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#20231025 - Much Forgiveness / Much Love - Luke 7:36-50 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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  Welcome to the Study of God's Word, recorded live at Calvary
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  Now let's open our Bibles and study God's Word.
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  Amen, Amen. Thank.
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  You Pastor Bob? Yeah.
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  Bro, OK, tonight we're in. The Gospel of Luke chapter.
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  Seven. I'm Pastor Bob Clay Camp.
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  I'm one of the. Assistant pastors here.
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  So if. You will turn in your Bibles.
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  To Luke chapter. Seven we're going to be looking
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  at. A section.
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  Verses 36 to 50. Tonight and a while back, just a
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  couple weeks ago, it was on my heart to just.
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  Look at the gospel of. Luke again and look at it.
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  Fresh I talked about this. Earlier, but there's something
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  about asking the Lord to bring in a new breath, a new life.
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  As you're reading the Gospels. Just to see Jesus.
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  Once again, not for how you even remember, but.
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  What does the text say? What is being spoken and
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  understanding that? The Bible says that the.
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  Holy Spirit moved upon holy men of.
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  God to write those. Things that are in the.
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  Scripture and so. Out of all the many things that
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  Jesus. Did.
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  These are. Things that the Holy Spirit
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  wanted to us to know and here we are in the 21st century, which
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  is quite amazing and. God has protected his word
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  through the. Centuries through all the
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  attempts of man to destroy it and the attempts of Satan to
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  destroy. It here we.
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  Have it in such abundance, and yet to whom much is given, much
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  is. Required and so as I.
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  Started again with the gospel. Of Luke it it's.
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  Almost like the very first. Part of it just.
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  Began to speak to me and we know that Luke the beloved physician
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  became a travelling companion of.
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  The Apostle Paul. Especially at the end of his
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  third missionary journey and Luke accompanied.
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  Paul all the way back. Into Jerusalem.
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  He was there to witness. Paul's Incarceration by the
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  Romans and then being sent. To the coastal.
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  Town of Caesarea for two years And So what was?
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  Luke to do. And it's believed by many Bible
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  commentators. That it was during that two year
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  period where? Paul was incarcerated in
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  Caesarea on the coast that Luke went around and obtained first
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  hand testimony. Of those who were there, those
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  who watched it, those who heard. Him.
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  And so when you're reading the Gospel of Luke.
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  You are. Reading this special account
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  that of him going around, how else do you explain the detail
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  on John the Baptist in the detail on on how how the Angel
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  Gabriel came to Mary? I want you to.
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  Flip back over to Chapter. One of Luke.
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  Because here's what he said. I know, I brought.
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  This out last week, but it's worth.
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  Mentioning again and Luke chapter one verses one to four,
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  he writes, in as much as many have taken in hand to set an
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  order, a narrative of those things which have been fulfilled
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  among us, just as those who from the beginning, where
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  eyewitnesses and ministers of the word, delivered them to us.
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  It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding
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  of all things from the very first.
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  Not that he was there personally, but he talked.
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  To those who were there to write.
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  To you, an orderly account, most excellent.
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  Theophilus. That you may know the certainty
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  of those things in which you. Were instructed.
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  So this is Luke's. Discipleship, where he puts all
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  this together. As kind of a discipleship.
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  Tool for this. Person whose name was Theophilus
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  and most excellent is is an. Official title, so it's
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  possible. He was among the Roman
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  aristocracy we don't know for. Sure, but we're sure glad he
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  wrote it. And I'm sure.
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  Glad that we have it with us. And there are events that Luke
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  puts in his gospel that you don't find in the other three
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  Gospels, and our text tonight is one of those.
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  Events verses 36 to 50 in Chapter 7.
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  And we're going to see here in the in our.
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  Text that's an. Account of an unusual experience
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  where Jesus was invited to dine at the home of a Pharisee named
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  Simon. And in the midst of the dinner,
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  this uninvited woman bursts into the.
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  Courtyard. And caused quite a scene.
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  But Jesus could see. What was going on?
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  Where? Others.
