However the direction is not up and the situation is not out of control.
Paralytic man through the roof sermon.
Sermon on the paralyzed man let down through a roof luke 5.
And he preached the word unto them.
Roofs and the bible story about jesus and a roof the bible and roofs.
2 and straightway many were gathered together insomuch that there was no room to receive them no not so much as about the door.
When jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven mark 2 3 5.
To let a man down through the roof was a device most strange and striking but it only gives point to the remark which we have now to make here.
These men as they couldn t push through the crowd carried the paralytic up the outside stairway to the roof dug up the compacted thatch and earth removed the tiles and lowered the man through now exposed beams to the floor below.
If we want to have souls saved we must not be too squeamish and delicate about conventionalities rules and proprieties for the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence.
1 and again he entered into capernaum after some days.
And it was noised that he was in the house.
Some men came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four of them.
The account of the healing of the paralyzed man in mark 2 1 12 contains a number of lessons for growing christians.
When the devil blocks the door go through the roof.