Topic: MAN, YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN YOU!
Text:Luke 5:17-26
5:17 Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
5:18 Then behold, men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed, whom they sought to bring in and lay before Him.
5:19 And when they could not find how they might bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst before Jesus.
5:20 When He saw their faith, He said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
5:21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
5:22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, He answered and said to them, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts?
5:23 Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk’?
5:24 “But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the man who was paralyzed, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”
5:25 Immediately he rose up before them, took up what he had been lying on, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
5:26 And they were all amazed, and they glorified God and were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today!”
STUDY:
Sin simply means disobedience of God’s will. It comes from Satan (John 8:44), man’s heart (Matt. 15:19, 20), lust (James 1:15), etc. The consequence of sin is death (Rom. 6:23); it also brings about sickness,
accidents, confusion, loss of peace, fruitlessness and demonic attacks. Today in our text, we see the one, who became a paralytic because of sin. For his healing to take place, he needed the forgiveness of sin. And Jesus, seeing the faith of the man and those who struggled to bring him to Him, He had pity on them.
However, before giving the man total healing, Jesus first dealt with the root cause of his paralysis which was sin.
Beloved, though all sicknesses do not resul from sin, however, knowing, confessing, forsaking of sin and believing in Jesus will go a long way in bringing about our total healing. Let us open the ‘roof’ of our hearts and present ourselves before the Lord Jesus today. He will do it again for someone now and that person is you! Amen.
Prayer:
Wash me completely from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin, O LORD. Amen.
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