1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:05,640 Well, if you got a Bible, we're going to be back in Luke chapter 7. 2 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:13,700 I hope you've been watching this week. 3 00:00:15,939 --> 00:00:17,800 Some of the rainstorms. 4 00:00:18,500 --> 00:00:21,120 I think it was either New Mexico or Missouri. 5 00:00:21,190 --> 00:00:24,740 They got a years worth of rain in two hours. 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,920 And I don't think that would bode well here in Idaho. 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,800 Falls, but I don't think it would be a falls. We would be waiting here in the Shiloh 8 00:00:36,100 --> 00:00:47,220 with our rubber duckies. But I titled today's message is loving Jesus. And I was asked last 9 00:00:47,300 --> 00:00:52,000 night, what are you preaching on? So I'm preaching about a sinful woman. And if you've got any 10 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:58,640 sinful women here? Wow. A bunch of liars, too. 11 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:07,580 but it really does come down to loving the Lord. 12 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:16,620 And so we left off last time here in Luke where Jesus kind of chastises the people 13 00:01:18,460 --> 00:01:20,760 saying that you're like children. 14 00:01:20,980 --> 00:01:23,740 You know, you're being childish, not childlike. 15 00:01:23,740 --> 00:01:25,040 I believe there's a difference. 16 00:01:26,540 --> 00:01:28,600 A childlike faith is just. 17 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:35,920 climbing up in the Lord's lap and realizing that he has your life in his hand like Father Abraham, 18 00:01:36,030 --> 00:01:40,000 and it was accounted to him for righteousness, that childlike faith he had. 19 00:01:40,550 --> 00:01:48,820 But he says, John the Baptist, he came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say he has a demon. 20 00:01:49,460 --> 00:01:54,400 The son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, look, a glutton and a wine bibber, 21 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:56,720 a friend of tax collectors and sinners. 22 00:01:57,260 --> 00:02:01,380 But wisdom is justified by her children is how he ended that statement. 23 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:06,880 And that you and I would be wise to heed the words of Jesus 24 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:14,120 and realize that he and John the Baptist's ministries were so different, right? 25 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:16,060 John had a message of judgment. 26 00:02:17,180 --> 00:02:21,060 Jesus said, I didn't come to condemn the world, but to save the world. 27 00:02:21,940 --> 00:02:26,520 But both of their messages were valid and neither one of them was heard very well. 28 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:36,960 and so and that that really brings us to the the loving God thing you know you hear people how could a loving God 29 00:02:38,980 --> 00:02:47,080 because people don't really know what love is um love is truly those two things in tension the 30 00:02:47,180 --> 00:02:53,839 judgment of God and the grace and the mercy of God and those two things are necessary for one another 31 00:02:55,180 --> 00:03:02,380 how can God be gracious and merciful if he's not a God of justice and judges? 32 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:14,340 And so he gets after these folks and tells them that wisdom is justified by her children. 33 00:03:14,340 --> 00:03:16,400 You want to do a great study on wisdom. 34 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:17,740 Go to the book of Proverbs. 35 00:03:17,900 --> 00:03:19,640 It's a powerful thing. 36 00:03:21,220 --> 00:03:23,820 And wisdom is something that, uh, 37 00:03:23,940 --> 00:03:29,860 God will give if we ask, the brother of the Lord James said, 38 00:03:29,860 --> 00:03:34,900 if anyone lacks wisdom, let him ask of God who gives to all men liberally. 39 00:03:35,220 --> 00:03:37,440 Do you feel like you need wisdom in these days? 40 00:03:37,580 --> 00:03:38,180 I know I do. 41 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:39,900 For sure. 42 00:03:40,460 --> 00:03:47,680 And so we're going to look at the last part of chapter 7 here this morning slash afternoon. 43 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:52,040 And so we're going to be in Luke chapter 6. 44 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:53,880 And I'm just going to read through it. 45 00:03:54,860 --> 00:03:58,060 It'll be from verse 36 through verse 50. 46 00:03:58,660 --> 00:04:02,760 It says, then one of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him. 47 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:06,200 And he went to the Pharisees house and sat down to eat. 48 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:12,420 And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner when she knew that Jesus sat at the table 49 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:17,859 in the Pharisee's house brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil 50 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,079 and stood at his feet behind him weeping. 51 00:04:20,239 --> 00:04:22,560 And she began to wash his feet with her tears. 52 00:04:23,060 --> 00:04:26,820 and wiped them with her hair, the hair of her head, 53 00:04:26,820 --> 00:04:30,380 and she kissed his feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil. 54 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,300 Now, when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, 55 00:04:34,620 --> 00:04:36,240 he spoke to himself saying, 56 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:38,540 this man, if he were a prophet, 57 00:04:39,140 --> 00:04:43,900 would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching him, 58 00:04:44,260 --> 00:04:45,920 for she is a sinner. 59 00:04:46,420 --> 00:04:49,180 And Jesus answered and said to him, Simon, 60 00:04:49,180 --> 00:04:50,640 I have something to say to you. 61 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:52,500 And so he said, teacher, say, 62 00:04:53,200 --> 00:05:01,000 on. There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed 500 denary and the other 50. And when they had 63 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:07,520 nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell me, therefore, which of them will love 64 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:13,380 him more? And Simon answered and said, I suppose the one whom he forgave more. And he said to him, 65 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:22,520 you have rightly judged. Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, do you see this woman? I entered your house, and 66 00:05:22,540 --> 00:05:30,600 You gave me no water for my feet, but she has washed my feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head. 67 00:05:31,060 --> 00:05:37,580 You gave me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss my feet since the time I came in. 68 00:05:37,940 --> 00:05:43,680 You did not anoint my head with oil, but this woman has anointed my feet with fragrant oil. 69 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:51,020 Therefore, I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. 70 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:55,780 but to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little. 71 00:05:56,380 --> 00:06:02,440 And then he said to her, go, your sins are forgiven you. 72 00:06:04,020 --> 00:06:04,420 Let's pray. 73 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:05,520 Lord, thank you. 74 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:06,880 Thank you for forgiveness. 75 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,600 Lord, what a beautiful thing. 76 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,080 And oh, how it feels good to be forgiven. 77 00:06:12,860 --> 00:06:17,860 And so, Lord, as we look at this today and, Lord, the love that we have for you, or the love 78 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,020 that we claim to have for you, I pray that it would be evident. 79 00:06:21,060 --> 00:06:29,120 in our own hearts. Lord, that we would be, maybe have a searching of our heart done by your 80 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:35,200 Holy Spirit. Lord, where we lack, I pray that you would pick up the slack and that you would 81 00:06:35,580 --> 00:06:41,480 truly teach us to be your disciples. Lord, that we wouldn't just give you lip service like many 82 00:06:41,940 --> 00:06:46,880 that we've seen maybe even in this church and maybe in the past or even in the scripture, 83 00:06:47,540 --> 00:06:50,480 but that we would be those true blue believers that have. 84 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:56,660 surrendered all that we are to the Lord Jesus. And so Lord, we praise you. We thank you for this 85 00:06:57,020 --> 00:07:02,480 passage. Thank you for these people, Lord, that we're learning so many lessons from the lives of 86 00:07:02,490 --> 00:07:07,500 the people that you encounter. And Lord, I pray that today all of us would have an encounter with you 87 00:07:07,590 --> 00:07:19,040 in Jesus' name. Amen. So here he is. He's got this invite from this Pharisee. And no doubt, 88 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:25,080 Jesus was popular with the Pharisees, not in a good way, some of them, but they were thinking, 89 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:32,660 wow, this guy is really doing some wild stuff here. So you wonder, what was this guy's motive 90 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:40,400 for inviting Jesus to come to his house? Can I ask you, what's your motive for following Jesus? 