WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.720 Welcome Just Hindaway Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose of inspiring, 2 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:13.800 heartfelt tagalog sermons from different pastors and speakers all over 3 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:14.519 the Philippines. 4 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:17.359 We hope that this podcast finds you in good shape. 5 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:24.960 And now here's your message. All right now again, you 6 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:27.559 know when you talk about grace, you know we are 7 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:31.760 actually Tam and Tama Young your series nothing is titled 8 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:36.759 Grace changes everything. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ 9 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:40.479 changes everything. And Uh, as I've been preparing for this, 10 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:44.479 I remember a story, uh that happened when I was 11 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:50.799 in high school. Uh we had a transferring student parent transfers. 12 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:51.600 Babe on schools now. 13 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:57.840 But uh he was Megha Joe, you know buff uh 14 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:05.480 and you cut such a buff shah and parana. 15 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:07.920 So he was a he was a good guy. He's 16 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:08.480 a good guy. 17 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:13.159 Later on we find we found outa deito so p 18 00:01:13.519 --> 00:01:16.400 I mean, we didn't mind it. So he was like 19 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:22.319 a normal guy until during one of our semesterral exams 20 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:25.920 or quarterly exams. I forgot which one are long exams. 21 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:28.560 You know, all of us were quiet doing our exams 22 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:33.200 and suddenly nasally couce so from the back he carries 23 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:37.040 his desk and throws it in front a blackboard bank 24 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:39.920 what you in this? He runs out, I mean he 25 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:47.599 something clicked, okay, and then he runs out of the classroom, tear's. 26 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:50.159 His you know, uniform. Incredible. 27 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:57.359 And then I was running Artigas Avenue okay, along Ortigas, 28 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:01.439 and then you guidance Council Ornamenkay was running after him, 29 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:08.719 took the cab and nahapala and running like crazy. And 30 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:12.199 so I mean that because of that, I mean, he 31 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:16.439 transferred to another school, but it left a stigma. 32 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:18.599 Okay, all of us still remember. 33 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:23.840 That person and parana reputation okay, and stigma that's still 34 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:28.000 carried because of that situation. And I'm telling you that 35 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:31.479 maybe there are you know, when we growing up, maybe 36 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:36.400 high school, elementary, or maybe even your college, there are 37 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:42.479 things that have made a mark, a stain or a stigma. Okay, 38 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:46.080 now because of certain things that has happened in your life. Okay, 39 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:49.879 maybe something small, maybe something big that has happened that 40 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:51.560 left a mark that. 41 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:52.960 You still carry up to today. 42 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:56.919 And sometimes we wonder how you know. 43 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:02.280 Erased? Okay, how can this be removed? In my life? 44 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:05.400 And let me tell you, sometimes we carry some of 45 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:08.680 those things in our lives because of something that has 46 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:11.479 happened in the past. Now, let me tell you, the 47 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:15.120 grace of the Lord Jesus christy has the ability and 48 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:20.039 the capacity to erase that and change even your past, 49 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:23.400 even the most painful things that has happened to you. 50 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:27.000 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ can erase and 51 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:32.680 change that. And I believe your story this morning exactly 52 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:36.560 your story, because we will look at a person who 53 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:41.319 was carrying She was carrying a stigma, okay, all throughout 54 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:44.400 his life because of her profession, because of what she 55 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:48.919 was doing, she had earned a bad reputation. But let 56 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:51.719 me tell