Luke chapter 7. There's two Marys in the scriptures and both of them are found at
the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ. Both of them are found at the
feet of Christ. I was talking to Paul Mahan the other day and
he said there's a lot of Marys sitting at the feet of Christ
right now. It won't be long I know another
Mary is going to sit, and she had sat here before she sat there.
And I want to talk about Luke 7 here about these two debtors. And this is a Mary that was a
debtor. Look what is said here now. Well, let me introduce it first.
I'm getting ahead of myself. Our Lord, when he talked, he
always spoke in ways that you just couldn't misunderstand him.
Very clear. He spoke that quite the common
people heard him gladly. And he spoke about being in debt.
He says there in verse 41, there was a certain creditor which
had two debtors. Everybody understands debt. And debt is something that It's
a burden. It's a burden. It could be a
greater burden to some than others. But these folks here has got
a debt that nobody can pay. Got a debt nobody can pay. Here's
the way our Lord sets it up. He's in a Pharisee's house named
Simon. Simon the leper. He's a leper.
And you go over in Matthew 26 and you'll see that he's a leper.
Simon the leper asked the Lord Jesus to come into his house.
Come and eat supper with me. And then while he was there,
when the woman found out where he was, she said, Pharisee or
no Pharisee, invited or not invited, eaten or not eaten, I'm coming.
But I'm not coming to do anything but do one thing, that's set
at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ. And she was a sinner.
That's what Simon Cedars said about her. What did he say in
verse 39? It says, For she, what manner
of woman is this that toucheth him? And he says this in the
most derogatory, mocking, contemptible speech you can imagine. What
in the world is the matter with this man? What's the matter with
this man? If he's really a prophet? If
he's really a prophet? If he's one who God's got his
hand on, why don't he know what this woman is that touches him? And he said to himself, he said,
she's a sinner. She ain't touching me. And he's
the leper. Oh, and I tell you, he said,
she's a sinner. Could there be anything worse
in Simon's house than a sinner? Could there be anything worse
in the sight of God than a sinner? And that's why he's going on
about that. And Simon sets in judgment on
him for allowing this woman to touch him. He said, oh listen,
if here's a prophet, he sets in judgment on Christ. He said
this woman wouldn't allow her to touch him if he knew what
kind of woman. And I tell you about Simon, Simon's
cold heart was a stranger, stranger to our Lord and His love. He
had a religion that had a form, but he denied the power thereof
and didn't know Christ when Christ was right in his midst, didn't
know Him. He denied the very power of God
and he denied the rights of God to do what he willed with his
own. And I'm going to show you here, let me just go through
this, I won't take long, but look what he says here in verse
41. He said there was a certain creditor. A creditor. Now this is, to make this come
out right, this is God. God. Now a creditor, if you're
going to go borrow something from somebody, you want to go
to somebody who's, if you're going to get in debt to somebody,
you want to go to somebody who's got a good reputation. They're
going to loan you what you need and give it to you. And I'll
tell you something, God's got a good reputation. You know anybody's
got a better reputation than God? Nahum says the Lord is good. He's a stronghold in time of
trouble and He knoweth them that trust in Him. And you keep Luke
7, look over in Romans chapter 2 with me in verse 4. You see,
He's the one who's supposed to have a good reputation. And in
Romans chapter 2 and verse 4, let me show you something about
God. Oh, see, God cannot lie. He's immutable. He's the judge
of all the earth and He must do right. Malachi says this,
he said, I am the Lord, I change not. So I tell you he's a creditor
and I tell you if anybody owes him anything and he knows exactly,
he's got a good reputation. He knows what he puts out and
he knows exactly how he's got it and how much everybody owes.
He keeps the best records. And I tell you he keeps the very
best records and he's good. Look what he said here in Romans
2 and verse 4. Or despises thou the riches of
his goodness, and his forbearance, and his longsuffering? Do you
despise that? Preparing long-suffering, not
knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance. You know why God uses to bring
men and women to Himself? His goodness. His goodness. Some of you have been here a
while. Now let me ask you something. Has God ever not been good to
you from the day you've been born to right now? Does He give
you health? Does He give you smarts? Does
He give you intelligence? Does He give you a good job?
