"We Have Seen Strange Things Today"

Q: What does the Bible say about the forgiveness of sins?

The Bible teaches that Jesus alone has the authority to forgive sins, as demonstrated in Luke 5:20. The forgiveness of sins is a central theme in the Bible, particularly highlighted in the New Testament. In Luke 5, we see Jesus telling a paralyzed man, 'Man, thy sins be forgiven thee,' exemplifying His divine authority to forgive. This act is a miracle in itself and underscores that the greatest need for humanity is the forgiveness of sins, which surpasses even the healing of physical ailments. Romans 3:23 states that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, making the need for forgiveness universal and essential for salvation. Without such forgiveness, as indicated in Luke 5:26, there remains no hope for redemption.

Q: How do we know Jesus can forgive sins?

Jesus proves His power to forgive sins through His divine authority and miracles, as shown in Luke 5:24. In the passage from Luke 5, Jesus confronts the skepticism of the Pharisees regarding His ability to forgive sins. He responds by performing a miracle, healing the paralyzed man, which serves as proof of His divine authority. Jesus explicitly states, 'But that you may know that the Son of Man has power upon earth to forgive sins,' linking His healing miracle directly to His authority to forgive. This connection demonstrates that Jesus' power is not limited to physical healing but extends to spiritual redemption. Also, throughout Scripture, the association of forgiveness with God's sovereign grace reinforces the notion that only God can forgive sins, as shown in Isaiah 43:25.

Q: Why is understanding sin's forgiveness important for Christians?

Understanding the forgiveness of sins is essential for Christians as it denotes the core of the gospel message. For Christians, the understanding and acceptance of sin's forgiveness is paramount as it is the foundation of their faith. The act of being forgiven encapsulates God's grace, emphasizing that through Jesus' sacrifice, believers are no longer under condemnation (Romans 8:1). This forgiveness not only affects the relationship between the believer and God but also impacts how Christians live their lives, prompting gratitude and a desire to extend grace to others. Jesus emphasizes that everyone, regardless of their condition, needs forgiveness, demonstrating that sin is the root of human brokenness, thus highlighting the significance of the gospel. When recognizing their sinfulness, Christians can truly value the gift of forgiveness that Christ offers.

Q: What can be learned from the story of the paralyzed man in Luke 5?

The story of the paralyzed man illustrates the power of faith and the necessity of bringing others to Christ. In the narrative of the paralyzed man in Luke 5, we see multiple layers of faith — not only the faith of the man himself but also that of his friends who brought him to Jesus. Their determination to overcome obstacles, such as the crowd, signifies the desperation and necessity of seeking Christ for healing and redemption. This story teaches an important lesson on collective faith and the role of community in spiritual matters. By bringing others before Christ, believers fulfill the Great Commission and demonstrate the importance of intercession in prayer. Furthermore, upon witnessing the faith of the man's friends, Jesus responds by forgiving his sins first before addressing his physical ailment, thus emphasizing that spiritual healing is of greater importance than physical healing.

There's three events up to this time that's happened here in Luke chapter 5. There's the time because there was such a crowd that Christ preached out of a ship and taught out of a ship. And Simon Peter asked him to depart from him because he was such a sinful man. And our Lord told him he had become a fisher of men.

Then there's the leper. that came to him, and nobody else would have ever touched that leper. Because if you ever touch a leper, you became unclean like them. But our Lord Jesus could touch him, and just like he touches us and he stays holy, stays righteous, still has all power and glory to himself. He don't become unclean when he saves the unclean. That's what a blessed thing that is. He can be just and justify the ungodly.

And then tonight or today, this morning, we're going to deal with a third thing here. And I want to get my subject out of verse 26. We have seen strange things today. Strange things today. And who can forgive sins? Who could possibly forgive sins? Our Lord here, at this particular passage, He performs three miracles. Three miracles. He forgives sins. That's a miracle. To have your sins forgiven, that's a miracle. A multitude of people will never have their sins forgiven. In Romans chapter 1, it says three times, he said, God gave them up, God gave them up, God gave them up. When God gives up, there ain't no hope for you. No hope at all.

And not only that, but he reads men's minds. He reads men's thoughts. He reads men's thoughts. And that shows us what a miracle it is that he can read a man's thoughts. While you're thinking today, Christ is reading your mind. You know, they have these people say, you know, stop by and I'll tell you your future. Or I'll, you know, listen, our Lord Jesus Christ, he reads our mind and he knows what we think before we think it. I'll show you that later. And then the third thing is, is they healed a paralyzed man, a man that was paralyzed. And no wonder they all were amazed and said, we have seen strange things today.

