308: Matthew Blewett – Exhortation: Principles of Faith

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Welcome to good Chris Selfian
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I’m Chris.

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For a talk this week we are
listening to an exhortation

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entitled Principles of Faith
that was given by Brother

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Matthew Blewett at the Idlewild
Bible School this past summer.

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And this exhortation is just a
really good opening to the Bible

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School.
Fun little note is that he

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mentions an exhortation that we
have previously shared on the

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podcast that was given in 2007
at the Idlewild Bible School.

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So it was really interesting to
see him reference back to an

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exhortation from 17 years ago
when the last time that he was

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at the Idlewild Bible School.
And this exhortation is just

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looking at examples of faith in
the ministry of Jesus.

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And it was just a really good
way to kick off the Bible

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school.
I’m also going to use this as

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sort of a way to introduce the
series that Brother Matthew gave

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up at the Autobot Bible School.
There isn’t A1 particular class

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that he gave that sort of stands
alone to be good for the sort of

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format of a single class that we
share on the podcast, but the

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entire series was excellent.
He was looking at the pattern of

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heaven and earth.
I highly, highly recommend it.

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And I’m going to put the entire
series on the good Chris

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Delphine talks extended feed as
sort of a tie into this.

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This expectation isn’t a direct
introduction to that series, but

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because it was what he used to
open to it and he makes a few

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mentions to the study that
they’re going to look at.

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And I think the series in
particular was excellent and

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really, really powerful.
So I want to encourage people to

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listen to it.
So we’ll put it over on the

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extended feed for anybody who
wants to listen to it as well.

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I hope that you enjoy both this
exhortation and if you go over

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and listen to his series on
Heaven and Earth, that you would

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also enjoy that one as well.
So thank you as always for

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If you happen to have any
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them in.
We always really appreciate

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getting kind of the new
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out there as well.
And with that, I will turn it

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over to Brother Matthew Blewett
for his exhortation entitled

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Principles of Faith.
Well, good evening everyone.

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It’s a great blessing to be back
with many of you after 17 years.

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It’s a privilege for my wife
Petrie to be with us and I’ve

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managed to convince one of my
children, Jacob, to join.

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I hope it’s been 17 years.
That’s been enough time for you

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to recover from our last visit,
and it’ll probably take you

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about a whole week to get used
to the accent again, I’m hoping.

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Well, I’m sure like me, 17 years
is a long enough time for your

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memories to be pretty fuzzy and
for many of you not to have even

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been here because you may not
have been born.

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So you probably don’t remember
that.

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When I was here last, we spoke
about the topic of faith.

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And so I was quite tempted maybe
to repeat many of those lessons.

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But as I’m sure you’re aware,
after two decades, lots of

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things change.
It’s really exciting for us to

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be gathered here at this
particular camp with all of you

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and also in this beautiful place
called Outerwild.

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It’s very special for us.
I think it’s one of the the best

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camps I ever go to in all the
world.

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I don’t just say that whenever
I’m in front of our new

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audience.
And I can tell you why, because

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also when I think of the name
Idlewild, I think first of all

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of wild.
And it is a beautiful, wild

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place.
I come from Africa.

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There’s lots of wild and, and
this is a beautiful wild place.

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You feel like you’re in the
mountains.

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My wife has already been stung
by a stinging nettle.

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So this is a good wild place,
which is great, and it’s a place

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to be idle.
Now, I always thought the idol

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was just to sort of sleep and
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But I, I looked up in Google and
the idol of Idlewild is actually

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from the poetry of the English.
You may not have known this or I

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may be wrong.
And it refers to peaceful and

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restful.
And, and that’s what we’ve come

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to do.
We’ve really come to take a week

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out of our very distracted and
busy lives to just be restful

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and peaceful in focusing on our
Lord and on our Saviour, the

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Lord Jesus Christ.
And that’s, that’s the most

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incredible opportunity.
It’s like a, a Sabbath week

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that’s given to us where we can
have this opportunity to deepen

