Paralytic (Mark 2)

Event

Crowd

No Room

Jesus preached the word

Four men brought the paralytic

But could not get in

So they went through the roof

Scribes accusing Jesus of Blasphemy

The Event

Beach Party

Bikini Brunch

Popup Lyme

Rave Glow Party

Place

Taboo Kingston

Oxfordshire Ultra Lounge in New Kingston

Lucky 38 on Old Hope Road

Fiction Nightclub

Ministry of Healing The True Medical Missionary

Jesus was teaching in the home of Peter

The Paralytic Man

A Paralytic

Any person suffering from paralysis.

paralytic — noun. a person disabled in the feet or legs. to be paralyzed — verb. to be or become immobile and unable to move some or all body parts. to paralyze — verb. to cause to be immobile and unable to move some or all body parts.

Paralysis, Paralytic. Symptom of an organic disease of the central nervous system affecting the temporary or permanent loss of sensation and/or voluntary muscle control. This degenerative condition was usually incurable.

Walter A. Elwell and Barry J. Beitzel, “Paralysis, Paralytic,” Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1988), 1615.

Desire of Ages Chapter 27—“Thou Canst Make Me Clean”

this paralytic had lost all hope of recovery. His disease was the result of a life of sin, and his sufferings were embittered by remorse.

Desire of Ages Chapter 27—“Thou Canst Make Me Clean”

The palsied man was entirely helpless, and, seeing no prospect of aid from any quarter, he had sunk into despair.

Faith and Works Chapter 9—The Quality of Our Faith

The priests, the rulers, and scribes examined his case and pronounced it hopeless. They told him that by his own sin he had brought himself into this condition, and there was no hope for him.

The Advent message to all the world in My Generation.

The Friends

Tony Evans Book of Illustrations: Stories, Quotes, and Anecdotes from More Than 30 Years of Preaching and Public Speaking Friendship, Nature Of

REAL friends are those people who, when you make a fool of yourself, don’t think that you have done a permanent job.337

[Second Chances]

A FRIEND is someone who is there when the good times aren’t.338

[Adversity; Commitment; Trials]

Prov. 18:24; 27:10

A FRIEND is someone who always gets in your way when you are on your way down.339

[Confrontation]

Matt. 18:15–17; James 5:19–20

A FRIEND is someone who comes in when the world walks out.340

Prov. 18:24

Ministry of Healing The True Medical Missionary

Again and again the bearers of the paralytic tried to push their way through the crowd, but in vain.

The Savior

Ministry of Healing The True Medical Missionary

Many of those who came to Christ for help had brought disease upon themselves, yet He did not refuse to heal them. And when virtue from Him entered into these souls, they were convicted of sin, and many were healed of their spiritual disease as well as of their physical maladies.

Among these was the paralytic at Capernaum. Like the leper, this paralytic had lost all hope of recovery. His disease was the result of a sinful life, and his sufferings were embittered by remorse. In vain he had appealed to the Pharisees and doctors for relief; they pronounced him incurable, they denounced him as a sinner and declared that he would die under the wrath of God.

Ministry of Healing (The True Medical Missionary)

Luke 5:17, A.R.V. Many of these had come as spies, seeking an accusation against Jesus. Beyond these thronged the promiscuous multitude, the eager, the reverent, the curious, and the unbelieving. Different nationalities and all grades of society were represented. “And the power of the Lord was present to heal.” Verse 17. The Spirit of life brooded over the assembly, but Pharisees and doctors did not discern His presence. They felt no sense of need, and the healing was not for them. “He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich He hath sent empty away.” Luke 1:53.

Ministry of Healing The True Medical Missionary

The effect produced upon the people by the healing of the paralytic was as if heaven had opened and revealed the glories of the better world. As the man who had been cured passed through the throng, blessing God at every step and bearing his burden as if it were a feather’s weight, the people fell back to give him room and with awe-stricken faces gazed upon him, whispering softly among themselves, “We have seen strange things today.” Luke 5:26.

Ministry of Healing The True Medical Missionary

“Bless the Lord, O my soul:

And all that is within me, bless His holy name.

Bless the Lord, O my soul,

And forget not all His benefits:

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;

Who healeth all thy diseases;

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; …

So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

The Lord executeth righteousness

And judgment for all that are oppressed.…

He hath not dealt with us after our sins;

Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.…

Like as a father pitieth his children,

So the Lord pitieth them that fear Him.

For He knoweth our frame;

He remembereth that we are dust.”

Psalm 103:1–14.