91 00:07:40,660 --> 00:07:49,040 What's your motive? I remember 1984, my motive was because he'll bless me. I'm following Jesus because 92 00:07:49,060 --> 00:07:58,100 he'll bless me, right? And at the time, I was a rodeo competitor. And I remember very specifically 93 00:07:58,380 --> 00:08:06,620 getting dealt with on this issue. And it was painful, can I just say? So I was riding this 94 00:08:06,860 --> 00:08:10,980 bearback horse. I'd been drawn really good, riding really good, and I draw this horse in 95 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:19,020 Cammyi, Idaho, and his name is Blockbuster. And it was funny. Just a few months earlier, we had had a 96 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:24,260 head weighing contest with some of my friends. And my head outweighed everybody's head. 97 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:34,400 My head weighed 11 pounds. And so they quickly nicknamed me blockhead. So when they found 98 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:43,140 I drew this horse, they said, ha, blockhead on blockbuster. That's a good one. So the whistle 99 00:08:43,180 --> 00:08:49,000 blows and I go down to double grabbing, the horse is right at the fence and he sucks back. And my 100 00:08:49,020 --> 00:08:55,620 hand stays in my rigging but my body does a complete flip over his less shoulder and so here when 101 00:08:55,700 --> 00:09:03,840 everything comes tight my i'm hung up with my back to the horse like this and it feels like my hand is 102 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:07,720 going to be completely ripped off if he would have stepped on me it would have tore my hand right off at 103 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:14,400 my wrist and so all i could do was get my other hand up and relieve the pressure until help would come 104 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:18,980 and oh was i praying for help to come and it took a while 105 00:09:19,420 --> 00:09:20,800 In fact, I should have brought the picture. 106 00:09:23,220 --> 00:09:30,500 But as I'm laying there on the, after they got me loose, my brother and several other guys 107 00:09:30,620 --> 00:09:32,660 come running out, the pickup man gets the horse stopped. 108 00:09:32,740 --> 00:09:33,640 They can't get me loose. 109 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:36,920 So they have to throw me to the other side of the horse to get me loose. 110 00:09:38,100 --> 00:09:42,400 And I'm sitting there and the pickup man says, hey, when I grabbed his wrist, it separated 111 00:09:42,500 --> 00:09:43,140 like that far. 112 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,200 So it's just skin holding stuff together there. 113 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:48,960 And so, and I'm laying there on. 114 00:09:48,980 --> 00:09:51,340 on the arena floor going, why, Lord? 115 00:09:52,620 --> 00:09:53,880 And the Lord started dealing with me. 116 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:55,760 Scottie, why are you following me? 117 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:59,040 You following me for you or for me? 118 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:02,840 And it was quite a healing process. 119 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,660 It took me quite a while to get healed up from that, 120 00:10:05,940 --> 00:10:08,260 both physically and spiritually, realizing, 121 00:10:08,460 --> 00:10:10,400 oh, this isn't about me. 122 00:10:11,060 --> 00:10:11,980 It's all about him. 123 00:10:13,020 --> 00:10:14,540 It's whether I get blessing or not. 124 00:10:14,620 --> 00:10:15,260 It doesn't matter. 125 00:10:15,580 --> 00:10:16,440 That's not the issue. 126 00:10:16,980 --> 00:10:18,560 The issue is being, 127 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:23,800 a witness and drawing close to your Lord and loving him with all your heart, your mind, your soul, 128 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:30,860 and your strength. I didn't realize that. I didn't realize how selfish I was. Do you realize how 129 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:38,800 selfish you are? Right? When you get married, that's evident. When you get kids, it's compounded. 130 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:47,860 It's more evident when you have children. But we're selfish jerks, all of us. And so, you know, 131 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:54,880 I wonder what this guy's motive is for inviting the Lord to his house and to this banquet. 132 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:56,060 He invited him to eat. 133 00:10:56,220 --> 00:11:00,240 And the idea in scripture, when you eat together, it's like you're one, right? 134 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:01,680 You're eating the same stuff. 135 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,940 You're getting the sustenance from the very same thing. 136 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:09,960 And what's cool is Jesus is willing to do a meal with anyone. 137 00:11:11,180 --> 00:11:11,940 He's not prejudice. 138 00:11:13,180 --> 00:11:17,880 He'll go to the leper and the homeless and here he's with the point. 139 00:11:17,900 --> 00:11:18,960 pompous Pharisee. 140 00:11:19,790 --> 00:11:24,720 And because Jesus is cool with an invitation. 141 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:26,960 He responds to invitations. 142 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:29,660 Have you invited him into your life? 143 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:32,880 And I don't mean just on the front porch. 144 00:11:34,180 --> 00:11:34,300 Right? 145 00:11:34,350 --> 00:11:35,600 I mean all of your life. 146 00:11:36,780 --> 00:11:36,920 Right? 147 00:11:36,980 --> 00:11:37,800 Your thought life. 148 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:44,220 Your dreams, what you want for you and your family or what have you. 149 00:11:46,959 --> 00:11:47,860 He's willing to. 150 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:49,020 to be invited to that. 151 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:53,420 And I've learned that the more you invite Jesus into, 152 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:54,660 the better things go. 153 00:11:55,300 --> 00:12:00,840 Marriage, raising kids, your job, all those things. 154 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,500 When you have Jesus right there with you, 155 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:06,760 it goes so much better. 156 00:12:07,540 --> 00:12:12,300 And so here's this guy that he's hung out with tax collectors and sinners, 157 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:17,660 and now he's with the Pharisee in, 158 00:12:17,740 --> 00:12:20,000 in his home or a banqueting hall. 159 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,000 And it's interesting that it says, 160 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,660 and he went to the Pharisees house and sat down to eat. 161 00:12:26,180 --> 00:12:30,340 Now, in that culture, they would have these banquety rooms that were kind of open. 162 00:12:30,940 --> 00:12:33,880 You know, people could look in and hear what they were talking about 163 00:12:33,940 --> 00:12:35,600 and people walking by. 164 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,460 And they're thinking that's how this woman got in there 165 00:12:38,940 --> 00:12:41,260 because obviously she probably wasn't invited. 166 00:12:42,820 --> 00:12:46,080 But, and so here she is. 167 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:52,520 She just shows up, it says, and behold a woman in the city who was a sinner. 168 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,560 Well, so there were women in the city who weren't sinners? 169 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:02,440 Is there some women sitting here that aren't sinners this morning? 170 00:13:05,060 --> 00:13:05,460 Not. 171 00:13:09,340 --> 00:13:14,020 And so obviously she was a woman of questionable character. 172 00:13:16,780 --> 00:13:19,340 I used to hang out with a lot of gals like that. 173 00:13:20,620 --> 00:13:22,520 There were women of questionable character. 174 00:13:24,220 --> 00:13:25,860 And usually wasn't good. 175 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:31,900 Men and women are sinners, but I don't know what it is, 176 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:37,340 but why it seems like sometimes when a woman's a sinner, 177 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:38,960 it's worse than a man that's a sinner. 