WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.959 Gospel according to Saint Mark chapter number two. 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:06.559 When you have it, say amen. 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:14.960 When Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, the news spread quickly that he was back home. 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:20.399 Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room. 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:28.640 Even outside the door, while he was preaching God's word to them, four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:33.679 They couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:38.799 Then they lowered the man on his mat right down in front of Jesus. 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:44.479 Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, My child, your sins are forgiven. 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:49.759 But some of the teachers of religious law who were sitting there thought to themselves, What is he saying? 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:51.359 This is blasphemy. 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:53.439 Only God can forgive sins. 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:56.640 Jesus knew immediately what they were thinking. 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:01.520 So he asked him, Why do you question this in your hearts? 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:07.519 Is it easier to say to the paralyzed man, Your sins are forgiven, or stand up, pick up your mat and walk? 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:12.000 So I will prove to you that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins. 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:17.680 Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, Stand up, pick up your mat and go home. 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:21.439 There's an exclamation mark, so I had to raise my voice. 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:27.040 And the man jumped up, grabbed his mat, and walked out through the stunned onlookers. 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:35.680 They were all amazed and praised God, exclaiming, We've never seen anything like this before. 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:52.319 From the inside out. 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:53.680 Would you bow your heads? 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:54.719 Let's pray over the word, shall we? 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:58.959 Holy Spirit, thank you for coming in and getting us out. 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:00.239 Amen. 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:02.799 I'll pray quick. 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:10.479 I was born and raised in Southern California, but I got to Texas as quick as I could. 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:24.960 When I first came to Texas, uh I thought it was a temporary stay, something that I was supposed to come here, learn, receive an impartation, maybe get a revelation, and quickly go back home to Southern California. 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:28.719 Because the summers here are ungodly. 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:37.919 I felt that maybe God had forsaken the place, uh, and that Satan had his way every summer. 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:50.159 So I thought maybe I should go home, but within uh six or seven months, I met my beautiful wife Juliet, who I've been married to now for 15 years, and I thought, oh, you know, I can stay. 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:53.919 That might be confirmation that I'm supposed to still be here. 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:58.560 And uh the second converse the second confirmation came almost a decade later. 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:10.560 Now, this is not very spiritual, so please don't judge me, but but but the second confirmation for me is when out of the blue, uh a franchise called In N Out came to Texas. 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:12.479 I told you it wasn't spiritual. 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:13.680 I told you it wasn't. 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:15.520 Don't don't judge me. 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:19.039 Juliet was first, In N Out was second. 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:22.800 When an In N Out got here, I said, I'm staying forever, I'm never going home. 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:24.159 That's this is it. 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:28.319 And so, um, uh, and and it is In N Out, okay? 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:31.039 So if you're a five guys person, I don't know what you're talking about. 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:32.240 Five guys is dead to me. 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:32.960 I'll never eat there. 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:35.120 I don't care if it was the last place on earth, okay? 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:36.319 So forget it. 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:41.039 But In N Out has a very simple franchise model. 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:44.879 Come in and get out. 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:49.919 Come in, get a burger, get out. 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:59.680 Because there's a traffic jam outside of our drive-thru that lasts 35 minutes, and it takes about 25 minutes to even get to the front of the line. 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:02.639 So please get in, get your burger, get out. 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:06.080 The menu is super simple. 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:08.479 There are burgers on it. 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:11.919 That's it. 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:18.959 You can have a burger, a cheeseburger, or a double double. 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:20.319 The end. 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:26.000 There's no confusing advertising, one thing on the outside, there's something else on the inside. 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:31.040 You you oh, it's a burger place, you go in, there's chicken and tacos and like salads. 