Institutionalized Misery At The House Of Mercy (John 5:1-9) - Rev. Terry K. Anderson

i want to talk to us this morning about institutionalized misery at the house of mercy institutionalized misery at the house of mercy there's a story told to better illustrate this passage of a man who was extremely wealthy and he came upon a man who was destitute and ragged and this wealthy man took out a card and left in an account 100 million dollars and he told the man here is this card it belongs to you use it every day meet all your needs and be sure to help other people the man looked at the card he looked at his ragged condition he could not believe it he thought the man was joking he tore up the car threw it on the ground spit on the man and went about his business ragged and destitute the rich man comes upon this woman and gives her the same story she looks at the man's card puts it in her purse and goes everywhere telling everybody how rich she is but she never accesses the account she's still poor destitute and ragged he comes upon another man and he tells the man his story here's my card his 100 million dollars go in the bank use it for whatever you want the man goes up to the bank teller and not believing his good fortune thinking that that's not really 100 million dollars in the account he says to the bank teller give me 100 the teller gives him the hundred dollars and says to him that you're sure that's all you want there's 100 million in this account the man said well all right give me five thousand dollars still cannot believe his good fortune with all that he has in his account he's living below the level of his capability and this morning god has deposited in every last one of our accounts riches beyond what we can explain and we are living beneath the level of our capability do you want to be made whole walk with me around the text jesus is at a festival of the jews and he comes upon solomon's porch there are some colonnades some covered shaded areas porticos where there are some lame people some blind people some paralyzed people this group that's laid at the pool at the sheepgate at bethesda let's look now at this multitude it's a menagerie of broken people some are blind some are lame some are paralyzed it's a sad lot it's a motley crew broken people sick lame blind paralyzed they are all there look at them blind lame sick paralyzed nobody can help anybody else they all gather at the pool at the same time every day blind lame paralyzed everybody there is broken if it's not blindness it's lameness this is not lameness it's paralysis everybody is in the same condition broken sick paused lame blind paralyzed nobody can criticize anybody else nobody can look down their sanctimonious nose at anybody else nobody can categorize themselves as any better than anybody else because everybody there is in the same condition if they're not blind they're lame if they're not lame they're paralyzed if they're not paralyzed they're sick but everybody there is in the same condition that's the multitude that's the people who are gathered at the sheep gate they come there because there is a superstition verse 4 is not in the new revised standard version and perhaps it's not in many of your bibles because it's a scribal addition to modify or give clarity to verse number seven verse number four says that at certain times an angel comes down they believe to trouble the water and the first person in receives healing it's a superstition it's probably an artesian whale underneath the pool that bubbles up into water kind of like hot springs arkansas or like the geyser old faithful that just goes off from time to time there's nothing particularly healing about it it just so happens to make this gurgling sound and water bubbles up and people believe superstitiously that if they get in the water something is going to happen to them look at that multitude again blind lame paralyzed that multitude is the multitude that makes it to lily grove on sunday morning some of us blind some of us lame some of us paralyzed but all of us sin sick i wish i had somebody to help me preach it if your problem ain't drugs is alcohol if your problem ain't alcohol it's illicit sex if it's not illicit sex it's what you wish you could do but you can't no more if it's not lying it's gossip if it's not gossip it's overeating if it's not overeating it's laziness if it's not laziness it's hypocrisy if it's not hypocrisy you was just born in sin [Applause] shape and iniquity in sin did your mother and my mother conceive us every last one of us in here got something wrong with us your pew ain't no better than my pew folks on your row ain't no more spiritual than folks on my row just because your bible is large print don't mean you're a large christian just because you got to cross around your neck around your wrists around your ankle don't mean you that spiritual all of us are crooked [Applause] broken lame blind paralyzed all have sinned [Applause] and are coming short the glory of god that's why nobody in here can look down on nobody else in here because if it were not for the grace of god we'd be in hell this morning have i got a witness here if god had not looked beyond my faults and saw my need i can't testify for you let me be a witness for myself and for some other crooks in here this morning i limp to church every sunday morning because i'm lame i'm wretched i'm paralyzed i am needy because i've sinned enough just this past week that god should have blotted my name out of the book of life but there is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in christ jesus who walked night i wish i had a witness here i need some wretched folk in here like terry anderson who can testify that god just overlooked my foolishness [Applause] i should have been cut off a long time ago my name should have been erased from