WEBVTT 00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:03.439 Welcome to the summertime. 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:06.080 Yeah? 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:10.480 I bet if you're a parent with kids with still in school, you're going, not a big deal. 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:12.080 The kids are at home all day now. 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:13.679 You know what's what's good about that? 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:22.879 I know you love your kids, but uh summertime is uh filled with trips and getting to go places and do things, and for the kids you get to sleep in, right? 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:24.399 For the little ones. 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:32.640 And uh so uh it's here and it it came quick, it came fast, and uh now it's here to stay at least for a couple months. 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:35.200 So uh welcome to the summertime. 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:43.119 Um if you got a scriptures, uh I'd like for you to turn to the gospel of Luke. 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:55.200 And uh I didn't give um uh Colin any uh heads up on the passage on the screen here because it's kind of a long passage and the the words would be probably so small we couldn't see them anyway. 00:00:55.359 --> 00:01:03.439 So if you have a Bible, Luke 7, if you have an eye, even a phone, take out your phone if you want to, and use that as your Bible, okay? 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:06.079 Not as your social media, but as your Bible. 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:13.359 You can use a phone or iPad, whatever you have, uh, to put your eyes on the scripture, uh, Luke chapter 7. 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:23.359 Um it's a good day yesterday, uh and into uh uh today and tomorrow, excuse me, yesterday and today, uh Colton is out of town. 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:32.799 And um, if you'll remember Lauren and Logan, the young couple there in our church, they were dating and they were fiancé and so forth, they got married yesterday. 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:34.640 And Colton did the wedding. 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:39.120 So the um the wedding took place up in Wisconsin. 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:46.319 So he drove all the way up there to hitch them up and to uh tie that knot and send them on their way. 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:56.959 And also the um Colton was on staff at a church up in that area, and so he was able to stay overnight, him and Rainey, and speak this morning at the church that he was on staff at a few years ago. 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:02.640 So it's kind of a you know um uh two things for him really was looking forward to. 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:04.799 So uh, and he needs that break with that. 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:11.039 And I don't enjoy the you think he'll enjoy the drive coming back, perhaps, but uh nonetheless, that's where he is. 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:13.759 We wish him well and glad he was able to do that. 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:21.199 And um, our worship team is um out on vacation uh this time, and so we appreciate uh where do they go? 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:22.479 Where are the musicians? 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:23.680 Oh, they're in the back here. 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:24.000 Okay. 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:29.439 Just want to give them a plug and appreciate them stepping in and leading us in in worship in that way. 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:30.159 Yeah. 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:35.680 All right, Luke chapter 7. 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:36.560 Are you there? 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:42.240 Skim on down to verse 36, and we're gonna look at a passage that I'd like for you to follow along with me. 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:46.479 Because I want to talk about this morning the correlation of love and value. 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:52.400 They're two different things, but nonetheless, there is a correlation between the two. 00:02:52.560 --> 00:03:02.960 And I want you to uh be able to work through this passage with me and uh and see what the correlation is about, how one affects the other between love and value. 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:05.199 So we're gonna begin in verse 36. 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:12.319 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him. 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:16.960 So Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat. 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:29.360 When a certain immoral woman from that city heard he was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:34.319 Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping. 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:39.840 Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:44.960 Then she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them. 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:59.360 When the Pharisee, who had invited him, saw this, he said to himself, If this man were a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching him. 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:01.840 She's a sinner. 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:06.240 Then Jesus answered his thoughts. 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:13.039 Simon, he said to the Pharisee, I have something to say to you. 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:15.680 Go ahead, teacher. 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:17.519 Simon replied. 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:20.560 Then Jesus told him this story. 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:29.920 A man loaned money to two people, five hundred pieces of silver to one, and fifty pieces to the other. 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:36.480 But neither of them could repay him, so he kindly forgave them both, canceling their debts. 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:41.360 Who do you suppose loved him more after that? 