S7E14 - Luke 7:1-17 - What If Authority Looks Like Humility

A Roman commander sends a message that flips the usual religious script: “Just say the word.” That single line opens up one of the most challenging and comforting sections in the Gospel of Luke. We’re in Luke 7:1–17, where Jesus heals a beloved servant from a distance, then walks straight into a funeral and brings a widow’s only son back to life. Two miracles, two very different people, one clear picture of who Jesus is.

We talk through why the centurion’s faith makes Jesus marvel, and how his humility actually strengthens his trust. We also pause on the tension in the story: the elders argue the centurion is “worthy” because of what he’s done, while the centurion calls himself unworthy and simply leans on Jesus’ authority. If you’ve ever felt like you had to earn God’s attention, or like God owed you something, this passage brings a needed reset.

Then the scene turns to Nain, where the widow doesn’t ask for anything at all. Jesus sees her, feels compassion, tells her not to weep, and speaks life into what looks final. We reflect on what that means for grief, vulnerability, and Christian hope, and why the crowd’s reaction “a great prophet” is true but still not the whole story. If you want a fuller view of Jesus’ authority, Jesus’ compassion, and what real faith looks like under pressure, this conversation will stay with you.

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SPEAKER_02 0:09

Well, what's up, Lifehouse family? Welcome back to the Life Talk Podcast. We are so excited to be coming to you just each and every Monday. Dropping early so you can wake up and get your week started with some scripture, some conversation, just seeking to bring you more of God's word and give you something to continue through the week. And so as we have been, we're moving through April. The sun is starting to come out. It's finally not cold. The snow is gone. And Easter is moving. And wow, just the year is moving along. But we are continuing in Luke. And so I have, I guess we did miss it last episode, but we do have the the good news, bad news bears that come to you. You know, March we had had some good news bears, but we're back to the you know January, February crew. So we'll we'll go with that, right? It is baseball season, you know, lollygag around the infield, but we got a good crew here today. So uh I am excited to be rejoined by Jeremy Alrich. Jeremy, what's going on today? How are you doing, mate? What position are you playing today? Are you gonna pitch today?

SPEAKER_01 1:17

I think I'm I'm pitching a pitcher.

SPEAKER_02 1:20

Shortstop, you know, something like that. So I think you're gonna be our pitcher today. All right. All right, Jonathan, what's going on, man? Doing well. Good to see you. You uh hanging out in the dugout, you know, just uh waking up for us today.

SPEAKER_03 1:33

Man, I'm not even getting on the field. Wow. We'll we'll let you pitch it.

SPEAKER_02 1:37

Can I pinch in it? Maybe. We'll see if it's a tight, tight game. Okay. Put him in the outfield somewhere, right? All right. Just don't be picking anybody.

SPEAKER_03 1:45

Wherever you need me, coach, put me in.

SPEAKER_02 1:46

I can do it. So and running his streak to 10 episodes is Rico da Silva. What's going on, man? I know you're a basketball guy, but we'll roll with the baseball analogy of the day, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:57

I can steal up in baseball. I'm glad to be here.

Luke 7 Setup And Theme

SPEAKER_02 2:01

All right. Got the wiffle ball bat, you know. So all right. Well, we'd like to have fun on the podcast, have a good time, but uh, we are here to really dig into God's word. We have some great scripture today. Last week we finished up chapter six, really talked about love, judging, and the foundation of Christ. And uh today we're moving forward into chapter seven, and so much depth we won't do all of chapter seven, but we are going to look at the first 17 verses, two amazing miracles that really show us a lot about faithworthiness and just the power of who Christ is. So, Jeremy, what insights you got for us this week on on these two miracles of the centurion and the widow son?

