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Speaker 1: And now here's your message. All right now again, you
Speaker 1: know when you talk about grace, you know we are
Speaker 1: actually Tam and Tama Young your series nothing is titled
Speaker 1: Grace changes everything. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: changes everything. And Uh, as I've been preparing for this,
Speaker 1: I remember a story, uh that happened when I was
Speaker 1: in high school. Uh we had a transferring student parent transfers.
Speaker 2: Babe on schools now.
Speaker 1: But uh he was Megha Joe, you know buff uh
Speaker 1: and you cut such a buff shah and parana.
Speaker 2: So he was a he was a good guy. He's
Speaker 2: a good guy.
Speaker 1: Later on we find we found outa deito so p
Speaker 1: I mean, we didn't mind it. So he was like
Speaker 1: a normal guy until during one of our semesterral exams
Speaker 1: or quarterly exams. I forgot which one are long exams.
Speaker 1: You know, all of us were quiet doing our exams
Speaker 1: and suddenly nasally couce so from the back he carries
Speaker 1: his desk and throws it in front a blackboard bank
Speaker 1: what you in this? He runs out, I mean he
Speaker 1: something clicked, okay, and then he runs out of the classroom, tear's.
Speaker 2: His you know, uniform. Incredible.
Speaker 1: And then I was running Artigas Avenue okay, along Ortigas,
Speaker 1: and then you guidance Council Ornamenkay was running after him,
Speaker 1: took the cab and nahapala and running like crazy. And
Speaker 1: so I mean that because of that, I mean, he
Speaker 1: transferred to another school, but it left a stigma.
Speaker 2: Okay, all of us still remember.
Speaker 1: That person and parana reputation okay, and stigma that's still
Speaker 1: carried because of that situation. And I'm telling you that
Speaker 1: maybe there are you know, when we growing up, maybe
Speaker 1: high school, elementary, or maybe even your college, there are
Speaker 1: things that have made a mark, a stain or a stigma. Okay,
Speaker 1: now because of certain things that has happened in your life. Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe something small, maybe something big that has happened that
Speaker 1: left a mark that.
Speaker 2: You still carry up to today.
Speaker 1: And sometimes we wonder how you know.
Speaker 2: Erased? Okay, how can this be removed? In my life?
Speaker 1: And let me tell you, sometimes we carry some of
Speaker 1: those things in our lives because of something that has
Speaker 1: happened in the past. Now, let me tell you, the
Speaker 1: grace of the Lord Jesus christy has the ability and
Speaker 1: the capacity to erase that and change even your past,
Speaker 1: even the most painful things that has happened to you.
Speaker 1: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ can erase and
Speaker 1: change that. And I believe your story this morning exactly
Speaker 1: your story, because we will look at a person who
Speaker 1: was carrying She was carrying a stigma, okay, all throughout
Speaker 1: his life because of her profession, because of what she
Speaker 1: was doing, she had earned a bad reputation. But let
Speaker 1: me tell you, when she encountered the grace of God
Speaker 1: through Jesus Christ, something began to happen that transformed her.
Speaker 1: And I want us I believe as we look at
Speaker 1: this story, we will find ourselves in one of the
Speaker 1: characters of this story. And hopefully, as you immerse yourself
Speaker 1: in the story, we will experience God's grace just as
Speaker 1: she did. And that's why I want for us to
Speaker 1: open our bibles to the Gospel of Luke, this third
Speaker 1: book in the New Testament, Gospel of Luke, chapter seven,
Speaker 1: we will read first from verse thirty six to thirty nine. Okay,
Speaker 1: verse thirty six to thirty nine, So let's begin seven
Speaker 1: thirty six. One of the Pharisees asked him to eat
Speaker 1: with him. So this Pharisees invited Jesus to come over
Speaker 1: for dinner. He went into the Pharisees house and reclined
Speaker 1: at the table, and behold a woman of the city
Speaker 1: who was a sinner. When she learned that he was
Speaker 1: reclining at the table in the Pharisees house, brought an
Speaker 1: alabaster flask of ointment, and standing beside him, behind him
Speaker 1: rather at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his
Speaker 1: feet with her tears, wipe them with the hair of
Speaker 1: her head, and kissed his feet and anointed them with
Speaker 1: the ointment.
Speaker 2: And now when the.
Speaker 1: Pharisee who had invited him sow this, he said to himself,
Speaker 1: you know, if this man were really a prophet, he
Speaker 1: would have known who and what sort of woman this
Speaker 1: is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.
