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The Thanksgiving sermon and this week's sermon were not recorded. Thanksgiving Sunday is a video-oriented sermon, so it is omitted and this week's sermon is uploaded instead of the main text.
Just tell me [the centurion's faith]
Introduction - Vessel of Faith
A certain chaplain used to be a chaplain at the forefront and occasionally beat a beehive to get honey.
I picked very good honey and advertised it to all the soldiers in the unit, asking anyone to bring an empty bowl and collect the honey. Then one soldier brought a bottle of Bacchus and took honey, another soldier brought a Ringer bottle, and another brought a large can. The chaplain filled all the empty bottles the soldiers brought with honey. Bacchus jars were filled with honey as much as Bacchus jars, Ringer jars as much as Ringer's jars, and large cans as much honey as the cans.
But after that, the complaint calls were unfairly distributed.
Then the chaplain answered, “Who told you to bring Bacchus? I told you to bring an empty bowl, and I just filled it with the empty bowl.”
Today we meet in the Bible a man with a large vessel of faith. We want to renew our faith as this person sees how the vessel of faith is used through his encounter with Jesus. The vessel of materiality cannot grow once it is made, but the vessel of faith grows and shrinks. I pray that everyone will become a vessel of great faith.
1. The Centurion's Meeting with Jesus
1) First, let's look at the centurion's situation.
This person's name is not listed. But you can tell what kind of job he is.
① What is his occupation?
He was a high-ranking Roman army officer with a fairly high rank with a hundred men.
② Where is his work place?
This is where Jesus was most active. If so, this centurion must have known Jesus well.
2) Why did he come to Jesus?
Verse 6: “My servant is lying at home paralyzed, and is very distressed.”
This is a very difficult disease to cure, but the centurion was a loving master with a caring heart who wanted to heal a servant suffering from paralysis.
Here, we learn that no matter how much position, power, and wealth a person has, everyone is a weak being. Therefore, we must rely on the Lord and seek Him. That is faith.
3) How did Jesus respond?
When I said, ‘Please heal this servant who is seriously ill that no one can heal,’ Jesus said in verse 7, “I will go and heal you.” Jesus immediately answered the centurion’s plea.
That's right. Jesus knows our pain. You know your weakness. We should not be afraid to come to the Lord and pray. Find Jesus and ask him. I beg you in the name of the Lord Jesus.
If you have faith and have confidence in the Lord, you will believe that there is nothing that cannot be cured, including diseases.
2. Let's learn the centurion's faith.
Today we will have to learn this centurion's faith. How many force majeure events and sudden crises are there in this age? Therefore, for the sake of my loved ones, and for understanding the family and friends I love, we come closer to the Lord to heal our ailments, to restore the poor around us, to save our families, You will have to ask for the salvation of your unbelieving family and friends.
1) Be confident in Jesus (5)
Without confidence in Jesus, there can be no access to the Lord in prayer. Are you sure that Jesus saved me? Go to Jesus.
What is belief? Faith is looking only at Jesus. It is looking at the power of Jesus and his salvation. Therefore, we live by faith in the atoning death of Jesus Christ on the cross and resurrection to eternal life.
[Hebrews 12:2] Let us look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Why did the centurion go to Jesus? The illness of his beloved and beloved servant is beyond the control of a doctor and cannot be cured by human power, but in this crisis situation, the centurion sought Jesus. This is the behavior of those who have faith.
Our faith is to look only to Jesus in times of joy or sorrow, when things are going well or when things are not going well. Who do you look for first in the face of unsolvable difficulties? Call on the name of Jesus and beg for it. Please pray.
2) Recover the heart of compassion.
A compassionate heart seeks the compassionate Lord (6). The centurion sought Jesus out of love. When faith is manifested in power, we see that faith is accompanied by love. The centurion believed in the power of Jesus. He believed only in Jesus. But, without compassion for his servant, he would not have been able to plead with Jesus.
Are you sure that Jesus is your Savior and that you are my power? Do you truly love yourself? Do you truly love your children? Do you love your husband or your wife? And do you love your parents?