This is the only place in the New Testament where this word is used, strange. It's the only place it's used. And that means paradoxes. That's what it means. It means paradoxes, strange. What it means is things is contrary to all common opinion and ordinary experience. Well, of course it is if the Lord does it. Things contrary to all common opinion. The common opinion of the Lord Jesus Christ is that he has to save everybody, and he loves everybody, and he died for everybody.

There's nothing strange about that. That's common opinion. And most people's experience, ordinary experiences is, is they come to the front and make a decision or get baptized and everything's all right. Everything's all right. But oh no, it's strange. When and where our Lord Jesus Christ works will always, always be considered strange to this world. It's always strange to this world.

Men know what he's supposed to do. Everybody knows what he's supposed to do. Well, that's why they call him Jesus, you know. That's why he's got to do something for us. They demand, some people demand that he does something for them. But oh my, they suppose they know how he's supposed to act. But I'll tell you something, he does what he wills for whom he wills. And when he will. That's why it says on a certain day or a certain man or a certain place.

Why does he do that? Because you cannot tell where he's going to be and what he's going to do and what he's going to do when he gets there. You know, that's one thing about you cannot put God in some kind of a box and say this is the way he must act. He don't have to act the way we think he does at all. And most people, God said to himself, he said, you thought I was altogether one like you, didn't you? But I'm not. I'm not.

The heaven of heavens can't contain him. He measures the waters. All this rain that we've seen come down, he measures the waters in the hollow of his hand. He looks at all these nations all over the world and said, that's just a drop in the bucket. They just like dust on a balance and you can't even see the dust. Don't wave. And they think they know how he's going to act. He asked Job, said, Job, where was you at when I laid the foundation of the earth? Where was you? Where was you when the pillars of the earth was established?

And that's what our Lord Jesus Christ does. It says it came to pass on a certain day. certain day. Oh, my. But I know one thing he does, whatever he does, he does it to bring glory to his father, and glory to God, and good to a sinner. I do know that. And on a certain day, let's go through these verses of Scripture. Verse 17, it came to pass on a certain day, he was teaching. He was teaching. Oh, my. Now the scriptures tells us over in Mark chapter 2 that our master's in a house in Capernaum. This is the same thing happened over in Mark chapter 2. Said that Lord came into a house in Capernaum. So he's in this house in Capernaum. And look who's listening to him. And as he was teaching, there were Pharisees.

Doctors of the law setting by, which were come, and these fellows come out of every town of Galilee, out of Judea, and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. Now, Pharisee, that was the most strictest religion that the Jews has ever had. They call them, now they call them Hasidic Jews, Orthodox Jews. They had the long hair coming down off the side of their face.

All of them have to wear these blue fringe things that God told them to wear years ago back in the Old Testament. But as he was teaching, these Pharisees separated themselves from ceremony impurity. You know, they didn't want to be around a heathen. They didn't want to be around publicans. They didn't want to be around sinners. They didn't want to even be around the common Jew, the people who did not know the law, and that's what they said.

Now look in Acts 26 with me. Look in Acts chapter 26. This is what Paul said about himself when the Lord saved him in Luke 26 and verse 5. You know, he said, according to the, after the righteousness of the law, I was blameless. Well, here's the thing about it. The law cannot produce a righteousness.

But as far as he understood, and like these Pharisees do, they were considered righteous. They considered themselves righteous. And so many people today consider themselves righteous. They consider themselves righteous in that they think that they'll be able to face God on the basis of what they can do themselves. what they've accomplished by themselves, by keeping Ten Commandments or something themselves.

But look what Paul said here. Now, he's before Agrippa. He's there, you know, the Jews brought him there, and they wanted to have Agrippa to send him to jail and put him in prison. And Paul said in verse 5, let's look in verse 4, My manner of life from my youth which was at the first among my own nation in Jerusalem, know all the Jews, everybody knows what my life was like, which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify that after the most straightest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee."

He said, that's what I was. I think that he was the rich young ruler who came to Christ and said, Master, what good thing must I do to inherit eternal life? And he said, oh, keep the commandments. He said, I've done that since I was a child. Since I was a child. But oh my, the strictest sect of our religion. And look at this next one up here. Not only was there a Pharisee, but look at this one. I get a kick out of this. Doctors of the law. How could you be a doctor of the law? You know, Job said, they're physicians of no value. He said, where do you go first? But you're talking about a doctor of the law. doctor that's going to tell you how to live.

