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Well, good morning, beautiful. Welcome to a brand new day of life. Happy Thursday, my friends.

Oh my gosh, I am absolutely honored and thrilled to get to be here with you today.

Let's get the day started right.

The title of today's episode of the Big Life Devotional podcast is Friends, Forgiveness, and Healing. We're going to start right with our scripture today.

Mark chapter two, reading the first 12 verses of chapter two. It says when Jesus returned to

Copernium several days later, the news spread quickly that he was back home. And soon, the house where he was

staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room, even outside the door. While he was

preaching God's word to them, four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the

crowd. So they dug a hole through the roof above his head. And then they lowered the man on his mat right down in front of Jesus. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the

paralyzed man, my child, your sins are forgiven. But some of the teachers of religious law who were

sitting there thought to themselves, what is he saying? This is blasphemy.

Only God can forgive sins. And Jesus knew immediately what they were thinking. And so we asked them,

why do you question this in your hearts? Is it easier to say to the paralyzed man, your sins are forgiven? Or stand up,

pick up your mat and walk. So I will prove to you that the son of man has the authority on

earth to forgive sins. And then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, stand up, pick up your mat and go home.

And the man jumped up, grabbed his mat, and walked out through the stunned onlookers.

They were all amazed and praised God, exclaiming, we have never seen anything like this before.

There are three powerful things we learn from this encounter with Jesus.

And one thing we are going to unlearn.

So the first powerful thing that we learn is you've heard it before, but I'm

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