During his earthly ministry, Jesus demonstrated his power in a variety of ways, including

healing the sick, curing the demon possessed, and raising the dead.

However, we will miss the greater significance of the

authority of Jesus if we only focus on the physical needs that he met.

Welcome to the Radical with David Platt podcast, the latest sermons from teacher, author, and

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net well in this message from mark chapter 2 verses 1 through 12 originally delivered at the

Gospel Coalition 2019 national conference David Platt looks at Christ's forgiveness and

healing of a paralytic. Like Jesus, we should reach

out compassionately to meet urgent physical needs in the world, but this cannot be our primary

or ultimate goal.

As followers of Christ, we must be faithful to proclaim the gospel of the one who can meet the

greatest need of every center, the forgiveness of sins. Here's David with a sermon titled

Paralysis and forgiveness from Mark chapter 2.

Well if you have a Bible and I hope you do or somebody around you does you can look on with let me invite you to open the need to Mark chapter 2

That was humbling made me want to listen to John O preach

As returning, I also just want to thank Dr Carson

for the invitation to stand before you today.

I have, like many of you, for decades, had a high esteem for him from a distance and he's

ministered to me in countless ways through his preaching and his writing from a

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