Give you a home? Give you breath, give you hope,
give you desires. And then He says here, you're
going to despise His goodness? You're going to despise His longsuffering
and forbearance for you? Knowing not that His goodness,
oh how good He is! I cannot begin to tell you how
good God is! He's never been anything but
good. There's men that get up this
morning, going to use His name every way in the world, but the
right way. And you know what? God's going
to let them live today. He's going to let them get in
their boat and go fish today. He's going to let them sit and
watch their television and ball games today. He's going to let
them go and buy them a good meal because He gave them a good job
to make good money. He's good to them, to let them
live. Oh, He's good. And He can't lie. Oh, He's immutable. He can't be deceived or can't
deceive. Is He trustworthy? Oh, He's trustworthy. And oh, that's why He said, forgive
us our debt. Our Lord Jesus, He said, told
us, said, Father, forgive us our debt, even as we forgive
those who are in debt to us. Tell you something else about
a creditor. A creditor has to have sufficiency for those who
he owes, for those who owe him. And I tell you, he's got sufficiency.
The earth is his, and the fullness thereof. And Paul said, who is
sufficient for these things? Our sufficiency of God, who is
able. And I tell you something, what
He needs, what we need, He has. Whatever we need, He has. The
fullness of God Himself dwells in our Lord Jesus Christ. Everything
that God has for a sinner, everything that God has for a man or a woman
is in the fullness of God. God who inhabits this universe. He's not in the universe. The
universe is in Him. I mean, He is so great and so
glorious that the heaven of heavens can't contain Him. So He has
what we need. What we need, He's got it. And
the only place in the universe where the need of a human being
can be met is in Christ and in God dwelling in Christ. That's
why David said when he got down to his last day, his very last
day, you read about it in 2 Samuel 23, one of these days, the first
five verses, David, the sweet psalmist of Israel, was on his
deathbed and the scripture says these are the last words of the
sweet psalmist of Israel. And when we make a testimony,
that's what we say, these are the last words and testaments
of our Lord Jesus Christ. When we make a will, we make
a testament, that's what we say. The last will and testament.
The last words. And they read that and say, these
are the last words, the last words He had to say. And that's
what they said about our Lord Jesus Christ. And David, when
he lay on his deathbed, He says, these are the last words of David. The Swedes thought, you know
what they was? You know what they was? The Lord hath made
with me an everlasting covenant, ordered,
and in all things sure. And he said, that's all my salvation.
And he closed his eyes and went out in the return. Oh boy. I can do the same thing. You can do the same thing. But
we really don't know what our last... But that's our last words
as far as we know right now. But what will our last words
be when we get ready to live? One old prophet one time, one
old preacher, they told him, says, you're fixing to go get
your reward. He said, reward? He said, I'm
going to go get mercy while I got more time out here, and that's
what I want right now until I go. I want mercy. And oh, beloved, our needs, our
needs are deep. But He is full. Our sin is great. But grace is greater. That's
why the Lord says, Come, all you burdened and heavy laden.
Come unto me, and I'll give you rest. You got that burden of
sin, that burden of guilt, that burden of worry, that burden
of despair, that burden of depression, that burden of trying to reason
all the time, that burden of trying to figure out what I need
to do, that burden of trying to satisfy God by His help, that
burden of trying to figure out how to live. Oh listen, take
that burden and get rid of it and bring it to Christ. And lay
it on him. He's got the ability to carry
it. And to take it. He said, come bring me that burden. Get that off your shoulders.
