Luke chapter 7, begin reading
in verse 36. And one of the Pharisees desired
him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's
house and sat down to meet. And behold, a woman in the city,
which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meet in
the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash
his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her
head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, his faith
within himself said, This man, if he were a prophet, would have
known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him
Well, she is a sinner. And Jesus answering said unto
him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he said, Master,
say all. That was a certain creditor which
had two debtors. The one owed 500 pence and the
other 50. And when they had nothing to
pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me, therefore, which
of them would love him most?' Simon answered and said, I suppose
he to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast
rightly judged. And he turned to the woman and
said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house,
thou gavest me no water for my feet, but she hath washed my
feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. You
gave me no kiss, but this woman, since the time that I came in,
has not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not
anoint, but this woman has anointed my feet with ointment. Wherefore
I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she
loved much. But to whom little is forgiven,
the same loveth little. And he said unto her, Thy sins
are forgiven. And they that said it meet with
him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins
also? And he said unto the woman, Thy
faith hath saved thee. Go in peace." Much forgiven and
much love. That's what we see in this passage
that we read this morning in your hearing. He says here in
verse 36 that one of the Pharisees, we have no idea who he was. All
we know is his name was Simon. There's been so much speculation.
But really, we don't know who any of these people were except
the Lord Jesus Christ. We don't know who anyone else
was at this meal. But the Lord Jesus Christ, the
Son of God, was there. But one of these Pharisees, we're
told here in verse 36, invited our Master to come to his house
and eat lunch with him." Now, that's a very civil thing for
a man to do. He showed the Lord some respect,
at least outwardly. That's more than most of these
Pharisees did. Most of them cursed the Lord,
and they hated the Lord, and they manifested that hatred.
But he did invite the Lord Jesus here to his house to eat dinner
with him. showed him some outward respect. And yet, you'll notice here as
I read this passage to you, this Pharisee, in spite of his outward
respect that he showed the Master, he was ignorant of that grace
that's in the Lord Jesus Christ. He was ignorant of what it is
to be a sinner. He knew nothing about what it
was to be a sinner. He knew she was one. But he had
no idea that he was one. He knew nothing about justification
by faith. When the Lord Jesus said, Your
faith has saved thee, he knew nothing about that. He knew nothing
about forgiveness of sins. He had none. He was civil in
his heart, but I tell you, he was civil in his outward demeanor
towards the Lord Jesus. But he had no love in his heart.
for the Lord Jesus Christ. And you know what that teaches
us? That teaches us that men may be outwardly moral like this
Pharisee was. This teaches us that men may
be civil towards the things of Christ and the people of the
Lord Jesus Christ. They may even come to the worship
service and be civil and respectful in it and yet be repulsed in
their hearts at the grace of the gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ. That's what we see in this man
here. This Pharisee, he was civil to
Christ, but he knew nothing of Christ and why he came in his
very nature. We may be civil and respectful,
but do we know Christ? Do we know the grace that's in
Christ? Do we know ourselves? Have we experienced forgiveness
of our sins? Civility is not enough. God knows
in our day we need civility. We need it in our politics. We
need it down at the courthouse, our schools. We need it in our
churches. But civility is not enough, is
it? We've got to know Christ. We've
got to know Christ. So here was a man that was very
civil to the Lord Jesus outwardly, but he had no love for Christ
in his heart. Neither did he know anything
of grace. And here in the last portion of verse 36, we're told
here that the Lord Jesus went into the Pharisee's house and
he sat down to meet with him. Now, the master is a strange
fellow. You find him visiting and associating
with all kinds of people. We're told here in verse 34 that
he was a friend of publicans and sinners. He often sat with
those kind of fellows in their houses and meet with them. Now
here we find him in a self-righteous Pharisee's house. And don't you
know that men condemned him? Pharisees condemned him for sitting
and eating with publicans and sinners. And I imagine sometimes
the publicans and sinners looked at him and said, what are you
doing sitting with those self-righteous Pharisees? But you know his intentions
were marvelous. They were good. And that's what
it boils down to, isn't it? You know, there's nothing wrong,
brothers and sisters, with you visiting. There's nothing wrong
with you having a friend that may be open and profane in his
life. There may be nothing wrong with
you going to his house and sitting down and eating a meal with him
if your motive is the same motive as the maestro has. He didn't
fellowship with these ungodly sinners, the publicans and sinners,
to partake of their sins. He never could do that. But why
did He go among them? To save their souls. To tell
them of His grace and His goodness. And I know people condemn you
if you hung out with some self-righteous Pharisee. If you befriended a
Pharisee. But it's your motives. It's not
to compromise the Gospel, but it's to help people. Let us have
the same attitude, brothers and sisters, that our Master had.
