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Hi everyone and welcome back to 
the logical. 

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Bible study podcast, where we 
take a look, at the literal 

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sense of the text and really 
want to unpack the text itself. 

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So we can learn what the author 
is trying to convey to his 

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original audience. 
I've got a really interesting 

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passage to look at today. 
So the Gospel reading from 

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today's mass is from Mark 
chapter 2, verses 1 to 12. 

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So let's start by reading the 
passage When Jesus returned to 

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Capernaum word, went round that 
he was back. 

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And so many people collected 
that there was no room left, 

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even in front of the door. 
He was preaching the word to 

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them. 
When some people came bringing 

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him a paralytic carried by four 
men, but as the crowd made it 

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impossible to get the man to 
him, they stripped the roof over

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the place where Jesus was. 
And when they had made an 

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opening, they lowered the 
stretcher on which the Clay. 

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Seeing their faith. 
Jesus said to the paralytic, my 

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child, your sins are forgiven. 
Now, some scribes were sitting 

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there and they thought to 
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How can this man talk like that?
He is blaspheming, who can 

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forgive sins, but God, Jesus 
inwardly aware that this was 

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what they were thinking. 
Said to them, why do you have 

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these thoughts in your hearts? 
Which of these is easier to say 

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to the paralytic, your sins are 
forgiven or to say, get up pick 

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up your stretcher and walk But 
to prove to you that the son of 

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man has Authority on Earth to 
forgive sins. 

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He turned to the paralytic. 
I order you get up, pick up your

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stretcher and go off home. 
And the man got up picked up his

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stretcher at once and walked out
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So that they were all astounded 
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God saying, we have never seen 
anything like this. 

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So here we are at start of Mark,
chapter 2. 

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And in verse 1, Jesus returns to
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So recently, he's been avoiding 
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You remember that things were 
getting too busy in the Villages

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so he had to go into the 
Wilderness but now he's back 

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home and it says that so many 
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and we're probably talking about
Simon's house again that there's

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no room left even at the front 
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So Jesus is inside the house 
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everyone is crowding into The 
house to hear him in verse 2. 

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We learn what he's doing, so on 
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Jesus is preaching the word to 
them. 

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So probably means that he is 
talking about the Old Testament.

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Remember, they didn't have a new
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Jesus would be providing a 
commentary or some sermons about

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the Old Testament. 
Then comes the paralytic, man. 

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In the four men who are carrying
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Jesus because of the crowd. 
So obviously they want healing 

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for the man but they can't get 
there because they've got this 

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stretcher and it's too hard to 
get the stretcher through this 

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massive crowd. 
So they come up with a solution,

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they decide to strip the roof 
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now, that might seem a bit 
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Just making a hole in someone's 
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roofs were made of things that 
could be repaired reasonably 

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easy. 
So, they'll probably beans. 

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Wooden beams, made of thatch and
Clay. 

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So all they really had to do is 
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and Clay, make a big enough hole
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Probably have a couple people at
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receiving him as he came through
the Whole. 

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And then they would have to do a
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roof, but it wouldn't take too 
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Now the think about what it 
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everyone else's perspective 
though, so they're listening to 

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this wonderful sermon by Jesus 
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clay starts to fall down from 
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And that would have been quite 
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lowered down through the roof, 
verse 5 when Jesus saw their 

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faith. 
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the men because he says their 
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So the four men. 
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believed these four men believed
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they can get him to Jesus. 
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So he says to the man on the 
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If he's calling him my son or it
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affirmation of Jesus day, it is 
in Jesus Is God and he's being 

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tender to one of his children 
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So it could mean either of those
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bombshell. 
He says to the man, your sins 

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are forgiven. 
So, this is a bombshell for the 

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Jews at that time. 
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which Camp they fell in believe 
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sins. 
The priests couldn't do it, only

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God, can forgive sins. 
But now he is Jesus saying your 

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sins are forgiven. 
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basically committing the sin of 
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what he would be accused of 
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blasphemy was punishable by 
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Now if they don't that, no one 
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blasphemy and accuses him of it 
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probably quite confused and 
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Now for us as Christians, it's 
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solution to this. 
We can say I, yep, Jesus was God

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and so there's no problem. 
Jesus can forgive sins. 

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Jesus Is God, that's the 
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But notice Jesus doesn't. 
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Jesus gives, Jesus doesn't come 
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So I can It he never is that 
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He has to be little bit more 
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And as we'll see, later on, in 
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gives as to why he can forgive 
sins is actually quite 

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interesting. 
Now, many scholars have pointed 

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out the fact that Jesus focuses 
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He doesn't say to the man. 
Okay, I'm going to heal you now.

