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Faith is your connection to Jesus Christ - so how do we approach Him in faith? In this simple sermon at the God's Heart TV Studio, Gary shares practical lessons of faith from the case of the paralytic man in Mark 2 whose friends proved the genuineness of their faith, which resulted in both spiritual and physical restoration!   ➡️ Receive Daily Encouragement on WhatsApp - https://godsheart.tv/whatsapp/ ➡️ Support God's Heart TV financially - https://godsheart.tv/financial/ ➡️ Information about Interactive Prayer - https://godsheart.tv/interactive-prayer/ ➡️ Volunteer as a God's Heart TV Translator - https://godsheart.tv/translate/ ➡️ Share your testimony - https://godsheart.tv/testimony ➡️ Join our Live Prayer Service on the first Saturday of every month - https://www.youtube.com/godshearttv/live

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00:00faith thrives on tests faith grows in the soil of difficulty

00:12faith needs to pass the test in order to become true faith

00:17grace and peace to you all in the mighty name of jesus christ as we're ready to listen to god's

00:32word let us pray lord jesus christ we thank you for your living word we pray that your word will be

00:43alive within our hearts today and that you will strengthen us equip us in jesus name we pray amen

00:56if you have your bible with you we're going to turn to the gospel of mark and chapter 2. we're just

01:04going to join jesus here for this event where he met a paralytic man in capernaum verse 1 and again

01:18he entered capernaum after some days and it was heard that he was in the house immediately many

01:29gathered together so that there was no longer room to receive them not even near the door and he preached

01:38the word to them now i'm just going to pause there for a moment let's just set the context first

01:49it tells us here that jesus entered capernaum again after some days what had been happening during these

02:00days well we can quickly read in the chapter before at the end of chapter 1 that jesus when he was moved

02:06with compassion stretched out his hand and touched a leper who was cleansed and jesus actually

02:15warned the former leper and said to him this is in verse 44 of chapter 1 see that you say nothing to

02:25anyone but go your way show yourself to the priest and offer for the cleansing those things which moses

02:31commanded as a testimony to them however he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the

02:39the matter so that jesus could no longer openly into the city but was outside in deserted places and they

02:48came to him from every direction so we can understand there that after a time when jesus was in a deserted

03:00place to be away from the crowds who were trying to crowd in and find him having heard

03:09about this miracle of the leper being cleansed jesus entered the town again he came to capernaum

03:18and he was in a particular house and the message got around that hey jesus is here this is the man

03:24who cleansed the leper and it tells us clearly there that so many immediately gathered there was no room

03:34to receive them to receive them not even near the door and we just want to pause there and think

03:42what is it that jesus first did it tells us clearly he preached the word to them

03:51now of all the things that jesus could have done meeting this crowd who were desperate to see him who'd

04:01heard about the miracle and i don't know what kind of crowd it was how many different needs there were

04:06but they'd come because of the reputation caused by this amazing miracle of the cleansed leper jesus could

04:15have been anxious about meeting so many people he could have wanted to advertise himself to display himself

04:24to talk about his own credentials there's lots of things you might think jesus could have done

04:30but what he did he preached the word to them because they needed to hear the word of god i don't know

04:43what kind of need you have come with today it could be a physical need it could be a need for breakthrough

04:51it could be a need for deliverance it could be all kinds of things or perhaps you're just joining the

04:57service for some spiritual encouragement just as it was then so it is now we need to receive the word of

05:07god so tell your neighbor i need to hear the word i need to hear the word jesus preached the word of god to

05:22them now this reminded me of an occasion a little earlier i think and we read about it in matthew chapter 5

05:32and verse 1 and it tells us this seeing the multitudes this is talking about jesus he went up on a mountain

05:44and when he was seated his disciples came to him then he opened his mouth and taught them

05:50him saying blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven etc and it's what's become

06:00known as the sermon on the mount jesus saw all these multitudes following him and what was his first response

06:10it was to teach them the word of god because the word of god is eternal the word of god

06:19has the power to transform and to change anything else by comparison is temporary and even thinking

06:29about that sermon when he saw the multitudes there that he preached if we look now back in history

06:36that is a message that has changed the world it's changed whole continents whole countries it's transformed

06:44many different civilizations that message of blessed are the poor in spirit blessed are those who mourn blessed

06:52are the meek because the word of god has that power within it to use a very simple illustration

07:02suppose on coming today you really needed an apple to eat

07:08we could give you an apple and you could eat it and once it's finished it's finished or perhaps

07:18afterwards you could forget about it and leave it and it would go bad but by comparison just suppose

07:24that you received the seed of an apple tree which was planted in good fertile soil

07:34and thereafter grew and produced dozens of apples every year from that one tiny seed you would have

07:47something with life in it to reproduce and to continue providing for your needs day after day month after

