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*A Perfectly Simple Faith*
*Luke 7:1-10*
 
v    Illustration:
Ø     Jerry McGuire
Ø     Sports agent
Ø     Loses all his players except two
§        A loud talking wide receiver “Rod Tidwell”
§        A #1 draft prospect – “Cush”
·        Scene when Jerry goes to try to sign Cush
¨     Father will not sign, but gives his word that Jerry will represent his son
Ø     “I don’t do contracts, but my word is Oak”
§        Your word used to mean something
·        Today’s text deals with that subject
 
*READ Luke 7:1-6a*
 
v    Here we are right after Jesus teaches his “sermon on the flat”
Ø     Enters Capernaum
§        There lived a Centurion who had a slave near death
·        So he sends some of the Jewish elders to ask Jesus to come and heal his slave
 
·        Here we find a centurion that was quite unusual
¨     Unusual attitude toward slave
Ø     Slaves were defined by roman law as \\ ”living tools”
§        Thrown out when they no longer were useful
 
¨     Unusual attitude toward Religion
Ø     True…
§        The Romans often encouraged the religions of the conquered peoples
·        Opiate of the state
Ø     But he built a synagogue!
¨     Unusual Friendship toward the Jews
Ø     Anti-Semitism isn’t new
§        Roman called the Jews a “filthy race”
·        But this centurion “loved” the Jewish nation
¨     So much so that he could ask them for a favor
¨     Go and ask Jesus to heal his slave
 
v    And the Elders did just that…
*Look at what the Jews said…*
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Ø     They “pleaded earnestly” with Jesus
Ø     But they pleaded the wrong things
§        Indeed the centurion did build a synagogue
§        And perhaps he was a true friend to the Jewish people
·        But they were *pleading the externals*
¨     Look at what they said ~~ “This man deserves…”
Ø     But that is not what Christ looks at
 
Ø     Just like those Elders…
§        We like to pleading the externals too, don’t we
 
Sophia Loren
I'm not a practicant, but I pray.
I read the Bible.
It's the most beautiful book ever written.
I should go to heaven; otherwise it's not nice.
I haven't done anything wrong.
My conscience is very clean.
My soul is as white as those orchids over there, and I should go straight, straight to heaven.
Ø     Did you hear what she said!
§        I haven’t done anything wrong
§        I’m a good person
§        I have done good things
·        She is pleading the externals
¨     She looks at her life and sees that she does good things
·        But had Sophia really read her Bible as she said…
¨     She would have looked internally and seen a different picture…
 
Before the 17th century, when people looked at a lake or a pond or a glass of water, they judged it clean if they could see through it.
But in 1674 the Dutchman Leeuwenhoek filled a glass vial with water, began curiously looking at it through his newly acquired piece of technology, a microscope, and saw, as he quaintly put it, "very many small animals:' He then examined a drop of water and jotted down his findings:
“I now saw very plainly that these were little eels, or worms, lying all huddled up together and wiggling; just as if you saw, with the naked eye, a whole tubful of very little eels and water, with the eels squirming among one another: and the whole water seemed to be alive with these multifarious animals.”
Many times we are like those living before 1674 in regards to sin.
We look at ourselves externally and say just like Sophia Loren, “I haven’t done anything wrong…I’m good…I’m clean…I should go straight to heaven”
But when we turn the magnifying glass of God's Word onto what is inside us, we find a whole universe of squirming critters and realize what  Paul said in Romans 3:23 is true, " for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
         
v    *When you take God at his word*, you begin to comprehend your own sinfulness, your own unworthiness…
Ø     That you don’t deserve anything from God
§        And that is what the centurion began to realize after he had sent for Jesus…
 
*READ 7:6b-7a*
 
*What the Centurion said*
v    The centurion had obviously taken a look inside himself
Ø     And even though he was a Roman citizen and a Centurion…
§        Realized his position in relation to Jesus Christ
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6b-7 ~~ “I do not deserve…I am not worthy”
¨     The centurion understood true humility
 
§        *True humility is knowing who you are as well as knowing who you are in comparison to Christ*
·        Centurion knew who he was…
¨     A man of great power and influence
Ø     Centurion means “in charge of 100 men”
·        But he also knew who he was in comparison to the Son of God
¨     Undeserving, unworthy
§        The key to humility is…
·        Knowing who you are, but also knowing your place
·        This humility should be applied to all parts of our lives
¨     Gifts & Talents
Ø     Knowing who you are
§        Christ wants you to know what he has given you
·        Spiritual gifts
·        Mental gifts
·        Physical gifts
Ø     Know your place
§        Realize that it is God that has given them to you
·        Use them in his service
·        *Illustration: Eric Liddell Story*
¨     God gave him amazing physical ability
Ø     I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me \\ fast, and when I run, I feel God's pleasure
¨     But refused to run on Sunday
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