Befriend people. Don't be arguing with people. First befriend people. Sit down
with them and be a friend with them, all with a motive. What can I do to help this poor
soul? That's what the Master did. That
was his motive for going in to these open and profane centers.
And that was his motive for going to this Pharisee's house. And we're told here in verse
37 and verse 38, and here's how Matthew says it. In verse 37,
while they were sitting there eating, and back in those days
we're told that they reclined. You want to understand how she
could sit behind him and wash his feet. Except you remember
that in those days they didn't sit at the table like you and
I did. They reclined. They laid down and they ate. You may have seen some of the
pictures, the drawings at the Last Supper when they're sitting
there in their chairs. It didn't happen that way. That's
how John could lean on our Lord's breast. They were laying. They
lay and ate. Now, that would be odd for you
and I to do that. We sat in our chairs today, but the Lord Jesus
and all these men were laying around this table, this spread.
And here this lady came, and here's what's said about her.
Let me read it to you again. While they were doing this, behold,
a woman in the city which was a sinner. When she knew that
Jesus was in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster box
of ointment, and then she continued to wash his feet. But look what
Matthew says about this woman. She was a sinner. Well, of course
she was a sinner. Why would he take this time,
use this pen to emphasize she was a sinner? All men are sinners,
aren't they not? All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. There's not a just man upon this
earth that doeth good and sinneth not. Wayne, of course she was
a sinner. But it means more than that,
doesn't it? Well, it means everybody in this town knew she was a sinner.
She was a notorious sinner. We don't know what kind of lifestyle
she lived. She may have been a harlot, a
homebreaker. You could ask some of the wives
in that city. They could have told you about this woman, I
bet. All the town knew that she was a city. That's why this Pharisee
said, if this man were a prophet, he would know who this was. Everybody knows who this is.
She's a sinner in this town. But it means more than that,
too, doesn't it? God knew she was a sinner. The Lord Jesus
knew this woman was a sinner. He knew all about her. He knew
every sin that she had committed. God knows the hearts, does He
not? He sees behind the scenes. He
knows what's going on in the secret recesses of our soul. He knew this woman was a sinner.
He knows you're a sinner. He knows I'm a sinner. But you
know what it means more than that when Luke said, Behold a
sinner? She knew it. She knew it. She knew that she was a sinner. That's why Luke says, Behold
a sinner. You say, Bruce, don't everybody
confess to being a sinner? I've never run in but to one
man in all my life that said he wasn't a sinner. Everybody
else confesses that they're sinners. Everybody confesses it, but how
many knows it? How many people know themselves
to be a sinner? The old poet said a sinner is
a precious thing. The Holy Ghost has made him so. The Spirit of God has made him
to know that he's a sinner. That's why Luke said, Behold,
would you look at this? Here's something to set your
eyes upon. Here's a woman that knows herself
to be a sinner. That's wonderful, is it not? There's not many people, brothers
and sisters, that know they're sinners. You know what sinners
do? They come to Christ. You know what sinners do? They
seek mercy. God be merciful to me, a sinner. Here's a woman who lived all
of her life without forgiveness. Because she never knew herself
to be lost. She never knew herself to be
a sinner. But now here she is. Why? She knows herself to be
a sinner. One of the amazing things that
you read sometimes at your leisure, when Solomon was dedicated in
that beautiful temple, and they had finished it, and they had
him to set him up a platform, probably about as high as I am,
where he could look out over the people, And he began to call
upon the Lord. He got down on his knees. Can
you imagine this king, this mighty king? And he's down on his knees
before the Lord and all the children of Israel. And he's lifting up
his voice to heaven. And he said, O great God that
knows the hearts of all men, if strangers pray towards this
house, if your children pray towards this house, Lord, hear
them and be merciful. and forgive their sins. But you
know, he stopped and he qualified who he's talking about praying.
