Mark 1:29-2:12, What Does It Prove?

Mark chapter 1 verse 29 to chapter 2 verse 12 hear the word of the

Lord and Immediately he left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John now

Simon's mother -in -law lay ill with a fever and Immediately they told him about her and he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up and the fever left her and She began to serve them

That evening at sundown they brought to him all who were sick and or oppressed by demons and the whole city was gathered together at the door and he healed many who were sick with various diseases and cast out many demons and he would not permit the demons to speak because they knew him and Rising very early in the morning while it was still dark

He departed and went out to a desolate place and there he prayed and Simon and those who were with him searched for him

And they found him and said to him. Everyone is looking for you and he said to them

Let us go on to the next towns that I may preach there also for that is why

I came out and he went throughout all Galilee preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons and A leper came to him imploring him and kneeling said to him if you will you can make me clean

Moved with pity he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him I will be clean and immediately the leprosy left him and he was made clean and Jesus certainly charged him and sent him away at once and said to him

See that you say nothing to anyone but go show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing

What Moses commanded for a proof to them? But he went out and began to talk freely about it and to spread the news so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town but was out in desolate places and people were coming to him from every quarter and When he returned to Capernaum after some days it was reported that he was at home and many were gathered together

So that there was no more room not even at the door and he was preaching the word to them and they came bringing to him

A paralytic carried by four men and when they could not get near him because of the crowd they removed the roof

Above him and when they had made an opening they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay and when

Jesus saw their faith He said to the paralytic my son Your sins are forgiven and some of the scribes were sitting there questioning in their hearts

Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming who can forgive sins, but God alone and Immediately Jesus perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves said to them

Why do you question these things in your hearts, which is easier to say to the paralytic? Your sins are forgiven or to say rise take up your bed and walk

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins

He said to the paralytic I say to you rise pick up your bed and go home

And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all so that they were all amazed and glorified

God saying We never saw anything like this May the

Lord add his blessings to the reading of his Holy Word. Well, what does it prove?

Whatever it is We have we have to present evidence that we can do

What we want to do, whatever that is We can't expect to be chosen for a team or for a band or hired for a job unless we can show

That we can do it Whatever it is. So we have ways of proving ourselves and that's not bad.

Nothing wrong with that In fact kids who are being who are raised kind of being told Constantly how great they are without having to prove themselves

That there's something wrong with anyone like a coach or a teacher or questioning them

Will often hate to have to prove themselves and so they won't do it

Whatever it is to prove themselves They won't try to make the team or the band at school or they won't come here to play play ball and Sunday evenings

Because they know deep down That if they do they try to prove themselves that they might prove

They're really not the next Michael Jordan Just undiscovered they would rather live the rest of their lives kind of imagining how great they really are

Just no one ever recognize it even if no one knows it then be made to prove themselves and Be shown that maybe they're not so great

They don't want to be proven to not be as great as they think they are and so they won't do it to prove themselves

Whatever it is What does it prove well that depends on what it is In the job market you can prove yourself for some jobs

Maybe by having the right credentials You've got a college degree in the right field of study or a certificate of training from someplace or maybe it's belonging to an organization

Like a union or professional organization your membership proves that you can do the job

The Association is all about or maybe both, you know for doctors and at least most most lawyers in most states

You have to have graduated From the right school right University and passed the exams for the ministry is being quote ordained

Ordination is it it is a church's way of being a professional organization and saying that this person can can do the ministry

The church says he's proven himself even for the restaurant business. You have to prove yourself

Don't you you restaurateurs here? You have to prove to government health inspectors that you're clean

You can prove yourself with numbers High school athletes Want to put up good statistics to catch the eye of college scouts.

It's it's their shooting it That they're trying to get is their shooting percentage or their yards per game a good

SAT score Can be it Can show to colleges that you're a good student

Sometimes people judge churches by or our pastors bite by numbers That's the it in their mind how many people they have or you can prove yourself by a referral

It can be someone vouching for you like writing a letter of reference Rachel B has asked me to give her letters of reference and I'm happy to do so Of course, you can prove yourself by by doing it

Whatever it is prove that you're a good cook by cooking good food Prove that you're a good business person by running a profitable business

Prove that you can play By playing you're a good student by getting good grades now the question is

What does it prove? Whatever it is a couple of you visited

Mary in the hospital a week before last and someone called Alexander called people offered help someone made special food for me.

