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All right , welcome back . We are in Mark , chapter 2 , all week long , one of my favorite texts in the whole Bible for so many reasons . We're going to pick it up in verse four .
And it says and when they the friends could not get near him , jesus , because of the crowd , they removed the roof above him and when they made an opening , they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay .
And when Jesus saw their faith , he said to the paralytic by the way , this is a throwback to yesterday , or maybe the first day Do you have enough faith ? Maybe that some of your unbelieving friends can't borrow , because Jesus sees the faith of the friends and he credits it to the paralytic .
Anyway , and when Jesus saw their faith , he said to the paralytic son , your sins are forgiven . Now , some of the scribes were sitting there questioning in their hearts why does this man speak like that ? He is blaspheming . Who can forgive sins but God alone ? Well , in actuality , their question is right that God is the only one that can forgive sins .
But the part of this that we need to know is in Romans , chapter 3 , that we've already covered on the Daily Blade , is that for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God , and a sin is any time we are outside of the commands of God or the law of God , the rules of God or the will of God , any time that we mistreat him , to steal his glory
or mistreat one of his image bearers . And so here Jesus is saying that your sins are forgiven . And the critics who will talk about it a couple of days . They are like who does this man think that he is to forgive sins ? For ? Only God can first give sin . Well , winner , winner , chicken dinner . Guess what ? Jesus is God .
And the reason that he can say to this man your sins are forgiven is because every sin that has ever been committed is against the one true God . This is why Jesus says I forgive your sin .
For anybody that ever tells you , like some freshman English professor , that nowhere in the gospels does Jesus ever claim to be God , then this person just doesn't read the words on the page . Over and over and over , jesus will claim equality with God . He says that he and the Father are one .
And here he is speaking as the co-eternal second person of the Trinity , god the Son , when he says your sins are forgiven . Now , this is the only way that this makes sense because all sin is against a holy , eternal , everlasting God . David talks about this in the Psalms Against you and you alone have I sinned . He says that in Psalm 51 .
Well , in actuality , what had happened in Psalm 51 is he got busted because he committed adultery with Bathsheba and then had her husband killed , and yet he says his ultimate sin though it was against those two . Ultimately , what he had done is sinned against God . Can you imagine if you and your wife this morning got into a fight ?
Okay , maybe you were on your way to church one day and you got into a fight . And let's say , you came to my church and you hollered at each other and sinned against each other the entire way to church , and then I were to walk up and go hey , hey , look at me . I know you guys have been fighting , but I forgive you .
And you would think what are you talking about ? You don't have anything to do with the fight that we have been in . It doesn't pertain to you . That's right , you were correct . Why ? Because I'm not God , but Jesus could walk up on you and say if you have sinned , you have sinned against the almighty God . And yet what Jesus is doing here is .
Jesus is claiming equality with God and he has the power to forgive sins . And while the religious leaders are critical of what's happening , I want you to see what Jesus does that when these friends get a hole in the roof and they open it up , the first thing that he says to this man is son , your sins are forgiven .
So , even though the reality , the truth of the scripture , is that every single one of us have sinned against an almighty God , and the truth is we are but sinners in the hands of an angry God , and although we all deserve to be damned to hell right now because we did it , and God would be just to send all of us to hell , but instead he looks at us and
if we put our faith in him , he doesn't scream sinner , he says son , your sins are forgiven . This is what it means to serve a merciful , gracious God . What we deserve is death . What Jesus offers is life through him .
If you don't hear anything else , hear this that through faith in Jesus Christ , he wants to look at you and not call you sinner , but call you son . Come back tomorrow and we'll see how he does that .
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