He said, those who know the plague of their hearts. What is it to be a sinner? What
is it to know you're a sinner? It means you know the plague
of your own heart. What if a plague hit our country?
I bet you if the health department sent some people in here right
now and said, you folks can't go back outside. There's a plague
that certainly hit this community. I tell you, I'd quit preaching
probably. And we'd all congregate around and pray and we'd be so
concerned. Our minds, our thoughts would
be on one thing. There's a plague. And if it gets
on me, it's killing people. We wouldn't go out of our homes.
We'd seek the cure. How can we get inoculated? All
these other trivial things would leave our thoughts. We'd concentrate
on one thing. There's a plague, and if I get
it, I'm dead. I'm dead. We've got a plague. We contracted
it from our first father, Adam. We're born with this plague of
sin, and it's going to kill us. And we don't even know we have
it. Look at the people running around life and having a big
time. And they've got the plague. But what do they do when the
Holy Ghost shows them, you've got the plague? Behold, that's what Luke said,
behold, here's a woman with the plague and she's found it out. She's found it out. Oh, the plague. I'm a sinner. I'm a sinner. Why
did this woman come to the Lord Jesus Christ to begin with? Because
she was a sinner. And she came to Him here in Luke
7 because she was a forgiven sinner. If you ever come to Him
as a sinner, and you won't come to Him unless you're a sinner,
if you ever come to Him as a sinner, and He forgives all your sins,
you'll never cease to come to Him. You'll come to Him the rest
of your life. She came to Jesus. I think verse 34, the context
of this is very, very telling when we talk about being a sinner
and Christ the Savior. The context of this is found
there in verse 34 of chapter 7. The son of man is come eating
and drinking, and you say, behold, a gluttonous man and a wine-bibber,
a friend of publicans and sinners." That's the context that this
woman came to him. She heard him say that. A friend
of sinners? I'm a sinner. And also the context
is in Matthew chapter 11. If you study the context of this,
remember Matthew chapter 11, how that chapter closes, coming
to me. All ye that labor and are heavy
laden, and I'll give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn
of me. I'm meek and lowly in heart.
Ye shall find rest for your souls." That's the context of this woman
coming to the Lord Jesus Christ. She came to Him, no doubt, because
she heard of Him. You say, Bruce, how do you know
that? Did anybody ever come that didn't hear Him? She heard of Him. And what did
she hear? Now, I don't know how the Lord
brought you to Himself, brothers and sisters. I don't know. I don't know how He taught you. What aspects. Some people, the
hell is speared out of them. Some people come to Him trembling,
I'm going to hell today if You don't save me. Others come like
this woman came. She was broken over His goodness. A friend of publicans. I don't go around. I never have.
As long as God has given me understanding to know that, I've never gone
around telling lost people, God loves you. I just don't do that. First of all, I don't know that
soul. I ain't going to tell somebody a lie. I just don't know that
brother Larry. And secondly, I don't tell people that because
sinners would just presume upon it anyway. and go on in their
sin. If you're going to find out God
loves you, you're going to find it out in Christ. That's where
God's love is, in Christ. But having said that, this Bible
is filled with sweet invitations, gracious invitations to the most
ungodly to come to the Lord for mercy. You want me to show you
one, Ellen? Hold Luke chapter 7 and look
over in Isaiah chapter 55. Very, very familiar passage.
Look in Isaiah chapter 55. There have been men that the
knowledge of hell, the knowledge of God's wrath never broke them.
Man, they've cussed in God's face and stick their fist up
towards heaven and go on. And yet, you know how God chose
to break those people? With His goodness. Some of the
hardest people, hardened criminals in this world have been broken
when they saw how good the Lord was to them. Look what he says
here. Look in Isaiah chapter 55 and
look in verse 3. Incline your ear and come unto
me. Share and your soul shall live. Now this is the invitation he's
given. He gives it also in verse 1.
