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0:00Luke 7:1
0:02And a centurion slave who was highly
0:05regarded by him, the centurion, was
0:07[music] sick and about to die.
0:11When he, the centurion, heard about
0:13Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders
0:15[music]
0:16asking him to come and save the life of
0:18his slave.
0:21When they came to Jesus, they earnestly
0:24implored him, saying, "He is worthy for
0:27you to grant this to [music] him,
0:30for he loves our nation,
0:33and it was he who built us [music] our
0:35synagogue."
0:38Now Jesus started on his way with them.
0:41And when he was not far from the house,
0:44the centurion sent friends saying to
0:47him, "Lord, do not trouble yourself,
0:51for I am not worthy for you to come
0:53under my roof."
0:56It would have been against the law for
1:00Jesus [music] to enter the house of a
1:03gentile.
1:05That would have been taboo according to
1:07Jewish custom.
1:09And so Jesus is going to heal this guy
1:13even though it's likely going to get him
1:15in a lot of trouble. And the centurion
1:18sends friends and says, "Tell him you
1:21don't have to come under my roof.
1:24For this reason,
1:26I did not even consider myself worthy to
1:29come to you.
1:31But just say the word and my servant
1:35will be healed.
1:37For I also am a man placed under
1:39authority with soldiers under me. And I
1:43say to this one, "Go," and he goes. And
1:45to another, "Come," and he comes. And to
1:48my slave, "Do this." And he does it.
1:52So the centurion has incredible honor.
1:55Not only is he a kind man who built the
1:57synagogue for the people that his
1:59military conquered,
2:01he's a humble man. He says, "I'm not
2:04worthy for you to come under my roof."
2:08But he's also a man of faith.
2:12He tells Jesus, "You can speak
2:16to the sin and the sickness and the
2:20powers of evil in our lives and they'll
2:23go away." Cuz I know how authority
2:25works. Not because I'm a man in
2:28authority or over others, but I'm a man
2:31under authority.
2:34and I want to be under your authority is
2:36what he's suggesting.
2:39And he's saying, I think you're an
2:41officer like me, Jesus.
2:44I think you're an officer of mercy. And
2:47I think you can speak the word, and
2:50these sicknesses are going to go just
2:54like my slaves go. And [clears throat]
2:56grace is going to come just like my
2:59servant comes. and I'm going to be
3:01obedient to your word as well. Do you
3:04understand how he's using this? But it's
3:06powerful that he doesn't say you're a
3:08man in authority or o in authority over
3:11others. He says you're a man under
3:12authority like me. He understood that
3:16Jesus was in submission.
3:19Now when Jesus heard this, he marveled
3:23at him.
3:27There are many times good handful of
3:29times where the Bible tells us that
3:31Jesus marveled
3:33that he was amazed, that he was
3:35astonished. Same word.
3:38Almost never is it a good thing. He
3:41marvels at their unbelief.
3:44He marvels at their dullness, their
3:47inability to understand.
3:51He marvels at their lack of faith. Okay?
3:54But he doesn't often marvel in a good
3:57way. But here he does. Here we have a
4:00gentile,
4:02a commander of the military that is
4:04oppressing them.
4:07When Jesus heard this, he marveled at
4:09him and turned and said to the crowd
4:11that was following him, I say to you,
4:17not even in Israel have I found such
4:21great faith.
4:23So he's just told them, "I haven't found
4:26this among any of you."
4:30This guy knows what faith is. When those
4:34who had been sent returned to the house,
4:36they found the slave in good health.
4:39Soon afterwards, he Jesus went to a city
4:42called Naine, and his disciples were
4:44going along with him, [clears throat]
4:46accompanied by a large crowd. Now, as he
4:49approached the gate of the city, a dead
4:52man was being carried out, the only son
4:56of his mother, and she was a widow, and
5:00a sizable crowd from the city was with
5:03her. When the Lord saw her, he felt
5:08compassion for her, and he said to her,
5:11"Do not weep."
5:16And he came up and touched the coffin.
5:20And the bearers came to a halt. And he
5:24said, "Young man, I say to you, arise."
5:31And the dead man sat up and began to
5:34speak. And Jesus gave him back to his
5:37mother.
5:38Fear gripped them all, and they began
5:41glorifying God. A great prophet has
5:44arisen among us
5:47and God has visited his people. They
5:49said the report concerning him went out
5:54all over Judea and in all the
5:56surrounding district.
