WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:01.360 Father, we praise you. 00:00:01.439 --> 00:00:03.200 We thank you for being such a great God. 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:07.120 Thank you for adopting us as your own children. 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:08.640 We praise you for that. 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:10.400 We thank you for that. 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:22.480 And Father, we do uh just ask for for all those around us that you would uh you would draw them here with uh supernaturally and you would fill them with your love. 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:25.760 You would transform their lives from the inside out. 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:26.800 Not just here, Father. 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:35.679 I just pray that you would uh be with and bless every church that is sharing the good news about you, that you came, Jesus, to save us, not condemn us. 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:40.159 And that you'd be with your your whole kingdom this coming Sunday. 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:41.920 Be with us this morning, please speak to us. 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:47.280 Holy Spirit, please even interpret what I say and speak to each one of our hearts this morning. 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:50.240 Just praise you, thank you, trust you for that. 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:52.479 In Jesus' name, we do pray. 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:53.439 Amen. 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:59.840 Well, we've taken a few weeks, we've looked at people that uh Jesus met. 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:12.719 You know how those interactions had changed uh their lives, but also just uh what he did and what he said and what was important to him, how it reflects his nature and and the true nature of God. 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:14.159 We've looked at three of these meetings. 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:15.760 Nathaniel was the first. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:25.840 He was a uh outwardly honest and cynical guy who was uh blown away that Jesus knew him, and that Jesus had always known him. 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:34.879 We looked at a uh man that was uh naked and oppressed, crazed, living in a cemetery. 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:44.879 Jesus loved him and transformed his whole life and then sent him home to explain what had happened, explain the change to those around him. 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:52.000 Two weeks ago, it was a paralyzed man that was lower through uh the ceiling and how Jesus did the most important thing first. 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:57.359 He he forgave him and restored his relationship with uh with him and God. 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:01.280 But then eventually, he completely healed him. 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:10.319 So this morning we're gonna look at an interaction uh between Jesus and an overwhelmed, thankful woman. 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:13.360 We read about it in Luke chapter 7. 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:15.840 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him. 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:18.400 So Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat. 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:26.159 When a certain immoral woman from that city heard he was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:35.199 This description, and an immoral woman uh infers that she was a prostitute in that city. 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:40.240 You know, and she brings this beautiful jar filled with expensive perfume. 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:45.919 And uh by expensive, you know, crazy expensive. 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:54.879 I mean you can't just go out then and buy, you know, Brittany or whatever the um perfume of the uh of the month was. 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:03.360 Um you know, uh uh a perfume like this would be twenty thousand dollars in our terms today. 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:07.039 Extravagantly expensive. 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:10.240 It's quite a situation. 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:15.680 You know, but the uh the whole situation doesn't shock us. 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:22.240 The fact that she's a prostitute, the fact that she brings an extravagant gift. 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:23.840 Because we know Jesus. 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:33.120 We know Jesus, we know his hearts, we know his priorities, we know that that he was described as a friend to tax collectors and prostitutes. 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:45.039 But to the Pharisees and the guy that invited Jesus over to his house for dinner, they would have been freaked out and appalled. 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:47.439 It would have been shocking to them. 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:49.759 And so many times Jesus taught this way. 00:03:49.919 --> 00:04:01.840 It was interactions that were shocking, that would have forced someone to really stop and think, forced them to make a kind of a decision about him and his message. 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:02.719 So it goes on. 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:05.360 Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping. 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:09.599 Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:14.879 Then she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them. 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:23.040 And what a beautiful expression of love and thankfulness. 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:28.639 This gal, uninvited, rushes in weeping. 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:33.680 She'd either heard Jesus teach or had been told about him, but her response is effusive. 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:35.199 Her response is extravagant. 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:37.519 She is overwhelmed. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.240 She's breaking every social norm. 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:43.600 You know, she's even breaking Jewish law. 