Amen and amen. How many to the church doing good. Aren't you glad you came to church today?

I hope you are. Grab your Bibles. Mark chapter two is where we're going to be. And as you turn to

Mark chapter two, we're in the third week of this series called Anything is Possible. And I want to ask you

this question before we dive in, because

all you that grew up in Sunday school and praise God for Sunday school, the moment I start

teaching on this passage, you already know how it ends, okay? And so you can't assume anything

upon this passage. Let me ask you this, okay? What would you do if you found yourself in a desperate

situation? I mean a desperate situation

and you knew that you had potentially one opportunity, one chance, I don't want to sound like

him and him, but if you had one shot, what would you do? Because sometimes the most desperate

situation is not when you need help, but when the people that you love the most need help, right?

I mean, the moment somebody that you love deeply and dearly, something happens in your life,

all of a sudden salvation theology gets real clear, and you go, I would totally take their place.

So what would you do if your mom or dad got diagnosed with something that was scary?

And you knew there was an opportunity for them to be healed.

What would you do if it was your spouse and they were locked up in chains of addiction?

But you knew you had one chance, one opportunity to get them into the presence of somebody

that could do something.

Or the scariest one always is what if something was going on with your child, your kid,

because there's no pain like kid pain.

What would you do in that desperate situation? Well, if you love them, the answer is simple.

You would do whatever it takes, amen? You would do whatever it takes. A bunch of years ago,

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