November 6, 2016

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We are continuing a sermon series called love does and it stems from a best-selling book called love does by an author named Bob golf who is a lawyer of all things and at the same time a devout follower of Christ, isn't that an amazing thing. I'm I like to tease David an R&R resident lawyers here, but it's a great book and he's doing great things both National and worldwide and it just encourages us to get very practical about our faith that Love Actually does and so this morning we want to continue that series by want to start by talking about the men A Narrative of scripture a little bit. You know, they saying you can't see the forest for the trees. Sometimes we have so many small things in our mind favorite passages and the details of passages that we don't see the the largeness of the whole Narrative of scripture and sometimes that men a narrative as it's referred to really helps us see the smaller things in the mall. Halfway don't want to start by reviewing a little bit this Grand picture, but I want to zoom in to the passage were going to look at in the gospels in just a few moments, but bear with me for some of you this so you'll say you do this all the time and we've heard this from you a bunch of times. Yes. I I want you to hear some of these things. So often that you will never forget them. I want you to hear some of these things. So often that when someone ask you about your face or the gospel or surprised you're able to say you don't want to hear is the way to think about it you're able to recall this and do your own review of the men in there than not just said, well, I don't know those things. I'll have to ask my preacher. I want to keep some things over and over so frequently that you own them in your heart in such a way that you can share them easily. Now in the beginning when you look at Genesis you get this straight passage where God says, let us make humankind in our image and the idea that the father Son and Holy Spirit that that plurality of language is used and then that scripture says they created male and female in there image. You've heard me talk about this with Girls on the stage that we were created out of this overflow of a loving relationship the father Son and Holy Spirit had this Fellowship this love together being with one another sharing this love relationship disfellowshipped and they said you know what let's not just keep this to ourselves. Let's expand this so they pulled up a couple of more. Let's create human beings like us in our image so that they can have a relationship and fellowship and they can know us and we can know them that's the heart of Genesis 1 through 3 that we were created Humanity was created out of this overflow of the love relationship between the father Son and Holy Spirit that they wanted to expand that Circle. They wanted to say let's create human beings in our image like us so that we could know them and they can know us when you go through the scripture should you look all through the drama of the first few books of the scripture where Jesus chooses a nation first Abraham and then a nation says I want you to be my people feel that I can display my goodness among you. So that you will be a light unto all nations and he rescues them in the book of Exodus From Slavery to Egypt and call them out into the Wilderness all the drama of the plagues and everything that goes on in the book of Exodus all the drama of the Old Testament that we so sometimes are drawn to buy the very interest of the drama itself. It's utilized at the end of accidents in Exodus 29. God give Israel together on the top of the mountain and he says here's why I've done this here's why I've done all these things so that this can be true again because sin entered in Genesis chapter 3 and that intimacy that Fellowship which God created Humanity was broken. And so now he calls his route a restorz-it an exodus 29 says because I've done all this because I rescued you and I pulled you here to the Mountaintop. Then I will live among the people of Israel and be their God. That's the purpose. Get in the house is it when you do this meta narrative scripture, you need to realize that some passages of scripture rise up out of the Open Bible like Peaks like Grand mountains to say thank noticed this. Look what's going on in God's heart is revealed here. He continues INXS 29th, and they will know that I am the Lord their God. I am the one who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I could live among them. I am the Lord their God amazing intimate in the midst of all the drama of Exodus when God gets his roll up on the Mountaintop. He says, here's what it was all about. It was so that I could be with you. And you could be with me. So that I could be your God and I would be known for who I am your good and loving God. You see this theme throughout scripture again against in Matthew 1:23. Look the Virgin will conceive a child. She will give birth to a son and they will call him Emmanuel which means god with us. This continual stepping close to us. God is pursuing us reaching out to us and Christ. Is that ultimate Pursuit where God Came In the Flesh and so the name of this child the prophet says will be Emmanuel God With that God desires to be with us and is making his way to us again and again and John 1:1 in the beginning referencing back to Genesis 1 through 3 in the beginning the word already existed. The word was with God and the Word was God. And then you look a few verses head up verse 14 and John Doe the word became human and made his home among us. This is referring to Christ. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness and we have seen his glory the glory of the fathers one and only son. So John is celebrating that same Grand Epoch that meta-narrative. He spoken use language in John chapter. Once that the Jewish ears with the meatly recognized as references to this big meta-narrative the way Genesis 1 2 3 speaks of God speaking this word calling things into existence. Then John refers back to then says, hey that word that was in the beginning. Now that word has become become. Excuse me, Among Us and become Flash and that word is the one and only son of God revealing his goodness and his grace and his Mercy making himself known to us again. And again and then Matthew 28, Jesus says teach these new disciples to obey all the commands. I have given to you and be sure of this I am with you always even To the end of the age and that's what we talked about a couple of weeks ago that God expresses his love by being with us. He doesn't say the check is in the mail. He doesn't say, you know, I'll get around to that he comes in person and he's with us and the truth is we know that that's what love looks like we can think of people in our life who have been with us all along at every point. No matter what's going on. They say I'm with you they don't just say it they show up and they're there for us and God modeled that love and calls us to love each other in the same way. Now when when God has revealed himself more closely Exodus 34:6 this another one of those mountaintops of all of scripture where he reveals himself to Moses. This is what is revealed when God opens himself up the Lord passed in front of Moses calling out y'all way the Lord the god of compassion and mercy, I am slow to anger and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness and again usamos refers to the same thief the Lord is compassionate and merciful. Slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love even the passage in Lamentations that we rented the beginning of the service is that same theme those mountaintops throughout scripture where the officers you know, what we are condemned because of her own sense the world around us is full of nothing but bad news, but then I remembered what God is like he is faithful he is slow to anger and is full of compassion his mercies. They were new themself every morning that they are new every morning and because of that the author and limitations then I had hope we could use a little help couldn't lie. I mean if I could bottle that stuff and sell it man, right? It is easier this week. Especially your right. Amen sister. We could use a little help and we need to be reminded of what the great authors and heroes and followers of all of scripture kept reminding them self up when they're down in that Valley. They would stop and remember you don't want even though I'm in the Valley of Death itself valve heart with me. Even when they said you don't want most of our mess is of our own making we really can't self-righteously safe or righteously say well God bail us out. We're good people who follow you Faithfully when we're honest we say is you know, we made this mess yourself nobody to blame. But the person I see in the mirror every day and even the mist of that realization the author of Lamentations has but then I remember

