The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here's grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

As we go from Sunday to Sunday, I have been 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 ensued as a result of that appearance.

But let me read beginning at verse 1, down to verse 12, so you have the story

in mind. When he, meaning Jesus, had come back to Copernium 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 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 and opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.

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