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Some of, you know that 
currently, I'm studying a 

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theology degree and I'm 
absolutely loving getting deeper

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into God's word delving more 
Falling In Love With Jesus and 

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finding out more about him. 
In particular just recently I've

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been in Luke's gospel so it's 
out of that that I'm going to be

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speaking on today. 
So I'd like you to turn in your 

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Bibles to Luke chapter 7 verse 1
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It will come up on the screen if
you're here and you haven't got 

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a Bible then. 
Please do go to the welcome desk

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and we would love to give you a 
Bible. 

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I picked up my wrong translation
of a Bible this morning. 

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So, I went and borrowed one from
the Welcome desk. 

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I'm just betting up this stuff 
up there. 

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Large print. 
So if you need one, go and get 

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one, but that turn to Luke 
chapter 7 and it's the face of 

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the Centurion. 
There's when Jesus had finished 

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saying all these things to the 
people who are listening, he 

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entered Capernaum. 
When a centurion servant whom 

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his master valued, highly was 
sick and about to die, the 

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Centurion heard of Jesus and 
sent some Elders to the Jews to 

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him, asking him to come and heal
his servant. 

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When they came to Jesus, they 
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This man deserves to have you do
this because he loves our nation

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and has built our synagogue. 
So, Jesus went with them, he was

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not far off from the house. 
When the Centurion sent friends 

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to say to him, Lord, don't 
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deserve to have you come under 
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That is why I did not even 
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to you. 
But say the word and my servant 

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will be healed for. 
I myself, am a man under 

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Authority with soldiers. 
Under me, I tell this one go and

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he goes, and that one come and 
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this, and he does it When Jesus 
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And turning to the crowd 
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He said, I tell you, I have not 
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Even in Israel, then the men who
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house and found the servant. 
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So you might be thinking out of 
the hole of Luke's gospel. 

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Why has Heather chosen this to 
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I'll be honest is because I feel
that God wants us to learn 

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something from our from it, it's
a simple as that. 

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So we're going to be looking at 
the story a little bit closer 

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and seeing what we can learn 
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So I'm going to be focusing on 
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How the Centurion recognized 
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power, how he recognizes Jesus 
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And thirdly, how he has Great 
faith. 

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This Story's in Matthew's gospel
to, it comes right after Jesus 

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taught The Sermon on the Mount. 
I'm going to set you guys 

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homework. 
If you've ever heard me preach 

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before, you know I love a bit of
homework groans. 

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Okay, you doing it, go read The 
Sermon on the Mount even if 

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you've read it before. 
So that's in Matthew chapters 5 

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to 7 and The Sermon on the plain
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49 I'm using the version in 
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Two reasons. 
One, is that Luca is a, he was a

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historian and he puts just a 
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which I really like. 
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studying, I've been in Luke save
my poor little brain, we're 

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sticking with the same author, 
let's go be honest. 

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So Jesus had preached, The 
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see, when you read it or maybe, 
you know, it already Jesus sets 

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out in it, what a real disciple 
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Is someone that humbles their 
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So what about this Centurion 
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Capernaum, where many of the 
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preach, he's got his juice, what
his disciples with him, he's got

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some, some devout Jews that are 
kind of questioning, Jesus 

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teaching. 
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got some that have just heard 
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and they're like, oh what, what 
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Like I want to know a bit more. 
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group of people following him. 
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The servant, who the Centurion 
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Highly was dying and he asked 
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So I did a bit of reading is 
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about centurions because if I'm 
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picture in my mind of these dude
standing there with some weird 

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like little dress and some Mama 
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context of who centurions work. 
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more and I found out that they 
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status in the nation of Rome. 
They were called the backbone of

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the army. 
Men who carried Authority, they 

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were known to be steady in 
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and word. 
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They were prepared to die at 
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who led by example. 
His rolling. 

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Capernaum would have been to 
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keep the peace and to ensure the
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carried out. 
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known for their violent methods,
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with bloody and gruesome 
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He was a powerful man, from a 
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Who understood the Dynamics of 
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But is that what we see in this 
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Number one, the Centurion 
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power. 
Our world can be so fixated on 

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power content, we get it. 
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People think of being powerful 
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successful climbing up the 
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As soon as I get to that, that 
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Well, having money all the 
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not that I want to say. 
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Read the money, that's what it 
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or being feared. 
Maybe that's what powerful looks

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like. 
It's so it not needing anyone 

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else and not showing emotion is 
something that I've struggled 

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with myself. 
I grew up in a home with a very 

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powerful dad. 
In a lot of ways he was fixated 

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on his Career. 
Success was his driver and money

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and that would make him feel 
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Later on in life, I was 
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that's all being feared or being
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power. 
So I decided that I wanted to be

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powerful. 
I wanted to be strong 

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physically, it's squishy around 
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These days, I wanted to be 
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wanted to be the god of my own 
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I wanted to show to others that 
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anything. 
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I was in control or so I 
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respect a gained, a lot of 
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emotionally, shut off. 
The world might tell you, or to 

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try and Define what power is. 
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not of this world. 
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not of it. 
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operates is completely different
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we see that, when we read The 
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Centurion heya is exercising a 
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The power of humility, he was 
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considerate, citizen a lover of 
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He knew when he needed help and 
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help how many of us find it hard
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I know he's hard. 
Someone says all. 

