Sermon Tone Analysis

What talk about connected to who you hang with

The Man Who Through the roof

The Creator is the convo is the Creator

I want you to listen to this paralyzed bedridden man give his testimony of how the Lord saved him and healed him.

Who you hand with determines what you talk about

And i want you to consider as we listen to him give his story what is our part in bringing men and women to Jesus

How handsome Joseph Smith is to a baptist

A rosary that handles well

I believe all he head knowledge is here.

Everything we need to know to get started is right here.

Rebuke is not repelling

I believe all the emotional reasons to get started are hear as well.

Fellowship is not fatiguing

I believe if we would listen to this man's testimony of how he came to christ

we might be inspired to be a part of someones story of how they came to Christ.

The food is fresh

We might do our part to bring the next paralyzed man to Christ.

Leftovers are not the main course

The Story of his Problem 2:1-3

This man had hear that Jesus was in town he heard the whisperer he saw from his bed great crowds going to see him

He heard of what he was capable of and what he had done already.

THe bible says that the in Luk_5:17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.

But it did not matter what he heard it would do him no good because he could not go

Paralysis prevented him

And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.

That is old english word for paralysis

I do not know if this man was born that way or it happened because he was sick or injured for accident.

All I do know is he was sick of it.

He could not get around.

His prison was his bed

He watched the people from all arou8nd out of town get dressed in their sunday best file past his bed and off to hear this man named Jesus this miracle worker.

He watched the kids go past and shoot him a look and say mommy why is that man laying in bed in the middle of the day.

Hush child he is paralyzed but why mom they said we talk about this later we going to see Jesus.

People can't get to Jesus many times they are paralyzed by sin and circumstances

On my way to church every Sunday I passed a man's house on the hill he got paralyzed by diving off the bridge.

He was 21 and went from being the life of the party to being a paraplegic paralyzed from his neck down.

I would pass him on my bicycle on the way to church.

And he be on the porch in a wheelchair he guided with his mouth I always felt guilty passing him.

But I went to the church were I heard the gospel he did not go I never saw him leave the house.

And it never occured to me till I was thinking about this man , I got saved in front of his house were I got saved.

God started dealing with me when his house came in site and i was saved when i was passing it.

But he never went he stayed in his chair paralysis held him there.

There are some people that have no way to get to Jesus even if they wanted to they don't know how

Practicality prevented him

He didn't even have a wheelchair

A wheelchair is a horrible thing until you need one than it is a blessed thing.

With a wheelchair you can go places you could not go before

We went to columbia and Miss Ellie had surgery on her leg and she was going to have to stay back.

But she was able to go to the waterfall and gatepae and medagin everywhere we went she was able to go cable car because the wheelchair enabled her

He did not have a wheelchair

He had a middle eastern bed like a yoga matt that you would roll up

Less practical for transporting people than a stretcher.

I hope I can take my wheelchair to heaven with me -- I know that's not biblically correct, but if I were able, I would have my wheelchair up in heaven right next to me when God gives me my brand new, glorified body.

And I will then turn to Jesus and say, "Lord, do you see that wheelchair right there?

Well, you were right when you said that in this world we would have trouble, because that wheelchair was a lot of trouble!

But Jesus the weaker I was in that thing, the harder I leaned on you.

And the harder I leaned on you, the stronger I discovered you to be.

So thank you for what you did in my life through that wheelchair.

And now", I always say jokingly, "you can send that wheelchair to hell, if you want."

Do you know it is just not practical for some people they cant work out the logistics in their mind.

So they sit at home alone.

Did it ever occur to you some people want to get to Jesus they just do not know how

Some people want to go to church they are just not able to work out a way practically to get there.

Went to Jason's Murphy's church there was a women there had a motorized wheelchair and it had in it a function that would raise the chair so she could see.

People Prevented him

And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.

And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press.

They just did not think about him they were preoccupied with what they wanted to do.

They overlooked him

They were there not to be equipped but to be entertained.

They hindered him

There were the people there who were just standing around the door, and they couldn’t get in because of those people standing around the door.

They were actually hindering people from being saved.

And the ones who were hindering people from being saved were the ones who were there listening to the Lord Jesus Christ.

They were the onlookers.

They were the spectators.

People come in needing Jesus instead of being helpful saying right this way you can sit with me

Look at his tattoos look at the ring in his snout look at the holes in his ears who is that paralyzed man.

IF I go they will just judge me

God forbid we should keep anyone from christ the more they stink the nicer we would be the more inked up they are the more we should show them Jesus.

I mean, here was a man who was lost.

They tried to get him to Jesus.

And those there—people sitting there—listening to the message were the ones who were hindering this man getting to the Lord Jesus Christ.

There were the hinderers.

I heard about a girl, one time, who couldn’t make up her mind which of three men she wanted to marry.

There was one man who had a grocery store.

She couldn’t tell whether she wanted to marry him or not, because she liked another man who had a dress shop.

But she still wasn’t sure, because she was also kind of sweet on a preacher.

And she said, “You know, I’ve just got a real problem.”

She said, “If I marry the grocer, then I could eat for nothing; and, if I marry the man who owns the dress shop, I can dress for nothing; and, if I marry the preacher, I can be good for nothing.”

There are a lot of folks like that.

They’re good, but they’re good for nothing.

I wonder if you are in that category.

Many of them the scribes pharisees and doctors of the law were there to try to keep the preacher in line

They were there to contain the truth not to spread the truth

Theses were the hellish

There were people who actually got upset because this old, vile sinner had come in there.

And this old, vile sinner had had his sins forgiven.

And they actually criticized the Lord Jesus.

You know, there are some folks who think they have the spiritual gift of criticism.