Forgiveness: Striking the Root

Forgiveness: Striking at the Root of Corruption

Matthew 9:1-8

• Miracles are a sign of the new creation

Forgiveness

• Miracles are a sign of the new creation

• Jesus intends to strike at the root of all corruption

Forgiveness

• Communion

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Connection between prayer

and forgiveness

Communion

• Communion• Comprehension

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• Communion• Comprehension• Confidence

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• Objective (vv. 6-7)

Confidence

• Objective• Subjective (v. 2)

Confidence

• Sonship• Joy• New Life

Experience…

• Communion• Comprehension• Confidence• Commitment

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Lewis’s Trilemma(Liar, Lunatic or Lord?)

Commitment

“You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the son of God: or else a madman or something worse.”

C.S. Lewis

Commitment

“…but let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher.”

C.S. Lewis

Commitment

A New Beginning

A New Beginning