WHAT HAPPENS WHEN JESUS IS IN THE HOUSE Mark 2:1-12 ...

III. FORGIVENESS IS PRESENT. 5
The context leads us to believe that this is not the words any of the “5” were listening to hear.
Romans 2:16, “in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my
gospel.”
Forgiveness is the greatest miracle that Jesus ever performed. It meets the greatest need, costs the greatest
price, and brings the greatest blessing and the most lasting results.
“Son, your sins are forgiven you”
1. The first word put the man in the family of God
2. The second word put the man in the fellowship of God
Note: 1 John 1:7-10
“forgiveness” – what a blessed word for a sin-hardened soul. The debt discharged, guilt gone, conscience
cleansed, past pardoned, record removed!
Psalms 103:12
“As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.”
Micah 7:18-19
“Who is a God like You,
Pardoning iniquity
And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage?
He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in mercy.
He will again have compassion on us,
And will subdue our iniquities.
You will cast all our sins
Into the depths of the sea.”
Isaiah 43:25
"I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your
sins.”
Jeremiah 31:34, “No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying,
'Know the Lord,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the
Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN JESUS IS IN THE HOUSE (February 27, 2011 - AM Service) - 3