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  Who? Were at the table.
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  Couldn't see because. Jesus has this way of.
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  Seeing right into people's hearts, not just this uninvited
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  woman. But also the heart of.
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  Simon. He saw his heart as.
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  Well, and so we're going to see here that this sinful woman.
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  That's talked about here. Has such a dynamic freedom in
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  her forgiveness that she. Just has to pour out her worship
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  of the. Lord.
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  And quite the opposite was true of Simon and the fellas that he
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  invited to the dinner. So we're going to see this
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  tonight and and if you're taking notes what I'm going to do.
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  Is take this text. And divide it into 3.
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  Parts. The first part is called the.
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  Rude intrusion. The rude intrusion.
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  That's. Verses 36 to 30.
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  Nine and we're going to. Explore each of these three.
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  The second part is the revealing illustration, and that's.
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  Verses 40 to 43. And the final.
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  Part the response of Great. Forgiveness verses 44 to. 50.
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  So follow along with me as. I read through the text.
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  And then we'll start. With the word of prayer.
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  Luke Chapter 7, verse 30. 6. Then one of the Pharisees asked
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  him to eat with him and he went to the.
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  Pharisees House. And sat down to eat and behold.
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  A woman in the city who was a Sinner when she knew.
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  That Jesus sat at the. Table in the Pharisees, House
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  brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil and stood at his
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  feet behind him, weeping, and she began to wash his feet with
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  her tears and wipe them with. The hair of her head.
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  And she kissed his feet and anointed them with the fragrant
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  oil. Now when the Pharisee who had
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  invited him saw. This he spoke to.
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  Himself saying, this man, if he were a prophet, would know who
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  and what man or a woman this is who is touching him, for she is
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  a Sinner. And Jesus answered and said to
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  him, Simon, I have something to. Say to you so, he said.
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  Teacher, say it. There were.
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  There was. A certain.
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  Creditor who had two debtors. One owed 500 denarii, and the
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  other 50, and when they had nothing with which to repay he
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  frank, he freely forgave them both.
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  Tell me, therefore, which of them will love him more?
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  Simon answered and said, I suppose the one whom he gave
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  forgave more, and he said to him.
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  You have rightly judged. Then he turned to the woman and
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  said to Simon, Do you see this woman?
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  I entered your house. You gave me no water for my
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  feet, but she has washed my. Feet with her tears.
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  And wiped them with. The hair of her head.
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  You gave me no. KISS but this.
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  Woman has not ceased to kiss my feet since the time I came in.
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  You did not anoint my whole my head with oil, but this woman
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  has anointed my feet with fragrant oil, therefore.
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  I say to you her. Sins, which are many, are
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  forgiven, for she loved much, but to whom little is forgiven,
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  the same loves little. Then he said to her, your sins
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  are forgiven, and those who sat at the table with them began to
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  say to themselves. Who is this?
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  Who? Even forgive sins then, he said
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  to the woman. Your faith has saved you.
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  Go in peace, Father in heaven, We're asking that.
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  You would speak to our hearts? Through this incident recorded
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  by Luke here in his gospel, this isn't just information or a
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  random. Story.
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  There's a purpose. That this is included and we
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  believe that the same Holy Spirit who inspired Luke to
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  include this account once the minister to us this evening.
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  And so help us have ears to. Hear and eyes to see what's
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  going on here and search our hearts, we invite.
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  You to search our hearts, God. See if there be any wicked way
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  in US and lead us in the way everlasting.
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  And we set this time before you in Jesus name.
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  Amen. Well, let's launch into.
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  This verse 36. Then one of the.
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  Pharisees. Asked Jesus.
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  To eat with him. And he went to the Pharisee's
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  house and sat down to eat. Now when you're looking.
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  At this text the 1st. Thing you want to.
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  Observe is who is there. We know, of course, it's Simon
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  the Pharisee. We know him by name.
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  And then there's this unnamed woman which?
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  Throughout the whole. Text.
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  There's not a name given to her at all and then there.
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  Were those who were seated at the table.
