something cool

Ok, so I went to Living Hope tonight, just because I wanted to see more of what the church does. And I gather that they are walking through Mark, because they had studied the first chapter and they were on the second chapter tonight. Ok, so Mark 2:1-12, is the story of the paralyzed man that gets dropped at Jesus' feet through the roof and Jesus heals them. And there are lots of cool things about the story that I never really thought about before, but I always remember not really understanding one part of it. So verses 5-10 basically were usually really confusing.

"When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, 'Son, your sins are forgiven.' Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, 'Why does this fellow talk like that? He's blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?' Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit taht this was what they were thinking in their hears, and he said to them, 'Why are you thinking these things? Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven' or to say 'Get up, take your mat and walk'? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins."

So I am thinking to myself I don't know which is easier to say, I mean I can't do either on my own. I can't forgive someone's sins, and without God's power I can't heal a paralyzed man either. But I think I always thought that forgiving his sins was easier, because that's the one he did right. Nope, while everyone else was talking about something else, I realized that Jesus could have just healed him and let the man go, but he wanted the teachers and everyone to question why he "forgave his sins". The teachers knew that God was the only one able to forgive sins, and if Jesus was able to forgive sins wouldn't that make Him God. He wanted them to see that he was the Son of Man. It wasn't never meant to be confusing, it was he basically telling them and them reasoning it that he was the Son of Man.

mind is chewing on this thought....25 times before it can be swallowed