{"id":1566,"date":"2014-06-02T07:40:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T13:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2014-06-02T07:42:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T13:42:14","slug":"jesus-forgives-sins-and-heals-a-man-stricken-with-palsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?p=1566","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Forgives Sins and Heals a Man Stricken with Palsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #373737;\">In Charles Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge vowed \u201cI will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.\u201d I am going to keep Christmas all the year by remembering my Savior and studying His life each week. Scrooge isn\u2019t the only one who can\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #1982d1;\" title=\"Vision Climb\" href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?page_id=55\" target=\"_blank\">make a change for the better<\/a><span style=\"color: #373737;\">. I can and you can. Elder Richard G. Scott promised, \u201cThe best way to make a permanent change for good is to make Jesus Christ your model and His teachings your guide for life\u201d (<\/span><a style=\"color: #1982d1;\" title=\"A Personal Study Plan\" href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?page_id=238\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHe Lives! All Glory to His Name!\u201d<\/a><span style=\"color: #373737;\">). Please join me and invite your family and friends to join us in keeping Christmas all the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VW4-wxIB1pA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>And again he entered into Capernaum after\u00a0some\u00a0days; and it was noised that he was in the house. And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive\u00a0them,\u00a0no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four. And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it\u00a0up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, Why doth this\u00a0man\u00a0thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts? Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy,\u00a0Thy\u00a0sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/nt\/mark\/2.1-12?lang=eng#primary\" target=\"_blank\">Mark 2:1-12<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Points to Ponder:<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>How has Jesus&#8217; power to forgive blessed you?<\/li>\n<li>How has Jesus&#8217; healing power blessed you?<\/li>\n<li>Have you experienced a connection between forgiveness and healing in your life?<\/li>\n<li>How can we seek greater spiritual or physical healing?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p>Click <a title=\"New Testament\" href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?page_id=673\">here<\/a> for additional New Testament posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Charles Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge vowed \u201cI will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.\u201d I am going to keep Christmas all the year by remembering my Savior and studying His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?p=1566\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,8,29,11,25,20,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belief","category-forgiveness","category-freedom","category-healing","category-jesus-christ","category-new-testament","category-power","category-repentance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}