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TITLE: Jesus They Never Saw
TEXT: Mark 2:1-12
PROPOSITION: While we see the physical, we often miss the spiritual truths before us.
QUESTION: Which?
KEY WORD: Truths
READING: Same

INTRODUCTION:
  1. Review the story of our text.
  2. Most sermons focus on the faith of the 4 friends.
  3. Today I want to focus on the Jesus they never saw.

WHILE THEY WERE WATCHING A LAME MAN WALK -
THEY NEVER SAW:

They were in the presence of deity
  1. Matthew 1:23 - called Emmanuel - God with us
  2. John 1:14 - word became flesh, dwelt among us

God's Love in Action
  1. John 15:13 - Great love has not man than this
  2. John 3:16 - for God so loved the world

The sacrifice of Jesus
  1. 2 Corinthians 5:21 - became sin for us,
  2. 1 John 2:2 - He is propitiation for sins of the whole world

Hope of resurrection and eternal life
  1. John 10:10 - come that they might have life, more abundantly
  2. John 11:25 - I am the resurrection and the life

Forgiveness was offered
  1. Before there was physical healing - there was forgiveness
  2. The people did not feel the need for forgiveness
  3. They argued the “right” to forgive

Grace made available
  1. Titus 2:11 - Grace has appeared to all men
  2. Ephesians 2:10 - Saved by grace

Compassion driving to action
  1. They say the action - not the motivation behind it
  2. Today - many see our actions - not our motives, feelings, emotions

Power of God
  1. Reason for the healing - know the power to forgive sins
  2. Miracles done - so that we might believe - John 20:30-31
  3. John 10:18 - I have the power to give my life, no one takes it from me

The gospel demonstrated
  1. The REAL good news was forgiveness
  2. They focused on the temporary, visual, physical, material things


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