Sharper Iron From Kfuo Radio

Rev. Shawn Linnell, pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Blair, NE, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Mark 2:1-12. Jesus goes to His home in Capernaum, a reminder that God has become fully human to save us sinners. There the crowd surrounds Him once again, but this does not deter a paralytic and his four friends. He knows Jesus preaching the Word, and he wants to hear Jesus. When his friends lower the paralytic in front of Jesus, the Lord forgives His sins. This was the comfort the man desperately needed; apart from this reality, physical healing would not have mattered. The scribes silently accuse Jesus of blasphemy because they do not believe He is God. Jesus knows their thoughts because He is, in fact, God, who has come to accomplish the forgiveness of sins and physical restoration that comes along with it. He gives strength to the paralytic’s legs in anticipation of the fullness of restoration at the resurrection that comes with the forgiveness of sins which Christ has won for sinners in His death a