I mean, he takes the Bible, he takes the law of Moses, and he goes through it, and he starts picking out what he wants you to do and how you want you to live. And this is how you're supposed to dress. This is where you're allowed to go. This is what you're allowed to eat. This is what you got to think.

And there's still plenty of doctors of the law. There are doctors of the law everywhere. In fact, The Scriptures tells us that there's lots and lots. You know, when they had that council in Luke chapter 15, Acts chapter 15, they said there's plenty of people that's preaching Moses every Sabbath, and there's lots of people preaching Moses. There's a group up in Maryland that they've been going up and preaching for, and these folks were coming out from under law. coming out from their reformed teaching. And there's a group up in Canada that Greg Elmpress teaches too.

They were so ingrained in religion that all the men sat on one side and the women sat on the other and they all wore dark clothes. And there's some folks coming out of that. Now you imagine coming out from under some kind of bondage. But there's people that's doctors of the law.

They want to tell you what kind of, what it takes to make a righteousness. They want to end up being righteous. We start out where they want to end up. We begin where their ending's supposed to be. They want to end up being justified, we start out justified. They want to end up righteous, we start out being righteous.

But doctors, everybody wants to be a doctor. I remember one time a fella called me and said, is this Dr. Bell? Yeah, yeah, it is. And he says, the Dr. Bell took out my gallbladder. I said, no, no, no. I thought it was somebody playing a joke on me. No, I don't do that. I can't even take out a new heart. I can't even give you a new heart. But oh my, doctors of the law. Doctors of the law.

All of us has been under them doctors of the law. One time or another, oh, those of you that's been blessed to sit under a gospel preacher all your lives and come to know Christ, and you've never been found in any kind of false religion, oh, you have been so blessed of God. But most of us were brought out from under the doctors of the law. And oh, they interpreted the law of Moses, and they explained it by their traditions. opinions. And oh, my.

And look where they come from, these doctors of the law and these Pharisees that were sitting, sitting by. They come out of every town of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem. They come from everywhere. They come from everywhere. You know, and out of the village in Jerusalem.

And look what else it says there in verse 17, and the power. The power of the Lord, Jehovah, was present in Christ for healing them. Now what kind of healing do you reckon they needed? What kind of healing do you reckon they needed? Look in John chapter 12. Look what our Lord said about them over here in John chapter 12. Verse 37. Oh, the power of the Lord, the power of Jehovah was there.

Look what it says, verse 37, but though he had done so many miracles before them, and listen to this, yet they believed not on him, that the prophet of Isaiah, the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? Who's believed our preaching? To whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?

Therefore, they could not believe. Could you imagine that? They could not believe. Could not. It didn't say they would not, they could not. Now, wait a minute. What do you mean they could not? Well, we've got our free will. We've got our power of choice. Oh my, listen, he said, they could not believe because Isaiah said again, he hath blinded their eyes.

Who did that? God did that. And he hardened their heart. Who did that? God did that. That they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, and be converted. And what's this? Then I should heal them. These things said Isaiah when he saw his glory. You mean God acts like that, hardens people's hearts and blinds their eyes? He certainly does. He certainly does. People say, oh, I don't believe that. Oh, my. And look what happened. What a contrast. Back over in our text. What a contrast. The super, super, super religious, envious, close-minded teachers of the law and Christ our Lord the very power of God and the very wisdom of God.

When our Lord Jesus was 12 years old, 12 years old, his mother and he was in, they was in Jerusalem for the Passover, and his mother and daddy went home, he stayed there. And when they found him, you know what he was doing? He was sitting with these doctors of the law and these Pharisees, and you know what, Ed? The scripture says, he confounded them. confounded them with their answers. I mean, he's 12 years old and made these fellows look like fools. So here's the power and wisdom of God there, and they, He's present to do something for them.

And then look what in verse 18 and 19, And behold, when you see that word, behold, He said, Listen, something's fixing to happen. Behold, men brought in a bed, and a man which was taken with a palsy, and they sought means to bring him in and to lay him before him. And when they could not find a way to bring him in, because of the multitude, they went up on the housetop and let him down through the tiling with the mist into the couch before him. A paralyzed man, that palsy means paralyzed, His condition was that he had no ability to move. No ability to move. None at all. He had to be carried. He had to be carried. Mark says there were four men that carried him.