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  There were other guests that. Simon had invited.
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  We don't. See the disciples mentioned
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  here. And So what we're doing is we're
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  observing the text a little bit and just putting some.
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  Pieces together. So, Jesus.
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  Was invited by this. Pharisee that Jesus didn't.
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  Like burst in and say, hey, I'm going to your house for dinner.
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  No, this Pharisee invited Jesus to dine with him.
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  But I have a hunch that Jesus. Knew it was a setup.
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  And you know. Why did he go?
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  Because. If he sensed in in Simon's.
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  Heart that that there was just this disbelief.
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  And cynical attitude. Why did he?
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  Even bother to go, Well, the answer is.
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  Simple, because the Holy Spirit. Prompted him to step into.
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  It it was the will of the Father for Jesus.
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  To go into this Pharisees home. Without his disciples, Jesus.
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  Said in the Gospel of John, the things I see the.
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  Father, do that. I do.
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  And the things I. Hear the father say.
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  Those are the things I. Say that way Jesus could say he.
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  That hath seen me, has seen the Father in heaven.
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  And so the Father wanted. Jesus to actually go.
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  Into this situation that was going to be awkward and
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  uncomfortable, and there are times in our life in the same
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  way where things we would normally avoid.
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  We are sensing the Holy Spirit wanting us to go and enter the
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  situation even though you know it's not going to be comfortable
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  and it's not going to. Be easy.
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  But you got, you have. This strong impression that I'm
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  supposed. To do this and so.
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  Rather than reasoning yourself out of it, rationalizing
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  yourself away from it. You just do it.
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  You just take the step and do it.
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  And so Jesus was. Obedient, and he went to.
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  This these Pharisees. House now the text says he sat
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  down to eat. And that's unfortunate because
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  although it communicates that. He.
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  He. Came to the table and and ate
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  with them. It's not the customary.
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  Way they ate. Was sitting around a table.
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  Like we do. You have, maybe it's interesting
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  you have maybe a table that was maybe 2 feet high and then you
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  had. Pillows or low?
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  Benches and you actually reclined.
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  Up to the table. With your feet out toward the
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  back. And and you would.
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  Hold up yourself with your left. Elbow on the table and you would
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  eat with your right hand and so that was customary.
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  That's that's how they ate. It was a very.
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  Casual time where you could talk to one another.
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  You're right there. And I just challenge you.
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  Next time you invite somebody to dinner, try that.
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  I mean, you know, set it up. Don't tell them ahead of time.
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  So just set it up. You know, a load.
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  A low. Table and then put pillows or or
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  benches all around on the on maybe.
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  Three sides of it. And then say OK, today we're
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  going to. Do.
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  A culinary experience and then have them take off their.
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  Shoes and it's good because their.
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  Feet are away from the. Food.
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  OK, so so. And then?
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  And then have them lie down on the pillows.
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  And then put their left elbow on the table and set foods that
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  like finger foods or you can dip.
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  Because that's what they did. They they took and they dipped
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  it in the SOP and they ate it and all.
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  Why not? All they can do is leave and you
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  got the rest of the food to yourself now.
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  What did this look like? Back in these days.
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  Dwellings, especially for those more well, to.
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  Do were built. Around an open courtyard.
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  It's kind of like this. It was built around an open
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  courtyard and the entry was from the street.
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  And so it's believed by many Bible commentators that this
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  dent dinner. Was set up.
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  In the courtyard and, as was customary at the time, also.
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  They had the opening. Was there so that?
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  People passing. By especially if there was a
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  rabbi or a teacher. There, and he was sharing.
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  About the law or what this look like people could that were.
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  Passing by could stop and and eavesdrop and listen in and so
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  that kind of gives. You a little visual picture of
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  what Very. Likely was going on here in this
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  Pharisees house. The the dining was set up in the
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  open courtyard. And then verse 37 And behold, a
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  woman in the city who was a Sinner when she knew that Jesus
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  sat at the table in the Pharisees house, brought an
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  alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and stood at his feet behind
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  him, weeping. And she began to wash his feet
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  with her tears and wipe them with the hair of her head.