the book of life a long time ago but i am in a multitude of people who are blind lame paralyzed isaiah helps us right here he says all our righteousness is this filthy right yes he said it was in the year that king azad died i wish i had two or three bible readers i saw also the lord high and lifted up and his train filled the temple and seraphim with six wings they covered their face and covered their feet and they did fly and isaiah said when i saw it i said whoa it's me here it is for i am undone i'm a man of unclean lips watch this and i dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips every last one of us in here are in here with dirty hands unclean lips lying tongues but thank god for mercy [Applause] if it had not been for the lord who was on my side [Applause] i'm trying to preach to somebody this morning who thinks that you'll never be good enough to measure up let me tell you you'll never be good enough to measure up that's why god sent jesus because what i couldn't measure up to jesus made up the difference on [Applause] calvary it could have been me it should have been me outdoors with no food and no clothes all left alone without a friend just another number with a tragic end ah but he didn't see fit to let none of these things be because every day by his power he just keeps on keeping me not because i've been so good not because i've kept his commandments so closely not because i haven't sinned and fallen short of his glory but because he loves me so everybody at that pool was sick and everybody in this sanctuary is sick i know you've been to neiman marcus but you're sick i know you got on david yerman but you're sick i know you're walking in christian louboutin but you're sick and you're sitting by some sick people everybody in here is a crook watch your purse watch your cell phone you're sitting next to somebody who got something crooked about them there's something bent in every one of us the bible calls it iniquity i wish i had somebody to help me preach everybody around the sheep pool was sick the multitude was sick ah but then yonder comes jesus and when jesus gets to the pool listen everybody's sick but he singles out one man everybody at the pool is sick but jesus didn't heal everybody he just chose that day one somebody because jesus is better in one-on-one encounters nicodemus the woman at the well the woman with an issue of blood peter's mother-in-law jairus's daughter that royal official's son jesus handles one-on-one encounters in a way that moves from parable and miracle to signs everybody at the pool is sick but he chooses he zeroes in [Music] one man and he walks up to that one man and makes a choice of him and everybody in here this morning sick lame blind paralyzed who knows if today [Music] is not your day [Applause] that's why you ought to always come to church because you never know when it's going to be your day you ought to always make your way to the house of god because you never know when there's a blessing waiting on the seat that you're about to sit in because god knows who you are god knows what you need but god wants you to know what you need [Music] jesus walks up to this man and he asks him a rather strange question he says to him do you want to be made whole what kind of question is that to ask somebody who is paralyzed now if i had been the man i would have said to myself what you think i want i've been ambling up here 38 years and you think i don't want to be whole what kind of question is that to ask somebody who is paralyzed i would have said that to myself and jesus read the man's heart because that question is packed with some pertinent and relevant information because when jesus asks the man a question the man offers jesus an excuse jesus said you want to be made whole he says sir every time i get ready to step in the pool somebody steps in before me jesus essentially says i didn't ask you that how come people always answering what you don't ask i went to i went to shipless donuts one day and uh you know there's always some people hanging out out there and they want some money or they want something and the guy came up to me and he said uh hey man you got a light i said i'm sorry doc i don't smoke he said how come people don't answer what you're asking i didn't ask you that i asked you if you had a light i said well no i'm sorry i don't have a light he said well you got five dollars he made me look like a fool i just gave him five dollars but jesus said to the man do you want to be made whole that that's a lot packed in that question brothers and sisters i'm trying to hurry and get through this but when jesus said do you want to be made whole he's saying to the man if you want healing you can't have victory and be a victim [Applause] because before your answer if you want to be made whole you got to get off the welfare if you accept healing you got to go to work if you want to be made whole you got to take care of yourself stop waiting on people to carry you stop waiting on people to feel sorry for you stop blaming the white man and stop blaming society and stop talking about i can't get a break and stop talking about i can't make it you got to get out of your mama's house [Applause] you want to be made whole you got to stop hanging with the wrong crowd you want to be made whole you got to go finish and get your degree you want to be made whole you got to quit acting a fool talking like an idiot you got to pull your pants up change your attitude stop acting like somebody owes you something if you want to be made whole you can't be a victim and have victory the man says every time i get ready to get in the pool somebody gets in before me jesus cut through all the red tape moved from the multitude dealt with that man and now he's going to show the power of the master he says here's what i want you to