178 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:39,940 I don't think so. 179 00:13:41,380 --> 00:13:45,900 But she is at this banqueting table. 180 00:13:46,160 --> 00:14:15,420 but she's standing. And when they would sit at the banqueting table, they would actually rest with their feet away from the table on an elbow or a pillow in their face right at the table. And so she couldn't get to the head of Jesus because a lot of people think this is the same anointing that happened in John chapter 12. But that was Mary of Bethany, right? The sister to Lazarus, you remember that? This is different because she poured it right on his head right before the crucifixion. 181 00:14:15,980 --> 00:14:19,300 Some think this is Mary Magdalene, though you can't prove that. 182 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:25,880 And the amount of people that Jesus impacted, this is probably somebody totally different. 183 00:14:27,100 --> 00:14:32,060 This is just a woman that was impressed with Jesus. 184 00:14:33,460 --> 00:14:39,460 Some believe, one commentator believed that this was a time when right after Matthew 185 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:44,500 Chapter 11 where Jesus made that incredible proclamation saying, 186 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:52,320 come unto me all of you who were weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest and you'll find rest 187 00:14:52,410 --> 00:15:01,520 for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light man what an invitation right what an 188 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:10,619 invitation his yoke is easy and his burden is light and um i have to remind myself of that sometimes 189 00:15:11,060 --> 00:15:11,960 maybe you do too. 190 00:15:12,620 --> 00:15:14,760 Because sometimes it just feels like, you know, 191 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:18,400 life is really a bummer. 192 00:15:20,140 --> 00:15:21,460 It gets weighty, doesn't it? 193 00:15:22,340 --> 00:15:24,140 But the Lord goes, wait, you're all right. 194 00:15:25,340 --> 00:15:28,380 Tomorrow's going to come, and it's going to have troubles too. 195 00:15:28,540 --> 00:15:30,400 He's just talking to somebody about it, right? 196 00:15:30,460 --> 00:15:31,720 Just focus on today's. 197 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:33,140 Don't even think about tomorrow. 198 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:35,440 Number one, it may not come. 199 00:15:36,380 --> 00:15:37,980 And number two, it's going to have its own troubles. 200 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:47,480 So just focus on today and the Lord will be with you. 201 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:49,560 And so this woman, here she is. 202 00:15:49,660 --> 00:15:53,940 She's sitting at the feet of Jesus. 203 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:57,240 And which is a good place, right? 204 00:15:58,060 --> 00:16:00,820 We know that when Mary was there, the Lord said, 205 00:16:02,020 --> 00:16:02,900 she's chose the better. 206 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,180 It's a good thing to sit at Jesus' feet. 207 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:06,580 Do you do that? 208 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:08,820 Do you have a time in your life? 209 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:10,460 when you sit at Jesus's feet. 210 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:13,320 Because if you're not sitting at Jesus's feet, 211 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:17,340 you're not getting the spiritual nourishment that you need, right, 212 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:18,680 to sustain this life. 213 00:16:20,220 --> 00:16:22,660 So many people think, well, I go to church on Sunday. 214 00:16:23,460 --> 00:16:23,580 Right? 215 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:25,020 That's like eating a meal a week. 216 00:16:25,180 --> 00:16:26,580 It just doesn't work, right? 217 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:30,060 You get hungry and you're deficient. 218 00:16:30,900 --> 00:16:38,240 And so here she is sitting at his feet and she's overwhelmed. 219 00:16:38,740 --> 00:16:41,800 it says, and behold, the woman of the city was a sinner. 220 00:16:42,860 --> 00:16:49,240 And when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisees house, brought an alabaster 221 00:16:49,910 --> 00:16:52,200 flask of fragrant oil. 222 00:16:52,740 --> 00:16:54,380 And this could be two things. 223 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:56,920 It could be a big one. 224 00:16:57,780 --> 00:16:59,580 Many believe that's what Mary had. 225 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,420 But sometimes the women would wear a little one around their neck. 226 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:08,300 It was actually so acceptable and common. 227 00:17:08,439 --> 00:17:09,939 that they could do it on the Sabbath day, 228 00:17:10,360 --> 00:17:11,780 but they would have to break it 229 00:17:12,050 --> 00:17:14,480 to get the fragrant oil out. 230 00:17:14,959 --> 00:17:16,060 And it was very costly. 231 00:17:16,819 --> 00:17:18,120 It was worth a lot. 232 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:22,260 In fact, in Ecclesiastes chapter 7, 233 00:17:22,579 --> 00:17:22,959 it says, 234 00:17:23,100 --> 00:17:27,260 Better is a good name than precious ointment. 235 00:17:27,660 --> 00:17:30,840 It was actually something that extremely valuable. 236 00:17:31,460 --> 00:17:33,000 You could use it to barter with 237 00:17:33,180 --> 00:17:34,660 and pay for things with. 238 00:17:35,340 --> 00:17:37,000 And so here's this woman. 239 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,860 crying and weeping at the feet of Jesus 240 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:46,100 with this fragrant oil and anointing his feet. 241 00:17:46,780 --> 00:17:47,380 And it says, 242 00:17:47,700 --> 00:17:49,680 and stood at his feet behind him weeping 243 00:17:49,710 --> 00:17:52,140 and she began to wash his feet with her tears 244 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:54,980 and wiped them with the hair of her head 245 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:56,540 and she kissed his feet 246 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:58,640 and anointed them with fragrant oil. 247 00:18:00,700 --> 00:18:04,840 Expressing a love, right? 248 00:18:04,980 --> 00:18:05,740 A compassion, 249 00:18:05,780 --> 00:18:11,960 a heart of gratitude towards this one that maybe had told her, 250 00:18:12,380 --> 00:18:12,980 come unto me. 251 00:18:14,580 --> 00:18:16,560 Are you heavy and weighed down with your sin? 252 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:18,580 Come to Jesus. 253 00:18:20,740 --> 00:18:22,240 Have you made mistakes this week? 254 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:24,600 Have you brought them before the Lord and say, 255 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:27,900 Lord, I messed up so bad. 256 00:18:28,780 --> 00:18:29,560 Please forgive me. 257 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,720 See, what's really cool about that is when you get comfortable 258 00:18:33,900 --> 00:18:35,040 with doing that with the Lord, 259 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:37,560 then pretty soon you get comfortable 260 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:38,840 with doing it with each other. 261 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:40,380 Right? 262 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:42,760 And that's how we get clean, 263 00:18:42,860 --> 00:18:43,720 the Bible tells us. 264 00:18:44,020 --> 00:18:45,600 I shared on Wednesday night 265 00:18:45,740 --> 00:18:49,720 that it's called the believers bar of soap. 266 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:52,000 Do you use it very often? 267 00:18:52,180 --> 00:18:54,240 It's found in 1st John 1.9. 268 00:18:55,540 --> 00:18:55,660 Right? 269 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:57,000 That if we confess our sin, 270 00:18:57,300 --> 00:18:59,360 he's faithful in just to forgive us of our sin 271 00:18:59,460 --> 00:19:01,300 and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 272 00:19:02,460 --> 00:19:03,640 Have you picked up that bar of soap? 273 00:19:03,740 --> 00:19:10,360 lately. And that's how we get right with each other too. When I used to have squabbles with the kids 274 00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:16,100 there at the school, when I would get them face to face and they would actually confess to one 275 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:23,620 another, I hurt you and I'm so sorry, please forgive me. You know? And the kids are so resilient. 