1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:13,780 Matthew Chapter 8 The Bible is Awesome. 2 00:00:13,780 --> 00:00:16,620 God is Awesome. If you think if you think he's 3 00:00:16,620 --> 00:00:18,620 boring or you think the Bible's boring, you're wrong. 4 00:00:19,020 --> 00:00:27,060 You're the boring 1. The Sermon on the Mount was 5 00:00:27,060 --> 00:00:31,100 awesome. And then Jesus comes down off 6 00:00:31,100 --> 00:00:39,640 the mountain, cleanses the leper, and now we go to verse 5, 7 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:45,160 where we pick up today, Matthew 85. 8 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:49,640 When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, 9 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:54,280 appealing to him. Lord, my servant is lying 10 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:59,400 paralyzed at home, suffering terribly, and he said to him, I 11 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,880 will come and heal him. But the centurion replied, Lord, 12 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,440 I'm not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the 13 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:08,880 word, and my servant will be healed. 14 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,680 For I too am a man under authority with soldiers under 15 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,280 me. And I say to 1, Go, and he goes, 16 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:20,160 and to another come and he comes, and to my servant Do this 17 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,560 and he does it. When Jesus heard this, he 18 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:27,680 marveled and said to those who followed him, Truly I tell you, 19 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,120 with no one in Israel have I found such faith. 20 00:01:31,960 --> 00:01:37,200 I tell you, many will come from the East, West, and recline at 21 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:41,320 table, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of heaven, 22 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,040 while the sons of the Kingdom will be thrown into outer 23 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,880 darkness. In that place there will be 24 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:52,720 weeping and gnashing of teeth and the centurion, And to the 25 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:57,320 centurion Jesus said, go, let it be done for you as you have 26 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:01,040 believed, And the servant was healed at that very moment. 27 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,680 God, thank you so much for your word already. 28 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:08,280 As your word has just been delivered and read, faith has 29 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,039 been delivered along with it. The ability to believe, the 30 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:14,840 ability to receive, travels with your word, because it is alive, 31 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:18,280 because it is the very thing that you created. 32 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,080 Everything with everything that is visible was made out of that 33 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,480 which is invisible. The word was spoken in the 34 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,360 beginning, God said, and then it was. 35 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:32,360 God says, And then it is God. You still speak and you still 36 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,080 move things. You tell it to go, and it goes. 37 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,320 You tell it to come and it comes. 38 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:42,280 Nothing can stop your word. Help us, God, to trust and 39 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:48,160 believe, not to examine, to to take ourselves to a place of 40 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:52,600 unbelief, not to question, not to doubt, but to trust, to 41 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:57,280 expect, to learn to be instructed and to walk in a 42 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,400 greater obedience to you. We love you, God, We thank you 43 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:02,280 in Jesus name. Amen. 44 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,200 So here in Matthew 8, we've got a centurion. 45 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,760 Remember the scenario in Israel at this time? 46 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,280 The Romans have taken over. The Romans took over a lot of 47 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,360 places and then they would, they would have their soldiers, they 48 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,080 would have troops, they would have them ruling over people and 49 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:24,880 they would kind of let them have their subculture. 50 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:30,200 Hey, everything's Roman, but you can still do your Jewish thing 51 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,240 or your other thing or your other thing as long as it 52 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,960 doesn't violate any of our other Roman standards. 53 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,880 So the Jews are operating in this environment. 54 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:41,800 They don't like the Romans to say the least. 55 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:44,760 Racism is a very, very old problem. 56 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,920 It was very prevalent among all people throughout all of human 57 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,160 history. So here we've got a situation 58 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:57,240 where a high-ranking Roman Roman soldier centurion, he he's 59 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,680 ruling over at least 100 people. He had power. 60 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,680 He had experience. He had influence. 61 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,880 He is not a Jew. He is there to rule over the 62 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:11,120 Jews on behalf of Caesar. He has authority over the Jews. 63 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,960 He can take their property. In certain instances, he can 64 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,920 arrest them. And if he's like a normal Roman 65 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:21,079 soldier, he despises the Jews as just another people group under 66 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:23,920 the boot of Rome. They're just looked down upon. 67 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:26,480 They're just. I got this outpost. 68 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:28,320 They're just. I'm in Capernaum. 69 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:33,280 Oh man, I hope I get new orders to get shipped to whatever, but 70 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:36,960 we see thankfully that this centurion is not a normal Roman 71 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:39,320 soldier. Luke gives us the same account, 72 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,360 Luke. Luke actually clarifies and 73 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,200 brings even more detail and shows us that the centurion 74 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,320 didn't even feel worthy enough to approach Jesus himself, but 75 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,320 he sent other Jews to say, hey, would you do this? 76 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,240 So the exchange that we're reading actually happened 77 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:56,040 through mediators, but we know that this centurion is actually 78 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,120 a believer. He actually loves God. 79 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,080 He has actually helped to build the synagogue there in 80 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,480 Capernaum. He has actually contributed to 81 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:10,000 the work of God in this region, and he recognizes who has come. 82 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,680 The fact that he's even coming to Jesus though, as a centurion. 83 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,680 Apart from those other factors, which is already remarkable, the 84 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,840 fact that a centurion, a Roman, is coming to a Jew is 85 00:05:20,840 --> 00:05:23,040 remarkable. The disciples are probably 86 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,840 shocked. A Roman soldier has never done 87 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:30,600 this. This powerful man recognizes 88 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,120 someone far greater than himself. 89 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,720 It's hard to emphasize or it's hard to overemphasize the 90 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:38,720 cultural craziness that would have been happening in this 91 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,520 moment. Jews would come to Romans to 92 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:44,640 seek approval, to seek permission, to seek help with 93 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:46,520 something. The Romans don't come to the 94 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:48,560 Jews. They're not going to stoop. 95 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:50,640 They're not going to go down that low. 96 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:52,400 We're above you. We're superior to you. 97 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,680 And certainly this man, he's not even an average soldier. 98 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:58,840 He's a leader. This man is an experienced man, 99 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:02,720 but instead now he recognizes somebody far greater than 100 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,960 himself, and this is revealed in verse six of chapter 8. 101 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,680 Lord. The very first word he uses when 102 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,120 he speaks Lord is the word that he uses. 103 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,800 Lord is a term used to address someone of higher status than 104 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:23,240 yourself, a master, an owner, a sovereign already putting 105 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,360 himself in submission. He understands the authority 106 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,360 structure that he's a part of. He recognizes who he is. 107 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:31,600 He says, yeah, I understand these social structures. 