If you're thirsty, come and drink. Don't need money? Come without
any practice. Come. Hear me and your soul shall
live. Who's he talking to? Who in the world is he talking
to? Hear and your soul shall live. Well, look down in verse
6. Seek ye the Lord while he may
be found. Seek him. Call upon him while
he's near. Look in verse 7. Let the wicked
forsake his way. Let the unrighteous man forsake
his thoughts, and let him, the wicked, unrighteous, return unto
the Lord. And what will the Lord do? Damn
him? Crush him? Accuse him? He will have mercy upon him and
to our God, for he will abundantly pardon Is that goodness, brothers
and sisters, is that goodness? Oh, just undescribable goodness. The goodness of God to the most
hardened, wicked person. And God knows what He is. And
yet He says, return unto Me. Come. Come, you wicked. Come, you hardened sinner. That's
what this notorious woman here in chapter 7 of Luke, she heard
something about this, a friend of a sinner. She wasn't used
to hearing something like that. These Pharisees weren't her friend,
Wayne. You stay away from me, they said. I'm older than thou.
I ain't got nothing to say or do with you. Don't you even speak
to my kids. You pass my house, you pass by
on the other side of the street. We don't like you. But here was
a man who had raised the dead and healed the lepers and gives
out to the blind. And he says, I'm a friend of
sinners. She said, that's just the Savior
I need. That's just what I've been waiting for and looking
for, a Savior. Oh, sweet invitations. Here in
verse 38 of Luke chapter 7. In verse 38. Why did this woman do this? I mean, her coming to the Lord
Jesus Christ and getting in behind Him here and weeping, drying
His hair. Don't you imagine when those
tears begin to fall on His feet? She is sort of embarrassed. Oh,
what have I done? Oh, what have I done? And she
grabs her long hair and she is trying to dry His feet up. And
then she pours that ointment on His feet. Why would she do
this? I mean, she's taking her well-being
into her hands. She's risking more than maybe
just being embarrassed or ashamed. She could be ran off or jailed
or tried. She's taking her well-being into
her hands. Why did she do this? Why didn't she wait until a better
opportunity? Why didn't she watch Him until
He's alone with at least two or three of His disciples and
then go do it? Why did she do it here? I think
she was so overwhelmed with love for Him because of what He had
done for her, she couldn't resist it. She could not resist it. You see it here in verse 40,
don't you? This is the way the Lord explained. The Lord explained
plainly in verse 40. Follow it. Why this woman did
that? She was forgiven. She was forgiven. And he tells us like this there
in verse 40. He said, Simon, I want to say something to you.
I want to teach you something. There was this creditor. He had
two debtors. One owed him a fabulous sum,
500 pence. The other just owed 50 pence.
But neither one of them had anything to pay. If you just owe a penny
and you're obligated to pay it, they're going to put you in prison.
If you don't, you don't have one red cent. You're in debt and
you can't pay it. Neither one of them had anything
to pay, and the creditor said, I freely forgive you both. Which one of us is going to love
him the most? Why, the one who is forgiven most. Your love for Christ first is
determined by how much. You know He's forgiving you.
You want more love for Christ? Then see your sins in their true
light, as black and as vulgar and as filthy as they are. See
how they've mounted up to heaven, ready to fall on your head. See
how many they are. From the time you left your mother's
womb to this day, you've done nothing but sin. Are they all
forgiven? Are they all washed in the Savior's
blood? Then you'll love Him a lot. You'll
love him a lot. And that was this man Simon's
problem. He knew nothing of this. But
this woman, she came to the Lord Jesus here at first for her sins
to be forgiven. And then she came at the second
time because her sins were forgiven. Her sins were not forgiven here.
She had already had them forgiven. But, boy, she got a fresh view
of it, didn't she? Thy sins, which are many, are
forgiven thee. Our love for Christ will be determined
by how much we know that He has saved us from out of the knowledge
that He has received us and saved us. and forgiven us, the greater
apprehension we have of our sins. And when we see the blood of
Jesus Christ has washed us from our sins, we'll love Him. I have blotted out as a thick
cloud thy transgression. Think about that. You want more
love to Christ? Then think about the thick cloud
that He's blotted out. He loved us and washed us from
our sins in His blood. Think about that. He loved us
and washed us. How? In His blood. In His blood? Yes, it cost Him His blood. Listen
to this. In whom we have redemption through
His blood, even the forgiveness of sins through the riches of
His grace. Forgiveness. Forgiveness. Forgiveness. And this woman went
and gathered up her money and bought this expensive box of
ointment. She came to this Pharisee's house
at great risk to herself, humbled herself at the Lord Jesus' feet,
and she wept and wiped His feet with her hair and anointed His
feet with this ointment. All because she loved him. And she loved him because he
had forgiven her. Love. Love. If you and I lose the knowledge
and the freshness of forgiveness, then we'll lose our sweetheart
love for Christ. And when we lose our sweetheart
love for the Lord Jesus Christ, we'll labor, we'll struggle,
and everything will be hard and everything will be difficult.