The Centurion Asks For Healing

Faith And Authority From A Distance

SPEAKER_01 2:42

Yeah, so we're gonna start with a high-level overview and then we're gonna dive into the scripture on it. So, Jesus, having finished the sermon on the plane, returns to Capernaum, where a Roman centurion sends the Jewish elders to ask him to heal a beloved servant who was near death. The centurion's humility and understanding of authority astonishes Jesus, who heals the servant from a distance. Soon after Jesus travels to Nain, where he encounters a funeral procession of a widow's only son. Moved with deep compassion, Jesus stops the procession, touches the coffin, and commands the young man to rise, restoring him to his mother. These two stories that we're gonna read through and study today reveal Jesus' authority, compassion, and divine power over sickness and death. So let's dive in. We're gonna read verses one through ten first and look at the center the centurion's story. After he had finished saying 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. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent him he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. 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 centurions 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. For I too am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to one, Go, and he goes, and to another, come, and he comes, and to my servants, do this, and he does it. When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, said, I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith. And when those who had seen sent and when those who had been sent returned home to the house, they found the servant well. So what we can see in these in this passage right now is that the centurion had faith that astonished. We had a Gentile outsider who displayed greater faith than anyone in Israel. A faith rooted in humility and dependence and a right understanding of authority. We see that Jesus' authority is effortless. He was able to he healed from a distance. We see Jesus in the gospel's healing in many different ways, but in this way, it just spoke a word and and and he healed. I'm curious what to see what you guys throw drew from this passage.

SPEAKER_00 6:14

Right from the back, I can see that for us reading this, automatically I see faith. And there's a great, great scripture that a faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. And Jesus is what this right here telling me that hey Jesus don't even have to be there to heal somebody. That is what when Jesus mentioned, hey, I have never seen faith like this. That you already know who I am and trusting that you can say it's gonna be done, and by his word is going to be done. So this is for for see something like this for me is a an experience, how we read scripture that if we believe this that is gonna come to pass, if his will is going to happen, we see controversy. We see somebody who needs healing. And for this to be an explanation of how the faith is activated by knowing who's the healer is very powerful to me.

SPEAKER_03 7:25

I appreciate just the what the centurion highlights, and he's talking about Christ and Christ, the word that Christ brings. And you know, it reminds me of like in John 1 1, who it talks about right in the beginning, Christ, Jesus, the the word was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. He was in the beginning with God, all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of the men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has over has not overcome it. And you know, it gets to like you know, and that's alluding to Genesis 1-1, and and just the understanding that power that Christ bring with what he says, and I think in the centurion in some aspects, he understood that because he's like, Look, me on my limited basis as a man, I have authority, it's a limited authority, but when I say go, they go. There is no questions, there is no what are you sure, boss? You you knew this happens, but you know, he understood that, and and so I think to on a spiritual level, his faith was in that he properly understood the authority that Jesus Christ had in regards to in this case sickness and and being able to heal that.

SPEAKER_02 8:45

Yeah, I think there's a lot fascinating, and I just did some reading on you know, kind of like Roman hierarchy and and honor and and things like that. And so certainly within the military, you know, the certain Turian, like you you mentioned, Jonathan, like he has this understanding of what authority and honor are all about and how that influence, you know, and influence that that comes from. So he even, like you say, in his limited perspective, is able to understand enough and then see who Jesus is. And it's like, well, if I'm able to do this on just a you know humanly basis, and you're the son of God, how much more that you can control sickness, you can control, and then we'll move forward into you know control death. But yeah, just seeing that faith. And of course, we know biblically, you know, Jesus came first to the Jew, but also to the Gentile and you know who would receive him. And so I know from the last episode we talked a little bit with this, just interesting to see the attitude of the Jews that are involved in this uh and different things. So yeah, and I think it's sort of interesting you read the scripture, it doesn't actually say what Jesus even said, like what word or anything he may have said. It just says he marvels at his faith. So it's really that faith that is the central core of coming to Christ in faith and understanding where we stand and where he is and and his ability.

Worthy By Works Or Humility

SPEAKER_01 10:07

Yeah. One of the things that I, when I was studying through this, drew out a bit, and I'd be curious to get you all's in perspective on as well, is the contrast between him calling himself unworthy and the Pharisees using the word that that he is worthy. And to a certain extent, the worthiness was tied to for that the Pharisees were talking about was tied to the the good works that he had done. And there's some cultural context that you like that about you know not being worthy to come into your presence in the culture in a potentially a a very segregated cultural society. But I'm curious to get your eyes' y'all's feedback or your thoughts on this unworthiness that he's talking about versus the worthiness that the that the religious leaders talked about.