108 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:35,840 Sure, in the social structure, Roman centurion far outranks 109 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:39,680 Jewish rabbi, Jewish rabbi outranks other Jews, but Roman 110 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:44,440 centurion outranks anybody else. So he has he has summoned 111 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,440 authority over him, but the Jews are certainly under him. 112 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:49,720 But he recognizes that's just a social structure. 113 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,360 That's not the actual reality that God sees. 114 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,640 He knows that he's coming to someone higher, someone bigger, 115 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,680 someone stronger, someone who is actually worthy. 116 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:03,040 Lord, my servant is lying, paralyzed at home, suffering 117 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,040 terribly. And then of course, right away 118 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,920 in verse 7, Jesus. Typical Jesus. 119 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:14,360 I will come and heal him. Look at the complex exchange. 120 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,720 You know, if you study it out, you know what might you really 121 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,240 find is going on here? Lord, someone needs healing. 122 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,880 I'll come and heal him. The response to Jesus. 123 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:29,200 The response of Jesus again and again and again and again and 124 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:30,520 again. Believe the word of God. 125 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:33,640 Believe Jesus. Believe the word of God. 126 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,640 Believe the word of God. Because Jesus once again shows. 127 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:41,640 And we're going to, as we go through Matthew, we're going to 128 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:45,000 count up all the times that Jesus says no when someone asks 129 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,400 him for healing in Matthew 15. We're going to come the closest 130 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,200 that you'll ever come, so you can go read ahead if you want. 131 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,160 I encourage you to do so. So Matthew 15, we'll come to a 132 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,000 scenario where it's like, is he saying no? 133 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:59,200 And then still you'll see how the story ends. 134 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:06,840 Spoiler alert, he heals. So over and over and over Jesus 135 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:08,640 keeps healing. That's what Jesus wants to do. 136 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,240 He says I will come and heal him. 137 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:14,600 Just to pause here and remind you, Jesus doesn't love this 138 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,760 centurion or the centurion servant more than he loves you. 139 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,680 Jesus doesn't love the centurion or the centurion servant more 140 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,760 than he loves the loved one that you're praying for the person 141 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,640 who we want to see healing manifest and show up in their 142 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,040 body. They're not an exception. 143 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,320 There's not something going on. Unless the Lord would reveal 144 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,840 that something is going on then there's no reason to expect that 145 00:08:36,919 --> 00:08:41,000 something else is going on apart from the curse that Jesus is 146 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,360 broken, that Jesus is defeated it's anti Kingdom and Jesus is 147 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,240 made come to make the Kingdom come. 148 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:51,640 So that's our purpose as well. So even another thing that 149 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,760 stands out to us in this passage is we see the centurion is the 150 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,880 go between. He cares for his servant. 151 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:00,400 There is reason to believe there's some cultural things 152 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:02,400 here, there's some language things here as well. 153 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:05,120 There's reason to believe that he actually cares for his 154 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,440 servant and he actually loves his servant. 155 00:09:07,560 --> 00:09:10,240 And it's not just hey this is my best employee. 156 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:12,760 Oh, it would be such a nightmare to go through the hiring 157 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:14,880 process. Again, there's there's a lot of 158 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,640 reason here to believe in, in, in deeper context, that he 159 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,680 actually cares compassionately for this person. 160 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,880 Which is why he's also willing to humble himself and expose 161 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:26,040 himself in this situation and say, hey, I'm seeking the help 162 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:29,240 of someone else, I'm going to Jews asking them if they'll go 163 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:32,960 to another Jew on my behalf because I'm not even worthy to 164 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,160 approach him, certainly not worthy to have him come into my 165 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:40,760 home. So he gives us a great example 166 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:44,280 of what it's like to stand in the gap, to stand in between. 167 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,360 This is exactly what you were just doing as you were sharing 168 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,160 prayer requests. You're not. 169 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:50,680 You're not. You're not the go between for 170 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:53,760 this loved one and your pastor. You're not the go between. 171 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:56,960 You say, oh, you have a need. I'll go to my pastor with that. 172 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,000 You're the one who stands between your loved one and the 173 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,120 Lord. And you say, Lord, won't you do 174 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,200 it? And so, yes, you shared it with 175 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,000 me so we could pray together. And that's a good thing. 176 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,400 But you understand that it's not your pastor. 177 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:10,680 It's the Lord who actually does the work. 178 00:10:10,680 --> 00:10:12,320 It's the Lord who can only do anything. 179 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:15,520 And you are that go between. Just like Gordon was sharing 180 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,200 with us. We are that go between. 181 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,600 We are that minister who is to stand up and say no farther, no 182 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:23,040 farther. Lord, I am asking. 183 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:25,640 I'm seeking, I'm knocking. I believe. 184 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:27,840 I believe. I believe your word. 185 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:32,280 And now I have an expectation because I see what you've said. 186 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:35,160 I know what you've done, and I know exactly what you want 187 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:37,640 because your word reveals it to me. 188 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,600 We want to be like this centurion who sees the needs of 189 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:42,920 somebody else. And because we love them, we 190 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,240 move. We believe God's word, and we 191 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:49,120 believe that no one has a unique circumstance or that might be an 192 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,120 exception to the rule. No, that's called doubt. 193 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:54,520 That's called unbelief. You didn't get that from the 194 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:55,600 Bible. You got that from your 195 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:57,880 experience. I think discouragement 196 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:02,040 influences a lot of our beliefs. I think our past influences a 197 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:05,360 lot of our beliefs. I think a lot of times I'm not 198 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:06,720 going to pray for that. Why not, Joe? 199 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:08,120 Michael? Well, because I've prayed for 200 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,920 the oh, oh, so you're so you're you're the king. 201 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,240 Your life experience is the standard upon which you should 202 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:14,760 live. Now. 203 00:11:15,560 --> 00:11:17,720 No, I'm not saying that. Well, you don't have to. 204 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:19,360 That's how doubt and unbelief work. 205 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,840 They're subversive. They just kind of creep in. 206 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,280 And I don't realize that. I just kept backing up. 207 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:27,920 And I keep backing up, and I keep backing up and I keep 208 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:30,240 backing up. We were discussing this 209 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:32,880 recently, Adam and I, talking about how, man, it seems like 210 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:34,920 there have been times, there have been seasons in life where 211 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,880 I've I've, I've had such confidence in the word of God, 212 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:43,480 particularly in this subject around healing, such confidence 213 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,840 in Jesus, such expectation. And then there have been other 214 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,200 seasons where I find myself allowing things and just 215 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,000 permitting things. There's a word for that. 216 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,320 It's called unbelief. Because if I believed then I 217 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,480 would be asking, I would be seeking, I would be knocking. 