to conduct a seminar on worship They would really totally get it right because they would know, um, you know, how it is to be done How worship is to be done? Why it should be done? What attitude with it with which it should be done They would have all of those details. But were they actually doing the worship? No, they were not Uh, so that is the tragedy the Jewish people Fully knew what they are supposed to do But they were not doing it on the other hand the Samaritans They down the ages, you know over the generations They had been taught a mixture of all kinds of superstitions and a partial Pieces of truth and so they genuinely did not know what they were supposed to be doing So, you know in a sense the sin of the Jewish people was greater than the sin of the Samaritans So here was a woman with half baked knowledge. She didn't really know How worship should be done and the the truths regarding it But one little thing she knew and she held on to that was the fact that one day in this I know in the law of moses which had been handed down to them in in its In a kind of messed up way because they had added all kinds of extra things to the law of moses But one thing she knew because over there in the law of moses Moses had said one day a prophet will come to you a prophet like me will be sent to you and so she knew that one day a messiah would come and In spite of the kind of life that she had been living There's this hope that she's holding on to that this messiah will not just be the messiah of the world That maybe this messiah will maybe even be her messiah You know someone who can help her with a mess of her life of her personal life So here is this woman who probably would just be you know dismissed by society as someone too rotten to even Consider but she is sitting here with this desire in her heart that there's a messiah who will come one day And maybe you know he can bring a hope and redemption into her life And so i'm just thinking this is entirely my assumption Maybe that's the reason why you know the father guides Jesus to go through samaria because here is a woman who's down at the bottom Who is nothing when it comes to you know social standards and social morals But a woman in her state is holding on to a hope in her heart for a messiah who has been promised by moses and so Over here. Uh, we see that this little bit which she knows which is holding on to Jesus takes that little bit and Starts his new work in her life so uh The point i mean i i just saw someone raise their hand and i'll get to them in a moment The point that i'm trying to make is that we are supposed to worship in spirit and in truth And it's true that we don't already know everything there is to know because every day as we spend time in god's presence We kind of learn a little more. So Even though we may not know everything Whatever we do know if we are holding on to it and valuing it and standing upon that and you know giving our worship then Because we have little and we have interest in the little which we have been given we will be given more. Okay, so um Just like this lady who was no work He had which she was holding on to that led to a lot more in fact It led to her salvation and not just her salvation, but the salvation of all the people in her town so Whatever we have been we have learned whatever god has revealed to us during our quiet time During i know the time that we spend reading his word Reading books which teaches about these things of god Whatever we have learned whatever we have gained if we can hold on to that And uh really worship him uh out of that knowledge then more will be given to us in god's time So yes, someone had raised a hand and uh, I couldn't catch the name at that time Would someone like to you know raise a question right now No, okay fine. Um, we love We'll just move on Okay, so I'm so sorry Okay, so so those are some of the things that we looked at in john chapter four Let's move into john chapter five and It starts off with a story of a man who is uh healed at the pool of bethesda and um If maybe we could read verses Three and four Yeah, if if we could read uh versus john chapter five versus three and four, please In these lay a great multitude of sick people Blind lame paralyzed waiting for the moving of the water For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water Then whoever stopped stepped in first After the stirring of the water was made well of whatever disease he had All right, okay, so um Here we It talks about how a lot of people would gather at this particular pool Uh, because they believed that an angel would come and stir the waters Now this could be legend or this could be uh, something that actually happened. Uh, we do not know, okay so, um Because people have heard this story about how the waters get stirred sometimes So maybe based on that story, which is not truly a true story Maybe based on that Thing which they have heard maybe they used to come and gather at the pool On the other hand, who knows maybe god really was doing something miraculous at that place once in a while So we did not know whether this was just a legend or whether this was something that god was actually doing on a regular basis But one thing we do know a huge number of sick people would gather there at that pool in the hope that they would get their healing and so into the midst of that situation jesus steps in