SPEAKER_03 10:59

Yeah, I know we talked a little bit about before this episode, but the aspect, you know, from the it says that the elders that he sent, they were basically kind of speaking on his behalf. So it's like putting in a good word. And it wasn't just acknowledging necessarily that he's a Christ, that you're saying, well, he's just a good he's a good dude. He's supported, he supported us, he gave us a synagogue, he paid for that, he's he's invested, you know, and so looking on a very superficial level of of someone that's kind of, you know, he's in our corner, right? You know, he's he's for us, he's not against us, so you know, whatever we can do, and you know, it's like you know, he's helped us, so let's help him. And and really, I think part of why God, God, excuse me, God or Christ marveled at his faith was because it was more than that. He realized it wasn't because of what it he didn't go, oh yeah, I did all that, and and therefore, because I've I've done this, please do this for me. But he just goes, No, he recognized him as the Christ. Like, I I don't deserve you. That's why I did send these guys, not just to speak on my behalf, but I I'm not worthy for you to even come under my roof. Like that level of of awareness is you know, like, like it says in here, was you know, unheard of. It was the the one example we have here in the Bible.

SPEAKER_02 12:21

Yeah, I always like first first or second Kings 5 and the story of Naaman, who was a Syrian, you know, who came and it was he kind of struggled, he didn't quite have the attitude of the centurion, but ultimately did what Elisha told him to do and dipping and expressing a faith and receiving healing. And so where we see you know, Gentiles, people outside the nation of Israel in many areas of the Bible expressing this faith and just knowing that's what it takes to truly come to Christ. And we even talked, you know, kind of what you're mentioning last episode. We talked about love and loving your enemies and things like that. Do you think the Jewish elders would have done this if he were like any other Roman centurion who didn't, you know, do these things? So we kind of see that dichotomy and that drawing out of how they're seeing worthiness versus how true worthiness that him coming to faith and how we should view that ourselves, because if we ever think we are worthy, somehow we think God owes us something, like we've definitely missed it. Like we're not going to put God, the Creator, the Almighty, in our debt. But yet that's what a works-based righteousness so often will bring about.

SPEAKER_03 13:31

Yeah, when when we say we're going to submit, if you're truly able, if you're if that's what you can say it, but then there has to be action with it. And I think in here we see the action versus what is said. And it's interesting because you you counter that to the word of the elders versus the word of Christ. The word of the elders was minimal, if you will, to what Christ was able to do, which was to heal. Like you get this juxtaposed juxtaposition of the two. It's just very what man does, what God does. And now the one is, you know, getting back previously, like what Rico said a week ago, with what are we building our foundation on? Are we building on the rock or are we building on the sand? If it's the rock, then then that's the word of God versus the sand, which is the good word by the elders.

Leading By Fear Versus Love

SPEAKER_00 14:18

There's something in here that even relates to me as being retired from the military. And the centering, he was a military leader. And he recognized real. He recognized the fake, he recognized the truth. So for him to mention that he's worthy, I put myself in a situation. So in the natural, when we are in amongst a little backstory, when you're in the military and we know our leaders, we know we can batch for that leader if that leader does what he's supposed to do on his command. So for see something like this in the supernatural, that the centurion knew who Jesus was, and they know, hey, I know he's worthy enough to declare a word, and everything will be done if it's in his will. That spoke volume. Just like you mentioned, the elders, it was minimal what they said. They didn't have the revelation, they exposed to the revelation, they didn't want to believe that. But it's in true new, it's like he got compassion. We talked about the week before about love your enemies, pray for them, do what Christ would do, and for him to identify that hey, I I am a leader and I'm compassionate enough for my servant, but I know I cannot do nothing for my servant, somebody else has to do that. Somebody who is worthy to do that, that is the King of Kings, which is Jesus. So the question for us is who is worthy in our life that it will fix anything based on his will, not in our will. Sometimes even in my household, as a leader, I can go ahead and say, Hey, something needs to be done, do it, they will do it. God do that, they will do that. But something that is out of my hands, it requires somebody who we know who is the source, therefore, I'm gonna trust what the scripture said that he's gonna do it, and he don't even have to be here, but he's in our hearts.

