Luke 7

v1-10: The centurion was confident that Christ could command the disease to go, like he could command any of his soldiers.  "Christ has sovereign power over all creatures and all their actions, and he can change the course of nature as he pleases, can put right its disorders and repair its decays in human bodies, for all power is given to him."

v11-18:  Here we find an illustration of the amazing work Christ does in all who believe in Him.  Just as "the young man was dead and could not get up by any power of his own," so we who are spiritually dead in transgressions and sins are unable to.  When Christ told the young man to arise, that word was accompanied by power that put life into him, and when we heard the gospel call us to arise, Christ gave us spiritual life to get up from the dead.

v19-35: We need to know whether Christ "is the One who was to come to redeem and save sinners, or whether we are to look for another... If this Jesus is that promised Messiah, we will receive him and will look for no one else, but if he is not, we will hold to our expectations and continue to wait for the Messiah." This is why eyewitness accounts of the healings Jesus did are so important, as they are proof that the wait is over.

v36-49: Jesus knew that this woman was a sinner.  But He also knew that she was a penitent sinner and therefore a pardoned sinner.  What she did for Him was "an expression of her great love for her Saviour, by whom her sins had been forgiven. If she, who had been so great a sinner, was forgiven, it might reasonably be expected that she would love her Saviour more than others and give greater proof of it than others, and if this was the fruit of her love, flowing from an assurance of the forgiveness of her sins, he was right to accept it."  If we know our sins have been pardoned, it is right that we love the One who pardoned them.