We're never going to save ourselves. Are we then I remembered. That's our lot in that were sinners. Work for frail people as a sign that says in Psalm 103 God knows that we are dust. Then I remembered the right of limitations. Have I remembered God? We're not in a closed Universe one out of the clothes. We're on our way. We're not on our own. We're not left to ourselves with no help or hope that's on 121 says where do I look to the hills and I call out to God for my help and open system. God is in this world. God is with us then I remembered I remembered it's not just me. Just me and my family it's not even just me and my church not even just me and my community God is on our side. Those who turn to him with humble and broken and repentant heart since I I need you God shows up and answers and says I'm with you and that's been his desire and his plan all along to be with those who call on him who turned to him with humble heart God Is With Us indeed and when we discover that he was with us, we see his character as compassionate and merciful slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love last week. We talked about this theme lived out in the gospel. We talked about the life of Peter. We looked at all of those passages. Were you see Peter failing miserably again and again and again and yet you see Jesus refer giving and restoring Peter and Peter being used in great ways in the book of Acts because not only is God With Us that's good news. But if the horrible news if God was a terrifying horrible judgmental vindictive God's they be horrible news to say that God is with us, but the good news is not only is god with us, but when he revealed himself and exodus, Ford Moses says, I want to see what you really likes. Here's what gets revealed. I am slow to anger. That's a good thing in it because look around the world. There is a lot for a righteous and holy God to be angry about.