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:48.079 Simon answered, Well, I suppose the one for whom he canceled the larger debt. 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:51.120 That's right, Jesus said. 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:58.319 Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, look at this woman kneeling here. 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:05.519 When I entered your home, you didn't offer me water to wash the dust from my feet. 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:11.759 But she has washed them with the tears and wiped them with her hair. 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:20.800 You didn't greet me with a kiss, but from the time I first came in, she has not stopped kissing my feet. 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:26.480 You neglected the courtesy of olive oil to anoint my head. 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:31.040 But she has anointed my feet with rare perfume. 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:39.920 I tell you, her sins, and there are many, have been forgiven. 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:51.040 So she has shown me much love, but a person who is forgiven little only shows little love. 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:56.560 Then Jesus said to the woman, Your sins are forgiven. 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:01.040 The men at the table said among themselves, Who is this man? 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:04.399 That he goes around forgiving sins. 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:10.160 And Jesus said to the woman, Your faith has saved you. 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:12.240 Go in peace. 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:15.040 What a story. 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:24.800 It's a confusing story that sends us some characters because there's also another Pharisee named Simon who was involved in a very similar incident, but it's not the same story. 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:25.920 It's a different story. 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:29.199 So we have another Simon who is a Pharisee involved in this one. 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:30.720 We have another lady, Hugh. 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:31.839 We don't have her name. 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:35.199 A lot of people think it may be Mary Magdalene, but there's no basis for that. 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:38.000 It's just an unnamed woman in this story. 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:40.720 This story stands by itself in that regard. 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:45.519 There's no crossovers in Matthew, Mark, or Luke, or excuse me, or John. 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:48.319 It takes place in the Gospel of Luke as it's recorded. 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:50.480 This is simply a narrative. 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:51.040 Okay? 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:55.360 So we're going to just work our way down through the story and see what's going on. 00:06:55.600 --> 00:07:04.480 See what these people are thinking because there's a lot to it, but I want to be able to get down to really one issue, and that is the correlation between love and value. 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:07.360 And that can be seen in this story. 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:11.600 So let me give you the setting of the story as we begin breaking this down. 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:13.759 Just kind of want to unfold some things for you. 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:21.839 In verses 36 and 37, a Pharisee named Simon had invited Jesus to dine with him at his home. 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:23.920 That's what is occurring. 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:30.160 This was not an uncommon occurrence in the New Testament. 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.519 These dinners are not like our dinners today. 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:34.800 Much different. 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:39.040 In that culture and in that time, it's much different. 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:47.600 When we invite people over for dinner, we expect only those who are invited to attend that dinner, right? 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:49.439 That's the expectation. 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:53.759 We invite five people over, we expect those five people to come over. 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:55.279 No one else. 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:58.160 A little different in this situation. 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:00.560 The custom, however, is not like ours today. 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:06.480 It was not unusual in that time for a dinner to be more than just attending a meal. 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:12.720 So usually the invited guest was someone of significant status. 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:17.680 They wouldn't invite just anyone common, if you will, to invite someone over. 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:21.360 They had to have some level of status, some level of recognition. 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:32.159 And at this time in the life of Jesus, without a doubt, he was someone who captured the significant major headlines in every news story of the day. 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:39.519 You couldn't go to any town in the New Testament and say the name of Jesus without someone knowing who you're talking about. 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:59.360 Since TV and the internet was some 2,000 years into the future for these folks, the most common source of gathering information in that day took place in dinner conversations like this one in Luke 7. 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:18.000 As dinner progressed, the conversation would oftentimes develop into a discussion of theology, societal issues, cultural changes, just basic news of the day would be discussed at that table, and so on. 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:25.279 So it was not unusual for an invited guest of Jesus' notoriety to receive an invitation to dinner. 