Jesus forgives

1.Friends helping a friend

Mark 2:3–4

Mark 2:3–4 (CSB)

They came to him bringing a paralytic, carried by four of them. Since they were not able to bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and after digging through it, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

some friends will spare no effort to save you

some will spare no effort to hinder your walk with God

choose your friends carefully!

1 Corinthians 15:33

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 15

33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

What kind of friends do you have?

do they urge you to follow Jesus, or try to pull you away from God

What kind of friend are you?

do you encourage your friends to seek God, or do you stay quiet for fear of being mocked

2Corinthians 6:14

2 Corinthians 6:14 CSB

Do not be yoked together with those who do not believe. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

2.Jesus forgives his sin first

The Bible Knowledge Commentary (9:1–8)

Jesus was claiming divine authority, for only God can forgive sins

to prove His deity Jesus then cured the paralysis

The Gospels of Matthew and Mark: Commentary Chapter 2

The scribes—the theologians of the day—were thinking inwardly “That kind of talk is blasphemy; only God can forgive sins” (vv. 6, 7). Of course, they were right. On this point, their theology was correct. It was in its application and its limitations that they erred. Jesus knew what they were thinking (He still knows what every counselor/counselee thinks), and confronted them: “Why are you thinking this way?” He asked. Then He posed the question—which is easier—to forgive sins or to heal this sick man? They didn’t answer. Of course, they were thinking “It is easy to say ‘I forgive you,’ but how can we know that it is for real?” In order to prove that He had the power to forgive sins, he told the sick man to get up and take his stretcher to his house (v. 11)—which the cripple proceeded to do. Everyone in the crowd then glorified God.

3. some will cry out for physical healing while their soul is in despair

Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Bible Chapter 9

If thou bring thy sins to Jesus Christ, as thy malady and misery to be cured of, and delivered from, it is well; but to come with them, as thy darlings and delight, thinking still to retain them and receive him, is a gross mistake, a miserable delusion.

Jesus is far more concerned with your spiritual health

Mark 5:34 (CSB)

“Daughter,” he said to her, “your faith has saved you. Go in peace and be healed from your affliction.”

Isaiah 53:4-5

Isaiah 53:4–5 CSB

Yet he himself bore our sicknesses, and he carried our pains; but we in turn regarded him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced because of our rebellion, crushed because of our iniquities; punishment for our peace was on him, and we are healed by his wounds.

are healed-if Jesus is your Lord and savior you are already healed