5:59Jesus is traveling [clears throat]
6:01and he sees a funeral procession.
6:04Now if a Jew touched a dead body, he
6:08would be unclean for a certain number of
6:12days. It was a big deal. He wasn't
6:15allowed to be in public society for a
6:18certain number of days if he touched a
6:20dead body. It's a big deal.
6:24But Jesus is so sure of what is about to
6:28happen. He is moved with compassion for
6:31the woman. Luke gives us the details. Of
6:34course, he tells us that the woman is a
6:37widow. He tells us this was her only
6:40son. He tells us the town they're about
6:42to enter. And Jesus walks up and he
6:46doesn't talk to a corpse. He talks to
6:49the man. He says, "Young man, I say to
6:53you, arise."
6:56But when it happens, it doesn't say
6:58great rejoicing came upon all the
7:00people. It says great fear gripped them
7:04all and they be began glorifying God
7:08saying a great prophet has arisen among
7:11us. God has visited his people. God
7:16visited a funeral.
7:18God visited a coffin.
7:21But when he did, life came from the
7:24dead. That's what it's like when God
7:26visits his people. He interrupts our
7:29sorrow. He disrupts our misery, our
7:33hopelessness. He stops our death
7:35procession.
7:37And he brings life out of impossibility.
7:40The disciples of John reported to him
7:43about all these things. They went and
7:44told John. Summoning two of his
7:47disciples, John sent them to the Lord,
7:49saying, "Are you the expected one, or do
7:53we look for someone else?"
7:57When the men came to Jesus, they
7:59said,"John the Baptist has sent us to
8:01you to ask, are you the expected one,
8:05the coming one, the Messiah?" That's
8:07what that refers to.
8:10Or do we look for someone else? There's
8:13a little bit of pressure in that. John
8:15is in prison when he sends them and he's
8:18basically asking, "Why aren't you
8:20helping us more? Why isn't the
8:23revolution starting? Why are you letting
8:26Herod do this to me? And if you if you
8:29don't have it, could you let us know so
8:30that we can find somebody else? Cuz we
8:32need to get free.
8:35Little bit of pressure, don't you think?
8:37Cousin John is getting nervous.
8:40Are you the expected one or do we look
8:42for someone else? At that very time, he
8:47Jesus cured many people of diseases and
8:49afflictions and evil spirits. And he
8:52gave sight to many who were blind. And
8:54he answered and said to them, "Go report
8:58to John what you
9:01have seen and heard.
9:04The blind receive sight. The lame walk.
9:10The lepers are cleansed.
9:12The deaf hear. The dead are raised up.
9:16The poor have the gospel preached to
9:18them.
9:20Blessed is he who does not take offense
9:24at me. [snorts]
9:26So he's John is saying you're not
9:29helping us get free of oppression. Are
9:32you really the Messiah? And Jesus is
9:35saying I'm not working in the power you
9:38expect, but I'm working in the power of
9:40God. And he tells John's disciples to go
9:43tell John what they see and hear. not
9:46what Jesus thinks about himself, but
9:49what they have encountered while with
9:51him. And he quotes from Isaiah 35 where
9:56it says, "Behold, your God comes and the
10:00blind shall see and the lame shall leap
10:02and the tongue of the mute shall be
10:04opened." So John knows his Bible and
10:08Jesus is saying it's not just that a
10:10deliverer has come but your God has come
10:14in fulfillment of Isaiah 35. But he says
10:17blessed is he who does not take offense
10:20because of me. And this literally means
10:23blessed is he who does not feel that I
10:26have let him down. I have disappointed
10:28him. Who is not stumbling over the way
10:32I'm doing things.
10:34When the messengers of John had left, he
10:38Jesus began to speak to the crowds about
10:41John.
10:43What did you go out into the wilderness
10:44to see? A reed shaken by the wind. He's
10:48saying, "Why'd y'all go out in the
10:49wilderness? There's not much to see if
10:51you go out into the wilderness." Oh,
10:53there there are some reeds. Is that what
10:55you went out to see? Some dry bushes.
10:59What did you go out to see?
11:01But what did you go out to see? Oh, I
11:04know you went out to see a man dressed
11:06in soft clothing. He says, "What on
11:08earth did you do that for? Why'd you all
11:10make that trip into the desert all that
11:12time ago?"
11:14But what did you go out to see? A man
11:16dressed in soft clothing.