SPEAKER_03 16:13

Yeah, and what what drives it when you ask? You know, like I'm I'm guessing it's you're telling your kids to do something, probably. And what do we say like when they what drives that? It's like, well, if you do this, it shows that you love me. Like it's a response that's when rightly ordered is is a response of love. It's not just because dad's gonna get mad or dad's you know imposing. I mean, to some level, yes, but at the same time, what what we desire as as a dad is that that is that when our kids do it and they do it in a way because they realize, well, I'm doing this, I may not agree with it, but okay, dad, I'll I'll I'll do this because I love you.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

Just to mention, just to piggyback for that, being in the military, you can be very authoritative. I was a leader in the military, and I can see based on the explanation you just give, when I come home, I can be bringing the same hat home, and they will do it out of fear. They were like, hey, do this, and they will do it not out of confidence, not, but now as I'm in Christ, now that I'm a leader in his will, I'll be able to say, Hey, I need you to do this, and they will do it not because I am good, not because I am just in authority, they do it for a cost higher than what I requested for.

SPEAKER_03 17:31

Yeah, and I think for as men and and dads and and just leaders in general, it's one of the things I you know when when I was in the military as well. I, you know, I served as an officer in the Air Force, and I always tried not to, because it's easy to try to lead. I'm sorry, Jeremy, we're kind of that's a good discussion, absolutely. A little discussion sideways here, but is not leading out of fear. Like in in in God's kingdom, it's not because of fear that we should be acting. And and so as a leader, I I encourage you that that if that's the way you're leading, there's a better way to lead. Because ultimately, I want someone that that is doing it because they desire that. And that's what God does. He doesn't he doesn't force us to to know him. He waits for us until we submit, until we come to before him and acknowledge him as Christ, and that we're sinners that that need him. And and it's just it's a it's a beautiful picture.

SPEAKER_02 18:32

So yeah. You just never know what we're going to get into on the podcast here.

Jesus Meets The Widow At Nain

Do Not Weep And Arise

SPEAKER_01 18:36

But it ultimately it's a right understanding of who we are in in relation to who has authority, who who he is over us. And that understanding, we see that in the centurion's in the centurion's story, that he had a right understanding of himself in comparison. In other words, he had humility, and humility and faith are not are not opposites, but they actually strengthen one another. And in that faith that that the centurion had, like Jesus marveled at it. And we, you know, we can it's a theme of Luke that faith is not about a religious background, it's about rec and it's not exclusively tied to a you know an ethnic or or a religious background, it's about recognizing Jesus for who he is and trusting his word. But let's move forward into the next story we have, where Jesus raises a widow's son. So in verse eleven, soon after he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, Do not weep. Then he came and touched the buyer, and the bearers stood still, and he said, Young man, I say to you, arise. And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. Fear seized all of them, and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet has arisen among us, and Jesus and God has visited his people. And this report about him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country. So we see as we as we had mentioned earlier is Jesus is has great compassion on on this widow who is that's now going to be in in that culture a widow with a depending on her on her children, on her son to provide for her. And at this point, she she had a her only son had died, and she was left without without anything, without no means of support. And compassion is one of the things that we can see is that is central to Jesus' ministry. He's not emotionally detached, but he feels deeply moving towards suffering and acting decisively. We also see the kingdom breaking in into into ordinary life where he is demonstrating his power once again in this miracle over death. Interesting trivia point. Two? Three? Three, yeah. Gyrrus is Lazarus. Yeah. So we see Jesus reversing the curse. Sickness, death, despair, and social vulnerability are not final when Jesus is present. So I'll open it up before we, you know, look a little bit more breaking down, but like what are your all's thoughts on this passage?

SPEAKER_02 22:25

I think there's some interesting contrasts here of the Jews in the previous one and coming to Christ versus here. We see the widow doesn't necessarily go to Christ. Christ comes to her, Christ has compassion on her, seeing her situation. And of course, contextually, I know you know a widow, you know, it says it's a man, right? It's her son, but a man. So just in ancient culture, you know, we go even back to like the book of Ruth and how tragic it is to be a widow with no children that can help provide for you. You are like at the bottom of the ladder, you don't know where your provisions are going to come from. So just the compassion that Christ even sees, and we know that's a theme of Luke of Jesus coming to many of those that are the least and in need. And so Christ coming to people like this widow and doing these amazing things, not just providing for her, but also showing who he is, showing his authority. We see how this impacts others as well. So I think there's some interesting distinctions we can draw between these two miracles as well. Yeah, they didn't have the uh life insurance or the 401k.

