DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 32

The Centurion

Audio:
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*The centurion's servant had been stricken with palsy, and lay at the point of death. Jesus

immediately set out for the officer's home;...and the centurion, in his self-distrust, sent Him the message, Lord, trouble not Thyself: for I am not worthy that Thou shouldest enter under my roof. But the Savior kept on His way, and the centurion, venturing at last to approach Him, completed the message, saying, Neither thought I myself worthy to come unto Thee; "but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. Luke 7:6,7....It is thus that every sinner may come to Christ. We have nothing to recommend us to God; but the plea that we may urge now and ever is our utterly helpless condition...
Satan cannot hold the dead in his grasp when the Son of God bids them live.
*Jesus changed the mother's grief to joy when He gave back her son; yet the youth was but called forth to this earthly life, to endure its sorrows, its toils, and its perils, and to pass again under the power of death. But Jesus comforts our sorrow for the dead with a message of infinite hope: I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forevermore, . . . and have the keys of hell and of death. Revelation 1:18
He is touched with sympathy for our grief.