Kerwin Baptist Church Daily Sermon Broadcast

Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our special blessing at lunch with the Lord.

This is a passage that you're familiar with and I'm familiar with, but as I've tried to dig into it this week, boy, I learned a lot and just some things that I needed to remind it of and I hope that will be a blessing to you today. If you're visiting, thank you for being here. We're glad you're here and I do want to say publicly I appreciate our staff that has done such a good job of covering things while I was gone and brother Frank did a wonderful job preaching last Sunday morning. Brother David last Sunday morning. We're very grateful for him. We're very grateful for him and his family. He was a friend and we're very grateful for our friends at the church. Dr. John Sunday night and tonight we have the privilege of brother Jacob Gerald's ordination service so be here at five o'clock we'll have a reception afterwards and we'll be taking an offering for brother Jacob we don't get to do that a lot for staff and but I hope that you'll be able to participate in that this evening look if you would verse 36 of luke chapter 7 and one of the Pharisees desired him which is Jesus this Pharisee's name by the way we find out a couple verses later his name is Simon and so this Pharisee desired that Jesus 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 me 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 it wiped them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with ointment now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it he spake within himself saying this man if he were a prophet would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him for she is a sinner and Jesus answering said unto him Simon I have somewhat to say unto thee and he saith master say on now before we go on let me just point out here that Simon had not said anything out loud now Simon was a Pharisee and Pharisees were interpreters of the law they were religious and they were the religious leaders but the law that they kept was a religious law and may I remind you that you and I Jesus came and died and rose again we are now under grace and not under the law but these men obviously were the ones that kind of were keepers of the law interpreting the law and they would inflict this law upon people so this is Simon and the Bible says that Simon thought these things in his head and they weren't very good thoughts about this woman and as he thought these things as soon as he thought them then Jesus said Simon I've got something I want to say to you and so Simon said of course so will master say on now Simon would not know that what Jesus was getting ready to say was a result of what Simon had thought and this is a reminder for even go on to remind you that Jesus does not just hear what you say he knows what we think he knows our heart and that's just a reminder today so what did Jesus say to him notice if you would verse 41 Jesus gives him an illustration he said there was a certain creditor which had two debtors and owed 500 pence to the one obviously and the other 50 and when they had nothing to pay he frankly forgave them both so here's two men that owed him money neither one of them could pay them back and he forgave both of them one of him one of them owed him 500 pence and the other owed him 50 and so if you will look at verse the 43 Simon answered and said well I'm sorry I skipped verse 42 and when they had nothing to pay he frankly forgave them both tell me therefore Jesus says which of them will love him most Simon answered and said I suppose that he to whom he forgave most and he said unto him thou hast rightly judged now let me point that out that being a Pharisee these men were basically judges of the law and you know there's not much good said or even written about Pharisees and Sadducees and things in the bible and they're always after Jesus and these men were such believers and followers of the law that their loyalty was to the law and you notice here how Jesus kind of appeals to Simon's own ego when he gives him this scenario and he said you know who are these individuals who do you think is going to be the most grateful the one who was forgiven 50 pence or the one who was forgiven 500 pence and Simon said well I suppose that the person that was forgiven the most and then Jesus says he could have just said you're right but he says thou hast rightly judged it's amazing how Jesus can always set you up before he knocks you down notice if you would verse 44 and he turned to the woman and said unto Simon see as thou this woman I entered into thine house thou gave us me no water for my feet but she hath washed my feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head thou gave us me no kiss but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet my head with oil thou that's not annoying but this woman hath 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 when they that sat at meet with him began to say within themselves who is this that forgiveth sins also and he said to the woman thy faith hath saved thee go in peace let's pray lord I love you and we love your word and lord there's so much here for us to glean from I pray that you'd help me today please lord I'm preaching to the best people in the world and I pray that you'd help me to rightfully divide your word to them in Jesus name we pray amen at this particular passage there's three main characters that I want to point out to you today and we just want to learn a lesson from each of them and that's one of the best ways you got to break God's word down and let's say all right what does this mean what does that mean what can I learn from this and so these are the three main characters in this story first there is the self righteous that's this Pharisee named Simon he was self-righteous notice the second character I want you to see is the savior now the savior Jesus was through this entire story weaving in and out of every verse the third character I want you to see is the sinner and that was this woman now I want you to know in life you're always going to find these three things in life you and I are the sinner we have all sinned and come short of the glory of God