Speaker 2: Let's pray, Father, bless the preaching of your word.
Speaker 1: Let us understand and experience your grace this morning, so
Speaker 1: that we too can be transformed in change.
Speaker 2: In Jesus name a man.
Speaker 1: Now very briefly Paramaine indianad in what was happening Gay,
Speaker 1: there are three characters that we see in the story.
Speaker 1: First of all, of all, rather see Jesus Christ. He's
Speaker 1: the one who was invited. And at this point in
Speaker 1: time in Luke chapter seven, Jesus was gaining popularity. He
Speaker 1: was gay popularity because of his teaching. He was teaching,
Speaker 1: he was healing, he was preaching. He had what he preached,
Speaker 1: and he thought there was authority, and so he was
Speaker 1: gaining popularity among the people, among the crowds. And uh,
Speaker 1: not only that, Okay, he was also gaining some enemies
Speaker 1: because the teachers of the law, the scribes, and even
Speaker 1: some of the Pharisees were trying to question sine batmbaguito,
Speaker 1: this new rabbi, this new teacher, who is this guy?
Speaker 1: Who is this Jesus that the people are following. Now,
Speaker 1: he performed a miracle at this point in time, and
Speaker 1: that's why one of the pharisees your first protas protegist,
Speaker 1: and his name is Simon, Simon the Pharisee. Okay, so
Speaker 1: in the actual picture, Simon was a Pharisee and so
Speaker 1: when he found out about Jesus Us he was teaching
Speaker 1: and preaching and healing, he was curious, okay, and so
Speaker 1: he invited Jesus for dinner. Now another pharisee by the
Speaker 1: name of Nicodemus, remember Nicodemus, We find it in John
Speaker 1: chapter three. He was also curious about Jesus. But the
Speaker 1: reason he met with Jesus He met Jesus at night
Speaker 1: when no one was looking.
Speaker 2: Okay, Noela, mait like me meet upsilla.
Speaker 1: His his reason for meeting with Jesus was more of
Speaker 1: doctrinal and theological. He was asking Jesus about you know,
Speaker 1: about the Kingdom of God, about being born again, and
Speaker 1: all of these things about the spirit of God. Simon
Speaker 1: had another reason why he invited Jesus for dinner. Okay,
Speaker 1: there are different reasons why invite people for dinner. And
Speaker 1: obviously this was a respected and popular teacher inviting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the reason why he invited is not for him to,
Speaker 1: you know, to because he's signing with Jesus. He was
Speaker 1: probably trying to gauge kuntub on Jesus, kuntub on the
Speaker 1: what the reputation of this new guy Tokayato so if
Speaker 1: he proves to be who the people say he is,
Speaker 1: the Messiah, then he would be in the right. Okay,
Speaker 1: kumba meron advantage, Majo int right. But if it turns
Speaker 1: out differently na ops, fake Palato or Plato, then he
Speaker 1: would know exactly how to.
Speaker 2: Deal with this Jesus.
Speaker 1: So we find this guy Simon, the pharisee having this dinner, okay,
Speaker 1: having a party. Now, Merona, make conting joke.
Speaker 2: You're gonna m bible.
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard a pharisee having a party para
Speaker 1: It sounds like an oxymoron, right, an oxymoron, Nah parasee
Speaker 1: and partyila during their partyanilla and the latest.
Speaker 2: Or my latest philaptrees.
Speaker 1: Mama scripture tasls okay anima am a pig and blanket.
Speaker 2: As a kosher foot lahad.
Speaker 1: And in other words, it was a boring party done
Speaker 1: by the Pharisee. Okay, Majo, it was sober tahimklangurro Okay.
Speaker 1: So we see Jesus coming in, reclining at the table
Speaker 1: and it just start sing la maguento. Now the party
Speaker 1: began to be more colorful because of the third character
Speaker 1: that came in. Okay, this third character that came in. Uh, well, Phalan.
Speaker 1: The Bible does not name this woman. In other words,
Speaker 1: can you imagine by Isan Baba and Pumunta a party?
Speaker 1: He she was actually a great crasher Hindisha invited a party.
Speaker 1: Have you ever get crashed a party? Nereded Raman, raise
Speaker 1: your hands? Okay, they can a gat crash and Noman
Speaker 1: it's a party kay or is away? Dinghy crash is
Speaker 1: away ding Okay. Now the Bible did not identify concinotoll Okay.
Speaker 1: She was just said, there's a woman of the city.
