Luke Series Chapter 7 (EP 61)
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What is the focus of Luke Chapter 7?
What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and in today's episode, we are on the seventh day of the Luke series. Every day we're reading a chapter of Luke, so by the time you get to Christmas Eve, you would have read the whole gospel of Luke. This is powerful. It's been going great. This is the first week. Before we get into it, guys, I want to remind you guys, January 19th, first live podcast show ever in Los Angeles, 6 p.m. January 19th. To get your tickets, go to jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets and get your tickets for the live show. Let's talk about Luke chapter 7 because we're about to see Jesus continually flowing in his earthly ministry.
It's going to be powerful, and I love the story we open up with here when Jesus heals a centurion's servant. Now, before we get into the story, we have to think for a second. Who out of all of Scripture do you think has the most faith we've seen in the Bible? Some might say it was Abraham because God made the covenant with Abraham. Some might say it's Moses because Moses brought forth the Levitical laws and met with God for the Ten Commandments. Or some might even say it was Rahab, the prostitute, who's mentioned in Hebrews 11 as in the cloud of witnesses. for being justified by her faith. Some might even say it's Paul because he was transformed from Saul to Paul and it was this powerful thing.
But no, Jesus here is actually going to say that this centurion has had the greatest faith he's ever seen. And the centurion is a non-Jew. It's a Roman. The centurion is a Roman, is a Gentile. And Jesus came specifically in his earthly ministry, limited his power in his earthly ministry for the Jewish people. But he's about to recognize this Gentile's faith here and say, you have the greatest faith I've ever seen. So let's read on. After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now, a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. Now, normally, if a centurion had a servant and the servant was becoming ill or sick, they had the right to kill their servant. OK, this is pretty intense. They had the right to kill their servant. But now this servant was loved deeply by the centurion. And so when the centurion had heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews asking him to come and heal his servant.
And so he was too, the centurion almost felt unworthy of going in the presence of Jesus. So he said, I'm going to send some Jews to go before him and ask on behalf of me. Because in his mind, he's like, I'm a Gentile. Why would Jesus want to come talk to a Gentile? And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue. And Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to him, Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. Therefore, I did not presume to come to you, but say the word and let my servant be healed.
man the centurion understands the weight and deity of Jesus Christ here he's saying hey listen guys I he sent his friends before them to Jesus and he goes listen like I don't think you're worthy to come in here but I know that if you say he'll be healed he'll be healed so if you just say the words I know he'll be healed and I think that's so powerful Because in today's day and age, we say, God, I need you to strike lightning down in front of me to do this. God, I need you to physically be here with me. But then oftentimes, even if that were the case, we would often turn in rebellion to Jesus after we get what we want. But if we know that Jesus is perfect, almighty, flawless, and he's a promise keeper, then we don't have to demand him.
And I'm so encouraged by centurion's faith. He says, Lord, do not trouble yourself for I'm not worthy to have you come under my roof. Therefore, I did not presume to come to you, but say the word and let my servant be healed. For I too am a man set under authority with the soldiers under me. So now he's relating to Jesus. He says, I say to one, go, and he goes. And to another, come, and he comes.
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