2015 West Coast Korean Campmeeting

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Cerritos Korean SDA Church

Taariq Patel

Children of the Kingdom

Father, thank you so much for waking us up this morning.

I thank you, God, that your spirit and your angels are here, Father, where your people is gathered, your spirit is here, Lord.

I pray, Father, that you would please forgive us for our sins.

Prepare us to receive a word from on high this morning, because we ask it in Jesus' name, amen.

Now if you have your Bibles, I hope you do, or your phone, Turn with me to Ecclesiastes chapter 8 and verse 4.

When you get there, let me know by saying amen.

The Bible reads, Where the word of a king is, there is power.

And who may say unto him, what doest thou?

Where the word of a king is, there is power.

Now I want you to take your Bibles or your phones and go with me to Matthew chapter 8.

And when you get there, you can let me know by saying amen, or praise the Lord.

All right, I got a couple of Amens, some fast finders here.

Now look with me if you will you guys, starting at verse number 5.

And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion beseeching him and Saying Lord my servant life at home sick of the palsy grievously tormented and Jesus said unto him I will come and heal him The centurion answered and said Lord.

I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof, but speak the word only and my servant shall be healed.

For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me.

I say to this man, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh.

And to my servant, do this, and he doeth it.

When Jesus heard it, he marveled and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

And I say unto you that many shall come from the east and the west and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven but the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth and Jesus said unto the centurion Go thy way and as thou hast believed so be it done unto thee.

The book of Luke chapter 7 tells us the same exact story.

However in Luke it offers different information that Matthew does not contain.

When you compile the 2 accounts, bring them together, the story goes as follows.

The centurion has a servant who he loves, sick at the point of death.

He then goes to the Jewish elders and leaders and says, hey, can you please speak to Jesus on my behalf for my servant?

And so the Jewish elders go to Jesus, and they say this to Jesus, Jesus, can you please heal this man's servant?

He is worthy of whom you should do this for.

He is worthy, they say, because he has built us a synagogue.

Please help this man." And so Jesus, as usual, when someone calls to him with a needy cry, he gets up immediately and he's on his way to go help the centurion.

And as Jesus is on the way, the centurion's servants report back to the centurion and tell him, hey, Jesus is coming to your house.

The centurion immediately tells the servants, go and stop Jesus.

Tell him that he is, I'm not worthy that he should enter into my roof.

They go and they tell Jesus, my master says that he is not worthy that you should enter under his roof.

Jesus, hearing this message, apparently ignored it and just kept walking.

You see all the mob and the crowd was surrounding Jesus so they were slowing him up and he was reaching and teaching and talking to people along the way But he still kept going to the centurions house Servants came back said hey, he didn't listen.

He's still coming the centurion says, okay I got to put my boots on got to get my robe on and I got to go out and finish the message and talk to Jesus myself.

He then goes to Jesus and he says, Lord, neither thought I myself worthy, but just speak the word only, and my servant will be healed.

I say to another, hey you go and do this and he goes and he does it.

The Bible says that when Jesus heard that He marveled.

The word marveled means he was in astonishment, amazement.

The Bible and Colossians chapter 1, Hebrews chapter 1, John chapter 1, all testify and tell us that Jesus created the heavens and the earth.

Can you think of the amazing things that are in the galaxies that our telescope, that Hubble telescope cannot see, that we cannot understand?

Jesus is the master astronomer, the master mathematician, master scientist.

How many amazing and wonderful things has he seen?

But yet God was amazed at the faith of a man.

The only other time that word is used with Jesus marveled is at this situation.

He was astonished and amazed at a man and another time when he was amazed at their unbelief.

He was so amazed and so astonished that the Bible says that Jesus stopped what he was doing, turned around to everybody else and said, I haven't found so great faith.

He turned around to the disciples and all the Jews and said that to them, many will come from the east and the west, will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, but the children of the kingdom shall be cast out, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

What got me about this situation was that the Centurion didn't go to Sabbath school.

He didn't know the church songs that we sung and we sing.

He didn't know about the 3 angels' message.

You know what the servant of the Lord says?

He wasn't even allowed to go to church because he would have defiled the place.

He grew up as a pagan out there in the world.

He was probably in a totally different religion.

But yet he had great faith, so great that Jesus says, I haven't found faith like this in Israel.

Now could it be that Jesus was talking about faith in Israel since the inception of Israel?

Since when he wrestled with Jacob and changed his name to Israel?

And then after he was in the pillar of cloud by day, the pillar of fire by night, and followed his children of Israel through the wilderness?

And what about the times of the kings and the prophets?

Could it be that he was saying, since the inception of Israel, I have not found so great faith like this man?

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