Get it off your back. Get it off your mind. Get it
out of your heart. And lay it on me. And when you
do that, he said, you'll have rest. You won't carry that burden
anymore. You'll have rest. Rest. And oh, let me tell you
something about a creditor. A creditor is one who looks for
some return for what he lays out. If he gives you something,
he looks for some return for what he gives you. And what have
we got? What have we got? He gives us
something. What have we got that we didn't receive? Who made us
to differ? And I'll tell you something,
beloved, everybody in this building and everybody I know, Whether
they know it or not, everything we have comes from Him. Everything we have comes from
Him. He gives us, and I'm telling
you, He gives us only good. Only good. I've been living 64 years and
almost a half now. If God lets me live another ten,
every day of them will be good, every hour of them will be good. He's good yesterday, the day
before, He's good today. He's good to me today. I can't
tell you how good He is. Good. You say, but Brother Donnie,
there ain't no watch, there ain't no bunch. He's good. He's good. Nothing gives us only good. But
what do we return when He gives us good? Until God does something,
we give Him evil. We return evil for good. Hatred
for love. Murmuring for kindness. Complaints
and bitterness. Unthankful because He doesn't
give more. After all, we're entitled, ain't
we? That's what people look at. Can you reckon up the good He's
given you in a lifetime? How much do you owe, my Lord? Robert Murray and Shane wrote
a song, How Much I Owe, How Much I Owe. Now that's the creditor. Let's look at the debtors. Back
over here in this chapter. He said there in verse 31 there's
a certain creditor and he had two debtors. Two debtors. Two debtors, and look at what
they owed. One owed 500 pence and the other
50. Now in that day, that's a lot
of money. A lot of money. But these 550 pence sinners,
these two debtors, they represent sinners. Two classes of sinners. There's the great sinner and
the little sinner. There's those who really understand what they
are and there's those who don't think much of sin. Think little
of it. But let me tell you what total
depravity means. When we talk about somebody being
totally depraved, that doesn't mean you're as bad as you can
be. It means you're as bad off in
the sight of God as you can be. It's like those three dead men,
three dead people in the scriptures. Now, they're all in a perfect
picture of what men are by nature. First of all, you've got that
12-year-old girl. 12-year-old girl. She died. Our Lord Jesus was getting ready
to walk in the door. She walked in the door. His mama
said, Daddy says, She's gone. She's dead. She's laid on the
table. They had her stretched out, ready. And our Lord Jesus
looked at her and said, Oh, listen. She's not dead, but she's sleeping.
And they just, oh Simon Peter just, oh Lord, I mean anybody
can see she is. And they began to laugh and to
scorn and to mock him and said, oh Lord, it's obvious. Just let
it go. Now the Lord says, you're all
just going out of the house. Get on out of the house. Get on out
of the room. And he shut that door and he rushed and got that
little old girl by the hand and said, Talutha, come on. She raised her hand up. He told
his mama, he said, Mama, fix her something to eat. She needs
something to eat. Now she hasn't lived long enough
to do very much. But she's damned. And only one
person can give her life. She wasn't. She didn't do much. Loved by her mother. And then
there's another one. One child. This widow's unnamed. Her son, her only son died. He was up in his years and they
put him in his casket on the way out of town. And the Lord
Jesus was coming this way with a great crowd and funeral procession
going one way and Christ coming another. That's a good place
to meet Christ. That's a good place. When you're
dead, Christ is life. Death and Christ meet head on.
What's going to happen? He stopped that funeral procession
right in his tracks. And he mentioned, he said, he
just told them, stop! He looked down the neck, looked
down at that young man and said, young man, I say unto thee, arise! He raised up. Can you imagine
what his mama thought, what she felt like? Oh Lord, oh I got
my son back, I got my child back. Now he's been dead a while. But
he's dead. And then there's another one.