you, when she encountered the grace of God 57 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:57.319 through Jesus Christ, something began to happen that transformed her. 58 00:03:57.520 --> 00:03:59.800 And I want us I believe as we look at 59 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:03.639 this story, we will find ourselves in one of the 60 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:08.599 characters of this story. And hopefully, as you immerse yourself 61 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:13.479 in the story, we will experience God's grace just as 62 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:15.759 she did. And that's why I want for us to 63 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:19.319 open our bibles to the Gospel of Luke, this third 64 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:22.639 book in the New Testament, Gospel of Luke, chapter seven, 65 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:26.560 we will read first from verse thirty six to thirty nine. Okay, 66 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:29.920 verse thirty six to thirty nine, So let's begin seven 67 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:34.639 thirty six. One of the Pharisees asked him to eat 68 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:38.199 with him. So this Pharisees invited Jesus to come over 69 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:41.879 for dinner. He went into the Pharisees house and reclined 70 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:45.319 at the table, and behold a woman of the city 71 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:49.199 who was a sinner. When she learned that he was 72 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:52.720 reclining at the table in the Pharisees house, brought an 73 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:57.800 alabaster flask of ointment, and standing beside him, behind him 74 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:01.000 rather at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his 75 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:03.759 feet with her tears, wipe them with the hair of 76 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:07.000 her head, and kissed his feet and anointed them with 77 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:07.560 the ointment. 78 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:09.120 And now when the. 79 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:13.920 Pharisee who had invited him sow this, he said to himself, 80 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:16.800 you know, if this man were really a prophet, he 81 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:20.000 would have known who and what sort of woman this 82 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:24.439 is who is touching him, for she is a sinner. 83 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:27.120 Let's pray, Father, bless the preaching of your word. 84 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:33.279 Let us understand and experience your grace this morning, so 85 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:36.199 that we too can be transformed in change. 86 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:38.759 In Jesus name a man. 87 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:43.240 Now very briefly Paramaine indianad in what was happening Gay, 88 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:47.240 there are three characters that we see in the story. 89 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:51.279 First of all, of all, rather see Jesus Christ. He's 90 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:54.439 the one who was invited. And at this point in 91 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:59.600 time in Luke chapter seven, Jesus was gaining popularity. He 92 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:03.120 was gay popularity because of his teaching. He was teaching, 93 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:07.319 he was healing, he was preaching. He had what he preached, 94 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:09.920 and he thought there was authority, and so he was 95 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:14.439 gaining popularity among the people, among the crowds. And uh, 96 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:18.720 not only that, Okay, he was also gaining some enemies 97 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:22.160 because the teachers of the law, the scribes, and even 98 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:27.240 some of the Pharisees were trying to question sine batmbaguito, 99 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:31.839 this new rabbi, this new teacher, who is this guy? 100 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:38.160 Who is this Jesus that the people are following. Now, 101 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:42.000 he performed a miracle at this point in time, and 102 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:46.160 that's why one of the pharisees your first protas protegist, 103 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:51.000 and his name is Simon, Simon the Pharisee. Okay, so 104 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:57.680 in the actual picture, Simon was a Pharisee and so 105 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:01.480 when he found out about Jesus Us he was teaching 106 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:06.279 and preaching and healing, he was curious, okay, and so 107 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:10.600 he invited Jesus for dinner. Now another pharisee by the 108 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:14.319 name of Nicodemus, remember Nicodemus, We find it in John 109 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:18.680 chapter three. He was also curious about Jesus. But the 110 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:21.839 reason he met with Jesus He met Jesus at night 111 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:23.399 when no one was looking. 