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:36.000 No, they advertise exactly what it is, and the menu is simple. 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:39.439 Come in, get a burger, go home. 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:50.319 And that's the very essence of the gospel, ladies and gentlemen, it's the same. 00:04:52.399 --> 00:05:01.120 That God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever should believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:02.639 Let's strip it down some more. 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:06.800 God so loved the world that he sent his son in to get us all out. 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:18.319 And that the message of the kingdom is so easy that it's not a convoluted menu that advertises one thing on the outside, but gives you something else on the inside. 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:21.279 It is indeed what it says it is. 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:30.720 A loving father wants a family reunion with his children, and he sent his son to come in to get us all back out. 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:36.639 No matter what you're stuck in, he can get you out. 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:41.120 No matter how long you've been in it, he can get you out. 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:51.839 This is the intoxicating nature of the gospel message that that this man Jesus Christ is so intoxicating that he literally split time. 00:05:53.920 --> 00:06:00.959 That when he is when his life began to produce the type of effects it produced, all of humanity had to change. 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:06.160 History had to change, it became what was before him and what was after him. 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:16.560 He became the divine comma in the middle that gave us pause to reflect on something that was so significant that we're still talking about it 2,014 years later. 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:25.120 This is the gospel that we preach, and this is the man that God used. 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:36.959 Gave him a name that was above all names, that at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that he alone is Lord. 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:39.439 No wonder why people followed him. 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:42.000 I'd follow that guy too. 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:52.639 In the gospel of Mark, which is the most concise gospel, he was an eyewitness to the things that God has done. 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:57.839 If you read Mark's gospel, you you would think that he had the most incredible itinerary of all time. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:06:58.720 Did he ever sleep? 00:06:58.800 --> 00:06:59.839 Did he ever take a nap? 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.959 He was just going, always on the move, always on the move. 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:14.639 And Jesus, after being baptized by his cousin John, starts his earthly ministry and he is going to and fro doing these incredible miracles. 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:26.399 He walks into a synagogue one day and uh a demon manifests itself uh uh right in the the the synagogue while he's teaching and he cast a demon out. 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:33.680 Now, now if you don't believe that demons come to church, then go back to Pastor Robert's message on Free Indeed, and he'll prove it to you. 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:37.360 This is what he came to do. 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:49.680 He said, He said, I want to come right into the places that are seemingly sanctified, and bring them out of religion into a relationship with me. 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:57.600 He goes to Peter's house, and Peter's mother-in-law is sick. 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:00.000 He goes in there and prays for her and she jumps up and starts cooking. 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:01.600 Amen, mother-in-law. 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:05.680 That's a miracle right there. 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:11.839 Everywhere he went, a miracle happened. 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:20.720 As we get into my text today, in chapter number two, he has come back to Capernaum. 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:29.360 When he gets back to Capernaum, the rumor has spread that Jesus is there. 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:33.360 And everyone comes to the house. 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:35.679 I just want you to imagine this. 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:40.480 Can you imagine if Jesus came to your house? 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:53.519 Now we we we tried to build a facility here that that would accommodate all the people that want to be in the presence of God, and we still have to have five services and campuses all over the DFW Metroplex. 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:57.759 But can you imagine if Jesus Christ came to your house? 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:02.559 The dream house that you built, you finally got your dream house. 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:11.120 It's about five bedrooms and it has about 3,500 square feet or more, and you're like, yay, our dream house, our kids are gone. 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:12.559 Don't come back. 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:15.519 We love you, don't ever come back. 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:18.799 We're turning your room into a gym. 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:39.120 Can you imagine if Jesus came to your house and people found out about it, you would have unwanted guests, invited guests, strangers that you have never seen before, they would want to get in that house. 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:51.039 And they'd be in your living room, and they'd be in your breakfast nook, and they'd be standing in the kitchen, and they'd be sitting on stairs, and they would pack out the house so much that they would not stop. 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:53.440 They wouldn't go, oh, the house is full, we'll go home. 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:55.360 They just started standing in your grass. 