Faith That Amazes God and Makes Heaven Take Notice

• The day the church gets a little bit more fired up about the word of God than we do about a piece of pigkin crossing a touchdown line, I think we might just get about seeing change and transformation in the world that is around us. I really believe that. I’m one of the weird ones that actually believes that.
• But we’re going to go to Luke. I’m so glad you love the Gospel of Luke. 7:1. This is the word of the Lord. It says when he had concluded saying all this to the people. So Jesus had just finished preaching the sermon on the mount who were listening. He entered Capernium.
• A centurion servant who was highly valued by him was sick and about to die. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him requesting him to come and save the life of his servant. When they reached Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy for you to grant this because he loves our nation and has built us a synagogue.
• ” Now Jesus went with them. And when he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to tell him, “Lord, don’t trouble yourself since I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.” That is why I didn’t even consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word. Everyone say, “Say the word.” Say the word. So American, but say the word. Okay.
• So, we’re going to say the word, but say the word and my servant will be healed. For I too am a man placed under authority, having soldiers under my command. I say to this one, go. And he goes, and to another, come. And he comes. And to my servant, do this. And he does it. Jesus heard this and was amazed at him.
• and turning to the crowd following him, he said,”I tell you, I have not found so great a faith even in Israel.” So Jesus has just finished preaching probably what we would know as his most famous sermon, the sermon on the mount, if not his most consequential one and one that we probably all should land in in 2025 so that we can be who we need to be on this earth in this hour to a very lost and a broken world.
• He preaches this comes back into his ministry headquarters in Capernium. And there’s a centurion. Now at this time a centurion was like a a Roman like a captain in the army essentially about a hundred people under his care. They were placed in villages and and and all around Israel and basically they had two purposes overarching and that was number one to keep the peace and number two to collect taxes.
• So, as you could imagine, just like, you know, that’s not really the primary way to win friends and influence people is to be someone that collects taxes. And here you have a a foreign power, you know, that’s taken over and is occupying your land. So, as you could imagine, centurions weren’t necessarily loved by the Israelites in this time.