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0:00When Jesus [music] came down from the
0:02mountain, large crowds followed him. And
0:05a leper came to him and bowed down
0:08before him and said,"Lord, if you are
0:11willing,
0:12you can make me clean."
0:16Jesus stretched out his hand and touched
0:18him, saying, "I am willing. Be
0:21cleansed."
0:23And immediately his leprosy was
0:26cleansed.
0:27And Jesus said to him, "See that you
0:31tell no one,
0:33but go show yourself to the priest and
0:36present the offering that Moses
0:38commanded as [music] a testimony to
0:41them." And when Jesus entered Capernaum,
0:45a centurion came to him imploring him
0:48and saying,"Lord,
0:51my servant is lying paralyzed at home,
0:55fearfully tormented."
0:57And Jesus said to him, "I will come and
1:01heal him."
1:03But the centurion said, "Lord, I am not
1:06worthy for you to come under my roof,
1:10but just say the word and my servant
1:14will be healed.
1:16For I also am a man under authority
1:20with soldiers under me." And I say to
1:24this one, "Go," and he goes, and to
1:26another, "Come," and he comes. and to my
1:29slave, do this, and he does it."
1:34Now when Jesus heard this, he marveled
1:37and said to those who are following,
1:39"Truly, I say to you, I have not found
1:43such great faith with anyone in Israel.
1:47I say to you that many will come from
1:49east and west and recline at the table
1:52with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the
1:54kingdom of heaven.
1:56But the sons of the kingdom will be cast
1:59out into the outer darkness. In that
2:02place there will be weeping and nashing
2:05of teeth.
2:06And Jesus said to the centurion, "Go and
2:11it shall be done for you as you have
2:13believed." And the servant was healed
2:16that very moment.
2:19So this is Jesus immediately on the
2:23heels of his threechapter sermon on the
2:26mount. And as he comes down from the
2:29mountain, a large crowd is following
2:32him. It would not be that unusual to
2:35what was seen in the time of Gandhi when
2:39the hope and expectation for revolution
2:43resulted in a large multitude following
2:47Gandhi from village to village. That's
2:50what was happening. People were
2:52expecting that something was going to
2:54happen quite quickly. And that's why
2:57they set down their tools of work. They
3:00walked away from their fields. They
3:02stepped out of their homes and they just
3:04wanted to be with him cuz something
3:08special and miraculous and revolutionary
3:10could happen at any minute. He comes and
3:14he sees this leper who asks him if he
3:18can be cleansed if he's willing. But the
3:21interesting thing to me is that Jesus
3:24says, "See that you tell no one."
3:28Now Jesus has just performed one of his
3:30early miracles, one of the big flashy
3:33miracles that he would become famous
3:36for.
3:37But he's done it immediately after
3:40stepping down from the mountain where
3:41he's preached the message of repentance
3:44and transformation, the catechism of the
3:47kingdom called the sermon on the mount.
3:51And he doesn't want people following him
3:53just for the flashy miracles. So he's
3:57not trying to build his following
4:00through the miracle. He's trying to
4:02build his following through the message
4:06of the kingdom. So as of yet he's not
4:10really wanting to use it. Other places
4:12he does, but right now that's not his
4:15emphasis. And then we have this
4:17centurion coming to Jesus. And it's
4:20remarkable because here we have a Jewish
4:23preacher
4:25being
4:26approached by
4:29a Roman soldier, a commander, a
4:31centurion
4:33who is part of the the nation, the
4:36empire that has conquered his people and
4:38is oppressing them. So this Roman
4:41centurion represents everything the
4:44people following Jesus want freedom
4:46from.
4:48And yet Jesus tells him,"I have not
4:51found this kind of faith, this
4:54excellence of faith in all of Israel."
4:58And this shows that God is not attached
5:01to this person or this family. He's
5:04attached to people who can hear the word
5:06of God and act on it. People who can
5:09hear the word of God and have faith. And
5:12so he tells this centurion,
5:14he has this exchange with this centurion
5:16that's very interesting.
5:18The centurion asks for healing for his
5:22servant, which is meaningful all by
5:24itself.
5:25It speaks to the character of this man,
5:28the character that produces the faith,
5:30the love that comes before faith. Jesus
5:34tells him, "I will go and heal your
5:37servant. I will make a journey to your
5:39house."
