CHRIST HELPS PEOPLE

LESSON FOUR

Student Instructions:

1. Read the Gospel of John, chapter 5 and chapter 6.
2. Read the lesson on this page.
3. Answer the questions in Exam 4.

Lesson 4

We have seen that the Son of God came to the world to do the will of God. God loves everyone. Christ desires to help all. In this lesson, Christ helped a man who had been sick 38 years and afterward fed 5,000 men.

A MAN SICK FOR 38 YEARS, chapter 5

Many sick people were near a pool, waiting for a moving of the water. There was one who could not walk and who had waited a long time because he did not have anyone to help him. However, the Son of God gave him s strength to take up his bed and walk away alone.

This caused him to rejoice, but the Jews were very upset that the healing had taken place on Saturday, the Sabbath, the Jewish holy day. It is good today to observe Sunday as the Lord's day and not work, but the Son of God is always ready to do good at any moment of any day and in any place. Jesus answered that He was doing what He had seen His Father do (v.19). The Father loves His Son and gives Him power to raise the dead and to judge all men (v. 20-22).

John bore witness of the truth of Christ (v.33). The works that Christ did prove that He was the Son of God (v. 36). God the Father also has testified that Christ was His Son and the Savior (v. 37). And more yet, the Scriptures also back up the fact that Christ is the Son of God and the Savior (v. 38 and 39). Those who do not believe in Christ as the Son of God cannot be saved.

CHRIST FEEDS FIVE THOUSAND, chapter 6

When the people were without food, Christ took five barley loaves and two small fish and multiplied them so there was plenty for all. When the people saw this miracle, they said that He was a prophet and they tried forcefully to make Him King. Many today are ready to follow Christ if they can receive material or monetary blessings. However, Christ does not receive those who are hypocrites or have selfish motives or reasons.

Afterward Christ walked on he water (v. 19). No one can do such miracles without God. For this reason, we should listen and heed the words of Christ to the people. Only the Son of God can give us eternal life (verses 35 and 47). Some Jews wanted the Bread of Life (v.34), but when Jesus spoke hard, they did not continue (verses 60 and 66). Jesus then asked His disciples if they would turn back also. Peter answered, "Lord, to whom shall we go? thou, hast the words of eternal life" (v. 68). "And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God" (v. 69). Even though there are many things you do not yet understand, believe on Him and you will have eternal life.

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