1 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:06,200 All right, if you have your Bible with you, we gonna have a 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:08,900 month all the time. But once you open up to the Book 3 00:00:08,900 --> 00:00:13,400 of Luke chapter 7, I do want to get into the word today because 4 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:15,900 today is a big occasion. It's a big moment for not only 5 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:20,400 in 3cr, but it's a big moment in the city, because we have a lot 6 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,400 of Outsiders coming up with the kids getting ready for a new 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,100 year, adversity, and leant over while kid, was busy sharing 8 00:00:28,100 --> 00:00:32,299 saying, you know, that your word Bro spot on because it's exactly 9 00:00:32,299 --> 00:00:37,400 what I feel to share on today. And I think it's brought on by 10 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:39,000 the fact that we have a lot of visitors here. 11 00:00:39,100 --> 00:00:44,300 We got the guys from were School Vault of Glass and parents and I 12 00:00:44,300 --> 00:00:46,000 think this is going to be normative for this year. 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 So what I want to do is I want to go back to the very beginning 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,800 the way the 20:23 started, the portion of scripture that we 15 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:55,500 felt God was busy laying almost as the runway into the new year. 16 00:00:55,900 --> 00:00:58,800 I want to take a look at that but I also want to do it in such 17 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,100 a way so that those who are Seeing those who are going to be 18 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:04,400 interesting your children to this community or maybe as a 19 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:05,600 family, you're looking to join that. 20 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,100 You get a little bit more of an idea of what we're on about. 21 00:01:08,100 --> 00:01:11,500 But for those of us who are part of the furniture, we get 22 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:14,900 reminded what God has called us to be and do so that we can 23 00:01:14,900 --> 00:01:17,600 ready ourselves if we have the city at our doors. 24 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:21,600 So we're in Luke chapter 7. I'm just going to set the scene 25 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:23,500 with the first few verses before we jump in. 26 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:25,700 I'm going to read to you from verse 36. 27 00:01:25,700 --> 00:01:27,900 Just just this verse for analysis, when one of the 28 00:01:27,900 --> 00:01:30,800 Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner, Dinner with him. 29 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:33,500 He went to the Pharisees house and reclined at the table. 30 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:36,700 Now, sounds like an ordinary dinner invite, but there's a lot 31 00:01:36,700 --> 00:01:40,000 going on here. Firstly, if you've been around 32 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,600 Church circles for a while, you know that the Pharisees were the 33 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,500 bad guys, but they weren't always the bad guys. 34 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:49,300 They actually were birthed out of a desperate desire to get 35 00:01:49,300 --> 00:01:53,300 people rights with their God. So when Israel had been taken 36 00:01:53,300 --> 00:01:56,400 into Exile, these Pharisees came to the scene where they like 37 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,000 we're going to be The Gatekeepers for the piety of our 38 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,600 people are going to Sure, no one steps out of line, so that this 39 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,700 never happens to us again. They weren't an official office. 40 00:02:05,700 --> 00:02:08,100 It was basically people that took it on themselves, to say, 41 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,500 I'm going to watch you. I'm going to check you out. 42 00:02:10,500 --> 00:02:13,200 Make sure you aren't the reason why we get taken into Exile 43 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,100 again. So one of the historians 44 00:02:15,300 --> 00:02:19,000 Josephus says, they were members of a voluntary Association that 45 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,000 fought for influence other people and Powers while 46 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,400 remaining active in various roles in occupations. 47 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:26,500 So, what's interesting is they were Merchants, they were 48 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,800 Traders, they were could be fisherman, Sportsman. 49 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,500 They were the original Instagram influencers, these Pharisees, 50 00:02:33,700 --> 00:02:38,200 but in the hearts of men began to be twisted and it became law 51 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,900 and harsh and condemning. So we got that on one side and 52 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:44,900 the other side we got this dinner invitation now was 53 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:47,500 fascinating about this dinner. Invitation is that firstly I 54 00:02:47,508 --> 00:02:49,700 want to show you a picture of what it looked like to be seated 55 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:51,900 at a table in the ancient near East. 56 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,700 So you'll see sort of certain a u shaped like that. 57 00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:59,100 They would require the tables obviously, been broken. 58 00:02:59,100 --> 00:03:01,800 But in the middle of you, Over the table that serve you there 59 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,600 and you would sort of be leaning in and have this conversation 60 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,700 around the table with your feet towards the outside because 61 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,400 they, yeah, they often didn't clean their feet. 62 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:14,500 So it was helpful to keep it away from the food but another 63 00:03:14,500 --> 00:03:16,200 fascinating thing. Thanks, you, as you can take it 64 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,600 down, is that this was a big occasion. 65 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,500 It wasn't just a chat, you know, while waiting for your coffee, a 66 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:25,100 want to go have lunch at muumuus off to the Sunday service. 