218 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:59,800 Maybe it's laziness, maybe it's distraction. 219 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,640 Either way it's the anti Kingdom has gained a little bit of 220 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:06,480 ground and we constantly want to push this back. 221 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:08,480 Why? Because of what Jesus said. 222 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:13,480 I will come and heal him. We just saw Jesus with a leper, 223 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,840 so he's another outcast, the Roman centurion not typically 224 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,640 going to be loved by the Jews. This one is because of his 225 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:23,520 goodness and his kindness to the Jewish people. 226 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:26,360 But the leper is another outcast, another man outside of 227 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:29,640 the camp, so to speak. And now Jesus shows the will of 228 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,960 the father, even for the Gentiles, that he will go and 229 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:38,320 heal a non Jew. This is the first time in the 230 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:39,880 Gospels that we see this happening. 231 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,280 So far it's all the context tells us that it's just been the 232 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:44,920 Jews, the Jews coming to their rabbi. 233 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:46,920 Jews are having their own little revival. 234 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:50,240 Isn't that nice? But Jesus is already starting to 235 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,800 show people and he gets very explicit in this passage. 236 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,040 Here he's saying the Kingdom of heaven and the table is open to 237 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:58,600 whoever will put faith in the king of heaven. 238 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,880 And the sons of the Kingdom, so to speak, will be thrown into 239 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,360 outer darkness if they don't believe. 240 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:09,000 So he brings stronger strong rebuke and we'll get there in a 241 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,560 moment. So this is wild. 242 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,360 What happens here though? So after Jesus gives his line he 243 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,480 says verse seven, I will come and heal him. 244 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,640 But now it gets crazy, because the centurion says I'm not 245 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:26,160 worthy to have you in my house, lowering himself continually. 246 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:27,840 What else can we learn from the centurion? 247 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:32,960 I am not an entitled brat. I am humble. 248 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:36,720 I am expectant. I have full confidence in you. 249 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,840 And yes, I should make bold declarations of faith, but they 250 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:46,520 are not a demanding expectation. They are just a joyful 251 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:50,120 expectation, he says He makes a bold declaration. 252 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,960 He says, Jesus, just say the Word and my servant will be 253 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,480 healed. It's wild to me how people in 254 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:59,600 the Bible just determined that the Lord, how the Lord would do 255 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,160 something and then the Lord did it. 256 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:04,800 That's wild. But what it really is, it's just 257 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:07,320 faith. It's not hung up on the methods 258 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:09,880 of faith. Faith will always find an 259 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:13,880 expression when faith is real. When faith is present, it will 260 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:16,720 have an expression. It might look spontaneous. 261 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,120 It might look weird. I wouldn't have done it like 262 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:20,920 that. Look at the woman with the issue 263 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:26,880 of blood, she says to herself. She says to herself, If I could 264 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,880 just touch the hem of his garment, I will be made well, 265 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:33,480 says who? We are just making stuff up. 266 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:36,240 No, it's not about the methods of faith. 267 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:39,760 It's about the source of faith. She had such confidence in 268 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:41,320 Jesus. She's like it. 269 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,720 Don't. She could have said if this then 270 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:48,440 then it will happen because her faith was so pure and that's 271 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,920 that's why Jesus talks about look, a mustard seed is the 272 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,600 thing because if the mustard seed is applied in the right 273 00:14:55,600 --> 00:15:00,760 soil, the soil of Christ, then you can expect everything to 274 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:03,200 happen. You can expect anything to 275 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,640 happen. So it's a strange place 276 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,800 sometimes. Sometimes people, they have seen 277 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:12,880 the example of faith in others lives and they have seen how 278 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,720 bold it was, but they didn't recognize that that was a living 279 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,960 faith inside that person. So the spectator to this 280 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:24,120 person's great faith watched it and all this person learned was 281 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,760 presumption. This person said, I'm going to 282 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:31,600 demand something like that too. It's like you need faith in 283 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,520 Jesus and rock solid confidence in him. 284 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,320 And then the methods aren't going to be the most important 285 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:40,960 thing, because God deliberately does not give us a formula to 286 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:42,720 faith. Which is why throughout the 287 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,560 Gospels, Jesus never heals the same way twice. 288 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,000 And the particular examples that were given now he may have, when 289 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,720 He's healing thousands and thousands of people, maybe there 290 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:55,920 was patterns, but in all the particular examples, it's spit 291 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,840 in the dirt and rub it on somebody's eyes. 292 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:02,760 It's But you don't see that again, do you? 293 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,840 So we see so many different ways that the Lord moves back to the 294 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:08,400 point here. Y'all got me distracted. 295 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,440 I know what you're doing. You just want me to keep 296 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:13,320 preaching. Let me come back here. 297 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:18,160 We just people determine how the Lord would heal them. 298 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:19,640 The woman with the issue of blood. 299 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:21,520 If I just touch the hem of his garment, I'll be made. 300 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:25,960 Well, the centurion just say the word and my servant will be 301 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:29,000 made. Well, bro, who are you telling 302 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:33,080 Jesus how it's going to be? But the centurion is so 303 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:34,480 confident. What do you think? 304 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:35,640 You can just write your own ticket. 305 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,560 But these people understood it was about who their faith was 306 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:40,520 in, not the method of their faith. 307 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:42,200 So not. Well, what's the? 308 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,960 How am I supposed to? You don't have to get hung up on 309 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,920 all that when there's real faith present, because you just have 310 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:50,720 such an expectation. You just say the Lord's done it, 311 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:53,520 the Lord's doing it, or the Holy Spirit might even give you a 312 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:55,400 prompt. And I believe that the Holy 313 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,000 Spirit did in both of those examples. 