do stop making excuses stop talking about what you don't have and who's not around to help you you're sitting near stale water and i'm about to lead you besides steel water do you want to be well sir i have nobody to put me in the pool that's not what i'm asking you do you want to be whole he said every time i get ready to step in he said that was not the question do you want to be made whole i know you are at the sheep pool sitting by this dead religion and the reason i call this sermon institutionalized misery at the house of mercy because some of y'all been coming to this institution 38 years you've been listening to me preach 32 years you've been in the choir since you were a teenager you've been ushering since you were in your 20s you have been in this institution and you've not yet received mercy because you got more faith in the church then you do in the christ [Applause] there is no salvation in this stale water the salvation is in jesus christ [Applause] jesus told that man essentially what he told mary and martha in chapter 11 of the gospel of john when martha said to him lord if you had been here my brother would not have died jesus said you're going to see your brother again martha said i know i'ma see him in the resurrection at the last day and jesus told her like he told his man in chapter five you looking at what you're looking for you talking to what you're talking about you're speaking with what you're speaking of you're standing by what you're standing on i am the resurrection i am the water of life and jesus listen the shout in this text is not even the healing of the impotent man the shout in this text is jesus is picking a fight with the pharisee because jesus could have healed him the day before or he could have healed him the day after but he healed him on the sabbath day [Music] [Applause] because he is intentionally picking a fight with the pharisee because the pharisees had 613 laws beside the ten commandments and law number 39 says it's unlawful to carry a mat on the sabbath day so jesus waits until it's the sabbath day to walk up on a lame man and ask him do you want to get well the man said every time i get ready to step in somebody's in before me jesus said you want it here's what you got to do don't wait till tomorrow don't wait 30 minutes do it right now because i want to show you something he says rise this man hasn't rose in 38 years but his faith made its way to his feet [Applause] and until your faith gets in your feet [Applause] you ain't got no real faith because real faith leaves your head goes down to your heart and then gets in your feet [Applause] rise take up your mat what's been carrying you it's time for you to carry but that ain't the shout yet i'm not at the shout yet the pharisees are around talking about lord 39 says you can't carry your mat on the sabbath day all of these church folk are there with their rules and their laws all these deacons are there with what the bylaws say and what the constitution says all these deaconesses are there with that little white thing on their head on the fresh sunday all the choir members are there with their crisp choir robes on and the ushers are there with one hand behind their back and the other telling you to go to your seat the trustees are there with all the laws that they've made up that have nothing to do with what we're trying to do jesus waits till the church gathers to tell the man not just rise not just take up your mat but here is the shout out jesus said when you get up when you take up your mat i want you to pair up a tail that's greek for you who don't know what i'm saying i don't know it either i just read it when i was trying to prepare for this sermon the word peripateo does not mean just walk anybody can do that jesus said i want you to struggle oh i want you to get up and show off i want you to let everybody see that the lord has done a new thing is there somebody here that's been blessed is there anybody here god has done something far get up and strut right now [Applause] take up your bed and strut show off [Music] active food up in here up in here let somebody know i was on my way to hell but the lord turned me around go on and strut and let somebody know i was sick and the doctor said it was all over but then the lord showed up and made a way out of nowhere why don't you strut a minute and tell somebody you should have seen me 30 or 40 years ago but look where the lord has brought me from you ought to strut a minute and let somebody in your pew know the reason i shout so much the reason i holler so much the reason i wave my hands so much because i was sinking deep in sin far from the peaceful shore very deeply staying within i was thinking to rise no more but the master of the sea he had my despairing cry from the water from the water he lifted me now save save am i love lifting me love lifting me when nothing else can help love lifting me is there anybody here know god's been good to you is there anybody here got a story to tell is there anybody here god pick you up turn you around place your feet on solid ground if you're not embarrassed you don't have to get in the aisle to do it just strut right where you are look at somebody brag a minute testify a minute let them know a minute it was nobody but jesus it was nobody but jesus nobody but jesus now unto him now unto him now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to present your founders before the presence of his glory with exceeding great jokes to the only wise god who is our savior be glory and majesty dominion and power both now and forevermore won't he do it won't he do it won't he do it won't he do it say yeah yeah yeah yes all right [Applause] [Applause] won't he do it won't he be a doctor for you won't he be a friend for you want to be a mother for you won't he be a father for you won't