Their faith was a faith of initiatives their faith was a faith of persistency hence god gave them away.
Paralytic man through the roof sermon.
When the devil blocks the door go through the roof.
1 and again he entered into capernaum after some days.
When jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven mark 2 3 5.
Roofs and the bible story about jesus and a roof the bible and roofs.
And he preached the word unto them.
Sermon on the paralyzed man let down through a roof luke 5.
The man is literally let down through the roof under the careful control of his concerned friends and into a situation controlled by the lord jesus christ.
2 and straightway many were gathered together insomuch that there was no room to receive them no not so much as about the door.
And it was noised that he was in the house.
If we want to have souls saved we must not be too squeamish and delicate about conventionalities rules and proprieties for the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence.
Some men came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four of them.
To let a man down through the roof was a device most strange and striking but it only gives point to the remark which we have now to make here.
Since they could not get him to jesus because of the crowd they made an opening in the roof above jesus and after digging through it lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on.