Peter Roselle: God’s Power is Present to Heal (Luke 5:17)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2023-10-07

Peter Roselle: God’s Power is Present to Heal (Luke 5:17)
Peter speaks at King of Kings Worship Center in Basking Ridge, NJ, on 10/1/2023.
Text verses: Luke 5:15 “…and great multitudes came together to hear Him, and to be healed by Him of their infirmities. 17 … as He was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them.”

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Luke 5
18-19 Then behold, men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed, whom they sought to bring in and lay before Him. And when they could not find how they might bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst before Jesus.
20 When He saw their faith, He said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
21 The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts… He answered and said to them, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts?
23 “Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” – he said to the man who was paralyzed, 
“I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”

Food for Thought…
Why were the man’s sins forgiven before his bodily healing?
Did he need his sins forgiven before he could be healed?
Jesus knew The Legalists were there to oppose him; by forgiving the man's sins first, Jesus addressed an aspect of God's nature that the Legalists often overlooked: God’s mercy and desire to forgive. We must guard against “the heart virus of Legalism.”

2 Timothy 3
1-2 But know this, that in the last days perilous 
times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money… 

Luke 16 
13 You cannot serve God and mammon. [the god of Mammon].
14 Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they derided Him.

Matt 23
23-24 You tithe from your luxuries and your spices, giving a tenth of your mint, your dill, and cumin. 
But you have ignored the essentials of the law: justice, mercy, faithfulness. 
You hypocritical, blind leaders – you spoon the fly from your soup and swallow a camel.

Food for Thought – How is the Relevant to 10/1/2023?
We have off-year elections soon – why is there low voter turnout?
“God’s Power is Present to Heal” EVERYTHING
Physical healing - The paralyzed man was healed.
Cultural healing - Jesus focused on both physical healing and shifting the religious leader’s mindsets to achieve “cultural healing.” Jesus was dealing with four converging worldviews: Spiritual (Faith) / Cultural (Society) / Political (Gov’t) Number 4?  The Gospel of the Kingdom of God.

Spiritual - Jewish religion – religious leadership that enforced the sacred law of Moses.
Cultural - Greek culture, with its dominant language, philosophy, and cultural influence, (legacy of Alexander the Great (336 BC))
Political - Roman Government - enforcement of most advanced legal system – i.e., senate / citizen
God’s Kingdom - Matthew 6:31-33 Gospel of the Kingdom of God
“Therefore, do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

The Apostle Paul sees these worldviews converging. He boldly proclaims that the crucified Jesus of Nazareth is Lord of the whole world – NOT Caesar! Moving from place to place, Paul demonstrates the 
Lordship of God’s Kingdom with signs and wonders; birthing Kingdom communities (Ekklesia) that are powerful living examples of the “Jesus worldview,” rapidly growing as the “Body of Christ” in the earth.

Acts 15 
4-5 And when they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles; they reported all things that God had done with them. But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

Romans 2 – God’s Kindness Leads to Repentance
4 Do you take the kindness of God for granted? Do you see His patience and tolerance as signs that He is a pushover when it comes to sin? How could you not know that His kindness is guiding our hearts...