1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: Let us pray for unto you is born this day 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: in the City of David, a savior, which is Christ, 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: the Lord Luke two eleven. He is here, Christ, the Lord, 4 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 1: the King of the Jews, the Savior of the world, 5 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: is born to day. Glory, hallelujah. What a glorious revelation. 6 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: Praise you, my sweet Lord of Light and Love. What 7 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: a thrilling announcement to know that the prophecies of old 8 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 1: have come to fulfillment. The cloud of darkness is about 9 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: to be defeated by the Kingdom of Love, and justice 10 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: is growing on the earth. The Word is made flesh 11 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 1: this day in the city of David, where prophecy meets destiny. Glory, hallelujah. 12 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,319 Speaker 1: This is the day the Lord has made, and I 13 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: will be glad and rejoice in it. This is the 14 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: day You came into the world wrapped in the flesh 15 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:05,319 Speaker 1: of a human baby, just like me and all the 16 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,759 Speaker 1: other children of the spiritual Seed of Abraham. You were 17 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 1: the Savior whom God provided and appointed and had long 18 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 1: promised from the beginning of the world. You are the 19 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 1: great King being both God and Man, who is the 20 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: only one able to work out salvation for all sinners. 21 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: It is you, Jesus, who saved me from sin, satan, 22 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: and the law of bondage, to the world, death and hell, 23 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: and every enemy that wanted to destroy me. Thank you, 24 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: Father for this powerful gift of your son Jesus, who 25 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: is the reason for this season. I will rejoice and 26 00:01:51,280 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: be glad in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you for listening 27 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: to today's daily prayer. For more inspiration and an incredible 28 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: message from our feature pastor, stay tuned to pray dot 29 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: COM's Sunday service. 30 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 2: I'm Kenny Luck. I'm one of the lead pastors here. 31 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 2: If you're joining us for the first time, we're in 32 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 2: a series that's called enter In and it's all about 33 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:30,239 Speaker 2: worship because we're pursuing God in a way that is 34 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 2: connected to the way Jesus wants us to pursue him. 35 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 2: And so if you're here for the first time, the 36 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 2: structure of the services are a little bit different because 37 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 2: we're making less time for talking more time for worship. 38 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 2: And that's a good thing and it kind of set 39 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 2: the base for where we're headed, and where we're going 40 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 2: is the words of Jesus in John chapter four. If 41 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 2: you have your notes, you can take those out, and 42 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 2: if you don't have those notes, you can look up 43 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 2: on the screen. But this is the foundation verse for 44 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 2: this series. Jesus says this an hour is coming, and 45 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 2: now is when the true worshippers will worship the Father 46 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 2: in spirit and truth. For such people, the Father seeks 47 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 2: to be his worshippers. Let's finish it together. God is 48 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 2: spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit 49 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 2: and truth. And so we have just a few goals 50 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 2: that Jesus lays out that define authentic worship. And so 51 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 2: those goals are going to be our goals. And the 52 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,519 Speaker 2: first goal is be a true worshiper. Right, be a 53 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 2: true worshiper. Write that down if you're taking notes, Be 54 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 2: a true worshiper. Now, what's the antonym of true? False? 55 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 2: Don't be a fake worshiper. Don't be a false worshiper. 56 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 2: Don't be an insincere worshiper. Be a true worshiper. What 57 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 2: does that look like? Well, that's your next villain. Worship 58 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 2: in spirit and in truth. Write that down. These are 59 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 2: our goals, be a true worshiper, worship in spirit and truth. 60 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 2: But what does that suggest? Suggests that there's a spiritual 61 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 2: integrity to our worship right that we're are undivided between 62 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 2: what we're doing and what we're really thinking and feeling 63 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 2: in that moment. That's integrity that comes from the math 64 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 2: word integer means whole. Right. God wants your worship to 65 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 2: be whole. He wants it to have integrity, he wants 66 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,359 Speaker 2: it to be real. So Jesus says, those who worship 67 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 2: the Lord must worship in spirit and truth. And that 68 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 2: requires a posture, which is our third goal, which is 69 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 2: to welcome God's Spirit. Because Jesus says God is spirit, 70 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 2: to welcome God's Spirit, to welcome God's presence into the 71 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 2: spaces where we are as Gigi described right, and welcome 72 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 2: His presence into every space of worship that we find 73 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 2: ourselves doing. That God is spirit, those who worship him 74 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 2: must worship in spirit and truth. The Bible says that 75 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 2: His spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are 76 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 2: His children. There is this intangible, supernatural, spiritual connection between 77 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 2: you and God. And I know that if you're a 78 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 2: believer in Christ, you know you had those experiences with 79 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 2: God where it's unmistakable his spirit is witnessing with your 80 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:09,720 Speaker 2: spirit your spirit is hearing him talk. He's like he's 81 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 2: talking to you. It's like he's seen your film, and 82 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 2: he is revealing things about himself and revealing things about 83 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 2: you that only he and you are sharing in that moment, 84 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 2: and he's doing it all over the world, all at 85 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 2: the same time because he's God. It's amazing. And then 86 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:30,359 Speaker 2: the last goal is to experience the work of His 87 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 2: Spirit and truth. If we're worshiping in spirit and truth 88 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 2: and God is spirit, then what we want is we 89 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 2: want to experience. Everybody say, experience, experience. That's right. God 90 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,239 Speaker 2: wants to validate your faith in Him as you come 91 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 2: in faith and you present yourselves for worship wherever that 92 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 2: space or place is of worship, and you're worshiping in 93 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 2: spirit and truth, and there's some spiritual integrity, and what 94 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 2: you're doing on the outset actually matches your insides. God 95 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 2: wants you to experience the works of the Holy Spirit. 