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Introduction
“Hurt people, hurt people.
Healed people, heal people.”
Viliami passed away 6/2/19 15 years ago this week.
2. Mum and Dad offered to pay for me to go to NZ
3. I didn’t go to Viliami’s funeral.
And life moved on.
I had no idea what impact that would have on me in the following years.
Set the scene:
The homes of the poorer class were not very big.
They were usually joined together to several families sharing one big courtyard.
The house was crowded.
It’s possible that whoever was there sat where they could, and some listened from outside the doors.
The Host 2. The Four Men 3. The Paralysed Man 4. Jesus
What makes a great host?
Whoever is hosting the party probably wasn’t expecting a big crowd.
The Bible doesn’t mention who the host is but he plays a significant role in this story.
His house is serving a gathering place for those who want to see Jesus and hear his words.
The gift of being a host is an incredible spiritual gift and needs to recognised and used.
However, although it is a gift, like all gifts, it’s saps the gifter of energy, and sometimes even their physical goods.
In fact, according to verse 1, it could be Jesus’ or Peter’s house.
Being a disciple of Christ calls on us to play the part of being a host for Jesus.
This means dealing with people and situations that inconvenience us.
How would you feel if you were the host at this house?
Serving Jesus means serving others, means that the tangible things you love in life are going to be inconvenienced
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“Hurt people, hurt people.
Healed people, heal people.”
The Four Men
I got a bit excited focusing in on the word ‘tessarown’ in the Greek.
As a Seventh-day Adventist who’s right into cracking codes.
Someone knows what I mean.
That number rings some alarm bells.
But it may not relevant at all, but here’s a snippet of my excitement anyway.
I got a bit excited focusing in on the word ‘tessarown’ in the Greek.
As a Seventh-day Adventist who’s right into cracking codes.
Someone knows what I mean.
That number rings some alarm bells.
But it may not relevant at all, but here’s a snippet of my excitement anyway.
Specifically for the Seventh-day Adventists that love prophetic language like I do.
*Disclaimer* These may have no connection to the “four’ mentioned in .
I just find these incredibly interesting.
It makes sense that there were four because that’s how many is needed for each corner.
These men are not given any identity other than the fact that they are men who are helping a paralysed man.
Are they friends of the man?
Are they his kids?
Are they random people from the crowd?
The Bible doesn’t specify who they are but one thing we do know is that these men believe that Jesus can help the paralysed man.
We also recognise that these men are performing a kind act.
These men are not given any identity other than the fact that they are men who are helping a paralysed man.
Are they friends of the man?
Are they his kids?
Are they random people from the crowd?
The Bible doesn’t specify who they are but one thing we do know is that these men believe that Jesus can help the paralysed man.
We also recognise that these men are performing a kind act.
Could the four be an inference to covering every corner of the world?
*Objectve Lesson*
It’s important that we work as a team to bring carry a person to the feet of Jesus.
Gospel work can not be done alone.
Who is your team that you do ministry work with?
“Hurt people, hurt people.
Healed people, heal people.”
The Paralysed Man
Imagine this man, paralysed.
What had had happened to him that brought him to such a decrepit state?
I’ve been told that once you hit 40 years old, your body begins to tell you what you did wrong in the past.
Well that’s going to be me later on this year.
And I’m starting to regret that I stopped exercising regularly and eating healthy for a number of years.
One man I met at the college gym was 74 years old and played ARL which we know as NRL now, and he told me that his knees had been wrecked for years.
Some of us have may have taken drugs, drank alcohol, abused ourselves, or ate a whole bunch of junk in our past years that have resulted in some type of disadvantage in our present state.
Imagine this man, paralysed.
What had had happened to him that brought him to such a decrepit state?
I’ve been told that once you hit 40 years old, your body begins to tell you what you did wrong in the past.
Well that’s going to be me later on this year.
And I’m starting to regret that I stopped exercising regularly and eating healthy for a number of years.
One man I met at the college gym was 74 years old and played ARL which we know as NRL now, and he told me that his knees had been wrecked for years.
Some of us have may have taken drugs, drank alcohol, abused ourselves, or ate a whole bunch of junk in our past years that have resulted in some type of disadvantage in our present state.
We have to accept that there are consequences to what we have done in the past.
Unfortunately our admission can result in our struggle to believe that change now is as good as it could ever be in any other time!
Physical ailment isn’t our major concern.
It’s only a symptom of what can’t be seen physically.
Often we don’t know how to express our guilt, because we protect ourselves from anything that threatens us.
Sometimes we don’t know how to articulate our guilt.
We have the ability to pack it away somewhere in our mind, and pretend it’s not there niggling at us every single day.
Imagine what that mat represented to the man?
If the mat could speak, it would tell the man of how he owns the man.
The mat would speak of it’s authority over the man that he needs the mat to move from one place to the other.
It would probably point out all the sores, and accidents the man has had on the mat.
Oh that shameful mat!
What he would do to shut that mat up!
It’s not the physical disadvantages that hurt us as much as it is the ones that can’t be seen.
Those thoughts and feelings after stealing, being unfaithful to your spouse, cheated on an exam, telling your parents a lie.
These feelings of guilt all add up.
But what are you suppose to do with them?
*Story of David Tasker and girl who didn’t go to mother’s funeral.*
What are you supposed to do with guilt that you don’t have know exists?
The paralysed man had lost hope and accepted his demise.
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