JESUS (V.O.): Today I felt like visiting a hospital.
So, I entered the emergency room. There were many sick people. I noticed a man who has been sick for thirty-eight years. As our eyes met together, I asked him.
Jesus: Would you like to get well?
THE MAN: Mister, I don’t seem to get any help from here. I have seen many people with my disease got cured. But, why not me!
Jesus: Get up, pick up your stuff, and start walking! Right then the man was well. He picked up his stuff and started walking! But, on his way, the hospital staffs stop the healed man.
One of the hospital staff: It isn’t right for you to be moving your stuffs.
THE MAN: Well, the same guy who made me well told me to pick up my stuffs and start walking.
One of the hospital staff: Who is the doctor who made you well?
JESUS (V.O.): The healed guy really didn’t know who it was.
But later on, I found him and said to him.
Jesus: Look, you’re well; don’t let your life get messed up or something worse might happen to you.
JESUS (V.O.): The man left, and told the hospital staffs that it was Jesus who had healed him. They came right to me and tried to forbid me from healing on their facility. I told them,
Jesus: How can I stop working when my Father is working right on?
The Son only does what he sees his Father doing. When his Father does something, the Son does the same thing. The Father likes the Son and shares with him everything.
JESUS (V.O.): Now this hospital was run by the religious organization called “Sabbath keepers.” The leaders of this group understand that I call God my own father, thus making myself equal with God. When they realize it they even try to kill me. So I have to explain to them.
Jesus: You will be even more surprised because my father will cause even greater signs. In fact, the Father lifts up the dead and gives them newness of life, so will the Son, too, give newness of life to people of his choice.
Now the Father has referred every decision to the Son, so that all will respect the Son. You know what, when you respect the Son, you respect the Father who appointed him.
If you listen to my message and put your faith in the Father who appointed me, then you have spiritual life, which is the true life.
I’m telling you, the time is coming, it’s here already, when the lifeless will tune in to the voice of God’s Son and, having heard him, will come alive.
As the Father is a life-giver, so is the Son. My Father also gave the Son, the right to set up a standard. Don’t be surprised, because the day is coming when the graveyards will hear his voice and will move on out. Those who have done good will rise and experience the celebration of new life.
If I am only a witness, my testimony may not hold water. But John was also my witness. Remember, you sent messengers to John the Baptist who gave you the honest truth about me. John was turned on as a guiding light and you were even willing to rejoice and dance in his light for a little while.
I have even greater evidence. They are my teaching and my miracles. Also, the program that I followed is evidence that the Father sent me.
The same Father who sent me is a witness. You have never heard his voice, or seen his face, or had his word to take root in you. I know that because you’re putting no trust in the one whom the Father appointed.
You do study the Bible, expecting to find spiritual life in it, and all the while it provides a lot of evidence about me. So, follow my lead, you will find life. Here I come flying my Father’s flag, so that you would accept me. You can become a true people of faith when you accept these evidences which are from the One God.
