2022-May-08 10:00AM

• Providence Canadian Reformed Church
• Student C. Kos

Liturgy

• Preservice Song: It is Well with My Soul
• *Votum & Salutation
• *Opening Song: Ps. 122: 1, 2, 3
• Ten Words of the Covenant
• Song of Response: Ps. 130: 2, 4
• Prayer
• Reading of Scripture:
  • Luke 1:1-4
  • Luke 5:12-26
• Song of Preparation: Hymn 18: 1, 3
• Reading of the Text: Luke 5:17-26
• Ministry of the Word: Know with certainty that Jesus has authority to forgive your sins!
  1. Jesus' authority to forgive sins proclaimed to the paralytic (vs. 17-20)
  2. Jesus' authority to forgive sins challenged by the Pharisees (vs. 21)
  3. Jesus' authority to forgive sins confirmed by the miracle (vs. 22-26)
• *Song of Response: Hymn 81: 1, 3, 4, 6, 7
• Thanksgiving Prayer
• Offertory: Bible League
• *Song of Closing: Ps. 103: 1, 4
• *Benediction

Ministry of the Word: Know with certainty that Jesus has authority to forgive your sins!

1. Jesus' authority to forgive sins proclaimed to the paralytic (vs. Luke 5:17-20)

• Jesus faced difficult challenges, and he often withdrew to pray to God the Father.
• Our saviour knows that our greatest challenge is not physical paralysis but spiritual paralysis.
• Our sinful nature can bring feelings of shame and inadequacy.
• But Jesus brings hope.
• Jesus is not just a healer of bones, but a healer of souls.

2. Jesus' authority to forgive sins challenged by the Pharisees (vs. Luke 5:21)

• The Pharisees called Jesus a mere human, and said that he was speaking blasphemy.
• Who do you say Jesus is?

3. Jesus' authority to forgive sins confirmed by the miracle (vs. Luke 5:22-26)

• God does not listen to sinners.
• Jesus saying that "your sins are forgiven" is not possible for us to verify. But Jesus telling the paralytic to walk was immediately verifiable.
• Daniel 7:13-14. Here Daniel describes a vision that he has in which he sees the Son of man ascending into heaven, given authority over all things in heaven and on earth.