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our faith.
I mean, sure, we, we come here

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to to learn Bible lessons.
We come here to fellowship and

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renew friendships.
We’ve come here maybe to play

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some volleyball.
But over and above all of that,

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the opportunity that is
presented to us here this week

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is to deepen and strengthen our
relationship with our Father and

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our Lord Jesus Christ.
And if we’re intentional about

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that, and if we start this week
by saying that’s something we

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really want to achieve, we want
to leave you knowing that having

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experienced everything that
we’re going to do this week, not

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just the talks, but everything
that makes up a worship week

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like this, we are going to find
ourselves with a strengthened

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relationship with our Lord and
Saviour.

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And so I wanted to start the
exhortation and I guess this

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week by segwaying from 17 years
ago, where we spoke about

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finding faith.
And really what I’m going to be

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covering in my series, Heaven
and Earth is really about

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activating your faith, about
making sure that that faith

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becomes a reality in our
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So I thought we might start with
this evening thinking about some

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core practical principles of
faith that we can focus on

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perhaps as we go through the
week and and try to put into

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practice to help us to achieve
the goal of deepening our

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relationship with our Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ during

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this incredible opportunity we
have this week.

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So in order to do that, I
thought we might lift two

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stories that you know very well
from the Gospel of Matthew that

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are joined, and I’ll and I’ll
tell you.

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And they’re two stories that
actually talk to us about faith.

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And I want to try and
demonstrate to you that there

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are four characteristics or
principles of faith that are

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repeated in both the stories
that are quite simple and easy

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to remember.
And perhaps we can try to put

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them into practice and to think
about them as we move through

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the week.
As we know, there are many, many

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examples of faith that we could
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We’ve got the whole of Hebrews
11, that great portfolio of

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faith, men and women who have
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But it’s interesting that Jesus
in his ministry only ever

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declared two people to have
great faith.

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What an incredible thing to hear
from the Lord Jesus Christ that

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you have great faith and there
were only ever two people that

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he encountered that he said had
great faith.

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And these are the two
individuals we want to think

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about a bit this morning and to
try and, and get these

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principles that I’ve I’ve
mentioned already.

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The interesting thing about the
two is that they cover the full

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spectrum, as it were, of
potential people who can have

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great faith.
So the two individuals from the

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Gospel of Matthew we have read
about, the one, if you were

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listening carefully, it was
there in Matthew chapter 8, the

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centurion who Jesus marvelled at
because of his great faith.

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And the other just want to make
sure they’re not sleeping

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already.
The, the Zara Phoenician.

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We love saying the Zara
Phoenician or the Canaanite

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woman as she’s referred to in
Matthew’s Gospel, Mark Korsu,

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the Zara Phoenician woman.
So we have a Canaanite woman and

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we have a centurion.
And it’s quite interesting when

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you put these two figures
together and you say these are

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the two examples of great faith
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And and so immediately there’s
kind of like this, this, this

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idea that when you put these two
characters together, you have

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the spectrum of Galatians 3
where where Paul says we are the

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sons and daughters of God
through faith in Jesus Christ.

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There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither male nor

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female.
There is neither bond nor free,

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for you are all one in Christ
Jesus.

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Isn’t that interesting?
So let’s have a look.

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We’ve got we’ve got.
Well, first of all, both of

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them, rather curiously, are
Gentiles.

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So neither of them are Jews.
The ones to whom Jesus had

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originally come where you would
have expected to find great

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faith, but the one of course,
being a centurion would have

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been of Roman descent.
And the woman from the, the area

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of Tyre is described in
Matthew’s Gospel as a Canaanite,

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which would have been old
terminology for somebody who

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descended from the land of of
Canaan, who obviously had been

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the enemies of Israel when they
first came into the promised

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land.
So the first thing we have is

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the emphasis.
Their great faith is not the

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reserve, as we know only of the
original chosen, but the

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foreigner has the potential.
Indeed, it is only the foreigner

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who shows great faith.
And of course, it’s a, a

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wonderful lesson for us because
even at this Bible school, there

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could be many of you feeling a
bit like foreigners or

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outsiders, feeling like you
don’t have the, the, the genes

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or the history or the capacity
or the knowledge to have great

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faith.
You’re just a Canaanite woman or

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or perhaps a Roman centurion of
the world.