Speaker 1: A woman on descriptions is a sinner, a sinful woman.
Speaker 1: In reality, this was a prostitute. This woman was a
Speaker 1: prostitute who sells her body. Now can you can you
Speaker 1: imagine a prostitute gate crashing the party of a pharisee?
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that scandal? And he she began doing
Speaker 1: some things to their guest of honors, Jesus my pina
Speaker 1: a scandalo Tomara, Wait wait yo, you're not invited, and
Speaker 1: let me tell you.
Speaker 2: Are a sinner. You're a prostitute. How dare you? Okay?
Speaker 1: And so uh. The Marajuana experience against a party in
Speaker 1: the main a gate crash and began to the coronam
Speaker 1: scandalo same party anyone experienced that. The closest I could
Speaker 1: probably relate to is I remember during the funeral of
Speaker 1: my father in Ddico, my Lily Bignam Memorial and Nakata
Speaker 1: on a South super highway in a convoy, and I
Speaker 1: had a couple of tita who were titas from the
Speaker 1: province notorious Sila because Mahili Silamas, candal funeral Sama and
Speaker 1: all of that. So all of us were mindful scandalo.
Speaker 1: And what happened was during the convoy convoy okay sol convoy.
Speaker 1: It so when they arrived at the funeral of another
Speaker 1: person okay office or whatever, so they began to cry
Speaker 1: and all of that, you know, and all of that,
Speaker 1: and so everyone was staring at them. So they began
Speaker 1: to cry and cry and let before mistaken identity it's oops, slowly.
Speaker 2: Got out got to the car.
Speaker 1: By the time they went to my father's funeral, melibing
Speaker 1: named Dadica praise God. Okay, but there are situations where
Speaker 1: things can be scandalous or awkward at least, right this
Speaker 1: is a situation like that. Can you imagine, Okay, this
Speaker 1: woman that's something that is very offensive to Pharisees.
Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you.
Speaker 1: To Jesus Christ, it's not offensive. It became an offering
Speaker 1: that he received. What she did that offended the Pharisees
Speaker 1: became a fragrant offering of worship. That's what grace does,
Speaker 1: the thing that causes others to stumble or don't know.
Speaker 1: Because can you imagine the Pharisees, the teachers of the law,
Speaker 1: the rabbis were holy people.
Speaker 2: If you would read the.
Speaker 1: Old Testament, it would say you have if you come
Speaker 1: in contact with anything or anyone unclean, Okay, you would
Speaker 1: be unclean. Right, that's why they are so careful what
Speaker 1: they touch, whould they associate with. But let me tell
Speaker 1: you when Jesus came to the picture, when they encountered
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, the most, the vilest sinner, the most unclean
Speaker 1: and holy person, when she touched Jesus Christ, Jesus did
Speaker 1: not become unclean, but the unclean became clean. That's the
Speaker 1: power of the grace of Jesus Christ. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you there are some of you today. You feel like
Speaker 1: you're dirty because of your past. You feel like because
Speaker 1: of your history. You don't deserve the mercy of God.
Speaker 1: We don't deserve the grace of God. If we think,
Speaker 1: if you think you deserve the grace of God, then
Speaker 1: the more you won't receive it. But God's grace is
Speaker 1: so powerful it can penetrate the darkest, the vilest, the
Speaker 1: most secret sin, the deepest chain that you are covering.
Speaker 1: It can penetrate and can heal you and transform you.
Speaker 1: That's what happened here. This unclean sinner, prostitute and holy person,
Speaker 1: when she touched Jesus see Jesus says, did not become unclean.
Speaker 1: She became clean the power of the Christ, of the
Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ. So this is what happened in the story.
Speaker 1: Behold a woman of the city who was a sinner,
Speaker 1: when she learned that he was reclining at the table
Speaker 1: in the Pharisees house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment
Speaker 1: of perfume. Now again, this act became ranks as one
Speaker 1: of the most beautiful and meaningful acts of worship in
Speaker 1: the Bible.
Speaker 2: Right we're even up to today, we all know.
Speaker 1: What this woman did and what that action represents and
Speaker 1: meant or symbolized to God and to Jesus Christ, this
Speaker 1: act that she did, and she risked a lot. She
Speaker 1: risked being stoned to death for doing that right, coming
Speaker 1: over uninvited, and she as a prostitute, she risked everything
Speaker 1: just to be with Jesus, just to worship Jesus, just
Speaker 1: to sit and minister at the feet of Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: and tie you today to contain traffic iron and not
Speaker 1: in to worship, to come together. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: this woman, Hindrance, she would overcome just to be with
Speaker 1: Jesus because she experienced something that changed her forever.
