The Woman Who Let Down Her Hair [Part 2]

Pastor, author and Bible teacher Alan Wright, no one is saved because they pay off their own dad what he saying is that people say they come to believe in Jesus paid off. That's faster welcome to another message of good news that will help you see your life for no hold. I'm excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series titled God used to and you may just be surprised, as presented, it written older church in North Carolina. If you're not able to stay with us throughout the entire program I want to make sure you know how to get our special resource right now.

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This is the picture of the heart of the Christian understands what Jesus has done for giving his life for us. It is the fuel of the passion of our lives that we are filled with the meditation of Christ and what is done think much of Jesus and what is done for you. We want everything ordered in your life, you want everything directed towards Christ you want to have more love in your heart for the son of God.

Didn't think much of the greatness of his mercy, something extraordinary happens in this woman where she suddenly becomes unthinking and unconcerned about the appearances with others.

She's already been scorned and ostracized by the society.

But now it is as though she is frozen in time and all that matters to her is the love that she has for Christ. She becomes a picture of what the Jewish people had been taught from the beginning.

Love God with all your heart and mind and soul and strength is a picture of love for God and meanwhile Simon the Pharisee who has invited Jesus and has had this feast. He begins thinking to himself. He's inside his thoughts doesn't say it out loud is thinking to himself. Jesus if he knew what sort of woman that says he would rebuke, but obviously he doesn't know who she is because he's letting her do this and therefore he concludes Jesus is no profit at all, and in the midst of Simon having these thoughts. Jesus gets a word of knowledge of the Holy Spirit. He understands and sees into the thoughts I find I don't think Jesus just walked around the is the son of God and necessarily knew whatever I was thinking all the time but sometimes he clearly did because he was full of the Holy Spirit without measure is God himself, and he knew in the sense of what time was thinking so we told him this parable in the parable was very simple he said to men owed the same creditor money. One was manageable. Psalm 50 denarii. There are a large sum 500 for a day worker days wage was about one merriest.

So this is about a year and 1/2 away just for one another. It's about 50 days away, but the point of the story was that neither one of them could afford to pay the debt as it doesn't matter whether the debt was massive with and that was smaller. If you're not a position to build a pay it, then you are utterly obliged and in that culture. If you had and that it would be punishable by imprisonment in our culture, there may be other ways of handling and we have bankruptcy laws. All these things, but these men will go present. If the creditor required of them, but instead he forgave both their debt and Jesus said, know which one of these would love him more and Simon said well I suppose one of the greater death and Jesus is using this little parable to make this point.

This woman who recognized how much she been forgiven recognize how greater debt was she loved me so much when you sign have not recognize the greatness of your is a story that is just filled with irony. As I mentioned in our opening comments about white Christmas irony is from a literary standpoint when you know something is the reader or the audience that the characters don't know but there are many levels of irony affect there's what we all know in day-to-day life verbal irony. That's worth something that you say is actually the opposite of what you mean in order to make your point. Like I've gotten recently a new white sport shirt and the first or second time I wore it I spilled some spaghetti sauce onto it and when the first droplet down. I know how it stays and I like NASA great wealth that was irony because I didn't mean great I met awful, but by saying great like that. I meant it is even worse than if I just sent awful. That's and that's a form of of irony or it's an irony when you discover that until recently, the biggest dog in Britain great Dane. It was over 7 feet was named tiny or is ironic if you see it posted in the newspaper that procrastinators anonymous meeting has been postponed.

So these apartments regarding day-to-day little verbal irony. But there's also will recall situational irony and that's where you're in a a a situation in which the opposite should be true, but it is not true. Like, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge is the famous poem the rhyme of the ancient mariner that tells of the sailors that are adrift in uncharted waters and they are about the thirst to death and there is a line in the famous poem water water everywhere and all the boards did shrink water water everywhere, nor any drop to drink, so there surrounded by water and merely thirsting to death, but ironically can't drink any of the water so that is irony, but book but the greatest sense of irony were talking about is like what we talk with white Christmas where you see something in the story and the character doesn't see it.

And so it's making the point in a stronger way and that's what this story has gone on its magnificent, beautiful, and it's ironic.

Here's the first irony is, I've already alluded to is the case is in the Scriptures over and over. The Pharisees and other religious leaders.

The ones that should know God the best end up seeming to know him the least, the ones who have studied the Scriptures memorized the Torah worked out detailed religious life of keeping all the laws in order to be the righteous ones over and over are depicted in the Scriptures is one who seem to understand Jesus the least. They know all the prophecies about the Messiah, but they can't seem to see how they're fulfilled in the Messiah so Simon the religious leader is the one who should be able to be close to Jesus. But he's very far in this scene and this woman who was a center who wasn't even supposed to touch a religious person is the one who is very close to Jesus is on the most beautiful and deepest ironies of life with God. Those who think that they are righteous and good and better than others and more holy than others are distant from God, but those who know they don't deserve his life or his kindness and have a great debt and would be utterly lost without hope, except in the sovereign grace. Those are very close to God's that ironies at work in the story visit another second irony Simon thinks I just unfollowed iron.