It's supposed to help heal bones What is all that proof? When I was laying in the hospital after the surgery and Mary told me about those who came to visit

I I said That's the church That made me happy.

I lay there in that hospital bed happy because all that Proved something, you know, we don't have a lot of numbers here to prove ourselves with But we do have that and I think that kind of love that it

Proves something far greater than a lot of numbers What does it prove well that depends on what it is if it's a 90 % three -point shot rate

It proves you're a good basketball player. If it's a four -minute mile, it proves you're a fast runner. It was making millions of dollars

It proves you're a good business person if it's 1600 in the SAT It proves you're smart or maybe you cheated.

I don't know if it's over a thousand people in your church. It probably proves That you're an attractive communicator.

I guess I'm not sure what else beyond that If $100 goes missing from the cash register, you might confront the cashier

You know, there's $100 missing You were the only one who had access to the cash register Defensive he or she says

What does that prove? That you're the only one who could have taken it When it comes to Jesus Here we all know what we're supposed to say he is who we're supposed to say he is

It's a you know, it's in our statement of faith to be a Christian You you have to believe some things about who he is, but do we know?

How he proved it Do we know that he showed himself and how he showed himself to be?

That do we know what are the it's that proved who Jesus is here. We see those it's and What they prove we see them here in five parts five

It's they prove five truths about Jesus. He is first the razor

Not r a z o r like you shave with but r a i s e r someone who raises

Second the Lord third. He's the preacher fourth, he's the the willer and Finally he's the forgiver and also

God But first Jesus proves that he is he's the razor He's the one who raises up his people now immediately after casting out the evil spirit and synagogue and Capernaum We saw last week

Jesus and the disciples go to Peter's house Here we find out that Peter was married.

Now. What does that prove? Well, it proves that when Jesus said to him follow me

Peter had a family to think about He had at least a wife and in that his mother -in -law lived with him probably proved that she's a widow and was depending on him for support and Peter could have said, you know,

I appreciate the invitation Jesus, but you know I have a family to provide for and so I can't right now. Thank you very much

But he didn't he immediately left his fishing business and followed Jesus proving that he was a disciple and When they get to Peter's house they find that his mother -in -law lay sick

With a fever and she's laid up in bed And when they when they tell that to Jesus he came to her and notice verse 31

It doesn't say that he prayed for her or that he said anything to her Like we might expect now he probably did he probably said something to her but Peter Giving us this account through Mark here doesn't doesn't tell us about that What he tells us is that Jesus took her by the hand notice that verse 31

He took her by the hand and he lifted her up. It's like immediately take urines

You're well now He raised her up Up from the sickbed maybe far as we know maybe from the deathbed.

Now, what does that prove? It proves that Jesus raises up his people What he does for Peter's mother -in -law here he will do one day for all his people

He will raise them up not just from a fever but from death he said in John chapter 6 verse 40 everyone who looks on the

Sun and believes in him Should have eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day

Here in Mark chapter 1 he proved that he's the one who raises up his people

After proving that he's the razor by raising Peter's mother -in -law from sickness. She helped get dinner ready.

What's that proof? She's a nice lady, right? Next Jesus proved something else that evening after sunset

When is that means this in there you never understand the Jewish way of doing days a day starts when the

Sun sets so Sabbath starts on Friday evening. The Sun goes down and it ends the next sunset

So it's a Sabbath the Sun sets. It's no longer the Sabbath anymore understand. I'm Saturday evening

So it's not Sabbath anymore And so people there now can walk as far as they want to walk they can carry other things that carry people and so people brought

Multitudes of sick people maybe some with maybe some with broken legs like me And demon oppressed people now just a note here and in English I don't know where we got the term from but in English we often talk about someone being demon possessed

Which would literally mean that they belong to the demon so much possessed by a demon there They belong to the demon but that's not the

Bible's term. I don't know where the English term came from the Bible's term Like here in this passage uses a verbal form of the word demon

In other words, it's demon turned into a verb which could be you could translate it as demonized The ESV is okay here.