SPEAKER_03 23:33

No life insurance, yeah. Things we have now that to some level we take for granted.

SPEAKER_02 23:38

Social security was not a thing, disability. Nope, you were if you couldn't work for yourself, had no family to help you, yeah, it was pretty rough.

SPEAKER_03 23:46

You didn't know what, you know, how am I going to provide? Like where where is my next meal gonna come from? Where's you know who's gonna protect me? You know, not take advantage of you. You know, you didn't have any legal status, so you weren't able to, you know, things like owning the, you know, just even owning the property and things like that would now become just challenging. So what I was gonna say though is I always was, and again, this it's a little bit of a rabbit trail here to some level, but what it says in verse he sat up, the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. My question is in 15, what did he say? What's the first words out of his mouth when he he comes back to life? Like I was kind of wondering that if it doesn't say, so obviously it's not it's not the important piece here, but at the same time, like it's like uh you you just you're dead, you you're you're you're uh no longer living, your spirit's absent from the body, so what and then all of a sudden you're back. Like same thing with Lazarus, you know. Like I always wonder if there's a little bit of of regret, maybe of like, oh man, I gotta come back. Like definitely, you know, very true. Anyway, just just the thought. Just the thought.

SPEAKER_00 24:59

I had that same kind of thought too. Oh, one of the things that it really impact me here is the first words that Jesus said when he felt the compassion for this widow. And he said, Do not weep. I mean, you know somebody passed away and you are broken in pieces, do not weep. What you mean you don't weep? You don't see what happened. Mind you, you mentioned a she did not went to Jesus, Jesus went to her and told her, do not weep. So for me, is looking at Jesus' posture, because he didn't have to do that. Just like you mentioned, we don't know what he said, we don't even know what his faith that gentlemen was in the grave. So, two things with that. The my observation, one of the questions that I'm gonna ask when I get there, when you when you when you resurrected him, was he already believing in you? Or that was uh all the perspective for him to believe in you since he came back, just like we mentioned Lazarus. That's the most undermining blown-away experience that I will get if I will be him. I passed away, I'm in the presence of the Lord, I'm having a kumbaya, singing holy, holy, holy, and you gotta go back. I'm like, What? No, boom, and right, really, right? Like, wow, but back to the point do not weep. Second thing he said, young man, I said to you, Arise. That is so powerful. That's authority. That's and mention what he said. This uh, there's not two or three people, there was many people in there. So for people to see that, that is speaks power, authority, and compassion from the king of kings. That's what brought to me.

SPEAKER_03 27:07

Yeah, with uh I like that that last bit there, and then also previously what you said about weeping reminded me of uh uh Revelation 21.4, and it talks about you know the return of Christ and in his kingdom and and what we have to look for. It's not that she shouldn't weep because her son just died, but it's he what he's saying is it's kind of like, well, this is what I'm about to do. Do not weep because I'm gonna restore your son. And but in Revelation 21.4 it says, He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more. Neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. And for us, that that's our hope. Like, because what Christ is demonstrated here is that you know, we we looked at the first example, it wasn't just sickness, but it's actually death. You know, death wears your sting, you know, it is no more in Christ because he's overcome that. And so when we when we put on Christ, when we submit to Christ and His kingdom, that is why we say we have life. It's not that we we won't die, because at some point we all will die physically, but spiritually speaking, we're gonna have life and have it abundantly.

Prophet Language And Missing Messiah

SPEAKER_00 28:17

One thing to mention there, this is so blown mind to me right now. As coming back to scripture, when two or more gather together, I'll be in your midst. I was just thinking about what you said, but I could not remember it where in Revelation said that. So I was trying to get around that to mention that, but you came into play. So this is an observation right now, as you're listening right now, that when you are aligned in scripture and when you see the power of what Christ does, everything comes together. And again, this is an observation for us to see what is come to pass, and that that's just so beautiful. I have to say that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