And that's what we're talking about. Sinners. There's different
types and different classes and different depths of sin and depravity
people go into. And then Dr. Latham. He'd been
dead four days. And they began to... Our Lord
says, take away the stone. Take away that stone. Take it
away. And Martha said, Oh Lord, don't
do that. Don't do that. He said, He'll sting. Oh, he'll
sting. I said, Oh, we'll see him. And he's stinking. We'll
see him. His body's coming out. We'll smell it. Oh, sting. Oh,
don't, don't. Oh, my. He was corrupt. And our Lord Jesus stood outside
that. He said, Lazarus! There's already been two that's
hurt his voice. Now which one of you, you the
12th, you the little girl that's 12 years old, ain't done much,
still dead. Or you the 20-something, love
to be mother, still dead. Or you one of them fellas that
just throw over your bed so rotten all your life and you'd land
there in your corruption, old worn, your stakes are there. Lazarus, come forth. And this
is what it said, he that was dead came forth. They're all dead, and that's
what I'm saying, two classes of sinners. You go from that
little girl to that old, stinking, but they're all dead. And oh, beloved, there's degrees
of rottenness, but all are dead. And there's degrees of debt,
50 pence, 500 pence, degrees of debt, but all are debtors. There's a difference in the consciousness
of sin. Some feel the sin more acutely
than others. But I tell you what, we feel
something about sin. And I tell you, let me tell you
something about these sinners. The 50-pence debt, is this here
the one of those 50-pence? He's the religious, he's the
moralist. He's like that rich young ruler
who come and said, you know, he said, the Lord told him, he
said, you lack one thing. Oh, I know I owe a little. I
know I owe some, but I don't know as much as you know. Now
listen, but the 500-pence sinner, that 500-pence debtor, he's one
of the low-downest, sorriest, useless, profane sinner, and
he lacks everything, and he's got nothing. Oh, he don't have
anything. And then let me just give you
a few illustrations. There's the 100-pence debtor.
He's somewhat indifferent to the goodness of God. Oh, just
a hundred pence, that ain't much. I'll get that paid up one of
these days. I'll catch up one of these days. I'll catch up
one of these days. And then there's the 200 pence
debtor. He's completely, completely indifferent to the gifts of God.
Oh, 200 pence, man, I don't need nothing. I'm okay. I can handle
that. And there's that 300 pence debtor who questions, talks about
his goodness and his works and how good he is, and he mocks
other people. And the 400 pence debtor, he
just absolutely denies God, despises God's mercy, and yet people regard
him as respectable, a man of good character. But all the creditor,
who's been good to all of his debtors. And I'll tell you something,
everybody in this building is in debt this morning. Which one
are you on? Are you the 100 pence that you don't care? 200 pence
that you're indifferent? 300 pence that you know you think
you're as good as anybody else? Or the 400 pence that you just
absolutely have no interest in the mercy and goodness of God
at all? Because you're so good and have such a good character. One fellow was talking to Scott
Richardson one day and he was talking about how good he was
and all the things he had accomplished. Then Scott said, only one thing
wrong with him. He said, what's that? He said,
you hate God. He said, oh I don't. Yes you
do. Yes you do. If God ain't done something,
you know you... It's like... Let me tell you something, when
God starts pressing on a man or a woman, and they hear real
preaching, what happens just like when you get caught two
or three times by the police and by highway patrol or something,
you know you've done what you've done, but it aggravates you.
It upsets you. And you say, I know I got a pet,
but I don't like it. And it upsets you, it bothers
you, it aggravates you. And that's the way it is when
God starts pressing His claim and putting His laws on a man.
And it aggravates him. He says, I just don't think that's
right. I don't think I'm that bad. I don't think preachers ought
to talk about me and talk to me that way. A preacher's not
doing it. It's God that says that about
you. God said there's none righteous. God said there's none any good.