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:38.080 So Simon, the Pharisee, extended an invitation for Jesus, this notable person who everyone knew, an important individual in the culture at that time, over to his house for dinner. 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:41.200 People are always seeking and wanting information, right? 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:46.480 Don't we browse the internet just kind of searching for information, whatever that might be? 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:48.320 We watch the news on TV. 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:49.279 We want information. 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:50.799 We want to know what's going on. 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:53.200 It's a natural tendency that we have. 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:59.279 And these dentists provided a source to get to that information in Luke 7. 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:03.120 We want to know what prominent people are thinking. 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:10.000 I guess you can define prominent people. 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:18.480 People at this status level were often the movers and the shakers of society during that time. 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:20.480 They were the shapers of thought. 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:24.720 People wanted to know what they thought about things, these high-level people. 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:26.720 It meant something to them. 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:37.200 So in ancient times, they would have a dinner like this, invite a celebrity, someone who was known, someone who was perhaps unusual, and had something unique to say. 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:51.440 Word would get around, and this is the difference of our dinners and their dinners, word would get around that some level of celebrity was going to someone's house, they would open up the doors, and people would just start coming in. 00:10:51.679 --> 00:11:00.159 Not the ones invited for dinner, but people would come in and observe and to hear the conversation. 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:03.360 They weren't really eavesdropping, they were just listening. 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:04.879 They wanted to know what was going on. 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:06.000 Who was there? 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:11.519 I've heard about this person, I've heard what they've done, and so want to know what's going on. 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:24.399 And so the doors would open, not to participate in the bill, but were allowed to stand around the perimeter of the room along the walls and listen and enjoy the dialogue as a source of information. 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:26.960 And that's what was happening in Luke 7. 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:42.000 So when Simon the Pharisee invited Jesus, also he was kind of somewhat inviting the community because they would just kind of fill in and would find a place along the wall. 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:43.519 They were quiet. 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:47.200 They weren't there to eat, they were there to gather information. 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:59.600 And they would kind of shoulder up a little bit against each other, maybe just kind of be quiet and squeezing in and squeezing in because Jesus, the name of the day, was going to be there. 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.879 I want to see if what I've heard is true. 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:04.639 I want to see what he thinks about this. 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:06.799 I wonder if they're going to talk about that. 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:09.919 I wonder what Jesus is going to say about this. 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:12.720 So they crowded in. 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:14.480 They crowded in. 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:20.000 Well, I want to take a quick look at the people that's involved in the story here. 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:22.240 Okay, that's kind of the setting, right? 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:25.440 So the people that's involved in the story, there are three. 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:28.639 There's Simon the Pharisee, there is the woman, and then there's Jesus. 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:30.480 No one else mentioned. 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:35.120 So let's talk about Simon the Pharisee for just a couple of minutes. 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:48.159 So Simon the Pharisee, he was a member of a group that was considered the religious elite. 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:49.759 And you knew this. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:50.960 You know this. 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:53.039 He was a Pharisee. 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:59.120 The Pharisees, they were a relatively small group of only about a few thousand. 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:00.159 That's all. 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:04.000 They weren't large, but they were extremely influential. 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:04.879 Okay? 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:09.440 They were the guardians of the law. 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:18.639 They were the people to which standards were set, and everyone else had to adhere to and to be measured by. 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:20.799 That was the Pharisees. 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:34.639 They were legalists, they were really self-righteous, and they were tightly knit together as a group and had close and intense communication between each other. 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:41.679 And by this time, they had already rendered a verdict on Jesus as a blasphemer and an enemy of God. 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:55.200 So why don't you consider for just a moment what was the motivation, do you suppose, as to why Simon the Pharisee invited Jesus to dinner when he had already drawn conclusions about Jesus and who he was? 