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He says my son, your sins are 
forgiven. 

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So Scholars, have you know 
written a lot about what this 

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means in terms of Jesus. 
Getting at the root problem in 

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the man's heart which is sin and
he's dealing with them deeper 

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paralysis. 
The man experiences, which is 

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the paralysis of sin. 
So Jesus is obviously seeing 

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into this man's heart. 
And he releases the man from a 

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burden of guilt that he has 
maybe even an unconscious one 

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that he's carried for years. 
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necessary precondition before 
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physical healing. 
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man from his sins first, and 
that's pretty common for Jesus. 

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You'll notice the Jesus often 
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the healing of the body, he 
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sins, do The underlying root 
issue before before he does the 

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physical healing. 
That's not to imply that the sin

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causes the disease. 
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than that. 
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cause of or perhaps a better way
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Is this the Dominion of Satan is
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our lives and illness Satan is 
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way for both of those to and by 
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God, he's come to undo the works
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So he wants to undo both of 
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illness. 
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So Jesus just said he's going to
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sins are forgiven. 
Some scribes were sitting there.

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So these are teachers of the Old
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Jewish Community. 
Their job was to tell the people

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what the Old Testament meant. 
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probably come to hear Jesus 
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interested. 
They want to know how he 

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interprets. 
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they thought to themselves. 
Notice they don't say anything 

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here, they just thinking to 
themselves, So how can this man 

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forgive sins? 
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this is what they were thinking.
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Jesus perceived in his spirit 
that they thus questioned within

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themselves. 
So, Jesus here is basically 

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reading their minds. 
This is a power that only God 

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has but here Jesus is doing it. 
So, this is another affirmation 

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in Mark's gospel, but Jesus Is 
God, it's an ability. 

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That Jesus only uses. 
Sometimes, Jesus doesn't know 

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everything that everyone is 
thinking all the time in the 

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Gospels, Only sometimes is he 
kind of switch on this 

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mind-reading ability and the 
catechism talks a bit about this

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ability that Jesus has to 
perceive people's hearts. 

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Verse 9 says he is Jesus 
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It's sort of interesting 
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He says to the scribes which of 
these is easier to say to the 

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paralytic. 
Your sins are forgiven or to say

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to the paralytic, get up pick up
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Now this is a rhetorical 
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It's supposed to have an obvious
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So the answer to this question 
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your sins are forgiven is the 
easier option than telling the 

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man to get up and walk. 
It's much more likely that the 

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man sins will be forgiven then 
that the man is actually going 

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to get up and walk. 
So that's what Jesus means. 

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It's a lot easier to say the 
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But if that's the case, if it's 
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sins will be forgiven, Jesus is 
about to show that he has the 

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power to do the harder one. 
Which is sorry. 

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Yes, he's about to show that he 
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one. 
He's about to get the man to get

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up and walk, but if he can do 
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that he can do the easier one, 
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So it's sort of a logical thing 
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If I can do the harder thing, 
then I can do the easier thing 

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as well. 
So a very clever response by 

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Jesus. 
Now, here's the key phrase and 

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it's we need to unpack this 
phrase a bit verse 10, but to 

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prove to you that the son of man
has Authority on Earth to 

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forgive sins. 
So what he's saying here is to 

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prove that I have just performed
the easier one. 

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I've just forgiven the man sins.
I'm now going to perform the 

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harder one. 
That's basically what he's 

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saying. 
I'm going to prove to you that I

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just did the easier one. 
And the way that I'm going to 

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prove that to you is by doing 
the hard thing by telling him to

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get up and walk a few key 
phrases here in this sentence. 

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So when he says to prove to you 
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that you may know this is a key 
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In the Old Testament, God often 
works miracles so that the 

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people will know that he is God 
and Jesus is using the same 

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language here. 
I'm going to do this so that you

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know, my identity. 
Son of man. 

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This is a phrase that this is 
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Mark, but Jesus uses a lot for 
himself. 

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It's quite a mysterious title, 
son of man. 

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And it's capitalized, the s in 
the air, my capitalize there. 

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So it appears a few times in the
Old Testament. 

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And probably the most important 
place that appears in that is in

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the Book of Daniel chapters 
chapter 8. 