It is okay.

Simon thinks he knows what's going on in the mind of Jesus and he thinks that Jesus doesn't know what's going on in the mind assignment and he thinks that Jesus doesn't know anything about this woman, but in fact what we realize is that Simon doesn't know what Jesus is thinking any doesn't know what Jesus thinks about this woman and doesn't know that Jesus knows exactly what Simon is thinking which is related to 1/3 irony in that is that Simon is thinking to himself. The fact that this Jesus does not know who this woman is me that he doesn't have discernment and he doesn't have prophetic ability.

He's thinking he should be able to discern.

This is not the kind woman that a religious leader should be associating with and he's also thinking if you were a mighty prophet from God. If this were a Messiah. If this were some mighty prophet that he would be able to know from divine discernment who this woman is, but he's sitting here thinking this Jesus knows nothing. This Jesus is proving that he is not the son of God by the fact that he doesn't recognize who this woman is so in other words, Simon the Pharisee is making the conclusion, there is nothing special about Jesus because he's letting this woman. This center anoint his feet. He is saying ironically there's nothing special about Jesus because Jesus is allowing a center to touch him, and irony is Simon the very thing that is so special about Jesus and separates him from every other religious leader and separates the gospel from every other religion in the world in the history of the world is that Jesus came so that the quote center could draw near to him what's different about this Jesus is.

He's not afraid of being contaminated by this woman's uncleanliness. Instead, he is absolutely convinced that he is the giver of life and the forgive her of stands and that therefore he can make her clean.

Jesus is unconcerned about being associated with the center because Jesus came to save sinners, thus proving that he is the son of God. And so Simon thinks that it's proof that Jesus isn't special is missing the entire point Alan Wright will have more teaching moment from today's important series. Glad you heard about it with you. You believed in mind my experience it in the high with the left but not of myself as a love story from beginning to end spiritual bride of Christ, the perfect bike. The Bible tells that this kind I'm in March of the links to walk with for any man who is falling in love with a woman tasted the sweetness of God's love for your site pretty woman who searched for 25 inches long and fully gauge my doctor. The five love languages size incredible reality that God pursues us in life comes to my lover of myself. Ancient biblical accounts exploding the high except high's proposal and showing his embrace and live a match made in heaven, lover of my soul. We missed you as I think some Alan Knight ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website past Rowan.like today's teaching now continues you once again is there is 1/4 irony Simon is convinced that the one is the great center in this story. What we see is that Simon is the great center and that what the sin is defined as being here is not recognizing Jesus and when Jesus says to the woman, your faith has saved you what he's saying is not that your faith was a work that saved you, but your fate was the instrument through which you have been saved. In other words, is announcing the gospel and saying that no one is saved because they pay off their own debt what he saying is that people are saved because they come to believe that Jesus paid off the debt. What what what is so remarkable about this parable this little short parable. Two people have this debt to this creditor is that the debt can't be paid and therefore, one of two things is going to happen. The ones who are in debt to be punished and sent to prison so they pay for it all. Are there to find a way to gather the funds and pay their debt or there is 1/3 option and that is the unthinkable, the creditor just forgive the debt but if the creditor forgives the debt, then the creditor is the one who's paying for. But wherever there's forgiveness of debt somebody's paying a lot and what the woman realized is that she couldn't pay her debt she could lift her own shame she couldn't change her own heart.

She couldn't ever make herself presentable to God. And so Jesus had somehow touched her. If the gospel is beautiful and then here is the overarching irony that encapsulates all the other ironies and it is rooted in the question that Jesus asks of Simon. He tells us little parable in verse 44. Turning toward the woman he said to Simon, do you see this woman is ironic question because on the surface level. He sees her, but in the heart and the spirit he doesn't see her. Jesus sees it's all been set up all the language of seeing if you look backwards. In the chapter verse 20 of chapter 7 when the minute come to they said John the Baptist a sentence you say are you the one with the, shall we look for another and in verse 21 says in our yield.

Many people disease and plays an evil spirit on many who were blind, he bestowed site, and in verse 22 Jesus said to tell John what you seen for the blind receive their sight. It is a lot in this chapter about seeing to it come to this pivotal moment in Jesus says to the Pharisee. Do you see this woman and answers no, he doesn't see her Pharisee thinks Jesus doesn't say who the woman is but Jesus is the only one who sees the woman because the woman is not a center. The woman is a woman. She is God's creation made in his image is very clear from the text and from the parable Jesus tells that she had been forgiven.

