Luke 5:17-32 / Josh Lewis / 12 November 2023

Jesus answered them, ‘It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.’ Luke’s gospel is written to dismantle the false view we have of ourselves and our God, and in its place to build into our hearts the glorious truth of the favour of God, for anyone who is seeing clearly enough to recognise their desperate need of Jesus. Today it will be a paralytic who shatters the delusion of our self-sufficiency, and in it’s place lead us to the God who neither slumbers not sleeps in his help of us. We will hear again the gospel of Jesus. The one who comes as the doctor we all need. A doctor who has not come for those who keep pretending they're healthy, but for those who know they're sick. A doctor who has not come to manage symptoms, but to make us whole again and forever.