The Centurion’s Servant: Great Faith and Humility | Luke 7

And we are introduced to this centurion.

We don't get his name.

He's a military man.

He has about 100 people under him.

Actually, some centurions could even have more, up to 200.

But he's in charge, most likely, of the Roman garrison in the town of Capernaum.

And being that officer commanding, he would have had the intelligence reports of the entire region.

He would have known what was going on in his region and nothing would have escaped him.

He would have had very good intelligence.

So, in other words, he would have heard that Jesus Christ healed the sick and did many, many miracles.

And he would have known accurately what the Lord Jesus Christ preached.

He would have needed in his professional capacity to weigh up.

Is he opposing Rome? Is he causing dissension among the people? What is he saying? What is his message? So he knew.

And we saw last week what the Lord's message was.

He preached the gospel of the kingdom of God.

And he preached repentance and reconciliation with God.

And so, in other words, this Roman soldier, this Roman centurion, he would have known the gospel.

Indirectly, the gospel would have been preached to him.

He would have also had much intelligence about John the Baptist.

He would have known that John the Baptist pointed to Christ Jesus and said, Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world.

So all these things would have been of an interest to him, but because grace was working in his heart, he was not far from the kingdom of God.

He was a good man.

we can describe this centurion.

He wasn't a Jew yet.

He wasn't circumcised.