112 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:26.879 Okay, Noela, mait like me meet upsilla. 113 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:30.800 His his reason for meeting with Jesus was more of 114 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:35.519 doctrinal and theological. He was asking Jesus about you know, 115 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:38.519 about the Kingdom of God, about being born again, and 116 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:42.160 all of these things about the spirit of God. Simon 117 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:47.600 had another reason why he invited Jesus for dinner. Okay, 118 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:50.839 there are different reasons why invite people for dinner. And 119 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:59.079 obviously this was a respected and popular teacher inviting. Yeah, 120 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:02.959 and the reason why he invited is not for him to, 121 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:07.040 you know, to because he's signing with Jesus. He was 122 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:13.720 probably trying to gauge kuntub on Jesus, kuntub on the 123 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:20.120 what the reputation of this new guy Tokayato so if 124 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:24.199 he proves to be who the people say he is, 125 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.920 the Messiah, then he would be in the right. Okay, 126 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:34.960 kumba meron advantage, Majo int right. But if it turns 127 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:40.200 out differently na ops, fake Palato or Plato, then he 128 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:42.320 would know exactly how to. 129 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:44.480 Deal with this Jesus. 130 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:49.720 So we find this guy Simon, the pharisee having this dinner, okay, 131 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:56.320 having a party. Now, Merona, make conting joke. 132 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:57.720 You're gonna m bible. 133 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:02.399 Have you ever heard a pharisee having a party para 134 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:07.799 It sounds like an oxymoron, right, an oxymoron, Nah parasee 135 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:15.720 and partyila during their partyanilla and the latest. 136 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:22.399 Or my latest philaptrees. 137 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:29.879 Mama scripture tasls okay anima am a pig and blanket. 138 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:31.000 As a kosher foot lahad. 139 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:37.279 And in other words, it was a boring party done 140 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:44.440 by the Pharisee. Okay, Majo, it was sober tahimklangurro Okay. 141 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:48.120 So we see Jesus coming in, reclining at the table 142 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:55.000 and it just start sing la maguento. Now the party 143 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:59.159 began to be more colorful because of the third character 144 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:05.879 that came in. Okay, this third character that came in. Uh, well, Phalan. 145 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:10.480 The Bible does not name this woman. In other words, 146 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:15.559 can you imagine by Isan Baba and Pumunta a party? 147 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:21.080 He she was actually a great crasher Hindisha invited a party. 148 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:25.279 Have you ever get crashed a party? Nereded Raman, raise 149 00:10:25.320 --> 00:10:29.039 your hands? Okay, they can a gat crash and Noman 150 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:34.279 it's a party kay or is away? Dinghy crash is 151 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:42.039 away ding Okay. Now the Bible did not identify concinotoll Okay. 152 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:45.120 She was just said, there's a woman of the city. 153 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:50.919 A woman on descriptions is a sinner, a sinful woman. 154 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:56.679 In reality, this was a prostitute. This woman was a 155 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:00.200 prostitute who sells her body. Now can you can you 156 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:06.039 imagine a prostitute gate crashing the party of a pharisee? 157 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:11.159 Can you imagine that scandal? And he she began doing 158 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:15.000 some things to their guest of honors, Jesus my pina 159 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:23.279 a scandalo Tomara, Wait wait yo, you're not invited, and 160 00:11:23.399 --> 00:11:24.039 let me tell you. 161 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:27.639 Are a sinner. You're a prostitute. How dare you? Okay? 162 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:33.519 And so uh. The Marajuana experience against a party in 163 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:37.679 the main a gate crash and began to the coronam 164 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:42.799 scandalo same party anyone experienced that. The closest I could 165 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:47.720 probably relate to is I remember during the funeral of 166 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:59.759 my father in Ddico, my Lily Bignam Memorial and Nakata 167 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:05.039 on a South super highway in a convoy, and I 168 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:08.080 had a couple of tita who were titas from the 169 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:17.440 province notorious Sila because Mahili Silamas, candal funeral Sama and 170 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:21.600 all of that. So all of us were mindful scandalo. 