Sermon Tone Analysis

This Story is so beautiful…its brief, but packs such a powerful punch!

We have been journeying through the Gospel of Mark, as Mark weaves together beautifully the story of Jesus Christ.

Who is Jesus?

Why did he come?

And what does it mean to follow Jesus? are the questions that lurk behind every passage.

And Mark, the beautiful storyteller gives us a lot more than we bargained for.

In our Story today, we are going to see that Jesus gives us far more than we think we need at a greater cost that we could ever imagine.

In this story, we see that Jesus’ popularity hasn’t waned a bit.

If anything, it has grown as he has done his preaching and healing tour.

But he’s come back to Capernaum now and is at his (or more likely, Peter’s) home.

So, when everyone hears this, they pack out the house.

Everyone comes to hear him teach AND to be healed.

There is a man who is paralyzed, and he has some good friends.

Everyone needs good friends, don’t they?

And they do what good friends do, they bring him to Jesus!

But there is a problem.

They can’t get to Jesus…the house is packed, they can’t get in the door, and so they get a little crazy…realizing that their friends hope of walking is in getting him to Jesus, they go up the stairs to the roof of the house (picture a flat roof that functioned for these people in much the same way that decks function on our house).

And they begin pealing back the thatch and layers of roof, creating a hole that they could lower him down…Now, I don’t care what century you’re in, this is crazy.

Imagine being Peter…it’s your house…you’d probably be like, You better fix that hole you put in my ROOF!

But Jesus, more than taking things in stride, commends them for their great faith.

Whose faith?

The faith on this man’s friends, and this man’s faith…who were so confident that if they could just get to Jesus, this man’s fortunes would be turned around.

Mark 2:1-

Mark 2:5-