The Sermon Guess Who's Coming To Dinner by David McGee
Oct 06, 2013
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (31:21)
Referenced Scriptures: Luke 7:36-50
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Luke 7:36-50
36) One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee‘s house, and sat at the table.
37) Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee‘s house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.
38) Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
39) Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner."
40) Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you." He said, "Teacher, say on."
41) "A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
42) When they couldn‘t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"
43) Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly."
44) Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.
45) You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.
46) You didn‘t anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.
47) Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."
48) He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."
49) Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"
50) He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."
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What the sermon this morning is guess who's coming to dinner, and for some of you who don't remember or were even born then this is the title of a movie from the sixties. So if that right rings a bell. That's where I came up with this idea of guess who's coming to dinner the final title. The Scripture is from Luke chapter seven beginning at verse thirty six to fifty live chapter seven verse thirty six to fifty one of the Pharisees asked him over and over for a meal, speaking of Jesus, that's Jesus over for a meal. He went to the Pharisee 's house and sat down at the dinner table. Just then, a woman of the village of town harlot, having learned that Jesus was a guest in the home of the Pharisee came with a bottle of very expensive perfume and started his feet, weeping, raining tears on his feet letting down her hair. She dried his feet and kiss them, and anointed them with the perfume when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this he said to himself that this man was the prophet. I thought he was, he would have known what kind of woman this is it was falling all over him, Jesus said to him, Simon, I have something to tell you all tell me, Simon replied to bring debt to a banker one out five hundred silver pieces. The other fifty. Neither of them could pay off and so the banker canceled both debts which of the two would be more grateful. Simon answer. I suppose the one who was forgiven the mouse. That's right, said Jesus then turning to the woman, but speaking to Simon. He said the status woman I came to your home. You provided no water for my feet, but she has rain, tears on my feet and dried them with her there is no greeting from the time I arrived, she hasn't quit kissing my feet. You provided nothing for freshening up, but she has suited to my feet with perfume impressive, isn't it. She was forgiven many many sins, and so she is very, very grateful. If the forgiveness is minimal. The gratitude is minimal. Then he spoke to her. I forgive your sins that set the dinner guest talking behind his back, who does he think he is, forgiving sins, he ignored them and said to the woman, your faith has saved you go in peace. Guess who's coming to dinner. As you might imagine it is this lady who showed up unexpected and uninvited. It's important for us to know that just like the Pharisee, it is important for us to know that being religious on knowing all the laws and fulfilling certain requirements of a church or on the denomination does not get us into heaven. You know our name written on some rocks in Rochester some register or yell being affiliated with a particular church doesn't automatically get us in the story I remember this from years ago a man who was very active in his church. He was sound on all the committees, and so on. But yet it was a kind of an individual who was no pretty self focused than pious and one Sunday he was standing at the door and he stopped people from coming in and he told them that they were not allowed in because they were not dressed appropriately, according to get up to his standards. And of course they were offended and left and never came back, and it would seem while the as you know well, maybe this protecting the church in whatever but later, this individual was arrested because he was receiving to Social Security checks and refused down the government saw his his conduct was not becoming what he should have been as an individual, and so our faith even though he knows or knew the rules and the guidelines of the church and was very well aware of what he thought people should do. He was not his faith had not gone into every area of his life while Simon the Pharisee and the Scripture he is. He's not as arrogant as many of the Pharisees are black. He yet because he did invite Jesus to come and help to to have a meal in his house, but she was kind of like hedging his options. You know, it was it was kind of walking both sides of the road because they hadn't really come to a conclusion as to who Jesus is and to know whether or not he's really a profit are or whether he's somebody that should be shunned and you killed so he invites Jesus to his house and he yelled brings them in and in a reclining at the table. If you are familiar with. Maybe seeing pictures of the time that time. They then sit around the table and we have a table in LA and we sat around with chairs and so on. When their cables were probably maybe twelve inches eighteen inches off the floor and then they had take out pillows around the tables and they would