Scripture Post #669: *SIN NO MORE*

John 5:14: "Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee."

JESUS wouldn't've said, "*SIN NO MORE*" had it not been possible. Sin is a choice, it is not inevitable. JESUS warned the man HE healed to "…Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." A worse condition/situation than being paralyzed could've possibly come upon the man JESUS had healed had he continued in his sin. This is a good reason not to sin: because it opens doors to doom and darkness in our lives. There are consequences to our actions: Rom. 6:22: "But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life."

V. 23: "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

Context:

John 5:1: "After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem."

V. 2: "Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches."

V. 3: "In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water."

V. 4: "For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had."

V. 5: "And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years."

V. 6: "When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?"

V. 7: "The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me."

V. 8: "Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk."

V. 9: "And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath."

V. 10: "The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed."

V. 11: "He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk."

V. 12: "Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?"

V. 13: "And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place."

V. 14: "Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee."

V. 15: "The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole."

Originally Published: Sun. 7/13/14