Catholics know! A Roman soldier, a Centurion, had a clearer view of God’s Order than anyone Jesus had met in Israel. We see The Centurion’s early, Catholic Teaching!
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Question 1: “What Psalm leads us to understand that a Roman Centurion had more faith than all the people living in Israel?”
Answer: Psalm 28:2, 7, 8-9 introduces us to what a Roman Centurion understood about The Power of Jesus when asked Him to heal a beloved slave! ‘Hear the sound of my pleading, when I cry to You, lifting up my hands toward Your holy shrine.’”
The Roman Centurion knew what The Psalm taught: ‘The Lord is my strength and my shield. In Him my heart trusts, and I find help; then my heart exults, and with my song I give Him thanks.’
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Question 2: “Did the Roman Centurion recognize that a thousand years after King David wrote that Psalm?”
Answer: “Luke 7:1-10 tells us! ‘When Jesus had finished all His Words to the people, He entered Capernaum. A Centurion there had a valuable slave who was ill and about to die. When he heard about Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to Him, asking Him to come and save the life of his slave.’”
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Question 3: “Why did the Jewish ‘elders’ ask Jesus to help The Centurion?”
Answer: “They told Jesus: ‘He deserves to have You do this for him, for he loves our nation and he built the synagogue for us.’ And Jesus went with them, but when he was only a short distance from the house, the centurion sent friends to tell Him, ‘Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have You enter under my roof. Therefore, I did not consider myself worthy to come to You; but say the word and let my servant be healed.’”
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Question 4: “How did the Roman Centurion know Jesus has The Power to heal with His Word from far away?”
Answer: “He drew on his own experience as an obedient soldier in Rome’s Bureaucracy! ‘For I too am a person subject to authority, with soldiers subject to me. And I say to one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come here, and he comes; and to my slave, ‘Do this, and he does it.’”
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“Question 5: “How did Jesus react?”
Answer: “em>’When Jesus heard this He was amazed at him and, turning, said to the crowd following Him, ‘I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith. When the messengers returned to the house, they found the slave in good health.’”
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Question 6: “How could a Roman bureaucrat know more about how God worked than anyone Jesus had met in all of Israel?”
Answer: “He knew two things that no other person in Israel understood: 1. God was more powerful than any government. 2. God’s Kingdom, like Rome’s, was organized around obedience to Words of The Commander!”
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Question 7: “Does The Organization of The Catholic Church on earth validate what The Roman Centurion was the first person to understand about God’s Chain of Command in Heaven and on earth?”
Answer: “May all Willful Protestants be blessed to Think as Clearly as The Roman Centurion! Then, they will be in The Holy, Church-Created Order that Jesus Christ Spoke Into Being on earth with ‘His Holy Word’!
‘And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’”
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May all be blessed to understand The Power of God’s Word as well as the Roman Centurion!
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