Do not take back your paralytic
Dr. Roberto Miranda
(Audio: Spanish)
SUMMARY: The passage in Luke 5:17-26 tells the story of a paralyzed man who is carried by his friends to Jesus for healing. The friends climb onto the roof of the house where Jesus is teaching and lower the man down to Jesus. When Jesus sees their faith, he tells the man that his sins are forgiven, which causes the Pharisees to question his authority to forgive sins. Jesus then tells the man to get up and walk, which he does, causing amazement and fear among the people. The sermon focuses on the importance of preparing our minds and hearts to receive God's truth and to be flexible and open to his plans for our lives, even if they are unexpected or challenging. Faith is characterized by boldness and the ability to overcome obstacles.
Faith is about overcoming obstacles and removing deficiencies. It dares the improbable and specializes in removing obstacles. The paralytic in the story had to be taken to Jesus, but the house was full of people and there was no way to enter. However, the men found a way to bring the paralytic to Jesus by removing some tiles from the roof. Faith always involves risk, as seen in the story of Esther. There are times when sustained fasting and prayer are necessary to open spaces for God to work. Fasting also opens up mental clarity and lucidity. Salvation is free, but everything else requires a price to pay.
The speaker talks about the power of fasting and how it opens spaces for God to work. He emphasizes the need to take risks and sometimes be reckless in order to receive from God. He uses the example of the four men who brought the paralytic before Jesus, who broke the roof and imposed themselves on the preaching of Jesus. He also talks about the need for desperate actions and sacrifice in order to enter into what God has for our lives. The speaker encourages the audience to strip themselves of everything and live like they've lost everything, so that God can use them.
The speaker encourages people to give everything to God, to surrender their lives and possessions to Him. He asks for a people who are desperate for God and willing to let go of their habits and mental patterns to be created. He prays for the wind of the Holy Spirit to blow and bring change. He asks for people to give their lives to Jesus and surrender to Him. The speaker gives everything to God and blesses the church.
Faith is about overcoming obstacles and removing deficiencies. It dares the improbable and specializes in removing obstacles. The paralytic in the story had to be taken to Jesus, but the house was full of people and there was no way to enter. However, the men found a way to bring the paralytic to Jesus by removing some tiles from the roof. Faith always involves risk, as seen in the story of Esther. There are times when sustained fasting and prayer are necessary to open spaces for God to work. Fasting also opens up mental clarity and lucidity. Salvation is free, but everything else requires a price to pay.
The speaker talks about the power of fasting and how it opens spaces for God to work. He emphasizes the need to take risks and sometimes be reckless in order to receive from God. He uses the example of the four men who brought the paralytic before Jesus, who broke the roof and imposed themselves on the preaching of Jesus. He also talks about the need for desperate actions and sacrifice in order to enter into what God has for our lives. The speaker encourages the audience to strip themselves of everything and live like they've lost everything, so that God can use them.
The speaker encourages people to give everything to God, to surrender their lives and possessions to Him. He asks for a people who are desperate for God and willing to let go of their habits and mental patterns to be created. He prays for the wind of the Holy Spirit to blow and bring change. He asks for people to give their lives to Jesus and surrender to Him. The speaker gives everything to God and blesses the church.
Luke, chapter 5, verse 17. I'm going to be judicious in the name of the Lord eventually too, but at least plant a word a seed of faith there in your spirit, in your heart. Says the word, the Lord, Luke 5, 17, "it happened one day, that he, Jesus, was teaching and the Pharisees and doctors of the law were sitting, who had come from all the villages of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem And the power of the Lord was with him to heal," please note, Meches, thank you. And it happened that some men who were carrying a man who was paralyzed in a bed, tried to carry him before him, but could not find how to do it, ” here is the obstacle, “but not finding how to do it because of the crowd, they climbed on top of the house and through the roof," that is, through the roof, "they lowered him with the bed, placing him in the middle, in front of Jesus.
When He saw their faith, He said to them, man…” –in the other two passages it says son; in the parallel passages of Matthew and Mark, "man your sins are forgiven you." Then the Scribes and the Pharisees began to wonder, “that is, to ask themselves…to question in their minds, saying, who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but only God? Jesus then, knowing their thoughts, answered, said to them, that you ponder in your hearts, what is easier to say, your sins are forgiven you, or to say, get up and walk. Well, so 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, get up, take your bed and go home. Immediately, getting up in their presence and taking the bed on which he was lying, he went to his house, glorifying God. And everyone, overwhelmed with astonishment, glorified God and, full of fear, said, “Today we have seen wonders.” May the Lord bless his Holy Word.
When He saw their faith, He said to them, man…” –in the other two passages it says son; in the parallel passages of Matthew and Mark, "man your sins are forgiven you." Then the Scribes and the Pharisees began to wonder, “that is, to ask themselves…to question in their minds, saying, who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but only God? Jesus then, knowing their thoughts, answered, said to them, that you ponder in your hearts, what is easier to say, your sins are forgiven you, or to say, get up and walk. Well, so 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, get up, take your bed and go home. Immediately, getting up in their presence and taking the bed on which he was lying, he went to his house, glorifying God. And everyone, overwhelmed with astonishment, glorified God and, full of fear, said, “Today we have seen wonders.” May the Lord bless his Holy Word.
