Paralytic Man Through The Roof Sermon

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.

Paralytic man through the roof sermon.

Only jesus can forgive your sin. And like the four friends of the paralytic man in our gospel. 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. Their faith was a faith of initiatives their faith was a faith of persistency hence god gave them away.

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. He wanted to clarify that man s suffering rests on separation from god. Such persistence is a good example of faith and. A sermon delivered on lord s day morning march 19th 1871 by.

5 when jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven. 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. They were desperately trying to get this poor sick man to the healer. A man who could not walk wanted to be healed by jesus.

B it was noised that he was in the house. It could be their last opportunity. That christ did thus for the paralytic man. 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.

The account of the healing of the paralyzed man in mark 2 1 12 contains a number of lessons for growing christians. The friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole through the roof. However forgiveness for sin escorts physical healing. Then i charge you believe something more that if on earth christ had power to forgive.

Some men came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four of them. 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. 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. When jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven mark 2 3 5.

It might be their only chance. Religions customs and rituals cannot bring healing. Sin is not the source of every sickness. Sermon for 7 epiphany yr b 23 02 2003.

Luke uses the general expression those days referring to the early portion of our lord s ministry in galilee. So they tore a hole in this man s roof and lowered him down. Lowering him through the roof is one of my favorites because it reminds me so much of how your uncle hans was healed. Grace lutheran church medicine hat alberta.