#31 - Joby Martin // Understanding Forgiveness

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Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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This episode explores the profound themes of faith and forgiveness found in Mark chapter 2. We delve into Jesus’ authority to forgive sins, the importance of community support in healing, and the redefinition of our identities as children of God. • Community faith demonstrated by the friends lowering the paralytic • Jesus’ bold claim to forgive sins and its implications • The response of the religious leaders and their misunderstanding • Understanding sin as fundamentally against God • The t...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.
0:19.9	All right, welcome back. We are in Mark chapter two all week long, one of my
0:23.7	favorite texts in the whole Bible for so many reasons. We're going to pick it up in verse four.
0:27.8	And it says, and when they, the friends could not get near him, Jesus, because of the crowd,
0:31.5	they removed the roof above him. And when they made an opening, they let down the bed on which
0:36.3	the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.
0:38.5	And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, by the way, this is a throwback to yesterday or maybe the first day.
0:46.2	Do you have enough faith maybe that some of your unbelieving friends can't borrow?
0:50.3	Because Jesus sees the faith of the friends and he credits it to the paralytic.
0:54.2	Anyway. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, son, your sins are forgiven.
1:00.8	Now, some of the scribes were sitting there questioning in their hearts, why does this man speak like that?
1:06.8	He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins but God alone? Well, in actuality, their question is right
1:15.9	that God is the only one that can forgive sins. But the part of this that we need to know is in
1:23.0	Romans chapter 3 that we've already covered on the Daily Blade is if all have sinned and fallen short
1:28.5	of the glory of God. And a sin is any time we are outside of the commands of God or the law of God,
1:34.3	the rules of God, or the will of God, anytime that we mistreat him to steal his glory or
1:39.7	mistreat one of his image bearers. And so here, Jesus is saying that your sins are forgiven.
1:46.5	And the critics who will talk about it a couple of days, they are like, who does this man
1:50.3	think that he is to forgive sins? For only God can first give sin. Well, winter, winter chicken
1:56.1	dinner. Guess what? Jesus is God. And the reason that he can say to this man, your sins are forgiven,
2:03.8	is because every sin that has ever been committed is against the one true God. This is why
2:11.0	Jesus says, I forgive your sin. For anybody that ever tells you, like some freshman English
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