96 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 2: That's why when Sergio invites us into worship many weekends, 97 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,040 Speaker 2: he'll say, hey, say this with me, Holy Spirit, come 98 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,239 Speaker 2: and have your way. Right. That's our crossline family, you know, culture, 99 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 2: it's our lexicon. Why because we want to worship the 100 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 2: Lord in spirit and truth, and we want to welcome 101 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 2: his spirit into this space, and we want to experience 102 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 2: the work of his spirit and the work of his 103 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 2: what truth, spirit and truth where we want to be 104 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 2: aligned with how God's thinking as we're experiencing him. We 105 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 2: want everything that he has. So Jesus says, the way 106 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 2: we worship matters. Let's say that together, the way we 107 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 2: worship matters. That's right. We could be saying and doing 108 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 2: the right things, but he's after our intention. Everybody say 109 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 2: intention intention, Right. There's motion and then there's your motives. Right, 110 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 2: So you can be all doing all the body stuff, 111 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 2: and you can be doing all the voice stuff, but 112 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 2: then there's the whole separate part of you that is 113 00:06:56,040 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 2: your motive, right, And he wants integrity and intent. And 114 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 2: when there's integrity and intentionality that we're seeing God that 115 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 2: our insides are matching our outsides, there's an annoying that 116 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 2: falls when he sees that, and God begins to pour 117 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 2: himself out. Now Jesus would, on the plus side, define 118 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 2: it the way we've just described, and then he would 119 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 2: see the opposite and he would point that out too. 120 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 2: In Matthew fifteen, he says this let's read it together. 121 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 2: This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts 122 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 2: are far from me. See the disconnect where it's just 123 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 2: you know, like when somebody says, well, I'm sorry, but 124 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 2: they really don't mean it. It's like that disconnect between 125 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 2: words and actions and the spirit inside. And you can 126 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 2: sense that disconnect. Jesus is the same way. Wow, going 127 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 2: through the right motions, wearing the right clothes, saying the 128 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 2: right things, lifting the hand, you know, all these things. 129 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 2: But is God totally focused on just that. No, He's 130 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 2: seeing through and he wants to see the heart. So 131 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 2: when we read the Bible and you see a statement 132 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 2: like this, you go, oh, well that doesn't sound very 133 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 2: very positive. Okay, well let's invert it and let's make 134 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 2: it positive. Across the line church, This people honors me 135 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 2: with their lips, and their hearts are close to me. Amen, 136 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 2: So we just do we see it's just like wow, 137 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 2: there's a disconnect for Jesus here and he says it 138 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 2: like that. Well, then let's flip it and then let's 139 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 2: say wow, this people, the cross Line family honor me 140 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 2: with their lips. They got the motions, and they got 141 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 2: the motives right. They got the voices, and they have 142 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 2: the intention. They have spiritual integrity when they worship. Now, 143 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 2: God wants a strong connection. That's what I hope you see. 144 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 2: God doesn't want an insincere, fake connection with you. He 145 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,959 Speaker 2: doesn't want religion, he doesn't want you affiliated. He wants 146 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 2: to know you. He wants his presence to come inside 147 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 2: of you. He wants to do deep works in your heart. 148 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 2: But for that connection to be strong, someone has to 149 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 2: risk for the relationship. Every relationship starts with the risk, right. 150 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 2: Remember coming home from finals and I saw Chrissie's roommate 151 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 2: and I saw I saw her on the street in 152 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 2: front of my fraternity and I went, I'm like, hey, 153 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:09,559 Speaker 2: what's going on. She's like, oh, I'm good. They're like 154 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 2: are you. I'm like, well, there's my last final. Oh 155 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 2: She's like, Chrissy's at home and blah blah blah. I'm yeah. 156 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 2: I was thinking maybe I should call her, and she goes, 157 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 2: you should call her? Like I should call her. I 158 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 2: strongly recommend that you should call her. Right, So, I 159 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,079 Speaker 2: remember looking at the phone and my parents at this 160 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 2: one we had landlines kids, just so you know, they 161 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 2: weren't like you know, We're like one of these, you know, 162 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 2: staring at the landline in back bedroom of six seven 163 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 2: eight eight Hannover Drive and I'm looking at that phone 164 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, all right, do do do do? 165 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 2: Do do doo? Call Anaheim from San Jose. Right. The 166 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 2: dad answers, Hi, is this mister Watson? Yes it is. 167 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 2: This is Kenny. Look. I go to school with Chrissy. 