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The Authority of Jesus to Forgive Sins 0:00 Are you a sinner? Good. That's the only qualification that you need to come to Christ. And in Matthew chapter 9, Jesus reveals the power of God to forgive sins. And thus, he divides the world into0:12 just 2 kinds of people, those who know they are sinners and those who think they are good. The sinners are welcomed and the righteous are left out because grace flips everything upside0:23 down so it can set your life right side up. Welcome to Kingdom Come episode 16.0:49 Welcome back to the channel for Kingdom Come episode 16, and I am your host Tim Hatch on Tim Hatch Live. We are going through the gospel of Matthew. We are also encouraging those of you who have been with us, get a hold1:00 of the journal. Kingdom Come is available at tim hatchlife dot com. It's also available through our email system, ask at tim hatchlife dot com. We might be able to get it to you sooner or at our other locations at Waters1:10 Church if you belong to Waters Church. If you don't, I'm so glad that you're here. As well, if you are on YouTube, welcome into the content. And it is my prayer, It is my hope that this content blesses your life,1:22 builds your faith, and draws you closer to Jesus. We are in part 16. That would be section 16 of the journal. And it is time to talk about this topic. Your sins1:34 are forgiven. Your sins are forgiven. What an amazing statement. You know, sometimes I think we forget that this is the glorious1:46 hope of the Christian. God is not going to hold your sins against you. Not if you're in Christ Jesus. Romans 8 verse 1, there is no condemnation. None to those1:58 who are in Christ Jesus. Because what Christ did is what the law could not do. Make you righteous in God's sight. And so we are in Matthew chapter 9. If you've got your2:10 Bibles out, make sure you always open your Bible. You know, highlight, underline, mark things up. Let's do something first though. Let's bracket Matthew chapter 8 with the content and the2:22 narrative of Matthew chapters 7, 8, and 9. Now let's bracket chapter 9 in this case with chapter 7, 8, and 9. Just a new section. Chapter 7 is the end of the Sermon on the Mount where it says that Jesus taught with2:34 1 as authority. And then chapter 8, we talked about this last time. The series of 10 distinct miracles through Matthew chapter 8 and 9 that reveal who Jesus is and most2:45 importantly, his authority over all things. Jesus has authority over sickness. He heals the leper, Matthew chapter 8 verse 1 to 3. He calms the storm, meaning that he has authority2:57 over nature. When the disciples are freaking out, he he casts out the demons from the men at the gatherings, cast them into the pig's wine. 2000 pigs rush off into the off the bank into their3:09 death. Jesus has authority over the demonic spirits, but the climax of this 2 chapter section revealing the authority of Jesus is in chapter 9, and the theme here3:21 is Jesus has authority over the forgiveness of sins. Your sins are forgiven through Jesus. Now you can start to see that what Matthew's gospel is, and listen to me, this is so important because so many3:33 Christians don't get this. Matthew's gospel is not a day by day charting or record of Jesus's actions and stories. These are3:45 theological histories. They are revealing Jesus through the stories that Matthew has selected to reveal, to transmit to us so that we understand3:58 the person of Jesus, the work of Jesus, the point of Jesus, and the hope that Jesus has come to offer us. Now authority is a big deal in Matthew. In fact, the book of Matthew, we already talked about chapter 7 verse4:10 29, he taught as 1 who had authority. Then these miracles reveal his authority. Matthew chapter 28 18, Jesus says, all authority in heaven on earth has been given to me. Go therefore make disciples. So in Christ, the4:21 believer has been given authority. In Christ, the church and the leadership of the church has been given authority to forgive sins, to excommunicate, to bring into fellowship, so on and so forth. And through Christ, most4:33 importantly, all who come to him, the worst part of you has been fixed. Sin is the worst part of you. You might not think that, but it's true. Peter understood4:45 it because when Jesus meets Peter, he falls at his feet and says depart from me, I'm a sinful man. That's Luke chapter 5 verse 8. Paul understood this first Timothy 1 15. He says, Christ Jesus came into the world to save4:57 sinners of whom I am the foremost. That's Paul the Apostle speaking there. We have a lot of feel good preaching today that no longer talks about sin, no longer talks about the the, the problem of our guilt and shame and5:09 fear, but we do have a lot of preaching about dreams and visions and passions and becoming what you are are meant to become. And we have a lot of preaching about overcoming your obstacles. We have a lot of preaching5:20 about peace in the midst of the storms of life. We have the preaching about God's plan for you, God's will for you, God's desire for you, God's dream for you, God's vision for you, but we don't have much good old5:30 fashioned preaching on the necessity to receive forgiveness for sin through repentance and turning to Christ. So when you read5:42 Matthew, you understand time and time again, chapter after chapter, this was the point for Jesus coming, to forgive the sinner5:54 his sins. And every chapter is a theological treatise to that testimony. This is glorious news, by the way. We're not here I'm not here talking about sin to make you feel bad. I'm here talking about sin6:06 because Christ is the answer to sin. First John chapter 2, if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the father, Christ Jesus, the righteous, who is the propitiation for our sins.6:18 So let's get started in Matthew chapter 9 and take a look at how Matthew unpacks this story that what Christ really came to do, what he ultimately is here to do for you is to forgive you of sins.6:30 Let's go chapter 9 verse 1. And getting into a boat, remember he's in this region of the gatherings back in chapter 8. Now this is the end of chapter 8. Now into chapter 9. He gets back into the