the bible says but you're always going to run across some self-righteous the individuals that think that they kind of have right to sit back and judge and critique everyone else for what they have to do wrong unfortunately there are many self-righteous at church but aren't you glad thirdly that wherever you go in life weaving in and out of your life there's always going to be the savior he's always there always willing to forgive and always willing to love so as we look at these three characters we're going to learn something now I will admit to you in the first service all I made it through was the sinner I didn't even get to preach two-thirds of my message what a pity so we're going to get it all no I'm just joking we're going to see how we how far we go but I want us to learn what we need to learn notice if you would first as we look at the sinner look at verse 37 the bible says and behold a woman in the city which was a sinner so for us to understand this story we kind of have to understand the subjects of the story this sinner I want you to notice first how she had been bought this woman was a prostitute this woman was a harlot the bible says that she was a woman in the city and she was a sinner now from these two phrases we understand a couple things as you look into the meaning of these greek words the fact that she was in the city in the city means that that was her dwelling place that's where she stayed she was in the city that's where she worked that's where she did business the bible says she was a sinner and this word sinner obviously lets us know that this was a woman that literally worked in the city as a person that sold her body to individuals now you and I would say well that's just absolutely despicable and and you know what a what a horrible horrible thing and if you think of this term how she had been bought that was her life selling herself before you and I become too quick to judge may I remind you that what she was guilty of I hope that maybe that's not your life but may I say this you and I have been guilty of the same thing you say well I would never do anything like that preacher can I ask you something how many times have you and I sold ourselves for something in the world how many times have we sold God's will sold God's plan because our flesh wanted something I'll be honest with you every one of us at times have sold something precious for something that was temporary all of us are guilty of the same thing how she had been bought I was looking up and kind of reading about this passage digging into it to find out hey you know what is there anything I'm missing anything that I would that I would see and had one writer that was kind of describing this lady he said that literally this was a person that basically would drink with her customers to try to get through it they would she would drink after her customers to try to somehow be able to sleep and then she would drink during the day to try to somehow be able to keep doing what her life had given her she was a woman that was used to being used a woman that knew she was only wanted for one thing a woman that knew temporary fulfillment of another's pleasure but knew nothing of lasting love that's who this person was how she had been bought I want you to notice secondly who she sought the bible says that in verse 37 when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house that means this that this woman was trying to find Jesus somehow some way she was asking people have you seen Jesus do you know do you know where he's at do you know if he's anywhere in town is there anywhere that I could find him and somehow she got the information that he was going to eat at the Pharisee Simon's house now from this passage we can gather that somehow this woman had already met Jesus somehow he had already come by her way and this is a woman that was used to men looking at probably her body but when Jesus passed by he saw her soul may I remind you that he saw your soul and today I want you to understand that maybe you're an individual that over the years it feels like you've been used by people and that and that people have have promised one thing and let you down and and people have not kept their commitments and you've had family that have let you down parents that might have let you down children or grandchildren that might have let you down but I'm here to tell you Jesus is not one that will ever let you down he sees your soul and he loves you for who you are so she was seeking Jesus I don't know how he had shown compassion on her and I don't know how he had shown forgiveness to her we are not told of the story I don't know if maybe Jesus had spoken with her and she became a believer I don't know if Jesus had shown her a different life had shown her real love and had and had explained to her how faith in him and faith in Christ how it would change her life I don't know but we know what this woman was and we know what she had done but now she was trying to find Jesus somehow in some way so that she could thank him so I want you to notice thirdly what she brought the Bible says that she showed up at this Pharisee Simon's house she was not invited but she showed up anyway you say why is that because she was seeking Jesus and this woman had been to the bottom of her barrel and individuals that have been to the bottom finally get to the point when they want Jesus and when they have tried everything else and been down every other road and have found out what what that kind of life brings you and you get to the point that you realize I'm desperate and I'm hopeless I've got no other option to do this because I'm I've got no other option and nothing has worked and I want Jesus you'll find that you don't care how people look at you and you don't care what might come your way you'll get through the crowd you'll get over the obstacles you'll get over the mountain but somehow some way you'll get to Jesus God give us those kind of Christians and church members that determine they want Jesus and we'll thing to get to them who she sought and what she brought so you say all right preacher I know what she brought she brought this uh package of ointment the Bible says an alabaster box of ointment but may I explain