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:08.960 People are peeking through windows, they're tiptoeing in the backyard, trying to get a glimpse because wherever Jesus is is exactly where I want to be. 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:15.360 Wherever Jesus is, that's exactly where I want to be. 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:18.399 The house is packed. 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:21.360 People have come from all over. 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:28.399 And there's these four friends that have a friend that's paralyzed. 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:32.480 And they hear about Jesus' ministry. 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:35.440 And they say, you know what? 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:42.159 We've heard about this man, Jesus, and we want to get you into the presence of Jesus. 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:47.679 We believe that he can change your situation, and so and so we're going over his house right now. 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:49.120 We know exactly where it's staying. 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:50.159 We're going there right now. 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:54.720 And there's not much the paralyzed man can do as an argument, because what is he gonna say? 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:55.759 I don't want to go. 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:58.480 All they're gonna do is pick him up and carry him anyway. 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:01.200 So they're like, let's go to the house. 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:02.159 Pray. 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:12.240 Because I don't know how long it, you know, how far it was from their house. 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:15.039 So they start walking. 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:18.799 They're like, hold on, let's take a break. 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:20.559 Shoulders start hurting. 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:25.519 Oh boy, okay. 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:31.200 Oh boy. 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:37.279 Hold on, my legs is cramping now. 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:41.519 It's just goodness gracious, you're getting heavy. 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:43.840 Oh boy. 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:52.559 Okay somebody's definitely gonna see Jesus today. 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:59.519 Because this is getting this is getting heavy. 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:03.039 This is getting real heavy. 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:06.879 We have to get you into the presence of the Lord. 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:11.200 Because I wasn't created to carry you. 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:20.080 You ever had to carry somebody through a season of life that was difficult? 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:23.519 You ever had to carry somebody emotionally? 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:35.120 You ever had to carry somebody spiritually, had to carry somebody financially psychologically, they've just weighed on you. 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:38.480 We're not designed to carry people the way Jesus is. 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:45.200 And so I can carry you for a little bit, but at some point I gotta get you in the presence of God because you are getting heavy. 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:51.440 As much as I love Jesus, I don't love you more than he does. 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:54.879 So I have to get you into his presence. 00:12:55.279 --> 00:13:00.639 And they turn the corner and look down the street and they see this huge crowd. 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:06.960 And then as they get closer with their friend, there's people everywhere. 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:08.480 They can't even see the house. 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:10.080 It's that packed. 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:14.720 And I don't know if they looked at each other and said, What time did the service start? 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:17.919 How come what time? 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.720 We're late, we're not gonna get in. 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:28.080 But what I love is the determination of these four friends that have made a commitment to this paralyzed man. 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:32.080 And here's what they said Um, we're not going back home. 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:33.600 We're here now. 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:36.080 Somebody's gonna see Jesus today. 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:45.679 I don't know how they're gonna see him, I don't know when they're gonna see him, but if we gotta wait till the service dismisses, and I don't know if he comes through the back door or the side door, but it's a little house, so he has to come out. 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:50.159 We have to get you in the presence of God because you're too happy to carry back home. 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:52.320 We really need a miracle now. 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:56.320 So these guys start looking around. 00:13:56.879 --> 00:13:58.320 They're walking and they're trying to see. 00:13:58.480 --> 00:13:59.200 Excuse me, excuse me. 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:00.480 I'm not I'm not trying to cut in front of you. 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:01.600 I promise you, I'm not trying to cut. 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:02.240 I just want to. 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:04.720 And like, oh man, there's people everywhere. 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:06.159 What are we gonna do? 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:11.840 And they're all kind of looking down, and the guy's just laying there looking up at everybody, like, man, I don't know what we're gonna do. 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:14.720 And and I don't know who saw it first. 