I think it's fine what the ESV does to translate it as oppressed by a demon So now the Sabbath is over these huge crowd full of sick and demonized people are outside Peter's door

In verse 34 Jesus healed many of the sick and cast out many demons and the demons would try to speak

Like earlier in the synagogue and he screamed, you know when the demons screamed out I know who you are the Holy One of God Remember that last week

He didn't want them saying that anymore. And so in verse 35, he does not permit the demons to speak

What does that prove? What does it show? That Jesus could command the demons not to speak and they can't speak

That he can shut them up It proves that he has authority over them That if he tells them to be quiet They have to be quiet They have to do

What he says It proves that he's Lord third after a long night of healing and casting out demons

Proving that he is Lord over bodies and spirits He got up early in the morning before it says before sunrise

Went out to a lonely place To pray What's that proof?

Well, it proves this since Jesus felt the need for prayer How much more do we?

Well Peter and the other disciples had to search for him and eventually they found him and said, you know Everyone's looking for you Jesus They they want more of what they saw last night.

These miracles have gotten people's attention. They attracted a crowd Now, what does it prove that he slipped away in the early morning to get away from the crowd?

Well, it proves that he's not really interested in crowds I wanted to help as many needy people as possible sure

But he wasn't doing it just to prove something to the crowds to just draw in big numbers for numbers sake

Look how many people I have I'm out doing John the Baptist now I'm the big shot. No, and so they told him when they told him everyone is looking for him

He said in verse 38. Let us go to the next towns that I may preach there The crowds he's attracted gave him the opportunity to preach to more people to tell them that the kingdom of God is remember at hand

It's here. And so they need to repent and they need to believe the good news.

The crowds are For Jesus are not just about numbers for numbers sake

Something you can boast him as though that proves something about him. It doesn't by the end

He'll only have one disciple left. How concerned is he about crowds and think of it by the end? He only had one disciple left at the cross and a few women still willing to be with him

He's preaching not to get big crowds. But because at the end of verse 38 That is why

I came He came to preach the kingdom of God Came to declare

God's kingdom and so he goes throughout the towns of Galilee. That's kind of northern Israel Preaching casting out demons now.

What does that prove? It proves that he is the Preacher And while he's preaching his way through Galilee starting at verse 40

Jesus encounters a leper man has leprosy If the man was abiding by the letter of the law and Leviticus, he would have to be calling out unclean unclean as Jesus and his disciples started to get closer to him

They had to warn people lepers were supposed to warn anyone getting close that they had leprosy like that Now lepers were supposed to live alone

They're supposed to be quarantined and they were supposed to warn anyone who came close, you know, keep a social distance

We would say now and here the leper tells Jesus if you will if you you will

You can make me clean Notice that's a statement of faith

He believes that Jesus has the power Just to will him

To be healed of leprosy that his healing the lepers healing that it depends on the will of Jesus Right understand the difference

It's not like healing is out there and this leper thinks that if he just says the right words He implores

Jesus in the right way that he can get this leprosy that it all depends on the lepers will know the leper says

If you will it depends on your will Jesus then in verse 41 Jesus does something revolutionary

It's got a really shocking in their culture something that no one was supposed to do He stretches out his hand and he touches he's already closer than they would normally be expected to be he touches the leper

What does that prove? That proves that Jesus is not afraid of the disease

That he knows that as soon as he touches the leper that the leper will be healed and So he

Jesus won't be made unclean by touching the leper and when Jesus touches him at that moment

The man becomes an ex -leper a disease that people a man now remember in their day people thought of leprosy is

But here if it's real real leprosy like we know the disease today is just basically final. It's just uncurable

They had no cure for it. It's unhealable as death itself Basically, no one's come back from that in their tradition

If you touched a leper you yourself were unclean and had to go to the temple for cleansing

Assuming you didn't catch leprosy in which case you're in trouble, but Jesus touches him proving that he is the toucher

Jesus says I will Be clean Leper had confessed that his healing depended on Jesus as well.

Now that's important prosperity preachers today Teach that our healing or our wealth or whatever, you know victory

We want that our victory they're preaching that it all depends on our will

They teach God once everyone saved everyone healed and wealthy and all our problems is blown away And all we have to do is is we say the right words we can get it.

It depends on us on our will We can blow away all our problems like one of them literally last year blew away the corona virus

He said he literally blew And he claimed that the corona virus would disappear

That was like April of 2020 Okay, it didn't quite work out did it which it should tell everybody that this man's a false teacher and that is a false teaching that our healing or our

Wealth our our, you know, whatever blessing as you want It depends on our will and many more people there's a plenty of people would know.

