The Friends of the paralyzed man

​As we read this story from Luke, we see the Miracle of Jesus. We also see how He uses this to talk to the Pharisees. But I want us to look at one verse in this story and little deeper. 
 
Look at Luke 5:18! This talks about how some men brought him to Jesus to be healed. Now if you have done any studies in these times you will know that people really didn’t hang out with the sick or someone who has dealt with this type of situation. The reason why is some people in that time believed that you were being punished by your sins or the Sins of your parents. In that case people who dealt with any type of sickness we shunned. In this story it talks about these Men who brought the man to Jesus to be healed. This tells me that these men were friends of this man and knew if they could get him to Jesus he would be healed. 
 
I want us to look at 2 things that I Pulled from this verse.
The first is the Faith these men had. They had some much faith in Jesus they knew if they could get their friend to him, he would be healed. However, we also must remember it’s not that he was healed, it was they HAD FAITH. Sometimes we ask Jesus for healing of a friend or love one but in our eyes sometimes we don’t see the healing that we want. Then, we may ask well is there really a God. He didn’t heal my Blank_____ “this is were can you feel in the word.” We must remember it’s not about us and sometimes we don’t get what we want. If Jesus only said to him your sins are forgiving and the man didn’t get up and walk would they have less faith? 
 
The second thing I pulled from this verse is that the men didn’t leave their friend. They stayed with him even though I’m sure they were shunned just as their friend was because of his Illness. Are we as Christ Followers only hanging out with people that are like us? Do you have a friend that needs your friendship to bring them to Christ? Remember the one thing we don’t know is if this man who was paralyzed believed in Christ! How many of us need to be friends with people that are different then us that doesn’t really know Christ? Jesus Calls us Christ followers to share His love with everyone. Not only people who look like us, think like us, and hang out in our own circles.
 
So today I want you to think of this one verse and ask yourself, do you have the Faith as these men and do you have a friend that you need to share the Love of Christ with that is different than you