And we'll do it because we have to and not because we want to. You want your love to stay fresh?
Then let this remain upon your heart and your thoughts. that
you have been forgiven much, much. And everything you do,
you'll do it because you love the Lord Jesus Christ. That's
why she did this. That's why she risked everything,
because she loved Him. There's a sad rebuke our Master
gave to the church there in Romans and Revelations 2, you'll remember
it. When he told the Ephesian church,
you've left your first love. Your love is so cold towards
me. Ain't that what he told them? And you know, here's the sad
part about that. You remember the letter to the Ephesians?
We've been studying through that, haven't we, for a long time.
One of the gracious letters. He's blessed us with all spiritual
blessings. He's chosen us in Christ. He's
predestinated us to the adoption of children. And those same people
that had read that verse and memorized those verses, now he
writes to them, he says, you've left your first love. And you know why their love had
grown cold? They didn't hold this fresh in their hearts. What
this lady had fresh on her heart, forgiveness of sins. I listened
to it, but somebody gave me a tape a few days ago, a little tape,
and I put it in my little recorder, and I was listening to it. And
the fellow, obviously, was a very educated man, very articulate. He began to preach, and he was
so precise, just pronounced everything so correctly. He just dotted
every i and crossed every t. And he was so smooth in his delivery. And he was just as straight as
a gun barrel in his delivery. And it was just as empty. Just
as empty. Oh, brothers and sisters, let's
not lose our sweetheart love for Jesus Christ. If you forget
everything else, don't forget this. that He has forgiven much. Wouldn't it be wonderful when
you got out of the bed of the morning, the first word you heard
ringing in your ear, your sins, which are many, are forgiven
you. Wouldn't that be wonderful? To
go all day with that upon your mind. When you come home from
a day's work and you've pillared your head, the last word that
echoed in your heart was lift, much sin. And they're all forgiven. They're all forgiven. I don't know about you, but I
tell you, anymore, I don't know if it's age, I don't know if
it's being so busy, but I've got just about as much anymore
to be forgiven while I'm sleeping as I am when I'm awake. I have
some awful dreams, and people talk about, oh, what a beautiful
dream. I have to get up and repent of
mine. So I want to hear when I leave my bed in the morning,
your sins, which are many, are forgiving you. That warms my
heart. It fills me with love for the
Savior. And I tell you, when you're filled
with love for the Savior, you'll go around looking for things
to do for His glory. How much more would we do if
our hearts were filled with love for Christ? How much more self-denial
would there be? How much more patience? How much
more love? How much more tenderness towards
His people? Love covers a multitude of sins. And I tell you where love springs
from. Forgiveness. Forgiveness. This woman's sins are many, and
yet they're all forgiven her. This is why she did this. Look
in verse 39. We'll wind this up pretty quick.
Look in verse 39. When the Pharisee which had bidden
him saw this woman washing his feet,
the Lord let her do it. He spake within himself. This man, if he were a prophet,
would have known who and what manner of woman this is which
toucheth him, for she is a sinner." Oh, Simon. Oh, Simon. He does know her. He does know her. Doesn't he
know her? He knew her long before she knew
herself. He's the one that separated her
from her mother's womb. He knew her before she had a
being. He knew her back in the covenant of grace. He knew her
when he wrote her name down in the Lamb's Book of Life. He knew
her when she went astray. He knew her when she was wallowing
in sin. She was one of His. He knows
His sheep. He knows where they are. He knows
how they've wandered. Oh, He knows her very well. He
knows her every sin, every last one of them. I'll tell you something else,
Simon, He knows. He knows you too. You think He doesn't know her?