recline at the table with their shoulder and head towards the table and there feet away from the table. Okay, so the people that are at this table with Jesus are around the table, but their feet are extended back so that's him Jesus reclining at the table with these individuals for this meal. While this fallacy though he treated Jesus inviting the dinner is he treated Jesus like a second-class citizen and the custom of the time was that when you would enter a house either the master of the house or his slaves and servants would wash the people 's feet and you'll let them freshen up while when Jesus arrived at this individuals house. He felt that it was permissible because anything Jesus amounted to much to too much in anyone follow through with what with the customary procedures and follow through with washing his feet even in our feed and follow through with the customary greeting kiss of welcome your help we do the welcome around here now. How do whatever handshake whatever's whatever is permissible while it do in the time of Jesus that was in the fact that was there a formal greeting. It was a way of welcoming someone in a weekly CNET yells on the custody grabs the money. Someone will slide to the cheek will do that but it will be on one side became inoperable. That's excessive. Okay, that's a joke, but got the skimming a hug. Whatever works okay in. Whatever works for you. And that's why it's it's it's something that whatever's whatever is appropriate. If it know some people don't even like to shake hands. That's okay because it's it's all right, whatever is permissible for you. That's permissible. The idea is we have a welcome and we want you to feel as welcome as possible and that we share that welcome with one another while Simon the Pharisee. He would not even asked the basic custom of washing their feet, they won't. Why while they wore sandals, but we were sandals that are free. Don't get that dirty. Well if you live in in a desert community and a very dry, arid climate, we would know that you have never seen the dusty field walking through it to get dirt all over you. Just dusty and dirty while the roads for all enterprise were all dusty and now the only place that was perhaps paid was the Roman roads that the soldiers had slaves that would build them and they would build them out of blocks of stone that people would travel a lot if that wasn't done. It was just a plain old dirt path, and so when people walk, they would get extremely dirty bare feet would become extremely dusty and so it was a customary gesture to how to have people clean up or freshen up whenever they arrive. So Simon, a man who measures himself by the keeping of the regulations. I mean these the Pharisees affairs. He was an individual, he had laws and regulations and his life was entirely governed by those regulations. But in this case. He dismisses them because he doesn't feel that Jesus is where the other hand, fulfilling the most basic of hospitality. The bulk of the most basic of Haas, being hospitable. He would not even even do it. It's like Jesus showed up and he was lucky that he left a man, and I'll never go to somebody's house and they don't open the door for you when you walk in NHL all MNA walk away if I can innovate the gentleman is this is not nine o'clock you people do you think you want, but I went back in oh dining room, so our faith and our relationship with Jesus is to enter into every aspect of my life and am at every aspect of our hospitality and of our being friend friendly whatever and and job working with them, working and greeting one another while the emphasis and this text that we read here is both on Simon and on the woman. One Simon, being the Pharisee who has just canceled out all of the proper etiquette and upon the woman who breaks all of the etiquette so our character was. She was notorious. She was a notorious sinner, a prostitute in adulterous. Now there is no reason given why she's on this character, but in those days. Generally, people would be stones for this was a behavior, but perhaps she was a widow or she was divorced and a woman at that time. Had no nose so security no backing it. They became a bigger, so perhaps it was forced into this to survive. Whether it's by choice or by the will of my survival, we find that she has become this prostitute, but we know that she when she approaches Jason she does not try to defend her actions or give excuses for what she has done or what she is as an individual, so her actions according to God 's law were indefensible. There's no way that you can justify. She can justify what is happened in her life and what she's been doing so cemented her sins and that understands and made a passionate display on love and gratitude in Christ likeness hall broken brokenness on her heart and of her life just came pouring for as she approached Jesus, her sorrow was such that she was weeping profusely. I mean, she is no that I like him and the message Bible says she rang her tears rained down on her armies of cheese really broken over what and what her life is then and so she offered God. This expression of sorrow. She expresses her sorrow to Jesus and the Lord had obviously reached the place where what was going on in her life. We don't really know but she has reached the place where she needed the change she needed a change in her life she needed to change and who she was and she needs something to go right instead of something going wrong so she entered the house and and she does so as an uninvited guest running. She walks in, now generally, there were gates and so on the all around these these homes as far as the doors and things. Many of them didn't have felt have doors on a man's something that they would put across the gate or maybe a door at night. That would be closed for four somewhat of protection, but often they have opened