Paralytic Man Through The Roof Sermon

Some men came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four of them.

Paralytic man through the roof sermon.

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. 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. 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. And it was noised that he was in the house.

However the direction is not up and the situation is not out of control. Roofs and the bible story about jesus and a roof the bible and roofs. 1 and again he entered into capernaum after some days. 2 and straightway many were gathered together insomuch that there was no room to receive them no not so much as about the door.

When jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven mark 2 3 5. 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. And he preached the word unto them. 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.

The account of the healing of the paralyzed man in mark 2 1 12 contains a number of lessons for growing christians.