5:41But this attitude of faith, greater than
5:44any faith in all of Israel, is also
5:46rooted in honor. He's aware of Jesus's
5:50ministry and his busyness and his
5:52mission. He's not presumptuous.
5:56And he says, "I'm not worthy for you to
5:58come into my house." He's a gentile, so
6:02it wouldn't have been proper even for a
6:04Jew to go into his house. He doesn't
6:06want Jesus to be put in an uncomfortable
6:10situation. There's just honor and regard
6:13and respect.
6:15And the man says, "For I too am a man
6:19under authority."
6:22It's very fascinating that he does not
6:24say, "I am a man with authority or in
6:29authority." He says, "I am a man under
6:32authority."
6:34And then he begins to tell how he uses
6:37that authority to order the people in
6:41his life. He's in a position over
6:43others, but he's also in a position
6:46under authority. He's conscious that he
6:50has authority to tell people to go and
6:52they will go, to come and they will
6:54come, to do this and they will do it.
6:58But he's also conscious that his
6:59authority is derivative. it comes from
7:02something greater. In his case, it's
7:04Caesar and his commanders between him
7:07and Caesar. But he's acknowledging that
7:10Jesus has the power to heal because he's
7:15in submission.
7:17Jesus is under authority.
7:21And then he's basically saying,"Lord,
7:24my servant's disease
7:27is something under your authority and
7:30you could tell it to go and it will go."
7:34And what's fascinating is that after
7:37Jesus compliments his faith, he uses one
7:40of the words that the centurion used to
7:44describe how he governs his servants.
7:49Remember the centurion said,"I say to
7:52this one, go." And he goes,
7:56what is the one word that Jesus speaks
7:58to the centurion?
8:00The very thing he first thing he says is
8:02he says go
8:05and [clears throat] it shall be done for
8:07you as you have believed. So what he's
8:11saying to the centurion is it's not just
8:14the disease that's under my authority,
8:17but you are stepping under my authority
8:19and becoming an agent of grace as you go
8:23to your servant's house and healing goes
8:26with you. When Jesus came into Peter's
8:29home, he saw his mother-in-law lying
8:32sick in bed with a fever.
8:35He touched her hand and the fever left
8:38her and she got up and waited on him.
8:43When evening came, they brought to him
8:46many who were demon-possessed.
8:49And he cast out the spirits with a word
8:53and healed all who were ill. This was to
8:56fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah
8:58the prophet. He himself took our
9:01infirmities and carried away our
9:04diseases.
9:06In this healing, in these two healings,
9:10we see him healing with a touch of his
9:13hand. The fever leaves. And the second
9:17way we see him healing is by speaking a
9:20word. Now, that's exactly the kind of
9:22healing that he gave to the centurion
9:25servant. The centurion said, "Only speak
9:28the word and my servant will be healed."
9:32Jesus isn't walking among us in the
9:34flesh as a human being anymore. But he
9:39still his word is still with us. And
9:41that spoken word can still find our
9:44place of need and heal us.
9:48When Jesus saw a crowd around him, he
9:50gave orders to depart to the other side
9:53of the sea.
9:55Then a scribe came and said to him,
9:57"Teacher, [clears throat]
9:58I will follow you wherever you go."
10:02Jesus said to him, "The foxes have
10:05holes, and the birds of the air have
10:08nests,
10:09but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay
10:12his head."
10:14Another of the disciples said to him,
10:16"Lord, permit me first to go and bury my
10:20father." But Jesus said to him, "Follow
10:23me and allow the dead to bury their own
10:26dead."
10:28When he got into the boat, his disciples
10:30followed him. And behold, there arose a
10:33great storm on the sea, so that the boat
10:37was being covered with the waves. But
10:40Jesus himself was asleep.
10:43And they came to him and woke him,
10:44saying, "Save us, Lord. We are
10:47perishing."
10:49He said to them, "Why are you afraid,
10:53you men of little faith?"
10:56Then he got up and rebuked the winds and
10:59the sea, and it became perfectly calm.
11:03The men were amazed and said, "What kind
11:06of man is this that even the winds and
11:09the sea obey him?"
11:11So this chapter is all about faith. And
11:15the first faith we have is from a leper.