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  And she kissed his feet and anointed them with the fragrant
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  oil. Now this is one of the most
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  unusual things we've read, so. Far, because if he was sitting
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  at the table. How'd she get under the?
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  Table to do. This, I mean, you know, that's
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  that's why this makes sense. How that she could do this?
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  The woman remains unnamed, although there are some a few
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  Bible commentators that want to identify this unnamed woman with
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  Mary Magdalene and it is interesting that in the next
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  verses chapter 8 verses one to three.
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  Especially in verse two it says uncertain woman who had been.
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  Healed of evil spirits. And infirmities Mary called
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  Magdalene, out of whom had come seven demons, and Joanna the
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  wife. Of Accusa.
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  Herod Stewart. And Susanna and many.
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  Others who provided. For him of their substance, and
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  yet Mary Magdalene being such an important.
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  Disciple of Jesus to have. Her unnamed here seems.
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  A bit unlikely because even Simon is named and so you
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  wonder. I wonder if Luke ran into Simon
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  because usually the names weren't included.
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  But. His name was Simon the.
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  Pharisee. She was a.
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  Woman in the city and was a known Sinner.
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  We don't know the details. But the the way the text reads
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  is her lifestyle was. One known in the city and that
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  she was a Sinner, which is a notorious Sinner and and most
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  commentators believe that it probably included prostitution
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  and given the Roman soldier presence in the area.
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  Possibly this? Was one way for her to make a
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  living to. Support her life.
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  But the text doesn't say how long she had been doing this
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  long enough to for. Her to have a.
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  Reputation in the city and you know it is sometimes we.
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  We so easily judge people that are.
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  Living a sinful life lifestyle and we forget the story behind
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  what led them to even be involved.
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  With this. This woman was a little girl at
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  one point. What happened in her life?
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  That brought her to. This kind of a life, her life
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  being in shambles, the defilement of her heart shredded
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  from the many sins as Jesus noted.
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  How did he know he didn't know her?
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  But it was a. Word of Knowledge from the Holy.
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  Spirit as he. Understood by the Holy Spirit
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  who this woman was. And what she had lived.
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  Through and the condition of her life.
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  She kept up her. Promiscuous manner of life.
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  To try to bury the. Pain of the repercussions of her
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  sins, one. After the other year after year.
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  Sometimes we forget the journey that people.
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  Have had to go through and how easy it is to want to
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  anesthesize, dull the pain of the shrapnel of the sinful life
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  that we're living. And so the repercussion happens
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  and then we go and try to cover it with more sin.
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  And just like addiction, it takes more and more and more.
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  To try to dull the pain of a life that's collapsing and
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  falling apart and hopeless and defiled and that.
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  Was the life of this woman trying so?
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  Hard to bury her brokenness with.
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  More brokenness of sinful behavior she may not have had.
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  Outward, Outward tattoos on her body that represented hopeless
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  events in her life. But.
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  She certainly had painful tattoos burned on her heart from
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  all the sin and the destruction. My grandson had this tattoo on
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  his on his shoulder and he was proud of it until he went and
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  enlisted to the Marines and it happened to be the wrong kind of
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  tattoo and so. He had to go back to the tattoo
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  place and have it blotted out and turned into something else.
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  But tattoos on the heart? Nothing you can do in this life
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  can blot out those. Tattoos.
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  They're indelible marks the the thumbprints of sin that's left
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  in your heart and how it. Affects your life.
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  Except that the blood of Jesus can blot out the tattoos of your
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  heart. Psalm 51, verse one.
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  David cries out. Have mercy upon me, O God,
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  according to your loving kindness, according to the
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  multitude of your tender mercies.
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  Blot out my transgressions, and then later on in verses 9 and 10
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  of Psalm 51 hide your face from my sins and blot out all my
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  iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O
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  God, and renew a steadfast. Spirit within me, Do you know
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  that when you surrender? Your life to Jesus Christ, He
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  gives you a new. Heart.
