{"id":793,"date":"2011-11-09T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T17:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?p=793"},"modified":"2011-11-09T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T17:56:21","slug":"what-does-being-under-authority-have-to-do-with-great-faith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?page_id=793","title":{"rendered":"What does &#8220;being under authority&#8221; have to do with great faith?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In Luke 7:8, what does \u201c<em>being a man under authority<\/em>\u201d<em> <\/em>have to do with having great faith?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Answer:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">The centurion, being a man of authority, compared himself to Jesus and his authority.\u00a0 He did not have to physically go to a place to get something done; he merely gave an order and it was done by his soldiers; Lu.7:8, \u201c\u2026..and I say\u2026..to my servant, do this, and he doeth it.\u201d\u00a0 Likewise, the centurion knew Jesus did not have to physically go to his home to heal his servant.\u00a0 He knew that his servant would be healed if Jesus gave the command; Lu.7:7, \u201c\u2026..but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.\u201d\u00a0 Jesus stated the centurion had great faith because he knew he was unworthy or was not a righteous man, but still believed (faith) that his servant would be healed if Jesus merely spoke the word.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In Luke 7:8, what does \u201cbeing a man under authority\u201d have to do with having great faith? \u00a0 Answer: The centurion, being a man of authority, compared himself to Jesus and his authority.\u00a0 He did not have to physically go to a place to get something done; he merely gave an order and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-793","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/793\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}