11:17And the second faith we have is from a
11:20centurion. Very unlikely for the Jewish
11:23writer to be writing about the Messiah's
11:26activity in the Jewish community,
11:29starting with a leper and moving to a
11:31centurion. And then we have him
11:34interacting with the fisherman's mother,
11:38Peter's mother, and a healing comes. And
11:40then we have him healing the crowds with
11:42a word. And then we have a teacher
11:44coming. And uh this scribe, this
11:48respected
11:50theologian of Jesus's day comes to him.
11:53He simply says, "I will follow you
11:55wherever you go." And Jesus discerns,
11:59"No, you won't." Because what you're
12:02looking for is a comfort zone. You're
12:04looking for your niche in this world.
12:07And he's saying foxes are like that.
12:10They have holes in the ground. And birds
12:12of the air, they build nests. But that
12:15place of complacency and comfort that
12:19you're looking for, I don't have it for
12:21you. And then the next man comes and
12:24says,"Lord, I will follow you, but
12:26permit me to first go and bury my
12:28father." And Jesus says, "Let the dead
12:30bury the dead. Follow me
12:34instead." And when the disciples do
12:37follow him, they follow him into a
12:39storm. Does that sound like a nest? Does
12:42that sound like a comfy hole?
12:45Your your comfortable house on the
12:47ground? No, it doesn't. It's
12:49demonstrating the volatility of a life
12:52of obedience with God.
12:55But Jesus is sleeping while they're
12:57freaking out.
13:00What makes us afraid does not make him
13:02afraid. And they have to shake him and
13:05wake him up. And when they wake him up,
13:08the first thing he does is not address
13:10the storm of the water and the wind, but
13:12address the storm of anxiety and
13:15unbelief in the hearts of his people.
13:19Have you ever felt yourself in a
13:21horrible crisis, in a terrible storm,
13:24and you felt like God focused on your
13:26attitude first?
13:28Because he wants you to be a vessel
13:31through whom his grace can flow to that
13:34circumstance. But until you fix the
13:36attitude, until you get back in faith,
13:40you're less than useless.
13:42When he came to the other side into the
13:44country of the Gatherines, two men who
13:48were demonpossessed met him as they were
13:51coming out of the tombs.
13:53They were so extremely violent that no
13:56one could pass by it that way.
13:59And they cried out, saying, "What
14:01business do we have with you? What
14:04business do we have with each other, son
14:06of God? Have you come here to torment us
14:10before the time?
14:13Now there was a herd of many swine
14:16feeding at a distance from them. The
14:19demons began to intreat him, saying, "If
14:22you are going to cast us out, send us
14:24into the herd of swine."
14:27And he said, "Go."
14:32and they came out and went into the
14:34swine. And the whole herd rushed down
14:37the steep bank into the sea and perished
14:40in the waters.
14:43The herdsmen ran away and went to the
14:45city and reported everything, including
14:48what had happened to the demoniacs.
14:51And behold, the whole city came out to
14:53meet Jesus.
14:55And when they saw him,
14:58they implored him to leave their region.
15:03Now, here's the last section of this
15:05chapter.
15:07We have a scene where Jesus
15:11goes to a place and encounters two
15:14demon-possessed men coming out of tombs.
15:18This is a creepy scene.
15:21And yet the town has grown accustomed
15:26to the demons, but they are not
15:28accustomed to the authority of God and
15:32[music] the word of God bringing change
15:34in hopeless situations.
15:37So it says nobody would pass by the
15:40demon-possessed people because they were
15:41there.
15:44But after the demon-possessed people are
15:45healed,
15:47now they come out to meet Jesus and they
15:50beg him to leave their town.
15:53This is to show us how our cultures can
15:56become comfortable with, grow accustomed
15:59to horrible conditions, horrible sin,
16:05horrible demonic oppression. And that's
16:08just part of life. But when God steps in
16:11and begins to bring change and healing,
16:15we ask him to leave because it makes us
16:17scared.
16:19Now, it's interesting
16:21that the demons
16:23ask Jesus
16:25to send them into the swine. Why do you
16:29think that was? What does that tell us?
16:33That tells us that a fundamental
16:37ambition of spirits is incarnation.
16:43They want to take up residence in a
16:47human expression
16:49or at least
16:51a visible corporal
16:55creature expression. So when they're
16:58about to be cast out of these two men,
17:00they would rather be in the swine
17:03than in the waste places. And Jesus
17:07tolerates it, knowing that it's no great
17:10loss when those swine head into the
17:13ocean and those uh demons head where
17:17they should be going from the beginning.
17:31>> [music]

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