that even in the Greek here this is obviously a container but this is probably something that this woman had hanging around her neck and I say that because this she probably did not have her own permanent dwelling she was a person that her body was being used she really didn't have a home and so anything that this woman owned or had she would have with her and this was probably ointment that she used in her business to obviously put that perfume on herself that would attract attention that would that would assent that obviously that would that would be pleasing to an individual and that would attract them to her this is something that she had used for that something that she had to have to even do what she did and she brings this to Jesus and you say so I understand what she brought but I want you to look a little bit closer today after all this woman had been through and the life she had lived that wasn't all that she brought to Jesus that day I want you to notice first that she brought brokenness the Bible says in verse 37 if you'll notice that when this woman found out that Jesus was going to be at this individual's house at Simon's house verse 38 says this that she stood at his feet behind him weeping you say well preacher I don't understand maybe the language of that you what do you mean she stood at his feet this woman as she approached Jesus as he was in this house she just came in this house she was desperate to get to Jesus and as she got to it this literally brings the ideal that as she came in and saw him she began to bow down and crumble literally at his feet the Bible says she was weeping you'll find verse 44 45 46 that Jesus as he retells this story to Simon literally and brings up what she had done he brings reference to the fact that she was weeping she was broken you know what the Bible says the Bible says that the Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart are you bringing brokenness to Jesus today you know a problem you and I sometimes don't need Jesus so much because we're not broken we have so many blessings and we have so many advantages and things are good in our life right now and you know well I've got some problems like everyone else but I'm okay and you know what oftentimes we come into church out of obligation but we do not come in broken but it's all the difference in the world when you and I bring brokenness to Jesus some of you might recall I don't know I guess it's a month or two now Kayden's in junior church correct is he in junior church some of you remember a couple months ago or however long it's been that we had preacher boys on a Sunday night some of our men that are preachers just try to give them opportunity as we can we're blessed to have them but you know if I let them all preach all the time I never get to preach and my son Kayden on the way to church wanted to preach and I you know well okay I'm figuring that'll pass and by the time we got to church he was still wanting to preach that night and I said well now Kayden this is not a joke this is serious you need a verse you need to share God's word that preaches not just getting up and messing around oh I know so I figured that would pass so we had the service and had one of our preacher men or whatever or a couple of them I forget and we did the offering and during the offering he I want to preach so I'm like I have no idea what he's going to say we haven't worked on it we haven't gone over anything this could be a train wreck who knows some of you would remember as he got up and he quoted this verse an individual that's had three open heart surgeries even at six years of age for some reason his mind saw something in that verse that applied to his life and as that little six-year-old got up here and said the Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart and I had a broken heart and God was with me now I don't have any idea what a six-year-old brain has seen over these years I will tell you this that every once a while we'll talk with Kayden a little bit about his open heart surgeries you know he had one at three days three months and three years of age but he sometimes will talk about a man that he saw in the operating room now I don't know if that's case could have been the doctor could have been whatever but there's a lot of people in the operating room and a whole lot of people in his particular operating rooms but he always talks about this one man I don't know that'll probably pass and his mind will probably not remember that you say well who do you think it is I don't know what it is I know who it could be but I know this the Lord is nigh unto those of you who are of a broken heart she brought brokenness how long has it been since you brought God your brokenness in church I want you to notice secondly she brought not just brokenness but she brought humility the bible says that she literally bowed at his feet got down at Jesus feet which is a position of humility it's subservient and she literally was weeping in her tears the bible said literally covered dropped on the feet of Jesus she bowed in his presence later on as Jesus is kind of teaching Simon he said Simon when I walked in the house you didn't bow to me but this woman has bowed weeping and covered my feet with her tears you know the bible still says that God resists the proud but he gives grace to the humble maybe you and I think that we've lived such a good life now and we we've been so cleaned up and and we don't do these things and we don't do some of the things that the world does and we don't do this and we don't do that and maybe we follow our little rules and follow our little traditions or whatever the case might be but may I say that oftentimes you and I we walk into God's house not with the spirit of humility like we should but with an arrogant pride about ourselves as if we're better than those outside these walls and dear friend may I say that there was a room full of religious people there that day but only one person brought humility how many times in a church is there a room full of religious people but barely even one that might bring humility are you humble before God today are you able to really see what we are are you and I able to really see some of the things we've