11:18Those who are splendidly clothed and
11:21live in luxury are found in royal
11:23palaces. He says, "They're not found in
11:25the desert. Why'd you go out to the
11:27desert?
11:29But what did you go out to see?"
11:32He's trying to get him to remember what
11:34got them so activated to go on that trip
11:37and be baptized because he feels they've
11:40lost the faith. He feels the excitement
11:44has waned.
11:46But what did you got to see? A prophet.
11:50Yes, I say to you, and one who is more
11:55than a prophet.
11:57This is the one about whom it is
12:00written, "Behold, I send my messenger
12:03ahead of you, who will prepare your way
12:06before you. I say to you, among those
12:10born of women, there is no one greater
12:13than John. Yet he who is least in the
12:17kingdom of God is greater than he."
12:22When all the people and the tax
12:24collectors heard this, they acknowledged
12:26God's justice, having been baptized with
12:29the baptism of John. Or literally, they
12:33justified
12:35God's ways.
12:36They said, "Oh, it was God that we went
12:39out there." But the Pharisees and the
12:42lawyers rejected God's purpose for
12:45themselves,
12:47not having been baptized by John. Now
12:50you remember that when they went out to
12:52be baptized, they wanted to be baptized
12:54by John. But John said, "You den of
12:57snakes, who warned you to flee the wrath
12:59to come, go bear fruits in keeping with
13:01repentance and basically then I'll
13:04baptize you when you're walking out the
13:06change that God is supposedly bringing
13:08in your life." They never went back back
13:10for the baptism. They went never went
13:12back and said, "We repented. Now we're
13:15ready. Let's go under." So they didn't
13:18get baptized by John. Jesus is saying
13:21John was sent by God. John was the voice
13:23of repentance. And everybody who was
13:25baptized by him when they heard this
13:28from Jesus, they're like, "God's ways
13:30are good. I'm so glad we went for that
13:33baptism. Even though we got disappointed
13:35for a few years, even though we thought
13:37it was the beginning and then there was
13:39a gap, now we understand." The
13:41Pharisees, they're like, "No, no, I
13:44didn't like that baptism because it
13:47required repentance. It required change
13:49and we never changed."
13:53So, he's saying, "You Pharisees and
13:56lawyers, you can't be pleased.
14:00You're a bunch of self-absorbed, stuck
14:02liars.
14:05You say that the reason you didn't
14:07accept John is because the way he came,
14:10John had a problem. But then I came very
14:13different and you didn't respond to that
14:15either.
14:17So he says, you heard the durge and you
14:19heard the flute and you ignored both.
14:22You heard the the sad song, but it
14:25didn't move you. It didn't stir your
14:27heart. and you heard the happy song, but
14:30you couldn't dance because nothing is
14:32good enough for you. You're too proud.
14:35You're too stuck.
14:38You're too full of it. Your excuses and
14:40your justifications. The bottom line is
14:44you're too big. You're too set in your
14:48own ways to be responsive to God.
14:52But he says, you know, this is a this is
14:55a dispute
14:57and you can bring all your words, but in
14:59the end, wisdom is going to be proven by
15:01her children. Those who obeyed are their
15:05lives are going to be changed and that's
15:08going to prove what God was doing
15:10through John and what God was doing
15:12through Jesus. What he was doing through
15:13the durge and the flute.
15:18Now one of the Pharisees was requesting
15:20him to dine with him. And he entered the
15:23Pharisees house and reclined at the
15:25table.
15:27And there was a woman
15:30in the city who was a sinner, literally
15:35an immoral woman,
15:38meaning she was a prostitute.
15:41She was a sex worker.
15:44And when she learned that he was
15:45reclining at the table in the Pharisees
15:47house, she brought an alabaster vial of
15:52perfume.
15:55And standing behind him at his feet,
15:58weeping,
16:00she began to wet his feet with her tears
16:03and kept wiping them with the hair of
16:05her head and kissing his feet and
16:08anointing them with perfume.
16:10Now when the Pharisee who had invited
16:13him saw this, he said to himself,
16:17[snorts]
16:17"If this man were a prophet,
16:21he would know who and what sort of
16:25person this woman is who is touching
16:28him, that she is an immoral woman, a
16:32sinner."