07:55month year after year it wouldn't just be a single thing that you receive and consume and then you

08:04go on and need another thing and the word of god is like a seed many of jesus parables talked about

08:14the seed as being the word of god there's the parable of the sower there's the parable of the kingdom of

08:19god where he says it's like a small mustard seed but when it's planted and grows it becomes the biggest of

08:27trees and that power is in the word of god it is like a seed and if that seed is planted in your heart

08:40and your heart is ready to receive and to respond and to obey that word then you will be like a tree

08:50that's planted by the water that's planted by the waters you will have what you need all the time it's

08:55not a temporary solution it's a permanent solution so we need the word of god we need the word of god also

09:06because frankly we're living in a world of falsehood and we need the truth

09:14because it has become epidemic it has become normal for there to be falsehood in the world around us

09:24the world in which we live what does the bible say in psalm 12 verse 2 it says every man lies to his

09:33neighbor they speak with deceit and this has become customary in the news that we listen to

09:43the politics the work conversations you name the kind of interactions that we have it has become normal

09:55to be untruthful normal to live for presentation in terms of what people see and what people think

10:05rather than what is real and what is in the heart and the word of god is truth the word needs to be received

10:18into our hearts and come to dominate us so that we recognize the world of falsehood in which we live

10:28we need the word of god so jesus as we read in mark chapter 2 at the beginning there the first thing he

10:38did he came into this crowded room where the people had gathered because of the miracle and he preached

10:45the word to them now let's continue on the next couple of verses mark chapter 2 and read verse 3

10:54it says then they came to him bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men

11:04and when they could not come near him because of the crowd they uncovered the roof where he was

11:11so when they'd broken through they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying when jesus saw their

11:19faith he said to the paralytic and i'm going to pause there because we're going to move on in a moment

11:29to what jesus said but first i just want us to briefly consider the faith of these four men because it tells us

11:37in verse five jesus saw their faith that is a great encouragement to us it doesn't say jesus saw their need

11:54jesus i'm sure did see their need in a deeper way that they could see it themselves he saw their faith

12:03and how was their faith expressed well they could have so easily given up if their faith had been

12:14based on the circumstances if they had just simply thought well this sounds like an interesting thing

12:22let's go and see what will happen if we go to this house we've heard this jesus is there let's go and see

12:28let's let's find out but they'd found there was a big crowd and they couldn't go in they could have

12:33simply said without any conviction they could have said well it's not our time there's too many people

12:40here let's come back another day let's go and see someone else let's wait for the next story but no

12:47faith thrives on tests faith grows in the soil of difficulty faith needs to pass the test in order to become

13:05true faith and here was a test of faith for them it seemed there was no way through

13:11but faith found a way through and jesus saw their faith now i want to encourage us that today

13:25it is no different jesus christ today will see your faith he'll see my faith he'll see our faith that's

13:34our connection to jesus and i just want to think for a moment to compare where we are today with those

13:44people who were in that room in capernaum two thousand years ago they were there in a physical

13:51location because jesus was there and we could feel envious of them well if only i was alive in those days

13:59and i could have met jesus face to face and jesus himself could have commanded my sickness to leave

14:08could have spoken calmness to my storm delivered me from my demons we could think if only we were in

14:16that situation but let's think another way there are actually great advantages living in the time in which

14:26we live now firstly jesus can be in all places at all times by his holy spirit just think about that for a

14:40moment he was in the moment he was in a house in capernaum perhaps in those days you would have been in

14:46another city another country another continent you wouldn't have had that opportunity to meet him

14:51but today by his holy spirit jesus can do even more than he could do then because he can be in all places

15:05at all times by his holy spirit so jesus is closer to you now than he was to the paralytic man that we've

15:18read about 2000 years ago because jesus sees your faith and your connection is your faith

15:27your connection to this service from a practical point of view may be through

15:32airtel or vodacom or the wi-fi in your house or or wherever it might be and that might be unreliable

15:39that's your connection to this event to this service your connection to jesus is faith

15:50and no network breaking can break that connection we've even received testimonies from people who

15:59were just about to join the prayer with brother chris and their network fell it broke but they still

16:05received because faith was their connection and jesus will see today your faith it's of secondary

16:16importance whether he sees you in this service or whether the network has problems it's good and it's

16:26useful to be useful to be here but jesus sees your faith that is your connection with jesus christ and there's another

16:36great advantage that we have today we are on the other side of easter sunday jesus christ subsequent to what we've read

16:49here was crucified and died for our sins and rose again and we are saved we are taught in the bible we are

17:02saved by having faith in our heart that god raised jesus from the dead so that's another advantage we have

17:12today we have an even greater foundation for our faith jesus has risen from the dead he is alive today he is

17:22just as alive now as he was then and he has conquered the final enemy death so just supposing that you may

