Healing and Forgiveness (Mark 2:1-12) - a podcast by Don Shoemaker, Steve Williams, and Bob Wriedt
from 2023-01-01T17:30
This week at Grace, we're coming to Mark 2:1-12, where Jesus forgives and then heals a paralyzed man after his friends bring him to Jesus through the roof. It's a passage full of action, emotion, and humor.
This combination of factors lends itself well to an expository sermon style known as a first-person sermon. This is when the pastor speaks from the perspective of a person in the story (using words like "I" and "Me"), instead of the more customary third-person (using words like "he," "she," or "they"). In this case, I'll be delivering the sermon as if I'm the man who was healed.
These sermons can be more entertaining than traditional sermons, but that's not the main reason to do them. This format can most accurately convey the emotion of a passage and help us hear God's Word more clearly in the Scriptures.
I hope that you'll join me on Sunday to consider how Jesus meets our deepest needs, too.
In Christ,
Pastor Bob
And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. 2 And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. 3 And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. 4 And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. 5 And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” 6 Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, 7 “Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” 8 And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’? 10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic— 11 “I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home.” 12 And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
- Mark 2:1-12
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