314 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:59,560 I don't think this woman was just drawing stuff out of a hat, 315 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,680 like touch the hem of his garment, shout at him from a 316 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:04,880 distance. But I believe it was a prompt 317 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:07,640 from the Lord. But that also comes with faith. 318 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:09,440 And I just know the Lord's going to do it, man. 319 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,240 I just have this sense that it's going to happen like this. 320 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,520 Well, the way you heard the Lord move in that other person's 321 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,359 testimony is not a prescription for your future. 322 00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:23,000 You can expect the power of the Lord to show up for sure, but 323 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,720 you don't know for sure that you also are going to get the phone 324 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:28,920 call at the 11th hour. In your situation, that makes 325 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:33,320 the thing go away. You have to press into him, and 326 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,720 then faith is there. Peace comes and you go, It's 327 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:40,440 done, it's settled, and then people come up against you. 328 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:42,760 Opposition. And in this example, we're 329 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,640 talking healing, healing, all kinds of things come against you 330 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:47,200 and you go. It's as good as settled. 331 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,040 And your body keeps talking to you and you say it's not 332 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,520 settled. I still hurt, or we still have 333 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:55,320 this symptom And you go, I I'm not denying the fact that there 334 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,920 are symptoms. I'm just denying the fact that 335 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:01,000 they're permanent. And I have an expectation that 336 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:02,600 the Lord is bringing His deliverance. 337 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:04,600 Lord, what would you have me do? Is there anything you'd have me 338 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:06,200 do? Not to earn it, not to deserve 339 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:07,840 it. But is there anything you just 340 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,080 had me do, walk to, to walk out my faith? 341 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:12,520 And maybe you'd say, touch the hem of his garment. 342 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,760 Maybe he'd say, I mean, it could be anything that the Lord would 343 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:17,360 say. But faith will always have an 344 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:19,480 expression. Faith will have something. 345 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:21,400 Sometimes faith is simply just speaking. 346 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:23,160 That will be the response to faith. 347 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,640 It will be a a deliberate speaking. 348 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,520 Things that are not as though they already were acting like 349 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:31,640 your father, behaving just like him. 350 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:34,600 Again, not from a place of presumption, but from a place of 351 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:38,840 actual belief and confidence. Faith in God's word, real 352 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:42,080 confidence in God's Word will always find an expression, and 353 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:46,240 the Lord will respond to that. Faith in God's Word will cause 354 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:50,000 you to be like the Ethiopian who Philip was teaching in the 355 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,720 chariot, and he's rolling along, and he's teaching him from 356 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,400 Isaiah, and he's like, do you know what that means? 357 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:55,640 He goes, no. How could I know him unless 358 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:57,640 somebody teaches me? He says, let me teach you all 359 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:00,160 about it. And then the Ethiopian believes 360 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,080 they're rolling past water in the chariot. 361 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:03,840 The Ethiopian goes, here's water. 362 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:07,320 Why shouldn't I be baptized? He didn't wait to be instructed 363 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,720 by the disciple maker who should have been The Who should have 364 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,680 brought some instruction. But that's another key 365 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:15,040 indicator. You'll know when faith is 366 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:17,560 present in somebody's life. There's a, there's a, there's a 367 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:20,280 prompting within them. There's something coming. 368 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,960 There's an unction within you. And you're not like somebody. 369 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,440 Just tell me what to somebody tell me somebody tell me what to 370 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,400 somebody tell. Go to the Lord. 371 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,440 Go to the Lord. Go to Jesus. 372 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:33,640 He has your answer. Amen. 373 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,360 Nobody else is going to. There's going to be days where 374 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:37,760 you're going to stump your pastor. 375 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:40,960 Some of you've already done it. There's going to be other days 376 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,000 where Where? If you haven't, I will let you 377 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:44,320 down you go. Hey, Joe. 378 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:45,520 Michael. Well, I'm going to pray with 379 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,640 you, but the best thing I can do is say let's go to the Lord. 380 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:50,880 Amen. That's preacher talk for I don't 381 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,520 know what to do and that's a good place to be. 382 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:58,280 Let's just pray right now like that's code for I got nothing. 383 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:04,200 That's not a bad place to be. And that's that's all mature 384 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:05,840 Christians know that somebody hits you or something. 385 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,920 You're like, you know what? Let's just pray like, oh, that's 386 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:11,120 is that a cop out? No, that's that's the humble 387 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:13,960 place to be. Lord, just like the centurion. 388 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,000 What can I do? My servant's paralyzed. 389 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,200 He's at home stuck. He's suffering terribly. 390 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:19,880 What am I going to do? Who am I? 391 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,640 What am I going to do? Call the doctors? 392 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:24,440 We did that. Now what? 393 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:28,000 Lord, we come to you? Yes, man, that. 394 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:29,760 Won't that be embarrassing? What if? 395 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:31,960 What if you're praying? What if you're praying in the 396 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:33,760 hallway at the hospital? What if the. 397 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:35,880 What if? What if people see you praying? 398 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:41,320 How bad do you want it? Don't kid yourself, though. 399 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:43,080 How bad do you want it? Centurion. 400 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,640 Well, I'm a centurion like I, you know, I've got AI. 401 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,840 Can't go to the Jews, you know, like we'll call some other 402 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:50,040 doctors. We'll try some stuff out. 403 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,640 I'm sorry You're dying. Servant, You know. 404 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:53,920 I'm sorry I did everything I could. 405 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:55,840 Did you? Did you really run to the 406 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:57,800 master? Maybe you did. 407 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:01,040 But we we're people who ask. We're people who seek. 408 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:08,000 We're people who knock. Faith will always have an 409 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,600 expression, just like the Ethiopian Look, why can't I be 410 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,320 baptized? You can be baptized. 411 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:14,320 And then right then, he's baptized. 