Paralytic Man Through The Roof Sermon

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.

Paralytic man through the roof sermon.

And it was noised that he was in the house. 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. Their faith was a faith of initiatives their faith was a faith of persistency hence god gave them away. The account of the healing of the paralyzed man in mark 2 1 12 contains a number of lessons for growing christians.

When the devil blocks the door go through the roof. 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. 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.

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

1 and again he entered into capernaum after some days.