If you have someone you truly love, and want to solve their pitiful problems, but if you don't have the power, shouldn't you have the courage to come to Jesus and plead with him?
Restore the compassionate heart in your heart. May you be comforted by the strength of Jesus.
“I will go and heal you” The Lord wants us to heal all the problems of our force majeure because He has gone. The Lord wants to heal my sickness, my poor, and my wretched things.
As a centurion pleads for a suffering servant, let us also ask the Lord.
“Lord, I am troubled by this. Someone of mine suffers from this. Please heal me, Lord.”
Then, the Lord will come and solve it for you, “I will go and heal you.” “Just tell me!” If you show faith, He will make everything perfect with the Word. Are you not the Lord of Jehovah-jireh, who is ready and waiting? If you truly love, ask. That is faith.
3) Be humble and decide to be obedient.
Acknowledge the highness of the Lord and decide to be obedient.(8) Faith is humility. Humility is demonstrated through obedience. Faith is humility and obedience. It is good to come out with confidence and to work hard for others with love, but unless you thoroughly exalt the Lord, acknowledge Him, and have the heart to bow down before Him and obey Him, you cannot bear the fruit of true faith.
A centurion is a senior officer. Jesus is just a commoner among the colonial people. He is a person who does not need to go to Jesus and speak in such a manner and in such a manner in view of his identity. But the centurion had humble faith, and he went to see him, determined to obey the word of the Lord.
He knew and acknowledged that Jesus was the Most High. So he said that he could not afford to have Jesus come to his house. Also, the centurion was convinced that even if the high Lord and the Lord of power did not come to his house even in healing the servant, everything would be solved with the word alone.
Verse 9: “I am also a man under the control of others, and there are soldiers under me; I say to one to go, and he goes; to another, to come, he comes and to my servant, to do this, he does.
Even if I usually just talk, I do what the people under my subordinates say, but I never doubted that if the Lord just spoke, even paralytics would obey and my servant would get better. If Jesus had commanded him to do something, he would have done it.
Seeing such a centurion, Jesus was astonished, exalting his faith above the Jewish faith and commending him.
Verse 10, “Truly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith in any of Israel.”
When Jesus declared to the centurion, “Go, it shall be done as you have believed,” the servant was healed immediately.
We also want to become saints who show faith through a life of humility and obedience like a centurion and always pray for those we love.
The centurion saved the life of his beloved servant by faith and became a man praised by the Lord. I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus that all of you may have strong faith so that you will be recognized by the Lord like a centurion and enjoy miraculous changes in your life.
What comes out - What is my belief?
Q1. Do you acknowledge my weakness?
Q2. Are you sure that if you ask the Lord, He will answer you?
Q3. Am I a humble obedient person?
I want to humble myself before the Lord. Let's put it down.
Let go of greed. Let go of entitlement.
And heed the Lord's commands.
“Speak, Lord.”
Faith is listening to the voice of the Lord.
The prayer of faith never fails
An Irish young man suffered the pain of drowning his fianc e one day before his wedding. He could not overcome his sadness and fell into a swamp of despair. Following the recommendations of friends and people around him, this young man fled to Canada to escape the painful place. However, before they could settle there, news came that their mother at home was seriously ill and awaiting death. He wanted to die too. It seemed as if all the misfortunes of the world were rushing towards him at once like a typhoon.
At that time, the young man knelt before God helplessly as his last hope. And sobbed and cried.
"Jesus! Please cure my mother's illness. Please respond. I will live my whole life for the glory of God.” He said a prayer of determination. At that moment, God's wonderful comfort and peace permeated my heart. The inspiration that came to me at this time was “Someone who is free from all the suffering of exam worries. Don't be discouraged, and pray and say" - I made a famous hymn called 'Our Savior, who bears the burden of sin'. This young man is 'Joseph Skreven'.
He called his hometown and asked his mother how he was doing. He was glad to hear that his mother, who was seriously ill, had been completely cured, as if lying. Scriben's cries of prayer worked the miracle of reviving her mother.
In this way, the prayer of faith does not fail. If you love, you can pray with passion.
The words we heard and learned yesterday
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you” (Matthew 7:7).
We must believe and pray for the promise.