God says there's none that understands. God says that they're all going
out of the way. God says that. God says the carnal
mind is enmity against God. It's not the preacher you have
to deal with, it's God that you have to deal with. And oh, look
at this helpless break-up. Now look at these two creditors
here, these two debtors. The one owed 500 pence and the
other 50. And look what it says there in verse 42. Now listen
to this. And when they had nothing to
pay. Nothing to pay. Big debt or little debtor. Both
are alike. Both are bankrupt. Both are insolvent. Huh? Oh, they had nothing to
pay. And that's the way every sinner
is in God's sight. There's no difference in not
one of them. Our debt may be less, our debt
may be greater, but the helplessness of our condition in His sight
is exactly the same. We have nothing to pay. By nature,
all of us are alike. All are without strength. All
are without God, all are without Christ. There's none good, none
righteous. And I know this, for God does
not sprinkle the blood of Christ. He says, when they pass over
to a place, He says, where you don't see the blood sprinkled,
the blood as a token. He said, wherever I see the blood
as a token, the blood sprinkled, He said, I'll pass over you.
And wherever God's blood, and Christ's blood is not sprinkled
in a pipe, God won't pass over you. But if wherever there's
blood, God will pass right over you. Huh? And all on the outside,
listen, there was that ark. And you know they made this movie
here, Noah's Ark, and I don't know How many people I heard
when they seen that movie and all that said, you know what
the first thing they said? I cannot believe in a God that
would only save 8 people and let everybody else perish. He
said, oh that's just not right. It wasn't right for him to do
that. They didn't see God having mercy
and sparing 8 souls and having a place. A preacher, Noah preached
120 years. 120 years. He preached. He said, I'm preparing an ark. God said, it's going to rain.
Judgment's coming. And they stood there and watched
him build that ark and they came from all as far as they can,
all over the world. Oh, let me see this. This is
a fool. Listen, he's building a volcano
in the ocean nowhere. He's building, and he's got this
great big ark, and he's prepared. What in the world's the matter
with that old fool? But Noah kept preaching. He kept
preaching, and kept preaching, and kept preaching. Here's the
place where you can be saved. There's a flood coming, there's
a rain coming, there's judgment coming. Here's a place you can
be saved. Here's a place you can get in
out of a storm. Here's a place where you can
be saved. Here's a place where God's judgment
will fall on Him and not on you. And they just walked and walked
and walked. And then the rain. Before the
first drop stopped. Now let me tell you what happened.
God told Noah, he says, Noah, come thou into the ark. And he
shut the door. God told Moses, come down into
the ark. I'm going to be in here with you. We're in Christ. Christ is in that ark. You come,
get in this ark. And they shut that door. And a drop of water
never fell till it was inside that ark. That boy went in starving. When it started, it never stopped. Forty days and forty nights.
And everybody outside that ark perished. They was all preached to. They
all seen the ark being built. They all heard the same message.
And you know what our Lord said? He said, As it was in the days
of Lot, And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be
in the days of the Son of Man's coming. I'm telling you about
an ark. Telling you about getting out
of Sodom. Place to go. Place to hide. Get there just
as fast as you can get there. And do it without moving a muscle. Oh listen, they all had nothing
to pay. And when you have nothing, what
can you make out of nothing? When you have nothing, what can
you make out of nothing? If you have nothing and you don't
have anything, then payment is impossible. You can't go to another
creditor to pay this one off over here. You can't rob Peter
to pay Paul. Now people do that, say, you
know, you want a credit card to pay off all these credit cards?
And go get a loan to pay off all of them and put them all
in this one pile over here? No, you can't do that with God.
You can't say, well, I'm going to go over here and borrow off
of this fellow here and I'll go pay God with that right there.
I'll start doing some good works and I'll start paying off my
debt to God. Okay, if you started today, if you started today living
perfectly from this day on, Dedicated and committed to God and Christ
and you say I'm going to live right, perfect from this day
on. What are you going to do about yesterday? And the day before? What are
you going to do about your previous life? That debt still got to
be paid. Ain't that right? And oh listen,
only two things can happen. An absolute forgiveness of debt
or prison. No middle ground. But look what
happens now, look what happens in verse 42. And when they had
nothing to pay, absolutely nothing to pay. Now this is the way God
is, listen to it. And when they had nothing to
pay, He frankly forgave them both. He looked them both up. They
owed different amounts. But that fellow owed the 50.