The language of the tents of the language says she was a woman who had been a center and so Jesus sees are now no longer as a center is a look. According to her pasty looks.

According to her future. This is a way sees you do see this woman in part irony is that the Pharisee cannot see the woman because he cannot see Jesus, and we cannot see people as they really are. C. Jesus, she is a woman who should not be remembered as the woman who would send much she should be remembered as a woman who loved Moche she loves so much and now she has a future and hope, not a religious leader trained in theology and yes he sees Jesus for who he is.

Do you see this woman is trying to get Simon to see is trying to get her vision of the new covenant to him that in the new covenant we don't we don't pay for our debt, because you can't pay for our debt. There is a payment for forgiveness as it forgiveness comes and then there is love and there's gratitude. The gratitude is linked to the forgiveness of debt, but the love is linked to recognizing the nature of the one who would forgiven debt if Wells Fargo Bank suddenly forgave my mortgage. I'd be grateful. But I would initially going to summarize feet and anoint them with oil.

But when you recognize that someone is far more noble and beautiful and loving and merciful than ever know.

Then you fall in love with them.

That's what happened to this this woman. She she fell in love with Jesus and and and there's a word here for us.

Beloved is a word for this new year. It's a word that that is growing strong in me, and it starts with as you have been forgiven much you have big been loved so much. You have been been in touch so much and and I just as we begin this year and then begin the season. Think of the story that makes my heart swelled with gratitude to God, but the affections that I have for the son of God. May you have ever-increasing affection for the son of God in this coming year.

If you do it brings an ordering simplicity to your life. Life is busy life is confuse life is crazy at times and how in the world you make sense out of all of it and bring the right central ordering priority to your life. It is in this seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these other things are added to love God with all your heart, all your soul your mind all your strength. It brings a beautiful simplicity of your life and and so there's good news in here that in this seemingly chaotic world.

Your love for God is going to direct you and there is also beautiful message here of abounding hope for our future for your future and for my Jesus does not see you according your passing sees you, according to your forgiven condition position with him and he sees you. Therefore, according your future. I think part of what I'm hearing the Lord say is you have been forgiven them speaking to those who are in Christ speaking to those who you've been through process of healing, speaking to those who you you been on the journey and you been discovering grace and I think with the message now because this is grace is real.

His love is real is healing Israel, his forgiveness, Israel it is. It is okay to move on. Let it be your new identity. This is what God is saying and saying you you have opportunity is this woman to go in peace, irony, religious leader who should be close to Jesus isn't close to Jesus and a woman who is called a center is so close to him because it's the nature of the gospel. We don't get close to God by religiosity. We are close to God because he came to us and forgave us and we were saved only by and through faith eyes of faith is see Jesus. We are the ones who've been lavish with such forgiveness that the rest of our life becomes an offering at his feet. That's what this woman did and that the gospel conclusion of today's teaching the woman who let down her hair would get more with Alan in the moment additional insight on this for our life in today's final word stick with this. Glad you've heard about it with you. You believed in my experience it in the high with Alan.

The left but not of myself as a love story from beginning to end spiritual bride of Christ, the perfect bike.

The Bible tells of his kind moms are the links to walk with for any man who is gonna member the woman tasted the sweetness of God's love for your site pretty woman who was searched for 25254 can only be found fully. Gary Chapman remind Dr. the five love languages size incredible reality that God perceives us in life comes to my wife and lover of myself. Ancient biblical accounts exploding the high except high proposal and showing his embrace raveling after the match made in heaven, lover of my soul. We missed you as I think some Alan Knight ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website past Rowan.like hell. I think of forgiveness I think of understanding which she understood how wonderful of a gift. This was and is is her response. Really, the response that that comes naturally for us all.

Well, I think it is, you know, if you really see what Jesus is done for you. This is the importance of Daniel and for every listener to take this in. If you want to have greater gratitude to God.

If you want to become more lavish worshiper and give her if you want to have your affections change if you want to let go of the things of the world and live a more godly life. All this is wonderful but it doesn't take place by you, somehow making it decision that you're going to exercise greater willpower, or you're going to just exercise more discipline. It comes from really seeing what Jesus has done for you. That's what happened.

This woman she she on. Unlike the religious Pharisees. There were onlooking had no idea what Jesus was doing for them.

This woman and that changed everything so suddenly all the cultural mores. All of her savings. All of everything now without thought is spilled out upon the feet of Jesus and adoration. That's how powerful the gospel. This today's good news message is a listener supported production Alan White ministries