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:57.200 What's the point? 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:04.399 He wasn't interested in trying to find out what Jesus really thought about certain things, about the theological issues. 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:07.440 He was there for a different reason. 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:16.559 The Pharisees were always, constantly trying to set Jesus up, some type of trap, to get rid of him. 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:19.279 That was part of what Simon was doing. 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:22.559 This is not your friendly dinner, as it would appear. 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:24.799 He had something else in mind. 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:26.720 He had something else in mind. 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:31.840 And it was to further bury Jesus in what they considered to be blasphemy. 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:37.840 That's Simon the Pharisee, his house. 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:39.759 Who's the woman here? 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:47.759 Well, she is described in verse 37 as a certain immoral woman from that city. 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:49.279 From that city. 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:53.919 Some translations say a woman of the city who was a sinner. 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:56.799 That's really about all we know about her. 00:14:56.879 --> 00:15:00.799 But most interpret these phrases to mean that she was a prostitute. 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:08.000 And being from that city, most people knew who she was and had heard about her lifestyle. 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:12.399 So she was not unknown in that regard. 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:14.480 Reputation went out from her. 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:15.679 They knew who she was. 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:16.639 They knew what she did. 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:18.559 They knew she was a prostitute. 00:15:19.279 --> 00:15:25.919 And she walks in to this room, the dining room, with everyone else. 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:38.960 Perhaps she had come quietly into the house, maybe with her shawl pulled up over her head, so as not to draw attention to herself. 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:45.679 And she found a place along the wall where she would be unnoticed. 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:51.120 But from verse 37, we know that she was there for only one reason. 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:55.200 Because Jesus was there. 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:02.559 She knew who Jesus was, and she was there for a specific reason. 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:06.480 She wasn't interested in hearing the theological discussions. 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:10.799 She wasn't interested in the societal issues. 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:15.279 She wasn't interested in how the culture was changing. 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:25.759 She didn't really care what the local people or the Pharisees thought about her interrupting their dinner conversations. 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:35.360 She only knew that she was poor and broken in spirit. 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:37.600 That's what she knew. 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:47.759 And for her to take such a bold step away from that wall reinforces the reality that her life had finally collapsed around her. 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:53.360 Probably shunned by her family, abandoned by the few friends she had. 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:58.559 She was at the bottom with nowhere else to turn. 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:04.799 And then she heard rumor in town that Jesus is going to be at the house of Simon the Pharisee. 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:07.359 And this was her opportunity. 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:12.160 This is her opportunity to see Jesus. 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:15.839 Then the third person, obviously, is Jesus. 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:20.160 So I'm pretty sure that I don't need to spend a lot of time here describing who he was. 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:20.720 Okay? 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:24.160 Pretty sure you have a good grip about who Jesus was. 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:30.480 So that's the setting, that's the people involved, it is kind of the context of what's going on. 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:37.920 And in this dinner, the table is normally set in the middle of the room, and they would recline almost parallel, if you will, on their side. 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:40.960 They wouldn't sit up at a dinner table like you and I would sit at a table. 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:47.119 They kind of reclined almost sideways with their feet behind the purse who would be laying beside them. 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:51.839 And they kind of propped themselves up, if you will, as they had dinner. 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:56.640 And so those were the people at that dinner table who had the conversations amongst themselves. 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:05.680 No one else was really asked to be involved in that conversation, and they just kind of stood and listened at this conversation that was occurring. 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:07.839 Probably a crowded room. 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:18.640 So as the story begins to unfold here, the actual dialogue that occurs begins in verse 38 through 40. 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:23.680 So you already know Jesus had received an invitation to dinner from Simon, who was a Pharisee. 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:32.720 He was probably Jesus, probably was teaching and preaching regularly around that area, and perhaps even spoke in the synagogue on that day. 