276 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:29,480 They're going, oh yeah, I forgive you. Sometimes I'd look at them and I'd say, just like that. 277 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:31,760 Don't you think I should give them a swat? 278 00:19:34,660 --> 00:19:35,440 A few times there we go. 279 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:37,020 Oh, okay, go ahead, coach. 280 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:40,000 Light them up. 281 00:19:46,540 --> 00:19:47,420 But she had come. 282 00:19:47,660 --> 00:19:51,940 She had come and experienced that light yoke. 283 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:58,860 And so then this Pharisee sees all this going on. 284 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:00,180 Right? 285 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:01,100 You know. 286 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:10,680 we have the same look check it out he says when the pharisee who invited him saw this he spoke to himself saying 287 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:17,580 this man if he were a prophet would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching him 288 00:20:17,940 --> 00:20:26,980 for she is a sinner and you're not simon you know this whole good people bad people thing 289 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:33,500 it's it's it's a farce it's a lie it's not true there are no good people 290 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:41,200 i'm you know doing some stuff when we were doing a our security training at the school we 291 00:20:41,260 --> 00:20:45,380 would have the cops come in and that's how they always classified people good guys bad guys 292 00:20:46,580 --> 00:20:53,580 like because they were in a uniform they were a good guy no hopefully that uniform keeps your 293 00:20:53,780 --> 00:20:56,960 wicked heart in check correct 294 00:20:58,100 --> 00:21:00,400 And no, they're just sinners. 295 00:21:01,620 --> 00:21:05,060 And here, this guy, he's classifying while there's sinners, 296 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,980 and then there's, I sure live with folk. 297 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:10,520 Who have arrived. 298 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:11,940 We're so cool. 299 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,100 If these sinners could just get it figured out and be like us. 300 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:16,800 Right? 301 00:21:17,460 --> 00:21:18,660 Wouldn't they just be good people? 302 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:26,820 And so, notice. 303 00:21:27,060 --> 00:21:28,360 It says he spoke to himself. 304 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:31,660 It's like he didn't say anything out loud. 305 00:21:31,980 --> 00:21:34,580 Maybe he was just whispering it under his breath or just, you know, 306 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:37,160 he was having this mental conversation with himself. 307 00:21:37,220 --> 00:21:40,380 He goes, ain't no way that dude's a prophet. 308 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:42,580 Because that woman is wicked. 309 00:21:43,460 --> 00:21:45,120 That's a wicked woman right there. 310 00:21:48,399 --> 00:21:52,960 And he would know, he would know that she's a sinner if he's truly a prophet of God. 311 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:54,680 So maybe that was his motive. 312 00:21:54,820 --> 00:21:56,340 He was putting Jesus to the test. 313 00:22:01,660 --> 00:22:07,100 but it is interesting as I look at this I see Simon this Pharisee 314 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:11,180 for every sin that the woman was guilty of physically 315 00:22:12,140 --> 00:22:13,860 Simon was guilty of spiritually 316 00:22:15,420 --> 00:22:19,880 for every sin that the woman was guilty of physically 317 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,460 Simon was guilty of spiritually 318 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,400 his spiritual arrogance thinking he had arrived 319 00:22:26,820 --> 00:22:31,400 maybe because he knew the Torah and could quote chapter and verse out of the Bible, 320 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:34,420 thinking he was above someone else. 321 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:36,860 None of us are above anyone else. 322 00:22:37,420 --> 00:22:40,020 If we have the scripture in us, praise God. 323 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:41,120 Right? 324 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:43,320 But that doesn't make you better than anyone else. 325 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,880 It makes you maybe a little safer when it comes to judgment day 326 00:22:47,780 --> 00:22:54,620 that if that word of God has kept you from going in the way of Cain or Balaam 327 00:22:55,900 --> 00:22:57,040 or Sodom and Gomorrah? 328 00:22:59,540 --> 00:23:01,680 Because the Word of God will convert our soul. 329 00:23:01,820 --> 00:23:02,660 It will convict us. 330 00:23:02,660 --> 00:23:04,100 It will keep us in a good place. 331 00:23:04,820 --> 00:23:06,920 But not when spiritual pride enters in. 332 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:07,720 God hates it. 333 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:09,120 He despises it. 334 00:23:09,540 --> 00:23:10,240 It's nasty. 335 00:23:10,780 --> 00:23:12,240 We call it self-righteousness. 336 00:23:12,860 --> 00:23:13,880 And everyone hates it. 337 00:23:14,660 --> 00:23:16,080 But many of us are guilty of it. 338 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:18,660 Moi being won. 339 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:24,600 The bottom line is, 340 00:23:24,620 --> 00:23:31,300 is for all of us is we need to be forgiven. That's the bottom line. It seems like this has been a 341 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:43,200 theme throughout this gospel of Luke. So verse 40 through 43 it says, and Jesus answered and said to him, 342 00:23:43,380 --> 00:23:49,720 Simon, I have something to say to you. Right. Why? Because Jesus can read your thoughts. You know 343 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:54,560 what you're thinking about right now. Some of you, oh, no, really. Yeah, what you're thinking about right? 344 00:23:54,600 --> 00:24:00,700 now. God knows what you're thinking about, right? He might have something to say to you. We have to be 345 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:06,220 careful, right? You take your thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ. The Bible tells us to do that. 346 00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:14,220 That's a good practice. Think of, oh, how did that thought come there? Lord, forgive me. I rebuke that 347 00:24:14,290 --> 00:24:19,720 in Jesus' name, that thought, it's so disgusting, it's so perverse, it's so wicked, and yet 348 00:24:19,980 --> 00:24:24,460 that just went through my head, and hopefully it don't rest in my heart. So, 349 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:33,080 he says, I have something to say to you. So Simon goes, he said, teacher, say it. And then he tells 350 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:39,720 him this parable. He says there was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed 500 denary 351 00:24:40,220 --> 00:24:46,200 and the other 50. And when they had nothing with which to pay, he freely forgave them both. Tell me, 352 00:24:46,690 --> 00:24:52,940 therefore, which one of them will love more? And Simon answered and said, well, I suppose the one 353 00:24:52,980 --> 00:25:00,640 who you forgave more. True. True story. So is there a degree of sinners then? 354 00:25:03,220 --> 00:25:11,200 No, there's no degree of sinners. Jesus tells this guy this parable, trying to get him to realize 355 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:20,900 he thinks he's the guy with 50. When really we're all in the 500 category. That's how much debt we have. 356 00:25:21,420 --> 00:25:28,800 all of us because there's not a degree of sinners. If you've sinned once, that would justify God 357 00:25:28,940 --> 00:25:35,020 sending you to hell. If you sinned one time, because you've broken the law of God. We've all broken 358 00:25:35,020 --> 00:25:39,600 the law of God. One or a thousand. You remember when Peter comes to him, he said, Lord, how many times 359 00:25:39,620 --> 00:25:45,620 should I forgive my brother? 70 times seven? Or excuse me, seven times thinking he was very generous. 360 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:50,500 And that was Jesus's comeback with 70 times seven. I mean 490 times. 361 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:52,860 No, more than that. 362 00:25:55,220 --> 00:26:00,720 Because we've all come to that place of sinning against God. 363 00:26:00,860 --> 00:26:03,420 And it's not good sinner, bad sinner. 364 00:26:04,660 --> 00:26:07,400 It's just sinners, all of us. 365 00:26:08,340 --> 00:26:11,260 And Simon did not see this about himself. 