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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hi, my name is Andrew Latimer. I'm a Church of England minister at Grace Church in Greenwich
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Because I was a doctor before I was a vicar, people often ask me why it was that I switched
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Switched from brain injuries and blood cancers to the Bible and baptisms
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Part of the answer to that question is a surprising thing that Jesus said in the Bible
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So there's this episode where Jesus is teaching people and there's vast crowds flocking to hear what Jesus says
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And some people want to get their paralyzed friend to Jesus so that Jesus can heal him
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And so what they do is they lower the paralyzed man through the roof
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And this interrupts the sermon and Jesus pauses and has to engage with what's happening
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And he says to the man who's now in front of him, Son, your sins are forgiven
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And we and everyone around are thinking, hang on, Jesus. didn't you see what his real problem is
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Surely it's his paralysis, that must be the big problem. But Jesus is pointing to his sin as being his biggest problem
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as it is for all of us. And Jesus is full of compassion and he does heal the man of his paralysis
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there and then and he gets up and starts leaping around. And Jesus is doing there the visible miracle, the healing
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as proof that he can do the much bigger and more important invisible miracle
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of forgiving someone of their sins