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But you see, Jesus says that
it’s individuals such as this

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who have the potential and
indeed demonstrated great faith.

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So we have the Jew and the Greek
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We have the Jews already to whom
Jesus had come and the Greeks

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who were represented by these
two characters.

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And then we have a male and a
female.

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So just in case there was only
example of a male and the

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females, look at the at the
example and say, well, you know,

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maybe we don’t get the
opportunities.

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We don’t have the same potential
to develop great faith.

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No, it’s in every one of us that
potential, that opportunity to

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develop this great faith.
And finally, there is this

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contrast of a Roman centurion, a
powerful man, a man of

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reputation, a man of
significance.

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On the one hand, we might call
him the haves of today’s

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society, the privileged man.
And then you have this Canaanite

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mother, someone who was
definitely despised within

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Israel.
We might call that the

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marginalized, the vulnerable,
and again, the full spectrum.

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It’s not just those, of course,
who are in positions of power

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and strength who can find great
faith.

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In fact, that’s often the
stumbling block.

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It is those who are marginalized
and vulnerable who can also find

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great faith.
So in these two examples we have

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that Galatians 3 spectrum.
It’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s the

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opportunity to everyone here,
all of you at this camp,

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wherever you have come from,
male, female, rich, poor,

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disadvantaged, advantage,
clever, not so clever, great

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faith is available.
So let’s look specifically at

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each of these stories and see if
we can maybe pick up these

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principles that I was referring
to.

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So if you’ve got your Bibles
open, we can look at the at the

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example of of the centurion in
Matthew 8 reading at verse 5.

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Now when Jesus had entered
Capernaum, a centurion came to

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him pleading with him, saying,
Lord, my servant is lying at

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home paralyzed, dreadfully
tormented.

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And so we have the first
principle, and this is the

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principle that if we want faith,
it’s not something that’s going

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to come.
And this is something I probably

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am going to repeat a number of
times over this week, but we

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need to be intentional in
developing our relationship with

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our Lord Jesus Christ and our
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It needs to be something that is
planned and focused and that we

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move towards with all of our
energy and with all of our soul

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and being an emotion.
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approaching Jesus and the word,
the word that is used, pleading,

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actually means to cry, to beg.
He’s intentional about his need

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for Jesus to work with him.
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this idea of being persistent,
being intentional in wanting to

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develop our faith during this
week and indeed in the time that

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follows thereafter.
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it’s very clear and we we often
speak about this when we think

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about the centurion.
Jesus said to him, I will come

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and heal him.
What an incredible physician.

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You just ask him for some help.
He doesn’t say I’ll come and

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diagnose him, see what’s wrong
with him.

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Like our doctors and our
physicians, I will come, I will

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heal him.
That’s the physician that we

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have come to this evening.
But the centurion, it says in

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verse 8 answered and said to
him, Lord, I am not worthy that

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you should come under my roof,
but only speak a word and my

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servant will be healed.
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faith is humility.
We need to get ourselves out of

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the way.
And it’s that it’s that tough,

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that tough characteristic of
humility, because the more you

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think about, the harder it is
for it to become something that

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resides inside of you.
But I can tell you one thing

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that the way we develop humility
is to understand what it is to

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be in comparison to our Lord and
our God, to understand the

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worthfulness of them, how worthy
the Lord Jesus is, which is what

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we are doing actually this
evening as we partake of the

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bread and wine, as we, as we
celebrate the incredible

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sacrifice.
It’s in the process of

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understanding the worthiness of
another that we develop

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humility.
Humility isn’t something you

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develop on your own, by
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This week is a wonderful
opportunity to develop humility

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because you develop it in
relationship when you make

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someone else more worthy than
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And that’s exactly what the
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This powerful man, this man who
could command 100 soldiers to do

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whatever he wanted, and yet he
understands somehow he has this

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insight that Jesus Christ is far
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And then the Third Point is
this, the third principle of

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faith.
Faith is developed through

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intercession.
We’re going to see in both of

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these examples, these characters
of great faith are developing

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relationship with the Lord Jesus
through helping someone else.

