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Luke 7 - Devotion · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Welcome to Five Minute Bible in our journey through the New
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  Testament. In each episode, we take just a
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  few minutes to focus on one chapter of the New Testament,
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  exploring the truths God is teaching us through His Word and
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  expanding our view of who He is. Before you listen, make sure
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  you've gone straight to the source, either by reading
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  today's chapter of the Bible yourself or listening to today's
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  read along episode in this podcast feed.
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  If you haven't done that yet, feel free to pause and do that
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  now. When you're ready, let's dive
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  into God's Word together. Toward the end of Luke Chapter
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  7, we see Jesus dining at the House of a Pharisee named Simon.
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  While they were seated at the table, a woman from the city,
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  known publicly to be a Sinner, came to Simon's house with an
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  expensive bottle of perfume. She stood behind Jesus and wept,
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  wetting his feet with her tears. Then she bent over and wiped his
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  feet with her hair, literally washing his feet with her tears
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  and her hair. She kissed his feet and then
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  poured the expensive perfume on them.
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  Simon the Pharisee, seeing this unorthodox foot washing taking
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  place, said to himself, if this man were a prophet, he would
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  know who and what sort of person this woman is who is touching
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  him, that she is a Sinner. Jesus, knowing exactly what was
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  going on in the mind and heart of Simon, responds.
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  Listen to their exchange. And Jesus answered him, Simon, I
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  have something to say to you. And he replied, say it, teacher,
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  a money lender had two debtors, 1 owed 500 denarii and the other
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  50. When they were unable to repay,
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  he graciously forgave them both. So which of them will love him
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  more? Simon answered and said, I
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  suppose the one whom he forgave more.
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  And he said to him, you have judged correctly.
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  Turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, Do you see this
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  woman? I entered your house.
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  You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet
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  with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
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  You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has
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  not ceased to kiss my feet. You did not anoint my head with
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  oil, but she anointed my feet with perfume.
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  For this reason I say to you, her sins, which are many, have
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  been forgiven, for she loved much, but he who has forgiven
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  little loves little. Then he said to her, Your sins
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  have been forgiven. Jesus teaches Simon and us here
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  that the evidence of forgiveness is love.
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  If we know of how much we've been forgiven, then our love
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  will reflect it. This love poured out by the
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  sinful woman was a demonstration of the reality that she, despite
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  being a great Sinner, had been forgiven by God.
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  Think this through, though we know Romans 323 for all have
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  sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
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  We know Romans 623 for the wages of sin is death, but the free
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  gift of God is eternal life. In Christ Jesus our Lord.
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  We are all sinners, and in light of who God is and all His
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  Holiness, we are all great sinners.
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  However, the blood of Christ is so powerful, the grace of God is
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  so strong, that no matter how great of sinners we are, we can
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  be forgiven through the free gift of salvation that God
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  offers through Christ. So here's the question for you
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  and for me. If we have been forgiven, does
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  our love reflect the forgiveness we have received?
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  If we are all great sinners and we have been forgiven, then
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  friend, we have been forgiven much.
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  Even the 500 Nariai in Jesus parable is nothing in comparison
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  to the eternal debt that has been forgiven us.
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  So rejoice in the forgiveness you have received.
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  Take stock of what God has done for you and pour out your
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  gratitude for His grace in deep, deep love for God and for your
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  fellow man.