11/05/17 Sermon Pastor Mark Jackson Pacific Church of Irvine www.pacificchurch.com 3rd message in a series on the Gospel of Mark

1. The Son of Man
Forgives and Heals
Mark 2: 1-12

2. A few days later, when Jesus again entered
Capernaum, the people heard that he had
come home. 2 They gathered in such large
numbers that there was no room left, not
even outside the door, and he preached the
word to them. 3 Some men came, bringing to
him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them.

3. 4 Since they could not get him to Jesus because
of the crowd, they made an opening in the
roof above Jesus by digging through it and
then lowered the mat the man was lying on.
5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the
paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

4. 6 Now some teachers of the law were sitting
there, thinking to themselves, 7 “Why does
this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming!
Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
8 Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this
was what they were thinking in their hearts,
and he said to them, “Why are you thinking
these things?

5. 9 Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man,
‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take
your mat and walk’? 10 But I want you to know
that the Son of Man has authority on earth to
forgive sins.” So he said to the man, 11 “I tell
you, get up, take your mat and go home.”

6. 12 He got up, took his mat and walked out in full
view of them all. This amazed everyone and
they praised God, saying, “We have never
seen anything like this!”

7. “The time has come. The kingdom of God has
come near repent and believe the gospel.”
-Mark 1:15

8. Jesus both taught and brought the
kingdom of God.

10. The Kingdom of God breaks into
the world.

11. Luke 4: 14-20
14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the
Spirit, and news about him spread through the
whole countryside. 15 He was teaching in their
synagogues, and everyone praised him.

12. 16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been
brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went
into the synagogue, as was his custom. He
stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the
prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling
it, he found the place where it is written:

13. 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the
prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”[

14. 20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to
the attendant and sat down. The eyes of
everyone in the synagogue were fastened on
him

15. 21 He began by saying to them, “Today this
scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

17. Who can forgive sins but
God alone?

18. We need to talk about sin and
we need to talk about the
need for forgiveness.

19. The main problem humanity has
is never there suffering it's
their sin.

20. Our greatest need. Is to be
reconciled with God.

21. Think of sin as a betrayal of
relationship.

22. Which is easier, to say to this
paralyzed man your sins are
forgiven. Or say get up take up
your mat and walk.

23. So He said to the man I tell you.
Get up take up your mat and
go home and the man. Got up.

24. Jesus does the visibly harder thing
of healing the paralytic. Because.
He can certainly do the visibly
easier thing of forgiving sins.

25. Faith Is first and foremost not
knowledge about Jesus but active
trust that Jesus is sufficient for
one's deepest and most heartfelt
need.”

26. Faith is active trust in Jesus