{"id":7718,"date":"2024-03-29T04:28:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T04:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/?p=7718"},"modified":"2024-03-29T04:38:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T04:38:34","slug":"the-impotent-man-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/the-impotent-man-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impotent Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-lu9vg8xl-e561bb6ae385cadf5b23cb07b8ed06b9 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Impotent Man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was once an impotent man during the apostasy age, embedded for 38 years at Bethsaida pool, in Jerusalem nearby the temple. His luck was so unfortunate that disabled him to enter the pool for cure whilst the Angel of God stirred it up once a while. (John 5:4)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bethsaida had five\u00a0porticoes and steps for the aliment to enter the pool and be baptized for their cure. The resemblance of the water is the Jews, the five porticoes resembles Torah and the five books of Mosses in which they were fenced by. The way one entered first to the pool and be cured, is the resemblances of the unity of theirs named \u201cHouse of Israeli.\u201d The other resemblance of the five porticoes is the \u201cFive Sacrament of the Church.\u201d Those who hope and in faith of them, are endowed Childhood of Holy Trinity. The five types of aliment are the resemblances of the five gender laity alongside their tribulations. Those are elderly by love of money, youngsters by fornication, women by jewelries, Priests by conceit and monks by greed)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Angel of God come down from the heavens and stirring up the water and only one who entered the pool was cured. The meaning of the water is baptism and the Angel who stirred it is the resemblance of priests who comes down to sanctify the water and on the sixth day; Sabbath, only one person was being cured which signifies the mercy of our fathers that is not seized and the truth about erratic of it, shows its un-absoluteness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lord and Savior Jesus Christ saw the impotent lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, \u201cDo you want to be made well?\u201d The sick man answered Him, \u201cSir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.\u201d Lord Jesus said to him, \u201cRise, take up your bed and walk.\u201d And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath. (John 5:6-9)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lord Jesus whom Saint Paul witnessed for in his epistle to the Hebrews saying, \u201cFor the word of God\u00a0is\u00a0living and powerful, and\u00a0sharper than any\u00a0two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is\u00a0a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart\u201d asked the impotent man if he wished to be healed. (Hebrew 4:12) As it is stated, \u201cFor who knows what\u00a0is\u00a0good for man in life, all the days of his\u00a0vain life which he passes like\u00a0a shadow?\u00a0Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun?\u201d who can know and give us what we seek without us asking Him, but our God. (Ecclesiastes 6:12)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, he was going to betray Him later on and for him not accuse the Lord saying, \u201cHe cure me without my permission, telling to carry my bed,\u201d he asked his own permission, also for his conscience to castigate him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reason our Lord told the impotent man to \u201cRise, take up your bed and walk\u201d: &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>is as Saint Esdros said, which the Lord will to reveal His miraculous as the bed was made up of strong metal<\/li>\n<li>the second is for the impotent man not to say \u201cI have also payed sacrificed for my healing as I left my bed for Him.\u201d and thus he told Him to \u201ctake up your bed and walk.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unfortunate though! The impotent man who was embedded for 38 years and had no one to take care, forgot His healer. He did not even know Who He was. The Evangelist John said, \u201cBut the one who was\u00a0healed did not know who it was.\u201d (John 5:13) The Lord Who has done all this was forgotten. Just as today, who has not forgotten God Who healed us from our aliments, tribulations and scarcity like the impotent man? And who has remembered Him listening to His words and seeing His miraculous? Is there anyone who stood up with the counsel of God to listen and witness His words?\u00a0 Any person who listen to His words?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prophet Jeremiah said, \u201cFor\u00a0who has stood in the counsel of the\u00a0Lord, and has perceived and heard His word? Who has marked His word and heard\u00a0it? (Jeremiah 23:18) We have also forgotten The Lord\u2019s sacrifice who has freed us from the Adam\u2019s infirmity and mock are told to look into our heart by Prophet Isaiah as, \u201cNow therefore, do not be mockers.\u201d (Isaiah 28:22)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The impotent was unaware of Who cured him. when he found Him in the synagogue, he went and told the Jews it was Lord Jesus who cured him. \u201cAfterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him,\u00a0\u201cSee, you have been made well.\u00a0Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.\u201d (no. 14) But forgetting his healer, the impotent man slapped his Lord and therefore his hands dried and slimmed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now a days as well, alike the impotent man, many of our hearts has dried, personhood slimmed, consciously blinded, broken heart, seeking cure surrounding the baptism site, churches, parishes and monasteries. We seek healing and salvation. We can be healed if we hold on to the hope of God just like the impotent man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ethiopian Orthodox Incarnation Church has named the fourth week of \u201cThe Great Lent\u201d with the healed person in Bethsaida \u201cThe Impotent Man,\u201d accordingly and commemorates it by the cured ailments of Lord and by helping out the poor. We shall then visit the sick, free the prisoners, feed the hungered, water the thirst, clothe the deprived and sympathize the depressed as we learned from our Lord.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the Sabbath, it is the day we commemorate and glorify God\u2019s healing and redemption. Prophet David sings as, \u201cfor He\u00a0will deliver the needy when he cries, the poor also, and\u00a0him\u00a0who has no helper.\u201d (Psalm 72:12) Righteous Job has witnessed saying, \u201cHow have you helped\u00a0him who is\u00a0without power? How\u00a0have you saved the arm\u00a0that has\u00a0no strength?\u201d (Job 26:2)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prophet David\u2019s words \u201cLet all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; Let such as love Your salvation\u00a0say continually, \u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0be magnified!\u201d, we shall also be happy about God. (Psalm 40:16)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Readings: -(Galatians 5:1 and James 5:14)\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>(Acts 3:1) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u201cMesebak\u201d Prophets David\u2019s words in rhyme: &#8211; \u201cThe<\/strong><strong> Lord will strengthen him on his bed of illness; You will sustain him on his sickbed. I said, \u201cLord, be merciful to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.\u201d (Psalm 41:3-4) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">May God\u2019s mercy, benevolence and blessing be with us, Amen!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was once an impotent man during the apostasy age, embedded for 38 years at Bethsaida pool, in Jerusalem nearby the temple. His luck was so unfortunate that disabled him to enter the pool for cure whilst the Angel of God stirred it up once a while. (John 5:4)<\/p>\n<p>Lord and Savior Jesus Christ saw the impotent lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, \u201cDo you want to be made well?\u201d The sick man answered Him, \u201cSir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.\u201d Lord Jesus said to him, \u201cRise, take up your bed and walk.\u201d Immediately the man was made well, took up his bed and walked&#8230; (John 5:6-9)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fasts","category-sermon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7721,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718\/revisions\/7721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}