And the good news is he reveals himself and he says here's what I'm like I am slow to anger. I am full of mercy and full of compassion and we see Jesus live that out in the gospels again and again and again in the way he treats others and in Peter's life last week we talked about that reality that we fail. But we lean on when we fail is God's faithfulness in his goodness. And even went when Jesus said to Peter look you're going to fail you're going to deny me three times and he when Peter was still fully saying no. No. No, I'm going to be the exception to the rule. I'm not going to fail you. And yes, he did and John 21. Jesus says to Peter Peter. Do you love me? You know, I love you. Do you love me? You know, I love you Lord, you love, you know all things, you know the answer to that question already. Then care for my sheep feed my sheep. He restores Peter. It's out of the graciousness and the faithfulness of the Lord that we can operate as ministers. You understand that we have not got some sort of corner on the market of righteousness. We're the good people on the face of the Earth and everybody else is full of sin and somehow we're not full of since we are broken people. We are sinful people. That's what Paul says in Romans all have sinned and fallen short when we catch the vision of the Gospel that in the midst of our own Frailty in the midst of our own sin and broken us we can call out to God we can say like a writer limitations. Wait. I remember that God is good and faithful and gracious and patient. I will call out to him. So like Peter we can go from being broken to being restored and we can serve the Lord and do great things for our world our city our community our families. not never self not because were something special but because we've caught the vision that God is Not only with us, but he is good and gracious and kind and will continue to forgive and restore us and equip and call us to serve and minister. So not only are we challenged to think about the fact that love is expressed by being with and that's what God has demonstrated to us. And we seen it in our life through others and to God himself were called to reach out and be with others and were called to be bold in to take risk to realize that failure. The fear of failure should not paralyzed. I see if that happens too often. Sometimes we really want to play Life or really conservative because we're so afraid of failure. We we we don't want to be bald. We don't want to be extravagant. We want to be king on the truth be tight. Let's just hold of them. Let's just play at this sort away right in Jesus tells the parable about those he his talents to and one person that you just tell me soon as look I'm afraid I'm afraid that's all I'm going to bury this Talent there so many churches one thing. I love about Hillandale is we use our building we use it all week long. There are groups in and out here all the time and it cost us money and time we have to keep fixing things and repairing things and carpet gets worn out and praise the Lord. Because that is stewardship stewardship is using what you have for the kingdom of God not bearing it and saying look Lord. We kept the building locked up all week long except for one hour on Sunday. We just buried it here. We didn't let anybody use it so that the floor would be just the way it was 20 years ago when we put it down. Sometimes we could be so tight and concerning because we operate out of fear when instead of God says I don't know where you get this out of the you should all pray. If you need to operate on a face I am with you and if God is with us than we can step forward and baldness Bob. Goff says fail trying don't fail watching. And to offer that's what we do. We watch the world go to hell in a handbasket as they say right as the prophet said in the Old Testament. We watch it happen. When were called to fail trying not to fail watching each time. We fail God will meet us teach us restore us and call us to try again and he will work through us and the gospel will be Advance. We saw a computer flash and God wants to do that sort of work in our life and they have that sort of work in our life. It means taking that step of faith. We talked last week about the simple step of faith of inviting someone to church and some of you've done that and that's awesome. We talked about leading someone to Christ and if you got the churchwide email this weekend, if you didn't give us your email address, you know this week someone in the church after last Sunday talk to somebody know of the week and guess what happened. They led someone to Christ. Because the initial conversation with someone and the Holy Spirit Lord been working made that moment right? Because they took that they didn't do everything may be the first to say I didn't do everything but they were faithful in that moment that they were in And that moment was one where that person wanted to come to know Christ. Conversation led to them giving their life to Christ. We hope to see about some here in the next few weeks. I taught that little step acting not out of fear, but out of faith. Now I want us to look at a specific passage in Luke and and I want us to make all this personal more than just the grand Narrative of scripture. I want us to look at this passage in Luke and I want us to apply it to ourselves. Okay? And Luke chapter 7 Jesus is having dinner with the Pharisees. One of the Pharisees ask Jesus to have dinner with him. So Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat. Now the Pharisees were those in the culture. If you don't know what that time. They were those who in many many ways. We're getting it right in the sense that they said look we have the scriptures were studying them day and night we want to obey every little passage matter fact, we want to be perfect and they were trying very hard and doing very well in many ways. And so they were at the top scale there of those who were religious and holy and separate and saying we've got it right and Jesus would be a friend with anybody including as we said a few weeks ago or a month or two ago the tax collectors those at the bottom of the scale used to be printed them. And guess what Jesus would be friends with those at the top of skill. Didn't discriminate about anyone whoever was so the Pharisee said hey, why don't you come at you know, you're the new preacher in town? We hear you're doing some interesting things. Why don't you come eat? So it's a house full of Pharisees all these preachers maybe, you know, three piece suits and nice short hair high and tight, you know, good godly people have all got their big black book of the word right next to him. You know, they are clean-shaven they they are the right stuff baby and they invite Jesus to come have dinner with him. So he comes and has dinner with them and look at what happens in this passage. He sits down to eat dinner with them when a certain immoral woman from that City.