He knows her and He knows you. And you know something He knows
about you, Simon? He knows you don't love Him. He knows you. He knows what you're
thinking in your heart. He knows how little value you've
put upon Him. He knows you, Simon. And He knows
this about you. If He don't teach you about yourself
the same way that He taught this woman about herself, then your
thoughts of Him will send you to the same hell that her open
and profane sins would have sent her to, if He don't forgive her. Oh, He knows you, Simon. He knows
you. Everything is naked and open
in His eyes. We don't have a secret thought,
folks. In the darkness of night, when we think we've got everything
hid, He knows everything. Everything is naked and open
in the eyes of Him. with whom we have to do. If he
were a prophet, he is a prophet, and he knows. Learn this right quickly. Learn
this. Learn this about what we've just studied. A Pharisee, a self-righteous
legalist, no matter how civil and courteous he may seem to
be, he has no love for Christ. He has no love for Christ. No love? I said no love. I'm
not talking about a little love. I'm talking about no love. You
have no water for my feet, Simon. You have no kisses for me. You
have nothing for me. Everything's regarding you. You
have nothing for me. That's the way self-righteous
people are. They don't love Christ at all.
Not one ounce of love. Not one ounce of grace in their
hearts. The Pope of Rome don't love Christ.
Never has. He cannot love Him until God
shows him what He showed this woman. Oh, the Pope's a good
man. The Pope's an ungodly man. And
he has no love for Jesus Christ. And neither does anybody else
outside of Christ. Learn this, there will be vile
sinners, ungodly sinners, open and profane sinners who were
called and forgiven and justified and they love Christ and they
go to heaven while outwardly good and clean men and women
in their own eyes will perish. They'll perish. I appreciate
anybody's moral. I wish we could have more people
with morals today, even lost people. But I tell you, there'll
be people that never did anybody any wrong outwardly. They were
kind outwardly. They were courteous. We've all
seen them, and we appreciate them. But you know something? They're sinners. And if Christ
don't save them, they're going to perish while open and profane
sins have been brought to Christ and washed, and they love Him.
and they go to heaven. And learn this, you may find those who cross
loves among the most open and profane sinners. You know one of the reasons you
and I should witness to the most ungodly people we know and can
find. He may well have some loved ones
among them. If you'd have been going to witness
to somebody, where would you have went? To the synagogue?
Oh yeah, that's where we'd have went. We'd have went to the synagogue.
Let's go over there to some of these religious people and see
what we can, you know, stir up. But you know the one that was
loved of Christ was down there in the red light district. Just
hold her. Land with another man's husband.
Christ loved her. You say, how do you know He did?
He called her and He forgave her. Oh, fine. Next week somewhere, will you
run into the most vile and godly man, a woman, and tell them about
the Lord Jesus? And learn this. When you come
to the Lord Jesus Christ truly, You'll leave in an altogether
different attitude and a disposition. I know what we are when we come
to Christ. But I tell you, when we leave
Him, we're altogether different. He'll come hard and wretched
and hateful and mean and stingy. But when you leave, you'll leave
gracious, you'll leave merciful, you'll leave tender, you'll leave
loving. Thy faith has saved thee. Go in peace." Go in peace. Why didn't he tell
her, sit down here and listen. We're going to discuss some more
things. Why didn't he tell her that? You won't have any peace
around these fellows like Simon. If you're a young convert, be
careful where you go and who you talk to. A lot of people ain't going to
love it when you talk about free and sovereign grace. Mercy. When you start telling them what
a sinner you are, and how precious Christ is, and how He saved you
and justified you, they're not going to like that. And I tell
you, if you're not careful, you'll let men steal this piece of your
conscience. They'll just keep you upset and
doubtful about everything. If you're in a church where the
gospel is not preached, you might as well go ahead and leave. I'm
sorry. You might as well go ahead and leave. I've done it. You've done
it. If I asked a show of hands here
this morning, how many of us had to leave the church because
we just left so grieved Sunday after Sunday? I'd have to raise
my hand. The Lord Jesus said, Woman, go in peace. But you've
got to go. You've got to go. I'll meet you
somewhere. I've got a group of people over
there for you. You'll find them. You'll find them. Go in peace.
Let's pray.