This morning, we consider the healing of the paralytic man in this account and see how it showed Jesus was the Messiah by fulfilling the prophecy of His ministry in Isaiah 35.
We also see that physical paralysis is a picture to us of the far worse affliction of paralysis of the soul through sin, that we all suffer as we are born into this world, and that only Jesus can heal - a fact which is demonstrated as He heals the paralytic man in this account by a word of command.
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Greg came to Grace Church, Modesto from the UK in 1997. For many of the intervening years, he has functioned as a teaching elder in the fellowship. He is frequently involved in the teaching ministry and also leads the Internet Ministries and the Youth Ministry. Before coming to Grace Church, he was a teaching elder in a small village chapel in the UK for four years. He is married with 3 children and 3 grandchildren.
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