Matthew 9:1-8 ~ The Healing of the Paralytic

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Our text says, And when Jesus saw their faith. How does that work? The false gospel narrative will say when God sees your faith, He will work a miracle. What it is really saying is Jesus saw God's Spirit working in their life persuading them to carry that man and lower him down through the roof. They were not trying to prove anything. They were not down below saying, "You know if we had enough faith, we could get this guy healed. We are going to have to go up on the roof and really prove our faith." They did not do that. They had evidences that God's Spirit was bringing them and had arranged this whole episode. Jesus responds to faith, not the faith of people but the persuasion of His Spirit in people's lives.