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:26.480 I don't know if somebody, I don't know if it was a conversation or somebody just glanced up at the roof and they were like, I have an idea. 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:28.000 What's your idea? 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:30.879 Um, let's put him on the roof. 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:33.440 What? 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:36.720 Yeah, yeah, we'll tie you down, it won't hurt, I promise. 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:46.480 We'll tie you down, and then we'll put you on the roof, and and then, and and let's just do that first, and then we'll figure out what to do next. 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:48.960 Okay, I don't know, let's just go with it, okay? 00:14:49.120 --> 00:15:09.679 So they tie the guy down, that way he won't fall off his mat, and then and then they boost two guys on the roof, and they prop this guy up, and they push his his his mat up and slide it onto the roof, and the guys get him on the roof, and all four guys on the roof now, and they're like, ha. 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:14.320 Now what? 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:20.240 Uh well, I think we need to find out where he is. 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:41.360 And verily I would say unto you, much there he is, he's right there. 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:43.600 I feel I just heard him. 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.320 He's right underneath me, right here. 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:50.080 Wait, and lo, I'll be with you always withersoever thou go. 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:51.519 Yes, that's him, it's definitely him. 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:52.639 He's speaking King James. 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:53.200 That's him. 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:55.440 That's that's gotta be him. 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:57.679 It's the King James Version, Jesus. 00:15:57.759 --> 00:16:00.960 It has to be, that has to be the right Jesus. 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:13.039 So they lean in until they hear his voice. 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:18.080 That's how we should show up to church. 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:22.000 Leaning in to hear his voice. 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:27.440 That's how we should approach our devotion time with God leaning in to hear his voice. 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:29.759 I don't give up when I don't hear his voice. 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:32.639 It just makes me lean in to a different spot. 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:35.279 I don't give up when I he doesn't answer my prayers. 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:38.960 I just lean in more until I hear his voice, because he is in there. 00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:43.600 And I'm going to keep leaning in until I hear him. 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:45.600 These guys do something that is absolutely amazing. 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:47.200 They start tearing a hole through the roof. 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:50.960 Now, it's not a roof like this, because that would require power tools. 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:52.799 It would have been a much different story if it was. 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:56.320 Okay, so they didn't need to do that, okay? 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:03.120 The roofs back then were made with mud and pitch, uh uh uh uh branches and leaves. 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:06.000 So it's it's it was fairly easy to kind of tear through. 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:07.519 So they start tearing through the roof. 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:16.640 And Jesus is below teaching, right below them teaching. 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:23.359 And verily I say unto you that it like dust starts falling right in front of him. 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:37.039 And he backs up, and they're then these four heads pop in the middle of the hole. 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:40.880 Hey. 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:43.599 Hi. 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:47.039 I didn't mean to interrupt your church service, Jesus. 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:50.960 Uh uh, hold on, wait, I got somebody for you. 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:54.240 And Jesus doesn't get mad at this. 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:58.000 Jesus is not even frustrated by this. 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:03.440 I I I think the reason why Jesus is not frustrated by this is because this is kind of what he did. 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:23.759 Jesus, our Savior, tore a hole through what was dividing us from him and decided to come down and be with us, Emmanuel, God with us, present in our situation, to help the paralysis of humanity. 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:27.759 He said, I don't, I don't, this is funny, this is hilarious. 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:37.680 You guys did a hole in the roof, and I kind of made a hole between heaven and earth, and you're about to bring down this paralytic dude, and God brought me down as this perfect dude. 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:39.839 This is kind of like, this is kind of cool. 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:43.039 It's kind of seems like it's matching the irony of it. 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:44.720 Somebody write it down. 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:47.519 I think somebody else will want to read that one day. 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:52.160 Here's the real awkward moment. 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:56.079 It's not that they tore a hole in the roof, it's the guy getting lowered down. 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:05.839 Hey, how you guys doing? 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:16.319 I I just clearly this wasn't my idea because I can't I can't move, so they lower the guy down. 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:20.160 They're all looking in. 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:23.519 Do it, Jesus. 