We pick up where we left off last Wednesday as we finished up chapter six, pick it up in Luke

7 verse 1.

It says there in Luke 7, verse 1.

Now, when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into

Copernium.

If you've noticed a lot of the gospel story happens in the little town of Copernium, and that's the one that would be cursed because they had more

miracles done there than anywhere else. Jesus did a ton of miracles in Copernium, and yet there was

still unbelief, which is kind of shocking. And Jesus would say, you know, it's better for Sodom and Gomorra than for you.

And so he would curse Copernium, Besseda, Corazine, these little towns received all these miracles,

but rejected Jesus.

One of the things we've talked about many times is, you know, miracles never really produce faith, as it turns out. People can see all kinds of miracles, but they still won't believe in the Lord. That happened in the Old Testament, and it happens here in the New as well. So, Copernium means village of Nahum. Now, whether this is the Nahum of the prophets of old,

it's doubtful. People don't really know for sure. But Jesus would meet people right here in

Copernium and a lot of hurting people. In fact, in Luke chapter 7, we have four people that are

hurting and dealing with difficulties.

It's a good chapter, by the way, to read if you're going through difficulties yourself.

You'll find Luke 7 as an encouraging chapter.

You'll see, number one, a dying servant in verses 1 through 10.

Then we'll see a grieving widow in verses 11 through 18, a perplexed prophet in verses 19 through 35,

and a repentant sinner in verses 36 through 50. So let's break this down into those four things.

The first one is the dying servant starting out here really in verse 2, we read and certain a certain centurion servant who was dear

unto him was sick and ready to die and when he heard of jesus he sent him the elders of the jews

beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.

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