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So that chapter predicts, that 
sort of a vision that there's 

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going to be a human messenger 
from Heaven who's going to come 

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and be presented before God. 
It's a human messenger comes 

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before God receives a crayon. 
And in the Book of Daniel, that 

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figure is called the son of man,
probably in its original 

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context, in the Book of Daniel, 
how they originally, would have 

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understood it. 
The son of man, probably 

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represented the people of God as
a whole being presented before 

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God. 
But by the time of Jesus, the 

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Jews had reflected on that a 
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And they perceive that this is 
actually a description of the 

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Messiah. 
The Messiah could be considered 

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to be the son of man. 
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amongst the S seems at qumran. 
So in the Dead Sea Scrolls, they

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discussed the Messiah, being the
son of man quite a bit. 

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So the Jews at the time, saw the
son of man as a title for the 

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Messiah, and Jesus is quite 
comfortable to use that title 

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for himself. 
He says I'm the son of man. 

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He says, the son of man has 
Authority on Earth to forgive 

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sins. 
So he's performing this miracle 

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of. 
He's about to tell the man to 

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get up and walk. 
So that the crowd understands 

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that one of the things that the 
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That's new, they didn't realize 
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will be able to do that key 
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it's To miss notice the phrase 
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Authority on Earth to forgive 
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Why does he add that in there? 
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has authority to forgive sins. 
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he's performing that God. 
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can forgive sins in heaven. 
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The Jews are right about that. 
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something they didn't know 
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While the Messiah is on Earth. 
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forgives sins on Earth. 
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forgive sins. 
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part. 
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the Messiah, has to forgive sins
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So you transfer His authority to
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you forgive are forgiven, 
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retained. 
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Earth to the apostles from that 
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power on Earth to forgive sins, 
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Coming towards the end, he says 
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your get up, pick up your 
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home. 
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away. 
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apparently, it's just the word 
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and he walked out in front of 
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see that if you were, there are 
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community with their and they 
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he'd been paralyzed for a long 
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walks out in front of everyone. 
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They think they see that he's a 
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praised God as a result. 
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wanted for his ministry. 
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later on though. 
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pretty positive. 
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will start to develop a bit of a
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reasonably positive. 
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anything like this. 
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rabbis good good scribes before 
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kind of Miracles. 
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such a crowd because of the kind
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a paralytic to walk. 
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I hope you found something 
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Now, because of Jesus phrase, 
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forgiven that first phrase 
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and then later in the passage, 
when he says, the son of man has

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authority to forgive sins. 
The catechism has quite a bit to

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say here about this passage, so 
I'm going to put all the, all 

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the paragraphs in the show 
notes, but I just want to read 

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out a few key ones here. 
The really shed light on how 

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this passage connects with 
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21 in the discussion about the 
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It says the Lord Jesus Christ 
physician of our souls and 

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bodies who forgave their sins of
the paralytic and restored him 

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to bodily Health has willed that
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power of the Holy Spirit, his 
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even among her own members, this
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sacraments of healing. 
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So that's pretty profound the 
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He says that just as Jesus 
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uses the paralytic as the key 
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The church has the power to heal
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the sick. 
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paragraph 14 41, in the 
discussion about only God 

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forgives sins. 
It says, only God, forgives sins

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since he is the Son of God. 
Jesus says, if himself, the son 

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of man has Authority on Earth to
forgive sins and exercises. 

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This divine power, your sins are
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his Divine Authority. 
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exercise in his name and that 
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when he transfers his authority 
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1484 in the discussion about 
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penance. 
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each of the sacraments, he 
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sinner, my son, your sins are 
forgiven and so you'll hear that

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quote comes straight out of Mark
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chapter 2. 
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paralytic, my son, your sins are
forgiven. 

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He says the same to us when we 
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And I also want to read that 
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discussion about how well the 
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God. 
It says Jesus gave Scandal above

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or when he identified his 
merciful conduct toward Sinners 

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with God's or an attitude 
towards them, he went so far as 

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to hint the by sharing the table
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He was admitting them to the 
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most especially by forgiving 
sins, that Jesus placed a 

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religious authorities of Israel 
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Were they not entitled to demand
in consternation who can forgive

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sins? 
But God Alone by forgiving sins.

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Jesus either is blaspheming as a
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equal, or is speaking the truth.
And his person really does make 

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present and reveal God's name. 
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we know the answer to that one, 
it's the ladder. 

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Jesus, Is God, he does make God 
present. 

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So there's actually quite a bit 
of commentary on this passage 

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from Mark chapter 2 and I'll put
all those paragraphs in the show

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notes. 
So, and the end of a really 

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interesting passage. 
I hope you learn something new 

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in today's podcast, please keep 
telling other people about it. 

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podcast. 
So please feel free to leave a 

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voice message and the link to 
that is in the show notes as 

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well. 
Thanks for listening. 

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We'll see you again tomorrow.