However the direction is not up and the situation is not out of control.
Paralytic man through the roof sermon.
1 and again he entered into capernaum after some days.
The account of the healing of the paralyzed man in mark 2 1 12 contains a number of lessons for growing christians.
When jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven mark 2 3 5.
To let a man down through the roof was a device most strange and striking but it only gives point to the remark which we have now to make here.
And it was noised that he was in the house.
When the devil blocks the door go through the roof.
If we want to have souls saved we must not be too squeamish and delicate about conventionalities rules and proprieties for the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence.
Since they could not get him to jesus because of the crowd they made an opening in the roof above jesus and after digging through it lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on.
And he preached the word unto them.
Sermon on the paralyzed man let down through a roof luke 5.
Roofs and the bible story about jesus and a roof the bible and roofs.
2 and straightway many were gathered together insomuch that there was no room to receive them no not so much as about the door.
Their faith was a faith of initiatives their faith was a faith of persistency hence god gave them away.