412 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,120 The Lord provides the power to believe His Word. 413 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:21,240 When you hear His word, it's a spontaneous delight, and it is a 414 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:25,200 certain trust. Whatever measure you receive, 415 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,720 act on it. Whatever measure of faith you 416 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:29,960 receive, act on it. You're receiving a measure of 417 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:31,680 faith. As the word of God has preached 418 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,560 this morning, you receive a measure of faith. 419 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,600 Anytime the word of God comes with the word of God is always 420 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,760 delivered faith. To receive and believe the word 421 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:40,320 of God. I just can't believe that. 422 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,720 Yes, you can. Yes, you can. 423 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,280 I I call you a liar and I call God true. 424 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,760 You can believe the word of God because he provides the power to 425 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:51,400 believe it. Well, I won't believe it. 426 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,360 Now we're getting. Now we're getting down to the 427 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:55,600 truth of it. I refuse to believe it. 428 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,000 Yeah, I know. There's such a thing as hard 429 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,240 heartedness. There's bitterness. 430 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,080 Which is why we want to pray that the Lord would make us the 431 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,480 good soil. That we would be the tender 432 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,640 soil, that we wouldn't have the word choked out by thorns, that 433 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,600 we wouldn't be rocky and that we wouldn't be a hard path where 434 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,440 the enemy comes and steals it. It's why we pray for clarity. 435 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:18,360 It's why we pray for revelation. So we're not just coming with 436 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,120 We're not. When we say revelation, we want 437 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:24,360 revelation in our heart. That's not the same thing as 438 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:27,440 explanation. There's a difference between 439 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:31,000 explanation and revelation. The Lord has given us a bunch of 440 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,560 free stuff this morning that I was not smart enough to think 441 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,280 of. There's a difference between 442 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:42,000 revelation and explanation. There's a big difference. 443 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:50,280 We need revelation. Whatever measure of faith you 444 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,920 receive, you should act on it. Get in the habit of acting on 445 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:54,920 it. Lord, what would it? 446 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,400 What would obedience like this? What would obedience to this 447 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,560 look like? Maybe it's just a baby step of 448 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:01,640 obedience. But take a step of obedience. 449 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,800 Don't just be a knowledge getter, man. 450 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,040 I know more stuff. I know more stuff. 451 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:07,960 You don't need to just know more stuff. 452 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,440 You need to believe. Believe. 453 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,200 That's what we're missing. That's what impresses Jesus. 454 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:18,720 Jesus marvels in the Gospels. He marvels at faith, and he 455 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,520 marvels at unbelief. Those are the two things it 456 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,000 says. And he marveled at the his faith 457 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,200 and he marveled at their unbelief. 458 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,160 Like those are the things that really get his attention in 459 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,560 either direction, for good or for bad. 460 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,160 Wow, That's faith. This guy. 461 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,360 This guy comes to me, seeks my help. 462 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:40,520 He's already got faith. He already calls me the Lord. 463 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,280 I'm coming. I said I'll come and heal. 464 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,080 And he says no, no, no, don't do that. 465 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,240 I know how authority works. Jesus and you have all the 466 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,120 authority. Another example of his faith. 467 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:53,520 The guy shows faith in Jesus in like layers. 468 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:58,040 There's lots of faith in Christ, not just not just, you know, I 469 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,960 think it can happen from a geographical distance of of a 470 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,720 mile or more. But it was your Lord. 471 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:09,840 You have all authority, and yes, Even so, your word is powerful. 472 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:15,800 Your word is enough, Christian. God's word is enough for you. 473 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,560 The word of God. Well, I'll never believe, Thomas 474 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,520 said. I'll never believe unless Thomas 475 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,680 the word was enough. And Thomas lost a blessing that 476 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,000 you have Saints. You have a blessing that the 477 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,000 apostle Thomas didn't have. Because Jesus said, Thomas. 478 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,280 You believe now because you've seen. 479 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,520 I've showed you my hands. I've shown you the wounds I've 480 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,000 shown you. My you see it all. 481 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,040 But blessed are those who haven't seen and yet still 482 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:43,680 believe. Why? 483 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,040 Because the word of God is enough. 484 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,160 Because He delivers faith for us to believe. 485 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:53,960 Don't be doubting, Thomas, but believe, don't be, don't be 486 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:59,160 doubting St. but believe. Faith isn't a formula. 487 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,120 The Lord knew if He gave us a formula, we would be locked in 488 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:05,360 on it. Like Lab Rats who learn to push 489 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:08,560 a button to get cocaine. This is a common experiment. 490 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,000 They can teach rats to do stuff and like, yeah, give me, give 491 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,600 me, give me. They give them tiny doses of 492 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,440 different drugs, but the rats learn this. 493 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,320 We would be the same way if faith was a formula. 494 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,480 This and this and this. This is the steps. 495 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,440 Oh, thank you, spiritual Santa Claus, for giving me everything 496 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:24,560 that I need. I know how to push the button. 497 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:28,200 I'm a trained lab rat. Instead, he gave us a Savior to 498 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:32,720 love, a master to serve, and His Word to believe. 499 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,360 We're not married to a method. We're married to Christ. 500 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,160 And he is the husband who always keeps his word. 501 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,480 Faith isn't about believing in your faith. 502 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:49,920 Faith is about the object or the person that your faith is in. 503 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,800 Faith is about believing in God and God's Word. 504 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,320 The Centurion believed in the Word made flesh. 505 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:04,120 Jesus is the Word of God made flesh, the Logos, and he 506 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:08,320 believed in the words of Jesus to also make things happen. 507 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,760 So he says, I believe in you. I know you're the Word of God 508 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,520 made flesh. And I also know now that when 509 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,880 you speak, everything can happen and anything can happen. 510 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,160 All things. I'll prove it to you. 511 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:55,190 Go to Colossians, Colossians chapter one, verse 512 00:26:55,190 --> 00:26:58,390 15. He is the image talking about 513 00:26:58,470 --> 00:27:01,550 Jesus. He is the image of the invisible 514 00:27:01,550 --> 00:27:04,230 God, the first born of all creation. 515 00:27:05,110 --> 00:27:10,200 For by him all things were created in heaven and on earth, 516 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,640 visible and invisible, whether Thrones or dominions or rulers 517 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,160 or authorities. All things were created through 518 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:22,360 him and for him everything was made by Jesus. 