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  The old hard heart of stone, the one that has all that deep
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  impression of sin. He blots out your
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  transgressions. You're forgiven.
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  You're given a new. Heart that.
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  That's the core of your being. The.
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  The power center, you might say of.
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  This life, how did the women? How did the woman know?
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  Jesus was to dine at the Pharisees house and this is kind
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  of fascinating because in in searching some of the
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  background. Here there are a few Bible
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  commentators and putting together a timeline of the
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  events. Of Jesus life.
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  Put this right after Jesus said in Matthew 1120. 8 to 30 come to
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  me. All you who labor and are heavy
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  laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn
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  from me, For I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will
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  find. Rest for your souls, for my yoke
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  is easy and my burden is. Light.
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  If that's true, it's almost. As if she took the words and
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  made them hers. And she followed him from a
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  distance, watching, and she finds him here in the city,
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  entering into this Pharisees house.
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  And so she came and. Watched it because it says here
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  in the. Text in verse 37 when she knew.
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  That Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisees house.
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  She brought an alabaster box and so.
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  She It's like it. It wasn't too long.
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  Before everybody was all settled.
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  Simon proper Simon there. And then the guest, you know,
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  reclining all around the table. And then all of a sudden this
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  woman comes in that everybody knows her background and and all
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  of a sudden she breaks down crying.
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  She's so overcome, overcome an emotion by the.
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  Reality of her many sins completely lifted off from her.
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  That it says that she wept in verse 38.
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  She stood at his feet behind him, weeping.
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  I want you to know. That this word weeping doesn't
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  just mean a shedding a tear or two.
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  This word Weeping. Is the word that's also defined
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  as mourning, wailing, convulsively sobbing.
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  Now I confess that more and more the.
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  Older I get. I find myself tearing up at
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  stupid Hallmark movies and it's embarrassing.
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  It's just embarrassing. But but you know when the horse
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  dies man, it just gets to me and.
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  Or when the dog dies. I mean, there was a time in in
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  the Tom Hanks movie where in the movie Finch where?
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  He ends up dying from radiation and the dog and the trailer is
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  going at that moment and I'm just going, Oh my gosh.
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  You know, Stupid, stupid, stupid.
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  And my wife knows that, I mean, you know.
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  It's it's OK but in front of other people and wear sunglasses
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  and. But this is this.
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  Weeping here is different. This weeping here is from
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  brokenness, heartbreak, shame, loss, guilt, Convulsively
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  weeping. I don't know if you've.
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  Ever had a situation happen in your life where there's been
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  such a tragic loss? That it grabs your gut and you
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  can't stop crying and you can't believe how much water your eyes
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  can put out and all the stuff that comes out of your nose.
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  It's just doesn't stop and you can hardly breathe.
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  That's. This word it's important to
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  understand that. Because Jesus saw this woman in
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  a way that Simon did not, nor did any.
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  Of the other guests, all they saw was her outward disgusting
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  life in their self righteousness.
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  And think about it. When something happens, when
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  you're when you're visiting and you're around the table, and
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  then something drastic happens, all the conversation stops.
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  And so there was silence in the courtyard, had to have been
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  silence in the courtyard, except for this convulsive sobbing.
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  And nobody knows. What to do except Jesus?
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  She is standing at his feet, verse 38, weeping, and she began
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  to wash. His feet with her tears and wipe
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  them with the. Hair of her head.
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  You know what this means, That the dirt and the filth that was
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  on Jesus feet from walking through life, she took upon
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  herself on her hair. I mean, there was no.
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  Dial soap there. It was just her tears.
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  Salty water. But there was so much water she.
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  Wiped his feet with the hair of her head, which by the way, she
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  didn't have short hair because this wouldn't have worked.
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  It had to have been longer hair, especially given her reputation.
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  Maybe. But I want you to think about
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  this. She took upon herself the dirt
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  from. Jesus the reproach she would she
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  wanted to identify with him and. So his reproach was born by her
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  in her hair it's. Called taking the reproach of
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  Christ. That's what it reminds me of,
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  and how often we are reluctant to.
