What ever it takes!

Read this please:



Mark 2:1-12



1 And again He entered Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that He was in the house. 2 Immediately many gathered together, so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door. And He preached the word to them. 3 Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. 4 And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying.

5 When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”

6 And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, 7 “Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

8 But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’? 10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic, 11 “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” 12 Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”



Whoever these guys were that brought this paralytic to Jesus were some true friends! Think about it, first they had to carry their friend, they figured out how to get on the roof with their friend, they tore a hole in the roof, and then they tied a rope to him and lowered him to Jesus! Wow!



Do you have friends that would do that for you? Are you the kind of friend that would do that for someone else? The point here is we need to do whatever it takes to get folks to Jesus. He is our only hope. Did you catch what Jesus observed about these men? "When Jesus saw their faith". This is one of those occasions that changed a mans life because of his friends faith! They believed Jesus could heal him if they could just get him to Jesus. They did whatever it took!



Are you willing to do whatever it takes to get your friends to Jesus? Do you have that kind of faith? Something we all need to ask ourselves and then do whatever it takes!



Tom