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Can I carry that for you? 
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Thank you. 
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I can do that. 
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I think people are laughing 
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that, but the center Ian here, 
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Jesus truly had the power and 
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self was not as powerful. 
He was not the god of his life 

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and He needed, Jesus. 
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sickness to be turned to Jesus 
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Who do we think? 
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Do we go on dr. 
Google as start looking for 

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remedies will do we get on our 
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Number two, the Centurion 
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acts in humility, the Centurion.
Who was a gentile, which means 

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that he was a non Jewish 
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which really wasn't the norm. 
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would treat servants like 
property and over servant wasn't

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doing their job, they would 
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replaced like that. 
If they were sick, they would be

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Here, the Centurion shows us his
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He's a kind man and not your 
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What more is there something 
that the Jewish Elders came to 

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Jesus on his behalf? 
Singing his Praises Jews, hated 

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their Roman oppressors and the 
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They were dirty and quite quite 
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so countercultural. 
He loves his slave and he loves 

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his enemies. 
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He even had built them a 
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So they, they could worship God.
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Come get that man now and bring 
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me. 
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Do we? 
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Lord. 
Don't trouble yourself for I Do 

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not deserve to have you come 
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That is why I did not even 
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to you. 
He says, he recognizes who Jesus

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is who's Holiness and his own 
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But the Jewish Elders were stuck
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they believe that they are 
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blessing because of their good 
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We see that play out and how 
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deserves the miracle, because of
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He's been good to them, right? 
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How many of us can relate to 
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You can imagine. 
God, I've done this for you. 

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Surely surely. 
I could just have this little 

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prayer answered, but God, I've 
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everything for you surely. 
Surely, I could just have this, 

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but God, I've been faithful. 
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me and turned their backs on me,
surely, I could just have it 

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easy for this part of my life. 
Maybe you've had different 

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bargaining chips with God but 
you see I deserve is an attitude

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of Pride and ass chewed of the 
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Pride will not allow us to come 
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We will think that we can do it 
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Pride will not allow us to think
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than us. 
In order to have faith, we need 

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to be humble. 
You see the truth is, we don't 

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deserve any of it, we deserve 
death, but it is by God's grace 

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that we are saved. 
Not by works, not by anything, 

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that any of us could do in our 
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free gift from God. 
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The Centurion had great faith. 
The Centurion knew. 

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Jesus could heal his servant 
just by saying the words. just 

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by saying the words, He trusted 
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had. 
He didn't put his faith in 

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Jesus, after Jesus had granted 
his request but he trusted Jesus

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before. you know, where is our 
faith at Do we have a humble 

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Faith hungry for God? 
And a true understanding of his 

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power and authority? 
Are we ready to submit to him 

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and placed him in his right 
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Do you believe in the power that
Jesus has and do you trust him 

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with your life? 
Or do you face? 

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Do you have a face that thinks 
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You know so awful we can treat 
God like a genie call me is like

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I did this for you surely I can 
have this just going to rub that

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lamb. 
Are we seeking presents from 

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God? 
What we can get from him? 

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Are we seeking his presence? 
You know all the car. 

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The house, the Easy Life, the 
perfect partner or we seeking 

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his presence God With Us in all 
situations, whether we'll get 

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what we think we want and 
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I'll be recognizing where the 
true power and authority comes 

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from. 
While the Centurion believed. 

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God could heal his six servant. 
He was humble enough to know 

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that nothing he could do or has 
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He gave the one thing that he 
desired the most, to have his 

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six servant healed to the will 
of Jesus, he trusted. 

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Jesus is Will above his own. 
He understood the authority and 

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power that Jesus had. 
He knew the when Jesus spoke 

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Storms, stop. 
He knew that. 

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When Jesus spoke the sick were 
healed. 

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He knew the, when Jesus spoke 
Darkness would flee. 

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He knew that when Jesus spoke 
with men and women were set 

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free, he knew that when Jesus 
spoke, he spoke with a power and

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authority of the Kingdom, Jesus 
has their power and authority 

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for every situation in our 
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It says, in the last passage 
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centurions, humility and faith 
in him, he was amazed Jesus was 

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amazed at the level of Faith. 
This Gentile, Centurion hat. 

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Whatever, I read that. 
Just think I want Jesus to be 

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amazed at the level of my faith 
and I am. 

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Sorry, Lord, where I've doubted,
you doesn't that excite you 

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don't you want that? 
So, what I want to do, I'll be 

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completely honest, when I Was 
preparing. 

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This I sought God, my talk was 
too short. 

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What, how can I pad it out? 
God, I've not that this, right, 

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but I'm not done that, right? 
And I just felt like God, say, 

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uh, you keep his sure. 
I want to do some business 

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today. 
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I'm not going to get in the way 
of that. 

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I won't put it out with jokes, 
not gonna get too hyper or 

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behave myself. 
So, we're just going to spend 

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some time with Jesus. 
No hype, just ask and here so 

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I'd like to invite the worship 
teen up.