open homes in El Salvador. It was one of the homes that David and Jenny lived into towards the end they moved off in this very role community and is almost of the Guatemala border, and they moved in. There was a door on a door that could be locked in the front of the house and wires, where the Windows is that there were no windows and the entire around the house. The entire perimeter was open. I mean, you walk to the back of the house. The house was not that big, but you walk to the back of the house and there was alleged, they are being about three and a half feet high and then it went off the back for about thirty feet things like now this is where you want your kids to play the piano and urges all pronounce out to the city Hills and the birds, and whatever could fly rate and and they had no when Damon and then they moved in there. I think they in the first week they killed like five scorpions Araiza, David, did you tell him about the pickup, the little bugs crawling on the floor, but there was nothing that the caps from the neighborhood. They were come to the bars, their in-house snakes come through the bars that was the thing that kept things out of your house, your kitchen, your kitchen was next to the window and your window was next to the bars and once I did was nothing there so people can just walk around five thousand LOL it up. There was nothing to keep them out, and in their house. There were only two secure rooms with doors and that is where the bedrooms that was it well in this community, there may have been gay, but everything is open and she had heard that Jesus was here at this that this Pharisee 's house, Simon 's house and she walks in what you do when an uninvited guest walks into your house down what you get when someone who that is their reputation in the community is very well known and it is walking to your house while according to the rules of society and for the Pharisees should should should from this. I'm just thrown around was forbidden for her to even assume that you walk into a Pharisees home because of Pharisee considers himself superior and clean clean religiously clean up your guy they gone through all of the ceremonial cleansing 's in Washington, keeping the law and this woman who was an adulterous was unclean and if she walked into a house. It contaminated the house. Okay, so when she walks, and it is like what nerve is she doing here back and if she had been any moments or whatever I'm sure they would've thrown around, but she wanted to see Jesus. She came to Jesus with a broken heart. She came to Jesus, broken over her life. She came to him in such emotional no spiritual trauma that she couldn't stop crying. She walked into this house and into the presence of Jesus and is it something how that this quote, which she is a sinner. This adulterous woman and her behavior is known by everyone she comes with a brokenness in her heart that when she sees Jesus. She just can't stop crying now in the same house is this Pharisee who was a very religious person, but yet his attitude toward Jesus is and I'll is really not a profit and not the weekend. Not that we would consider him one and will begin them the most basic of hospitality. He is so far beneath what I expect him to be. I won't even have my servants wash his feet, saying Jesus to entirely different perspectives on him, and in the challenge. I think that counsel our life is, how do we see Christ. How do we see how long empty today as we took Emily, we partake of communion. Here is our savior who takes away our sin and that viruses all have sinned and come short of the glory, but every one of us have sent it out some of the more pronounced than others and some of the more hidden others, but we've all send and end preparing our hearts for communion is like an openness that we approached Jesus and he is approachable. He is approachable, you know he's approachable. You just feel comfortable being with someone just feel comfortable in the presence. The people who were religious. The people were considered dropping keeping all the rules and kept all the regulations they are the people who couldn't find it in our high to be sensitive to Jesus by the individuals who are considered the wellness than the worst of the society. The people who had no hope according to the religious structure. They are the ones who found hope in Jesus. There was a found comfort in being in his presence, so must never feel uncomfortable in God 's presence while what if we've done things wrong. That's wider. There is why he's here easier to forgive us and remove those settings for my life, and he began will start a life anew without everything is new. A new day. I know, beginning in Christ, I will. How often is a begin a begin to everyday the promises of God are renewed every morning so how many, how often does the sun come up every day wall. How often are the promises of God renewed every day. How often do I begin my relationship with God every day. This is the first day of the rest of our lives. What about the failures. What about the successes. This is a new day. This is the beginning with God, and we are taking the principles of God 's word in the promises of God 's word and work make integrating them into our life are not like the individual who now stands at the door that you can command because you don't dress the way I want you to know is like the Pharisee, the Pharisees and we what we got these rules and regulations, and you can't become part of us. Do you match up to these regulations. So what does Jesus do. He walks right in. He reclines at the table and along comes this woman who comes into the house and walks up to the feet of Jesus memories reclining at the table and she walks into this setting of hostility in your meta- place. We felt unwelcome. Both enough. I don't want to ever not want anyone ever to feel