done how undeserving we are for the grace of God there is a table full of religious men that thought they were above everyone but this one person that came in full of sin a life of filth was so humbled by the grace of God oh if you and I would only bring humility to the Lord notice this third thing she brought gratitude why was she weeping and why did she bow at his feet and why did she take her hair and clean his feet and why did she pour this ointment on because she was grateful because she had been forgiven a lot now I'll be honest with you I'm an individual that grew up in a Christian home and my mom and dad traveled every week of our lives I was in church just about every night and I'm not exaggerating about that every night of my life and I'll be honest with you when I got saved it wasn't like that there was a life full of sin for me to be saved out of I was saved young at the age of nine I lived in a travel trailer with my mom and dad what could I have done I mean you're never more than 30 feet away from your parents it creates some need for counseling for me and them so you know I kind of grew up probably overlooking under appreciating church preaching God's word God's grace but you know you get older and you make some mistakes and you really blow it and sometimes you look in the mirror and you realize probably deep down what you really are then you start appreciating it now our young people ought to be kept in church and they ought to be in God's house but there's always the danger that because they feel maybe they've been forgiven from a little that they don't appreciate it as much as from as those that have been forgiven a lot may I say dear friend none of us have been forgiven more than the other we're all sinners that have been saved by the grace of God I want you to notice next she brought sacrifice now she brings this alabaster box of ointment now you say well preacher what you know what's the significance of that this this box of ointment was precious it was expensive you say well I don't understand listen this was a sacrifice this woman was trying to find Jesus so that she could bring something of value to him now look at me I want you to get this she considered her own self so unvaluable that she had to bring ointment to have anything of value that's how worthless she considered herself so if I you know you say well she could have just brought herself oh no she did but she didn't consider that much of a gift because of the life she lived so what did she do she found the most expensive thing that she had which was this little container of ointment and she willingly sacrificed that to him because he had done so much for her you know you and I have been forgiven a lot by the Lord it ought to be natural for us to want to sacrifice something for him now I don't know if you've ever thought that or thought this but may I explain something about this box of ointment that she pours on Jesus you know when we talk about the fact that she was humble and she was grateful now look at me I want you to get this in Jesus day they often obviously wore sandals or they might have been bare barefooted and the bible says when this woman came into this house and oftentimes if there was any kind of a nice dwelling they would take their shoes off if they had shoes because they would be so dirty but their feet would still be dusty and this woman when she came into this house as she approached Jesus and she fell at his feet the bible says that the first step was that there were tears that fell on his feet and the bible says when those tears fell on Jesus feet that she literally took her hair and began to wipe and clean that dirt because the tears as they would mix with the dust on the feet would create mud it would make his feet dirty and so she would take her hair and she would clean off his feet but why did she pour the ointment listen to me I want you to get this because as she had cleaned his feet and began to kiss his feet because as she had cleaned his feet and began to kiss his feet this woman was so ashamed of her sin and saw herself for what she really was that she was literally pouring that ointment over his feet as if to disinfect and cleanse his feet from the filth of her own kisses she felt such a sinner that for me to kiss his feet I need to do something to wipe that off of him I don't know if you've ever thought of this but may I say this act says something else this ointment that this lady had because she had no permanent dwelling and she basically lived on the street corners this ointment was essential for her to be able to be able to be able to be able to do what she did because she would have to put that ointment on so that she would have a scent that would attract others to her look at me and whatever jesus did however he did it and he had forgiven her and shown her love and shown her compassion and all these things look at me she was so appreciative that when she came and she poured literally out her very precious ointment she poured it all out on his feet that is a sign that she had no intentions of ever going back to that lifestyle because she would not need that ointment anymore she wanted to give it all to jesus have you and I poured everything out have we said no turning back or do we still have a hand turning back or do we still have a hand or a finger on something in the world and we're trying to kind of ride both sides she was so grateful for forgiveness she had no intention of ever going back to what she did wow let me mention this if I can lastly she brought love now the bible says that jesus looks at simon and he says simon when i came in the house you didn't have water for my feet but this woman washed my feet with her tears he said simon when i came in the house you didn't show love but this woman has kissed me ever since she walked in the door thank you for listening today we hope you received a blessing from our broadcast the kirtland baptist church is located at 4520 old hollow road in kernersville north carolina you may also contact us by phone at 336-993-5192 or via the web at kerwinbaptistchurch.com enjoy our services live and all our media on our website and church app thank you for listening to the kerwin broadcast today god bless you