The Louder You Scream

August 28, 2009 in BLOG with 5 Comments

Grace is so big and so undeserved.

While I was walking the dog last night, I listened to a message on John 5, in which Jesus healed a crippled man by the pool of Bethesda. Along with the fact that Jesus performed this miracle on the Sabbath (and instructed the man to carry his bed on the Sabbath), the story highlights the absolute helplessness of the man’s condition. The man did absolutely nothing to receive his healing. In fact, the man didn’t even recognize that Jesus was a healer until it was “too late”—while he was busy complaining to Jesus about not having anyone to put him in the pool, Jesus healed him!

Contrast that with this little video clip, in which “Prophetess” Christina Glenn, soon to be the third wife of “Bishop” Thomas Wesley Weeks III, informs her listeners that the loudness of their screaming will determine the size of the miracle they get.

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  • Caleb

    Truly disturbing…
    Great passage in John though. thanks for reminding me of it!

  • Andy

    That reminds me of the “in the day” when groups like the power team would come to a church and say, “Yell louder so God can help him bend this bar of steel.”

    In September I will be starting on preaching through the book of Mark, and when you speak of John, and here I am thinking about Mark, it makes me think about Baucham. For me one of the important themes in the theology of Mark is the authority of Jesus and how it is misunderstood throughout Mark, and here you have John “using” that authority to heal on the sabbath, which of course brings me back to Baucham and his thoughts of John’s Dove tail to Mark’s Gospel.

    I love it when you make me think

  • http://www.Mikeandkaren.blogspot.com Michael McDonald

    Seems like there is always a willing audience for this tripe. When will people wake up and engage their brains and use their Bibles, neither of which is mutually exclusive.

  • http://briancrussell.net bman

    Wow. So that’s what i’ve been doing wrong. I should just scream at the top of my lungs on Wednesday and Saturday while I buy my quick pick for the lottery, and while they’re doing the drawing. It’ll be even better if I can have some friends to scream, or “holla” if you will, too and we can split the millions of dollars in “blessings” from God that we’ll receive when he finally answers my prayers about that.

    And to think, it’s all been because he can’t hear me. God’s getting old I guess. Do they make spiritual hearing aids, or are we going to have to yell like this in eternity too?

    Ridiculous.

  • http://www.briancarlsonphoto.com/demo Brian

    We should have a slumber party and watch TBN all night.