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:57.759 Under the Mishnah, the Pharisees and and uh um the religious people went not just by Moses' law, but they went by the Mishnah, which was their interpretation of Moses' law. 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:04.240 They would pick everything they could think of in everyday life, and then they would try and interpret um how to apply Moses' law. 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:15.040 And so they followed the uh the Mishnah, and and uh and under that tradition, a woman could not show her hair in public at all. 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:22.000 It was considered sexually provocative for a woman to display um her hair in public. 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:30.319 Uh it was uh and there was actually there's harsh, harsh consequences under the uh Mishnah. 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:42.399 A woman certainly would not be talking and touching a man, nor a rabbi, a teacher like Jesus, touching and talking to a woman. 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:53.680 But here she is, washing his feet with her hair, pouring expensive perfume on them, kissing his feet over and over. 00:05:54.879 --> 00:06:10.480 It's a pretty good guess that up until this day, that this woman had only been mistreated and devalued by men until today. 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:17.279 This man, the son of God, the son of God, he loves her. 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:23.920 You know, Jesus went out of his way to show the value of women. 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:26.800 To show the value of women. 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:30.480 Women were truly oppressed in Jesus' day. 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:36.240 Jewish men wouldn't have anything to do outwardly with women. 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:42.319 Jesus, on the other hand, went out of his way to include everyone. 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:46.959 His first statement when starting his ministry was when he quoted Isaiah 61. 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:48.879 It's uh in Luke 4. 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:52.639 It says, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he's anointed me to bring good news to the poor. 00:06:52.800 --> 00:07:02.879 He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the Lord's favor has come. 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:11.600 Women in Jesus' day were some of the most oppressed, some of the most oppressed. 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:17.040 Not much different than we see in some Middle Eastern countries today. 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:25.680 So all the interactions that Jesus had with women would have been shocking to the religious elite. 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:29.519 But they were important and they were on purpose. 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:34.639 You know, when Jesus as a baby was presented in the temple, it was to two prophets. 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:39.199 One of them, Anna, a woman. 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:41.600 Some of Jesus' closest followers were women. 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:43.920 In fact, there was a group of wealthy women. 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:54.959 Uh it included Herod's business manager, Joanna, but there was this group of wealthy women that followed Jesus around everywhere and financially supported Jesus and his disciples. 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:58.879 Two of Jesus' closest friends were Mary and Martha. 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:04.160 When Jesus told stories, parables, he would go out of his way to include women. 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:07.920 So he'd tell a story of the shepherd and the lost sheep. 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:15.759 And then back to back, immediately he would follow it up with the parable of the woman and the lost coin. 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:20.079 You know, at the cross, women, the first to see Jesus in the empty tomb? 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:21.839 Women. 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:25.120 It wasn't an accident. 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:26.160 It was important. 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:28.000 It was purposeful. 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:32.879 Jesus was setting some of the most oppressed free. 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:41.840 Galatians 3 26 says, For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus, and all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ. 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:43.600 It's like putting on new clothes. 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:52.320 There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:17.039 You know, I uh I say all that to say really to you women that if you have been devalued, if you have been in a church culture that makes you feel oppressed or unimportant, it wasn't Jesus. 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:19.360 It was not Jesus. 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:21.200 It was people. 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:24.240 Jesus came to set us all free. 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:26.639 To set us all free. 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:30.399 Back to this particular woman. 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:32.559 So picture this room. 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:37.600 Man, can you feel the tension in this particular room? 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:44.080 They're sitting down to eat, Jesus and these religious leaders, the uh the Pharisees. 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:52.399 And against all social norms, against their laws, this woman is laying at Jesus' feet, washing his feet. 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:57.440 Can you imagine what they're thinking? 00:09:57.600 --> 00:09:58.559 Is he gonna stop them? 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:00.320 I mean, is he gonna stop her? 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:01.440 What's he doing? 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:03.120 What's going on? 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:13.279 It says, 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. 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:16.240 She's a sinner. 