Heard he was eating there. She brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. Then she knelt behind him at his feet weeping.

Her tears fell on his feet and she want them off. With her hair, then she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them. That's his awkward and disturbing as it sounds I mean here is this dinner? And it's all the right people and they're all dressed to the hilt and everything's good and they've invited Jesus and your this woman comes in and the way you described her when you look at the other passages everybody knew what type of woman she was. She was an immoral woman, perhaps the town prostitute and she comes walking into this meeting and invited her. She sucks. She's not even dressed up but she's not allowed and she just said she just comes right in and then that culture they would have reclined at the table when they ain't so just been declining in his feet. We've been going back away. That's why she's able to come right back around behind him and everyone just ignores everyone else and she starts to break open this perfume on Jesus feet and washing his feet and drying his feet with her hair and she's crying the whole time. She's doing this. awkward you can be the dinner table full of people. And if one person starts crying everyone notices, right everyone can be trying hard to behave appropriately. But if I'm done at the other that's why he's crying at the end of the table flip alone to march in in the middle of the meal and not take a seat not be invited not be welcomed by everyone there, but Jesus himself and then just start crying for your tears to wash his feet. I mean there was no avoiding what was going on. So no one could ignore that moment since I was just eat your vegetables. Maybe she'll go on her way. It was too bold and loud to ignore. And so she sobs on his feet and brakes this perfume jar. That's probably worth a Year's wages. Probably perfume that she used in her business perhaps to make herself more alluring.

Kentucky poorest this year everything she has perhaps of value she pours it out on Christ's feet and and dries his feet as she cries and horses perfume with her hair.

Maybe it's not awkward after all. Maybe it's love.

Play everyone says this woman the center, but the truth is everyone in that room was a center. She was just the one who knew that she was a sinner.

She had experience Price Loving and forgiving her. all of her sins And so she'd experienced this tremendous love this audacious. Love I need this amazing bold gracefield unreasonable over-the-top inappropriate. Wow, the cross that showered on her this immoral woman and that love him and so amazing to her to receive this incredibly gracious bold extravagance love from Jesus himself the guess what she did she just went straight to Jesus and gave it right back everything. I've got I'm going to break open this perfume and I'm going to cry and wash your feet because you have shown me so much love and forgiveness that she immediately shows him that sort of love and forgiveness. when the Pharisees who had invited him saw this He said himself if this man were prophet he would know what kind of woman is touching him. She's Center. When Jesus answered his thoughts. Simon he said I have something to say to you go ahead the teacher replied Simon replied. Jesus Knows, by the way, just a little extra bonus lesson here. Jesus knows what we're thinking.