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:37.200 And it was customary to take home the rabbi after a synagogue meeting. 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:38.480 Customary. 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:43.680 So whatever the occasion, it might have been a special banquet called in the evening. 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:48.240 We don't know anything about the specifics of the event. 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:51.839 Probably because they aren't really important to the story. 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:54.079 It doesn't matter what the event was. 00:18:54.240 --> 00:19:04.720 What matters was Jesus was there, Simon the Pharisee was there, and this woman was there in this crowded room, having talk, a conversation over dinner with people standing around. 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:05.279 Okay? 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:09.039 So that's where we are. 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:15.920 Those details provide the context that shed light on what's going to follow. 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:18.319 So keep those things in mind, if you will. 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:23.599 Now, as we unfold this story here, there's three things I want you to observe. 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:25.200 In verse 38 is the first one. 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:28.000 I want you to notice the display of humility. 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:30.640 The display of humility. 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:34.079 Keep in mind there's lots of people in the room here. 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:38.960 Lots of people, but there was a display of humility that occurs. 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:45.440 The woman knelt at the feet of Jesus weeping. 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:46.400 Can you see it? 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:50.000 Can you see her lined against the wall? 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:52.880 She was known in the community. 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:58.079 Perhaps people saw her and kind of went this way a little bit, didn't want to get too close to her. 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:03.200 They didn't want to be misunderstood, didn't want to rub shoulders with her. 00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:13.359 And this lady, in the middle of this dinner, as the conversation is occurring, she steps away from the wall? 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:15.119 Are you kidding me? 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:17.119 Can you imagine the people standing? 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:20.400 What's she's moving down there toward the dinner? 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:21.680 What's she doing? 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:25.200 Doesn't she know this is no place for her? 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:31.920 Ripples of shock probably going through the people there. 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:35.039 What is she doing? 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:38.079 She's actually going to try to go down there to the table? 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:39.599 Maybe she's hungry. 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:41.359 But we don't eat with them. 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:44.400 We only maybe get leftovers if they're kind to us. 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:51.119 She wiped his feet with her hair. 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:59.279 She went down to the feet of Jesus, knelt down, crying, where tears were literally falling on Jesus' feet. 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:07.680 And she takes her hair and begins wiping his feet with her hair. 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:12.400 Suppose you're standing along that wall, what are you thinking? 00:21:13.279 --> 00:21:14.640 What are you thinking? 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:21.359 And then she reaches down and kisses the feet of Jesus. 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:22.799 The feet? 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:24.880 Who wants to do that? 00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:26.960 Who wants to do that? 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:36.799 I mean, it wasn't uncommon to wash someone's feet as an act of service, but kissing someone's feet, that's uh that's going an extra mile, if you will, okay? 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:38.720 But there's a point to it. 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:43.759 She kept kissing the feet of Jesus as people are watching her do this. 00:21:43.839 --> 00:21:49.279 And then she anointed Jesus' feet with this rare perfume, this alabaster box of rare perfume. 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:50.079 It's expensive. 00:21:50.799 --> 00:21:55.759 Some commentaries say that it was enough for a day's wages that she spent on this. 00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:57.039 Perfume. 00:21:58.400 --> 00:21:59.599 And she began anointing. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.599 His feet with this expensive perfume. 00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:08.160 You know that that had to steal the show, right? 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:12.160 You know that whatever was being discussed at the table just stopped. 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:25.359 Everybody's watching this lady do this and probably crying in tears and just casting herself at the feet of Jesus because she has nowhere else to go. 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:28.559 Her life is in shambles. 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:32.160 And she's tried everything, and she's by herself now. 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:37.680 And she just wants to see is Jesus the real thing or not. 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:44.160 He's the last place I can go, my last hope for my life to be changed. 00:22:46.319 --> 00:22:48.319 That's the display of humility. 