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*Title: The day I made Jesus excited*
*Theme*: Great faith excites Jesus to move on my behalf
*Introduction*: Everyone has an individual need that especially gets your attention and causes you to respond.
I read a book called the Five Love languages by Gary Chapman.
The purpose of this is book is for you and your spouse to establish better communication for getting the desired results in your marriage.
Love languages allow both parties to be understood because you know what each other likes.
You know what works and what doesn’t work in getting your needs met.
There are five love languages: /Words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch.
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I like to give my wife gifts hoping she is motivated by me understanding what she likes.
Then from there hoping she would respond to my needs.
She likes the gifts but it does not really excite her enough to get her to respond to me and understand my needs the way I need her to.
I offer her acts of service, words of affirmation and give her physical touch.
She likes them all but they don’t really move her.
But if I give her quality time, which is her primary loves language, it makes her excited and she will go out of her way to respond to my needs because I am now speaking her language.
It amazes her because I understand her and she then becomes more receptive and open when it comes to meeting my needs.
*Antithesis*: If I have to do a certain thing to communicate to my wife that I need her attention, I wonder what would I have to do to get God’s attention so He can see about my needs.
Jesus is desiring you to speak his primary love language so he a can respond your their need.
*/Relevant Question/*/: How do I get Jesus to in the time fo my trouble/*?*
*V. 1 When Jesus had finished saying all this in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum.
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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 town under Gentile rule and the center of Jesus’ Galilean ministry.
The name translates to mean the “village of comfort”.
It was the city of comfort.
It was comfortable because it was a port city high in commerce.
It was comfortable because of its political borders.
It was comfortable because of it fertile land.
It sounds a lot like us today.
*Point*: You can always expect Jesus to show up where people are comfortable in the way are living.
Maybe we just think we got it like that because we are living the lives of our dreams, big houses, two foreign cars, kids in college, money in the bank, going to church on Sunday.
I am comfortable.
I got it going on!
Why change?
There are too many comfortable Christians.
God has been so good to us that we have become spoiled, stiff and satisfied.
But Jesus has just entered your city and He about to ruffle some feathers.
Too many of us are comfortable in our faith, doing the same ol’ thing and getting the same ol’ result.
/Look at you neighbor and tell them don’t get comfortable!
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*V. 2 There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die.
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/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 you don’t want them to see them die in the state their in.
Somebody in here is praying for somebody to get well.
Somebody has a loved one who needs to be delivered from a controlled substance.
Somebody has a friend in a relationship that is making them sick spiritually and if they don’t get out of it they are going to die!
This is the situation with the centurion in this text.
His prize servant is sick and about die.
He is desperate for some help for his beloved servant.
But there is problem.
The Centurion is a Roman 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 something different in text.
We see a man of /compassion/.
The text tells us that he valued his servant.
This tells me that their relationship crossed cultural, political, economic and religious barriers.
The Centurion loved somebody that was supposed to be beneath him.
This tells that love transcends all barriers.
When we look at the relationship between the Centurion and his servant you should see how God loves you.
God loves me beyond any barriers.
And His love should move you to show compassion for those in need.
*/Transition: Look at what love caused the Centurion to do/**.*
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The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant.
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/He called for help/
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.
*Pause*
But 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 them I was not trying hear about nobody’s Jesus.
But heartache and pain will not only make 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.
When you seek God he is sure to respond.
David tells in Ps. 34:/4 I *sought* the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears./
*/Pull on your neighbor and tell them if you seek Him, he will help you!/*
*V. 4 When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, “This man deserves to have you do this, V. 5 “ because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.”
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/He was a man of Character/
The Centurion sends the elders out with a message.
They beg Jesus to do this for the Centurion because *he deserves 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 /he 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.
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