# Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralytic—Matthew 9:1-8 (June 25, 2026)

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Published: 2026-06-25T14:49:40+00:00
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The First Commandment is not chiefly about the gods we refuse to build, but about the trust of the heart: whatever it clings to in the day of trouble is its god. Jerusalem clung to its walls and its waters and never looked to the Maker, and when God called it to mourning it answered with a feast and the creed of the hopeless — eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. To such hardened impenitence the Law can only speak its terror: no atonement, even to death. Yet atonement is precisely the word the Gospel speaks, for the Maker we would not look to was numbered among the slain outside the wall, and His blood purges the sin no ox or sheep could cover. So the fatalist’s table is overturned at the altar, where we eat and drink not because tomorrow we die but because He died that we might live.

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