Your Greatest Need

Mark 2:1-12

What do you think is your greatest need right now?

GOING DEEPER 
Parallel, Related and Referenced Passages

1)  TO PRESS THROUGH THE CROWD

• Mark 1:15 – “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe in the good news!” 
• Matthew 11:20–24 – Jesus denounces Capernaum for rejecting Him despite miracles. 

 
2) TO BE FORGIVEN OF SIN 

• Genesis 39:1-9 – “How could I… sin against God?” 
• Psalm 51:2–4 – “Against you, you only, have I sinned…” 
• Romans 3:23 – All have sinned and fall short 
• Romans 5:12 – Sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin. 
• Romans 6:23 – The wages of sin is death. 
• Luke 5:17–26, Matthew 9:1-8 – Parallel accounts of the paralytic healed/forgiven. 

 
3) TO TRUST JESUS FOR WHO HE IS 

• John 5:19–27 – The Son has authority to give life and execute judgment. 
• Matthew 28:18 – “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.” 

 
CLOSING (The Cross and Atonement) 

• Exodus 34:6–7 – God merciful and forgiving, but “will by no means clear the guilty.” 
• Hebrews 9:22 – Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. 
• Hebrews 10:4, 10-14 – It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.  Christ’s sacrifice once for all. 
• Romans 3:21–26 – God just and justifier through Christ’s sacrifice. 
• Colossians 2:13–14 – Forgiveness through the cross, debt canceled.