171 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:31.600 And what happened was during the convoy convoy okay sol convoy. 172 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:35.879 It so when they arrived at the funeral of another 173 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:47.039 person okay office or whatever, so they began to cry 174 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:51.039 and all of that, you know, and all of that, 175 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:56.120 and so everyone was staring at them. So they began 176 00:12:56.159 --> 00:13:06.799 to cry and cry and let before mistaken identity it's oops, slowly. 177 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:09.440 Got out got to the car. 178 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:13.639 By the time they went to my father's funeral, melibing 179 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:20.200 named Dadica praise God. Okay, but there are situations where 180 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:24.759 things can be scandalous or awkward at least, right this 181 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:28.360 is a situation like that. Can you imagine, Okay, this 182 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:33.120 woman that's something that is very offensive to Pharisees. 183 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:34.960 Well, let me tell you. 184 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:41.639 To Jesus Christ, it's not offensive. It became an offering 185 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:48.919 that he received. What she did that offended the Pharisees 186 00:13:49.799 --> 00:13:57.039 became a fragrant offering of worship. That's what grace does, 187 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:03.759 the thing that causes others to stumble or don't know. 188 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:08.720 Because can you imagine the Pharisees, the teachers of the law, 189 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:10.399 the rabbis were holy people. 190 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:12.759 If you would read the. 191 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:17.679 Old Testament, it would say you have if you come 192 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:22.840 in contact with anything or anyone unclean, Okay, you would 193 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:28.399 be unclean. Right, that's why they are so careful what 194 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:32.840 they touch, whould they associate with. But let me tell 195 00:14:32.879 --> 00:14:37.120 you when Jesus came to the picture, when they encountered 196 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:45.320 Jesus Christ, the most, the vilest sinner, the most unclean 197 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:52.720 and holy person, when she touched Jesus Christ, Jesus did 198 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:58.480 not become unclean, but the unclean became clean. That's the 199 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:03.679 power of the grace of Jesus Christ. Let me tell 200 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:05.879 you there are some of you today. You feel like 201 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:09.919 you're dirty because of your past. You feel like because 202 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:14.279 of your history. You don't deserve the mercy of God. 203 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:16.519 We don't deserve the grace of God. If we think, 204 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:19.799 if you think you deserve the grace of God, then 205 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:26.200 the more you won't receive it. But God's grace is 206 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:34.200 so powerful it can penetrate the darkest, the vilest, the 207 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:39.759 most secret sin, the deepest chain that you are covering. 208 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:45.200 It can penetrate and can heal you and transform you. 209 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:55.080 That's what happened here. This unclean sinner, prostitute and holy person, 210 00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:01.360 when she touched Jesus see Jesus says, did not become unclean. 211 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:06.039 She became clean the power of the Christ, of the 212 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:09.639 Lord Jesus Christ. So this is what happened in the story. 213 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:13.200 Behold a woman of the city who was a sinner, 214 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:16.000 when she learned that he was reclining at the table 215 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:21.799 in the Pharisees house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment 216 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:28.440 of perfume. Now again, this act became ranks as one 217 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:35.240 of the most beautiful and meaningful acts of worship in 218 00:16:35.240 --> 00:16:35.759 the Bible. 