Luke 7:1-10

an Alien's Surprising Faith

Luke 7:1-10

It is interesting to find these wild flowers of natural faith, humility and love growing outside the carefully cultured garden of the Hebrew religion. God has never been without witnesses among the nations. We recall Cyrus in the Old Testament, Isaiah 45:1-7; and Cornelius in the New, Acts 10:1-8.

“In every nation.” See Acts 10:35. But of course the propitiation of Christ underpins the salvation of all men, Romans 3:25.

Because the centurion was under the authority of Rome and was loyally obedient to it, he was able to exercise authority; and since he was so sure that Christ was obedient and loyal to God, he felt that he, too, was able to exert authority over all other forces, especially those which were injuring and torturing human lives. Let us seek to be such obedient servants that Christ may be able to say to us also, with the absolute certainty that we shall obey, “ Go ” and “ Come ” and especially “ Do this. ”