In this sermon, Mike Phillips opens Luke 5:12–26 and invites us to reflect on our own reasons for coming to Jesus. In this passage we meet two desperate men—one covered in leprosy, one unable to walk—each carrying deep physical, social, and spiritual burdens. Both come to Jesus with bold faith. And both receive from Him far more than they expected.

Jesus reaches out and touches the man with leprosy—breaking through stigma, isolation, and shame—and He makes him clean, not just healed. Soon after, when friends lower a paralysed man through a roof, Jesus sees their faith and speaks words no one anticipated: “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
The crowds witness not only healing, but the astonishing reality that Jesus has the authority of God Himself—the authority to restore bodies, cleanse lives, and forgive sins.\

This moment presses the question onto every one of us:

What are you hoping Jesus will do for you? And what if He wants to do even more?

‍In this sermon you’ll be encouraged to:

• See Jesus’ compassion for the outcast, the hurting, and the ashamed

• Recognise the deeper spiritual needs beneath our visible struggles

• Understand Jesus’ divine authority to forgive sins - proved by His power to heal

• Consider how Jesus meets us with both truth and tenderness

• Ask what Jesus might want to do in your life beyond what brought you here today

Luke tells us the people left saying, “We have seen remarkable things today.” As we listen to this passage, we’re invited to see the same remarkable Jesus—the One who heals, restores, forgives, and calls us into new life with God

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