{"id":1889,"date":"2015-07-05T16:07:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T20:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2015-07-05T16:07:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T20:07:35","slug":"the-life-and-death-of-a-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=1889","title":{"rendered":"The Life and Death of a Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Message by Dr. David Drake<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/rec0705-113101.mp3\">rec0705-113101<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><b>Luke 7:1-10 (NASB)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> <\/b> 1 \u00a0When He had completed all His discourse in the hearing of the people, He went to Capernaum. 2 \u00a0And a centurion&#8217;s slave, who was highly regarded by him, was sick and about to die. 3 \u00a0When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders asking Him to come and save the life of his slave. 4 \u00a0When they came to Jesus, they earnestly implored Him, saying, &#8220;He is worthy for You to grant this to him; 5 \u00a0for he loves our nation and it was he who built us our synagogue.&#8221; 6 \u00a0Now Jesus <i>started<\/i> on His way with them; and when He was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to Him, &#8220;Lord, do not trouble Yourself further, for I am not worthy for You to come under my roof;\u00a07 \u00a0for this reason I did not even consider myself worthy to come to You, but <i>just<\/i> say the word, and my servant will be healed. 8 \u00a0&#8220;For I also am a man placed under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, &#8216;Go!&#8217; and he goes, and to another, &#8216;Come!&#8217; and he comes, and to my slave, &#8216;Do this!&#8217; and he does it.&#8221;\u00a09 \u00a0Now when Jesus heard this, He marveled at him, and turned and said to the crowd that was following Him, &#8220;I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith.&#8221; 10 \u00a0When those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave in good health.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><b><u>The Slave<\/u><\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><b> A <\/b><b>Picture Of A <\/b><b>Nation <\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><b>Luke 7:2 (NASB)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>2 \u00a0And a centurion&#8217;s slave, who was highly regarded by him, was sick and about to die.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><b><u>The Centurion<\/u><\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><b> A Picture Of The Church<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Luke 7:3 (NASB)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>3 \u00a0When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders asking Him to come and save the life of his slave.<\/p>\n<p><b>Luke 7:8 (NASB) <\/b><\/p>\n<p>8 \u00a0&#8220;For I also am a man placed under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, &#8216;Go!&#8217; and he goes, and to another, &#8216;Come!&#8217; and he comes, and to my slave, &#8216;Do this!&#8217; and he does it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><b><u>The <\/u><\/b><u><b>Savior<\/b><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><b> A <\/b><b>Picture Of Redemption<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Luke 7:6 (NASB) <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">6 \u00a0Now Jesus <i>started<\/i> on His way with them; and when He was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to Him, &#8220;Lord, do not trouble Yourself further, for I am not worthy for You to come under my roof;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><b>Luke 7:9-10 (NASB) <\/b><\/p>\n<p>9 \u00a0Now when Jesus heard this, He marveled at him, and turned and said to the crowd that was following Him, &#8220;I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith.&#8221; 10 \u00a0When those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave in good health.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message by Dr. David Drake &nbsp; rec0705-113101 Luke 7:1-10 (NASB) 1 \u00a0When He had completed all His discourse in the hearing of the people, He went to Capernaum. 2 \u00a0And a centurion&#8217;s slave, who was highly regarded by him, was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=1889\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}