Sermon Outline:
- Forgiveness is everyone’s greatest need
- Only God has authority to forgive sin
- Saving faith and unbelief often have the same information
Family Discussion Questions:
1. Why did the 4 friends bring their friend to Jesus?
2. How did they finally get to see Jesus?
3. What did Jesus say to him?
4. How did Jesus prove he could forgive this man?
5. What clues in the first two chapters of Mark do we have to tell us what these men had faith in?
6. What is easier to say, “your sins are forgiven”, or to a paralytic, “rise and walk”?
7. Why is it that God alone has authority to forgive sins?
8.Which passage of the Bible is Jesus referring to when he calls himself the “Son of Man”?
9.What does it say about the scribes that they were excited about the Messiah coming with authority and yet didn’t think about forgiveness?
10. How many ways did Jesus show he was God in this passage?
11. How does this passage get us to think differently about our own needs?
12. How does this passage get us to think differently about the needs of our friends?