00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:57.200 You ever feel like you need to move sometimes and do something, but there's some strange restraint grabbing your arms and your legs, and you, I'm not gonna go down there. 00:22:58.480 --> 00:22:59.359 Not me. 00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:08.559 In her situation, she must have felt that restraint. 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:09.599 Don't go down there. 00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:11.359 You're gonna embarrass yourself. 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:15.519 These people know who you are, they're gonna run you out of here. 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:16.799 Stay. 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:19.039 Stay on the wall. 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:20.720 Stay safe. 00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:27.839 And the only reason she got down there was because Jesus, that's where he was. 00:23:28.640 --> 00:23:30.000 That's where he was. 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:35.279 But then in verse 39, we find the display of hubris. 00:23:35.680 --> 00:23:36.880 I love that word. 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:37.599 Okay? 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:39.119 Hubris. 00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:41.039 It's arrogance. 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:43.680 It's arrogance. 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:49.759 In verse 39 is subtly filled with a display of hubris. 00:23:50.079 --> 00:23:53.839 You see, this is uh, let me take just a moment to kind of clarify what I'm saying here. 00:23:53.920 --> 00:24:00.880 You know, the temperant temperament of arrogance always begins in the mind. 00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:05.680 I don't know if you realize or not, but arrogance begins up here. 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:18.559 And it oozes its way out and saturates itself into our conversations, into our appearance, into our behavior. 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:20.960 That's where you find arrogance. 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:29.759 What's really interesting in Proverbs chapter 6, verse 16, even states that arrogance can be seen in the eyes. 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:36.559 As it is described in that passage of Proverbs as a haughty look. 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:39.039 A haughty look. 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:48.880 Interesting because that term literally means lifting up eyes or high eyes. 00:24:51.519 --> 00:25:00.400 You can detect arrogance in the way people speak, they look, the way they behave, and the way they look their eyes. 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:04.079 Arrogance can be detected. 00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:09.759 And in the same proverb, verse Solomon has something to say about what God thinks about this. 00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:17.920 In Proverbs 6, verses 16 through 19, it says, There are six things the Lord hates. 00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:19.359 Okay? 00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:23.680 The Lord's pretty emotional about this. 00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:24.880 He hates this. 00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:31.200 And he goes on to say in verse in the Proverbs, seven things he detests. 00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:34.480 You know what's at the top of that list? 00:25:35.119 --> 00:25:36.960 Haughty eyes. 00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:42.880 Ah, maybe it's just happenstance, you know, that that's on the top of the list. 00:25:43.119 --> 00:25:44.160 Maybe not. 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:51.680 Could it be that if the number one thing that the Lord hates is those who have the look of arrogance? 00:25:53.839 --> 00:25:54.799 Detest that. 00:25:54.960 --> 00:26:11.599 It goes on down to say the list a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent, a heart that plots evil, feet that raise to do wrong, a false witness who pours out life, a person who sows discord in a family. 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:16.559 Those are the seven things that God hates and he detests. 00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:18.880 But the first thing is haughty eyes. 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:20.880 Something about arrogance. 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:24.880 Because that's what's on display here as well. 00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:27.680 Not from the lady, but from someone else there. 00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:36.240 The hubris or arrogance of Simon can be seen by simply observing his thoughts as revealed in this passage. 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:40.000 So look closely in that passage, in verse 39. 00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:57.440 When the Pharisee, Simon, who had invited him, saw this, this being the woman coming off the wall there, throwing herself at the feet of Jesus in a crying fit, wiping his feet with her hair and anointing his feet with oil and kissing his feet. 00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:03.440 He said to himself, now please note this is not out loud. 00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:05.440 This is in the mind. 00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:07.839 Isn't that where arrogance begins, by the way? 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:08.640 Yeah. 00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:26.319 So he said to himself, if this man, refer to Jesus, if this man were a prophet, if he says he was who he says he is, he would know what kind of woman is touching him. 00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:30.960 She's a sinner. 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:36.319 Do you see the arrogance dripping out of him? 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:38.960 This is where it's occurring here in his mind. 00:27:39.119 --> 00:27:42.880 As you're watching this, that foolish woman. 00:27:43.359 --> 00:27:45.279 But you know, she really was the problem. 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:47.200 You know, for the Pharisee, what the problem was? 00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:49.359 It wasn't her, it was Jesus. 