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:20.559 And so Simon, his host, is thinking, I knew it. 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:21.759 I knew it. 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:23.759 I knew he wasn't a prophet. 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:24.879 Look at him. 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:29.360 If he was a prophet, he would know what this woman's like. 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:32.960 He wouldn't let her touch him. 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:38.639 See, he might have known the Mishnah, and he might have known the old law. 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:42.159 But Simon didn't know Jesus. 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:48.639 This is exactly the type of person Jesus likes to hang out. 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:55.759 This is exactly the type of person Jesus shows compassion and love to. 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:02.960 When Jesus answered his thoughts, or then Jesus answered his thoughts, Simon, he said to the Pharisee, I have something to say to you. 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.919 Go ahead, teacher, Simon replied. 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:08.080 Then Jesus told him this story. 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:16.559 A man loaned money to two people, five hundred pieces of silver to one, and fifty pieces to the other, but neither of them could repay him. 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:20.639 So he kindly forgave them both, canceling their debts. 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:24.000 Who do you suppose loved him more after that? 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:29.279 Simon answered, Well, I suppose the one whom he canceled the larger debt. 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:31.840 That's right, Jesus said. 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:36.159 Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, Look at this woman kneeling here. 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:44.559 When I entered your home, you did not offer me water to wash the dust from my feet, but she has washed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:51.360 You didn't greet me with a kiss, but from the time I first came in, she has not stopped kissing my feet. 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:59.600 You neglected the courtesy of olive oil to anoint my head, but she has anointed me with rare perfume. 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:04.320 See, Simon had uh Simon had been tremendously rude. 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:08.480 Tremendously rude to Jesus. 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:23.440 You know, in that time they're walking around, it's it's a walking culture, it's a you know, it's an uh a raising animal culture, and uh, you know, feet would get uh would get dirty and dusty and and uncomfortable. 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:28.240 And so you'd always give a guest a bowl of water to wash their feet. 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:36.639 You wouldn't wash it their feet for them, but you would give them a bowl of water so they could wash their own feet. 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:41.279 You know, you'd greet someone with a with a kiss on the cheek. 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:49.840 And then you'd give them some oil to soothe their head, you know, from the from the dryness and and from the heat. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:51.440 It's like if someone comes to our house. 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:56.879 You know, if if if someone comes to your house, it's it's you know, can I take your coat? 00:12:57.039 --> 00:12:58.559 Um, would you like something to drink? 00:12:58.639 --> 00:12:59.840 Can I get you a cup of coffee? 00:12:59.919 --> 00:13:10.720 You know, it's a handshake, it's a it's uh it's a hug, it's a common courtesy, it's the way of inviting someone to uh, you know, welcome someone into your home. 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:16.559 You know, back then it was water to wash their feet, a kiss, and oil for their head. 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:18.720 Simon hadn't done any of these things. 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:21.360 But the woman had. 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:26.159 Three times Simon was rude to Jesus. 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:34.240 In other words, Simon was guilty of little sins. 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:37.440 Those three times. 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:41.600 He'd been guilty of little sins. 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:47.200 I tell you, her sins, and there are many, have been forgiven. 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:50.159 So she has shown me much love. 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:55.840 But a person who is forgiven little shows only little love. 00:13:57.279 --> 00:14:09.600 Jesus does something uh kind of subtle here in talking to Simon when he says, but a person who is forgiven little only shows little love. 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:13.679 He forgave him for his rudeness. 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:22.399 You see, Simon had already been forgiven for the little, for his rudeness to Jesus. 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:25.120 There's two people in this encounter. 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:38.000 There's a religious, self-righteous guy and a grateful, loving, notoriously sinful woman. 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:44.480 Jesus corrects the man and forgives him. 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:55.440 Jesus defends and compliments the woman and then forgives her. 00:14:57.200 --> 00:15:01.759 Then Jesus said to the woman, Your sins are forgiven. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:12.000 The men at the table said among themselves, Who is this man that he goes around forgiving sins? 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:17.200 This man, thank God, is Jesus. 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:29.279 Simon had thought if Jesus knew what kind of woman this is, that he wouldn't have touched her, he wouldn't have cared, he wouldn't have valued her, he wouldn't have spent time with her. 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:31.600 Truth is, Jesus knew. 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:34.559 Jesus did know what kind of woman this was. 