This week we kick off our new series, Everybody, with Brad Jones!
Brad Jones teaches about the importance of your community through the story of Jesus healing the paralytic man. We all have the opportunity, as believers, to bring others to Jesus so that everybody can experience the life transformation that we have!
Scripture References
17.One day Jesus was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick. 18.Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. 19.When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.20.When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”21.The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, “Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”22.Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? 23.Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? 24.But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.”
16.The Lord said to Moses, 17.“Say to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God. 18.No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; 19.no man with a crippled foot or hand, 20.or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles. 21.No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the Lord. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God. 22.He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food; 23.yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the Lord, who makes them holy.’ ”
About the Contributor
Passion City Church Atlanta is pastored by Brad Jones. Together, he and his wife Brittany have been a part of the Passion Movement for over a decade helping carry the heartbeat of Passion Conference and Passion City Church. They live in Atlanta with their two children, Caleb and Addy. View more from the Contributor.