He was just as much in debt as the fellow owed the 500 if he
can't pay it, you know. And that's what he said. He just
looked at them both. And he says, I forgive you. I forgive you. Oh, how good,
how gracious is our God. What he did, he frankly forgave
them both. Oh, he didn't compromise, no,
no. His way suited their circumstances. You know, blessed is the man
to whom the Lord imputed not iniquity. Let me show you something
over Psalm 130. Look with me over here right
quick, for just a minute. Psalm 130. Oh, he frankly forgave
them both. Look at Psalm 130 with me for
just a minute. Oh, having forgiven you all trespasses. And our Lord, when He forgives
a man, He forgives him of all his debt, forgives him of all
of his sin. He don't leave any sin unforgiven. You know, I tell you, worse religion
and free will religion and that, all they talk about is, you better
not have any sin when the Lord comes back. When God forgives
you, He forgives you all your sin. He ain't gonna find no sin
in His people when He comes back. If he comes and gets you tomorrow
Rick, he ain't going to find no sin in you. You know why? He frankly forgives
us all. And if he forgives you of your sin, if he forgives you
of your death, you're out of debt. And you'll never go in
debt again. You know why? Because the girl
sang about it. When he come to call me, he said
he was the one who took my place. When they come to call for my
debt, Christ said, I'll pay it. When they come to call for the
payment of my sin, Christ said, I'll suffer it. And if He suffered
for your sin and suffered for my sins, I'm telling you something,
we ain't got Him. They can't be in two places at
the same time. They can't be on us and be on Christ. And look what He said here in
Psalm 130 in verse 3. If thou, Lord, shouldest mark
iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? And you think about that, God
going through this world marking your iniquities. But oh, listen
to what he says. This is the sweet psalmist of
Israel now. But there is forgiveness with
thee. that thou mayest be feared. Forgiveness
with you. Oh, bless His name. I'll tell
you why He hasn't forgiven us all trespassers. Look what it
says here again in verse 42. Frankly He forgave. And who did
He forgive? Both of them. He says He frankly
forgave them both. Why? Because both needed Him.
Both needed Him. The self-righteous person The
fellow trying to work his way to heaven, the respectable church
going 50 pence debtor, all of them need forgiveness. One can
have no more claim on another than they both are debtors. One
of them can't say, well, you know, I don't owe you as much
as this other fellow, so I ought to get more forgiveness. No,
forgiveness is forgiveness. And look how he forgave them.
He says, frankly, frankly, he frankly forgave them both. in
a free, liberal, loving, gracious, blessed manner. Not begrudgingly. He delights
to show mercy. When the prodigal son took everything,
took his father's inheritance, said, Father give me my heart. I want my part. I want to go
start living. I want to go on my own life. His father bundled
up all of his money, gave him all of his money, gave him all
of his clothes, and away he went. After a while, he spent everything
he had. He started back to the house.
And you know what? When he got back there, him old
ragged clothes on him, stinking clothes on him, you know what
his father was doing? He was walking to the top of
the house, looking for him. Nobody's going to come home.
Nobody's going to come back. And here's in his mind, he says,
when I get back, I'm not worthy to be a hard servant, my father
shall say. I said, well, I'll ask him. I said, Father, would
you just let me be a hard servant? And the father running back at
him, he said, Oh no, no, no, you're my son. You was dead but
now you live. You was lost but now you found.
Bring you the best robe and put it on him. And oh beloved, that's
what he does. And when he forgave him, look
what they had, it says here. And when they had nothing to
pay, that's when he forgave them. When they had nothing to pay.
