Don’t Waste the Moment | Tom Hammel

1. Close doesn’t mean .

John 5:1–5 (NIV84)

Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

James 1:22 (NIV84)

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.

Matthew 7:21 (NIV84)

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

1. Excuses keep us .

John 5:6–7 (NIV84)

6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” 7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

2 Corinthians 12:9 (NIV84)

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

1. Faith moves .

John 5:8–9 (NIV84)

8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured;

1. What held you now tells your story

John 5:9 (NIV84)

he picked up his mat and walked.

Matthew 5:16 (NIV84)

In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.