he be a doctor for you won't he be a husband for you tell him thank you thank you thank you thank you [Music] jesus [Applause] jesus says essentially man is not made for the sabbath the sabbath was made for man it doesn't matter when it is it doesn't matter what it is if the lord has blessed your life if god has singled you out he wants you to testify and if you don't use words just strut around just just show off a minute don't you ever don't you ever be ashamed that god has blessed you [Applause] never let anybody make you be embarrassed to dress like you've been blessed [Applause] drive like you've been blessed live like you've been blessed no no don't don't let people put that on you talking about you you you thank you all that no i'm just testifying that if it had not been for the lord who was on my side no no don't keep your car in the garage drive it to heb don't be saving your good clothes that you go in the hospital tonight put on your sweet smelling perfume no no no because you're gonna die and that son-in-law you can't stand be driving your truck and that daughter-in-law that you couldn't stand will be using your good dishes on a monday rise take up your bed and walk our brothers are standing now and our evangelism people are in the aisles there's somebody here this morning i know it i know there's somebody here this morning that god has spoken to your spirit the spirit of the lord has worked on you all the week and now you know today is the acceptable time salvation is right here is right now this is the day for you don't put it off another week praise god i see you coming somebody else is here this morning wherever you are in this sanctuary just get up from your seat and come right now if it had not been [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] if it had not been [Music] [Music] me god bless you i see you coming he let the sun shine through god bless you somebody else is here [Music] praise the lord [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] kept my enemies away [Music] oh he came [Music] [Music] ah [Music] [Music] the choir is saying that for us softly the bible says that there's a way that seems right but the end thereof are ways of death you can be very sincere and be sincerely wrong because he that hath christ has life but he that hath not christ that's not life it's very possible to come to the pool [Music] and miss the water it's very possible to be in church and miss christ because you are now institutionalized an institutionalized misery means that you're so used to coming to church that you think that's enough to save you you're so used to singing in the choir you're so used to ushering you're so used to teaching sunday school that you think that that's enough to save you but it's very possible to preach the gospel and go to hell how shall we escape if we neglect so great of salvation [Music] salvation is free but it costs god everything his uniquely born son jesus christ went to the cross to die to save you and anybody who loves me enough to die for me is worthy of my hallelujah anybody who loves me enough to go to the cross and endure shame for me is worthy of my amen when he knew i'd been battered and scorned [Music] so if it had not been [Music] [Music] i see you coming dear god bless you that's right he kept mine praise the lord for you somebody else is thinking about it [Music] the spirit of god is speaking to your heart right now [Music] come on right now come on right now [Music] do it today do it today tomorrow might be everlasting too late [Music] [Music] [Music] it's it's it's hard to watch the news in houston without hearing of some tragedy some shooting some child abduction some robbery some senseless murder is going on all around us and you don't ever know it could be you it could be somebody in your family no no no i i um i sometimes sit down in the in my garage at night when it's cool and that's twice a year but sometimes i sit down in my garage or early in the morning and i was out there one morning and a man came up to my driveway and he was looking for somebody and i said i don't i don't know who that is and he kept walking i said you've come far enough and so i took my friend out and put it on my seat where i was he said man you ain't got to get all emotional man you say calm down bro i said no no no you come far enough i don't know you i'm scared i'm nervous and and you ain't gonna jump on me and pull my arm out the socket and it'll take me 10 months to get straight and then you'll be on facebook talking about you kick reverend anderson's butt no sir that ain't getting ready to happen stay on the street because i'm nervous i feel for my life i'm cornered because we are living in some perilous times and if god don't help us if it's not for the lord on our side the scripture says accept the lord keep the city the watchman watches but in vain except the lord build the house the labor in vain who build it the divine invitation has been extended to you and as always it is yours either to receive or to reject let's give god the glory for these who have joined our church this morning [Music] [Music] we have coming today if you'll stand we call your name jocelyn foster ministry 5. imani peters ministry 6 wayland hopkins ministry 2. tevin massey ministry one and chanel smith ministry five [Applause] amen let the church say amen praise the lord for these persons who have come to join our church this morning welcome to lilly grove church we are delighted to have you here if you will follow brother scott in the back they will get some more information from you before you leave right that's right get your pocketbook cuz you don't know these fellas we have some special guests with us this morning james and gloria pickett from pine bluff arkansas are here this morning stand with you james and gloria there