# Forgiving Sins - The Gospels

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 15 Feb 2024, 11 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 154. A paralyzed man, brought by his four friends, is lowered through a roof to Jesus. Seeing their faith, Jesus not only heals the man but also forgives his sins, leaving the crowd totally amazed. Later, Jesus calls Matthew, a tax collector, to follow Him and even dines with tax collectors and "sinners," teaching that He came to help those who need Him most. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Not finding a way to bring him in because of
[0:03] Speaker 1: the multitude, they went up to the housetop and led
[0:06] Speaker 1: him down through the tiles with his cot into the
[0:09] Speaker 1: middle before Jesus. Seeing their faith, he said to him, Man,
[0:14] Speaker 1: your sins are forgiven you. Luke 5, 19 and 20.
[0:21] Speaker 1: Dear God, today we want to thank you for the
[0:24] Speaker 1: gift of forgiveness. Even though we mess up, Every day,
[0:29] Speaker 1: you still give us your love and forgiveness so freely.
[0:33] Speaker 1: You let us start all over. Help us to have
[0:36] Speaker 1: faith like the man and his friends in today's story.
[0:40] Speaker 1: We know you have the power to do anything you choose.
[0:44] Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, amen.
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[1:22] Speaker 3: Forgiving Sins In our last story, Jesus began to call
[1:28] Speaker 3: his disciples, healed a man with an evil spirit, and
[1:32] Speaker 3: also healed Peter's mother-in-law. In this story, we will learn
[1:37] Speaker 3: about Jesus healing a paralytic man and forgiving his sins,
[1:41] Speaker 3: and also calling Matthew, the tax collector, to be his follower,
[1:48] Speaker 3: as inspired by the Gospels.
[1:53] Speaker 1: Hello again, it's Julianne Thompson, guest hosting for Julia Jeffress Sadler,
[1:58] Speaker 1: back here for another story from the Kids Bible in
[2:01] Speaker 1: a Year podcast. Jesus shows us something new about himself
[2:05] Speaker 1: in today's story, and it's pretty amazing. Listen close and
[2:11] Speaker 1: watch how he once again gives us a whole new
[2:15] Speaker 1: way to live.
[2:18] Speaker 3: Jesus traveled to a house in Capernaum. When people heard
[2:23] Speaker 3: that Jesus had come, they rushed to the house he
[2:26] Speaker 3: was staying in. So many people filled the house that
[2:30] Speaker 3: there was no room left. Many stood outside the house
[2:34] Speaker 3: just trying to get a glimpse of what was going on.
[2:38] Speaker 3: Jesus was teaching to the large crowd. Four men came
[2:43] Speaker 3: carrying their friend who was paralyzed and could not move.
[2:47] Speaker 3: The crowd was so large. the men could not get
[2:50] Speaker 3: their friend to Jesus. So they climbed up on the
[2:54] Speaker 3: house and made an opening in the roof above Jesus.
[2:59] Speaker 3: After digging through the roof, they lowered their paralyzed friend
[3:03] Speaker 3: on a mat. Jesus saw their faith and said to
[3:07] Speaker 3: the paralytic man, Son, your sins are forgiven. Right then,
[3:13] Speaker 3: the teachers of the law were upset at what Jesus
[3:16] Speaker 3: had done. They began thinking things like, Why.
[3:20] Speaker 2: Does this man talk like this?
[3:21] Speaker 3: He's blaspheming.
[3:23] Speaker 2: Only God can forgive sins.
[3:26] Speaker 3: Jesus knew in his heart what the teachers were thinking
[3:30] Speaker 3: in their hearts. So he said to them, It is
[3:33] Speaker 3: easier to say to the paralytic man, Get up, take
[3:37] Speaker 3: your mat, and walk. But I have forgiven this man,
[3:41] Speaker 3: so that you may know that the Son of Man
[3:44] Speaker 3: has authority on earth to forgive sins. Then he said
[3:49] Speaker 3: to the paralytic man, I tell you, get up, take
[3:54] Speaker 3: up your mat and go home. He quickly stood up,
[3:58] Speaker 3: picked up his mat and walked out of the house
[4:01] Speaker 3: in front of all of the people. This miracle amazed
[4:06] Speaker 3: everyone and they praised God saying, we have never seen
[4:11] Speaker 3: anything like this. Jesus went outside beside the lake. As
[4:17] Speaker 3: he walked, He saw a man named Levi, also known
[4:21] Speaker 3: as Matthew, sitting at the tax collector's booth. Jesus looked
[4:26] Speaker 3: to Matthew and said, Follow me. Matthew immediately stood up
[4:31] Speaker 3: and followed Jesus. Then Jesus joined Matthew and many other
[4:36] Speaker 3: tax collectors and sinners for dinner at Matthew's house. The
[4:41] Speaker 3: teachers of the law saw this and were shocked. They
[4:45] Speaker 3: asked Jesus' disciples, Why does your teacher eat with sinners?
[4:51] Speaker 3: Right when Jesus heard this, he said to them, The
[4:54] Speaker 3: healthy people do not need doctors. Doctors are for sick people.
[5:01] Speaker 3: I have come not for the righteous, but for the sinners.
[5:06] Speaker 3: I tell you, go and learn what this means. I
[5:11] Speaker 3: desire mercy, not sacrifice.
[5:20] Speaker 1: Well, as you can see, word about Jesus is spreading fast.
