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.
Paralytic man through the roof sermon.
And he preached the word unto them.
Some men came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four of them.
Sermon on the paralyzed man let down through a roof luke 5.
Their faith was a faith of initiatives their faith was a faith of persistency hence god gave them away.
Roofs and the bible story about jesus and a roof the bible and roofs.
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.
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.
The man is literally let down through the roof under the careful control of his concerned friends and into a situation controlled by the lord jesus christ.
And it was noised that he was in the house.
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.
However the direction is not up and the situation is not out of control.
2 and straightway many were gathered together insomuch that there was no room to receive them no not so much as about the door.