News travels quickly. It was reported that the Lord Jesus had returned and, without waiting for an invitation, a multitude gathered at a certain man’s house. Would you like it if a big hole were made in the roof of your house? Some of those who wanted to see Jesus made a big hole in the roof of the house where He was. But the Lord did not complain, because He knew that those who did it had faith in Him. Without faith in the Lord Jesus we cannot please God and our sins cannot be forgiven. Although almost all the people had to stand, there were some called scribes sitting there who didn’t think that Jesus could forgive sins. They didn’t realize that He was God. To heal a man sick of the palsy was very easy for Him to do, but to forgive his sins, the Lord Jesus had to die!
Do you think that religious people would invite publicans and sinners into their homes to eat? That is what the Lord Jesus did. He turned none away.
We don’t like to go hungry, do we? It seems as if the Lord’s disciples did not have enough to eat. They had to go out to the cornfields to find corn. How poor the Lord and His disciples were! Was He not Creator of all things and King of Israel? Yet He was here as poor and “despised and rejected of men” (Isaiah 53:33He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (Isaiah 53:3)).
1. What did the Lord Jesus see in the man sick with the palsy and his four friends so that He said, “Son, thy sins be forgiven thee”? __________ Mark 2:___
2. The scribes reasoned about two things in their hearts: the first false; the second true. Who only did they think could forgive sins? __________ Mark 2:___
3. What kind of people did Jesus eat and drink with? __________ Mark 2:___
4. The Bible says, “There is none righteous, no, not one” (Romans 3:1010As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: (Romans 3:10)). Then who did the Lord Jesus come to call to repentance? __________ Mark 2:___