A Man with a Need
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Jesus didn’t come into a broken world to make sure we’re happy; He came to address our essential need. Find out what that is and how Jesus dealt with it. Study along with Truth For Life as Alistair Begg begins a series called An Extraordinary Encounter.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Welcome to Truth for Life weekend, where we're beginning a series called an extraordinary |
| 0:29.5 | encounter. |
| 0:30.8 | And over the next few weekends, Alistair Begg will be exploring stories about face-to-face encounters with Jesus. |
| 0:39.6 | He did not come into our broken world to make sure we're happy. He came to address our most essential need. Today we'll find out |
| 0:45.7 | what that is and how Jesus deals with it. Mark chapter 2 and verse 1. |
| 0:56.3 | And when He, that is Jesus, returned to Copernium after some days, it was reported that he was at home. |
| 1:04.0 | And many were gathered together so that there was no more room, not even at the door. |
| 1:10.2 | And he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him |
| 1:14.9 | a paralytic carried by four men, and when they could not get near him because of the crowd, |
| 1:20.8 | they removed the roof above him, and when they'd made an opening, they let down the bed on which |
| 1:26.1 | the paralytic lay. And when Jesus |
| 1:29.1 | saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, son, your sins are forgiven. Now, some of the scribes were |
| 1:36.5 | sitting there questioning in their hearts. Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins but God alone? And immediately Jesus, |
| 1:49.0 | perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, |
| 1:54.1 | why do you question these things in your hearts? Which is easier to say to the paralytic, |
| 2:00.1 | your sins are forgiven? Or to say to say rise take up your bed and walk |
| 2:05.4 | but that you may know that the son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins he said to the |
| 2:11.9 | paralytic i say to you rise pick up your bed and home. And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went |
| 2:21.5 | out before them all so that they were all amazed and glorified God saying, we never saw anything |
| 2:29.1 | like this. We've turned to these familiar verses for those of us who know our Bibles, because here we have |
| 2:37.6 | Jesus dealing with one man's brokenness. Not of course the brokenness with which he was preoccupied |
| 2:45.4 | as we're about to discover. Now if you have your Bible open, I'll just walk you through it. Mark describes the scene |
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