Sunday, April 23, 2023

The sermon is from Luke 7:36-50 – “Do You See this Woman?”.  “… he said to Simon, ‘Do you see this woman?’ …” – Luke 7:44

Simon the Pharisee certainly “saw” the woman kneeling behind Christ. In fact, she would be hard to miss. She was weeping at the feet of Jesus; She was wiping the tears away from His feet with her hair; She was kissing His feet and anointing them with costly perfume. But Simon kept his distance from her. He knew all about her “history.” Likely, she was one of the town prostitutes and Simon was not about to let her forget it. Thus, it took courage for her to enter Simon’s home. No one needed to remind her of her past. She knew it all too well. She had been used and abused. Her sins like Gibraltar towered over her. But somehow, she had learned of the claims of Christ and her sense of need forced her through Simon’s door. Here, she found forgiveness but she also found One who is “the friend of sinners.” (Luke 7:34; 15:1-2)

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