Faith and Authority
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Call to Worship:
19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
Offering
22 They came, both men and women, as many as had a willing heart, and brought earrings and nose rings, rings and necklaces, all jewelry of gold, that is, every man who made an offering of gold to the Lord.
Faith and Authority
Faith and Authority
5 Now when Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him, 6 saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.” 7 And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.” 8 The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed. 9 For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” 10 When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel! 11 And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12 But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” 13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.” And his servant was healed that same hour.
Introduction:
If last week was about worship this week is about faith.
There is a direct correlation between the authority and faith.
1. Religion collides with reality.
1. Religion collides with reality.
5 Now when Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him, 6 saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.” 7 And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.” 8 The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed.
Sometimes we have an understanding of our faith. an understanding that misses the forest while looking at the tree’s.
I love Sunday school.
I believe in Sunday School.
when I talk about ‘Sunday School Answers’ It’s not Sunday School that I have a problem with. its the pupils and there approach to leaning that I have a problem with.
it is easy to for us to assume that we are better than a first century Israelite. we think that we would do better.
I doubt it.
if we are honest, we fail repeatedly in the living out of our faith.
we opt for the cliche answer that that get us the golfers clap in Sunday school. as if we get style points in heaven for our religion.
our Lord makes this clear at the end of the passage.
I would like us to yield to the Holy Spirit, I would encourage us to take a moment to invite the Holy Spirit to search our hearts and set us right.
27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
2. Understanding Authority and Faith.
2. Understanding Authority and Faith.
8 The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed. 9 For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
The centenarian was in charge of one hundred men. He understood how his authority worked. we also know that he understood his authority to be less then the Lords authority.
this centenarian, probably a gentile understood that he was not worthy of the Lord to enter his house, he also understood that The messiah had all the power.
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
The Centenarian knew that the authority of Christ extended to every part of the world.
This is the thing that we don’t get the complete power.
the centenarian understood authority.
3. Religion kills the very nature of our love for God.
3. Religion kills the very nature of our love for God.
10 When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel! 11 And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12 But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” 13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.” And his servant was healed that same hour.
These people the sons of Abraham the sons of the kingdom have been resting on there national, and spiritual ‘exclusivity, ’ while quit missing the point!
the point is not what faith does for them.
the point is what faith does in Them.
in the same way, its not what knowledge does for us.
it is not what the knowledge does for us in the eyes of others it is what we do with the knowledge that serves the world.
faith by works.
to lack this is to put ourselves in the same danger as the first century Israelites.