Speaker 2: Now let's go on, and Gania.
Speaker 1: Standing beside him at his feet, weeping, she began to
Speaker 1: wet his feet with her tears, wipe them with the
Speaker 1: hair of her head, kissed his feet and anointed them
Speaker 1: with the oint.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Now listen, it's on alabaster jar that contained a very
Speaker 1: expensive perfume. They said that the cause of the perfume. You.
Speaker 1: Alabaster jar was expensive itself. It's made of semi precious stone,
Speaker 1: it's made of ornate and all of that that corrective.
Speaker 1: So malayung jung vas new flask alabaster jar perry Lamanna perfume.
Speaker 1: They said that it cost one year's wage. Okay, imagine
Speaker 1: your as well, though one year's worth plus the bonus
Speaker 1: and the extras and all of that, I guess dependence
Speaker 1: on mcannis. Well, don you know, but this was one
Speaker 1: years during that time, this was so expensive. But let
Speaker 1: me tell you something more. This jar represented her professional
Speaker 1: identity and her finaleancial security because she used this perfume.
Speaker 2: For her job as a prostitute like Papa ba Musha.
Speaker 1: So by pouring that, by breaking it and pouring at Jesus,
Speaker 1: she is making a statement that this is the past
Speaker 1: already and I'm making it and giving it to you.
Speaker 1: I'm pouring it to you, bal Anash and financial means
Speaker 1: to do her job, because that's what the grace of
Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus Christ did. It change her life. How
Speaker 1: ironic that may be appropriate that the perfume used in
Speaker 1: her profession as a prostitute became the token of her
Speaker 1: profession of her faith in Christ. The perfume she used
Speaker 1: in her profession as a prostitute would become the token
Speaker 1: of her profession of faith in.
Speaker 2: Our Lord Jesus Christ. That's grace. A numenium thinks that.
Speaker 1: Identify us with something bad in the past, when we
Speaker 1: go to the cross, Jesus transforms it and makes it
Speaker 1: into an object where we can worship. She pours out
Speaker 1: and say, Jesus, ginagameto torom it more sin, but tonight
Speaker 1: I'm breaking it and pouring it to your feet as
Speaker 1: an act of worship. Now, you alone are my security,
Speaker 1: You alone are my identity. You alone are my life
Speaker 1: and my future. That's the power of grace. She would
Speaker 1: be willing to do that. It changed everything about her. Now,
Speaker 1: let's go back to Simon. Okay, Simon, when he saw
Speaker 1: what she did, she he saw it with a different
Speaker 1: lens by reaction is Simon okay? So let's read On
Speaker 1: Okay thirty nine. When the Pharisee who had invited him
Speaker 1: saw this, he said to himself, he was not talking
Speaker 1: to Jesus.
Speaker 2: He was just thinking this.
Speaker 1: If this mancunt petto that classic babyto, he would have
Speaker 1: known what sort of woman this is who is touching him,
Speaker 1: for she is a sinner.
Speaker 2: Propheto.
Speaker 1: Right now, the good news is this. You know, there's
Speaker 1: a reason why the Holy Spirit allowed Luke to know
Speaker 1: what this guy was thinking and wrote it in this gospel.
Speaker 1: Because Jesus knew what he was thinking, alma you Simon,
Speaker 1: and that's why he gave him a story. Okay, Okay, Simon,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you a story to explain or to make
Speaker 1: a point, okay, And this is a story. Let's jump,
Speaker 1: okay to verse forty one, Sabina, there's a there's a
Speaker 1: certain money lender who had two debtors, one old five
Speaker 1: hundred denari and the other fifty what they could not pay.
Speaker 1: He canceled the debt of both. Now which of them
Speaker 1: will love him more?
Speaker 2: Okay? So which of them will love him more?
Speaker 1: Young? Five? Or you fifty or five hundred or you
Speaker 1: fifty young five hundred? Okay, very good children, because you
Speaker 1: nisa god Nis Simon sa Simon answered, majesuru, no bad
Speaker 1: trick question toa although a very simple, straightforward, very simple
Speaker 1: mathematics tiba in dnamanto trick question pro the one I
Speaker 1: suppose for whom he canceled the larger death.
Speaker 2: Now, to make this.
