Paralytic Man Through The Roof Sermon

The account of the healing of the paralyzed man in mark 2 1 12 contains a number of lessons for growing christians.

Paralytic man through the roof sermon.

Their faith was a faith of initiatives their faith was a faith of persistency hence god gave them away. And it was noised that he was in the house. When jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven mark 2 3 5. Some men came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four of them.

To let a man down through the roof was a device most strange and striking but it only gives point to the remark which we have now to make here. However the direction is not up and the situation is not out of control. If we want to have souls saved we must not be too squeamish and delicate about conventionalities rules and proprieties for the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence. Sermon on the paralyzed man let down through a roof luke 5.

1 and again he entered into capernaum after some days. These men as they couldn t push through the crowd carried the paralytic up the outside stairway to the roof dug up the compacted thatch and earth removed the tiles and lowered the man through now exposed beams to the floor below. And he preached the word unto them. When the devil blocks the door go through the roof.

Since they could not get him to jesus because of the crowd they made an opening in the roof above jesus and after digging through it lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on.