Maybe he asked them to take him to the Lord Jesus Christ, or maybe they had told him about the Lord Jesus Christ, but nevertheless, they brought him. And behold, they brought in a bed, and they desired to bring him. And it says they sought means to bring him in. They sought means to bring him in. And this is what I want you to see right here. They brought means to bring him in, and listen to this, and to lay him before him.

The only reason they wanted to bring him was to lay him before Christ. The only one who can do anything for him. They sought means to bring him in to lay him, the only place that a sinner has any comfort or assurance that God do anything for him, before him. Before him with whom we have to do.

And they could not bring him in and find a place to lay him because of this great, great, great, great crowd. And they couldn't bring him into the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ because of a crowd. He had to go out in his ship because of the crowd. There was, you know, a crowd does not keep people from getting to Christ. It does not do it.

You know, there was a great, great crowd following the Lord Jesus Christ, and that woman with the issue of blood, she crawled on her hands and knees through that crowd to touch the hem of his garment. Crowd didn't keep her from getting to Christ. And as quick as she touched the Lord Jesus Christ, who touched me? His disciples said, Lord, who touched you? Look at this crowd.

You've been touched all over. He said, no, no, no. Virtue went out of me. There's somebody that touched me that had to touch me because they knew they could get nothing else from anybody but me. And when that woman touched him, he stopped right dead in his tracks. Somebody touched me.

And the scripture said he turned around and looked at that woman. He knew exactly who it was that touched him. He knew exactly who it was. That woman told him all the truth, told him all the truth. And then there's Zacchaeus couldn't see Christ because of a crowd, big crowd. Well, what's he going to do? He found a way to see the Lord Jesus. What did he do? He climbed a tree. If you want to see Christ, you can see Christ. If you want to be in the presence of Christ, you can be in the presence. Crowd can't keep you. Nothing will keep you from Christ when you swill your knee to Him.

And oh my, they sought ways to bring Him in. And oh, what did they do? What did they do? They climbed up to the roof. Now, I don't know how, if they had steps there. I don't know if a couple of men got up there and helped while the other fellas lifted Him up to them and they carried Him up there, but there's four of them. And they got on top of that roof, and they started taking the roof off.

I mean, they started taking the tiles off of the roof. They took enough tiles off for a grown man. A grown man in a bed. They took enough tiles off for a grown man in a bed. They took them tiles off, and there's a fellow on this side and two fellows on this side, and they started letting him down.

And just as quick as he got into the presence of Christ, look what it says then in verse, verse, they led him through the tiling with his couch in the midst of Jesus. And look what it says, and when he saw their faith, in verse 20, when he saw their faith. Now listen, this is what's happened. This is what's happened.

There's men holding him down. And he's hanging by ropes, or whatever they held him by. He's hanging by ropes down there in the presence of Christ. They're holding this man up. He can't move. He's laying flat on his back. And they lower him down, and he's laying, he's right down in the face of Christ, right in the midst of Christ. I think he was right in the presence of Christ. They let him down.

And oh, my. And I tell you, four men holding him up. And what was our Lord's response? He saw their faith. Their faith. My children don't have faith, but I do. My grandchildren don't have faith, but I do. So what am I going to do? How are they going to get to Christ? Take your faith, what little faith God give you. What little faith God give you. Take that faith and start calling on God for your children and your grandchildren. You believe for them until God does something for them.

God does something for them. Do not stop. Do not never stop. As long as you got breath in your life and you in your right mind, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray for your children and your grandchildren. and your children's grandchildren, children that you may not never know, pray for them. You know, the difference between somebody that believes in the grace of God and somebody that don't.

People who believe in the grace of God just as quick as they find out they're going to have a child, they start praying for that child. You know why they start praying for that child? Because they know that child is going to be some of their loins, going to be born a sinner, going to be born lost, they know that they need God to do something for their child before he's ever born. They know that.

The difference in an Armenian is he don't have to worry about his child until he gets to the age of accountability. That's the difference. I mean, we know what we're bringing into this world. We know we're bringing children into this world that's going to grow up to be liars, going to grow up to be mean. The first word most children learn is no. And if they don't show no, they start screaming and hollering and crying. You know what I'm telling. You know I'm telling the truth.

And oh, my, when he saw their faith hanging on that bed, and this is what a—why do you think our Lord's response would be? Well, I'm gonna brag on these four men. I'm gonna brag on them. This fella's really done something for me. They really done something. I mean, they really... They led a man to me. They led a soul to Jesus. I'm gonna brag on them for a while. I'm gonna... I'm gonna brag on them and tell them what great things they've done for the Lord.

