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J School Lessons. 1906. <Jj
Sabbath school lesson for Feb
ruary 25, 1906.
Subject—Jesus’ Power to For
give: Mark 2:1-12.
Read Matthew 9:2-8; Luke 5:
17-26.
Golden Text—The Son of Man |
hath power on earth to forgive j
sin: Mark 2:10.
It is still in the summer of A.
D. 28, about the middle of our
Lord’s ministry. His home is
still in Capernaum. After the
miracle related injour last lesson,
He made a preaching tour of sev
eral days tnrougn tnai part oi
Galilee contiguous to Capernaum.
Returning He went into the house
that was His home, probably the
home of Peter. It soon became
rumored that He had returned
and the crowds began to flock to
that house from all directions, i
Before long the house was filled,
the space about the door was
crowded with people, all anxious
to see the great teacher and
worker of wonders.
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tacle might have been seen, j
Four men were approaching the!
house bearing a fifth man upon
a couch, each man carry his cor
ner of the l ed.
The subject borne along by j
Lhe kindness of four strong, kind
nearted men had been overtaken
ivith a most serious stroke of:
aaralysis, so much so that hisj
aody was entirely helpless. The
:our men pause, turn and en-,
ieavor to enter the house where (
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Jesus is, but their effort is to no
purpose. The eager crowds
press and throng about the door.
One suggests one tning, another
another, meantime the paralytic
is a helpless, pitiable, anxious
creature, with pale emaciated
face looking up appealingly at
them. Soon they were seen to
grasp their load and ascend to
the flat roof by a flight of stone
steps at one end of the house.
Having reached the top they cast
about for a place just above our
Lord. They begin to remove the
roof. Those within hear the
cracking of the roof and pretty
soon note an opening above.
Now a bed is descending through
the opening. It rests on the
floor before Jesus. The eyes of
the sick man soon discover and
rest upon Jesus in mute appeal
while the four men are flat upon
the roof and four faces are peer
ing down into the room from
above.
Jesus looks upon the sick and
speaks to him kindly, “Son, thy i
sins be forgiven thee.”
This statement was heard by
the crowds pressed around the
the walls of the room, standing
close about him and it is not al
together unnatural that it aston
ished and even shocked them.
This was really a claim of divin
ity. No man has such power
and to lay claim falsely to such
eminence were blasphemy of the
most daring character. Sin is
the source of all trouble of every;
description and if the man’s sins
could be entirely removed, all;
ailments of every iharacter
of a necessity disappear. Jesus
had madfe a high claim and at
once saw that the hearts of his
auditors were charging him with
blasphemy. He must makegood
his claim.
“Which is easier,’’ says he,
“to say thy sins be forgiven thee
or to say to the sick of the palsy,
rise and take up thy bed and
walk?’’ In any case, whichever
might be the easier to SAY, the
doing of either, really and truly
would be full proof of his divine
sonship. They could SEE the
proof if the paralytic rose and
lifted his bed and walked out.
At this point the crowd becomes
intensely expectant. Four heads
from above press down into the
opening. Hearts are beating
fast. What silence! What
breathless attention! The calm
words of assurance and of God
like power are spoken! “Rise,
take up thy bed and go thy way
to thine house. ” At the com
mand the emaciated limbs take
on flesh, the atrophied, stiffened
muscles wake up with fresh cur
rents of life, the joints become
flexible, the frame of the sick
rises, bends over his bed, clasps
it on either side and lifts it over
his back, the crowds push out of
the door, part on each side and
now the bed and man are going
along the street again, but the ,
bed is on the man and not the
man on the bed!
This is ihe proof that Jesut
submits that, in this world, he is
clothed with all authority (that
is the true meaning of the word)
to forgive, to completely remove
sin from a man over whom it is
exercising its control.
1. Have you any sin? If so it
must remain and rule and con
trol your life and shape your des
tiny till it is lifted from your life
by one who has the authority
and power to do so.
2. Jesus is the only one who
has this power and he alone can
meet your case and rescue you.
3. Are you willing here and
now before you put this paper
down, to put your case in the
hands of Jesus?
4. If you are able to walk as a
liberated soul, can you not find
some helpless one and alone or
by the aid of two or three others
bring him to the feet of Jesus?
R. B. Willis.
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