Jesus’ Response to Desperate Faith

Mark

Who is This Jesus?

Jesus’ Response to Desperate Faith!

Mark 1:40-2:12

Desperation often or our faith in Jesus

DEsperate Faith and Jesus’ response

1. Faith and

A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” 1:40

Jesus Responds with

Filled with compassion Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. 1:41

Jesus responds to our faith but asks for our

Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning: “See that you don’t tell this to anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.” Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places.  1:43-45

1. Faith Takes

Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them.  Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. 2:3-4

Jesus often Responds with what we rather than what we

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” 2:5

Filled with compassion Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. 1:41

1. My Faith can powerfully

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” 2:5

Who is this Jesus?

He is the who came to our sin

Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, “Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are you thinking these things? Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’? But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.”¹ He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!” 2:6-12