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:37.440 A daughter of God. 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:45.279 Someone uniquely and wonderfully created, reflecting God's very image. 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:48.639 A life planned with purpose. 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:57.039 And Jesus said to the woman, your faith has saved you. 00:15:58.159 --> 00:15:59.600 Go in peace. 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:03.600 Did you notice what Jesus didn't say? 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:06.639 Go and sin no more. 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:11.519 I don't think he was too worried about it, honestly. 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:19.679 She had been transformed. 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:21.840 She had been transformed by his love. 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:23.120 He could see that. 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:28.159 That she had already been changed from the inside out. 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:32.159 It's the same love he has for you. 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:35.840 He doesn't care what you've done. 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:38.639 He doesn't care what your reputation is. 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:41.679 He loves you. 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:43.440 He's not mad at you. 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:45.519 He hasn't given up on you. 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:50.000 He's not even disappointed in you. 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:52.480 He loves you. 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:56.000 He knows what kind of person you are. 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:58.639 Someone created in God's very image. 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:04.880 Created with love, created with value, created with importance, created with a purpose. 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:15.519 And we can see in this story how easy and simple a connection with Jesus is. 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:16.720 What did this woman do? 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:25.599 She just turned to him, told him, showed him how much he loved her. 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:33.839 Jesus said she had shown much love. 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:41.279 And then she just demonstrated it in the most extravagant and humble way. 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:48.960 She got on her hands and knees and washed his feet. 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:52.720 Can you see it? 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:55.519 Can you feel how much this woman loved Jesus? 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:00.720 Just how much? 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:04.799 How great was her love for him? 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:11.119 We're going to take the Lord's Supper together here in a minute. 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:18.400 Now, people call it the Last Supper because it was the night before Jesus was crucified. 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:20.160 It was really the first supper. 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:30.400 See, he was fulfilling the purpose of the old law, but this supper was not the end, it was the beginning. 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:32.960 It was the start of a new relationship. 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:37.279 Jesus said, I'm going to eat this with you again in my kingdom. 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:39.200 And so that's what we do every Sunday. 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:43.200 We eat this meal with Jesus again in his kingdom. 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:49.200 It's a meal with Jesus. 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:53.839 And it represents everything that had so affected this woman. 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:57.039 The bread represents his body. 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:10.640 Him coming to earth as a man, a real person, showing what God our Father is like, physically demonstrating and showing what love is like. 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:16.319 The wine represents his blood that washes away everything. 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:20.319 Everything we've ever done, everything we're ever going to do. 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:22.640 It's gone. 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:23.759 Washed away. 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:28.799 It's the same forgiveness that he gave to this woman. 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:32.559 He's given it to us. 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:43.279 So why would we talk about Jesus meeting this woman and the Lord's Supper on the same morning? 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:48.880 It's because both mills started the same way. 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:52.720 In John 13, verse 1. 00:19:54.400 --> 00:20:00.559 Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave the world and return to his Father. 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:07.680 He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end. 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:13.279 It was time for supper, and the devil had already prompted Judah, son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:18.720 Jesus knew that the Father had given him authority over everything, and that he had come from God and would return to God. 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:25.440 And so he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist, and poured water into a basin. 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:33.839 Then he began to wash the disciples' feet, drying them with the towel he had around him. 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:40.799 See, both meals started with extravagant love. 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:49.279 He loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end. 00:20:50.400 --> 00:21:02.160 And hours before Jesus is going to be taken and crucified, he is in the place of the woman. 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:07.200 He is the one down on his knees. 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:10.880 He is the one showing love. 