00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:51.759 It was Jesus. 00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:58.240 He took this act from this woman, throwing herself at his feet, basically begging for mercy. 00:27:58.559 --> 00:28:00.960 Anything that she could get from Jesus. 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:08.960 And he uses that as a way to confirm in his mind that Jesus is a blasphemer. 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:14.799 If he really was a prophet, wouldn't he know that she's a prostitute? 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:16.960 If he knew that. 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:20.000 So he can't be a prophet. 00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:21.599 Got him. 00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:23.440 Got him. 00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:26.160 He can't be who he says he is. 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:28.319 And this is proof right here. 00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:33.119 Because no one touches a prostitute. 00:28:36.160 --> 00:28:40.559 And if he were a prophet, he would know what kind of woman was touching him. 00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:44.079 You can almost almost feel the arrogance in the words, can't you? 00:28:46.319 --> 00:28:51.119 More evidence that Jesus is not who he claimed to be, and that's what the Pharisees were about. 00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:54.160 That's why Simon had this dinner party. 00:28:56.640 --> 00:29:02.640 But fortunately in verse 40, we have the display of insight that occurs in this. 00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:03.200 Okay? 00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:05.039 Let's go back for a minute. 00:29:05.279 --> 00:29:08.400 Big crowd, dinner going on, people lining the walls. 00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:14.480 This lady, this woman walks off the wall there somewhere, throws herself at the feet of Jesus. 00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:15.839 This is being observed. 00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:17.279 Everything must have gone quiet. 00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:20.000 Such an odd thing to occur in this house. 00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:24.000 And then there's insight that comes into play here. 00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:29.200 Jesus answered in verse 40. 00:29:29.599 --> 00:29:31.440 Simon is thinking this about the woman. 00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:33.279 Then Jesus answered. 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:36.799 Really, really, an interesting thing occurs here. 00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:41.279 The word answered right there in verse 40, what says Jesus answered? 00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:45.920 That word actually comes from a combination of two separate words. 00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:49.039 One of the words is from a preposition from. 00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:55.839 That's added to another word that means to decide or to judge. 00:29:56.960 --> 00:30:03.519 So when Jesus answered, knowing Simon's thoughts, it's really important. 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:05.920 Simon has not said a word. 00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:08.799 This is all in his head. 00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:13.599 And Jesus answered his thoughts. 00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:24.400 You see, Jesus had decided or judged that it was time to say something about this. 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:27.279 Not what the woman was doing. 00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:38.160 He decided it was time to confront Simon over what he was thinking, about his judgmental, arrogant attitude toward a sinner. 00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:40.799 And he was going to deal with it. 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:46.640 So when Jesus answered, it's basically saying, Jesus has determined it was time to deal with this guy. 00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:49.440 Jesus answered. 00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:57.359 Throughout the New Testament, it denotes the act of responding or answering, often in the context of a dialogue or conversation. 00:30:58.480 --> 00:31:06.240 But if you look closely, when Jesus answers, there is no dialogue and there is no conversation to respond to. 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:17.119 Simon had not addressed Jesus in any way, except in his mind, which are directed toward his thoughts toward that woman and toward, I'm excuse me, toward Jesus. 00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:19.440 There's not a word been said. 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:23.680 And so all of a sudden Jesus says, I got an answer for you. 00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:25.759 What? 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:27.279 Somebody say something? 00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:29.599 See, Jesus knows his thoughts. 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:31.039 That's what's happened. 00:31:31.119 --> 00:31:35.359 There is no conversation and there is no dialogue to which Jesus would respond to normally. 00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:40.079 He'd respond to what Simon is thinking in his head about this situation, about to who he is. 00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:43.839 So in verse 40, Jesus answered his thoughts. 00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:45.279 Didn't it say that? 00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:52.400 Simon, he said to the Pharisee, I have something to say to you. 00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:58.799 Now, you have to keep in mind as well, Simon has not a clue that Jesus knows what he's thinking. 00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:00.640 He has no clue. 00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:04.799 So Jesus says, I got something to say to you, Simon. 00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:11.519 The transliteration of that response that Jesus said, it actually translates this way. 00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:14.960 Simon, I have to you something to say. 00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:19.599