16:36>> [snorts and clears throat]
16:37[sighs]
16:39>> The different gospels tell us the
16:41different responses. One gospel says
16:44that the disciples were bothered because
16:47this was a costly perfume and they could
16:51have sold it. Another gospel tells us it
16:54was specifically Judas who was judging
16:56him and offended by this. And this
16:59gospel tells us it was the Pharisee. So
17:02the two people who are deeply offended
17:04by this, who are specifically named in
17:07the Bible, are Judas and the Pharisee.
17:11Judas because he's greedy and he doesn't
17:13like the way this costly perfume is
17:15being wasted. And the Pharisee because
17:19he is proud and he thinks he knows what
17:22righteousness is
17:24and he doesn't understand the
17:26righteousness of God. He doesn't
17:28understand the love of God.
17:32He doesn't understand. Go and learn what
17:34this means. I desire mercy.
17:39He doesn't understand that.
17:41The woman understands.
17:44The woman is coming in not only bringing
17:48her shame and her past, but in all
17:51likelihood
17:53that perfume
17:55was what she used to attract attention.
17:59that would have been
18:01the tool of her trade that would have
18:04told people what kind of worker she was.
18:09And so she's shattering her whole job.
18:13She's destroying that lifestyle.
18:17But she's doing it in hope. She's doing
18:20it in gratitude. She's doing it as a
18:23prayer and a plea. Can I be different?
18:26Can I be accepted for something else as
18:29something else?
18:32And Jesus answers the thoughts that
18:34Simon had because Simon didn't say this
18:36out loud, but Jesus answers his
18:39thoughts.
18:41Jesus answered and said to him,"Simon,
18:43I have something to say to you."
18:47And he replied, "Say it, teacher."
18:50So in his heart, he's full of judgment.
18:52He's saying Jesus is no prophet.
18:56This is terrible. But in his words, say
18:59it, teacher. He's full of respect.
19:02He's a phony.
19:05Simon, I have something to say to you.
19:07And he replied,
19:09say it, teacher.
19:12Jesus says, a money lender had two
19:15debtors.
19:17One owed 500 dinari
19:20and another 50.
19:23When they were unable to repay, he
19:27graciously forgave them both.
19:31So which of them will [clears throat]
19:33love him more?
19:37Simon answered and said,
19:40I suppose the one whom he forgave more.
19:45And Jesus said to him, you have judged
19:48correctly.
19:50Turning toward the woman, he said to
19:53Simon,
19:55"Do you see this woman?"
19:59Simon thought he saw her. Simon thought
20:02he saw her so much better than Jesus
20:04did, didn't he?
20:06Do you see this woman?
20:09I entered your house.
20:11You gave me no water for my feet, but
20:16she has wet my feet with her tears and
20:18wiped them with her hair.
20:21You gave me no kiss, but she since the
20:25time I came in has not ceased to kiss my
20:28feet.
20:30You did not anoint my head with oil, but
20:33she anointed my feet with perfume.
20:37For this reason I say to you, her sins
20:41which are many have been forgiven her,
20:44for she loved much, but he who is
20:48forgiven little loves little.
20:52Then he said to her, "Your sins have
20:55been forgiven."
20:57Those who were reclining at the table
20:59with him began to say to themselves,
21:02"Who is this man [music] who even
21:04forgives sins? And he said to the woman,
21:08"Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."
21:14We can safely say that Simon wanted
21:18something from [music] Jesus when he
21:20asked him to dinner. Simon took a risk.
21:24We don't know of another Pharisee who
21:26ever invited Jesus [music] to dinner.
21:28But Simon got nothing of which he
21:32sought.
21:34Other gospels tell us that Simon was
21:37called Simon the leper. So he apparently
21:40was a Pharisee who had been cleansed of
21:43leprosy.
21:45But he's not as thankful as this woman.
21:49His leprosy cleansing must have put a
21:53soft spot in his heart toward Jesus.
21:56But it was a 50 dinari forgiveness in
21:59his view. But the prostitute, the sex
22:03worker, she feels like her whole life
22:06has been turned around and she can't
22:09suppress the gratitude.
22:13Do you see the difference?
22:15And he who was once a leper is now
22:19seeing through people and even seeing
22:21through God.
22:23He is sitting in judgment of how things
22:25are going and wondering why there's such
22:29little discernment.
22:32And the tragedy is
22:35the forgiveness never produce love.
22:39But for the woman, it did.
22:44Let's make sure that we are not 50
22:46dinari Christians. Let's make sure we're
22:49500 dinari Christians who remember what
22:52we've been forgiven and allow
22:54forgiveness from God to turn into love.
22:59[music]

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