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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. JESUS AND THE PHARISEE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Simon the Pharisee desired that Jesus would eat with him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. What prompted this desire, we are not told.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Whether he was a serious seeker or not we are not told.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. It is possible that it was just a set-up, he was just looking for something to find fault with about Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. People still desire to be around Jesus for different motives.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Some who are genuinely searching, and others who are just seeking to find fault so to confirm their unbelief.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Some of you who have come today are seeking answers and other seeking arguments, you are hoping to find some fault by which you can justify your unbelief.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. He was certainly an ungracious host.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He did not provide Jesus water to wash His feet.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The proper thing was to have his servant wash the feet of the guests.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. People wore open sandals and the paths were dusty, so at least water was poured over the feet. He did not even do that.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He did not greet Jesus with a kiss.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The common custom was for the host to lay his hand on shoulder of the guest and give him the kiss of peace.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. That was a sign of respect and always done to the Rabbi.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. He did not anoint the head of Jesus with oil.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The general custom was to put a drop of attar of roses upon the head of the guest.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. He offered to Jesus none of these gracious actions that were just common courtesy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. He was soon finding fault with Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE WOMAN.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. A woman of the city who was a sinner. She was a prostitute. Jesus acknowledged that her sins were many.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. She heard that Jesus was eating at the house of Simon.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The houses were usually built around a courtyard, and when there was such a feast the people were free to come in and listen to the words of the Rabbi.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. This woman was a notorious sinner came and stood behind Jesus and began to weep.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. When they ate at such a feast, they did not have chairs around a table, but they reclined upon the floor, leaning on their one elbow, their feet were behind them. That is how it was that she stood at His feet behind Him. vs 38</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Conscious of her great guilt, and standing behind one who was so holy and pure, her heart began to break over the sense of her guilt. Her tears began to flow, dropping on the feet of Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Perhaps with a little embarrassment she began to wipe the tears off with her hair.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. She then began kissing His feet, and she took the perfume which was generally carried in a little phial called an alabaster, and worn around the neck, and poured the perfume on the feet of Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. The response of Simon the Pharisee was that of contempt for the woman and doubt concerning Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He was thinking to himself, "If this man were a prophet, He would have known what kind of woman this is, and surely would not have allowed her to touch Him."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The Pharisee's were very careful not to touch sinners.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. When they would walk down the street, they would hold their robes tight against their bodies for fear that they might swing out and perhaps touch a sinner, or a woman, or a Gentile, and they would thus become defiled.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. To allow a known prostitute to touch you was unthinkable.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. They felt that the sin could somehow transfer off to you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. They would be considered unclean, and not be allowed into the place of worship.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THE RESPONSE OF JESUS TO THE QUESTIONS AND DOUBTS OF SIMON.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. "I have something to say to you."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He responded, "Rabbi, say on."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Jesus told the story of a man who had two debtors, the one owed 500 pence or about $50,000, and the other $5,000.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Neither could pay his debt, so he forgave both of them their debt.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Question, "Which one loved him the most?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. They were both debtors, they could neither one pay.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. We realize that Jesus is talking about a debt of sin.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. One a great sinner, the other fairly righteous, but a sinner still.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. No man can atone for or pay the debt of his sin.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. They were both forgiven, but which one appreciated the forgiveness the most?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. Simon answered, "I suppose the one that was forgiven the most."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Jesus answered, "You are right."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The contrast between the sinful woman and the self righteous Simon.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Jesus mentions his discourtesy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. You did not provide water for My feet.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. You did not kiss Me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. You did not put perfume on my head.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The gracious acts of the woman.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. She washed My feet with tears, dried them with her hair. Incidentally for a woman to let down her hair in public was considered indecent. When a woman was married she would tie her hair up in a bun, and would never again be seen publicly with her hair down.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. She was continually kissing His feet from the time He reclined at the table.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. She anointed His feet with the costly perfume.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Her sins which are many are forgiven, for she loved much.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. His actions showed that he loved little.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Today there are those who love much and those who love little. Shall we describe those who love little?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. They come to the place of worship quite regularly, they sing, but not too loudly for they do not want to be too enthusiastic.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. You will never see them at a prayer meeting, and they rarely come to a week night service.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. They take only enough spiritual nourishment to barely keep them alive.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. They have family prayer sometimes. Mainly at meals.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. They can count on one hand all the people they have led to the Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">f. All the things they have done for the Lord can be recorded on a small scrap of paper.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Sometimes it is much harder for a good and moral person to receive salvation than for a hardened criminal.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. There are always those who do not want to see certain people forgiven.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. I think of all the fuss over the case of Dahlmer who had murdered so many boys. He confessed to receiving Jesus as His Savior in prison, and after he was murdered, there were many who could not accept that God would forgive him and receive him into heaven. If his was a true repentance, think of how great his love for the Lord must have been.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. The man who is accused of the murder of Denise Huber has made a confession of faith in prison, not many people are willing to allow him in heaven.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. Charles Tex Watson of the Manson family has made a profession of faith in Jesus in prison, and there are so many who are not willing to accept that God will forgive him. His love for the Lord exceeds that of those who are still condemning him, for he has been forgiven so much.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. They who are forgiven much, love much.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. He then said to the woman, "Your sins are forgiven."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. That must have sounded like the music of heaven in her ears.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Unforgiven, unconfessed sin can hang heavy upon a persons mind and heart.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. David described his misery caused by the consciousness of his guilt. "My bones waxed old through my roaring all day long, day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My moisture is turned into the drought of summer."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. Jesus then added to the woman, "Your faith has saved you, go in peace.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The war is over. Your rebelling against God has come to an end.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. You can now know peace.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. As you go from this house of worship this morning, will you be going in peace, or will you still be burdened by the sense of your guilt, still committed to do evil?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">F. It is possible to love much even if you have not been forgiven much. That is, you do not have to be some rank sinner to love the Lord much. All you have to do is to know Him much, and the more you know Him the more you will love Him.</div>
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