But, oh, no, what did our Savior say? Verse 20, when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, Thy sins are forgiven thee. Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. May thy sins be forgiven thee? You know what our Lord is telling us here? The greatest need of anybody on this earth is the forgiveness of sins. That's the greatest need anybody has.

This man Even though he was paralyzed, he was a sinner. And that's why it says, man, thy sins be forgiven thee. That tells us that no matter what condition, you know, you may be healed one day, and this man, he's still gonna have to have his sins forgiven. Zacchaeus had to have his sins forgiven. The woman with the issue of the blood had to have her sins forgiven. Everybody has to have, you know, forgiven of sins. Oh, what a need, what a need.

Our Lord's teaching here that cleansing of the soul is more than the healing of the body. Sin's the worst disease that anybody can ever have in this universe, in this whole world. It's sin. People may make lightly of it, but oh no, it's an awful disease, awful disease.

And oh, look what happens now. Verse 21. And the scribes and Pharisees began to reason, saying, who is this? What's this now? The speaketh blasphemies. Speaketh blasphemies. Who can forgive sins but God alone? You would have thought these religious people would have just been thrilled absolutely to death. You thought, boy, these fellows would get so happy and be so full of joy and be so full of thankfulness that God saved a sinner, that the Lord forgive a man of his sins. He said, who in the world can forgive sin but God?

And they called our Lord Jesus Christ a blasphemer, a blasphemer. And they thought, well, he must be an imposter. Who can say your sins be forgiven? Oh, I'll tell you who speaks blasphemy. I'll tell you who speaks. The Pope does. He says he can forgive a man's sins. Priests say they can absolve a man's sins. A lot of preachers, you know, they get people talking people into making a decision, make people talking people into accepting Jesus. They dedicate babies. So I mean, listen, who's blaspheming? Who's blaspheming God?

I saw a little thing the other day, a little girl here in Crossville. She'd got baptized. She was about five or six years old. She held up a plaque, you know, a poster in front of her that said, I got baptized. I accepted Jesus. Don't you understand? Don't preachers understand?

That's blasphemy. Don't they understand if a child six years old is able to accept Jesus, that they're able to go to hell too? If you're able to have a Intelligent faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and know who he is, know what he did, know who he did it for, and where he is now. If you have that kind of intelligent faith, then why in the world would you not have enough age enough to go perish? Don't people understand that? Can't they understand and grasp that? I don't understand it, I don't understand it.

That's why when we preach the gospel, when we preach the grace of God, we leave men in God's hands. God'll save who he will. If you're 10 years old or 12 years old or 16 years old or 60 years old, God's the one that's gotta be able to do it. And oh, by. And you know, blessed is the man to whose sins Iniquity is forgiven, whose sins is covered. And oh my, and Lord, if thou shouldest mark iniquities, who should be able to stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. And oh my, and look what happens now. It says there in verse 22, When Jesus, and you know these fellas told the truth. Nobody can forgive sins but God.

And our Lord Jesus Christ perceived their thoughts and answering said unto them. Did you see that? He perceived their thoughts. And he asked them a question. Why are you reasoning in your hearts? Why are you pondering in your hearts? Why are you thinking these things in your heart? He knew what they was thinking.

Oh my. Our Lord has taken the prerogative here of Jehovah, one that belongs to only God. And he said, they said, he's telling them, said, do you need proof that I'm God? Do you need proof that I'm God? That I can forgive sins? He said, which is the easiest thing to do?

Which is the easiest thing to do? To forgive sins, just to say, they're both words. Sons, thy sins be forgiven thee, or rise up, take thy bed, and walk. Which is easier for thee? With God, it don't make any difference. He can do anything. With God, I mean, he can say what he wants to, and when he says it, it happens. He said, which is easier? I want you to know which is easier. He said, you fellas start saying that only God can, but you think that I can't forgive sins? I'm gonna show you that I am God and I've got the power and ability to do what I will.

And oh, look what he said. Look what he says now. But that you may know, now listen to this now, that you may know, I want you to know, You need to know. You've got to know. What do you got to know? But that you may know that I have the power, that I have the authority, I have the right, and I'm going to prove it to you, that you may know that the Son of Man hath power upon earth to forgive sins.