they are uh praise the lord for your presence this morning uh sister pickett is celebrating 75 years today this past friday was our birthday and uh her birthday present was to come all the way to houston to hear her youtube pastor preach and she want to make sure to give me a love offering and i want to make sure to get it let me come over here girl come on give me a hug sugar doodle [Applause] god bless you thank you so much for my birthday present i really appreciate that all right we have some babies to dedicate today would you bring now uh let me see who do i need you to bring wait a minute wait a minute don't go anywhere grayson lee manson brayson was born to natasha manson and brady manson ii and the godparents are brent sharp miranda butler and rita joseph come this way and amari dion lewis was born to reverend mark lewis and mrs hillary lewis and the god parents are reverend terry anderson and amelia anderson and rachel francis bring these little ones over here [Music] [Music] [Music] he said baby like he ain't no baby they brought little children to jesus to bless them and jesus said suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of heaven the bible says except we become like one of these we cannot inherit the kingdom of god shall we pray gracious god our father we thank you now for these tender little lives that we bless in your name thank you for their safe arrival into the world thank you for their mother's continued good health our prayer this morning o god is that mother and father living peaceably together in the fear of god would raise these children to know your name we pray for those of us who are god parents that we would live godly lives in christ jesus that these children would not sin and fall because of us may they grow physically and spiritually and mentally and when they come into a full understanding of what is right and wrong our prayer for them is that they come on the lord's side and live in the strong name of jesus christ we pray amen [Music] foreign now usually men don't kiss men but i'm just gonna be since you're a baby i'm gonna let you go all right god bless you hey girl how you doing i like your little doodle doll on top of your head okay what y'all want now go ahead all of you who are visiting with us this morning who are not members of lilly grove we just stand that we may acknowledge your presence [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] amen thank you so much for your presence and we are really really glad that you came to worship with us today usually at this time we receive the lord's tithe and our offerings and um thank you so much for your contributions that you send online and for you putting it in the mail and many of you come by the church to make sure that we get it thank you so much for that and if you physically brought it with you uh brothers we'll be standing in the back in the vestibules with um offering receptacles to receive your offering now today the video that we've been playing for the last three weeks is supposed to be ready all right now i want everybody cross your fingers right now and we will listen now to a video presentation keep them crossed keep them crawling hi i'm shannon scott and i'm here to announce a new ministry called lilly grove global lilly grove global is an initiative to better connect our worldwide online church viewers to our local church ministries did you know that lily grove has over a hundred thousand facebook followers and youtube subscribers that's an entire online church community our facebook followers and youtube subscribers are not only hungry for god's word receiving the dynamic preaching and teaching of pastor anderson but they also want real connections and ministry involvement so to all our fellow facebook followers and youtube subscribers we're so excited to announce the launch of this new ministry to better help connect you to the ministries here right at lilly road ministries like our church school groups men's and women's ministries weekly bible studies and so much more whether our online church is watching from jackson mississippi or cape town south africa our mission is not to only connect them to christ but also to all of the local ministries happening right here at lilly road so be on the lookout for more information coming soon until then follow us on facebook or subscribe to us on youtube lilly grove global digital method same message hi [Applause] thank you for keeping your fingers crossed the brothers want to give a plaque now to me is there any money involved it's just a plaque good morning uh the kingdom men and lilly grove had a weekend of fun and fellowship we had a golf tournament on friday morning after rain pass then we had a prayer breakfast on yesterday along with a men's health conference but at the prayer breakfast past anderson blessed us with a mighty word his schedule was so busy he had to take care of us and then take care of some other stuff so we didn't get a chance to present him with apply for his continued support for the kingdom men so it reads presented to reverend terry k anderson for unselfish support to the kingdom men's academy 2022 past anderson we love you and we thank you for all your support oh sister pickett brought me some money all the way from arkansas all right that's all span i guess [Music] oh [Music] why will i give to you [Music] to show [Music] i am [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] do you want to be made whole rise take up your bed and strut [Music] the lord bless you and keep lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious unto you the lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace in the strong name of our once crucified but now risen savior even jesus christ our lord amen

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Published: Sun Aug 21 2022