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In the case of this powerful
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his servant back at home.
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was probably a Jew.
He was a Roman centurion with

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Roman soldiers, and his servants
probably would have been local

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citizens of the land.
And, and he has this incredible

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interest in the welfare of this
lowly servant.

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And he is acting as an
intercessor, as someone who is

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out there to help on behalf of
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And in that process, faith is
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It’s interesting to think about
that faith is truly developed in

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fellowship.
And we have an opportunity this

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week, as we already heard, to
say hello to the strange people

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or the people that may not be
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We have the opportunity to reach
out to others, to listen to

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their concerns, to provide help
where we can, to intercede where

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where we are able.
And those are all the principles

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towards building great faith.
And this was what was a part of

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the character of this centurion
and the final principle that we

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see demonstrated.
There are many others, but the

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four that I wanted to, to
emphasize that we can think

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about this week is this
incredible insight.

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I mean, we, we don’t know where
the centurion even got this

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from, but this insight that he
had in understanding the

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relationship between word and
creative reality.

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You see he says to Jesus in
verse 8, but only speak a word

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and my servant will be healed.
For I also am a man under

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authority, having soldiers under
me.

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And I say to this one, go, and
he goes and to another come and

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he comes and to my servant do
this and he does it.

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You see, he understood something
that is so profound when you

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come to to truly understand
faith.

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And that is that it all begins
with the word that, that, that

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in fact, the first principle of
faith is the word, as Hebrew

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says, as we, we, we’re going to
be talking about this week that

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from Genesis, it all begins with
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God speaks words and then things
happen, the earth is formed,

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material things come into being
and there is this this link,

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this incredible link between the
word and the thing that we

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experience.
And that’s the principle taught

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to us in Genesis one.
And and somehow, somehow this

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centurion understands this first
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Hebrews says this Hebrews 11
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By faith we understand that the
world’s were framed by the Word

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of God, so that the things which
are seen were were not made of

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things which are visible.
This is the idea that we know

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there is a connection between
everything that we see around us

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and an invisible word of power.
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connection that is the
fundamental of faith.

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And somehow this centurion
understood it and he understood

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the authority that Jesus held,
that he held the same authority

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of word that the original
Creator had created with and

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with such words of authority,
the power to recreate His

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servant was in the mouth of
Jesus Christ.

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And Jesus Jesus himself appears
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And we see Jesus response in
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When Jesus heard it, he
marvelled and said to those who

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followed, assuredly, I say to
you, I have not found such great

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faith, not even in Israel.
So there’s our first example of

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someone who demonstrated great
faith and four principles,

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intentional, humble, someone who
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someone who understood the
connection between word and

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creation.
So there was the first example.

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Now it’s interesting when we
come over to Matthew chapter 15,

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if you will, we’re going to see
the second example that we want

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to just lift for for our
learning this evening.

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And that’s the example of the
the mother from Canaan as she is

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referred to.
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Matthew makes that reference
because of course, Matthew is

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writing his Gospel to primarily
a Jewish audience, and he wants

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to draw on the fact that this is
one of the people that actually

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Israel was meant to exterminate
when they came into the promised

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land because the Canaanites were
a part of those nations that

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were to be destroyed when Joshua
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So this is the lady that we’re
meeting and we’re going to see.

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And hopefully it’s quite clear
that the same 4 principles come

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out in the story of the
Canaanite woman, but there are

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some differences.
So she comes along in verse 21

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of chapter 5.
Jesus went thence and departed

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into the coast of Tyre and
Sardon, and behold, a woman of

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came Canaan came out of the same
coast and cried unto Jesus,

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saying, Have mercy on me, O
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My daughter is grievously vexed
with a devil.

