You’re Amazing

1. Amazing Love (vs2-3)  

• Christianity and Discipleship is not about hearing the word, its about living the Word. 
• Valued: : entimos: to honor with great esteem. Same word Peter used “precious living stone” 

• The word “servant” here is not doulos (slave) but  in verse 7 it is pais (young servant or even a beloved child). 

• Roman masters typically treated slaves as , not as . 

• Ex #1- Aristotle “A slave is a living tool” Ex #2- Gaius “A master had the power of life and death over his slave” 

• Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar  “The only difference between a slave, a beast, & a cart is that the slave .”  

• John wrote “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” 

2. Amazing Fruit (vs5)  

• Remember the sermon: Verses 6:45-46 “They hear, and they do good. They hear, and they produce fruit.” 

• 2 Samuel 7:2 “I dwell in a house of cedar, but God/Ark of the Covenant dwells in a tent.” 

• His love was more than words it was action. He with God’s people.  

• James said “Just as the body without the spirit is dead, Faith without works in dead” 

• James 1“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” This is the certainty of . 

3. Amazing Theology (vs 6) “Lord” “I am not worthy” 

• He recognized Jesus as Lord! Master. Kuros<grk> having absolute . 

• Think about the contrast! (vs4) the Jewish elders said he’s “worthy to have you do this” (vs6) “I am not worthy” 

•  True Disciples understand the of depravity. We are sinful by nature, and only Christ is Worthy. 

• Paul “We are not sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 

• Ephesians 2“For by grace you have been saved through faith… not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 
• We are only as spiritual as our ! 

4. Amazing Faith (7b-10) 

• There is not other faith in Israel and he is standing with Jewish Elders and Disciples. 

• This is the Faith. His faith pulled him out of a culture of privilege, racism, 

• To Thomas “You have believed because you have seen, bless are those who have NOT seen, yet still believe.” 

• He alludes to Psalm 107:20 – “He sent His word and healed them.”  

• Contrast this to Mary and Martha (John 11:21,32):  

• True faith does not demand —it trusts completely in God’s power word.  

• Genesis 1:3 – “And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” 

• Hebrews 1:3 – “He upholds the universe by the word of His power.” 

• Matthew 8:26 – Jesus rebuked the storm, and it obeyed His voice. 

5. Amazing Destruction 

• Luke 10:15 – “And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades.” 

• According to John MacArthur: This synagogue in Capernaum was eventually destroyed.  

• Later the Byzantine Empire build a church over the synagogue, but he town never gained its former status