219 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:39.720 Right we're even up to today, we all know. 220 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:45.080 What this woman did and what that action represents and 221 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:49.720 meant or symbolized to God and to Jesus Christ, this 222 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:53.919 act that she did, and she risked a lot. She 223 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:58.000 risked being stoned to death for doing that right, coming 224 00:16:58.039 --> 00:17:03.960 over uninvited, and she as a prostitute, she risked everything 225 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:09.839 just to be with Jesus, just to worship Jesus, just 226 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:15.640 to sit and minister at the feet of Jesus Christ 227 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:19.279 and tie you today to contain traffic iron and not 228 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:25.480 in to worship, to come together. Let me tell you 229 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:33.119 this woman, Hindrance, she would overcome just to be with 230 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:39.359 Jesus because she experienced something that changed her forever. 231 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:46.599 Now let's go on, and Gania. 232 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:51.319 Standing beside him at his feet, weeping, she began to 233 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:54.559 wet his feet with her tears, wipe them with the 234 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:57.359 hair of her head, kissed his feet and anointed them 235 00:17:57.759 --> 00:17:59.200 with the oint. 236 00:17:59.240 --> 00:17:59.400 Man. 237 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:04.440 Now listen, it's on alabaster jar that contained a very 238 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:09.079 expensive perfume. They said that the cause of the perfume. You. 239 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:14.759 Alabaster jar was expensive itself. It's made of semi precious stone, 240 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:20.880 it's made of ornate and all of that that corrective. 241 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:28.960 So malayung jung vas new flask alabaster jar perry Lamanna perfume. 242 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:35.680 They said that it cost one year's wage. Okay, imagine 243 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:40.960 your as well, though one year's worth plus the bonus 244 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:43.119 and the extras and all of that, I guess dependence 245 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:46.319 on mcannis. Well, don you know, but this was one 246 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:50.480 years during that time, this was so expensive. But let 247 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:57.519 me tell you something more. This jar represented her professional 248 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:04.559 identity and her finaleancial security because she used this perfume. 249 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:09.359 For her job as a prostitute like Papa ba Musha. 250 00:19:12.079 --> 00:19:15.799 So by pouring that, by breaking it and pouring at Jesus, 251 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:20.359 she is making a statement that this is the past 252 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:23.599 already and I'm making it and giving it to you. 253 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:29.720 I'm pouring it to you, bal Anash and financial means 254 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:33.319 to do her job, because that's what the grace of 255 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:39.119 the Lord Jesus Christ did. It change her life. How 256 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:44.759 ironic that may be appropriate that the perfume used in 257 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:48.839 her profession as a prostitute became the token of her 258 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:53.839 profession of her faith in Christ. The perfume she used 259 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:57.920 in her profession as a prostitute would become the token 260 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:00.640 of her profession of faith in. 261 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:07.960 Our Lord Jesus Christ. That's grace. A numenium thinks that. 262 00:20:09.400 --> 00:20:14.119 Identify us with something bad in the past, when we 263 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:19.160 go to the cross, Jesus transforms it and makes it 264 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:22.680 into an object where we can worship. She pours out 265 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:29.359 and say, Jesus, ginagameto torom it more sin, but tonight 266 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:34.319 I'm breaking it and pouring it to your feet as 267 00:20:34.319 --> 00:20:38.200 an act of worship. Now, you alone are my security, 268 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:42.720 You alone are my identity. You alone are my life 269 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:48.680 and my future. That's the power of grace. She would 270 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:56.680 be willing to do that. It changed everything about her. Now, 271 00:20:57.880 --> 00:21:03.359 let's go back to Simon. Okay, Simon, when he saw 272 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:08.200 what she did, she he saw it with a different 273 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:11.640 lens by reaction is Simon okay? So let's read On 274 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:17.519 Okay thirty nine. When the Pharisee who had invited him 275 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:22.599 saw this, he said to himself, he was not talking 276 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:23.200 to Jesus. 277 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:24.440 He was just thinking this. 278 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:31.559 If this mancunt petto that classic babyto, he would have 279 00:21:31.799 --> 00:21:36.319 known what sort of woman this is who is touching him, 280 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:39.839 for she is a sinner. 