Go And Sin No More

Go and sin no more

John 5:14-18 Go And Sin No More

JOHN 5:14-15 14 Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “Look, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing happen to you.” 15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

What does John 7:14-15 tell us about this man who had been healed?
A. There is no record of him thanking Jesus.
B. The first thing he did was to become an informant for the Jews.
C. Given Jesus' command for him to “sin no more” (John 7:14), his ailment may have been due to sin(s).

What is an example of an ailment that can be caused by sin?
A sexually transmitted disease from adultery.

What could be a “worse thing” (John 5:14)?
Going to hell.

After Jesus mentioned sin, did he turn toward Jesus or against Him?
It sounds like he turned against Him.

Did Jesus warn him, “sin no more” to benefit him or to hurt him?

Whom else does the Bible record Jesus warning to “sin no more”?
See Woman Caught in Adultery.

How do people react today when warned about their sin(s)?
They typically get upset at the messenger.

How do you react when people warn you about your sin(s)?

JOHN 5:16-18 16 And therefore the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working and I am working.” 18 For this reason, therefore, the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

What is God the Father doing on the Sabbath?
“Working” (John 5:17).

How about God the Son?
“I am working” (John 5:17).

Doesn't Genesis say that God “rested” on the first Sabbath: “And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made” (Genesis 2:3)?
שָׁבַת֙ (sabat), the original Hebrew word translated “He rested” (Genesis 2:3), actually means, “He ceased” or “He put an end to,” and indicates that God completed His creation in the preceding six days (see Genesis 1 Commentary), not that God was tired and needed a rest. God, who is omnipotent, continued and continues to work.

What is God working on?
“Are not two sparrows sold for an assarius? And one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father. And even the hairs of your head are all numbered” (Matthew 10:29-30). So God keeps even the least costly birds (One “assarius,” also known as “as,” was the lowest value coin during the Roman Empire. It was made of copper and worth one-tenth of a denarius, which was made of silver and the wage for one day of labor.) in the air, grows our hair, keeps in place every atom in the universe, and that's probably just the tip of the iceberg. We won't learn the full extent of what He does until we get to heaven, where we will fall on our faces and shout, “Worthy are You, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created” (Revelation 4:11).

What kind of heart did the Jews have?
Hard enough to want “to kill” (John 5:16) someone for showing compassion to another human being and healing him.

What made them seek to kill Jesus “all the more” (John 5:18)?
Jesus' expression of His deity.

Does Jesus let up?
See next page.