unwelcome in our church because everyone's welcome, because for always welcome into God 's presence. All God will never, never Pallister you're not good enough. God will never say to us in a welcome never so we has the body of Christ should always be that saying that you were trying to be Jesus Christ to the world around us and so we are where we are a welcoming presence. Now course for their certain things. Is there some people that know you have to just wait a minute. Now let's take easier to some degree can't trust like the Pharisees and things like that. They were just opted to use or to abuse price and so Jesus was always very difficult, very hard with them. But this woman walks into his life and walks into this setting, and her brokenness is such that her tears or as the Scripture says, raining down and it's not in the text, but it says the raining down and into the says that she lets down her hair and some most like, I don't. I don't think she has this plan on the go in and cry so much that I'm up, I'm going to cry on his feet never let down my hair and you know I would do this then operate. She does bring a box of perfume with her and the perfume is very expensive, probably represents her life savings come from her activities and things trying to get her out of her poverty, and she takes what she hasn't who she is. She comes in and she just is broken to the point that she is weeping all over his feet and then it's almost like I'm imagining this part, so most like I'm making a mess of his feet and so she takes, and she has nothing better hair and she starts wiping his feet and then with the I sorrow and recognition. He is someone very, very special. She kisses his feet and she anoints his feet. The Pharisee looks at the situation and Rickman and answer process. Look at this woman falling all over this man. And Jesus says, look at this woman who is broken in her sin broken in her character, but she wants forgiveness to people looking at the same thing the one trying to build up his defenses not to be not too long break down his barriers of religiousness religiosity or whatever he's not need a lawyer break that down so therefore he's got to condemn this woman. And Jesus says this is what it's all about. And then he speaks so that the guys as well. If you have this guy who lives to it is as if these two individuals, and they all the banker. One is five hundred days wages five five hundred F five hundred days wages and fifty days wages five hundred pieces of silver pheasant pieces. Steve got five hundred days of weight wages and you've got fifty days wages. Your banker and the banker. And forgives both their debts which one is more grateful ball. Obviously the guy who has five hundred days wages owed to the bank reasonably more grateful. This is when Jesus says that Pharisee, but also for this woman. He has been forgiven much appreciates much our appreciation for Jesus is connected very much to how forgiven we feel how forgiven and how privileged we are to have this forgiveness in our life. I think that it's so important that we be gracious, and that we be forgiving and thankful to God because he is forgiven us much. The things we couldn't do for self he does for us. We could never forgive ourselves. We can never erase our sins, we can. We are to forgive and forgive ourselves forgive others and go on and it is God 's presence that comes to us and Jesus does the unthinkable. He tells the woman your sins are forgiven. I may not just sets off the Pharisees and I think of it in the context that God is interested in us to the point that no matter who gets upset with who we are or what we represent, and with our prayers and with our faith matter who gets upset with it. The most important voice. The most important spirit. The most important words we hear are the words of Jesus that tell us that were his children belong to him and that he should take care of us and that his forgiveness is is there to heal the broken this field. The brokenness because we are grateful for the forgiveness of all that we done wrong whether we have five hundred days wages were fifty days wages, whether we've done great things are not so great sins. It's the point that God forgives us because he loves us. That's the beginning of our relationship this woman, Jesus sets that he lays there at this point, and she annoyances the and he just speaks his word to give her comfort and forgiveness, and everything changes in her life. Pharisee. It always is the same that only don't change. He just see he's offended at Jesus, but the woman she's forgiven by Jesus. We ought. We never want to be offended at his word, but we won his word to become part of our life and that life will give us strength for every day the men substantially do now important it is to know the word how important it is for us to understand to grasp the concepts of the Scripture. There are millions of people out there that have no concept about forgiveness and no concept about how that our life is a gift and that God is working in us and the promises of God are part of us and how that our life to be changed and how that is changed by his presence. And this is a great gift to us. This is a great gift to our lives. God has a plan for us. God has a future for us. God is with us and that he looks at us with compassion never with disdain. He looks at us with love of what he can do in our life. What he will do in our life and what he has created us to become. That's all in the process of becoming so let go of the past let it be forgiven begin in the present to allow the gifts of God, and the promises of God in the work of God to come to the surface in our lives that we can build on what Jesus has done. The woman. Jesus forgave her and she went out her life was changed. The Pharisee. He was still standard door telling people don't commit you, not