Paralytic Man Through The Roof Sermon

These men as they couldn t push through the crowd carried the paralytic up the outside stairway to the roof dug up the compacted thatch and earth removed the tiles and lowered the man through now exposed beams to the floor below.

Paralytic man through the roof sermon.

Religions customs and rituals cannot bring healing. Grace lutheran church medicine hat alberta. To let a man down through the roof was a device most strange and striking but it only gives point to the remark which we have now to make here. When the man s friends carried him to the house where jesus was staying they found the house to be packed with people wanting to hear jesus and be healed by him.

Luke uses the general expression those days referring to the early portion of our lord s ministry in galilee. As far as they were concerned jesus may not ever pass that way again and they wanted to make sure this paralytic man had to chance to see him. Then i charge you believe something more that if on earth christ had power to forgive. They were desperately trying to get this poor sick man to the healer.

However forgiveness for sin escorts physical healing. A man who could not walk wanted to be healed by jesus. Jesus did not address the paralytic s direct need for healing because i. Mark says some days which implies the lapse of a considerable interval.

Their faith was a faith of initiatives their faith was a faith of persistency hence god gave them away. Such persistence is a good example of faith and. C 17 and it came to pass on one of those days b when he entered again into capernaum after some days c that he was teaching. The friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole through the roof.

The man is literally let down through the roof under the careful control of his concerned friends and into a situation controlled by the lord jesus christ. A sermon delivered on lord s day morning march 19th 1871 by. Sin is not the source of every sickness. It could be their last opportunity.

Since they could not get him to jesus because of the crowd they made an opening in the roof above jesus and after digging through it lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on. He wanted to clarify that man s suffering rests on separation from god. When jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven mark 2 3 5. Some men came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four of them.

It might be their only chance. And like the four friends of the paralytic man in our gospel. B it was noised that he was in the house. The account of the healing of the paralyzed man in mark 2 1 12 contains a number of lessons for growing christians.

4 since they were unable to get to jesus through the crowd they uncovered the roof above him made an opening and lowered the paralytic on his mat. Sermon for 7 epiphany yr b 23 02 2003. 5 when jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven. Only jesus can forgive your sin.