Now that could be an awesome thing or to be a terrifying thing. But it is reality. And so when Simon was thinking to himself, he was a real property know what kind of woman that says that she just sent her and she should not be even associating with her. Jesus decided to answer those thought cuz he knew what he was thinking and other pathogens communicate that true that Jesus knows what they're thinking. He's just going to tell you something and Simon says, yeah, go ahead. Jesus says, let me tell you a story a man loan money to people 500 pieces of silver to 1 and 50 pieces of silver to another but neither of them could repay him. So he kindly forgave them both canceling their debts. Who do you suppose loved him more after that, dancer. Suppose the one whom he canceled the larger debt. That's right. Jesus said Then he turns a woman and said the assignment look at this woman kneeling here. When I entered your home you didn't offer me water to wash the dust from my feet, but she has washed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You didn't greet me with a kiss. But from the time I first came in she has not stopped kissing my feet you neglected the courtesy of olive oil to anoint my head, but she has anointed my feet with rare perfume. I tell you her sins and they are many have been forgiven. So she has shown me much love but a person who is Forgiven little shows only little love. Now this is where you and I come into this passage. Jesus is teaching a fairly convicting principal here. He says to Simon it's clear that the woman has been forgiven much because she's loving much. She knows who I am. She knows that she's a sinner. She's broken and contrite before me and she knows God's character to be gracious and loving and forgiving because she has received all that love. She's loving back fully. Lisa Simon Those who have been forgiven little love little. He's implying to Simon look you haven't even acknowledge me. And shake my hand when I came in and you didn't give me you didn't take my jacket. You didn't say here take this seat is the best seat. You showed me no recognition. And that tiny bit of love betrays to Christ who knows our hearts that Simon has not seen himself as a center in need of God's grace. And therefore he is not seeing himself as a recipient of God's Amazing Grace and therefore he has no need to be gracious and loving to others.

Now here's where he quits preaching and goes to Medellin. What does that say about us?

If we are not quick to be extravagant and gracious and loving to others, what does that say about us?

If the church sometimes in North American can become this isolated institution that just kind of focuses on its own goals and needs and doesn't really have the heart to say to the city or the community. We want to be gracious and open-handed. Let us love you. Let us care if you let us sacrifice for your sake. What does that say about our hearts? The old fashioned language might be in a Revival. It might say that we need to repent.

We need to be in the presence of a holy and righteous God and realize our own sinfulness. But we are not the good people and everybody not here on Sunday morning are the bad people as if that's the way God has divided the universe. We are all that woman. Our sins are many.

And God offers us tremendous Grace and compassion and love and forgiveness. We need to return to our first love and that what the writer of Revelation says, we didn't remember how far from God we are and have been and how it's his grace. His grace that has restored us and forgiving us and cleanse us our degrees not our work ethic not our years of experience. Not that I'm a better person than I was raised by good parents. I was taught to be better than that. I see some people tonight and I think you know, I was raised better than that. I can't believe you're behaving that way. We are the captains of our own destiny Elders know Lord Jesus and a lot of our thinking I got where I'm at. I work hard. I'm at work three jobs at one point to get through school. I see people who won't even take a scholarship and go to school all of that angst. That's so rampant in our culture. Betrays a heart that says I got here on my own. What's wrong with you that somehow you're not making your own path in this world the way I made my own pan. But in this Parable we are revealed as the woman.

We're only where we're at because of the grace of the Lord Jesus. And his grace is great and extravagant and even when our hearts are hard. He meets us with Grace and love. and forgiveness

I don't know that we always see. the fullness of some of these passages

I don't know I am.

