“Son, Your Sins are Forgiven” (Mark 2:1-12)
March 30, 2025 Pastor Brian Janssen Hospers Presbyterian Church
“SON, YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN”
(Mark 2:1-12)
INTRODUCTION: What is your greatest need?
I. SEE THE NEED FOR FORGIVENESS.
II. KNOW THE MEANS OF FORGIVENESS.
III. REALIZE THE AIM OF FORGIVENESS.
Questions for Family Review/Discussion:
- Do you think many people are searching for forgiveness? Do you think this quest is growing or declining? Explain your answer.
- What aspects of Jesus’ authority as the Son of God has Mark been unfolding in his gospel thus far? What new prerogative does he describe in our text?
- What would it have been like to be a paralyzed man in that day, a paraplegic or quadriplegic? What other needs would he have had? To you, what would be the hardest part of being paralyzed?
- On a scale of one to ten, what urgency do you find in the wider church with respect to the matter of the forgiveness of sins? Explain your answer.
- Explain how the impact of sin on the sinner creates a form of “paralysis.”
- All sickness came into the world due to sin. Do you think that sickness is ever the result of personal sin? Why or why not?
- What practically does the forgiveness of sin mean? What is it based on? How is it accomplished? What is its effect?
- Why do people tend to minimize the forgiveness of their sin? What happens when we count our sin a small thing, unimportant, easily remedied?
- What positive impact does it make on us when we seek to realize the grave seriousness of our sin and to admit this before God?
- Why do you think the crowd was so amazed at this event? Why do you think you are not more amazed yourself?