Okay, that's wacky But there's many more people other Christians Would believe that our will is essential that it is our will is the key that unlocks

God's most important blessings particularly salvation There's salvation. They think they will teach it.

They will say it that our salvation depends on our will Our making the right decision our saying the right words our repeating the right prayer salvation that they say

Requires our will it depends on us It doesn't

Romans chapter 19 verse 16 says salvation Does not depend on man's

Desire or the word could be translated just as well will Salvation does not depend on man's will or Effort, it's not our will or our words that create that make something from nothing that heals that cleanses that saves

It's God's will and here Jesus shows that he is the one who wills he

Is the willer? Well, there's God's will of command

That is what he commands us to do and his will of decree That is what he orders to happen like a king issuing a decree

He commanded Joseph's brothers God commanded Joseph's brothers to to love their brother Think about that story in Genesis.

I'd supposed to love your brother God commanded Joseph's brothers to love Joseph, but he decreed

Joseph says himself in Genesis chapter 50 verse 20, but he decreed that they would sell him into slavery

Although that they would disobey the command to love their brother He decreed that they would sell him to slavery so that Joseph could fulfill

God's plan Including the saving of many lives including the lives of the brothers who sold him into slavery

That is God's will of command is what he commands us to do. Love your brother

What were commanded to do? But we don't always do it, do we? We don't always do what he commands us to do now

God's will of decree is Always done as Paul says in Romans chapter 9 verse 19 who can resist his will

He wills it it comes about His decree what he orders to happen that happens

Right. He's the willer But we do resist his will of command what he commands us to do

Now here the Lord Jesus sternly charged the the ex -leper now. He's an ex -leper in verse 43 something like We don't exactly well, we do know exactly he said but something like whatever you do do not tell people about this miracle only the priest only tell them and Your family now, is that clear says he sternly warned them strictly ordered him not to talk about it in verse 44

See that you say nothing to anyone This has got this is God's Jesus's will of command

See that you say nothing to anyone but go show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what

Moses commanded Now, what does that prove? Well, it proves that Jesus wasn't Just trying to draw in a bigger crowd.

He wasn't using these miracles for publicity his miracles weren't just tricks to grow big numbers

He didn't heal the leper so that he could use it for advertising Understand he did it to have compassion on that man

That man needed compassion and Jesus gave him compassion he proves it proves that when we do ministry

When we preach the word or we share the gospel to the guys at gym Or have Jim jr.

Or we visit a member when her husband is in the hospital after an emergency surgery. We don't do it For the platform it might give us

We do it because we want those people To hear the gospel for the kid to be taken care of Because we care about a member in need if if we forget to take a picture of it while we're doing it

To post on Facebook. We just forget about it or to have in our next year's calendar That's okay.

That's not a big deal That's not what we're doing it for notice that Jesus told the ex -leper to go to the priest and offer the sacrifice the law requires as Proof to them

What does that prove? Let's approve that Jesus wanted proof presented to the priest Well, it proves that Jesus really wasn't trying to abolish the law

But to fulfill it as he said that the priest should know that the plan was that only the priest would know and that they would

Know that Jesus kept the law the priest would know that the leper had been healed and by accepting that sacrifice

The priest would then give proof Kind of like a reference like a letter of reference

That God's kingdom had come Now remember there's

God's will of command what he's commands us to do like here don't go tell anyone except the priest and God's will of decree what he decrees will happen here

Jesus proven to be the one whose will is done Commands the ex -leper to tell no one but the man went out and Did the opposite he told everybody?

