Shoelaces Stripes Centurions

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What do shoelaces, stripes and centurions have to do with one another? Find out in just a minute! 

 

 

Luke 3:16 Jesus wants John to baptize him and John says… Baptize? I am not even worthy to untie your sandals.

 

It is a deep humbleness and feeling unworthy.

 

When Jesus starts on his way to go heal this Centurions slave… the Centurion still does not come out to meet him but still sends friends to meet  him. Still an act of humility. The centurion sends this message.

the centurion sent friends, saying to Him, “[c]Lord, do not trouble Yourself further, for I am not worthy for You to enter under my roof; 7 for that reason I did not even consider myself worthy to come to You; but just [d]say the word, and my servant [e]shall be healed. 8 For I also am a man placed under authority, with soldiers under myself; and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.” 

 

 

“I am a man under authority”

 

The Centurion was not a Jew, he did not have a heritage of faith nor do we know if he actually believed in Yahweh. 

he was in fact a Roman officer, a gentile, and he doesn’t even know Jesus personally or by acquaintance…

But what we do know is that he believed Jesus had the power and he understood authority. 

To him all he cared about was that he saw Jesus as a man of action, power, and what we would call fruit. 

Its interesting that the man does not claim to be a follower of Jesus, but probably still believes Jesus has some type of “IN” with God the Father. 

 

Here is my takeaway with this story…The centurion understands authority. 

 

In scripture we see different types of authority.

Sovereign authority

The authority of the truth

The authority of conscience

Delegated authority

Functional authority

Customary authority

Contractual authority

 

So the centurion understood delegated authority. He knew that God had given him authority.

 

My question is: Do you realize that God has given you authority? 

Do you understand now that Jesus has taken stripes for our healing and died on the cross for our forgiveness - he has paid the price and through that has given us the authority as believers in him.

 

Ever throw a fit for not getting what you paid for? I have, I will go through every person in the chain of command to get what I paid for… thats my money, I gave it to you, you in turn promised X and instead gave me BS. Im not leaving until I get what I paid for.

Once I get up to the chain of command typically the head honcho goes you are right sir… here is what you paid for!

IM NOT ASKING FOR FREBBIES, OR FAVORS, JUST WHAT I PAID FOR.

 

Understanding Gods authority works like this: I pray for someones healing and they don’t get healed. I get ticked… why? Because Jesus paid the price and he gets what he paid for! I will pray, bad mouth the devil, pray more, get mad, pray some more… Jesus gets what he paid for. That is what my authority is based on. His stripes, his blood, his death and his resurrection.