As Good As You Are
Dr. Rocky Ramsey reminds us that every relationship is only as healthy as the individuals in it. Whether in marriage, friendship, or family, we often carry past wounds and patterns that shape how we relate to others. Some of us live crippled by our past, while others have missed healing opportunities or even learned to embrace brokenness as their identity.
In John 5, Jesus asked a simple but profound question: “Do you want to get well?” This message challenges us to take honest inventory, to stop repeating what doesn’t work, and to believe that Jesus' way leads to real transformation. If you're ready to stop surviving and start healing—this sermon is for you.
“Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters; for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.]
A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, “Do you wish to get well?” The sick man answered Him, “Sir, 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.” Jesus said to him, “Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.” Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk.”