281 00:21:42.839 --> 00:21:43.359 Propheto. 282 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:53.680 Right now, the good news is this. You know, there's 283 00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:59.200 a reason why the Holy Spirit allowed Luke to know 284 00:21:59.359 --> 00:22:04.640 what this guy was thinking and wrote it in this gospel. 285 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:13.000 Because Jesus knew what he was thinking, alma you Simon, 286 00:22:13.880 --> 00:22:18.400 and that's why he gave him a story. Okay, Okay, Simon, 287 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:24.440 I'll tell you a story to explain or to make 288 00:22:24.480 --> 00:22:27.680 a point, okay, And this is a story. Let's jump, 289 00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:31.440 okay to verse forty one, Sabina, there's a there's a 290 00:22:31.519 --> 00:22:36.079 certain money lender who had two debtors, one old five 291 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:39.799 hundred denari and the other fifty what they could not pay. 292 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:43.319 He canceled the debt of both. Now which of them 293 00:22:43.720 --> 00:22:45.680 will love him more? 294 00:22:46.200 --> 00:22:48.359 Okay? So which of them will love him more? 295 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:56.119 Young? Five? Or you fifty or five hundred or you 296 00:22:56.240 --> 00:23:02.680 fifty young five hundred? Okay, very good children, because you 297 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:09.480 nisa god Nis Simon sa Simon answered, majesuru, no bad 298 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:15.839 trick question toa although a very simple, straightforward, very simple 299 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:20.319 mathematics tiba in dnamanto trick question pro the one I 300 00:23:20.440 --> 00:23:23.799 suppose for whom he canceled the larger death. 301 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:27.920 Now, to make this. 302 00:23:28.200 --> 00:23:33.880 Proper context context and fifteen donary five hundred denary, let's 303 00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:38.319 just say the fifty denari would be around fifty thousand 304 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:43.960 pesos and the five hundred denari would be five million pesos. Okay, 305 00:23:44.519 --> 00:23:51.640 for our contexts. Now here's the case may Utamsila. Neither 306 00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:57.720 of them had any money to pay the lender, right Lampa, 307 00:23:58.640 --> 00:24:02.279 But because of the goodness and the compassion and the 308 00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:07.400 mercy of the lender, he forgave them was agad, I'll 309 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:12.279 forgive both of you. Now, what does it mean? Why 310 00:24:12.359 --> 00:24:18.400 did Jesus tell this story to Simon? He knew that 311 00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:25.000 in Simon's eyes, the prostitute is the one who had 312 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:31.880 the death of the five million and Shah and Hindeman 313 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:38.640 fIF she go to fifty pesses, you prostituta because of 314 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:44.400 her sin five million, fifty pases and compare. 315 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:47.240 That is what she was thinking. 316 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:54.640 Now listen, okay, that's not the point of why Jesus 317 00:24:54.640 --> 00:25:00.480 gave this story. You know why because if you cannot 318 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:06.920 pay your debt, it doesn't matter if you only owe 319 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:13.799 five centabos, everything will be taken away from you. 320 00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:15.279 Comunion has happened. 321 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:21.680 Both of them had a debt while as a lampambaiad, 322 00:25:22.279 --> 00:25:27.519 whether there it's five million or five vesos. Because while mpambaiad, 323 00:25:28.279 --> 00:25:30.599 everything will be taken away. 324 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:32.519 If you are broke, you're broke. 325 00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:38.119 If you can pay, then you're in the same boat. 326 00:25:39.160 --> 00:25:43.160 There's no difference between oweing a little and owing a lot, 327 00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:48.920 at least in the spiritual context. In the financial context Merionian. 328 00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:53.279 But in the spiritual context that Jesus was talking about, 329 00:25:54.279 --> 00:26:00.119 there is no difference. Now all of us have but 330 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:05.079 debt that we owe God that we can never pay. 331 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:09.880 Because of sin. You cannot pay. 332 00:26:11.240 --> 00:26:15.480 For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory 333 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:20.000 of God. We owe God something, even if we wanted to. 334 00:26:20.839 --> 00:26:27.319 We are broke all a time on by it, kay Lord. 335 00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:35.519 And that's the point that Jesus was driving us. Jesus saying, Simon, Laca, 336 00:26:35.720 --> 00:26:40.160 you're in debt to God. Some will owe a little, 337 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:45.200 some will owe more, but no one has the ability 338 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:45.839 to pay God. 339 00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:49.799 Now listen, here's the gospel message. 