you, not you. Not quite right for what we have in mind. That's not what Jesus is about father, thank you for loving us. Thank you, O God, for touching our lives and for your presence. We thank you for your word make a real to our hearts. Oh God, and continue to build that relationship Lord with us that every moment of every day we sense our presence. God give you bring your word to our thoughts and remembrances Lord to give us strength to give us help to give us your character to give us your presence. Lord, in your presence in the presence of Jehovah, but what happens in the presence of Jehovah, hearts are amended, lives are changed, and then God bless you andWhat the sermon this morning is guess who's coming to dinner, and for some of you who don't remember or were even born then this is the title of a movie from the sixties. So if that right rings a bell. That's where I came up with this idea of guess who's coming to dinner the final title. The Scripture is from Luke chapter seven beginning at verse thirty six to fifty live chapter seven verse thirty six to fifty one of the Pharisees asked him over and over for a meal, speaking of Jesus, that's Jesus over for a meal. He went to the Pharisee 's house and sat down at the dinner table. Just then, a woman of the village of town harlot, having learned that Jesus was a guest in the home of the Pharisee came with a bottle of very expensive perfume and started his feet, weeping, raining tears on his feet letting down her hair. She dried his feet and kiss them, and anointed them with the perfume when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this he said to himself that this man was the prophet. I thought he was, he would have known what kind of woman this is it was falling all over him, Jesus said to him, Simon, I have something to tell you all tell me, Simon replied to bring debt to a banker one out five hundred silver pieces. The other fifty. Neither of them could pay off and so the banker canceled both debts which of the two would be more grateful. Simon answer. I suppose the one who was forgiven the mouse. That's right, said Jesus then turning to the woman, but speaking to Simon. He said the status woman I came to your home. You provided no water for my feet, but she has rain, tears on my feet and dried them with her there is no greeting from the time I arrived, she hasn't quit kissing my feet. You provided nothing for freshening up, but she has suited to my feet with perfume impressive, isn't it. She was forgiven many many sins, and so she is very, very grateful. If the forgiveness is minimal. The gratitude is minimal. Then he spoke to her. I forgive your sins that set the dinner guest talking behind his back, who does he think he is, forgiving sins, he ignored them and said to the woman, your faith has saved you go in peace. Guess who's coming to dinner. As you might imagine it is this lady who showed up unexpected and uninvited. It's important for us to know that just like the Pharisee, it is important for us to know that being religious on knowing all the laws and fulfilling certain requirements of a church or on the denomination does not get us into heaven. You know our name written on some rocks in Rochester some register or yell being affiliated with a particular church doesn't automatically get us in the story I remember this from years ago a man who was very active in his church. He was sound on all the committees, and so on. But yet it was a kind of an individual who was no pretty self focused than pious and one Sunday he was standing at the door and he stopped people from coming in and he told them that they were not allowed in because they were not dressed appropriately, according to get up to his standards. And of course they were offended and left and never came back, and it would seem while the as you know well, maybe this protecting the church in whatever but later, this individual was arrested because he was receiving to Social Security checks and refused down the government saw his his conduct was not becoming what he should have been as an individual, and so our faith even though he knows or knew the rules and the guidelines of the church and was very well aware of what he thought people should do. He was not his faith had not gone into every area of his life while Simon the Pharisee and the Scripture he is. He's not as arrogant as many of the Pharisees are black. He yet because he did invite Jesus to come and help to to have a meal in his house, but she was kind of like hedging his options. You know, it was it was kind of walking both sides of the road because they hadn't really come to a conclusion as to who Jesus is and to know whether or not he's really a profit are or whether he's somebody that should be shunned and you killed so he invites Jesus to his house and he yelled brings them in and in a reclining at the table. If you are familiar with. Maybe seeing pictures of the time that time. They then sit around the table and we have a table in LA and we sat around with chairs and so on. When their cables were probably maybe twelve inches eighteen inches off the floor and then they had take out pillows around the tables and they would recline at the table with their shoulder and head towards the table and there feet away from the table. Okay, so the people that are at this table with Jesus are around the table, but their feet are extended back so that's him Jesus reclining at the table with these individuals for this meal. While this fallacy though he treated Jesus inviting the dinner is he treated Jesus like a second-class citizen and the custom of the time was that when you would enter a house either the master of the house or his slaves and servants would wash the people 's feet and you'll let them freshen up while when Jesus arrived at this individuals house. He felt that it was permissible