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Today's Bible Translation

Bible translation used in today's episode: Ch. 5 CEV; Ch. 6 NIV

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Anonymous

Executive Producer

John Train

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Michael Haner

Podcast Introduction

Today is Gospels Saturday, and we’ll read John 5-6. I’m calling this episode “Is Taking Communion Necessary to be Saved?”

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Summary

Let us not be like these people, beloved. You and I study the Scriptures together, but let us remember that the goal is not to become experts in Scripture. Our goal is to know the Word, as in John 1:1.

Every time we take communion, or the Lord's supper, whatever you call it in your church, we are reminded of his broken body and spilled blood. The bread and the wine (or grape juice), are symbols of the sacrifice he made. But is taking communion necessary for salvation?

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Steve Webb 0:00That is life Beloved.

Steve Webb 0:09Coming to you from Riverside, California, this is the Lifespring! One Year Bible And podcasting since 2004. I'm your OG Godcaster. Steve Webb, thank you for inviting me along in your day. It's gospel Saturday, And we're going to read John five And six. The website is Lifespringmedia.com, where you'll find about 3000 episodes of various shows, And I'll have contact information at the end of today's show. Before we get started, let's have a word of prayer. Our Heavenly Father, we thank you for bringing us together, get again today, And I pray that You would bless our time I pray this in Jesus name, amen. Okay, let's begin.

Steve Webb 0:51John, chapter five. Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for another Jewish festival. In the city near the sheep gate was a pool with five porches. And its name in Hebrew was Bethsaida. Many sick, blind, lame And paralyzed people were lying close to the pool. beside the pool was a man who had been sick for 38 years. When Jesus saw the man And realized that he had been crippled for a long time, he asked him, Do you want to be healed? The man answered, Sir, I don't have anyone to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up. I tried to get in, but someone else always gets there first. Jesus told him, pick up your mat And walk. Right then the man was healed. He picked up his mat And started walking around. The day on which this happened was the Sabbath, when the Jewish leaders saw the man carrying his mat, they said to him, this is the Sabbath. No one is allowed to carry a mat on the Sabbath. But he replied, The Man Who healed me told me to pick up my mat And walk, they asked him, Who is this man that told you to pick up your mat And walk, but he did not know who Jesus was in Jesus had left because of the crowd. Later, Jesus met the man in the temple And told him, you are now well, but don't sin anymore, or something worse might happen to you. The man left And told the leaders that Jesus was the one who had healed him. They started making a lot of trouble for Jesus, because He did things like this on the Sabbath. But Jesus said, My father has never stopped working. And this is why I keep on working. Now the leaders wanted to kill Jesus for two reasons. First, he had broken the law of the Sabbath. But even worse, he had said God was his father, which made him equal with God. Jesus told the people, I tell you,