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:26.319 Come on, do that stuff you do. 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:27.759 Whatever it is. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:28.880 We heard about it. 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:30.720 There's flyers everywhere. 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:33.279 Every place you go to preach, there's it's packed. 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:35.359 Come on, do the stuff. 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:39.200 And Jesus is looking down at the paralytic man. 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:42.000 Paralytic man's looking up at Jesus. 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:44.480 And Jesus is looking down at the paralytic man. 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:46.640 Paralytic man's looking up at Jesus. 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:48.720 Jesus looking down at the paralytic man. 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:50.720 Paralytic man's looking up at Jesus. 00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:55.359 The four guys are peeking through the hole, looking down at Jesus, who's looking down at the paralytic man. 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:57.599 And paralytic man's looking up at Jesus? 00:19:57.839 --> 00:19:59.759 Jesus looking down at the paralytic man. 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:05.759 And they both agree that he's paralyzed. 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:09.279 They just don't agree. 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:10.480 Where? 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:19.200 Man always looks at the external. 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:24.240 But Jesus is always focused on the internal. 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:30.720 And when Jesus looks down at this man, he doesn't see a paralytic body as much as he sees a paralyzed soul. 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:41.759 And he understands in this moment that if there's one thing that he can do to heal this person, it's not going to be what's done physically. 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:46.880 It's gonna have to be done spiritually. 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:58.880 What would a loving God look like killing an external body and letting a man walk out of his presence never to be seen again? 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:10.000 You see, ladies and gentlemen, I submit to you that whenever God wants to heal anybody, he always starts from the inside and works his way out. 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:20.079 If he ever wants to do something supernatural in your life, it will never be done externally before he has a chance to do it internally. 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:26.000 He does something that is absolutely shocking in this moment. 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:31.759 He looks down at the guy and goes, My child, King James Version says, my son. 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:36.720 Your sins are forgiven. 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:45.119 I can imagine the four young men looking through the hole, beads of sweat dripping from their brow, going, What? 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:48.880 I'm sorry, what? 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:52.559 No, what else? 00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:55.279 What do you mean, what else? 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:59.279 The greatest miracle that could ever happen is not physical. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:01.680 It's spiritual. 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:06.400 The greatest miracle that can ever happen to you is not cancer drying up out of your body. 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:08.079 It's not blind eyes being opened. 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:10.960 It's not a paralytic body being able to walk. 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:24.880 It is a heart of stone being turned into a heart of flesh, and Jesus becoming Lord and Savior of your life, with your sins remembered no more. 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:32.720 The greatest miracle of all. 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:40.400 And then these religious leaders in their heart say, He can't do that. 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:42.079 That's blasphemy. 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:43.759 They didn't say it out of their mouth. 00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:45.039 They thought it in their heart. 00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:47.920 And Jesus turns around and responds to them. 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:49.519 How weird is that? 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:58.640 Can you imagine if you were sitting in the church service and while you were taking notes, you started thinking about, did I turn the iron off? 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:01.440 And then I just stop and go, You did turn the iron off. 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:05.200 You'd be like, oh my goodness, what's going on here? 00:23:05.440 --> 00:23:07.440 Get out of my head, get out of my head. 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:13.039 Jesus talking to this paralytic man, and then he just turns around and goes, I'm sorry, what did you all say? 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:14.559 They're like, huh? 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:18.079 And he goes, What do you think is easier for me to do? 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:19.440 He walks away from paralytic man. 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:21.039 What do you think is easier for me to do? 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:26.960 Do you think it's easier for me to say that your sins are forgiven? 00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:30.400 Or rise, pick up your mat, and walk. 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:39.680 Oh, but I get it, you all are Jewish, and you think that every physical ailment has to be indicative of a spiritual problem. 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:45.920 Oh, so you don't think that I can do that because he's still pa. 00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:47.759 Oh, okay. 