boat. Gatherings are on6:41 the eastern side of the sea valley, and he decides to cross over and come to his own city. His own city is Capernaum. We talked about that, last time. And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic lying on a bed.6:53 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, take heart take heart, my son. Your sins are forgiven. Okay. Mark has a lot more details on this story and it happens a lot earlier in the gospel of Mark. These 4 men7:03 cannot get into the house where Jesus is teaching and preaching because the crowd is so thick. And so, surrounding Jesus, they are it's impenetrable. So they go up onto the roof, they dig a hole, they lay they they7:15 lower this man through a hole in the roof in the eyes of everyone before Jesus. Jesus sees their faith. Look at that line. He sees their faith. And Friends, this is7:27 why you know Jesus is different. He is unique. Because when he sees the paralytic lowered before him, when he sees these 4 guys doing the7:39 extraordinary effort of bringing their paralyzed friend to Jesus, what are you bringing a paralyzed friend? What are you going through all that trouble to do? Why bring your paralyzed friend to Jesus? Why? Because you7:50 want him to walk. You want him to get up out of that bed. You want him back on his feet, if he ever was on his feet. We don't know. Here's what Jesus says. Take heart, my son.8:03 Your sins are forgiven. What? What? You almost could see, like, the surprise on the 4 men's face. Like, great. Thank you. But if you haven't noticed, he's8:15 paralyzed. Couple things we wanna point out. Jesus is far more concerned with sin than this man's physical condition. Now don't miss this. He saw their faith.8:27 Does their faith include the paralytic? That's an interesting question. It could very well based on the terminology of the text. But these men intercede on behalf of their friend to bring him healing.8:39 They want healing. Jesus gives him forgiveness. Now the economy, the economic means by which this man's sins were forgiven is what?8:51 Faith. Faith leads to forgiveness. Not works, not doing enough, not, penance and prayers9:03 and sacraments and offerings and going to church and doing all the things that religious people no. Faith. Faith is seen by Jesus, and then he forgives this man's9:15 sin. An outrageous statement, by the way, to those in attendance, because look at what happens in the next verse. Verse 3 says, and behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, this man is blaspheming. Now, this is a9:23 claim, that they are making against Jesus, saying you are claiming the the place of God. They they understood theology. Only God can forgive sins. Mark's gospel says that only God can forgive sins. Well, Jesus knowing9:35 their thoughts, you're going to love that, says, why do you think even their hearts in your hearts? They said to themselves, don't miss this, they said these things to themselves, Jesus is blaspheming, but Jesus9:46 knew their thoughts. He is constantly doing something without coming out and just saying it, but he's constantly revealing himself to be God. There are some people who say, well, Jesus9:58 never made the claim to be God. He never actually said, I am God. Okay. And that's true. He never actually said, I am God in that exact terminology. But he said many things that made the claim that he was God, and this10:08 is 1 of them. He knew their thoughts, and he forgave sins. He pronounced forgiveness, and time and time again, Jesus will do this. That's why I love the gospels. It doesn't just come out in just like black and white10:18 everything. You have to read in, you have to examine, you have to see how Jesus makes these claims. And it's beautiful to see it unpacked in Matthew's gospel. So he says, now why do you think these evil thoughts? An evil10:27 thought is that Jesus is not God. The evil thought is that Jesus is not God. Understand that. Jesus is the divine son of God. Alright? When you see Jesus, you see God the father in Jesus because he does all the10:39 things that the father wants him to do. Anyway, so, it goes on and he says, for which is easier to say, he's still addressing his critics, your sins are forgiven or to say rise up and walk, but that you may know10:51 but that you may know that the son of man has authority. There's that word again, has been all over the gospel of Matthew thus far. That the the the son of man has authority on earth to forgive11:03 sins. He then said to the paralytic, rise, pick up your bed and go home. And it happened, and he rose and went home. Verse 7. And when the crowd saw it, they were afraid and they glorified God who had given such11:13 authority to men. Now it is obviously easier to say, yeah, to someone, your sins are forgiven because you don't really have to prove that to anybody. I mean, the guy's just sitting there, his sins are forgiven. There11:25 needs to be there will be no external, you know, change of his face or complexion. Well, maybe there was I don't know. Maybe he was happy. I don't know. But you don't see him you don't see a paralytic get up and walk11:34 because of those words. So what here here is an important understanding to get the point of Jesus's miracles. Jesus's miracles were not for him to show off. Jesus' miracles were not just to11:46 provide, you know, circumstantial happiness or peace of mind or even temporary healing. Jesus' miracles were intended to show11:58 to reveal who he was, that he was God the son who had the authority on earth to forgive sins. And he wants you to believe that he can forgive sins so much so that he12:10 heals this man to prove his power to forgive. The healing of the paralytic was secondary to the forgiveness of the sins of the paralytic. When you think about a paralytic, how many sins can a paralytic actually commit?12:21 But again, the nature and the reality of sin is far deeper, far more corrosive than we realize. Realize. And Jesus is here to heal, and Jesus is here to bring salvation to those who feel, they are hopeless. ThisShow more In this video 0:00 The Authority of Jesus to Forgive Sins12:31 Matthew's Call and the Joy of Salvation
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