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\nMatthew 8:5\u00a0 <\/span>When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, \u201cLord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.\u201d And he said to him, \u201cI will come and heal him.\u201d But the centurion replied, \u201cLord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, \u2018Go,\u2019 and he goes, and to another, \u2018Come,\u2019 and he comes, and to my servant, \u2018Do this,\u2019 and he does it.\u201d When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, \u201cTruly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.\u201d And to the centurion Jesus said, \u201cGo; let it be done for you as you have believed.\u201d And the servant was healed at that very moment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u00a0\u201cHe seeks a cure, but does not prescribe to the Lord how or where he shall work it; in fact, he does not put his request into words, but pleads the case, and lets the sorrow speak.\u201d (Spurgeon)<\/p>\n
\u00a0Jesus did not hesitate to go to the centurion\u2019s house, and we half wish the centurion would have allowed Him. It was completely against Jewish custom for a Jew to enter a Gentiles\u2019 house; yet it was not against God\u2019s law. The centurion also showed great sensitivity to Jesus, in that he wanted to spare Jesus the awkward challenge of whether or not to enter a Gentile\u2019s house \u2013 as well as the time and trouble of travel. He didn\u2019t know Jesus well enough to know that He would not feel awkward in the least; but his\u00a0consideration<\/i>\u00a0of Jesus in this situation was impressive. In his concern for both his servant and for Jesus, this centurion was an others-centered person. The centurion fully understood that Jesus\u2019 healing power was not some sort of magic trick that required the magician\u2019s presence. Instead he knew Jesus had true\u00a0authority<\/i>, and could command things to be done and completed outside His immediate presence. The centurion showed great faith in Jesus\u2019\u00a0word<\/b>. He understood that Jesus can heal with His\u00a0word<\/b>\u00a0just as easily as with a touch. The man\u2019s understanding of Jesus\u2019 spiritual authority made Jesus marvel. His simple confidence in the ability of Jesus\u2019 mere word to heal showed a faith that was free of any superstitious reliance on merely external things. This was truly\u00a0great faith<\/b>, worthy of praise.<\/p>\n
The fact that such faith was present in a Gentile caused Jesus to announce that there would be Gentiles in the\u00a0kingdom of heaven<\/b>. They will even sit down to dinner with\u00a0Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob<\/b>! As well, Jesus reminded his Jewish listeners that just as the Gentile\u2019s racial identity was no automatic barrier to the kingdom,\u00a0their<\/i>\u00a0racial identity was no guarantee of the kingdom. Though Jews were\u00a0sons of the kingdom<\/b>, they might end up in hell.<\/p>\n
A person ought to know their eternal destiny and who it is that has proclaimed it to be so. To humbly repent sin, and follow, obey, trust, and rely on Jesus Christ, we are promised eternal life – heaven. To reject Jesus Christ we are promised eternal Hell.\u00a0 <\/span>God\u2019s Word is true. God\u2019s promises are steadfast and either a place of refuge, hope, peace, joy, courage, strength, etc\u2026 or they are denied, rejected, turned away from, or given no thought at all. Eternal life – Heaven and eternal death – Hell are real. Some may think the soul\/spirit dies upon death. Nothing could be further from the truth. Eternal death in Hell is very much alive in torment and anguish forever and ever. Give thought to What God promises. Narrow is the path that leads to eternal life and broad is the road that leads people straight to Hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Matthew 8:5\u00a0 When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, \u201cLord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.\u201d And he said to him, \u201cI will come and heal him.\u201d But the centurion replied, \u201cLord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but … Continue reading “31.w. “In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.\u201d”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4083,528,333,14294,154,2,6895,156,6865,4936,5118,148,796,4956,4163,7032,9,15594],"class_list":["post-136754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-abraham","tag-authority","tag-believed","tag-capernaum","tag-centurion","tag-faith","tag-heal-him","tag-healed","tag-isaac","tag-israel","tag-jacob","tag-kingdom-of-heaven","tag-lord","tag-marveled","tag-not-worthy","tag-outer-darkness","tag-servant","tag-weeping-and-gnashing-of-teeth"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136836,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136754\/revisions\/136836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}