Worship Call 0663 Down through the roof

With the circulated news, the eyewitness accounts of those who were in Jerusalem, the account of casting out the demon in the synagogue in their city and the healing of the man’s Son in the city, and more recently the leper, Jesus was sought after. The news that Jesus had returned was met with excitement.

It was also under the scrutiny of the religious leaders that were becoming more bothered with this man’s fame and was beginning to show up where Jesus was in order to do their own investigating. Such as it was the fact that Nicodemus initially met with Jesus in order to find some wrong that he might himself bring this Jesus up on charges.

Mark 2:1–5 (NASB95) — 1 When He had come back to Capernaum several days afterward, it was heard that He was at home. 2 And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room, not even near the door; and He was speaking the word to them. 3 And they came, bringing to Him a paralytic, carried by four men. 4 Being unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying. 5 And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

Jesus was speaking the word

λαλέω [laleo /lal·eh·o/] v. Speaking

λόγος [logos /log·os/] n m

the one who spoke and the Heavens and earth were created. The one who was speaking will be the one who will hush the storm, It is he who is the logos who is alive and powerful is now in Peter’s house speaking the word, the life changing word to a company of people that pact in the house with the door open to the street.

One could image the love of friends who were determined to get this man into the house where Jesus was knowing that if they could just get close enough and get the attention of Jesus then there friend could be healed.

No identity was mentioned whether this was friend or family.

Approaching the home all realized that the possibility to enter into the home was slim to none by conventual means.

Some came up with an idea. Being in a port city and perhaps one or all of them were fisher men ran and acquired a some rope, and made their way to the empty roof top.

Roofs were generally flat. It was a place where cool evenings were spent, it was in a sense the living room where they would sit and talk away the evenings.

Once the company of men made it to the roof they began to disassembly the home of Peter.

And then bust away the hardened part of the roof. Removing the tiles

One could imagine what the audience thought when debris began to fall from the ceiling as people began to more away as the sky appeared in the ceiling.

Then all of a sun a κράβαττος krabattos which is a bed or pallet or stretcher of sort was being lowered through the ceiling as the quiet audience watched and waited for the next word of Jesus.

Mark 2:5 (NASB95) — 5 And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

Why was the man in this position?

Why was he paralyzed?

The mindset of the Jews that the core reason for sickness was a matter of sin.

Deuteronomy 28:15 (NASB95) — 15 “But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Jesus goes straight to the core issue which the spiritual condition of the man.

Sickness and health issue is from the start a spiritual issue. These are consequences of the fall, for none of us could imagine such when man enjoyed perfect rest with the Lord.

Not all sickness and affirmations are because of personal sin, but that should not be ruled out. Might want to ask the apostle Paul about that.

But while we are on our way to the doctor we might want to examine our situational awareness to determine where we might be.

Always the bigger issue at hand is not the physical health but the spiritual condition.

Jesus knows.

Jesus deals with the core issue of this man’s personal problem which was apparently was personal sin.

ἁμαρτία [hamartia /ham·ar·tee·ah/] n f[1]

1 equivalent to 264. 1a to be without a share in. 1b to miss the mark. 1c to err, be mistaken. 1d to miss or wander from the path of uprightness and honour, to do or go wrong. 1e to wander from the law of God, violate God’s law, sin. 2 that which is done wrong, sin, an offence, a violation of the divine law in thought or in act. 3 collectively, the complex or aggregate of sins committed either by a single person or by many.[2]

It is the coming short of the target which is God’s righteousness.

Sin leaves one outside of the relationship with God. prolonged sin in the believer’s life will in effect begin to wear on an otherwise healthy individual.

Again, let me emphasis that not all sicknesses and infirmities are the result of personal sin in the life.

But apparently it was the cause of this one’s infirmity

And Jesus deals with he root cause for this man’s issue, which was sin.

Mark 2:6–7 (NASB95) — 6 But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, 7 “Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Before we had a man who was possessed with a demon sitting inside the congregation. Now it is the human antagonist the Pharisees.

The Pharisees were not always the antagonist however. This group of highly placed men were those who kept watch on the heart of the national people of Israel.

They were the writers of the Talmud and the Mishna which became oracles which set up fences around the Law.

The law being not only the ten commandments but amounting to 613 ordinances laid out in the word of God. the Talmud and the Mishna were that which protected people from violating the Law.

A good example of this was the woman in the garden. When confronted by the serpent about the tree she went beyond what the Law was said which you shall not take from the tree, but she added to the Law by saying nor shall you touch it.

The Rabbinical writings were filled with such fences. At first it was good intentions. No one wanted the nation to remain under Judgment of God which historically had been the case for violating God’s law. Especially the Sabbath which we will come to.

The Pharisees were the police force that kept order in the way that they ensured the keeping of the Law. honorable at first but over the period of time they forgot God’s law and made the Law and the keeping it their own.

They were experts at their law and even how to twist it to their own benefit.

In the presence of Jesus they kept quiet. listening observing and taking notes. Like Nicodemus they were seeking to find some indictment against this Jesus.

[1]Strong, J. (1995). In Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon. Woodside Bible Fellowship. [2]Strong, J. (1995). In Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon. Woodside Bible Fellowship.

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