Through today’s Scripture passage, I hope to share God’s blessings with all of you. The passage above describes Jesus’ healing of a paralytic. When people brought a paralytic to Jesus, He said to him, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.” At that time, hearing what Jesus said, some of the scribes thought to themselves, “This Man blasphemes! He is so arrogant!” Knowing what these scribes thought, Jesus said to them, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins.” There was no way that Jesus would not know the hearts of the scribes. This is why He said to them, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?”

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In today’s Scripture passage of Matthew 9, there comes a paralytic who was healed from his paralysis by Jesus. Through this passage, I would like to share with you our Lord’s blessings, contemplating on this disease of paralysis and explaining how the Lord has saved us.
Everyone in this world is a spiritual paralytic before God. A paralytic is someone who, while retaining his mental faculty, is physically disabled as his members are paralyzed. This paralysis renders him unable to move certain body parts. So when someone becomes paralyzed, he cannot move his body parts freely according to his mind’s wish.

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How should we lead our lives of faith? Should we do so by placing our faith in our own thoughts? Or should we place our faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit? These are the questions that I would to address in today’s teaching.
What we need to realize here is that those who are faithful only to their thoughts are no more than religious practitioners. So when Jesus was on this earth, the Pharisees, being such religionists, also attacked Him and His disciples over ritualistic issues. The disciples of John the Baptist also questioned Jesus in doubt, “Why is it that we fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?”

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All of us, who have become the righteous, pray to God and do His work. So we pray to Him, “Lord, there is much to harvest, but the laborers are few. Please raise Your workers who can spread Your gospel.” Let us, in fact, begin today’s Scripture lesson by praying together.
“Dear Lord, the age of tribulations has indeed begun in this age and time, and countless sinners are lost and wandering in their sins. Lord, we ask that You would enable each of us to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit that can save all these lost souls from their sins. Dear Lord, raise Your workers who can save these souls and who can testify Your gospel to them. We ask that You find these workers and raise them for us.”

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Our Lord gave the power to heal all kinds of sicknesses and diseases to His disciples. This then leads us to wonder how come today’s faithful servants of God do not practice such miraculous power. It is not only to the disciples of the Early Church that our Lord gave such abilities. If our God is the God of truth, then these abilities must be manifested by His servants of today also. It is entirely true, of course, that during the Apostolic Age, such gifts were held by all those who had joined the discipleship of Jesus. What is curious here is why this does not seem to be the case today; that is, why is it that we, who after all believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, do not seem to have such power today? With the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit, let us then shed some light on this issue.

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Jesus called His twelve disciples, and He decided to spread the gospel of the water and the Spirit throughout the whole world through these disciples. But one of these disciples, Judas, ended up betraying his own Teacher, for he did not believe that Jesus was the Son of God and the Messiah who came to this earth as the Savior of mankind. Judas sold out Jesus for money. But later, he came to regret when he recognized that he had actually betrayed the Son of God. We need to remember here that as we follow Jesus, if we betray the gospel of the water and the Spirit that the Lord has given us, we will also end up like this Judas. Unfortunately, there are way too many Judas-like Christians on this earth.

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Exactly what ministry did John the Baptist fulfill before Jesus? Many Christians today do not understand John the Baptist properly, and so they all need to take another look at him to understand him and appreciate his ministry properly. All of us need to have the correct understanding and appreciation of the relationship between the ministry of Jesus and that of John the Baptist. By properly understanding this relationship, you need to get the first-hand experience of receiving the remission of your sins by faith.

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Jesus’ disciples were hungry on the way, and so they plucked heads of grain and ate them on the Sabbath. Seeing this, the Pharisees denounced Jesus and His disciples. Their accusation was that Jesus and His disciples broke their regulations about the Sabbath. But the Lord said to them, “Have you read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?” And He continued to rebuke their flawed thoughts, saying to them, “Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?”

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