366 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:18,900 But truly, when you have the knowledge, the knowledge of what you've been forgiven for. 367 00:26:19,860 --> 00:26:26,420 right? That's what's powerful. That's when you realize, oh, I'm that guy. I'm that guy that 368 00:26:26,470 --> 00:26:36,340 guy that has that debt of 500 denary and I can't pay it. I don't have anything to pay with. 369 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:49,800 And Jesus comes along with his blood and he says, it's wiped clean. You're set free. Your 370 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:56,660 your heart, something's terribly wrong. You're thinking way too highly of yourself. And that, 371 00:26:56,660 --> 00:27:04,320 it really is our problem. We think way too highly of ourselves. Paul tells us when a man is nothing, 372 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:11,120 when you are nothing and you think you're something, no, you're nothing. We're nothing. I love the 373 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:19,780 prayer I heard years ago. Lord, because in Genesis, right, when we see the creation story, God 374 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,940 creates the world and all those good things out of nothing. 375 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,800 He creates all good things out of nothing. 376 00:27:26,810 --> 00:27:28,500 He looked at it and he saw it as good. 377 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,260 And years ago I heard a prayer and a guy said, 378 00:27:32,340 --> 00:27:35,860 Oh, Lord, make me nothing that you might make something good out of my life. 379 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,420 That is the cold, hard truth of the matter. 380 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:56,460 So this woman, obviously, she realized what she had done, 381 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,400 she realized the gravity and the weight of her sin. 382 00:28:00,060 --> 00:28:04,480 And she heard this message, this we would call it the good news or the gospel. 383 00:28:05,460 --> 00:28:07,220 And she responds in this way. 384 00:28:08,380 --> 00:28:09,160 Oh, that we all would. 385 00:28:11,299 --> 00:28:18,240 Sometimes I'm still overwhelmed at my bent that I can have these thoughts that are 386 00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:21,980 so diabolically evil. 387 00:28:22,540 --> 00:28:24,460 You say, well, yeah, that's thoughts, Scotty. 388 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:25,420 Everybody has those. 389 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:27,940 Yeah, but what do you do with those? 390 00:28:30,220 --> 00:28:31,800 Does that not tell me? 391 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,700 That speaks truth to my heart that I'm capable of these things. 392 00:28:36,900 --> 00:28:38,100 That's a fearful thing to me. 393 00:28:39,500 --> 00:28:43,000 I'm so capable of this debauchery. 394 00:28:43,180 --> 00:28:46,360 I just, it overwhelms me. 395 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,140 But what it does do, and I'm so thankful for, 396 00:28:51,150 --> 00:28:53,540 is it makes me desperate for Jesus. 397 00:28:54,380 --> 00:28:55,620 I am desperate for Jesus. 398 00:28:58,960 --> 00:28:59,960 And I'm with this woman. 399 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,960 I want to beat his feet if I have to be on my face at his feet 400 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:10,280 and kissing him and thanking him for not giving me my just reward, 401 00:29:10,940 --> 00:29:13,380 which would be eternal damnation. 402 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,560 And God has given me a pass and that. 403 00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:26,580 So you have to look at yourself, examine yourself, the Bible says, to see if you're even in the faith. 404 00:29:26,900 --> 00:29:31,180 Because if you think you're doing it on your own merit, you think you're a good guy or a good gal. 405 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,080 You're terribly wrong. 406 00:29:34,460 --> 00:29:35,340 Terribly wrong. 407 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,840 But he says, well, I think whoever's forgiven most would probably love him. 408 00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:46,340 Where's your love at? 409 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:53,180 how much do you love Jesus that really proves how much you know you how well you know yourself 410 00:29:54,420 --> 00:30:01,300 how much you love Jesus it proves what your self view is how you view yourself 411 00:30:02,519 --> 00:30:07,440 which scripturally it's really important that we view ourselves correctly 412 00:30:09,819 --> 00:30:15,499 not compared to the next guy well compared to him or her a pretty good guy 413 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:26,480 Yeah. Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, I'm up on them, right? Because I haven't done physically what they did 414 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:37,140 physically. But spiritually in my heart I have. I've committed murder in my heart. Have you not? If you 415 00:30:37,340 --> 00:30:41,960 haven't, you're not married. Or you haven't had children. 416 00:30:47,940 --> 00:30:50,020 We did say till death do his part. 417 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:52,540 So it's biblical. 418 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,020 Just that you might have a jail ministry if you follow through. 419 00:31:03,580 --> 00:31:07,820 But this love thing, you guys, is it's from the beginning. 420 00:31:07,980 --> 00:31:08,740 Let's go ahead and read. 421 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,960 I'm just going to read the rest of what we got here in verse. 422 00:31:12,020 --> 00:31:17,680 44 and then he says, then he turned to the woman and said to Simon. So he's looking at this woman 423 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:24,740 who Simon just despises as a sinful woman. He says, do you see this woman? I entered your house. 424 00:31:25,060 --> 00:31:29,800 You gave me no water for my feet. It was customary, right? Clear back to the time of Abraham. 425 00:31:30,220 --> 00:31:35,540 It was customary. When you had a visitor come, right, you wash their feet just as a good host. 426 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:41,960 You wash their feet. Simon didn't do that. So that really does make me question what his motive was 427 00:31:41,980 --> 00:31:48,740 inviting Jesus. So you gave me no water for my feet, but he has, she has washed my feet with 428 00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:57,780 her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head. How humble is that? I feel like a broken 429 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:03,860 record when I talk about humility because God is so drawn to it. This woman is so humble. 430 00:32:08,060 --> 00:32:11,940 You gave me no kiss. But this woman has not. 431 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:20,260 cease to kiss my feet since the time that I came in. Right? And it's not the, not the kiss that you 432 00:32:20,340 --> 00:32:26,960 would think. It was that, that European or Middle Eastern, you know, on each side of it. It's just a greeting, 433 00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:37,919 like a handshake. You wouldn't even shake my hand when I showed up. But this woman has kissed my 434 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,540 feet since the time that I came in. 435 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:48,040 You did not anoint my head with oil, but this woman has anointed my feet with fragrant 436 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:48,880 oil. 437 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,660 Therefore, I say to you her sins, which are many? 438 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,180 See, Jesus doesn't excuse sin. 439 00:32:56,520 --> 00:33:01,960 I got the most worst argument with somebody in the hospital the other day. 440 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:03,060 Right? 441 00:33:03,420 --> 00:33:05,340 And they end up telling me to F off. 442 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:06,940 F you, dude, F you. 443 00:33:07,220 --> 00:33:07,820 I said, what? 444 00:33:09,140 --> 00:33:13,680 Because I don't embrace the sin that they think is okay. 445 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:15,940 And I don't embrace that. 446 00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:21,680 And they're touting the F word to me at the hospital. 447 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:25,300 I'm just thinking, I don't wonder what kind of witness that was. 448 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:26,760 Probably not very. 449 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,420 And I was a little hot when I walked away too. 450 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,080 But I didn't F word back. 451 00:33:31,500 --> 00:33:32,220 Just saying. 452 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,820 Crazy. The world's going crazy, you guys. It's going crazy. 453 00:33:45,530 --> 00:33:45,660 It's going crazy. 