Paralytic Man Through The Roof Sermon

Sermon on the paralyzed man let down through a roof luke 5.

Paralytic man through the roof sermon.

These men as they couldn t push through the crowd carried the paralytic up the outside stairway to the roof dug up the compacted thatch and earth removed the tiles and lowered the man through now exposed beams to the floor below. Some men came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to jesus because of the crowd they made an opening in the roof above jesus and after digging through it lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on. To let a man down through the roof was a device most strange and striking but it only gives point to the remark which we have now to make here.

Their faith was a faith of initiatives their faith was a faith of persistency hence god gave them away. 2 and straightway many were gathered together insomuch that there was no room to receive them no not so much as about the door. The account of the healing of the paralyzed man in mark 2 1 12 contains a number of lessons for growing christians. However the direction is not up and the situation is not out of control.

If we want to have souls saved we must not be too squeamish and delicate about conventionalities rules and proprieties for the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence. And he preached the word unto them. When jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven mark 2 3 5. 1 and again he entered into capernaum after some days.

The man is literally let down through the roof under the careful control of his concerned friends and into a situation controlled by the lord jesus christ.