Speaker 1: Proper context context and fifteen donary five hundred denary, let's
Speaker 1: just say the fifty denari would be around fifty thousand
Speaker 1: pesos and the five hundred denari would be five million pesos. Okay,
Speaker 1: for our contexts. Now here's the case may Utamsila. Neither
Speaker 1: of them had any money to pay the lender, right Lampa,
Speaker 1: But because of the goodness and the compassion and the
Speaker 1: mercy of the lender, he forgave them was agad, I'll
Speaker 1: forgive both of you. Now, what does it mean? Why
Speaker 1: did Jesus tell this story to Simon? He knew that
Speaker 1: in Simon's eyes, the prostitute is the one who had
Speaker 1: the death of the five million and Shah and Hindeman
Speaker 1: fIF she go to fifty pesses, you prostituta because of
Speaker 1: her sin five million, fifty pases and compare.
Speaker 2: That is what she was thinking.
Speaker 1: Now listen, okay, that's not the point of why Jesus
Speaker 1: gave this story. You know why because if you cannot
Speaker 1: pay your debt, it doesn't matter if you only owe
Speaker 1: five centabos, everything will be taken away from you.
Speaker 2: Comunion has happened.
Speaker 1: Both of them had a debt while as a lampambaiad,
Speaker 1: whether there it's five million or five vesos. Because while mpambaiad,
Speaker 1: everything will be taken away.
Speaker 2: If you are broke, you're broke.
Speaker 1: If you can pay, then you're in the same boat.
Speaker 1: There's no difference between oweing a little and owing a lot,
Speaker 1: at least in the spiritual context. In the financial context Merionian.
Speaker 1: But in the spiritual context that Jesus was talking about,
Speaker 1: there is no difference. Now all of us have but
Speaker 1: debt that we owe God that we can never pay.
Speaker 2: Because of sin. You cannot pay.
Speaker 1: For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory
Speaker 1: of God. We owe God something, even if we wanted to.
Speaker 1: We are broke all a time on by it, kay Lord.
Speaker 1: And that's the point that Jesus was driving us. Jesus saying, Simon, Laca,
Speaker 1: you're in debt to God. Some will owe a little,
Speaker 1: some will owe more, but no one has the ability
Speaker 1: to pay God.
Speaker 2: Now listen, here's the gospel message.
Speaker 1: God is willing to forgive all the debts equally, whether
Speaker 1: you is whatever sin, small or big. If you're forgiven
Speaker 1: the grace of the Lord, Jesus Christ forgives all sin.
Speaker 1: And that's why Jesus wanted to make this point to Simon.
Speaker 1: What Jesus point to Simon is this, Simon, there is
Speaker 1: fundamentally no difference between you and that prostitute. You're the same.
Speaker 1: You're in the same boat. No matter how you think
Speaker 1: about yourself, you're in the same boat. Everyone has sinned
Speaker 1: and fallen short the glory of God. So now turning
Speaker 1: then to the woman, he said to Simon, do you
Speaker 1: see this woman.
Speaker 2: I entered your house, but you gave me no water
Speaker 2: for my feet.
Speaker 1: She wet my feet with her tears, white them with
Speaker 1: her hair. You gave me no kiss, But from the
Speaker 1: time I came in, she has not ceased to kiss
Speaker 1: my feet.
Speaker 2: You did not.
Speaker 1: Anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet
Speaker 1: with the most precious thing she has. Do you know
Speaker 1: why she's doing this? She's probably asking Simon, do you
Speaker 1: know why this woman is doing this?
Speaker 2: You did not know because.
Speaker 1: The problem of Simon, he thought he was better than
Speaker 1: the prostitute. Simon said, you don't understand, Jesus, she is
Speaker 1: a sinner. Jesus probably countered. You don't understand, Simon. She
Speaker 1: is not a sinner. She was a sinner. The grace
Speaker 1: of God forgive forgave her of her past.
Speaker 2: She is not a sinner. She was a sinner.
Speaker 1: You know why the grace of God changes the tenses
Speaker 1: in our lives. Whatever history you have, it's in the past.
Speaker 1: Tense already, whether.
Speaker 2: You feel like you feel like today.
Speaker 1: You feel like you're still in the same boat, You're
Speaker 1: still dirty, still haunting you. The grace of God changes
Speaker 1: the tenses in your life. Instead of she is a sinner,
Speaker 1: she was a sinner, instead of you living in the
Speaker 1: same boat, trying to see yourself in the same situation.