340 00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:59.359 God is willing to forgive all the debts equally, whether 341 00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:06.440 you is whatever sin, small or big. If you're forgiven 342 00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:12.000 the grace of the Lord, Jesus Christ forgives all sin. 343 00:27:13.359 --> 00:27:17.720 And that's why Jesus wanted to make this point to Simon. 344 00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:23.559 What Jesus point to Simon is this, Simon, there is 345 00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:30.960 fundamentally no difference between you and that prostitute. You're the same. 346 00:27:31.759 --> 00:27:35.680 You're in the same boat. No matter how you think 347 00:27:35.799 --> 00:27:44.599 about yourself, you're in the same boat. Everyone has sinned 348 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:50.839 and fallen short the glory of God. So now turning 349 00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:54.319 then to the woman, he said to Simon, do you 350 00:27:54.400 --> 00:27:55.200 see this woman. 351 00:27:56.119 --> 00:27:59.720 I entered your house, but you gave me no water 352 00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:00.559 for my feet. 353 00:28:01.079 --> 00:28:03.920 She wet my feet with her tears, white them with 354 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:07.039 her hair. You gave me no kiss, But from the 355 00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:09.920 time I came in, she has not ceased to kiss 356 00:28:09.960 --> 00:28:10.480 my feet. 357 00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:11.079 You did not. 358 00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:15.559 Anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet 359 00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:22.640 with the most precious thing she has. Do you know 360 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:26.920 why she's doing this? She's probably asking Simon, do you 361 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:29.799 know why this woman is doing this? 362 00:28:35.079 --> 00:28:37.119 You did not know because. 363 00:28:38.359 --> 00:28:41.960 The problem of Simon, he thought he was better than 364 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:50.599 the prostitute. Simon said, you don't understand, Jesus, she is 365 00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:58.480 a sinner. Jesus probably countered. You don't understand, Simon. She 366 00:28:58.680 --> 00:29:05.960 is not a sinner. She was a sinner. The grace 367 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:11.079 of God forgive forgave her of her past. 368 00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:15.960 She is not a sinner. She was a sinner. 369 00:29:17.319 --> 00:29:21.559 You know why the grace of God changes the tenses 370 00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:27.799 in our lives. Whatever history you have, it's in the past. 371 00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:30.720 Tense already, whether. 372 00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:33.599 You feel like you feel like today. 373 00:29:35.759 --> 00:29:37.960 You feel like you're still in the same boat, You're 374 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:44.799 still dirty, still haunting you. The grace of God changes 375 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:48.920 the tenses in your life. Instead of she is a sinner, 376 00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:53.960 she was a sinner, instead of you living in the 377 00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:58.920 same boat, trying to see yourself in the same situation. 378 00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:02.799 As I've said it over and over again, when God 379 00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:06.440 relates to you, it's not in the basis of your history, 380 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:11.920 but it's the basis of your destiny. Not on what 381 00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:15.799 has happened to you, but on who you can become 382 00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:16.839 in Christ. 383 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:22.039 That's how God would relate to you. You call that 384 00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:24.279 the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. 385 00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:27.640 That's why today there are some of you today you're 386 00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:31.000 still living in the past because of what has happened 387 00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:31.519 in your life. 388 00:30:31.799 --> 00:30:34.559 What has happened in the past. You cannot forgive yourself. 389 00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:40.519 Yes, maybe there's some areas in your life that are 390 00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:44.359 so deep and so dark, and you feel like the 391 00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:49.720 enemy has got in his roots in your life, so deep, 392 00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:53.000 and you say, pastor you don't know what I went through, 393 00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:58.160 what I did, No matter how deep the work of 394 00:30:58.160 --> 00:31:01.640 the enemy is. That's how deep the grace of God 395 00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:05.559 wants to fill you with his love, with his acceptance, 396 00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:16.319 with his grace. Changing the tenses in your life very important. 397 00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:20.079 And that's why when we go on to the next verse, Therefore, 398 00:31:20.079 --> 00:31:25.480 I tell you her sins, which are many, are forgiven. 399 00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:30.119 For she loved much, but he who is forgiven little 400 00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:35.759 loves little. Now Sometimes when we read this Dittian, I 401 00:31:35.799 --> 00:31:39.720