I heard someone tell the story so mad imagine it this way. This is for the man that specially it's a it's a Saturday morning and and you're out at Lowe's and you're doing some shopping and I've got all the new spring stuff out and it's pretty cool. I mean you're looking this isn't it romantic about getting and I've got it on sale all what a great morning to have a good time. And then before you know, what you think is right here almost slip over to Dick's and you look at some of the hunting equipment at Dick's anything call man. This is good. I'm enjoying it running an old friend you sit and chat for 15 minutes and you get yourself a cup of coffee at Starbucks and keep loafing Best Buy is right. There you go and look at all the gadgets that you liking your other favorite one you once on sale you're making your Christmas list early, even though it's spring cuz you're thinking beautiful weather outside and you're just having a great time enjoying yourself. All your favorite things all your favorite stores and you're just going this is pretty good. And then About 4:30 the day has slipped away from you. Suddenly you remember something. Oh, no, you said yourself? I was supposed to pick my wife up at 2:30 at the hairdresser. I'll know. I mean normally we have two separate cars but one car was in the shop. So I dropped her off and I promised her that I pick her up. And I totally did just got to wait and you get your phone out and it's dead and you don't know how long it's been dead. There's no charge it and you're terrified. What if I charged it? I don't want to see the messages that are on that phone. What am I going to do? You think I was so quickly you make your way back to the hairdressing place and you go in and you say is she here and they're cutting hair when she said something about walking home.

Oh my Lord. Okay, so, so can I use your phone using your phone? Cuz your dad you call home your son answers dad? Yes, I don't know where you at, but I think you should just keep on going.

Is your mother home son? Yes, but you did not want to talk to her. How did she get home? She walked home that's like a mile and a half. She knows dad.

Have you looked outside and I know it's raining and windy that I think looked looked at. I love you. Goodbye. Hangs up. So you drive home. And you've you've got none of your thinking about honey, listen terrorist attack the food court now, she'll never believe me. If I did that I perform CPR on someone right now. I know she'll know I'm until you pull into the driveway. And you see driving down the street looking around her new boss and then you realize all tonight's the dinner. I promised her that I would pick up my socks in the newspapers that we get the veggie tray ready and then I would I would vacuum and I'm done. None of those things in her boss is here pulling into her dinner with her brand new boss and I was supposed to do all those things you go to the door of the house and it looks like some scene from a horror movie. I need the doors getting bigger and smaller and Suddenly It's Dark and there's lightning and thunder on your afraid to touch it and you think I'm getting to know and right when you finally worked up the nerve it opens and it's her. She standing there and she's lopsided cuz one Hill Has Broken. And her hair is everywhere and her dress is asked you and you say hi, honey. you say the only thing that you can say you don't make up any of those excuses, you know that she knows and you say I'm sorry. I'm sorry. She got a knife in one hand spoon in the other. She looks kind of like the dog does after get to the river when it's not supposed to you know, the rain the mess everything. And you say I'm sorry, I forgot. I'm sorry. I have no excuse. I'm sorry and she says

dying Bear with me this is a story.

I forgive you. Just give me a kiss and let's go on with the evening.

Gentleman, let me ask you a question. What kind of Kiss do you give that woman who just forgave you? So graciously do you lean forward and give her this cold in different pack? Will you just go let me go, honey? Or do you fall at her feet and cry and weep and kiss and say thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for being so gracious and so kind.

The Lord has forgiven each of us has so much. And sometimes I think we just kind of give him this in different little peck on the cheek. Oh time for worship, but I got other stuff on my mind Lego Jesus. I'll think about other things during the songs. You know, sometimes there's a great need in our community that we could do something for or need in the church and we say yeah, let you know. I got a lot. I got some of my own plans with my resources and time until there's a peck on the cheek Jesus.

What's in that little analogy is Tiny compared to what we have been forgiven in it. We are that woman in that parable. And if I really want to start preaching we're guilty of sin. Are we? I mean we've all I suspect is true that we've all lied at some point. I suspect is true that will that we ball intentionally send when we when the Holy Spirit was telling us to stop going in the direction. We're going in. Can you buy it to that? Have you defiantly not done the thing that you knew that God was saying do that and you just said no and gone the other way. We are that woman and the Lord has encountered us and he has said to us I forgive you.

