Mark 2:1-5
1A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. 2So many gathered that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. 3Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them. 4Since 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. 5When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven."
Looking at this scripture, my pastor spoke this morning about how we are all in this together. Jesus saw the faith not just in the man that needed healing but in those that did what ever it took to get this person to where he needed to be to get healed. All men should take hold of this scripture and realize that it is sometimes a combined effort of all to get things done. My old Church was not like this for me and my family. We needed to be healed and needed men on faith to help us get to the place that Jesus would take care of us and they choose to let us get pulled into a huge mud pit. I could visualize the tug of war with the enemy and my old church on one side of the line and me by myself on the other end. Just about the time I was gaining strenght to hold my own, my old pastor grabbed the line on the other side with the enemy and the church I thought to be my Friends and they all pulled me over then edge into a mud pit and walked away.
Please don't let this happen to you. If you find yourself in this place, leave before they pull you over the edge. I am very happy and in a great church with an awesome pastor that teaches about Gods love.
He spoke about this guy that had a couple of horses that didn't look like much that wasn't huge horses and no one would have ever thought they could amount to anything. Well there was this one tree that needed to be loaded on a train to go to the mill. And none of the teams of horse that was being used could get this one tree on the train. All these team owners were placing wages to see who could get the job done. And here comes this old guy with his team and they let him try probably so they could get a good laugh. Then this team started to try and he said go, and the team pulled and nothing, tried agian and nothing. Then on the third try these horse beared down and begen to dig in and pull, and everyone there had never ever seen any horses get down and pull that hard. Well they did it. What a lesson to learn. If we as a church was to tackle all the opsticals that were before us like this, the enemy couldn't get his foot in the door ever. Jesus would see our faith and restore us.
Matthew 28
16Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
Like the old man with the horses...Now GO!
Amen