454 00:33:50,340 --> 00:33:58,080 But this anointing, right? She anointed. She put this costly oil. She gave that which was valuable to her Lord. 455 00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:04,120 and her sins are many. 456 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:05,980 I'm not going to say that, 457 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:08,940 but they're forgiven. 458 00:34:10,980 --> 00:34:11,800 My sins are many. 459 00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:15,220 The thing about it is I'm not done. 460 00:34:16,780 --> 00:34:18,440 My sins are many, but I'm not done. 461 00:34:19,940 --> 00:34:22,980 I still need this comfort. 462 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,419 I still need this person that I can go to 463 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:26,940 and be with insinity's feet. 464 00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:29,260 because my sins are many. 465 00:34:30,139 --> 00:34:31,520 Your sins are many. 466 00:34:32,700 --> 00:34:33,679 And they just keep coming. 467 00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:39,899 Well, now what do you mean by sin? 468 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:40,560 Pastor? 469 00:34:41,740 --> 00:34:42,659 What do you mean by sin? 470 00:34:44,399 --> 00:34:47,020 You mean doing wicked things? 471 00:34:48,260 --> 00:34:50,879 Well, it's not just doing wicked things. 472 00:34:51,540 --> 00:34:53,740 It's sometimes not doing righteous things. 473 00:34:55,100 --> 00:34:57,380 Right where James tells us, 474 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,960 he who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. 475 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,420 So is that sin less than the sin of adultery? 476 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:07,980 Is it? 477 00:35:09,180 --> 00:35:10,060 I don't believe so. 478 00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:11,920 Really? 479 00:35:14,580 --> 00:35:15,000 It's a sin. 480 00:35:15,780 --> 00:35:16,460 Sin is sin. 481 00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:22,320 Or then Paul tells us in the book of Romans, 482 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,300 whatever is not a faith is sin. 483 00:35:25,260 --> 00:35:27,420 Well, I probably sin this morning 484 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:28,460 I fed chickens. 485 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:32,860 I don't know that I did that out of faith. 486 00:35:32,940 --> 00:35:34,240 I think I did it grudgingly. 487 00:35:42,100 --> 00:35:44,420 So our sins, there are many. 488 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:48,240 But we've been forgiven. 489 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,820 And the same loves little. 490 00:36:02,559 --> 00:36:05,680 So then he said to her, your sins are forgiven. 491 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:11,080 And it's interesting that how this is worded, 492 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:18,700 where because she loved, for she loved much. 493 00:36:18,700 --> 00:36:20,660 It says her sins, which are many, 494 00:36:21,420 --> 00:36:28,560 are forgiven. Listen, listen to this, for she loved much. It almost seems to be in reverse, right? 495 00:36:29,860 --> 00:36:36,420 Right? She doesn't love because her sins are forgiven that she loves realizing that this person can 496 00:36:36,780 --> 00:36:42,900 forgive her so she automatically loves him. Therefore, she's washed clean. Do you love Jesus? 497 00:36:44,020 --> 00:36:50,500 How much? Where's he out? Where's he out in husband, wife, 498 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:58,720 kids. It is amazing how much the place we put with our kids sometimes. We put them above 499 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:14,260 the Lord sometimes. Ought not to be. No, it's loving Jesus first and foremost, right? Why? 500 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:20,460 Because he is our resource for love. A resource that can't be exhausted. 501 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,840 You want your love cup full? 502 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:24,200 You've got to go to Jesus. 503 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,980 Because he's the source of that agape love that comes from God. 504 00:37:29,340 --> 00:37:35,240 The love of God that will fill your hearts and minds and protect you and lead you through this life. 505 00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:36,420 It comes from him. 506 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:41,340 Therefore, he deserves the preeminence in our lives. 507 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:46,700 That's where all that love that you and I like and want to give to people comes from it. 508 00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:47,380 It comes from him. 509 00:37:48,580 --> 00:37:50,420 That's why he has to be preeminence. 510 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:55,460 in your life. You put anything above that? Right? I'm just reading through the judges. They put 511 00:37:55,780 --> 00:38:02,420 idols above their God. They love their idols more than they loved God. And a whoopin would come. 512 00:38:03,090 --> 00:38:13,000 They got lots of whoopens. I think we talked about that last week. But it was her love, right? 513 00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:19,400 Her sins, which are many are forgiven, for she loved much. 514 00:38:21,140 --> 00:38:23,640 And that's kind of like when God comes to us, 515 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:25,360 and the Lord comes to us, and he says, listen, 516 00:38:26,260 --> 00:38:28,760 if you don't forgive, you can't be forgiven. 517 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:34,500 Listen, folks say, well, that's allegorically, right? 518 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,640 That's just a, you know, an encouragement. 519 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:39,700 No, no. 520 00:38:40,380 --> 00:38:45,600 If you don't forgive, you cannot be forgiven. 521 00:38:46,780 --> 00:38:46,960 Okay? 522 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,300 you have to embrace that. 523 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,040 You say, well, how do you do that? 524 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,020 Pastor, you don't know what I've been through. 525 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:55,220 The people that I've talked to say, 526 00:38:55,500 --> 00:38:56,360 you don't know what I've been through, 527 00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:57,800 and some of them have been through stuff 528 00:38:57,900 --> 00:38:59,200 that's just insane. 529 00:39:01,540 --> 00:39:02,580 I cannot forgive. 530 00:39:02,820 --> 00:39:03,740 I won't forgive. 531 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,080 If you won't, you just sealed your fate. 532 00:39:08,100 --> 00:39:08,220 Right? 533 00:39:08,260 --> 00:39:09,320 You just hardened your heart. 534 00:39:10,319 --> 00:39:12,640 No, you forgive, right? 535 00:39:12,940 --> 00:39:15,420 Because it's right, not because you feel like it. 536 00:39:16,100 --> 00:39:18,380 Because most of the time, we don't feel like it. 537 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:19,560 I don't feel like forgiving them. 538 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,340 That dude's got what he's got coming. 539 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:23,600 And then some. 540 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:24,960 Right? 541 00:39:25,260 --> 00:39:28,240 Well, are you his judge? 542 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:29,720 No, you're not. 543 00:39:31,039 --> 00:39:33,280 That's the way we view it. 544 00:39:34,100 --> 00:39:34,940 No, you got to let it go. 545 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:36,020 You give it to God. 546 00:39:36,420 --> 00:39:38,720 You just say, Lord, bless him. 547 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:40,500 I forgive him. 548 00:39:41,260 --> 00:39:42,260 I don't know how you're going to do that. 549 00:39:42,740 --> 00:39:43,600 You might need to break them. 550 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:44,880 And I'm not even going to pray for that 551 00:39:45,060 --> 00:39:47,940 because I could get all caught up in the whole, you know, 552 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:48,360 murdering me. 553 00:39:48,380 --> 00:39:55,260 my heart. Oh, Lord, just kill them. Lord, I pray for their brakes to go out and then run into a big rock. 554 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:05,780 That's not what he's talking about. No, you don't forgive. You can't be forgiven. So let it go. 555 00:40:06,940 --> 00:40:13,180 And then, then you are in that place where you're loving God and you're loving people. And that's what 556 00:40:13,510 --> 00:40:18,340 Jesus called it to do. That is the bottom line. The bottom line. The bottom line. 557 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:26,340 is to love. And it's been that way from the beginning. It was even that way in the law that it's all 558 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:34,580 about loving God. The religious person doesn't love God. He loves himself. Right? Because he looks good. 559 00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:42,640 Goes to church every Sunday. Right? Doesn't cuss or drink or chew or go with girls who do. Right? 