168 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 2: Is she there? She's standing right next to me. Anyway, 169 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,839 Speaker 2: had to take a risk, right, every really, relationship starts 170 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 2: with a risk, right, Well, that is the way relationships begin. 171 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 2: But guess what, that's the way relationships are sustained. Where 172 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 2: people are making risks, people are making sacrifices for another 173 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 2: person that they love. So Christy and I we started 174 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 2: dating in college and I remember, you know, hitting a crossroads. 175 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 2: And just by way of context, you know, people think 176 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 2: that pastors like they come from generations of pastors, like 177 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 2: Kenny's dad was probably a pastor, and his dad's dad 178 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 2: was a pastor, and his dad's dad's dad was a pastor. 179 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 2: And that is not true for me. Okay, I call 180 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 2: myself the slimy pit pastor. All right, I come out 181 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 2: of the slimy pit. Jesus rescued out me out of 182 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 2: the slimy pit right, placed my feet on a rock, 183 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 2: gave me a firm place to stand. But man, was 184 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 2: I ever, ever, ever spinning my wheels trying to figure 185 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 2: out who I was without Christ. But then he lifted 186 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:55,199 Speaker 2: me out of the pit, set my feet on a rock. 187 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 2: It's a picture of traction. Everybody say, traction, traction, Right, 188 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 2: It's like, I'm not slipping anymore. I got I found Jesus, 189 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:06,680 Speaker 2: and so I'm dating Chrissy shortly a couple of years 190 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 2: after meeting Jesus, and I'm loving my new life. It's like, 191 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I have clarity, I have direction. He's 192 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 2: telling me who I am, and it's so so much 193 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 2: better right than chasing cool out there before. Right, I 194 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 2: have an identity. I have a way to be. I 195 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 2: have a way to believe. I have a way to 196 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 2: behave that is healthy and is God intended. But then 197 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 2: I started dating Chrissy my junior year. She's a freshman. 198 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 2: Things start getting serious. Right, now here's the crossroads. That 199 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 2: reality of things getting serious with me and Chrissy demanded 200 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 2: some new character from me. It meant that I had 201 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 2: to be a little transparent because the recent Kenny of 202 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 2: the last two years is the guy that she met, 203 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 2: but that wasn't always Kenny, and her commitment to purity 204 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 2: before marriage was set. I knew it, and she saw 205 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 2: the new me, and I just respected her too much 206 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 2: and loved her too much to not just have a 207 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 2: moment of truth with her. So I go to my 208 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 2: buddy Spencer. I'm like, dude, I really feel like Christy 209 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 2: needs to know that chapter of my life. And he's like, oh, 210 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 2: she's so She's so perfect for you. I'm like, I know. 211 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 2: He's like, she's so pretty. I'm like I know. He goes, 212 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,439 Speaker 2: you gotta do it. I'm like, oh great. So we're 213 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:32,839 Speaker 2: down there playing volleyball. Literally three days later, we're back 214 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,679 Speaker 2: at the same place at Temescal Canyon Beach next to UCLA, 215 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:37,719 Speaker 2: but I'm with Chrissy. The sun is setting and I'm 216 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 2: thinking to myself, Yeah, the sun is setting on this relationship. 217 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,560 Speaker 2: If I go for it, it could be over. She 218 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 2: holds the veto power on the future. If I'm transparent, 219 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 2: isn't it a terrible place to be in when someone 220 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,079 Speaker 2: else holds the veto power of the future, of the 221 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:55,600 Speaker 2: relationship something that you want, it's totally out of your hands. 222 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 2: But here I am. But here is the deal. Jesus 223 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 2: is love and his grace in my life. It eliminated 224 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 2: fear out of me, made me feel so secure on 225 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 2: the inside that I could now risk. Whereas before I 226 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 2: wasn't so good at that transparency thing, now I could, 227 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 2: out of love for someone say you know what, I 228 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 2: got to tell you something. And that's exactly what happened. 229 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 2: So We're sitting on this log at the beach and 230 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 2: I can't look at her because I'm kind of coming 231 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 2: to the space of a little bit of shame. 232 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 3: It. 233 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 2: So it's like, I don't want to talk about that 234 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 2: part of my life, but because I respect you and 235 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 2: I love you so much, I really have to do it. 236 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 2: And so I'm like staring out like at the ocean, 237 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 2: and she's like, what is the matter with you? And 238 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 2: I'm like, I gotta tell you something, And you know, 239 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 2: it's like, just give her the facts. You know, the 240 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 2: me you met is not the me that always was. 241 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 2: You know, we've had a lot of fun. I became 242 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 2: a Christian, but you know, one night my senior year, 243 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 2: you know, it's I'm not the person that you're looking for. 244 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 2: And right then I just started like to shake and sorry, dudes, 245 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 2: I think tears started rolling down the face. I'm staring 246 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 2: out at the ocean, and this is what I hear. 247 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 2: After about thirty seconds of eternity of silence. Look at me, 248 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 2: she goes, look at me, and she turned me like that, 249 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 2: and she looked in my face, you know, five foot 250 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 2: for one hundred and nothing pounds, and she goes, no, 251 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 2: come here, and she grabbed me like this. She didn't 252 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 2: push me away, she pulled me closer, and she said 253 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 2: I would have never known. And God has made you 254 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 2: such a new person. 