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:49.119 I'll be back. 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:55.200 Rise, pick up your mat, and walk. 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:58.400 Now let's just see it from this guy's perspective real quick. 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:02.799 Your sins are forgiven. 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:05.440 Thanks. 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:08.799 I appreciate that. 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:11.119 Then he walks away to go talk to these guys. 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:12.720 He has no idea what they're talking about. 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:14.079 He's still laying there. 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:17.359 And do you think it's easier for me to say? 00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:18.319 But I'll prove to you. 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:21.119 Then he comes back and he goes, Rise, take up your bed and walk. 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:31.759 And the guy's like, Because he has to roll up his mat, so. 00:24:39.839 --> 00:24:41.119 God just walks off. 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:43.759 And everyone that is in the house is doing this. 00:24:46.400 --> 00:24:50.559 We have never seen anything like this before. 00:24:51.599 --> 00:25:00.960 But I assure you, ladies and gentlemen, that the excitement that was in that house could not match the excitement that was going on in heaven. 00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:09.359 Not because a physical miracle had been performed, but the spiritual one had been performed. 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:20.480 There is presence in the midst of God, and his angels celebrate every time one soul comes to him. 00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:30.160 My father-in-law was diagnosed with cancer in 2011. 00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:35.519 And it got aggressive quick. 00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:49.200 In that time, my wife, mother-in-law, and my in-laws, all of his children, flew down to Jamaica to see him. 00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:53.200 For 73 years, this man hated God. 00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:57.039 And we're praying that God would do a miracle in his life. 00:25:57.200 --> 00:26:00.079 We're praying that God would heal his body. 00:26:01.119 --> 00:26:04.960 But the longer prayer had been for God to save his soul. 00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:13.839 I couldn't make it because I was in Australia at the time, and so he asked my wife before I left, before she left, hey, when is Tim gonna come? 00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:15.759 And she says, he can come in February. 00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:20.240 Or a month later, his health took a very sharp decline. 00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:23.599 And in that time, they said, you need to get here quick. 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:28.480 And I flew down to Jamaica and I walked into the room. 00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:29.920 I said, Dad, I'm here. 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:32.480 And he said, I need you to pray for me. 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:39.279 And I sat at his bedside. 00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:43.200 He was skin on bones. 00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:54.400 And God did something so miraculous in that moment. 00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.559 And it had nothing to do with his body. 00:27:01.359 --> 00:27:05.039 And everything to do with his soul. 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:13.519 My father-in-law accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior at 7.35 p.m. 00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:17.839 on February the 15th, 2012. 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:20.960 And at 7.30 a.m. 00:27:21.839 --> 00:27:27.279 on February 16th of 2012, he went to meet him. 00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:40.720 The greatest miracle that ever happened inside and came out. 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:43.920 I don't know what you're believing God for today. 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:46.480 I don't know what you're standing in faith for. 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:50.880 But let's keep the right perspective. 00:27:51.440 --> 00:28:04.319 I would love everybody to be healed of everything, but if I had to choose, ten times out of ten, I want them to do it from the inside and work it out. 00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:07.119 Would you bow your heads and close your eyes? 00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:13.519 What is the Holy Spirit saying to you through this message? 00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:23.920 What truth has come in in this moment and expose the lie? 00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:30.400 He gives us an opportunity to respond. 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:37.200 And so, in just a moment, we're going to sing one more worship song, and we're going to ask everybody to stand. 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:42.079 And if you need prayer for any reason, we're going to ask you to come up and receive prayer. 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:51.440 At all campuses, if you need prayer for any reason, whatever you've been believing God for, whether it is spiritually or physically, there's an opportunity to respond. 00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:53.279 Maybe you need to give your life to Jesus Christ. 00:28:53.359 --> 00:29:00.640 You realize that if the greatest miracle is going to happen, it needs to happen inside before it can ever be truly realized outside. 00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:02.640 You may be watching online. 00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:09.680 God still does miracles, but he loves doing it from the inside out. 00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:23.839 So, Holy Spirit, I pray that you would draw every person that needs prayer for any reason to come and drop off what they're carrying in your presence. 00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:26.319 In Jesus' name. 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:27.359 Amen.