Speaker 1: As I've said it over and over again, when God
Speaker 1: relates to you, it's not in the basis of your history,
Speaker 1: but it's the basis of your destiny. Not on what
Speaker 1: has happened to you, but on who you can become
Speaker 1: in Christ.
Speaker 2: That's how God would relate to you. You call that
Speaker 2: the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: That's why today there are some of you today you're
Speaker 1: still living in the past because of what has happened
Speaker 1: in your life.
Speaker 2: What has happened in the past. You cannot forgive yourself.
Speaker 1: Yes, maybe there's some areas in your life that are
Speaker 1: so deep and so dark, and you feel like the
Speaker 1: enemy has got in his roots in your life, so deep,
Speaker 1: and you say, pastor you don't know what I went through,
Speaker 1: what I did, No matter how deep the work of
Speaker 1: the enemy is. That's how deep the grace of God
Speaker 1: wants to fill you with his love, with his acceptance,
Speaker 1: with his grace. Changing the tenses in your life very important.
Speaker 1: And that's why when we go on to the next verse, Therefore,
Speaker 1: I tell you her sins, which are many, are forgiven.
Speaker 1: For she loved much, but he who is forgiven little
Speaker 1: loves little. Now Sometimes when we read this Dittian, I
Speaker 1: got a confusion. Sometimes when we read this is if
Speaker 1: not in you know?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: So that means when I have a lot more sins,
Speaker 1: I'll be forgiven more. The worse you are, the more
Speaker 1: you are forgiven. Right, the less you know, the less
Speaker 1: you sin, the less you will forgiven.
Speaker 2: No, it's not what Jesus was saying. What Jesus is
Speaker 2: saying is.
Speaker 1: The greater you sense your own need for forgiveness.
Speaker 2: The greater will be your love.
Speaker 1: When you are forgiven, you will have gratitude and love
Speaker 1: in exact proportion with your sense of your own sinfulness.
Speaker 1: If you think you've been greatly forgiven, you.
Speaker 2: Will greatly love God.
Speaker 1: If you think you have only been forgiven a little,
Speaker 1: you will only love God a little. You know, I
Speaker 1: I think I lived a pretty good life growing up
Speaker 1: BC before Christ.
Speaker 2: Before I became a Christian, I think Maji.
Speaker 1: Never went drugs and dog push in, the rapist and
Speaker 1: the oha whatever abuser. I think I lived a pretty
Speaker 1: okay life, a good person.
Speaker 2: Okay, But.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. When I was confronted with
Speaker 1: the Cross of Jesus Christ, that's when I realized the death,
Speaker 1: the gravity of sin, the sinfulness. That there's murder every
Speaker 1: time you're angry. Yeah, there's murder in your heart, you know, anger,
Speaker 1: Anger is unfulfilled murder, union, there's loss that's unfulfilled, adultery, right,
Speaker 1: all of these things when you see the death of sin.
Speaker 2: When I saw how vile I was, I.
Speaker 1: Did not commit those things, but I saw the death
Speaker 1: of sinfulness, the sinful, the sinful nature inside of me,
Speaker 1: that all of us can have the capacity to do this.
Speaker 1: Let me post a question to you to drive home
Speaker 1: a point. What if what if you could get away
Speaker 1: with anything, any type of sin without any consequence. You
Speaker 1: could steal, there's no consequence. You could murder, Okay, you
Speaker 1: could do anything. What would you do? The sinful nature
Speaker 1: in us would think of some things already. That's the
Speaker 1: gravity of sin. It's only the grace of the Lord
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, that restrains us from fully venting this. And
Speaker 1: that's why when I encountered the cross, I like, I
Speaker 1: knelt down. He said, Lord, and the violence of sinner
Speaker 1: and the worst of sinners, that's what I say. I encountered,
Speaker 1: and I say sex he was the most righteous in Israel,
Speaker 1: and yet sah, you know, I'm a man of unclean lips.
Speaker 1: When he encountered and he saw the depths of his
Speaker 1: sin compared to the holiness of God, that's when he
Speaker 1: knew how much the grace of God has changed him.
Speaker 1: And I pray that today you would have the same encounter,
Speaker 1: that you would encounter the depths of our own sinfulness,
Speaker 1: so that we can be eternally forever grateful, because apart
Speaker 1: from that, we will always think until asalananko. But man,
Speaker 1: the sinfulness is there. The potential to do all of
Speaker 1: these things is there, And apart from the grace of
Speaker 1: God withholding that.
Speaker 2: All of us will do that. And that's why it's
Speaker 2: so important.
