And Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. We're in Matthew Chapter 9 where Jesus just had

a paralytic guy get lowered down to him through a hole in the ceiling. He doesn't say that in

Matthew, but we know from other books of the Bible that's what the situation is.

And he gets lowered down there in front of

Jesus and Jesus just absolutely has to take the opportunity to be like what that is

faith and action and I am going to address this situation. But weirdly

instead of Jesus saying you are healed young man, he instead

says take heart son, your sins are forgiven. And before we get into breaking down more of the

angry resistance and grouchy tweets that Jesus gets in response to this thing that he's doing,

let's just break down what he is actually saying there or how the original audience would have understood

Jesus responding to see in a sick guy and saying your sins are forgiven.

Okay, on the most basic level it looks like what Matthew is showing us

is that Jesus wanted to use this

opportunity to demonstrate his authority not just over the physical world but to say my

authority over the physical world points to my authority over the stuff that you would

want to use your time travel

tokens on to go back and fix the stuff that's broken and wrong with all of us

will all of us accept Jesus because we all get stuff wrong and screw things up

and have regret and that's just the way things are.

So that is part of how the original audience was intended to understand this, but another

layer to how the original audience was intended to understand this is made evident in a couple

of other places in the New

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