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Maintaining the “status quo”. Like my little girl, there are times when I just want to maintain the status quo because it’s safe, it’s familiar, it’s predictable, and it’s comfortable.
2. But sometimes maintaining the status quo creates problems because doing so interferes with personal growth and maturity.
3. It can even impact our relationship with God. When maintaining the status quo impacts our faith, we stagnate because we have put God in the “proverbial box”.
4. And why do we put God in a box? Because we want Him to be predictable, safe, and submitted to our preferences and wishes.
5. But God will not be boxed in by anyone! In fact, He loves us so much that He is committed to busting out of our boxes so that we may have a living, maturing, and even stretching relationship with Him; a relationship that requires a complete abandonment of all trust in self so that we may completely trust in Him.
6. Tonight, we will discover how Jesus busted out of the boxes of those who were following Him so that they could have a living, maturing, and even stretching relationship with God through Jesus, our Savior.

Matthew 9:1-17
Context
1. In Matthew 8-9, Jesus was in the northern end of the Sea of Galilee by His town of Capernaum.
2. He had just finished His Sermon on the Mount in which He told the people of Israel that to enter the kingdom of heaven, they must be transformed in the inner man, a transformation that happens when a person has placed his or her faith in Jesus Christ for salvation.
3. After the Sermon on the Mount, we are told that the crowds were amazed by His teaching because “He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their scribes”. (7:29)
4. The events that unfolded next, demonstrated Jesus’ power and authority. He had spoken as one having authority, now Jesus revealed His power and authority over all of creation in Matthew 8-9.
5. There are ten miracles recorded in these chapters, each with powerful applications for our lives. We will focus on the sixth miracle this evening along with His calling of the author of this Gospel, Matthew.

I. Jesus has Authority to Forgive Sins (1-8)

• The scene that unfolds in Matthew 9 is one of a paralytic lying on a bed or a stretcher, who had four friends that believed that if they brought him to Jesus, He would heal their friend.
• According to Luke 5, we’re told that they could not bring their friend to Jesus through the front door because the size of the crowd was so great. So, they climbed onto the roof, removed the ceiling tiles, and lowered their friend down by ropes right into the presence of Jesus.
• Jesus then said three things to this man that amazed everyone in the house. And it’s here that we receive great insight into what God is doing for us all through Jesus, our Savior.

A. “Take courage, My son”
1. I am encouraged to hear how Jesus addressed the man.
2. Jesus began by addressing the man directly to calm his troubled soul and to strengthen his heart.
3. When Jesus said, “Take courage, My son”, He said two significant things.
a. “My son” speaks of how much Jesus cared for him and loved him. It is how a father would speak to his child after they had fallen and gotten hurt.
b. “Take courage” is a word which means, “There’s nothing to be afraid of, let not your heart be troubled.”

APPL – Here again, we see the heart of God for the lost in Jesus’ words. Through Jesus, God was inaugurating a new dispensation or season of grace because of His love for us. God wants to change our lives with His love. He did not come to load us down with burdens. He came to set us free.

Matthew 11:28-30, Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.

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