He was a great the man should have gone to the advertising business He was apparently had a knack for it. The result was that so many people wanted to To see

Jesus the result of that this ex -leper telling everyone about how he'd been healed now Everybody wants to see

Jesus so much So there's so much of a of a crowd looking to see him that he couldn't publicly enter a town anymore

He couldn't like go out down Main Street and everyone would see him because there would just be so much Okay, so much of a crowd that he wouldn't be able to get in be too many people

And so what happened is he stayed out in the countryside mostly Kind of like being out here in the middle of you know,

Providence middle of nowhere between Nancyville and Danville in a gym and People though here where they would come to him

Even though that was against Jesus's will of command It fulfilled his purpose

As we see in the next story finally starting in chapter 2 after this extensive preaching tour in in Galilee throughout

Galilee Jesus comes back to Capernaum kind of his home base and Where he started back at home

He is now wildly popular with hordes of people flocking to him the leper who had disobeyed his command helped make that possible and the result of that is that one day

There were so many people packed in to hear him preach the word No one could squeeze no one else could squeeze in and four men came

Bearing a friend on a on a mat. He calls it a bed It's probably more like a stretcher or a mat

Bearing a paralyzed friend believing that Jesus would heal him if only they could get this paralyzed friend in front of Jesus Right, they so believe that they're gonna do whatever they can to get him in front of Jesus But unable to get inside though.

They think what are we going to do now? No, it's not like well They didn't think well, okay, even if we get him, maybe

Jesus really can't heal him. So never mind. It's just too hard No, they they're just determined. So they go up to the roof now houses in that part of the world

Most of them would have stairways Outside they go up to the roof and the roof was kind of like a patio up there and those houses

So we so they went up to the roof and in verse 4 they removed part of the roof Above Jesus and they lowered the paralyzed man down on there on his stretcher on his mat right in front of Jesus and Jesus saw that as Faith Jesus saw it says in verse 5

Jesus saw Their faith now that doesn't mean that he had some kind of supernatural

Vision that he could look into their hearts and see wow, there's faith there Now I think it means that he saw what they did this active

Determination so determined to get this man in front of Jesus, even if they're they can't get through the crowd They're gonna lower him through the roof

They saw that he saw that resolve that they were gonna do anything to get their friend in front in front in front of him he saw this work as Proving their faith

Faith without works is dead That doesn't mean work safe. No, they don't it means that saving faith produces works it changes the way you live

It makes you determined to do certain things here healing faith produces the determination to get their friend before Jesus So as Jesus he said he's probably sitting and preaching that was their usual posture for for teaching and preaching the hole opens up in the roof and This man is lowered in front of him

Probably to the gasp of people they're sitting around him He sees

Jesus sees that and he sees faith. And so he says in verse 5 son Your sins are forgiven

Does that proof that proves that Jesus is the forgiver

But that poses a problem doesn't it especially for the theologians

Here called the scribes. They're the scholars the Bible scholars when the scribes heard Jesus say son your sins are forgiven

They thought wait Who does he think he is? He doesn't have the right to say that Verse 7.

Why did this man speak like that? He is blaspheming who can forgive sins, but God alone

Notice their reasoning. Okay, their reasoning is important Only God can forgive sins that's their first premise their major premise then their minor premise

Jesus is not God. He's not able to speak for God But Jesus has just said that the paralytic sins are forgiven therefore

Based on their reasoning they conclude Jesus has blasphemed by speaking for God on his own authority

What's Jesus's declaration that your sins are forgiven? What's that prove according to them?

That he's a blasphemer Jesus of verse 8 perceives says in his spirit

That they were inwardly accusing him of blasphemy He could tell That the deep of their hearts there.

They'll think he's a blasphemer. We got to get him. So he answers their unspoken question to him First with a counter question.

Why do you question these things in your hearts? Why why are you thinking like this? They've seen the they've seen this same act of faith in Jesus that Jesus saw

They heard Jesus declared that the man is forgiven Why do they think that's wrong? Now keep in mind at this point the paralyzed man is still paralyzed

Still lying on this mat this stretcher in front of Jesus probably for there's probably four heads

I would guess, you know peering through the hole in the roof Seeing what's going on below the house is stuffed full of people

And there's a huddle of scribes looking on now with scowls on their face.

Who does he think he is? When Jesus turns he speaks directly to them why are you so critical and They were thinking

They were thinking because you don't have a right to pronounce sins forgiven

So Jesus debates with their silent thoughts in verse 9 Which is easier to say to the paralytic your sins are forgiven or to say

Rise take up your bed and walk Now this confuses some people let's take it apart piece by piece notice

Jesus didn't ask he didn't ask which is easier to make true Which is easier to declare with authority

Now forgiveness is actually harder to do You understand to have the authority to declare someone forgiven is much more difficult than just declaring someone's healed

Forgiveness requires a sacrifice that God accepts forgiveness requires satisfying

God's holiness and justice Forgiveness requires appeasing God's wrath

Who can do that? That's something that none of us can do But that's not what

Jesus is asking. He's not asking which is harder to do. He's asking which is harder to say

Jesus not arguing with their premise that only God can forgive sins. He agrees with them about that Then how can he declare the paralytic sins forgiven?