because anything Jesus amounted to much to too much in anyone follow through with what with the customary procedures and follow through with washing his feet even in our feed and follow through with the customary greeting kiss of welcome your help we do the welcome around here now. How do whatever handshake whatever's whatever is permissible while it do in the time of Jesus that was in the fact that was there a formal greeting. It was a way of welcoming someone in a weekly CNET yells on the custody grabs the money. Someone will slide to the cheek will do that but it will be on one side became inoperable. That's excessive. Okay, that's a joke, but got the skimming a hug. Whatever works okay in. Whatever works for you. And that's why it's it's it's something that whatever's whatever is appropriate. If it know some people don't even like to shake hands. That's okay because it's it's all right, whatever is permissible for you. That's permissible. The idea is we have a welcome and we want you to feel as welcome as possible and that we share that welcome with one another while Simon the Pharisee. He would not even asked the basic custom of washing their feet, they won't. Why while they wore sandals, but we were sandals that are free. Don't get that dirty. Well if you live in in a desert community and a very dry, arid climate, we would know that you have never seen the dusty field walking through it to get dirt all over you. Just dusty and dirty while the roads for all enterprise were all dusty and now the only place that was perhaps paid was the Roman roads that the soldiers had slaves that would build them and they would build them out of blocks of stone that people would travel a lot if that wasn't done. It was just a plain old dirt path, and so when people walk, they would get extremely dirty bare feet would become extremely dusty and so it was a customary gesture to how to have people clean up or freshen up whenever they arrive. So Simon, a man who measures himself by the keeping of the regulations. I mean these the Pharisees affairs. He was an individual, he had laws and regulations and his life was entirely governed by those regulations. But in this case. He dismisses them because he doesn't feel that Jesus is where the other hand, fulfilling the most basic of hospitality. The bulk of the most basic of Haas, being hospitable. He would not even even do it. It's like Jesus showed up and he was lucky that he left a man, and I'll never go to somebody's house and they don't open the door for you when you walk in NHL all MNA walk away if I can innovate the gentleman is this is not nine o'clock you people do you think you want, but I went back in oh dining room, so our faith and our relationship with Jesus is to enter into every aspect of my life and am at every aspect of our hospitality and of our being friend friendly whatever and and job working with them, working and greeting one another while the emphasis and this text that we read here is both on Simon and on the woman. One Simon, being the Pharisee who has just canceled out all of the proper etiquette and upon the woman who breaks all of the etiquette so our character was. She was notorious. She was a notorious sinner, a prostitute in adulterous. Now there is no reason given why she's on this character, but in those days. Generally, people would be stones for this was a behavior, but perhaps she was a widow or she was divorced and a woman at that time. Had no nose so security no backing it. They became a bigger, so perhaps it was forced into this to survive. Whether it's by choice or by the will of my survival, we find that she has become this prostitute, but we know that she when she approaches Jason she does not try to defend her actions or give excuses for what she has done or what she is as an individual, so her actions according to God 's law were indefensible. There's no way that you can justify. She can justify what is happened in her life and what she's been doing so cemented her sins and that understands and made a passionate display on love and gratitude in Christ likeness hall broken brokenness on her heart and of her life just came pouring for as she approached Jesus, her sorrow was such that she was weeping profusely. I mean, she is no that I like him and the message Bible says she rang her tears rained down on her armies of cheese really broken over what and what her life is then and so she offered God. This expression of sorrow. She expresses her sorrow to Jesus and the Lord had obviously reached the place where what was going on in her life. We don't really know but she has reached the place where she needed the change she needed a change in her life she needed to change and who she was and she needs something to go right instead of something going wrong so she entered the house and and she does so as an uninvited guest running. She walks in, now generally, there were gates and so on the all around these these homes as far as the doors and things. Many of them didn't have felt have doors on a man's something that they would put across the gate or maybe a door at night. That would be closed for four somewhat of protection, but often they have opened open homes in El Salvador. It was one of the homes that David and Jenny lived into towards the end they moved off in this very role community and is almost of the Guatemala border, and they moved in. There was a door on a door that could be locked in the front of the house and wires, where the Windows is that there were no windows and the entire around the house. The entire perimeter was open. I mean, you walk to the back of the house. The house was not that big, but you walk to the back of the house and there was alleged, they are being about three and a half feet high and then it went off the back for about thirty feet things like now this is where you want