255 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 3: Now. 256 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 2: I hope you're free because. 257 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: I love you. 258 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 2: And it's so redemptive for me. It's a redemptive part 259 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 2: of my life where I savor that story, as you 260 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 2: can tell, because for the first time of my life, 261 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 2: I experienced real grace. I knew it in my head. 262 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 2: I knew what grace was in my head, and I 263 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 2: knew Jesus died for me, and I know I know 264 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 2: that he loves me, even though I'm not really worthy 265 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 2: of his love. I make lots of mistakes. He's perfect, 266 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 2: I'm not perfect, but to feel it tangibly from another 267 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 2: person where they see you, they know you, and they 268 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 2: know your past and they say I love you and 269 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 2: I accept you, and I hope you're free. That's just 270 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 2: like I savor that. We're gonna look at a passage 271 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 2: of scripture that is very much like that has a 272 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 2: lot of power in it, and it's one of my 273 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 2: favorite passages of scripture. And as we were doing sermon 274 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 2: collab Insurged was like, Hey, if we want to talk 275 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 2: about the lady in Luke seven, I'm like, I want 276 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 2: to talk about her because I am her. And so 277 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 2: we're gonna take a look at that. We're gonna witness, listen, 278 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 2: someone risk for the sake of relationship with Jesus, and 279 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 2: we're gonna learn from her, because according to Jesus, this 280 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 2: is the woman who got worship right. She got worship right. 281 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 2: So let's take a look Luke chapter seven, verses thirty 282 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 2: six to thirty nine. We're gonna we're gonna do the 283 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 2: first part and then we're gonna sing, and then we're 284 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 2: gonna do the second part. So Luke seven, thirty six 285 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 2: to thirty nine, you can check it out on the screen. Now. 286 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 2: One of the Pharisees was requesting him Jesus to dine 287 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 2: with him. He entered the Pharisees house and reclined at 288 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 2: the table. You got to picture. And there was a 289 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 2: woman in the city who was a sinner, and she 290 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 2: learned that he was reclining at the table in the 291 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 2: Pharisees house. She brought an alabaster vial of perfume, and 292 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 2: standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to 293 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 2: wet his feet with her tears, kept wiping them with 294 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 2: the hair of her head, and kissing his feet and 295 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 2: anointing them with perfume. Now, when the Pharisee who had 296 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 2: invited him saw this, he said to himself, if this 297 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 2: man were a prophet, he would know who and what 298 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 2: sort of person this woman is who is touching him. 299 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:06,879 Speaker 2: Let's finish it together, that she is a sinner. I 300 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 2: want to put that picture up. This is my screensaver. 301 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 2: There she is anointing his feet. So what do we 302 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 2: learn from the woman who barges in on a meeting 303 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:34,200 Speaker 2: of guys? The sinner barges in on the saints holy 304 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 2: gets interrupted by unholy right? What do we learn from her? 305 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 2: First thing we learned you might want to write this down. 306 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:47,679 Speaker 2: Her worship refocused attention on Jesus's person. Everybody's in the 307 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:49,680 Speaker 2: same space. We're in the same space. Who are we 308 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 2: focused on? Same person, same space, different responses, different reactions. 309 00:17:56,520 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 2: She's looking at Jesus, Jesus is looking at her. Simon 310 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 2: has the presence of the Lord at his table. He's 311 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,880 Speaker 2: not looking at Jesus. He's looking at her and judging her. 312 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 2: Focuses off and he has Jesus at the table. But 313 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 2: she comes in and by the way, there's no words here. 314 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 2: There's no conversation that's happening. It's all happening in the 315 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 2: mind and the heart and the soul, and thoughts are 316 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 2: being thought, conclusions are being made, needs are being expressed 317 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 2: without a word. But she's worshiping and all the attention 318 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 2: is on Jesus, and it's awkward. It's tense. She's breaking 319 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:50,639 Speaker 2: all the rules. But because Jesus is there, nobody is 320 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:56,439 Speaker 2: interrupting this moment, and Jesus is receiving the worship in 321 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 2: this tense, awkward moment. He's receiving it right. The second 322 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 2: thing we learned from her is that her worship revealed 323 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:07,679 Speaker 2: her perception of her need write that down, so it 324 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 2: refocused the attention on Jesus. Focus was him, not on people. Okay, 325 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 2: the focus was then on her need. She brings to 326 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 2: the feet of Jesus. And there's two different perceptions of need. 327 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 2: There's her perception of herself and she's desperate for forgiveness. 328 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 2: She's desperate. But then there's Simon and he's prideful and 329 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 2: he's kind of smug because he's not looking at Jesus, 330 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 2: he's looking at her. And you know, we do the 331 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:41,159 Speaker 2: same thing sometimes we're just like, well, compared to them, 332 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 2: I'm not sorry to buy a person, right, compared to 333 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 2: that person, well, I'm not in prison, i didn't kill anybody, 334 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 2: you know, I'm not sleeping around, you know. And we 335 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 2: like to make distinctions here. But as we'll see, one 336 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 2: perception was accurate of self and the other one was inaccurate. 