Doesn't that prove that Jesus has blasphemed But the second premise the minor premise that Jesus is not

God That's the problem Now keep believing Jesus is saying here, you know, keep believing that only

God can forgive sins. That's right But then let's prove that Jesus can forgive sins

Which is easier to say say the words your sins are forgiven How can how can you prove that that's true or not?

If I say that how can you prove that I'm mistaken or I'm right? You know normally that kind of statement your sins are forgiven is what we might call

Unfalsifiable you can't prove it wrong. You have no way to prove that. I'm just saying empty words There's no way to prove this

So the paralyzed man lying on the mat in front of Jesus no way to prove that his sins are forgiven or not So it's easy to say

But normally you have no way of knowing whether his sins are really forgiven but now you do have a way

Jesus has just Given us a test a way of proving Now we do have a way of proving it is wrong

Which is he easier to say your sins are forgiven or to tell him this paralyzed man to get up and walk

It's easier to say even if there are empty words your sins are forgiven because if you say to the paralyzed man

Rise and walk and he still can't do it. He's still just paralyzed lying there

Then everyone will know That you're a fraud that you're a blasphemer scribes are right

So understand the test That Jesus has just laid out for himself Jesus says in verse 10, but that you may know

That is to prove to you who I am. This is the way to prove. This is one of those. It's what does it prove?

Well that you may know that the and then he says the Son of Man We got to take a little Go down a side path there

The Son of Man is the first time that this title is used This term is used in mark gospel mark son of man.

It's Jesus's favorite term for himself What does it prove many people just assume?

Well, it proves that he's a as a person. He's a son of man He's a man and no one questioned that you saw

Jesus walking down the road. You don't think is that a man? No, of course not. It wasn't easy a man. What does it prove?

Well, he refers to a vision in Daniel chapter 7 where Daniel sees he says one like a son of man if you read the whole chapter, he sees a succession of Empires symbolized by beasts different kinds of beasts for different beasts

And then at the end of this succession of a beast he says one like a son of man one like a human being unlike unlike these beasts and One like a son of man.

He says in Daniel chapter 7 verse 14 to him the son of man Was given dominion and glory and a kingdom that all peoples nations and languages

Should serve or the word can be translated worship him His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed

What does that prove? Who is the only one who could possibly have all?

Dominion glory and authority and who was served or worshipped by all kinds of people

With a kingdom that will last forever Who's the only one?

That that could possibly be true of The same one who can forgive sins

Now remember only God has authority to forgive sins. So Jesus says now obviously it's easier to say your sins are forgiven

You can't prove me wrong if I say that but to prove to you that I The son of man with all dominion glory and authority

Have the right to forgive sins in verse 11. I Say to you paralytic pick up your bed and go home and He did he stood up picked up that that mat and he walked out

What does that prove that Jesus is

God Only God can forgive sins Jesus has just proven that he's forgiven the man's sins by doing what is harder to say

When he caused a paralyzed man to walk right in front of the eyes of his critics They were forced to recognize that his declaration of forgiveness was not blasphemy, but it was true

So everyone was amazed Even the the scowling scribes in their own way glorified

God Maybe not happily, but they had to acknowledge in verse 12 that we never saw anything like this

Jesus has proven himself to be the forgiver

Even if they and he's proven himself, even if they couldn't admit it to themselves, even if some of them hated the idea still

He's proven himself To be God Who has

Jesus proven himself? to be to you Has he proved himself to you through his word through his spirit?

To be your razor the one who has raised you already from the dead from spiritual death.

And now you know Because he's raised you from spiritual death that he will raise you from physical death

Has he proven to you that he is Lord? By commanding even the demons in your life to be quiet leave

Has he proven to you? That he's the preacher When you hear his voice

Has he proven? That he is the one who wills

That it is his will that cannot be thwarted and Has he proven to you?

To be your forgiver By forgiving your sins and That he is your

God by capturing your worship Has Jesus proven himself?