Speaker 1: I pray that we have a fresh encounter with the
Speaker 1: holiness of God and with our own sinfulness. That's when
Speaker 1: true revival happens. Our revival happens when we say, Lord,
Speaker 1: I'm a man of ungling lips. I'm not as righteous I,
Speaker 1: you know, as I can be, because that's when you
Speaker 1: realize you need the grace of God.
Speaker 2: And that's why I begin to close.
Speaker 1: He said to her, this is the first time Jesus
Speaker 1: talks to the woman first time, and look what she says.
Speaker 1: He says three things to her that I believe changed
Speaker 1: her life completely, and if you get this, it will change.
Speaker 2: Yours as well.
Speaker 1: He declares three things that I believe the grace of
Speaker 1: God does did for her that I believe God wants
Speaker 1: to do for all of us this morning. The first
Speaker 1: thing he tells us, your sins are forgiven. That took
Speaker 1: care of her past. Second, he said, your faith has
Speaker 1: saved you. That takes care of her present. And he said,
Speaker 1: go in peace. That takes care of her future. The
Speaker 1: grace of God changes everything in this woman's life, her past,
Speaker 1: her present, and her future. That's what the grace of
Speaker 1: God does did to her, and I believe that's what
Speaker 1: the grace of God wants to do for all of us.
Speaker 1: I believe there's some of you here. You're still stuck
Speaker 1: in the past. Some of you you cannot get out
Speaker 1: of your present circumstance. You cannot believe that God would
Speaker 1: let you out. But let me tell you, the grace
Speaker 1: of God changes everything. He wants to give you a
Speaker 1: new perspective of life, not of what was, but on
Speaker 1: what God wants you to become, changing the tenses in
Speaker 1: your life. This morning, Amen, I'd like to ask the
Speaker 1: music group to come up. We're going to sing the song.
Speaker 1: Let me tell a story as I as I begin
Speaker 1: to close, I remember when when we were just beginning
Speaker 1: the Victory Weekend module. We probably fifteen years ago on
Speaker 1: five six or seven in Victor q se We. One
Speaker 1: of our leaders uh there were retired Aslau senior citizen
Speaker 1: and retired Insula. But they're still managing their family business there.
Speaker 1: Their the family owns a building in Pasai. So Sabasai,
Speaker 1: I may building on and in that place in Passai
Speaker 1: in Magalo Marami manavendors.
Speaker 2: You know, mayor is whatever.
Speaker 1: So Sabasi, I mean you know the reputation of Passa,
Speaker 1: that was the height of it. Yes, And he had
Speaker 1: compassion for the people there save because he knew the
Speaker 1: way to a man's heart in the Philippines is to
Speaker 1: histomach and true enough, he invite some of those human
Speaker 1: some of the vendors.
Speaker 2: So the invite your parent head.
Speaker 1: Now some food vendor nah yu maana left and that
Speaker 1: was made Munta now is as naga uh you and
Speaker 1: me just snatched them bag snatcher. Okay you mana that
Speaker 1: was Mason, a man made is some make some bumating ready?
Speaker 1: So you start in a small group. Yeah, those three people,
Speaker 1: and every week he would go there, but every time
Speaker 1: they would experience something sollakumaka in Silla. But not only that,
Speaker 1: they began to invite son grow you grow until invite Mason,
Speaker 1: my young Buga, inviteba Chamla and prostitute under her invite.
Speaker 2: But there was so much radical change in them.
Speaker 1: They went to one to one, put us a victory weekend,
Speaker 1: victory weekend, and put us a victory weekend.
Speaker 2: I remember that I was there.
Speaker 1: Una talagan iona ta.
Speaker 2: Lahya.
Speaker 1: I'm I just go through that case the Lord will
Speaker 1: do something Megaga vincil Lord. So I remember that going
Speaker 1: through that, and I could just imagine your counseling and time.
Speaker 1: But they were so turned around encountering God, experiencing the
Speaker 1: grace of God that that small group began to grow
Speaker 1: this area and again twenty thirty, after a couple of
Speaker 1: years Kashnabanda name building. The building was sold already, so
Speaker 1: we had they had to in endor Malati church, even
Speaker 1: though a small group. I still remember on their own
Speaker 1: they would go and I remember that story that what's
Speaker 1: the difference between those people and us, right, Kaka, Because
Speaker 1: sometimes there's more of Simon in us right than we're
Speaker 1: there to think. But you know what, I realized, we're
Speaker 1: just the same mhm. But we're dealing with the same thing, sinfulness.