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  Take the reproach of Christ upon ourselves because of when the
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  world hates Jesus, you know. He He hates you.
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  The world hates you, and so not only is she weeping
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  convulsively, she is wiping his feet.
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  With her hair and they're watching this and then she's
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  kissing his feet actually non-stop and then anointing
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  taking. The The possible, the little
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  vial of fragrant oil that many of the women wore at that time,
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  and broke it open and poured it on his feet and that.
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  Oil. The fragrant oil filled the
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  courtroom. I mean, you ever been in an
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  elevator where somebody has lost their sense of smell and uses
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  half a bottle of English leather and and all the sudden you're
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  stuck in an elevator and you can hardly breathe and then your
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  nose starts going and your eyes start watering because you can
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  hardly. Breathe because the the person
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  has lost his sense of smell. Sorry if that's your.
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  I mean, we used to when I was in junior high, it was high karate
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  and Jade E you know way back a long time ago.
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  I'm not even sure where that came from.
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  But it just dated me. I don't know, you can probably
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  buy it on eBay or something. Whatever.
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  But but the whole scene is is just full of of interesting
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  dynamic. Everybody's silent.
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  They don't know what. To say.
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  And while the silence and the sobbing was going on, the
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  Pharisee said within himself, verse 39, he spoke to himself.
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  This man if he. Were a prophet would know who
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  and what man or a woman this is who's touching him for she's a
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  Sinner. Pharisee was appalled by this in
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  his own self righteousness. Not only could he not.
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  See who Jesus was. He couldn't even understand this
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  woman, judging so much by just her reputation and how
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  disgusting and. And actually, the Pharisees did
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  not want to touch anybody who was a known Sinner, because it
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  would defile them, and so they. Would keep their clothes away if
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  they passed by those who were known sinners always being so
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  proper and and tight. And here was this woman kissing
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  Jesus feet over and over and over.
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  Let's go to Part 2, verses 40 to 43.
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  Jesus isn't saying anything up to now, and as a matter of fact,
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  there's an indication that he hasn't even stopped to look at
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  the woman. Or pulled his feet away.
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  He just waited for the Holy Spirit to give him understanding
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  and to know what the next thing should do.
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  So here's what he says. Verse 40, Simon, I I have
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  something to say to you. And man, if I were Jesus, I'd
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  say you better believe I have something to say to you, you
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  know? But no, no, He's very kind.
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  I mean think. About his guests are there, so
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  he's very kind and tactful and how he approaches.
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  This Simon, I have something to say to you.
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  And Simon said teacher say it's not that.
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  He really saw Jesus as a super teacher, but he was just being
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  gracious, you know, Go ahead, Fine, I'm annoyed by everything
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  but go. Ahead there was a certain
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  creditor who had two debtors, one OD 500 denarii and the other
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  fifty. A denarii was a day's.
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  Wage So, and let's put that in today's amount.
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  Let's say you earn $20.00 an hour.
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  Just for a a figure times 8 hours a day, times 5 days, times
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  4.3 weeks in a month, times 12 months, that's $41,280 a year.
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  Well, this was 500. Days wage.
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  This is over an over a year. So just for the sake of rounding
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  it off, that's 50 grand, $50,000.
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  Is owed to this debtor, A creditor rather, and so the
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  other guy is only 10% of that amount, 5000.
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  Dollars. And so when they had nothing
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  with which to repay, he frankly forgave them both.
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  I don't know about you, but if somebody waved off my $50,000
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  debt, paid off my car, I don't have a 50,000.
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  Dollar car, by the way. But that's the average cost of a
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  new. Car today what?
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  And just said it's yours better than Wheel of Fortune.
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  You'd be excited, but it was just five grand.
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  You'd go well, OK, well, thanks. I appreciate that.
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  She has a different reaction. And that's that's the point.
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  Jesus is trying to point out plus.
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  Verse 42 said they had nothing. With which to repay.