337 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 2: As we move on in the story, you see when 338 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 2: it comes to our relationship with Jesus. In the Bible, 339 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 2: there's a big emphasis on the before, the encounter with 340 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 2: Jesus and who he is and what he has to offer, 341 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 2: and then there's the after part. Right, those are big 342 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 2: themes where we have to see our relationship with God clearly, 343 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,959 Speaker 2: and how the relationship was made possible. Listen, everybody, look 344 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 2: up here unilaterally by God the relationship. He didn't need 345 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 2: your assistance at all to make a way for you 346 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 2: to know God, have your sins forgiven, have your purpose 347 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 2: for living, have a home in heaven. He did it all. 348 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 2: Everybody say he did it all. That is a theme 349 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 2: of scripture. We read it in Titus chapter three. Listen 350 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 2: very closely, and I'm going to invite you in in 351 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:59,719 Speaker 2: the middle, for we also once we're foolish, ourselves disobedient 352 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:03,719 Speaker 2: to see, enslaved to various loss and pleasures, spending our 353 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 2: life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another, join me. 354 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:12,199 Speaker 2: But when the kindness of God, our Savior, and his 355 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 2: love for mankind appeared, he saved us not on the 356 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 2: basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but 357 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 2: according to his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and 358 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:28,399 Speaker 2: renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out upon 359 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 2: us richly through Jesus Christ, our Savior, so that being 360 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 2: justified by His grace, we would be made errors according 361 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 2: to the hope of eternal life. Can we get an Amen, 362 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,919 Speaker 2: on that one. It was according to his mercy. What 363 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,360 Speaker 2: I want you to take away is that your relationship 364 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 2: was God with God was produced unilaterally. You had nothing 365 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 2: to do with it. He initiated, and you welcomed his 366 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 2: initiating and strongly risking his very best from Heaven for 367 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 2: you so that the relationship could start and be maintained. 368 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 2: So we have man's condition, God's intervention, right unilateral intervention, 369 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 2: and then man's cleansing in man's salvation. God did it all. Everybody, 370 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 2: let's say that together, God did it all, and we're 371 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 2: going to sing about that. But we're going to we're 372 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 2: going to model ourselves after this woman who got it right. 373 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 2: Doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman. Right 374 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:32,200 Speaker 2: is right is right? Amen. So she refocused her attention 375 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 2: on Jesus. He was the object of her worship. And 376 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,639 Speaker 2: then the way that she worshiped. What she brought was 377 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 2: that she knew that she was the sinner who needed saving. 378 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,120 Speaker 2: And that's how we need to worship. So let's let's 379 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 2: do that. Let's worship together in song. 380 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 3: Jesses jez. 381 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 4: Faciss, Now on the air or healths. 382 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 2: The health. 383 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 4: A pureful. 384 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 3: You are my trade, my green river. 385 00:23:55,200 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 4: I just want to love you more. It's all one 386 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:01,400 Speaker 4: or two. 387 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 3: I just want to stay in. 388 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 4: Before my love audio. 389 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 3: Don't letter how much thought comes free and gave it off. 390 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 4: Ch ll cho, you're made away. 391 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 5: Jesus chesus my old fury, all my empty. 392 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 4: My hote was my dreams. Oh here's my life. 393 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,360 Speaker 2: It's silent chrission. 394 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:01,480 Speaker 4: Oh just to this. 395 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 2: Just standing sings out. 396 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 5: Not just want you're hot, it's wall want a too. 397 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 5: I just wanted to sit foremos on you know, matter 398 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 5: how much your cots free, give it all to. 399 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 4: Oh to you. 400 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 2: I just want to move listening together. 401 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 5: I just want your coup kick uf kick call New 402 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 5: Yorkys rock here in your prayer, Si Scott swear on 403 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 5: say oh just the twelve your couch. 404 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 2: Miss my mouths not tase on you. 405 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 4: Oh is it a phrase? 406 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:11,480 Speaker 2: Then I'll pour my oil lou. Is it alive late down? 407 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 3: Then here give my vow? 408 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 2: Is it a songassing? Then here's every melody. 409 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 3: Just tell me what moves you? Tell me what moves you? 410 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 2: Is it a fragrance? Then I'll pour my oil loud. 411 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,880 Speaker 3: Is it alive late down? 412 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 2: Then here give my vow? 413 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 3: Is it a song? As and here's every. 414 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 2: Just tell me one moves, tell. 415 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 4: Me one. 416 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:07,640 Speaker 3: You know it's that fast. 417 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 4: I can't out. 418 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:23,639 Speaker 3: That is so said. Just show me about till you 419 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,120 Speaker 3: want us. 420 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 2: It's all to cha. 421 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 3: Say it wore. 422 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 4: That problems co a. 423 00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 3: Ch co a in your gage, run in your friends. God, 424 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 3: it's all so. 425 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 4: Out. 426 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:27,159 Speaker 3: It's sort of fament you. 427 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,360 Speaker 2: I'll pull my oil lau. 428 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 4: Is it a live flame? Damn? 429 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 2: And then here I give my vow. 430 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 4: Is it a song scene? Then here's every melody. 431 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 2: Just tell me one moves you, tell me one moves. 