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5. Committed to passionately... Live like Jesus lived, Do what Jesus did, and Advance His kingdom together.

6. MARK’S GOSPEL THE SIMPLICITY AND POWER OF JESUS

7. Kingdom Dynamics in Healing 2:1-12

8. Review 1.Jesus came into the region of the Sea of Galilee preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom. 2.He called the first of His disciples to follow Him. 3.In the Capernaum synagogue Mark records Jesus teaching as well as His first recorded deliverance of a demon…amazed at authority. 4.Jesus finished the day in Peter’s and Andrew’s house and ministering to the entire village in the evening in healings and deliverances. 5.Jesus priority of prayer… 6.Jesus now in the greater region of Galilee.

10. Mark 2:1–12 (ESV) And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. 2 And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. 3 And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. 4 And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. 5 And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” 6 Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts,...

11. Mark 2:1–12 (ESV)... 7 “Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” 8 And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’? 10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”— he said to the paralytic— 11 “I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home.” 12 And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”

12. The Setting

13. Cast Members General Population

14. Cast Members General Population Pharisees and Scribes Luke 5:17 (ESV) On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal.

15. PHARISEES Scribe

16. Cast Members General Population Pharisees and Scribes Pharisees Scribes

17. Cast Members Paralytic & Four Men

18. Cast Members Paralytic & Four Men

19. The Main Event The Crippled Man’s Reaction The Four Companions’ Reaction The Pharisees’ & Scribe’s Reaction John 10:33 (ESV) The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

20. The Main Event Why Jesus’ Healing Approach? 8... immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’? 10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic— 11 “I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home.”

21. The Main Event The Reactions Paralytic Man 4 Companions General Population Pharisees & Scribes

22. Application – Dynamics of Kingdom Healing Warning 1. F aith Matthew 11:12 (NIV84) From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it. 2. C ompassion 3. A uthority John 13:3 (NLT) Jesus knew that the Father had given him authority over everything and that he had come from God and would return to God.

23. Committed to passionately... Live like Jesus lived, Do what Jesus did, and Advance His kingdom together.