Speaker 1: Maybe at first Blanscapela, No, apart from the grace of God,
Speaker 1: we are just the same. And that's why today I
Speaker 1: want for you to understand that the grace of God
Speaker 1: changes everything.
Speaker 2: No matter where you came.
Speaker 1: From, whatever your history is, it changes everything in your life.
Speaker 1: And I want all of us to receive God's grace.
Speaker 1: How do we receive God's grace? This is my last scripture.
Speaker 1: It says in First Peter chapter five Versus five, to
Speaker 1: say that cloth yourself, all of you, with humility towards
Speaker 1: one another. For God opposes the proud, but gives grace
Speaker 1: to the humble.
Speaker 2: Humble yourselves.
Speaker 1: Therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that at
Speaker 1: the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your
Speaker 1: anxieties on him, because He cares for you. The difference
Speaker 1: between Simon and the woman. There's pride in Simon, amility
Speaker 1: in the woman. If there's pride in you, it is
Speaker 1: God himself who will oppose you. But if we humble
Speaker 1: ourselves saying Lord, I don't deserve you, I don't deserve this,
Speaker 1: then the grace of God is already yours. And listen,
Speaker 1: some of you, you feel like you're in a dead end.
Speaker 1: But today hearing the grace of God, Jesus is in
Speaker 1: the business of still rewriting the scripts of your life,
Speaker 1: changing the tenses and the verbs some ani And if
Speaker 1: you would allow give it to him, give the pen
Speaker 1: to him, and allow him to be the one to
Speaker 1: edit your story and make his story of your life,
Speaker 1: you will have the best possible ending ever because His
Speaker 1: grace changes everything. And let me tell you, the grace
Speaker 1: of God changes our guilt into gratitude. It's a catalyst
Speaker 1: that changed us, that change me, and it's a catalyst
Speaker 1: that can change people that you encounter. I hope Matangna
Speaker 1: whatever by us, we have of the people around us,
Speaker 1: that we will be agents of God's grace that changes
Speaker 1: the people that we encounter. Amen, does all stand up? Father,
Speaker 1: We thank you. Indeed, we don't deserve all of this.
Speaker 1: We don't deserve nothing. But it's only by your grace
Speaker 1: that you have changed us, touched us. And so as
Speaker 1: we sing and worship, let this be the of our
Speaker 1: hearts because I believe the Holy Spirit wants to change
Speaker 1: some of you this morning, LORDI thank you for your grace. Truly,
Speaker 1: your grace changes everything to the cross where we can
Speaker 1: come to you be who we are at our worst
Speaker 1: and yet find acceptance, full acceptance. And today, as we
Speaker 1: are in an attitude of prayer as we bow our
Speaker 1: heads before him, I feel that there are some some
Speaker 1: of you you just need a just a new turn
Speaker 1: of life, a new turn of lief, like starting over.
Speaker 1: And the grace of God allows you to do that,
Speaker 1: to start over, because you've been chained to the past.
Speaker 1: You've been it's like you cannot move forward. But let
Speaker 1: me tell you, the grace of God cuts you all
Speaker 1: of those the things that has kept you. God wants
Speaker 1: to remove and change those tenses in your life from
Speaker 1: just being who you are, who you were to who
Speaker 1: God has destined and created you to become in Christ.
Speaker 1: So if you're that, if you just feel like you
Speaker 1: need that, you need a just a brand you leave,
Speaker 1: just a.
Speaker 2: Turnover and new thinks, just lift your hands to God.
Speaker 1: I believe God's grace is here and will touch your life.
Speaker 2: Just lift your hands to him.
Speaker 1: Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you that
Speaker 1: no sin, no failure, what nothing in the past could
Speaker 1: separate them from your love in Christ. So even today,
Speaker 1: let your grace change everything, change their past, change their them,
Speaker 1: change their future, because we thank you that your grace
Speaker 1: changes everything. And so even right now we declare that,
Speaker 1: even as you said that if everyone is in Christ,
Speaker 1: he is a new creation. The old has gone, that
Speaker 1: you has come. I speak newness and refreshing wholeness.
Speaker 2: Peace. Let you beginnings.
Speaker 1: Arise that they will walk in the new things that
Speaker 1: you have for them. We commit them to you Lord
Speaker 1: in Jesus name, Amen, and Amen.
Speaker 2: Thank you for listening.
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Speaker 2: God bless you all.