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A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home.\xa0 They gathered in such large numbers\xa0that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them.\xa0 Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man,\xa0carried by four of them.\xa0 Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on.\xa0 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man,\xa0\u201cSon, your sins are forgiven.\u201d

Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, \u201cWhy does this fellow talk like that? He\u2019s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?\u201d

Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them,\xa0\u201cWhy are you thinking these things?\xa0 Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, \u2018Your sins are forgiven,\u2019 or to say, \u2018Get up, take your mat and walk\u2019? \xa0But I want you to know that the Son of Man\xa0has authority on earth to forgive sins.\u201d\xa0So he said to the man, \u201cI tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.\u201d\xa0 He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God,\xa0saying, \u201cWe have never seen anything like this!\u201d\xa0 Mark 2:1-12 (NIV)

1. \xa0Do whatever you can to get them in the house.

Your commitment to getting people to Jesus has to be stronger than your desire for personal comfort.\xa0

There are no prerequisites to salvation, but there is a process to Christianity.

2. \xa0Remember that your faith can bring others freedom.
The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he\xa0was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God\u2014he and his whole household. \xa0Acts 16:34 (NIV)

3. \xa0Learn to work together while you play your own part. \xa0

But in fact God has placed\xa0the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.\xa0 If they were all one part, where would the body be?\xa0 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

The eye cannot say to the hand, \u201cI don\u2019t need you!\u201d And the head cannot say to the feet, \u201cI don\u2019t need you!\u201d\xa0 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.\xa0 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.\xa0 1 Corinthians 12:18-26 (NIV)

4. \xa0Never stop Rejoicing!!