He saith unto the sick of the palsy, I say unto you, Get up, pick up your couch, go home. Go home. Go home. And immediately, immediately he rose up before them. Oh, immediately got them fellas, those fellas let him down. Immediately, that fella got up, stood up, never stood in his life. He couldn't move his legs, couldn't move his back. And oh, he said immediately he got up. He got up. Oh my. Oh, he said, go to your own house. Go home. Go home. Let your family see. Let your family rejoice with you.

And he took up that Moroni laid. He picked up his own bed. But everybody else had been carrying it before, but he's going to carry it himself. He's going to carry it himself. He's going to roll that thing up and pack it up, you know. And he took that Moroni laid and departed to his own house. And what else was he doing? He was glorifying God. Glorifying God. Oh, my. Immediately.

They carried him in, but he walked out. Four men had to let him down, but he walked out by himself. Oh, what a blessed, blessed thing. And look what had happened. And they were all amazed. Amazed. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost and once was blind, but now I see. Oh, my. This man here, something happened to him that he never thought. They were all amazed. I want an amazing thing. Are you still amazed? Let me ask you. I know this humidity in here is awful, and I know you're tired.

But listen, do you still sometimes amaze at the Lord done anything for you? Do you really consider sometimes, why would God do something for me? How could he possibly do something for me? Do you sometimes feel and loathe yourself so much that you say, why in this new world? Why would God even look in my direction? Why would God even consider me? Why would he do that?

And they were all amazed. And they glorified God. Everybody in that room that day, I don't know if the Pharisees and them did, I don't know, but they all were amazed. And look what they said, and they glorified God. Everybody there started glorifying God. And oh my, they ascribed to God the honor and splendor and glory due unto him.

And the scripture said, we're filled with fear. They understood that they were in the presence of God. They were in the presence of one who had power to do something nobody else had ever. They'd never seen nothing like this before. And oh my, and all began to fear God. And he said, go to your house. What a blessed thing to glorify God. in your own house, what a blessed thing. They were all amazed they glorified God, gave Him the honor and glory and worshiped Him. And there's three things, two things we see here. We see our Lord's omniscience, He knew their thoughts. We see our Lord's omnipotence, two ways, forgiving sins, takes power to forgive a man who sins, the power of God. And it took the power of God to raise that man up. And I tell you, and it takes the power of God to save a man. Gospel is the power of God.

Oh, blessed, blessed Lord, our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Thank you for allowing us again to open your blessed word. And I pray that as it pleases you and brings glory to you, that you'd cause it to bring forth fruit to your glory. Lord, I've the word. from a preacher will do no good without the power of the Holy Ghost, without the presence and power of the presence of the Lord. And Lord, we've seen today that the presence of the power of our Lord is here to heal sinners, to heal men of their sins, to save them from their sins. There's healing, healing in the stripes of our Lord Jesus Christ, healing for sin, healing for ungodliness, healing for blasphemy, healing for unrighteousness, healing for uncleanness, healing for everything that's so unlike God.

And they find it in the stripes and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. O Lord Jesus, please cause the gospel to bring forth fruit to your glory, your glory for Christ's sake. Amen. Amen. Turn to number 67 in the hymn book. Stand with me, and we'll sing this. And when I get through, you'll be at liberty to go.

67. 67.

O Savior, as my eyes behold The wonders of Thy might untold, The heavens in glorious light arrayed The vast creation Thou hast made And yet to think Thou lovest me My heart cries out How can it be? How can it be? How can it be that God should love a soul like me? Oh, how can it be? As at the cross I humbly bow, and I thorn-crowned bow, and view the precious bleeding form by cruel nails so bruised and torn. Knowing thy suffering was for me, in grief I cry, How can it be? How can it be? How can it be? That God should love a soul like me? Oh, how How can it be? How can it be? How can it be?

Was ever grace so full and free? From heights of bliss to depths of woe, in loving kindness thou didst go. from sin and shame to rescue me. Oh, love divine, how can it be? How can it be? that God should bless. Oh, how can it be? Through the Lord Jesus Christ, that's how he does it. Amen. See you Wednesday night.

"We Have Seen Strange Things Today"

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What does the Bible say about the forgiveness of sins?

How do we know Jesus can forgive sins?

Why is understanding sin's forgiveness important for Christians?

What can be learned from the story of the paralyzed man in Luke 5?

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"We Have Seen Strange Things Today"

Key Quotes

What does the Bible say about the forgiveness of sins?

How do we know Jesus can forgive sins?

Why is understanding sin's forgiveness important for Christians?

What can be learned from the story of the paralyzed man in Luke 5?

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