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  So that means you. You've lost your job, you have
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  no income, you've been a subject of identity theft and everything
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  is gone. You have no relatives that have
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  any money, and so you. Are broke with all capital
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  letters. And he says, you know, just
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  forget it. And so then he says to Simon,
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  tell me, therefore, which of them will love him more.
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  Well, Simon answered, I suppose. I mean, just what a snob.
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  I mean, I can just see him like lifting a business.
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  Well, I suppose it's like dude slap, you know, I suppose the
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  one whom he forgave more and Jesus said to him.
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  You have rightly judged. Now notice.
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  The graciousness for the sake of the woman.
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  And then? The third part here tonight,
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  verse 44. Then he turned to the woman and
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  said to Simon, Do you see this woman?
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  That phrase, that sentence is so telling.
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  Because he didn't see the woman, but Jesus saw her.
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  And here's. What?
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  He said. I entered your house.
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  You gave me no water for my feet, but she has washed my feet
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  with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head.
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  It was customary when you invited somebody to dinner and
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  they came to the door. The servant of the house would
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  remove the sandals from the guest and then have a a basin of
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  water there and wash. The feet to refresh them?
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  Not so, no, they won't get the carpet dirty.
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  Nothing like. That, but it was just an act of
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  refreshing, A kindness, A hospitality.
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  But this but Simon the Pharisee didn't even give.
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  Jesus, that hospitality. So you can.
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  Tell he wasn't that it. It wasn't that he was looking to
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  have answers, but he was looking to.
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  Accuse you gave me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to
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  kiss my feet since the time I came in.
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  And of course, after the foot washing, then there'd be the
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  greeting, you know, kissing first on the right cheek and
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  then the left. Cheek or however your culture
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  does it. Kiss of greeting, greeting,
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  greeting. And then thirdly, you did not
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  anoint my head with oil, but this woman has anointed my feet
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  with fragrant oil, and often times when a guest would come in
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  after the foot washing and then after the greeting of kissing on
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  both cheeks, then the host. Would take a dab of fragrant oil
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  and and put it on the guest. Just as a representation of the
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  sweet fellowship. They would have together.
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  Simon did none of this because he wasn't interested in hearing
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  Jesus. He was interested in finding.
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  Fault. Having a critical heart where
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  you're always looking to find fault is not the love of God
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  working in you. It's the flesh because you're
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  setting up yourself as the standard of what's right.
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  That's what self righteousness means, self rightness.
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  You're using your own standard to be that.
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  By which you judge other people and you miss the.
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  Heart of God, because this Simon the Pharisee missed Jesus, God
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  Incarnate, right in front of him.
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  Do you see this woman? Jeremiah 17, nine through 10.
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  The heart is deceitful above all.
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  Things and desperately wicked who can know it?
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  I, the Lord, search the heart. I test the mind even to give
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  every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his
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  doing, so, those. Three things, Simon pointed.
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  Or Jesus pointed out to Simon that this woman did, which he
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  did not do. You gave me no water for my
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  feet. You gave me no kiss or friendly
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  greeting. You did not anoint my head with
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  oil, and I wonder as I read this I.
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  Wonder if the woman looking in saw what Simon did not do to her
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  Honored Lord because she did everything that Simon should
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  have done. I just wonder
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  by the way. Kissing the feet is the actual
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  meaning of the word. Worship in the Greek Proscano to
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  kiss the hand or the ground in reverence to a sovereign
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  worship. When we worship the Lord and we
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  give Him honor and praise from the heart, the Bible indicates.
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  That it is like incense that goes up before the.
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  Throne a fragrance that goes up before the.
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  Throne. But when we do worship in rote
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  and just sing, because we know the song and our mind is going
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  elsewhere, we're not sending up any incense.
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  We read in Revelation where incense came up before the
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  throne. Which are which is the prayers
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  of the. Saints talking about the
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  believers, not those from the Catholic Church I want.
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  My worship to be in spirit and in truth, because I want to send
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  a fragrant incense to the throne to share my heart with my Lord.
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  And that's something we always have to do a heart check.