When you realize you cannot pay, and you have nothing to pay,
zero to pay, nothing to pay, you cannot pay, that's when,
as long as you got a penny in your pocket, as long as you got
a hope in yourself, as long as you got an idea that you're as
good as anybody else, you're never going to get forgiveness,
but when you have nothing, Nothing! You know when Joseph refilled
his stuff to his brethren? When they come up there, they
didn't have nothing to eat. I tell you, that young ruler
came with the price in his hand and he went away sorrowful. The
loudest here in church hadn't eaten nothing. But Christ wasn't
in either place. But all listened. If you ain't
got nothing to pay, that's the person He forgives. Jesus paid it all. All to Him
I owe. And let me quickly go on through
some evidence here. Look what happens. Look down
at verse 42 again. And He had told old Simon Peter,
I've got something to say to you. A certain creditor had two
debtors, 500 pence and 50 pence. Had nothing to pay. He forgave
them both. Then who will love him the most?
Who will love him the most? He who forgave the most, he who
said, you rightly judged. It's a right judgment to respect
those that are forgiven much to love much. And look what our
Lord does. He turned to the woman and said,
Simon, I'm going to give you, I'm going to teach you a lesson
about faith and a lesson about love. And look what she said
here. Much love weeps, down in verse
44. said I come into this house see this woman I entered into
your house you gave me no water for my feet that's one of the
first things that they've done when they went into your house
they got a bowl of water and they sat and washed your feet
because they wore sandals and wanted your feet to be clean
and fresh and he says you gave me no water for my feet but she
washed my feet with her tears true love weaves much love weaves
Tears of regret, of past, tears of gratitude toward God, tears
of gratitude for the lost. Our Lord wept and Paul the apostle
said, I stand even weeping even now. And then look what it said. She said back up there in verse
38, behind his feet weeping. And I'll tell you something else,
much love humbles itself. Look what it says. And this woman
came in and she said, she's washed my feet. Oh, she's washed my
feet. If that's what she said, she's
washed my feet with tears. Verse 44, she's washed my feet
with tears. Love washes away dirt, stain
like nothing else will. It washes away stained and stuck,
dirt and stain that we even know of one another, our love. Love
covers a multitude of sin. And much love stoops. Much love
stoops. She says she wipes, wiped my
feet. Again, down there in verse 44,
wiped them with the hairs of her head. And you know a woman's hairs
are glory, and you know what our Lord, she said she took her
glory and put them at Christ's feet. Vibrant. And much love kisses. And look
what it says there in verse 45. Thou gavest me no kiss, but this
woman since the time I came in has not ceased to kiss my feet. Kiss my feet. Oh my. The dusty, naked feet
here on earth. Our Lord was there, not been
washed, but she got down, she didn't care. You know why? Because
she had already washed them. What'd she wash them with? Her
tears. What'd she wipe them off with?
What'd she dry them with? With her hair. As she got them
washed and dry, she just went to kissing them. She went to
kissing them all over. You know, she kissed and kissed
and kissed and kissed. She wiped and wiped and wiped
and kissed and wiped and wiped and kissed. Oh, how she must
have loved him to kiss his feet. Do you love anybody enough to
get down and wipe their feet, kiss their feet, take care of
their feet? Oh, what a privilege it'd be
to just love somebody and take care of them. Take care of their
feet, kiss their feet. And then look what else happens
here in all our hurry. Much love's annoyance. In verse
46, My head with old ideas not annoying, but this woman hath
anointed my feet. Oh, the father anoints his head,
but this forgiven woman has to anoint his feet. And she anointed
his feet with ointment. She rubbed that ointment into
his feet. And much love follows. And look what it said back up
in verse 37. And behold, a woman in the city,
which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in
Pharisees' house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, just
intruded into that house. She knew she'd be reproached.
She knew she'd be what wanted. And here you have a proud-hearted
Pharisee, a broken-hearted sinner, and a loving Savior. And she'd
come in there anyway. She followed Him right wherever
He went. And much love gives. She brought an alabaster box
of ointment. She took all she had, this great
treasure, and put it at his feet and used it on him. What do you got to pay? What
do you got to pay with? What do you got to pay?