Your sins and they are many. are forgiven

so the invitation this morning and I ain't about to worship team to come up. 2 questions, if you've never heard that message that God offers you Grace in the midst of your forgiveness that he offers you this tremendous Grace in the midst of forgiveness. I invite you to hear and receive that message this morning. That's what it means to become a Christian. That's what he needs to hear the gospel and repent to get saved to become a disciple it mean you've heard that message and you know that you're a sinner your husband in the doorway who has no excuse but to say I blew it you're that woman who Jesus and look at him so, you know what to send their many We are those people. And Jesus offers to us forgiveness. That is the very essence of the Gospel that we cannot save herself that we cannot forgive herself that we encounter God as with us and gracious slow to anger and patience and offering us forgiveness. If we will repent if we will have our hearts broken with our own sinfulness and we will depend upon him. So if you've never said yes to that I invite you during the song to come Ford Shelby Folks both in the front and the back for prayer and I'll be in the back for prayer or decision, but during this song Come forward. For those here who've already heard that message and you've received Christ as your lord and savior, then I challenge you to realize the magnitude of what God has done through Jesus Christ on our behalf. Do you understand from the very beginning of creating us as people for whom there be relationship to us betraying the very nature of our creation and choosing sin over God so that that relationship was broken to go rescue in Israel. So they'd be a light unto all the nation to Christ coming in the flash to be Emmanuel God With Us going to the Cross praying in the garden father's there any other way but saying none the less I will accept this, so that restoration and forgiveness could be offered to you and I so that he could fully accurately authentically say Robbie your sins are many but they're forgiven. And as true, as I know that I have many sins it is true that my sins are forgiven. because of Jesus Christ Have you thought about that? As real as you know, the fact that you are a sinner. Is it as real to you that your sins are forgiven?

Glenn's Romans 8:1 there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

So I invite you to receive that amazing love this morning a new. And invite you like the woman to show it this week. Just like Jesus said to Peter when Peter said yes, I love you. He said then feed my sheep. Jesus asked us to show our love for him by loving others.

How much more tangible could that be? That's what he asked us to do to be the people who sees him and those who are hungry or naked or poor or in prison. Jesus says, that's me. That's me. You want to love me you want to be the woman whose finds me at a dinner and comes in and cries on my feet and pours out the perfume do that by loving others. So this week you've got a little card. If you pick one up, it's got this verse.

Right here from 1st John. This is how we know what love is Jesus Christ laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions So what will you do this week to demonstrate great. Love to someone. By 6 dozen donuts and go to the DMV. Just walk in and say you guys are awesome. When that be cool.

Maybe there's a gift that you need to give somebody. Maybe you need to forgive somebody a debt they all against you.

Maybe you need to rake the leaves in your neighbor's yard.

Or maybe you need to do. something wildly extravagant Lord might have something on your heart that I don't know.

I challenge you this week like that woman to just not hold back.

Pick somebody your kids your wife your neighborhood the church somebody. And just donuts do something that makes people say hi Kelly. That's we have a talk. That should happen to us every now and then who did we should be behaving like Christ. We should be so generous and gracious that that friends are family pull aside every now and then and say Laura you just can't do you know, you just can't give you know, Glenn's got to call me and say what happened to the checking account and you know, there's going to be a moment in our life when we went whenever now man that people just say hey that was too much. Tell me how to say no one.

No one could ever be too much.

How much grace and love has Jesus poured out to us again and again and again, we should be talking to people having lunch with people hanging out with people that people say would you you can't do that that's on that part of town or that you're not set. You know, we need people we need to be like Jesus. That's the way the people are going to cut that out. You're ruining it for the rest of us. We got all the past cut you keep zipping off the Paterson breaking the routines. We need to be like that woman. Me when we worship when we give when we serve when we live. We all hold nothing back. Because Jesus. It's provided our forgiveness and our sins. They are many and is provided our forgiveness. Please stand as we sing.

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