560 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:48,320 You think you're okay. No, religious people. It's 561 00:40:48,340 --> 00:40:57,280 it's all about you. But those who love the Lord, it's all about the Lord. Simon showed no affection at 562 00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:03,920 all towards Jesus. And this woman, it was just oozing out of her, her love for her God. 563 00:41:05,060 --> 00:41:10,800 Deuteronomy chapter 6, verses four and five, it says, here, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 564 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:16,400 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. 565 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:21,940 Right? Jesus confirms it in Matthew chapter 22, verse 37. He says, 566 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,260 Jesus said to him, you shall love, and then they came. They were test in name, right? 567 00:41:26,340 --> 00:41:31,740 Which is the greatest commandment. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and your mind. 568 00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:37,260 This is the first and great commandment, and the second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 569 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:43,660 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Yeah, love. 570 00:41:46,060 --> 00:41:46,600 Love everyone? 571 00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:47,840 Yeah, love everyone. 572 00:41:49,859 --> 00:41:55,660 Now, the way we go about that sometimes is, I would say, odd. 573 00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:57,720 Right? 574 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,380 Because the book of Jude tells us to love everyone. 575 00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:05,080 Share the gospel with them. 576 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,220 Save them by sharing the love of God with them. 577 00:42:08,900 --> 00:42:13,160 If those people won't hear, then there's option two. 578 00:42:13,720 --> 00:42:14,580 Scare the hell out of them. 579 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:15,740 Right? 580 00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:22,400 you know what you're going to hell if you don't turn to jesus you're going to hell well that's not 581 00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:28,400 very loving well if it is it if it rescues them from hell and if they then they go on their own that's on them 582 00:42:33,180 --> 00:42:39,220 but all the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments love god and love people so simple 583 00:42:39,900 --> 00:42:45,100 and yet so hard well the god part's not too tough sometimes 584 00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:50,020 but loving each other gets a little rough sometimes, right? 585 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:54,640 Because we're prickly and stinky, right? 586 00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:56,620 Like hugging a skunk or a porcupine. 587 00:42:57,380 --> 00:43:02,700 So, but 1 John chapter 3 tells us this, listen to this. 588 00:43:03,460 --> 00:43:07,080 Behold what manner of love the father has bestowed upon us, 589 00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,560 that we should be called the children of God. 590 00:43:10,140 --> 00:43:14,360 Therefore, the world does not know us because it did not know him. 591 00:43:15,020 --> 00:43:21,900 beloved now we are children of God and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be but we know that he 592 00:43:22,340 --> 00:43:28,520 when he is revealed we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is and everyone who has this hope 593 00:43:29,390 --> 00:43:37,540 in him purifies himself even as he is pure behold what manner of love the father has bestowed upon us 594 00:43:37,540 --> 00:43:42,859 that you and I could actually be the children of God we can be called sons and daughters of God 595 00:43:43,100 --> 00:43:43,940 Who deserves that? 596 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:45,480 None of us. 597 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:47,160 None of us. 598 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:54,840 So what Jesus is seems to be poking out with Simon here, 599 00:43:56,020 --> 00:43:56,300 Simon, 600 00:43:57,380 --> 00:43:58,160 dude, where's your love? 601 00:43:59,480 --> 00:43:59,960 Where is it? 602 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,700 There was no water, there's no kiss, there was no oil. 603 00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,120 There's no, where you at? 604 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:09,880 Maybe you need to ask yourself that quote. 605 00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:10,420 Where are you at? 606 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:15,880 how's your love cut 607 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:24,180 verse 47 608 00:44:27,140 --> 00:44:28,380 but to whom 609 00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,380 little is forgiven the same 610 00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:31,400 loves little 611 00:44:34,540 --> 00:44:36,200 and that's when we just don't get it 612 00:44:37,020 --> 00:44:38,000 we just don't get 613 00:44:39,620 --> 00:44:43,140 that what God, what Jesus has done for us. 614 00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,340 And then he tells the woman, he says, 615 00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:47,640 your faith has saved you. 616 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:50,440 I love this humility about Jesus, right? 617 00:44:51,540 --> 00:44:53,940 Jesus saved her, but she had to put her faith in him. 618 00:44:54,060 --> 00:44:55,780 See, it's reciprocal. 619 00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:59,480 Some people believe the whole, well, you have no choice in the matter. 620 00:44:59,620 --> 00:45:00,800 Some are saved, some are not. 621 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:02,980 No, you have a choice in the matter. 622 00:45:03,500 --> 00:45:06,540 She didn't have to go sit at his feet, right? 623 00:45:06,620 --> 00:45:07,600 She had a choice in the matter. 624 00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,320 She chose to come to him. 625 00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:16,280 And because she chose to come to him by faith, he tells her, your faith has saved you. 626 00:45:17,340 --> 00:45:18,720 And now you can go in peace. 627 00:45:19,740 --> 00:45:21,580 Hot dog, you mean I'm really forgiving? 628 00:45:21,900 --> 00:45:22,700 You're really forgiven. 629 00:45:23,860 --> 00:45:26,560 There is no greater joy than to know that you're forgiven. 630 00:45:26,940 --> 00:45:28,280 But it has to be received. 631 00:45:33,740 --> 00:45:36,040 Forgiveness is always ready from God. 632 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:37,580 God's ready to forgive. 633 00:45:37,620 --> 00:45:44,560 give. He's always on the ready to forgive. And as soon as anyone asked for it and humility, bingo, 634 00:45:44,610 --> 00:45:54,880 you have it. There's no hesitation or shortage on God's part. It's usually our part. And if we come 635 00:45:55,000 --> 00:46:01,260 with humility and loving submission to Jesus and to receive the forgiveness that he offers us by 636 00:46:01,420 --> 00:46:06,400 faith, it's the greatest thing I've ever experienced in my life. 637 00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:15,660 knowing that God truly really having the understanding of the omniscience of God that he knows all things, 638 00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:22,860 he knows everything about me, every crazy thought that I have, every crazy deed that I did 639 00:46:24,060 --> 00:46:32,640 that was so evil towards other human beings that really I should be in prison or in the hottest part of hell, 640 00:46:32,740 --> 00:46:33,320 one of the two. 641 00:46:34,260 --> 00:46:35,540 And God showed me mercy? 642 00:46:38,820 --> 00:46:40,480 That provokes love in your heart. 643 00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:41,980 But it has to be received. 644 00:46:42,940 --> 00:46:43,040 Right? 645 00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:44,720 You have to receive it by faith. 646 00:46:45,500 --> 00:46:48,220 Because the bottom line is that we need to be forgiven. 647 00:46:48,580 --> 00:46:49,700 Warren Weirsby says this. 648 00:46:50,140 --> 00:46:52,320 But God's forgiveness is not automatic. 649 00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:53,740 Right? 