and um Yeah, maybe this is the person who had put up their hand. Oh, yeah, I remember your name shey. Shey was your name Yeah, you can go ahead with your question and then we'll continue with this passage. Yes Thank you person. Yes. I was just on this verse about the People who were sick and would wait for the steering of the pool I'm just wondering is it the nature of god to make people compete to get healed Could it be value to make people as an identity catch the next phrase to make people Yeah, I said Could it isn't the nature of god to make people compete to get healed? Because it was who came went into the pool first that got got healed So so maybe in that light Could it be that this actually was just in meat or legend that? because again the location of that pool was actually part of the newer structures that were built By the herald of that time don't remember the details especially basic people I'm just wondering because a lot of these have been mixed up with the greek mythology Over time, you know and all that. So I'm just wondering based on the nature of god. I don't see god You know making people rush to the pool Just to get healed. I feel was in meat. That's the perspective I'm coming from basically so Sounds perfectly valid. So yes Like you said, I mean only the fastest runner would gain So what about someone who is you know partially paralyzed such a person would never have the hope of getting healed So yes, most probably this was just a legend Yes, thank you so much for that and Oh, yeah, so now we have jesus coming over here and there are a lot of options that he can choose from you know, he's supposed to be the physician the doctor who has come to heal the sick and Of all the people that he could choose He chooses this specific man Who has been paralyzed for 38 years if I remember So why Would jesus choose this man specifically? So again here, uh, I have only my opinion to offer This is just me thinking So Maybe I mean, you know, uh, we god doesn't always explain himself So we cannot be sure why he this particular person was chosen. Uh, but um This is what I think Throughout the old testament and the new testament Whenever we see, uh, you know, wherever we see we see stories of god always picking on the weakest God always picking on the one who is Maybe undeserving, you know, and he gives them a second chance So the ones who are weakest and who would never get chosen He chooses them the ones who are really so bad that they don't deserve a second chance He gives them a second chance. So it's like as if he's always watching out for the underdog and So maybe I'm just assuming uh Jesus chooses um to To you know, heal this particular man Because of his past because of the kind of life that he had led in the past Because a lot of people who are gathered in those five large porches porches, you know This pool was surrounded by five large porches And so you would have a large number of people, uh, you know waiting over there for healing and most of them would have Become sick for no fault of their own You see it was just ailments because they're living in a sinful fallen world Sickness came to them and they were suffering So most of those people over there would be innocent victims who have not really Done anything to bring the sickness upon themselves But here was one man who deserved what he got He had been living in sin now. It's not elaborated. We're not told exactly what kind of sin He was living But one thing we do see at the end of the passage Jesus warns him and says you better not get back into sin because Something worse may happen to you. So Over there gathered among all of these people who are there Um, you know in their helpless state for no fault of their own. It's not that they did anything to choose Uh, you know cheer sickness and bring it upon them. They were innocent victims But here was a man who had deliberately chosen to live in a way I'm not sure what he did but I know whatever he did was so terrible It opened him up to the attacks of the evil one I know completely exposed him to the acts of the evil one and he became captive to them for 38 years they had held him captive so He brought this upon upon his head and Jesus chooses to pick a person like this for healing Uh, you know, he goes to the sickest person the one who who doesn't even deserve to be healed and he chooses him To heal and this would have been a great Testimony to all the others who are you know watching? So imagine what impact this would have had and all the other sick people over there They would have thought If Jesus is willing to heal someone like that knowing what he is knowing what he had done Then definitely Jesus would be willing to heal us So I'm sure after this incident after this event Many of them would have placed their faith in Jesus and they would have gone to him for their healing. Uh, so, um God Tends to look for the weakest the most helpless The most undeserving and he reaches out to them So he's a redeemer for all not just for the select few All right, so I think that's just some one truth which comes out from this passage So maybe Jesus wanted to Demonstrate whom he redeems even the lowest even the most undeserving So that probably is a lesson which people would have learned after seeing this particular event So, uh, we'll quickly go for our break. Uh and at 10 o'clock. We'll again rejoin All right, so thank you