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*Title: I need God to move *
*Text*: Luke 7:1-10
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*Introduction*: “Faith begins where man ends”.
This means that when you have exhausted every fiber of your being then and only then would you look outside of yourself for what you desire to happen in your life.
In order for you to abandon your pride to look beyond you for help, you must really believe in what you are reaching towards.
Our story today shares this same sediment.
Our story is about a man in authority with a problem that his power and his stature could not solve.
He needed something or someone greater than him to help in his time of need.
Here we have in the text that Jesus is about to enter another city.
He has just preached the Sermon on the Mount and the crowd that was with him follows him to his next destination, the city of Capernaum.
It was a city under Gentile rule and the center of Jesus’ Galilean ministry.
The name translates to mean the “village of comfort”.
It was comfortable because it was a port city high in commerce.
It was comfortable because of its strong political borders.
It was comfortable because of it fertile land.
The people who live there were living a life of comfort.
God has been so good to us that we have become spoiled and stiff in our comfort.
But you can always expect Jesus to show up where people are too comfortable in the way are living because God has more in store.
There are too many comfortable Christians.
We like to live in status quo.
Too many of us are comfortable in our faith, doing the same ol’ thing and getting the same ol’ result.
God is trying to take you to another level but like to stay where we are because it is comfortable.
This is why He sends trouble our way to shake us up.
But Jesus is always there to help us through and take us to that new level.
Our story is about this next level of faith.
*I.
He was a man of compassion*
Here we have in the text a man with a problem.
His problem is not his personally but someone dear to him.
Maybe somebody under the sound of my voice needs some help today.
You are stressed out and desperate for some help but it not for you but it is for someone you love and care about.
Somebody in here is praying for somebody to get well.
Somebody has a loved one who needs to be delivered from drugs.
Somebody has a friend that need to get out of an unhealthy relationship!
This is the situation with the centurion in this text.
His prize servant is sick and about die and he is desperate for some help.
But there is spiritual problem here for us as believers.
The Centurion is a Roman and not one of chosen people of Israel and does not believe in their God.
He is a military man who is a commander of a one hundred soldiers who job is to keep the Jews in check.
Romans were polytheistic, Jew haters by nature.
They had no dealing with Jews except for giving them orders.
But there is something different about this Centurion.
He is not the normal Roman Jew hating warlord.
We see the difference from text.
We see a man of /compassion/.
The text tells us that he valued his servant.
The Centurion loved somebody that was supposed to be beneath him.
When we look at the relationship between the Centurion and his servant you should see how God loves you.
God loves you despite of you.
And His love should move you to show the same compassion for those in need.
/Look at what love caused the Centurion to do/.
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He called for help V.3 *
The centurion heard Jesus was in town and sent for him.
I remember the times when I was in trouble and needed somebody help me.
I heard about this man name Jesus.
I heard that he had all power in his hand.
I heard that he made the blind to see and the lame to walk.
I heard that if I just call on him he will show up on my behalf.
*However*, if the truth be told, the only reason anything of us heard the goodness of Jesus was because of the trouble we was in.
Before that you were not trying hear about nobody’s Jesus.
But heartache and pain will not only make you hear about Jesus but cause you to /do something/ with what you heard about him.
So, the Centurion did what he thought was best to get Jesus to help him.
The Centurion heard about Jesus and faith came.
/Rom 10:10.
////So then faith cometh by hearing,../.
The Centurion, I believe abandoned all his previous beliefs in order get help for his beloved servant.
He sought out the Great physician.
Being a man of power and influence, he sent some intermediaries to Jesus on his behalf asking him to come and to heal his servant.
His intermediaries told Jesus because the centurion’s character He should come.
*IV.
He was a man of Character vv.
4-5*
The Centurion sends the elders out with a message.
They beg Jesus to do this for the Centurion because *he was worthy of it*.
What a testimony on character!
A Jew is telling Jesus that his Roman oppressor deserves this request.
/Are we living lives that people will speak highly of us?
Or is every time your name comes up something negative is associated to it?/
*Your character can get you things your power can’t.*
The Jewish elders tell Jesus that /the centurion loves our nation/ meaning he loves the chosen people and he built us a synagogue, place of worship.
This non-believer loves God’s people enough to bless them.
This verse is challenging and convicting for church folk.
This Gentile, a non-believer loved the church people.
It is sad that you will find people outside the church know how to love better than the people inside the church.
Secondly, he built a synagogue for the Jews.
It is also sad that a non-believer knows how to give to institutions that strengthen God’s people when they are many Spirit filled believers who don’t even give.
The elders request is granted and Jesus goes with them to the Centurion’s house.
My beloved, If you want Jesus to go anywhere with you, just ask.
The bible tells us in James 4:3 also tells us “yet ye have not, because ye *ask* not”.
Next…
*V.
He had a confession *
Jesus is now on his way to the Centurion’s house and he encounters others sent by him.
This time it is not Jewish Elders but somebody more personal.
He sends friends with a message of remorse and humility telling Jesus “/don’t bother to come because I am not worthy for you to come in my house and I am not worthy to come to you myself/”.
This is how all of us should feel when it comes to Jesus/.
/The centurion confesses who Jesus is and what he himself is not.
This show reverence and humility.
He humbled himself to the authority and holiness of Jesus even though he was a man of authority.
There is something that always happens when we humble ourselves to the Lord.
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