your kids to play the piano and urges all pronounce out to the city Hills and the birds, and whatever could fly rate and and they had no when Damon and then they moved in there. I think they in the first week they killed like five scorpions Araiza, David, did you tell him about the pickup, the little bugs crawling on the floor, but there was nothing that the caps from the neighborhood. They were come to the bars, their in-house snakes come through the bars that was the thing that kept things out of your house, your kitchen, your kitchen was next to the window and your window was next to the bars and once I did was nothing there so people can just walk around five thousand LOL it up. There was nothing to keep them out, and in their house. There were only two secure rooms with doors and that is where the bedrooms that was it well in this community, there may have been gay, but everything is open and she had heard that Jesus was here at this that this Pharisee 's house, Simon 's house and she walks in what you do when an uninvited guest walks into your house down what you get when someone who that is their reputation in the community is very well known and it is walking to your house while according to the rules of society and for the Pharisees should should should from this. I'm just thrown around was forbidden for her to even assume that you walk into a Pharisees home because of Pharisee considers himself superior and clean clean religiously clean up your guy they gone through all of the ceremonial cleansing 's in Washington, keeping the law and this woman who was an adulterous was unclean and if she walked into a house. It contaminated the house. Okay, so when she walks, and it is like what nerve is she doing here back and if she had been any moments or whatever I'm sure they would've thrown around, but she wanted to see Jesus. She came to Jesus with a broken heart. She came to Jesus, broken over her life. She came to him in such emotional no spiritual trauma that she couldn't stop crying. She walked into this house and into the presence of Jesus and is it something how that this quote, which she is a sinner. This adulterous woman and her behavior is known by everyone she comes with a brokenness in her heart that when she sees Jesus. She just can't stop crying now in the same house is this Pharisee who was a very religious person, but yet his attitude toward Jesus is and I'll is really not a profit and not the weekend. Not that we would consider him one and will begin them the most basic of hospitality. He is so far beneath what I expect him to be. I won't even have my servants wash his feet, saying Jesus to entirely different perspectives on him, and in the challenge. I think that counsel our life is, how do we see Christ. How do we see how long empty today as we took Emily, we partake of communion. Here is our savior who takes away our sin and that viruses all have sinned and come short of the glory, but every one of us have sent it out some of the more pronounced than others and some of the more hidden others, but we've all send and end preparing our hearts for communion is like an openness that we approached Jesus and he is approachable. He is approachable, you know he's approachable. You just feel comfortable being with someone just feel comfortable in the presence. The people who were religious. The people were considered dropping keeping all the rules and kept all the regulations they are the people who couldn't find it in our high to be sensitive to Jesus by the individuals who are considered the wellness than the worst of the society. The people who had no hope according to the religious structure. They are the ones who found hope in Jesus. There was a found comfort in being in his presence, so must never feel uncomfortable in God 's presence while what if we've done things wrong. That's wider. There is why he's here easier to forgive us and remove those settings for my life, and he began will start a life anew without everything is new. A new day. I know, beginning in Christ, I will. How often is a begin a begin to everyday the promises of God are renewed every morning so how many, how often does the sun come up every day wall. How often are the promises of God renewed every day. How often do I begin my relationship with God every day. This is the first day of the rest of our lives. What about the failures. What about the successes. This is a new day. This is the beginning with God, and we are taking the principles of God 's word in the promises of God 's word and work make integrating them into our life are not like the individual who now stands at the door that you can command because you don't dress the way I want you to know is like the Pharisee, the Pharisees and we what we got these rules and regulations, and you can't become part of us. Do you match up to these regulations. So what does Jesus do. He walks right in. He reclines at the table and along comes this woman who comes into the house and walks up to the feet of Jesus memories reclining at the table and she walks into this setting of hostility in your meta- place. We felt unwelcome. Both enough. I don't want to ever not want anyone ever to feel unwelcome in our church because everyone's welcome, because for always welcome into God 's presence. All God will never, never Pallister you're not good enough. God will never say to us in a welcome never so we has the body of Christ should always be that saying that you were trying to be Jesus Christ to the world around us and so we are where we are a welcoming presence. Now course for their certain things. Is there some people that know you have to just wait a minute. Now let's take easier to some degree can't trust like the Pharisees and things like that. They were just opted to use or to abuse price and so Jesus was always very difficult, very hard with