519 00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:27,560 Everything was made for Jesus, and he is before all things, and 520 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:31,720 in him all things hold together, and he is the head of the body, 521 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,600 the church. He is the beginning, the first 522 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,920 born from the dead, that in everything he might be 523 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,440 preeminent. For in him all the fullness of 524 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,560 God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to 525 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,160 himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace 526 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:53,240 by the blood of his cross. Jesus is preeminent. 527 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,400 Jesus is sovereign. Jesus is enough. 528 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,080 That's why it is literally enough to speak the name of 529 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:03,240 Jesus over somebody over something. 530 00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:07,720 It's not religious superstition. It's not vain repetition. 531 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,920 It's the name above every name. And if you understand who he is, 532 00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:18,440 then you can say Lord, Lord, look, I just speak Jesus over 533 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:19,800 there. It's not a he's not a 534 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,720 philosophy, He's a person and he will bring his power to bear. 535 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:29,040 So your faith in Jesus will have an expression that pleases the 536 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,240 Lord and the Holy Spirit will guide you into the details. 537 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:38,080 The centurion trusted the word made flesh and he believed in 538 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,600 the words of Jesus to make things happen. 539 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,240 Verse 7. Jesus said I will come and heal 540 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:51,200 him. Verse 8. 541 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:55,000 But the centurion replied, Lord, I'm not worthy to have you come 542 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,480 under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be 543 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,520 healed. For I too am a man under 544 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,160 authority with soldiers under me. 545 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,560 I say to 1 Go, and he goes into another. 546 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:07,960 Come, and he comes into my servant. 547 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:13,040 Do this and he doesn't. Little bit of a explanation 548 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:14,680 there to Jesus. No, Jesus, you don't have to 549 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,720 come into my house. I understand how authority 550 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,640 works, Lord, I get it. You don't have to come all the 551 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:22,920 way to my house, which is just kind of funny when you're 552 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,080 telling Jesus what to do about how to heal the person that 553 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,000 you're begging him to heal. It's just interesting to me. 554 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:35,000 And and what's absent from the text is Jesus's rebuke of the 555 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:39,040 man for doing it. Instead it's his congratulations 556 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:40,600 and holding him up as an example. 557 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,760 Again, careful because recognize that's a genuine faith that was 558 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,360 bubbling up out of this man. It's not a presumption. 559 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:50,840 It's not a. Let me instruct the Lord 560 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:55,360 Almighty as much as it is Lord. Let me just let me just draw as 561 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,120 little from you as possible. Because it's just so easy for 562 00:29:58,120 --> 00:29:59,920 you. It's just so small for you. 563 00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:03,400 God, it's so easy. All you have to do is speak. 564 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,000 Don't bother your day. Don't waste your time coming all 565 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,640 the way to my home. And by the way, I'm not worthy 566 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,960 to have you in my roof. Not worthy others. 567 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,720 Others would have thought. Oh yeah, the religious leaders 568 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:15,720 that were thought. Of course. 569 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,520 Like he's lucky that to be invited to my banquet and the 570 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,280 centurion goes, no, I'm not worthy to even have you come 571 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:22,800 around. I wasn't even worthy to 572 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,160 approach. You just speak the word. 573 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,640 The Centurion understands how authority works from the role 574 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,160 that he's in. The Centurion has a commander 575 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,960 that just speaks and things happen. 576 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,840 The centurion himself can just speak, speak. 577 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:42,360 Do you see the connections? He speaks and things happen. 578 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:47,000 He's certain that the Word made flesh needs only to speak the 579 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,840 Word and things will happen. Just like the Roman leaders 580 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,920 could dismiss someone and call someone else. 581 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,720 So it is at the Word of God. Disease is dismissed. 582 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,560 At the Word of God, healing is summoned. 583 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,600 The Word of God is enough. Psalm 107, verse 20. 584 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,160 We read it already for our magnification this morning. 585 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:13,040 He sent out His Word and healed them and delivered them from 586 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:17,320 their destruction. Just by the word of God. 587 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,560 God is so eager to heal. He has provided us many, many 588 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,400 ways to receive healing from him. 589 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:28,840 The most obvious is the way he's even designed our bodies that 590 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,520 they that they heal themselves. You don't get a cut on your arm 591 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,480 when you're 8 years old and you're like, well, that stinks. 592 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,440 That's with me for life now. Yeah. 593 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:37,920 Hope. Hope to try and keep that 594 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:39,240 protected. Can you imagine? 595 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,560 We'd be a mess, wouldn't we? All of us. 596 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,240 But the body. Oh, thankfully, all that. 597 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,800 My body just did that. Oh, your body all by itself. 598 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:48,560 Amazing. How did that happen? 599 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,480 That's just the evolutionary process, right? 600 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,120 From the monkeys that we came from, from the mud puddle that 601 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,720 they came from, from the nothingness that they came from, 602 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,160 right. No. 603 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:02,040 God in his good design, built and designed even the human 604 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:03,760 body, says, you know what, my grace? 605 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,760 He causes his reign, which is a good thing. 606 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,800 In scripture. He causes his reign to fall on 607 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,320 the righteous, and on the unrighteous he blesses 608 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,760 everybody. So even those who hate his name, 609 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,720 and who hate the name of Jesus and who don't bend the knee to 610 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,440 the name of Jesus, he still blesses and heals their bodies 611 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,200 with an immune system and with processes that, bless the Lord 612 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,560 is more eager to heal than we are to receive. 613 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:29,320 And then last week, of course, we looked at and we looked at 614 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,240 and we practiced the laying on of hands and the anointing of 615 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,080 oil. And again, that's where I'm 616 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:35,280 tempted. I want a formula. 617 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,400 Oh, is that the one? Is that the formula? 618 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,240 The Lord's like, well, it's it's one way, it's one, it's one way 619 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,520 to do it. But today we see that His word, 620 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:49,080 spoken or written, is more than enough. 621 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:55,320 His word is more than enough. His word is more than enough. 622 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,920 I tell one go and he goes, come and He comes. 