432 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 4: You, Just tell me more, tell me a move. 433 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, Lord God. We're praying through this service. Lord, 434 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 2: we're worshiping you right now. It's so good to be 435 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 2: in your presence. Lord. We want to move your heart. Lord, 436 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 2: we want to worship you in spirit and truth. And 437 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 2: I just thank you for this church family. God, continue 438 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 2: to speak to us through the woman who got worshiped 439 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 2: right Lord, in your name, we pray, and God's people said, amen, 440 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 2: you can grab a seat. We're just continuing our worship service. 441 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 2: I sense the Holy Spirit is really moving and touching 442 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 2: hearts right now, and just buckle your seatbelt. There's more 443 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,959 Speaker 2: to come. Because she does get caught in his gaze, 444 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 2: in the haze. I'm sorry, I'm just trying to trying 445 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 2: to alliterate there gaze in Hayes, but she does. She 446 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 2: gets stuck like looking at him. Her focus is on him, 447 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 2: and it's just it's kind of like that tractor beam thing. 448 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 2: It's just like I'm getting drawn into you, and there's 449 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 2: my past, and there's you know, what I've done, and 450 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 2: there's who I am and all that stuff, and it 451 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 2: just doesn't matter because she's stuck in his gaze. Right, 452 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 2: So did you follow what happening in the story that 453 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 2: there's a perception of who Jesus is on the part 454 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 2: of the woman and then the part of the Pharisees. 455 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 2: He's assessing Jesus, right, she knows who he is, right. 456 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 2: And then there is this perception of need where it's 457 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 2: like he's got exactly what I need. He's the holder 458 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 2: of forgiveness and he's the healer of shame, and he's 459 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 2: he's what I need for a new start. And then 460 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 2: that thought, I want to just remind us that Simon 461 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 2: the Pharisee says, well, if he were a prophet, you know, 462 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 2: he would know who and what sort of person this 463 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 2: woman is who is touching him? That she is a sinner. 464 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 2: Now he's saying this to himself, but Jesus is seeing 465 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,800 Speaker 2: him say it to himself and listening to him say 466 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 2: it to himself. So let's roll the film on that 467 00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,040 Speaker 2: next millisecond. Luke seven starting at verse forty, and just 468 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 2: answered him, so think about it if he only knew 469 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 2: that she is a sinner. And Jesus answered him, Simon, 470 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 2: I have something I want to say to you. Can 471 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 2: you imagine being Simon like getting caught in that thought? 472 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 2: And he says, Simon, there's something I have to say 473 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,640 Speaker 2: to you. And he replied, well, say it, teacher. A 474 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 2: money lender had two debtors, one ode five hundred canary 475 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 2: and the other fifty. When they were unable to repay, 476 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 2: he graciously forgave them both. Everybody say graciously, forgave, graciously forgave. 477 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 2: So which of them will love him more? Simon answered 478 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 2: and said, I suppose the one whom he forgave more. 479 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 2: And he said to him, you have judged correctly. Turning 480 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 2: toward the woman, he said to Simon, do you see 481 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 2: this woman? I entered your house and you gave me 482 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 2: no water for my feet, but she has wet my 483 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 2: feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 484 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 2: You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time 485 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,920 Speaker 2: I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet. 486 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,280 Speaker 2: You did not anoint my head with oil, but she 487 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 2: anointed my feet with perfume. For this reason, I say 488 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 2: to you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven. 489 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 2: For she loved much, but he who is forgiven little 490 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 2: loves little. Let's finish it together. Then he said to her, 491 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,719 Speaker 2: your sins have been forgiven. Those who were reclining at 492 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 2: the table with him began to say to themselves, who 493 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 2: is this man who even forgives sins? And he said 494 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 2: to the woman, your faith has saved you. Go in peace. Amen. 495 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 2: What a moment, Oh my goodness. So do you get 496 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 2: the awkwardness, the tension, the build up, you know, the 497 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,120 Speaker 2: reading of the mind, the reading of the thoughts, the opinions, 498 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:02,680 Speaker 2: the perceptions. And here is this woman who gets worship. Right, 499 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:09,240 Speaker 2: Jesus is the holder of her debt. You got the 500 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 2: money lender, it's God. You got the two debtors and 501 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 2: the two perceptions. One feels like they have a marginal debt, 502 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 2: the others like I have a massive debt and need relief. 503 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 2: Then you got the size of the debt, right, the 504 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,280 Speaker 2: woman's like mine's big, the pharisees like, I'm not as 505 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 2: bad as her, And then you have the intensity of 506 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 2: the response when the debt is relieved, and Jesus is 507 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,719 Speaker 2: speaking right into the mind of that awful thought. If 508 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:43,680 Speaker 2: he only knew who it was that was touching him, 509 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 2: he would know that she's a sinner, and he's like, yes, 510 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 2: I do, and I like what I see. Right, Because 511 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,320 Speaker 2: the more debt you are forgiven, the more relief you 512 00:33:55,400 --> 00:34:00,200 Speaker 2: are experienced. Right, And more relief you experience, the more 513 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 2: love you express, the lighter you feel, the more joy 514 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:12,000 Speaker 2: keyword more. Who do you think will love him more? Well, 515 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 2: I suppose the one whom he forgave more. How do 516 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:25,320 Speaker 2: you perceive yourself before God? Are you the marginal relief 517 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,720 Speaker 2: person where I'm not as bad as that other person? 