In the crowd where Jesus healed the lame man let down through the roof we find four types of people. There is the helpless man - like us, we can't heal ourselves. There are the helpers - this is whom we should strive to be. There are the hinderers - they didn't mean to be but they hindered. Like many of us today. And then there was the healer, Jesus. We can't be the healer but we can lead the helpless to Him!
2. Types in a Crowd
Mark 2:1-7
And again He entered Capernaum after
some days, and it was heard that He was
in the house. Immediately many
gathered together, so that there was no
longer room to receive them, not even
near the door. And He preached the
word to them. Then they came to Him,
3. Types in a Crowd
Mark 2:1-7
bringing a paralytic who was carried by
four men. And when they could not
come near Him because of the crowd,
they uncovered the roof where He was.
So when they had broken through, they
let down the bed on which the paralytic
was lying.
4. Types in a Crowd
Mark 2:1-7
When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the
paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven
you.”
And some of the scribes were sitting there
and reasoning in their hearts,“Why does
this Man speak blasphemies like this?
Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
5. Types in a Crowd
Mark 2:1-7
But immediately, when Jesus perceived
in His spirit that they reasoned thus
within themselves, He said to them,
“Why do you reason about these things
in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to
the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’
6. Types in a Crowd
Mark 2:1-7
or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and
walk’? But that you may know that the
Son of Man has power on earth to
forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic, “I
say to you, arise, take up your bed, and
7. Types in a Crowd
Mark 2:1-7
go to your house.” Immediately he
arose, took up the bed, and went out in
the presence of them all, so that all were
amazed and glorified God, saying, “We
never saw anything like this!”
8. Types in a Crowd
Mark 2:3
Then they came to Him, bringing a
paralytic who was carried by four men.
11. Types in a Crowd
Mark 2:3
Then they came to Him, bringing a
paralytic who was carried by four
men.
12. Types in a Crowd
Psalm 18:6a
In my distress I called upon the
LORD, and cried out to my God;
13. Types in a Crowd
Isaiah 64:6
But we are all like an unclean thing,
And all our righteousnesses are like
filthy rags; we all fade as a leaf, and
our iniquities, like the wind, have
taken us away.
14. Types in a Crowd
Romans 5:6
For when we were still without
strength, in due time Christ died
for the ungodly.
15. Types in a Crowd
Romans 5:6 (CEV)
Christ died for us at a time when
we were helpless and sinful.
17. Types in a Crowd
Mark 2:3
Then they came to Him, bringing a
paralytic who was carried by
four men.
18. Types in a Crowd
Acts 5:14,15
And believers were increasingly added to
the Lord, multitudes of both men and
women, so that they brought the sick out
into the streets and laid them on beds
and couches, that at least the shadow of
Peter passing by might fall on some of
them.
19. Types in a Crowd
John 1:40-42
One of the two who heard John speak, and
followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s
brother. He first found his own brother
Simon, and said to him, “We have found
the Messiah” (which is translated, the
Christ). And he brought him to Jesus.
20. Types in a Crowd
John 1:45,46
Philip found Nathanael and said to him,
“We have found Him of whom Moses in
the law, and also the prophets, wrote—
Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything
good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to
him, “Come and see.”
21. Types in a Crowd
2Corinthians 5:20,21
Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ,
as though God were pleading through us:
we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be
reconciled to God. For He made Him who
knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might
become the righteousness of God in Him.
23. Types in a Crowd
Mark 2:2
Immediately many gathered together,
so that there was no longer
room to receive them, not
even near the door. And He
preached the word to them.
24. Types in a Crowd
Mark 2:4
And when they could not
come near Him because of the
crowd, they uncovered the roof where
He was. So when they had broken
through, they let down the bed on which
the paralytic was lying.
25. Types in a Crowd
Mark 10:13,14
Then they brought little children to
Him, that He might touch them; but
the disciples rebuked those who
brought them.
26. Types in a Crowd
Matthew 23:13
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! For you shut up the
kingdom of heaven against men;
for you neither go in yourselves, nor do
you allow those who are entering to go
in.
28. Types in a Crowd
Mark 2:5
When Jesus saw their faith, He
said to the paralytic, “Son, your
sins are forgiven you.”
29. Types in a Crowd
Mark 2:11
“I say to you, arise, take up
your bed, and go to your
house.”
30. Types in a Crowd
Mark 2:14-17
As He passed by, He saw Levi the son of
Alphaeus sitting at the tax office. And He
said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose
and followed Him.
Now it happened, as He was dining in
Levi’s house, that many tax collectors
31. Types in a Crowd
Mark 2:14-17
and sinners also sat together with Jesus
and His disciples; for there were many,
and they followed Him. And when the
scribes and Pharisees saw Him eating
with the tax collectors and sinners, they
said to His disciples, “How is it that He
32. Types in a Crowd
Mark 2:14-17
eats and drinks with tax collectors and
sinners?”
When Jesus heard it, He said to them,
“Those who are well have no need of a
physician, but those who are sick. I did
not come to call the righteous, but
sinners, to repentance.”
33. Types in a Crowd
1Peter 2:21-24
For to this you were called, because
Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an
example, that you should follow His
steps:
“Who committed no sin,
Nor was deceit found in His mouth”;
who, when He was reviled, did not revile
34. Types in a Crowd
1Peter 2:21-24
in return; when He suffered, He did not
threaten, but committed Himself to Him
who judges righteously; who Himself
bore our sins in His own body on the
tree, that we, having died to sins, might
live for righteousness—by whose stripes
you were healed.