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:18.160 He is the one washing their feet. 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:21.200 Extravagant love. 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:29.039 See, it was a demonstration of humility, a demonstration of service. 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:35.680 But mostly it was a demonstration of love. 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:38.000 Of love. 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:41.279 Ephesians 5, 1 says, watch what God does. 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:43.920 And then you do it. 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:51.599 Like children who learn proper behavior from their parents, mostly what God does is love you. 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:55.680 Keep company with Him and learn a life of love. 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:58.160 Observe how Christ loved us. 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:01.599 How Christ loved us. 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:06.480 His love was not cautious, but extravagant. 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:13.599 He didn't love in order to get something from us, but to give everything of himself to us. 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:16.400 Love like that. 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:20.960 Jesus loves you like that. 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:24.400 Extravagantly. 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:28.880 This week we're going to be thinking about the cross. 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:31.680 We're going to be thinking about Jesus' suffering. 00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:38.559 We're going to be thinking about his pain, the humiliation, what he went through. 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:45.039 But what we should see is love. 00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:48.000 It's love. 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:52.799 It's all out extravagant love. 00:22:53.599 --> 00:23:00.640 The whole thing is a reflection of how much he loves you. 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:17.039 You know, it's easier to see, maybe, in this woman on her hands and knees, loving Jesus. 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:24.000 Can you see Jesus on his hands and knees loving you? 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:26.720 That's the deal. 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:31.200 He is overwhelmed. 00:23:31.519 --> 00:23:32.799 He is thankful. 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:34.400 He adores you. 00:23:35.599 --> 00:23:45.039 In Hebrews 12, the Bible says that for the joy set before him, he endured the cross. 00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:48.960 It's talking about you. 00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:54.079 You are the joy set before him. 00:23:55.599 --> 00:23:57.440 A relationship with you. 00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:01.039 He loves you. 00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:13.839 Let's take the Lord's Supper together and thank him for that love. 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:16.960 If the worship team wants to come up, we'll. 00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:34.640 What a wonderful God we have. 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:37.920 What a wonderful Savior we have. 00:24:39.119 --> 00:24:42.799 How extravagant his love is for us. 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:48.640 So let's stand up and take the Lord's Supper together. 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:58.240 The bread, Jesus said, represented his body. 00:24:58.640 --> 00:25:03.039 You know, the bread itself and the Passover meal would have been so symbolic and so significant. 00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:06.559 It would have been the bread that was hidden and then revealed. 00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:08.480 It would be bread with stripes on it. 00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:11.440 It would be bread that truly represents Jesus' body. 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:17.359 And it represents him coming to earth as a man. 00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:37.839 Not considering equality with God, something to be grasped, but humbling himself to come to earth as a man, to restore a relationship with us, to pay the price for everything we've ever done, to reconnect us with our Father and with Him and with the Holy Spirit. 00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:39.599 So, Jesus, we thank you. 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:45.119 We thank you for coming to earth as a person. 00:25:45.359 --> 00:26:00.400 We thank you for your body, the sacrifice, the pain you endured, the humiliation you endured, the extravagant love that we showed, that you showed each of us. 00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:02.960 So we can eat the bread. 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:09.920 Chew the bread and swallow the bread. 00:26:21.920 --> 00:26:23.440 Over to the side. 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:32.799 And then the wine, you know, the juice. 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:41.200 I mean, it represents the same thing that we've experienced, the same thing the woman experienced. 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:42.880 The forgiveness of our sins. 00:26:43.039 --> 00:26:44.480 The most important thing. 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:46.880 Incredible thing. 00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:49.200 That we can live our lives with no shame. 00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:54.079 We can live our lives free and whole with God's Spirit inside of us. 00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:56.880 A relationship with the living God. 00:26:56.960 --> 00:26:58.880 So Jesus, we thank you for your sacrifice. 00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:01.200 We thank you for your blood. 00:27:01.359 --> 00:27:09.440 We thank you for pouring out your blood on us like the woman poured out that perfume on you. 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:13.279 Jesus, we praise you. 00:27:13.359 --> 00:27:15.680 We thank you for your extravagant love. 00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:20.319 We thank you for loving us. 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:23.200 And we love you. 00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:25.119 Amen.