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Introduction:
Jesus is in the early phases of his Galilean ministry.
After being driven into the wilderness and tempted (1:12), Mark recounts for us in short order the calling of the first disciples followed by a series of miracles.
Jesus is in Capernaum, a town in the region of Galilee and the site of a great deal of Jesus’ public ministry.
Here in chapter 2 of Mark’s gospel Jesus is in a house in Capernaum.
This house most likely belonged to Peter and Andrew (note 1:29).
As a result of Jesus’ presence there, a great crowd assembled.
Note the end of chapter 1, “But he was out in deserted places, and they would come to him from everywhere.”
“As this chapter begins, Jesus had already performed several miracles.
In chapter 1, the text says that the whole city had gathered at Peter’s house to see Jesus and that Jesus could not publicly enter a city.
Chapter 2 begins as a continuation of this theme.
Jesus was speaking and the crowds were so large there was standing room only.”
(Rodney L. Cooper, Mark, vol.
2, Holman New Testament Commentary (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2000), 31.)
While in this house, a group of men arrive with a paralyzed man on a mattress.
This man’s condition must have been severe and grave physically.
However, the point of this event is not the physical healing, but the spiritual.
In this passage we want to see that Jesus alone is able to forgive the sins of men.
Rodney L. Cooper, Mark, vol.
2, Holman New Testament Commentary (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2000), 31.While in this house, a group of men arrive with a paralyzed man on a mattress.
This man’s condition must have been severe and grave physically.
However, the point of this event is not the physical healing, but the spiritual.
In this passage we want to see that Jesus alone is able to forgive the sins of men.
While in this house, a group of men arrive with a paralyzed man on a mattress.
This man’s condition must have been severe and grave physically.
However, the point of this event is not the physical healing, but the spiritual.
In this passage we want to see that Jesus alone is able to forgive the sins of men.
Physical illness is not our greatest enemy, sin is.
It is our sin that separates people from a Holy God and creates conflict in relationships between people.
Sin is death.
Physical and Spiritual death.
We are dead in our trespasses and sins apart from Christ.
() It is sin that destroys families and causes us to make bad choices in life.
The question is this, “Can we be Forgiven?”,
or “How can we be forgiven?”
The answer to the first question is YES!
And the answer to the second question is that we are forgiven only by faith in Jesus.
John the Baptist declared in , “Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.”
Jesus alone remove the penalty of sin (justification).
Jesus alone can destroy the power of sin (sanctification).
Jesus alone can ensure that I am delivered from the presence of sin (glorification).
These facts should thrill us!
These facts should spur us to bring our family and friends to Jesus.
This is what is behind “Who’s Your One?” Who do you need to bring to Jesus?
Church growth occurs when God’s people get a white-hot passion to see their friends and family who are far from God brought near.
In this text I want us to see in these friends some characteristics of this type of passion.
What does it look like when we love the lost and hurting?
First of all I believe in these friends we see:
Their Labor
A Great Love
Love Expressed in Concern
Great Faith
Perhaps this paralyzed man is a relative, or just a close friend.
This fact is not known, but what is seen is the great love that these men have for him.
The world will know us by our love for others.
Do you genuinely love others?
Not just your friends and family, but also your enemies or those with whom you have a difficult time with?
It is far too easy in this world to become bitter and angry, even as a Christian, and instead of talking with people we talk down or talk at them.
What they need is unconditional love.
This type of love will be expressed in genuine concern.
Love does pray for others, but love also puts feet to those prayers.
These men took action
Love Ignores the Judgments of the
Love Doesn’t Focus on the Obstacles
These men pushed through the crowd, even among protests, in an attempt to get their friend to Jesus.
It is love that primes the pump for sacrifice.
Because of their great love for this man they were able to push through the crowds.
It would have been easy for them to give up, but because of love they did not
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