them. But this woman walks into his life and walks into this setting, and her brokenness is such that her tears or as the Scripture says, raining down and it's not in the text, but it says the raining down and into the says that she lets down her hair and some most like, I don't. I don't think she has this plan on the go in and cry so much that I'm up, I'm going to cry on his feet never let down my hair and you know I would do this then operate. She does bring a box of perfume with her and the perfume is very expensive, probably represents her life savings come from her activities and things trying to get her out of her poverty, and she takes what she hasn't who she is. She comes in and she just is broken to the point that she is weeping all over his feet and then it's almost like I'm imagining this part, so most like I'm making a mess of his feet and so she takes, and she has nothing better hair and she starts wiping his feet and then with the I sorrow and recognition. He is someone very, very special. She kisses his feet and she anoints his feet. The Pharisee looks at the situation and Rickman and answer process. Look at this woman falling all over this man. And Jesus says, look at this woman who is broken in her sin broken in her character, but she wants forgiveness to people looking at the same thing the one trying to build up his defenses not to be not too long break down his barriers of religiousness religiosity or whatever he's not need a lawyer break that down so therefore he's got to condemn this woman. And Jesus says this is what it's all about. And then he speaks so that the guys as well. If you have this guy who lives to it is as if these two individuals, and they all the banker. One is five hundred days wages five five hundred F five hundred days wages and fifty days wages five hundred pieces of silver pheasant pieces. Steve got five hundred days of weight wages and you've got fifty days wages. Your banker and the banker. And forgives both their debts which one is more grateful ball. Obviously the guy who has five hundred days wages owed to the bank reasonably more grateful. This is when Jesus says that Pharisee, but also for this woman. He has been forgiven much appreciates much our appreciation for Jesus is connected very much to how forgiven we feel how forgiven and how privileged we are to have this forgiveness in our life. I think that it's so important that we be gracious, and that we be forgiving and thankful to God because he is forgiven us much. The things we couldn't do for self he does for us. We could never forgive ourselves. We can never erase our sins, we can. We are to forgive and forgive ourselves forgive others and go on and it is God 's presence that comes to us and Jesus does the unthinkable. He tells the woman your sins are forgiven. I may not just sets off the Pharisees and I think of it in the context that God is interested in us to the point that no matter who gets upset with who we are or what we represent, and with our prayers and with our faith matter who gets upset with it. The most important voice. The most important spirit. The most important words we hear are the words of Jesus that tell us that were his children belong to him and that he should take care of us and that his forgiveness is is there to heal the broken this field. The brokenness because we are grateful for the forgiveness of all that we done wrong whether we have five hundred days wages were fifty days wages, whether we've done great things are not so great sins. It's the point that God forgives us because he loves us. That's the beginning of our relationship this woman, Jesus sets that he lays there at this point, and she annoyances the and he just speaks his word to give her comfort and forgiveness, and everything changes in her life. Pharisee. It always is the same that only don't change. He just see he's offended at Jesus, but the woman she's forgiven by Jesus. We ought. We never want to be offended at his word, but we won his word to become part of our life and that life will give us strength for every day the men substantially do now important it is to know the word how important it is for us to understand to grasp the concepts of the Scripture. There are millions of people out there that have no concept about forgiveness and no concept about how that our life is a gift and that God is working in us and the promises of God are part of us and how that our life to be changed and how that is changed by his presence. And this is a great gift to us. This is a great gift to our lives. God has a plan for us. God has a future for us. God is with us and that he looks at us with compassion never with disdain. He looks at us with love of what he can do in our life. What he will do in our life and what he has created us to become. That's all in the process of becoming so let go of the past let it be forgiven begin in the present to allow the gifts of God, and the promises of God in the work of God to come to the surface in our lives that we can build on what Jesus has done. The woman. Jesus forgave her and she went out her life was changed. The Pharisee. He was still standard door telling people don't commit you, not you, not you. Not quite right for what we have in mind. That's not what Jesus is about father, thank you for loving us. Thank you, O God, for touching our lives and for your presence. We thank you for your word make a real to our hearts. Oh God, and continue to build that relationship Lord with us that every moment of every day we sense our presence. God give you bring your word to our thoughts and remembrances Lord to give us strength to give us help to give us your character to give us your presence. Lord, in your presence in the presence of Jehovah, but what happens in the presence of Jehovah, hearts are amended, lives are changed, and then God bless you and