So I I love this that we're this what we're going through talking through here. One of the one of the things that you brought up a few minutes ago is that Jesus is moving towards this widow. You know, Nain was a small and obscure village, so Jesus went out of his way to meet this woman. And that speaks into our lives as well, is that Jesus sees pain and we don't even have the words. And he said that he can only Rico, he could I think he could only say do not weep because of what he was about to do, right? Because this was a real pain moment for her. But he knew that he was going to to re uh raise this man from the dead. Like he was gonna the you know, don't worry, I got this type, you know. But Jesus sees that pain when when we don't have the words. I mean, she's just overcome with grief, and he moves towards us in that in those times of grief and not away from us. And then Rico, you brought up the other thing that he says, young man, I say to you, arise. What we can see is that Jesus is not intimidated by death, right? He he in fact conquers death, he speaks into that hopeless moment with life-giving authority. We can see again the authority of Jesus over these things and the the breaking in of the kingdom. One thing that I wanted before we wrap up our time, I wanted to get you guys you all's perspective on is that in uh 16 and 17 the crowd is amazed and they say a great prophet has arisen among us. God has visited his people. So they called him a prophet, which was correct, but incomplete. So I wanted to see to get you all's perspective on this. God has visited his people is a profound statement, but do you like are they they're not making that connection with Messiah at this point? So I wanted to wanted to kind of throw that out and see what you all thought about that.

SPEAKER_02 30:56

Yeah, I mean, there's clearly a recognition that only God has authority over death, but yeah, like you said, they haven't really realized that Jesus is God. They're getting there, they're close, but but not quite there. So yeah, it's pretty interesting to see. A lot of people will have miracles in their life and things, but they just won't quite get there sometimes. You know, that's always kind of you know challenging to see where people God does work in their life, but they just won't come to that belief or full recognition sometimes, like various reasons, I'm sure, things within themselves, whatever the case may be, but they just don't quite get to that faith step of understanding Jesus. And we know there's so many false prophets out there, false faiths that just don't have the picture of Jesus right. And I think that you know, this can kind of uh make things too tangential, but it's like you gotta get Christ right. You gotta get his deity, and I think his authority over death that we're seeing in this this little section of scripture is like you can't deny, you know, no one other than God is is doing those or through the power of God. So yeah, they've seen the Old Testament prophets, there were some things that happened, you know. We know Elijah and a widow's son and things, so that might be what comes to their mind. They're recognizing, but they're just not seeing that messianic step of him coming in this way.

SPEAKER_03 32:16

Was it Elisha as well?

SPEAKER_02 32:18

I think so, yes.

SPEAKER_03 32:19

So it's interesting because like you said, it I think that came to mind. If you look at either of those, they didn't just speak and the right the individual just arose. Yep. And so here you got someone that's like comparing those two much greater than. Yes. And so, yeah, he's more than the prophets. And they just they they they go, well, we've seen this or we've heard of this before, but maybe this is something even better than what what that, and so they're still, you know, to some level grappling with that.

SPEAKER_00 32:51

They still uh by this point they have not seen the messiatic in full effect. So when they mention a greatest prophet arise amongst us, they don't have that correlation with the Christology yet. They see something that they never seen before, they hear something like this was gonna happen, but to see it is way different. So my inclination on that is just because they see something is greater than the prophets that came before and they did miracles, I believe that Jesus was pasturing himself for the next punch in when it comes, it's gonna come in the next in the next episodes, in where man, who who is this guy? Now he's raising people from the dead, and and wait a minute, and they come to us, they don't need we don't need no uh in uh intermediate, we don't have to wait a minute. No, this is this is beyond our ears. Now for us, we have things that we have the word of what God that we can read and we had a ch we can choose if we want to believe it or not. They didn't have anything. They have the prophets to come and speak, they have the prophets to open and read, but to see the men, the king of kings, did something in their eyes in that uh setting it was mind-blowing. So, yes, they see somebody greater that performs something that uh from my for my observation, Jesus is pastoring himself undeniable. Nobody else is gonna come and do something better than this.

Takeaways And Next Week Preview

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Amen. Well, a great discussion, guys, and we've seen two powerful miracles in this in this uh passage. We've seen the centurion's servant being healed by a word, and Jesus coming to some to this widow when when she was in this desperate time of grief. We've seen for application for for us and for our for the church and the listeners, we can see that humility is the great is the is a gateway to faith. Having a correct understanding of who we are can strengthen our and will strengthen our faith in who God is. Because when we see ourselves as in it rightly, we can also like we can also see God rightly. Jesus will meet us in our most vulnerable moments, and God is not God's power is not limited by our circumstances. So absolutely.

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