[5:25] Speaker 1: People want to be near him, and they want to
[5:27] Speaker 1: see if all the stories about him are true. That's
[5:32] Speaker 1: why this house where Jesus was teaching was so crowded.
[5:37] Speaker 1: We heard about four men who wanted their friend to
[5:41] Speaker 1: be healed. He couldn't walk, and they were desperate.
[5:45] Speaker 2: To get to Jesus.
[5:47] Speaker 1: So instead of fighting the crowds, These friends decided to
[5:51] Speaker 1: lower him through the roof. Wouldn't you have loved to
[5:54] Speaker 1: see this? And I don't know about you, but I
[5:58] Speaker 1: would love to have friends like that. Even better, I
[6:02] Speaker 1: would love to be a friend like that. Doing anything
[6:06] Speaker 1: I can to help people I love get closer to Jesus. Okay,
[6:11] Speaker 1: so Jesus knew that if these men went to that
[6:13] Speaker 1: much trouble to lower their friend down from the roof,
[6:17] Speaker 1: their faith must have been pretty strong. They must have
[6:21] Speaker 1: been sure that Jesus could heal him. So Jesus told
[6:25] Speaker 1: this man that his sins were forgiven because of his faith.
[6:30] Speaker 1: And that caused quite a scene. People already knew Jesus
[6:34] Speaker 1: could heal, but they didn't know that he could also
[6:38] Speaker 1: have the power and authority to forgive someone's sins.
[6:43] Speaker 3: Why?
[6:43] Speaker 1: Because Jesus is God. Some people doubted Jesus. but he
[6:48] Speaker 1: put their doubts to rest when he told the man
[6:51] Speaker 1: to get up and walk. Do you remember what Jesus said?
[6:56] Speaker 1: Go ahead and pick up your bed and walk right
[6:59] Speaker 1: on out of here. And he did. Jesus did this
[7:03] Speaker 1: to show the people and the teachers of the law
[7:06] Speaker 1: that he was not just a prophet of God doing
[7:08] Speaker 1: great things, but God himself with all the power and
[7:14] Speaker 1: authority of his father. As today's story closes, we meet
[7:19] Speaker 1: a new disciple named Levi. We know him as Matthew
[7:22] Speaker 1: because that's the new name Jesus gave him. We'll go
[7:25] Speaker 1: back to that in a minute. Levi was a tax collector,
[7:29] Speaker 1: a Jew working for the Romans whose job was to
[7:31] Speaker 1: collect money or taxes from the Jews. These tax collectors
[7:36] Speaker 1: would often cheat people and charge them for more than
[7:40] Speaker 1: what they owed, keeping the extra money for themselves. Because
[7:45] Speaker 1: of that, no one liked tax collectors very much. They
[7:49] Speaker 1: were seen as cheaters and usually didn't have many friends.
[7:54] Speaker 1: But when Jesus saw Levi and said, follow me, he
[7:58] Speaker 1: immediately obeyed. And to top it off, he was probably
[8:02] Speaker 1: shocked that Jesus came to his house for dinner that night.
[8:07] Speaker 1: When the Jewish leaders and teachers discovered this, they couldn't
[8:11] Speaker 1: understand why Jesus would choose to hang out with a
[8:13] Speaker 1: tax collector. Why are you with these sinners so much?
[8:17] Speaker 1: They asked. But Jesus' answer to that question was pretty great.
[8:22] Speaker 1: He asked a question right back to them, which he
[8:25] Speaker 1: did quite often. He said, who is more in need
[8:29] Speaker 1: of a doctor? Someone who's healthy or someone who's sick? Well,
[8:34] Speaker 1: of course the answer to that question is someone who's sick.
[8:38] Speaker 1: Jesus said in that same way, the reason he came
[8:41] Speaker 1: to earth was for sinners, people who needed him. not
[8:45] Speaker 1: for people who knew how to obey all the rules.
[8:49] Speaker 1: Here Jesus goes again, turning things upside down and surprising
[8:53] Speaker 1: us with the wisdom and love. Sometimes, like the Jewish leaders,
[8:57] Speaker 1: we only want to hang out around people who are
[9:00] Speaker 1: just like us. Now, that can be important too, because
[9:03] Speaker 1: we want our closest friends to be the ones that
[9:06] Speaker 1: love and follow God. But other times, God may want
[9:09] Speaker 1: us to spend time with those who don't know as
[9:12] Speaker 1: much about him.
[9:13] Speaker 2: Why?
[9:14] Speaker 1: Why? so we can tell them. Maybe there's someone on
[9:18] Speaker 1: your baseball team, in your dance class, or anyone else
[9:21] Speaker 1: that might like to spend time with you. And if
[9:24] Speaker 1: that person does not know Jesus, you could be the
[9:28] Speaker 1: one to tell them. Jesus changed Levi's name to Matthew,
[9:33] Speaker 1: which means gift of the Lord. He didn't see Matthew
[9:37] Speaker 1: as a sinful tax collector. He saw him as a
[9:40] Speaker 1: child of God and someone who would help him tell
[9:43] Speaker 1: the world of his love. That's all for today. Remember,
[9:48] Speaker 1: Jesus forgave Matthew of his sin, and he can forgive
[9:53] Speaker 1: you too. I hope you'll be back next time to
[9:56] Speaker 1: hear what a little bird and the hairs on your
[9:59] Speaker 1: head have in common. Here's a hint. He knows you
[10:02] Speaker 1: so well. Don't forget the Bible is the best story
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