The Importance of Christian Friends
I don't care who you are or how spiritual you claim to be when you are feeling as sick as a dog there is no way you can pray, read the word and be super spiritual.
All you want to do is lay down and for the pain to go away.
That's when you need friends like these guys below...
Mark 2:1-5 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.
And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.
And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.
And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
How important are our friends? Or our brethren in the church.
Sometimes we are unable to come before the Lord.
When you are sick you don't much feel like doing anything.
But during these times our friends can get us there.
We should be caring for our brethren.
Bringing them before the Lord.
Notice here that they couldn't reach the Lord because of the press (crowd) Sometimes in our lives (especially within Western society) we have so much happening that the Lord tends to get obscured by it all.
We need to get through this stuff.
We NEED, we HAVE TO get to the Lord.
Did you see the faith of these guys? They ripped the roof off to get to Jesus.
Wow! What would happen today if you had a packed house while preaching the gospel and someone started tearing the roof off.
Your first response would probably be to call the police.
But not Jesus - he saw their faith and rewarded them so.
The faith of our friends can help bring results.
The sick guy also demonstrated great faith - after all he was the one being lowered down from the roof.
He trusted the help of his friends and they all knew the only answer was to get to Jesus.
When we are faced with a difficulty do we do all that we can to get to Jesus.
Do we summons our friends and ask them to help? We should!
All you want to do is lay down and for the pain to go away.
That's when you need friends like these guys below...
Mark 2:1-5 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.
And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.
And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.
And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
How important are our friends? Or our brethren in the church.
Sometimes we are unable to come before the Lord.
When you are sick you don't much feel like doing anything.
But during these times our friends can get us there.
We should be caring for our brethren.
Bringing them before the Lord.
Notice here that they couldn't reach the Lord because of the press (crowd) Sometimes in our lives (especially within Western society) we have so much happening that the Lord tends to get obscured by it all.
We need to get through this stuff.
We NEED, we HAVE TO get to the Lord.
Did you see the faith of these guys? They ripped the roof off to get to Jesus.
Wow! What would happen today if you had a packed house while preaching the gospel and someone started tearing the roof off.
Your first response would probably be to call the police.
But not Jesus - he saw their faith and rewarded them so.
The faith of our friends can help bring results.
The sick guy also demonstrated great faith - after all he was the one being lowered down from the roof.
He trusted the help of his friends and they all knew the only answer was to get to Jesus.
When we are faced with a difficulty do we do all that we can to get to Jesus.
Do we summons our friends and ask them to help? We should!
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