Today, I want to talk to you from the title, Pick Up Your Palette.

It's found in Mark chapter 2, so if you turn to Mark chapter 2, I'm just going to read

in verse in Mark chapter 2. Mark chapter 2 verse 11, Jesus says, and I say to you, get

up, pick up your palette and go home. That's it right there. Mark chapter 2 verse 11, Jesus

looks at the paralytic and says, I say to you, get up, pick up your palette and go home.

Now, this is one of the many miracles that Jesus did throughout the Gospels, and Jesus

did the miracles to make a macro point. Anytime he was doing the miracle, yes, it was a blessing

to the person that was receiving the miracle, but he was making a greater point about

who he is. He was letting everyone who was there at the time know that he is the Christ,

the son of the living God who comes to take away the sins of the world. If you think about

Moses, when Moses went to let the people go, he performed many signs, and he performed

those signs to let everyone know that he grew people and Pharaoh, that he was the one

sent from God to get the people out of bondage and to take them to the promised land. Jesus,

Moses is a type of Christ, and so what Moses did in the Old Testament, Jesus did in the

New Testament. He was proving the macro point that I am the one to unlock you from the bondage

of sin and take you to the promised land. Even in Matthew, chapter 11, verse 4 and 5, John,

the Baptist from his imprisonment looked out and said, is he the one or should we look

for someone else? And Jesus responded by saying, somebody go tell John that the death can

hear. The blind can see. Somebody go tell them the lepers are cleansed and the dead are raised,

because just by knowing that John would know that he's the one based on Isaiah 35, which proclaims

that when he comes, the death will hear. The blind will see. The lepers will have sight. And so 700

years before Christ, it is written about what Christ will do. And so he just said, tell John

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