Today on Grace to You, it’s not sin that sends people to hell. It’s unforgiven sin. The only way you have your sins forgiven is to believe. If you believe in Christ, your sins will be forgiven. That’s the message of Christianity. And that’s man’s greatest need. And aren’t you glad that that’s what Christianity provides? What in the world makes us so embarrassed about the gospel? For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

[Music] [Music] I have been uh looking at some of the interesting conversations that our Lord had out of the four gospels and we come to one this morning that I think you’re familiar with as a story but it provides for us a very very important emphasis that I want everybody to understand.

The text is Mark chapter 2. Mark chapter 2. And the chapter opens with this familiar story about the man being let down through the roof into the presence of Jesus and what in ensued as a result of that appearance. But let me read beginning at verse one down to verse 12. So you have the story in mind. When he, meaning Jesus, had come back to Capernaum several days afterward, it was heard that he was at home and many were gathered together so that there was no longer room, not even near the door, and he was speaking the word to them.

And they came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. Being unable to get to him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him. And when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying. And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.

” But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, why does this man speak this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins but God alone? Immediately Jesus aware in his spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves said to them, “Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?” Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, “Your sins are forgiven.