623 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:02,920 The idea of the centurion is sharing with the Lord. 624 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,000 He's like Lord you. You just tell it to go. 625 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,800 It has to obey you. You tell his sickness, his his 626 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,960 paralysis, his pain. You tell all that to go, and 627 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,880 it'll go, and then you tell his healing to come, and it'll come. 628 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,360 And Jesus didn't even go into anything elaborate after that. 629 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:25,600 Jesus, Jesus says go, and may it be as you have believed it would 630 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,360 be. Jesus said it'll be what you've 631 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:29,560 said. Why? 632 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:33,120 Because his faith was in Christ. Again, not presumption, not 633 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,520 writing his own ticket in the way that you could misinterpret 634 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,200 and the way that you can miss. Oh, so I can just make stuff up 635 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,720 as I go. Put faith in Jesus. 636 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,320 And yes, then there will be spontaneous clarity, there will 637 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:51,880 be spontaneous direction. And then Jesus congratulates. 638 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,600 Basically, he emphasizes this man's faith to everyone in verse 639 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,320 10. When Jesus heard this, he 640 00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,440 marveled and said to those who followed him. 641 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,880 Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such 642 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:09,679 faith just humbles everybody, all of his disciples and they're 643 00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:13,239 like, oh centurion's coming asking Jesus, Jesus said he's 644 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,239 going to go heal him. Oh that's surprising Jesus 645 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:16,520 really nice. He's even going to go to 646 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,120 gentiles and take care of them. Oh my goodness. 647 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,600 This centurion just sent back a message saying don't even come 648 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,080 to my house and he's telling Jesus how it's going to be. 649 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:25,679 I wonder what Jesus going to say next. 650 00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:28,920 Jesus says this is awesome. This is better than everything 651 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,840 I've seen from any of you. This is the best faith that I've 652 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:34,040 seen. This is the purest faith that 653 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:39,199 I've seen so far in the life. Oh, OK. 654 00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:41,880 The people who had the scriptures. 655 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:44,920 So the Bible is your safety, right? 656 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,360 No. The Bible believed is your 657 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,560 safety. The Bible on your shelf isn't 658 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,719 your safety. The Bible in your brain isn't 659 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,000 your safety. The Bible believed is your 660 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,560 safety. The word of God believed is your 661 00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,880 protection. The word of God believed is your 662 00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,600 promise. The word of God believed is the 663 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,240 fruit. And Jesus said, this guy, this 664 00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:07,600 guy's fate, it beats everything else that I've seen from the 665 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:15,200 Jews, like, whoa, sick burn, he marveled, instead of those who 666 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,080 followed him. Truly, I tell you, with no one 667 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:19,560 in Israel have I found such faith. 668 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:24,640 I tell you, many will come from east and West and recline at the 669 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,160 table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, east and West. 670 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,320 He's talking about the whole earth, He's saying not just from 671 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,400 right here in Israel. Many will come from all over the 672 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,160 earth and they will recline at the table in heaven. 673 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,960 We will, we will enjoy the marriage supper of the lamb. 674 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,960 You and I, Gentiles, think everybody, anybody. 675 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,720 You're Jewish, All right. Well, even if you are, you have 676 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:47,920 to repent and believe the gospel so you don't get into the 677 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:49,160 Kingdom. You don't get to sit at the 678 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,440 table with the Lord. Unless you have bent the need of 679 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:56,120 the Lord Jesus and put faith in him as Lord, He says many are 680 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:57,440 going to come from all over the world. 681 00:35:58,080 --> 00:35:59,800 So this is, this is back to his disciples. 682 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,440 So he's teaching his disciples. They're like centurions, more 683 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,400 faith than us. And he goes, and let me tell you 684 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,080 something else. Many are coming. 685 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:08,880 This is all through the Old Testament, too, by the way. 686 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,480 This wasn't a new message. This wasn't like, I only love 687 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,560 the Jews before, but now I want to reach everybody. 688 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,520 That's just how people understood it. 689 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,120 Because the Jews were so closed off, they didn't recognize their 690 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:24,080 opportunity for salt and light. Jesus is correcting his 691 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,600 disciples. Hey, actually guys, yeah, he has 692 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,680 great faith, by the way. Many are going to come and sit 693 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,720 at the table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 694 00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:36,240 Many will come into the Kingdom in the Kingdom of heaven. 695 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,120 The sons of the Kingdom will be thrown into outer darkness. 696 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:45,000 The Jews in a place where there will be weeping and gnashing of 697 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,040 teeth. Whoa. 698 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,840 So he's just bringing strength. He's bringing clarity. 699 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,280 Why? Well, because anyone who calls 700 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,560 upon the name of the Lord Jesus will be saved. 701 00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:58,080 And anyone who doesn't, won't. So, I mean, of course they begin 702 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,760 to see this throughout Jesus's ministry that the religious 703 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,360 Jews, the ones who should have been rolling out the welcome. 704 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,600 Magog. Finally, this is him. 705 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,360 Lord, what an honor that we get to be here to introduce you to 706 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,800 the world. We're the very ones who fought 707 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,800 him the most. They're the ones who pushed for 708 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,640 his crucifixion. Those are the ones in outer 709 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,280 darkness and anyone who doesn't call upon on the name of the 710 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:22,200 Lord, Gentile or Jew. Nobody nobody gets in without 711 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:23,960 coming the same way the centurion does. 712 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:31,040 Lowly Lord, Lord, Master, Sovereign, Ruler, King. 713 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,960 He makes an example of his faith in a good way and then goes 714 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,880 farther and he brings rebuke to those who don't have faith. 715 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:49,360 So Jesus takes a healing example and then also references a 716 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,960 salvation example. So this is kind of funny. 717 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,080 A lot of commentators, a lot of preachers when they're preaching 718 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:58,280 on healing passages they will over spiritualize those and and 719 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,520 make them not be about healing. So like a lot of times you'll 720 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,920 hear the the passage with the leper and and so they'll read it 721 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,240 about the healing of the leper and then they'll say this 722 00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:09,960 scripture is really about the disease of sin in our hearts. 