518 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,120 Speaker 2: You know, I'm a good person. I don't do bad things? 519 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:35,760 Speaker 2: Or do you do you believe that you are desperate 520 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:42,040 Speaker 2: and need the forgiveness and mercy of God. You see, 521 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,480 Speaker 2: this is the mindset. It affects the way we worship 522 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,800 Speaker 2: how we perceive ourselves, and Jesus is affirming so her worship. 523 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 2: If there's two more things that we learned from the 524 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,680 Speaker 2: woman who got worship right, and the first thing is 525 00:34:55,040 --> 00:35:02,040 Speaker 2: she released fearless expressions of love when you know that 526 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:07,360 Speaker 2: you have been forgiven of everything past, president in future, 527 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,640 Speaker 2: when that debt has been taken off of you. When 528 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,480 Speaker 2: I thought things I shouldn't think, taking my body places 529 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,200 Speaker 2: maybe I could couldn't have taken it, when I've said 530 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:16,840 Speaker 2: things I shouldn't have said, when I did things I 531 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,400 Speaker 2: shouldn't have done, And then you run into Jesus and 532 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 2: you're like, I'm not worthy, but I believe that you're 533 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:28,680 Speaker 2: the savior, You're the redeemer, you're the forgiver, and you 534 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,880 Speaker 2: focus on him and you go to him and you 535 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:36,080 Speaker 2: just let people and all your thinking and your past 536 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 2: and your fears go to the side, and you go 537 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:42,640 Speaker 2: to Jesus. He'll respond and she starts letting it out. 538 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:46,560 Speaker 2: You know that whole Can you imagine when she unleashed 539 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 2: that alabaster jar of perfume and the fragrance that permeated 540 00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:55,560 Speaker 2: the whole space. You see, for her, that was her 541 00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:59,839 Speaker 2: very best thing, that she had the very best thing 542 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,520 Speaker 2: she brought to Jesus, to the feet of Jesus, what 543 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,880 Speaker 2: do we bring do we bring our very best energy, 544 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,680 Speaker 2: our very best spirit, our very best willingness, our very 545 00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:14,000 Speaker 2: best seeking. Well that that perfume starts invading the room. 546 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,920 Speaker 2: It's just this, it's just grace, you know, there's this 547 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:21,760 Speaker 2: fragrance of grace. Grace is eliminating fear right around this woman. 548 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,640 Speaker 2: She's getting more and more bold, and she's crying, and 549 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,080 Speaker 2: she's wedding, and she remember what jesus complaint was, no water, 550 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,560 Speaker 2: no kisses, no oil. Let's say that together. No water, 551 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,839 Speaker 2: no kisses, no oil. Right, so, no water for his feet. 552 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:41,640 Speaker 2: It was custom. You have an honored guest, you bring water, 553 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:43,920 Speaker 2: and you either do it or you have one of 554 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 2: your servants do it. You clean the feet? Why because 555 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,360 Speaker 2: there's honor. That's honor, because you know they wear sandals 556 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,879 Speaker 2: back then, dirt roads, right, feet are dirty. But it's 557 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:59,880 Speaker 2: just a sign of her humility. She's recognizing who Jesus is. 558 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,480 Speaker 2: You know. No kisses. You know you're in the in 559 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,520 Speaker 2: the Semitic world, you greet each other with a kiss. 560 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:09,359 Speaker 2: It's a sign of honor, you know. No kisses, no water. 561 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:13,440 Speaker 2: That's affection, that's fellowship, that's welcome. You know. 562 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:14,400 Speaker 1: No oil. 563 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,239 Speaker 2: Oil is a sign of the presence of the Lord. 564 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:22,279 Speaker 2: Oil is blessing. And there she is with her alabaster 565 00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:27,080 Speaker 2: jar better than oil. She's anointing Jesus' feet. She has 566 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 2: a sense of what's coming. She has a sense that's 567 00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,560 Speaker 2: a it's a burial right too, to bring perfume and 568 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:37,480 Speaker 2: anoint people's feet with perfume. It's a burial thing. She 569 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:42,200 Speaker 2: knew that the forgiver, in order to forgive, was going 570 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,640 Speaker 2: to have to pay a price, and Jesus actually, in 571 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,520 Speaker 2: another gospel account notes that that's in her mind as 572 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:55,160 Speaker 2: she comes to him. Next, we see that her worship 573 00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,800 Speaker 2: resulted in moving God's heart. Clearly, how do we know that? 574 00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:02,120 Speaker 2: So her worship released fearless expressions of love. Her worship 575 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,120 Speaker 2: resulted in moving God's heart. How do we know that? Well, 576 00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,960 Speaker 2: Jesus says, for this reason, I say to you, fellas, 577 00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:11,880 Speaker 2: her sins, which our many have been forgiven, for she 578 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,560 Speaker 2: loved much. But he who has forgiven little loves little Jesus. 579 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:17,919 Speaker 2: His feelings start to come out, and then he said 580 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:25,120 Speaker 2: to her, your sins forgiven, and he says, your faith 581 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:30,439 Speaker 2: has saved you go in peace. Wow, that's so cool. 582 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:33,959 Speaker 2: She had to do it in faith. And so let's 583 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:37,319 Speaker 2: talk about really quick before we come back to our 584 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,440 Speaker 2: worship experience, the results of authentic worship. So this is 585 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,920 Speaker 2: the woman who got worship. Right, We're seeing the things 586 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,960 Speaker 2: that she has done. And then how does Jesus respond? 