Sermon on the paralyzed man let down through a roof luke 5.
Paralytic man through the roof sermon.
Their faith was a faith of initiatives their faith was a faith of persistency hence god gave them away.
1 and again he entered into capernaum after some days.
However the direction is not up and the situation is not out of control.
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.
When the devil blocks the door go through the roof.
Roofs and the bible story about jesus and a roof the bible and roofs.
Some men came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four of them.
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.
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.
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.
The account of the healing of the paralyzed man in mark 2 1 12 contains a number of lessons for growing christians.
2 and straightway many were gathered together insomuch that there was no room to receive them no not so much as about the door.
And it was noised that he was in the house.