723 00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:13,640 You're like what? Like, I can see that secondary 724 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,920 application, but like, hey bro, do you think that the leper 725 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,080 thought that that was about the sin in his heart or do you think 726 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,960 that he thought he got healed? You know, so it's a it's a 727 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:26,760 distortion, it's unbelief. It's a it's a it's a scholarly 728 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:31,240 unbelief, but it's unbelief. So there are places though, and 729 00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:33,680 we're going to see it again later, where Jesus heals people 730 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:36,400 and does connect. He wants to show his authority 731 00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:38,080 and he wants to show his clarity. 732 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,760 But we don't want to minimize the healing that's taking place 733 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,800 in this passage, nor do we want to minimize the salvation that 734 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,320 Jesus is teaching on right here as well. 735 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,840 So all the both things matter, both things are true. 736 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:51,920 Both things are important. Is one more important than the 737 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:52,560 other? Well, yeah. 738 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,880 Oh yeah, My sins being forgiven is more important than my body 739 00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,000 being healed. And yet I still know how to 740 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,360 read. So the Bible still says what it 741 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,000 says and I'm still going to contend for the promises and 742 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,720 believe on Jesus. So he does reference salvation 743 00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:10,680 there. He's talking about he does make 744 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,680 a pivot to talk about being in the Kingdom and being out of the 745 00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:17,120 Kingdom. And then verse 13 to the 746 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,480 centurion, Jesus said go, let it be done for you as you have 747 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:24,600 believed and the servant was healed at that very moment. 748 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:28,560 Faith brings you to the table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in 749 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,640 the Kingdom of heaven. But lack of faith brings you 750 00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:35,040 into outer darkness and torment. Hebrews 11/6 says without faith 751 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,960 it is impossible to please God. For whoever would draw near to 752 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:44,000 God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who 753 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:48,400 seek him. So to come to God, you can't 754 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,680 just believe that he exists. Well, I believe God exists. 755 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:52,640 OK, congratulations. So does the devil. 756 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,640 So do all the demons. Like existence of God is not 757 00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,880 really up for debate. You're a fool if you say there's 758 00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:02,200 no God. God says so. 759 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,240 So that's not a compelling argument to I believe in God. 760 00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:10,440 I'm like, not to mock you, bro, but it's not that big a deal. 761 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,320 Open your eyes. Of course you believe in God. 762 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,880 How did you get here? There's no other way. 763 00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,640 Nothing else makes any sense. God is king. 764 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,320 His creation preaches and proclaims who he is. 765 00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:24,800 Now moving on. You must also believe that he 766 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,880 rewards those who seek him. He rewards those who seek him. 767 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,080 That's what the woman and the issue of blood already knew. 768 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,080 If I could just touch the hem of his garment, What makes you say 769 00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:34,720 so? I just. 770 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,760 I know. I just know that he will reward 771 00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:41,800 me for seeking him, even though Jesus didn't even know who did 772 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,480 it. What? 773 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,160 That doesn't jive well with my theology. 774 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,160 Like, I'm sorry, it's still there. 775 00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:52,960 Didn't say we can make a pattern out of it, but we should make a 776 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:56,840 pattern out of faith. Not out of not out of methods, 777 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,840 but yes, out of faith. He rewards those who seek him. 778 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,280 The centurion believe that. I believe the Lord will reward 779 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,680 me when I seek him. I believe the Lord will answer 780 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,040 me when I seek him for my servant. 781 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:12,440 The Lord will reward those who ask, who seek and who knock, 782 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,560 right? If you ask, it will be given. 783 00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,800 If you seek, you will find if you knock, the door will be 784 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,680 opened. That gives you more confidence 785 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:24,320 to ask, to seek and to knock believe God's word. 786 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:27,640 One of my favorite quotes of all time is from a dead preacher 787 00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:31,360 named Leonard Ravenhill. He says one of these days some 788 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:36,000 simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it and believe 789 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:37,880 it. Then the rest of us will be 790 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:41,200 embarrassed. That's the simple approach to 791 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,800 take to the scriptures. The simple approach to take to 792 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,520 the word of God. Well, is this historical 793 00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,000 narrative? Is this poetry? 794 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:50,240 Is this, this. You know what? 795 00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:53,160 It's the word of God and it's good and it's true. 796 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:54,840 Well, I just want to study it more. 797 00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,640 Is your study leading you to believe it more, or is your 798 00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,200 study leading you to doubt or unbelief? 799 00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:03,360 That's leading me to believe it more than dive in head first. 800 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:08,640 Go nuts. But if your study, quote study, 801 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,800 ever causes you to go, I now have less confidence in this 802 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,600 passage that you have run in the wrong direction. 803 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,120 This is a call for repentance. This is called unbelief. 804 00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,320 This is not safety. This is knowledge, and it puffs 805 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:26,480 up. One of these days, some simple 806 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,120 soul will pick up the book of God. 807 00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,360 They'll read it, they'll believe it, and the rest of us will be 808 00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,600 embarrassed. The religious leaders in Jesus 809 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,600 Day, This is me again. Now, the religious leaders in 810 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:42,120 Jesus Day were focused on knowing the word of God, but 811 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,400 they were not focused on believing the word of God. 812 00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:49,600 And the difference is fatal, as they found out and as Jesus 813 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:55,840 taught, the Kingdom is, for whoever would believe, gnash, 814 00:42:55,840 --> 00:43:01,200 weeping and gnashing of teeth. That's sadness, That's anger. 815 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,320 That's pain. That's torment. 816 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,200 So approach Jesus like the centurion did Lord. 817 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,520 Call him your master. Be humble. 818 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,040 Have you settled the lordship and authority of Jesus in your 819 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:15,840 life? I know many of you have. 820 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,520 Have you gone to him in humility? 821 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,840 From there, show your confidence is in him, not in yourself, not 822 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:25,120 in your circumstances. I encourage you put all of your 823 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:29,680 eggs in one basket. All of them in one basket. 824 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:34,360 And trust His Word to heal you. Trust His Word for everything. 825 00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:35,920 Amen. Whatever it may be. 826 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,840 Yes, we're talking healing. That was our passage. 827 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,600 That was what the centurion pursued and received. 828 00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,800 The word is enough. God speak the word only. 829 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:46,640 So Saints would you stand.