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So quite interesting.
We can immediately see this

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woman understands that there are
some differences going on here.

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The centurion just approaches
Jesus without any perhaps

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history, but there’s history
here with this woman.

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And that’s why when the
centurion speaks to Jesus, he

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just calls him Lord as a title
of respect.

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She calls him Lord as a title of
respect.

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But she says, son of David, now
you know your your scriptures

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well here, you’ll know that
David was this complicated man.

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On the one hand, he was the
worst enemy of the Canaanites

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and many of the original
inhabitants of the Promised

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land.
He was the guy who came and

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finished off any of the
remaining people like the

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Jebusites, and in fact dealt
very, very harshly with some of

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the remaining settlers in the
land of Israel.

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But curiously also, David was a
man who had an interesting

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relationship with Philistines.
As an example, he stayed with

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them for some time.
He had interesting relationships

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with many gentiles who helped
him during his times of, of, of

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ruling as a king.
And, and I guess perhaps she’s

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drawing on both of these ideas.
She’s hoping that that if this

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is the son of David, there is a
part of him that can, that can

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help a gentile help a mother of
Canaan.

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But it seems as though it’s not
possible.

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And here’s the contrast and a
great lesson for us on that

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first principle of persistence,
because in the example of the

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centurion, he asked the question
and, and actually Jesus says,

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come and I’ll heal him.
And in fact, it’s the centurion

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who actually delays things by
saying, you know, I don’t want

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you to come into my home.
It’s I’m not worthy for you to

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come into my home.
But in the example of the

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Canaanite woman, she actually
has four rebuffs before she can

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get any further in her request.
So the first is that Jesus, it

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says in verse 23, doesn’t even
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And I think the little emphasis
a word, you see, that’s what she

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needs.
Just like the centurion, she

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knows that this man’s words lead
to new creation, that this man’s

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words lead to life and can give
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But Jesus, it says, doesn’t give
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And so the first principle, we
said, is a principle of

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pleading.
The disciples then come at the

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first rebuffers.
Jesus ignores her.

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She carries on.
The disciples come, and they

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besought Jesus, saying, send her
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Talk about persistence and
intentionality.

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She won’t let go.
How many of us in our journey of

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faith will pull right back if
we’re offended?

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We’ll pull right back if we are
rebuffed.

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And sometimes that rebuff or
that offence will be somebody in

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our ecclesia or some other, a
member of the community.

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And that’s enough for us to to
say, well, I, I don’t want to

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carry on with my faith journey.
And sometimes that offence seems

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to come from God himself.
And in this case the offence was

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coming from the Lord Jesus
Christ and it wasn’t enough.

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She turns the offence into
opportunity.

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They say tell her to to go away.
And then he, he answers, at

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least she’s got him speaking.
And he says I am not sent but

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unto the lost sheep of the House
of Israel.

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The third time she has been
rebuffed.

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He’s now getting to the issue.
She had alluded to it by calling

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him the son of David.
He says, let’s make it very

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clear, David was the king of
Israel and I as the son of David

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have come to the House of
Israel.

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They would have cut many a
heart.

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They would have been in the end
of the intentionality and the

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pleading and our desire to
develop relationship for most of

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us, but not for her.
She continues.

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Then came she and worshipped
him, saying, Lord help me.

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You know, we’ve all been there.
You know, when we first start

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asking things from God, we we
normally have a whole shopping

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list of how he must help us and
please will you do this and will

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you do this and will you do
this?

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But when we’re really at our
wit’s end, that’s the pray we

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pay.
Lord, help me in whatever way

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you can, however it is possible.
It may not even mean that it’s

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about my daughter being healed,
but help me, she is desperate.

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You know, you might think this
is the point where Jesus will

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relent.
This is the point where he’ll

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come through.
But Jesus answered and said it

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is not meat to take the
children’s bread and to cast it

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to the dogs.
My word, it’s one of the

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toughest lines we ever hear
Jesus speak.