587 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,960 Speaker 2: How does he move? So Jesus, first of all, he 588 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:56,360 Speaker 2: declares us forgiven by him. Write that down. I'm going 589 00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,239 Speaker 2: to say to you, and I need you to hear me. 590 00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,360 Speaker 2: Can you imagine like I'm saying to you, guys, and 591 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:07,040 Speaker 2: then you look here, I hope you're free now. I 592 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:12,160 Speaker 2: forgive you just the relief. She hasn't said a word. 593 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,759 Speaker 2: There is no conversation that has taken place here. She's 594 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,719 Speaker 2: just worshiping from the heart. And this is what she 595 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:23,680 Speaker 2: gets from Jesus. She gets forgiveness forever. And then we 596 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:28,520 Speaker 2: see Jesus affirm her faith. He says, your faith. Now, 597 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:34,320 Speaker 2: faith is synonymous with risk. When you do something and 598 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:39,359 Speaker 2: commit before knowing the outcome, that's a risk, right, That's 599 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,800 Speaker 2: what faith is, commitment without knowing. She couldn't know that 600 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,640 Speaker 2: Jesus was going to respond like this. She just heard, 601 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,239 Speaker 2: she heard about him. She put herself in position. She 602 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,160 Speaker 2: brought her very best to the place. She broke all 603 00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:56,360 Speaker 2: the rules, gender rules, culture rules, religious rules, moral rules. 604 00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:03,360 Speaker 2: Barges In takes a huge risk this to get the result. 605 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,440 Speaker 2: She risks for her hope. What's her hope? That she 606 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:12,759 Speaker 2: would be forgiven? And Jesus says, woman, your faith has 607 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,680 Speaker 2: saved you. And that's the next thing. Jesus declares us forgiven. 608 00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,359 Speaker 2: When we authentically worship Jesus affirms our faith in him, 609 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:23,200 Speaker 2: When we authentically worship Jesus seals our salvation through him. 610 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:30,399 Speaker 2: She came to God through Jesus. God's the only one 611 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,399 Speaker 2: that can forgive. We heard the guys say it. Where 612 00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:37,640 Speaker 2: does she go? She goes to Jesus and she has 613 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:42,680 Speaker 2: her sins forgiven and she experienced salvation. But again, no conversation, 614 00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:47,400 Speaker 2: just authentic worship. The heart is there, the integrity is there, 615 00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,160 Speaker 2: spirit is there, truth is there. She's got me right, 616 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:55,640 Speaker 2: She's got herself perceived right. And now Jesus starts responding. 617 00:40:55,719 --> 00:41:00,560 Speaker 2: And then this is my favorite. He commissions our peace forever, 618 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,440 Speaker 2: she says. He says, woman, your faith has saved you 619 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:08,600 Speaker 2: go in peace. Let's say that together, go in peace. 620 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:13,600 Speaker 2: It's a commission because he doesn't want her ever to 621 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,719 Speaker 2: have the anxiety and fear connected to performing to get 622 00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:24,160 Speaker 2: God's love. The holder of her debt said, it's gone. 623 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:29,399 Speaker 2: And because you've been forgiven more, you love me more. 624 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:35,239 Speaker 2: I want you to live in the permanence of my love. 625 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,600 Speaker 2: You don't think right now in this world, with all 626 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:40,839 Speaker 2: the anxiety and fear running around out there, that there 627 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,520 Speaker 2: are people who are looking to have an encounter with 628 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:47,320 Speaker 2: the living God and have him say the same things 629 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:51,880 Speaker 2: to them. Your faith has saved you go in what peace? 630 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,000 Speaker 2: Jesus wants you to have peace. He wants you to 631 00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:57,360 Speaker 2: know you're forgiven through your worship. He wants you to 632 00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,800 Speaker 2: take a risk in faith. He wants to seal your salvation, 633 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,400 Speaker 2: and he wants to commission the peace of forgiveness and 634 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:08,680 Speaker 2: salvation into your spirit so that you can walk in confidence. 635 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:08,960 Speaker 4: Now. 636 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,200 Speaker 2: You know, when you're secure in God's forgiveness and God's 637 00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,799 Speaker 2: love and God's salvation, it allows you to get out 638 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,960 Speaker 2: of your own head and get into the lives of 639 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:23,480 Speaker 2: other people. Amen, Because you're good. You're okay now, And 640 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:28,279 Speaker 2: that's what he's commissioning this woman, so don't miss that. 641 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,680 Speaker 2: She never even says a word. There's no actual conversation, 642 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,560 Speaker 2: but Jesus's heart is moved because she's got the motion 643 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:39,719 Speaker 2: and the activities. But she's got the motive, she's got 644 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,719 Speaker 2: the intention. She sees him clearly. Her focus is on 645 00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:49,640 Speaker 2: him alone. She's aware of her need. Are we aware 646 00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:54,800 Speaker 2: of our need? Are we going to come to Jesus 647 00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,399 Speaker 2: and pour out? Are we going to come and give 648 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,279 Speaker 2: him our very best love? Of that song that we're 649 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:06,879 Speaker 2: gonna We're gonna sing now again where it talks about gosh, 650 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,160 Speaker 2: if you if it's song, I'm gonna pour out a melody, 651 00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:12,920 Speaker 2: you know it's if it's my life. I'm gonna make 652 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:17,960 Speaker 2: a vow and we're gonna enter into some space right now, 653 00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,600 Speaker 2: and it's it's completely free and open and up to you. 654 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,759 Speaker 2: But we're gonna we're gonna worship and we're gonna create 655 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,040 Speaker 2: some space. You can you can come right here where 656 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,840 Speaker 2: the holder of your dead is. He's all over. You 657 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:31,799 Speaker 2: can step outside in the aisle. You can come down 658 00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,400 Speaker 2: as a couple, you can come down as friends. You 659 00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:36,800 Speaker 2: can pray where you are. But we're gonna create a 660 00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,720 Speaker 2: space where the Holy Spirit now is going to change 661 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,839 Speaker 2: some lives. And so let's just enter in. Let's let 662 00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:47,560 Speaker 2: Jesus be Jesus and let him pour out salvation and 663 00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:49,160 Speaker 2: peace and forgiveness. 664 00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,200 Speaker 4: You will be like God. 665 00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:02,880 Speaker 2: God was severed and through it all, God's promise remain true. 666 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:08,840 Speaker 4: Follow me a and I would make a great This 667 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:12,600 Speaker 4: is the Chosen People. 668 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,680 Speaker 3: Listen to the Chosen People at the Chosen people dot com. 669 00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,919 Speaker 2: That's the Chosen People dot com.