"Jesus' Absolute Power"
JESUS’ ABSOLUTE POWER
Tonight, Wednesday, February 4, at 7:00 p.m., join your Calvary Chapel family for coffee at 6:00 p.m., followed by the service at 7:00 p.m. in the Holy Ground Café or online through our website (www.calvaryinv.com), Facebook, and YouTube (Calvary Inverness), as we continue our journey through the New Testament with the Gospel of Matthew (8:28–9:38).
Jesus’ arrival in Capernaum was a spiritual tsunami. The people had never encountered anyone like Him. All within a few days, a leper was cleansed, a child servant healed with a word from Jesus, who wasn’t close to his house, blind eyes and deaf ears were opened, and demons were set on the run with a word.
Word spread quickly, and the crowds grew into the thousands. They hung on every word He said, watched closely as He performed miracles, and fought one another to get as close as they could to be next to Him.
The murmur among the crowd was: "What would Jesus do next?" Would it be more spectacular than the previous miracle? Would He call someone to the front so He could touch and heal them? On and on they went, voices rising, as they tried to figure out Jesus’ next move.
If he astonished before, then what He did next would cause them to lose their minds. What miracle could He perform greater than what He had already done? He answered this when, while teaching a house full of people, four men lowered their paralytic friend into the room where Jesus was sitting.
The room quickly filled with excitement as the multitude believed that Jesus was about to perform another one of His spectacular miracles. Yet all their excitement was sucked out of the room the moment that Jesus opened His mouth and said to the paralytic, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you” (Matt. 9:2).
What the multitude didn’t see, nor took the time to understand, was that everything Jesus said and did up to that point pointed to the moment when He would reveal that God had come down to save them from their sins.
Because the authority to forgive can only be granted by divinity, and all the miracles were performed to build the multitude’s faith in Him, so that at that moment He forgave the paralytic, and they would believe.
By forgiving the man, Jesus also proved that He was the Messiah whom the Old Testament prophets had been preaching about for a thousand years.
Yet, as Isaiah said of the people, “They keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive” (Isa. 6:9). But for those who did believe in Him, the greatest miracle of all took place: they became a brand-new creation.
I’m excited to continue this journey with you through the twenty-seven books of the New Testament, trusting that none of us will remain the same as we grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Please pray for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the entire Calvary Chapel family.
In His Strong Love,
Pastor
Tonight, Wednesday, February 4, at 7:00 p.m., join your Calvary Chapel family for coffee at 6:00 p.m., followed by the service at 7:00 p.m. in the Holy Ground Café or online through our website (www.calvaryinv.com), Facebook, and YouTube (Calvary Inverness), as we continue our journey through the New Testament with the Gospel of Matthew (8:28–9:38).
Jesus’ arrival in Capernaum was a spiritual tsunami. The people had never encountered anyone like Him. All within a few days, a leper was cleansed, a child servant healed with a word from Jesus, who wasn’t close to his house, blind eyes and deaf ears were opened, and demons were set on the run with a word.
Word spread quickly, and the crowds grew into the thousands. They hung on every word He said, watched closely as He performed miracles, and fought one another to get as close as they could to be next to Him.
The murmur among the crowd was: "What would Jesus do next?" Would it be more spectacular than the previous miracle? Would He call someone to the front so He could touch and heal them? On and on they went, voices rising, as they tried to figure out Jesus’ next move.
If he astonished before, then what He did next would cause them to lose their minds. What miracle could He perform greater than what He had already done? He answered this when, while teaching a house full of people, four men lowered their paralytic friend into the room where Jesus was sitting.
The room quickly filled with excitement as the multitude believed that Jesus was about to perform another one of His spectacular miracles. Yet all their excitement was sucked out of the room the moment that Jesus opened His mouth and said to the paralytic, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you” (Matt. 9:2).
What the multitude didn’t see, nor took the time to understand, was that everything Jesus said and did up to that point pointed to the moment when He would reveal that God had come down to save them from their sins.
Because the authority to forgive can only be granted by divinity, and all the miracles were performed to build the multitude’s faith in Him, so that at that moment He forgave the paralytic, and they would believe.
By forgiving the man, Jesus also proved that He was the Messiah whom the Old Testament prophets had been preaching about for a thousand years.
Yet, as Isaiah said of the people, “They keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive” (Isa. 6:9). But for those who did believe in Him, the greatest miracle of all took place: they became a brand-new creation.
I’m excited to continue this journey with you through the twenty-seven books of the New Testament, trusting that none of us will remain the same as we grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Please pray for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the entire Calvary Chapel family.
In His Strong Love,
Pastor
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