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And all we know for sure is that
Jesus, as we’re told on many

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occasions, knew the hearts and
minds of everyone.

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And we know that he always acted
in love.

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So even when we can’t fully
understand what might have been

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going on here, we know that it
was said in love and it was said

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to extract something out of her
that maybe she didn’t.

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She didn’t even know that she
had at that time.

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And look at her response.
This incredible, these words

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that are are repeated centuries
and millennia after she spoke

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them.
She says verse 27 truth, Lord.

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Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs
which fall from their master’s

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table.
You see, the one nice thing

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about being a dog or a puppy is
you get to go places many other

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people don’t get to go.
And in this case, you get to be

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not just with the master in his
house, you get to be in the

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dining room with the master
under his table.

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And you know what?
I’ll take crumbs.

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Crumbs are good enough for me.
Such as the humility of this

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woman of Canaan, the second
principle, humility, She is

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willing to be a dog.
She is willing to be called

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whatever name you want to call
her if she can just partake of

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crumbs.
How are we in that way?

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What names are we be prepared to
be called so that we can just

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have crumbs this evening from
what the Lord has prepared.

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And then of course, we know,
like with the centurion, her

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journey of faith was about
intercession.

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She hadn’t come for herself
specifically.

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She had come for her daughter.
And just like the centurion, it

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was this process of growing
faith through fellowship,

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through interceding for someone
else, that the development of

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her faith, her great faith, is
demonstrated.

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So again we see a similarity.
And then Jesus answered and said

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unto her, verse 28 O woman,
great is your faith, be it unto

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you even as you will.
And she knew, just like the

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centurion knew, that when he
says things, they become

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reality.
When Jesus speaks, creation

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happens.
And just as those words are

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spoken, she knows her daughter
is made whole.

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And so there we have it.
As we go out into this week with

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this incredible opportunity to
develop our faith, our

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relationship, let’s be
intentional.

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Let’s be persistent.
Even when it’s hot, even when

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it’s really tired and it’s the
third session and you want to

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fall asleep, some more coffee.
And we just try and get the most

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out of it and make sure that
we’re not distracted because

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there’s a phone and a message
and an e-mail because that’s

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what this world is.
It’s a world of distraction.

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So we’re going to be intentional
and we’re going to practice

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humility by looking for the
worthiness of everyone around us

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and by focusing on the awe and
praise of our Almighty God and

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the Lord Jesus Christ.
And we’re going to focus on

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fellowship and intercession and
looking out for the needs of

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others such that we can
intercede for them.

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And finally, hopefully, we are
going to, by reading the word

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and speaking about it and
understanding it better, become

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compelled to believe even more
in its power to change things

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now and in the future for us.
And this is the opportunity that

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is presented to us.
So as we now start this week

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with the greatest celebration
that we can do as a community,

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which is the the remembrance of
the death and resurrection of

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the Lord Jesus Christ.
We focus on that last evening

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before he was crucified, and we
see that Jesus, the author and

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furniture of great faith,
demonstrated the four

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characteristics.
Because he said with desire, I

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have desired to eat this meal
with you.

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This is something that I
prepared for from the beginning

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of my life, for this moment.
I’m intentional.

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I’ve planned, the room is ready,
everything is ready to go.

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And so he was prepared and he
was intentional.

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And of course, he said, I am
going to now suffer after this

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Passover.
I am going to give my life.

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I am going to be a sacrifice for
all mankind.

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I’m going to humble myself.
Though he was made in the form

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of God, He was prepared to
humble himself as a servant and

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give his life.
And thirdly, he took the bread

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and the wine and he shared it
with all of them as someone who

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intercedes and gives for the
needs of others.

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And then he said to them, This
is my body and this is my blood.

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But at that time, of course, he
hadn’t been sacrificed, He

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hadn’t been crucified, his blood
hadn’t been spilt.

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But here was a man who knew that
the words that are spoken will

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become reality.
He is the author and finisher of

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Faith and the one we have come
to focus on right now.

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