650 00:46:53,820 --> 00:46:54,520 It's not automatic. 651 00:46:55,020 --> 00:46:57,640 We can reject His grace if we will. 652 00:46:59,380 --> 00:47:00,400 You can reject His grace. 653 00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:03,800 You just say, no, I'm good. 654 00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:05,420 you're not. 655 00:47:06,500 --> 00:47:08,560 I say that all the time and I'm just going, well, not really. 656 00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:12,760 And then he tells this story. 657 00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:18,560 In 1830, a man named George Wilson was arrested for mail theft, 658 00:47:19,340 --> 00:47:23,220 the penalty for which was hanging back then. 659 00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:26,340 Maybe we need to bring that back, right? 660 00:47:28,900 --> 00:47:30,080 Same for horse thieving. 661 00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:37,360 Hanging. After a time, President Andrew Jackson gave Wilson a pardon, but he refused to accept it. 662 00:47:37,740 --> 00:47:43,160 The authorities were puzzled, should Wilson be freed or hanged? They consulted Chief Justice John 663 00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:49,360 Marshall, who handed down his decision. A pardon is a slip of paper, the value of which is 664 00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:55,400 determined by the acceptance of the person to be pardoned. If it is refused, it is no pardon at all. 665 00:47:55,840 --> 00:48:00,900 George Wilson must be hanged. If you have never accepted God's pardon, now is the time to 666 00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:02,720 believe and be saved, right? 667 00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:05,960 They hanged him. 668 00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:07,700 He refused it. 669 00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:10,500 He said, oh, no, I don't need you. 670 00:48:12,020 --> 00:48:15,400 Have you ever talked to those people you told them about what Jesus has done in your life? 671 00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:17,680 And they tell you, oh, that's great for you. 672 00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,440 No, it's going to be good for you, too, if you will. 673 00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:23,080 But so many won't. 674 00:48:24,459 --> 00:48:26,220 They won't come to that place. 675 00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:38,580 Her acceptance of the Lord Jesus, right, caused her to wipe his feet with her hair and with her tears 676 00:48:38,620 --> 00:48:43,300 and caused her to kiss his feet and caused her to anoint his feet. 677 00:48:46,259 --> 00:48:51,240 And when you accept Jesus, you will hear your sins are forgiven. 678 00:48:52,100 --> 00:48:54,180 That's the words that she heard, right? 679 00:48:54,580 --> 00:48:55,540 Your sins are forgiven. 680 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:57,640 your faith has saved you, go in peace. 681 00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:00,320 Today, maybe that's what you need to hear. 682 00:49:01,500 --> 00:49:02,300 Your sins are forgiven. 683 00:49:04,180 --> 00:49:07,280 But have you expressed your love to him and for him? 684 00:49:08,900 --> 00:49:12,680 And just maybe shown yourself and others around you 685 00:49:13,070 --> 00:49:13,960 that you love him? 686 00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:22,740 Your faith and your love are proof of your affection towards him. 687 00:49:24,180 --> 00:49:28,240 Your faith and your love are proof of your affection towards him. 688 00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:33,620 And that's actually demanded by God. 689 00:49:35,740 --> 00:49:37,440 Well, if it's demanded, is it love? 690 00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:38,680 No, you have a choice. 691 00:49:39,330 --> 00:49:39,980 You don't have to. 692 00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,640 But it's found in 1st Corinthians chapter 16. 693 00:49:44,940 --> 00:49:47,300 It's a very powerful passage of scripture. 694 00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:51,300 In 1 Corinthians chapter 16, verse 22, and I'll close with this, 695 00:49:52,220 --> 00:49:59,680 It says if anyone, listen, if anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let them be accursed. 696 00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:02,680 Let them be damned to hell. 697 00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:05,440 And you have the choice. 698 00:50:06,340 --> 00:50:09,900 You don't have to, but the alternative is not good. 699 00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:15,360 But if you do, right? 700 00:50:16,020 --> 00:50:20,460 If you do accept him, then your life is blessed. 701 00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:26,880 Right. You have something that you could never get by yourself. You have forgiveness of sin. 702 00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:37,640 You have a source of love that can't be exhausted. And that's a good thing. So I'm going to pray. 703 00:50:40,620 --> 00:50:47,620 And if you just need to reaffirm your love for Jesus, I want to give you an opportunity to do that as we pray. 704 00:50:47,940 --> 00:50:51,320 So would you pray with me? Father, we do come before you. Thank you. 705 00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:57,160 Thank you for your incredible love. Lord, I'm still just overwhelmed. I can't believe that you love me, 706 00:50:58,940 --> 00:51:04,460 knowing what you know. And so it is with everyone in this room. Lord, there's nothing been done, 707 00:51:04,660 --> 00:51:12,480 said, thought that you can't forgive and wash away and make us clean. And so for that, Lord, 708 00:51:13,300 --> 00:51:21,040 I'm standing here today, Lord, just in awe of a God that can take something so vile. 709 00:51:21,300 --> 00:51:24,620 and make it valuable simply because of your great love. 710 00:51:26,140 --> 00:51:28,460 And so as we're just in an attitude of prayer right now, 711 00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,740 and you feel like, Lord, I just need to express my love to you. 712 00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:35,300 And just a simple act of faith, you can do that. 713 00:51:35,820 --> 00:51:37,840 And so if that's you and you just say, 714 00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,320 Lord, I just want to show you that I love you, 715 00:51:40,820 --> 00:51:41,780 stand to your feet, would you? 716 00:51:42,820 --> 00:51:46,120 If you're just wanting to express your love to Jesus, 717 00:51:47,100 --> 00:51:47,900 just stand to your feet. 718 00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:48,540 You don't have to. 719 00:51:48,780 --> 00:51:50,380 This is between you and him. 720 00:51:50,940 --> 00:51:54,220 If you got some work to do with them and you don't want to stand, I totally understand that. 721 00:51:58,300 --> 00:52:03,420 But I want to stand with you because this is an incredible thing. 722 00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:09,300 Lord, your love is, it truly reaches to the heavens. 723 00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:15,380 Lord, and you loved us so much that you cast our sin as far as the east is from the west, 724 00:52:15,700 --> 00:52:20,640 which is an infinite line that can never come back to us. 725 00:52:21,260 --> 00:52:24,820 And so Lord Jesus, we just praise you and worship you because of that. 726 00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:26,560 And we want to love you. 727 00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:31,760 Lord, we want to love you with our lives the way we think, the way we act, the way we speak. 728 00:52:32,720 --> 00:52:36,860 And so, Lord, I just know that I know that this week I've blown it and I just seek your forgiveness. 729 00:52:37,700 --> 00:52:42,600 And I know because of your great love and because of us willing to humiliate ourselves, Lord, 730 00:52:43,180 --> 00:52:44,220 and stand before you. 731 00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:49,900 Lord, just is guilty of sin, but also standing before you just proclaiming our love for you 732 00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:55,840 because we do love you, because you first loved us, and that's why we do it. And so, Lord, Jesus, 733 00:52:55,970 --> 00:53:02,760 we just pray that you would bless your people today as we go from this place, Lord, that the name of 734 00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:08,300 Jesus would be on our lips, that we would never be ashamed. Lord, this is the song we sang this morning, 735 00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:14,320 that you would go before us and behind us, and all around us. Christ be all around us. In Jesus' 736 00:53:14,620 --> 00:53:19,820 Holy Name. And all God's people said, amen, amen. God bless you guys. Look for opportunities to love him. 737 00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:20,260 this week.