17:34have thought in those days well he cleansed the leper he's going to do something for this paralytic but my

17:42problem that's too great we can know today jesus has defeated death there is no problem that is too great

17:50for jesus christ satan threw everything he had at jesus jesus overcame and up from the grave he arose

18:02so today we have that advantage as well i want to move on to where i stopped in the middle of the verse

18:11verse 5 he saw their faith and he said to the paralytic he said rise up and walk ah let me check

18:22that comes later he didn't

18:24they were no doubt expecting him to say that he'd heard about the leper being cleansed

18:34and how just with a word from jesus christ he was cleansed but in this case we read clearly jesus saw

18:43their faith and he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven you sin is the sickness of the soul

18:57we need healing from sin more than we need healing from a physical problem

19:09or any other of the physical needs that we're coming to see god meet when jesus said to that paralytic son

19:21your sins are forgiven he provided the permanent solution to his problems

19:30because let's just think about this a moment

19:33let's just compare

19:35the effect

19:37of sickness in the body this man had a terrible sickness he was paralyzed

19:42but let's just compare that for a moment

19:46with the effect of sin

19:48in the soul what does the bible say the bible says that our sins have separated us from god

19:56it doesn't say

19:58that our sickness or our weak body has separated us from god

20:03as prophet tb joshua often used to remind us

20:07you can be sick in body and still be a friend of god and still be a candidate of heaven

20:14what separates us from god is sin

20:18so when jesus said your sins are forgiven

20:24that was a solution which brought this man into a relationship with god

20:30and that's the other comparison here the relationship with god is eternal

20:41it's something which will outlast this body and if you just think about it for a moment how many

20:47years do we have on this earth it varies doesn't it it may be 40 50 60 70 80 it may even get up to 90

20:54or something like that but if you compare that to eternity millions and millions and millions of

21:00years measured in our time it is but a small period and we don't take our physical body with us into

21:12eternity so this man his paralyzed body even if it hadn't been healed would not follow him

21:19into eternity but his relationship with god would because the real healing is forgiveness of sin

21:31so whatever need you've got today you've got a greater need

21:35your greater need is to have your relationship with god restored to have your sins forgiven

21:42and to have the power of the resurrected christ in your life to say no to sin in the future

21:54then your eternity is settled when jesus said your sins are forgiven you

22:02it could have ended there and the man had what he needed you can take that away and thank you jesus

22:12i have what i need this is due to the supreme sacrifice of christ i'm now given the chance to have a

22:22relationship with god just as if i'd never sinned what an amazing thing but let's read on now to the final

22:33part of our reading today and it's in mark chapter 2 and we'll read from verse 6 and some of the scribes

22:43were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts why does this man speak blasphemies like this

22:50who can forgive sins but god alone but immediately when jesus perceived in his spirit that they reasoned

22:59thus within themselves he said to them why do you reason about these things in your hearts which is

23:06easier to say to the paralytic your sins are forgiven you or to say arise take up your bed and walk but that you

23:17know that the son of man has power on earth to forgive sins he said to the paralytic i say to you arise

23:27take up your bed and go to your house immediately he arose took up the bed and went out in the presence of

23:37them all so that all were amazed and glorified god saying we never saw anything like this

23:47this this is a very interesting scripture what we understand in this case was that jesus healing of the man

23:59as far as the man was concerned i might almost call it a bonus he had his needs met when his sins were

24:08forgiven but jesus was concerned that the people should know the power that he had to forgive sins

24:21he was concerned for the glory of god and it was for the glory of god that he said to the man

24:31rise up and walk and he was healed and i think there's a lesson for us here our healing

24:43has more to do with the glory of god than it has to do with our present comfort yes god loves us and he

24:55will give us some of the comforts that we need during this life on this earth but the primary focus

25:03and the primary focus with jesus here with this healing was the glory of god what does it say after the

25:12man was healed it says all were amazed and they glorified god and the people who needed to know

25:23that jesus had this power to forgive sins they saw the evidence so i want to encourage us to consider the glory of god

25:35let us pray for the name of jesus to be glorified let's ask god to give us the grace not just to seek

25:45solution solution because of the benefit that it brings to us but rather to seek the glory of god

25:56what did jesus say seek first the kingdom of god and all of these things will be added

26:02let us turn our hearts to his glory and pray lord be glorified in my life be glorified in my faith in the

26:18midst of a difficult situation and be glorified in my miraculous release from that situation it's both

26:28things that can glorify god the glory of god sometimes coincides with our own comfort and it sometimes

26:38does not let us seek that jesus may be glorified knowing that our real need has been met he said to me he said

26:51to you he's saying to you now your sins are forgiven come give your whole heart to me and i will empower

27:01you to live above sin in jesus name

27:12you

27:31you

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