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  With, but I tell you what. The worship is so different.
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  When you've gone through a season of brokenness and God has
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  met you in your brokenness and the result of the fragrance that
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  goes up to the. Throne is like sweet incense,
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  but sometimes we have to be crushed.
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  Like incense is crushed before it's lit on fire.
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  I don't want to go through brokenness, but I know I'm going
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  to have to. Still I have to because.
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  As Andy mentioned, Pastor Andy mentioned over the weekend, you
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  don't get wine until you crush the grapes.
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  You don't get the incense until you crush those spices and those
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  barks, and then you light it, light it on fire.
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  And then the fragrance goes up. In my brokenness.
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  The Lord meets me and He sets me on fire, and the fragrance goes
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  up to the Lord. Verse 47 Therefore I say to you
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  her. Sins which are many.
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  I mean, he didn't have to say that, but I think he wanted to
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  make a point of something that her debt was huge before God.
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  Her sins, which are many, are. Forgiven for she loved much.
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  And actually the in the Greek. The structure of verse 47 is
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  therefore I. Say to you her sins, which are
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  many, remain forgiven. It's not that she's earning
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  forgiveness, it's she is responding out of forgiveness.
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  But to whom little is forgiven. The same loves little, which was
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  really. Simon and those around the
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  table. Because they didn't see their
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  sin in the light of God's holiness, they saw their life.
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  In the light of their own obedience to the ceremonial
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  rites and the commandments of men.
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  And surely God will bless it. But you know, it's a lot of
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  people like that today. I'm OK with God.
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  I'm sure that when I get to heaven, you know he'll be
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  reasonable. Nothing about the demand.
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  That you must believe on the Son of God to enter into the Kingdom
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  of heaven, then? He said your sins are forgiven
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  you verse 49 and those who sat at the table.
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  With him began to say to themselves, who was this who
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  even forgive sins. Then he said to the woman, Your
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  faith has saved you, Go in peace.
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  Your faith in Me has saved you. Go into peace as we close.
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  Here, and we ponder this text. There's.
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  So many things to think about. I want to see people like Jesus
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  sees. Them, I know there's that
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  temptation for me to make judgments upon the outward
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  appearance or upon how they what kind of a tragic life they
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  lived. What kind of a person, man?
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  They're just wasted. Stop it.
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  Wait a minute. See people like.
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  Jesus sees them because what you're.
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  Seeing are symptoms of brokenness and so many people
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  are trying to cover cover, cover, cover, fill it up, but
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  it's like. Addiction and it's never
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  satisfying. And maybe some of you here
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  tonight are like that. You've been trying to just cover
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  the. Pain with with more sin.
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  And you're finding that it's like drinking seawater to try to
• 46:42
  quench your thirst. And you're dying.
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  But a new heart is offered when you place your trust in Jesus
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  Christ. Those of you watching online, if
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  this is where you're at. Tonight God is calling you.
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  It's no accident you're watching this online.
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  God is calling you to to drop to.
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  Your knees and say God, I. Want to be set free like this
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  woman was. I don't want to be like Simon
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  the Pharisee. Could you put a new heart in me?
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  I trust in Jesus Christ, the Son of God who bore my sin.
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  And you're offering forgiveness. And I I ask you to forgive me.
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  God cleanse me. Give me a new heart.
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  Not a reconditioned old model. I want a new life, a new
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  creation. And God will meet you in that
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  prayer, and then let the incense go up to him and worship.
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  Let's close with the word of prayer together, Father God.
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  We thank you for this text tonight and we ask that these
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  truths as we've. Gleaned them, would burn through
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  our hearts, Lord, and that we would be disciples of our Lord
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  Jesus Christ, reflecting his heart.
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  To the world around us, and we thank you God that nothing's too
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  hard for you, no matter how long we've we've been lagging behind.
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  That you'd get us and step with you.
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  You're our chief shepherd, so bless as we close and worship,
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  we give our hearts. To you in Jesus name.
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  Amen. We pray that you've been
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  encouraged by this Bible study delivered live from the
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