Father's Day

Fathers Day is filled with mixed emotions. Dad is twelve hundred miles away. Can't go hug his neck and a call is just not the same. Some of my own children are many miles away and I won't get to see them either. So proud to be a dad and yet I remember all the times I was too hard on my kids. Don't think I realized the importance of setting the right example until they were almost grown. Still happy though at the way my kids turned out, all good Christians, serving God and raising me up some awesome Grandchildren and great-grandchildren. 

6-21-2015      Luke 5:17-25

S.       17And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.18And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.19And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus. 20 and when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.  the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone? butt when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?23 Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?24 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house 25 and immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.

O.      Jesus heals and publicly forgives sin.

A.      The sin and the sickness were not one- and the same. First the sin was forgiven and the man was still suffering from the Palsy, then came his healing. Both sin and sickness are enemies to mankind. Jesus makes victory over these available to all who will enter into covenant with him through the blood of Jesus.

   P.       Father; fill me with the Holy Ghost so I may be able to               discern how to fight sin and walk in authority. Amen.