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FORGIVEN AND HEALED

And Jesus, getting into a boat, crossed to the other side

and came to His own town.

And behold, they brought to Him a man paralyzed and

prostrated by illness, lying on a sleeping pad; and when

Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralyzed man, Take

courage, son; your sins are forgiven and the penalty remitted.

And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, This man

blasphemes!

But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, Why do you think evil and

harbor malice in your hearts?

For which is easier: to say, Your sins are forgiven and the penalty remitted,

or to say, Get up and walk?

But in order that you … Continue Reading

THE WHOLE UNIVERSE

THE WHOLE UNIVERSE

But He ascended? Now what can this, He ascended, mean but that

He had previously descended from the heights of heaven into the

depths, the lower parts of the earth?

He Who descended is the very same as He Who also has ascended

high above all the heavens, that He might fill all things, the whole

universe with His presence, from the lowest to the highest.

(Ephesians 4.9 and 10).

POINTS FOR MEDITATION AND PRAISE

1) He Who knew no sin became sin for us, so that we might become the

righteousness of God in Christ (I. Corinthians 5.21).

He entered into the fullness of human experience in order … Continue Reading