67 00:03:25,300 --> 00:03:28,400 This was something that was planned weeks, possibly months 68 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,800 in advance and it was even even announced to the town. 69 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,300 So what they would do on big occasions like this, you know, 70 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:37,600 imagine you got to Vladimir Putin coming for dinner or 71 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,600 Donald Trump or Bill Gates. You pick your poison but it's 72 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:46,600 you having one of these fancy to dues coming for lunch for dinner 73 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:49,000 and you would let the village know. 74 00:03:49,300 --> 00:03:50,800 And by the way, what you doing sir? 75 00:03:51,900 --> 00:03:53,900 I'm having mr. Trump over and they would 76 00:03:53,900 --> 00:03:57,400 actually leave their doors open. And so people would come, you'd 77 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,500 have your VIPs and the Inner Circle. 78 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:02,100 People would come and they would sit on the floor with their 79 00:04:02,100 --> 00:04:04,500 backs against the wall, just so they could listen in to your 80 00:04:04,500 --> 00:04:06,300 fancy-schmancy dinner that you having. 81 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:10,900 Unfortunately, it meant that anybody could come, as we find 82 00:04:10,900 --> 00:04:14,700 in the next verse verse 37, a woman in that town, who lived a 83 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:17,300 sinful life, not as understatement of the Year, 84 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:19,700 learned, that Jesus was eating at the Pharisees house. 85 00:04:19,899 --> 00:04:22,600 So she came there with an alabaster jar of perfumed. 86 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,300 One thing I just want to say, you know, we kind of assume the 87 00:04:25,300 --> 00:04:29,800 worst, we have no idea the word that Luke uses there. 88 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:32,900 To describe, I think some of the translations say and immoral 89 00:04:32,900 --> 00:04:37,500 woman is the word hamar tolos. Now I have marked a loss in the 90 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:41,200 Bible dictionary someone that they say is especially Wicked, 91 00:04:41,900 --> 00:04:48,900 pre-eminently sinful devoted to sin and stained by crime. 92 00:04:50,500 --> 00:04:53,200 So if we think, well, she probably was a prostitute, we 93 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:56,400 aiming way too high. It's highly likely. 94 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,100 She could have been a witch, a sangoma. 95 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:02,600 She could have been someone involved in six trafficking part 96 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:07,100 of the Mafia the Israeli. It was one of those people that 97 00:05:07,100 --> 00:05:09,500 came into the room and the atmosphere changed. 98 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:13,300 So, this is what happens. And this, I want you to see, I'm 99 00:05:13,300 --> 00:05:15,600 going to look at what it's like to Feast with the Pharisee or 100 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,500 Feast with a father, whose if we having the city at our door, we 101 00:05:18,500 --> 00:05:20,900 need to learn what it means to Feast, like the father. 102 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,900 But here's the big unfolding of the story, verse 38 as she stood 103 00:05:24,900 --> 00:05:28,500 behind him, This is the Hamada loss at Jesus feet weeping. 104 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:30,700 She began to wet his feet with her tears. 105 00:05:30,700 --> 00:05:32,800 She wiped them with her hair, kissed them. 106 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,800 And poured perfume on them when the Pharisee who had invited him 107 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,100 saw this, he said to himself. If this man were a prophet, he 108 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:40,600 would know who is touching him. And what kind of woman she is, 109 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:45,100 that she is a Hamato loves Jesus, answered this 40 Simon, I 110 00:05:45,100 --> 00:05:48,000 have something to tell. You, tell me teacher said to 111 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,400 people owed money to a certain money lender one owed him, 500 112 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,800 denarii and the other 50, neither of them had the money to 113 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,700 pay him back but he forgave of the deaths of both now which 114 00:05:56,700 --> 00:05:59,000 would love him. More someone report replied. 115 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,600 I suppose the one who had the bigger debt you've judged 116 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:03,500 correctly, Jesus Satan, these are the verses. 117 00:06:03,500 --> 00:06:06,400 I want to look at this morning, then he turned toward the woman 118 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:08,400 and said to Simon. Do you see this woman? 119 00:06:08,700 --> 00:06:11,300 I came into your house, you didn't give me any water for my 120 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:13,600 feet but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them 121 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,100 with her hair. You didn't give me a kiss. 122 00:06:16,100 --> 00:06:18,500 But this woman from the time I entered she has not stopped 123 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:21,200 kissing my feet and you didn't put oil on my head but she is 124 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,500 poured perfume on my feet. Therefore I tell you her, many 125 00:06:24,500 --> 00:06:26,500 sins have been forgiven Forgiving and a great lover 126 00:06:26,500 --> 00:06:28,500 service. But whoever's been forgiven 127 00:06:28,500 --> 00:06:31,300 little loves little in. Jesus said to her, your sins are 128 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:34,700 forgiven. On a dive into those three or 129 00:06:34,700 --> 00:06:37,800 four verses want to show you a couple things of what it means 130 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,100 for you. And I, if you are bringing your 131 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:42,800 children to study here, what they are going to encounter 132 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,000 because we are going after as a community to Feast with the 133 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,900 father, but we need to be aware of what it looks like to Feast, 134 00:06:50,300 --> 00:06:52,800 like a Pharisee. And so, I want to draw this 135 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,000 line. Using these few verses in the 136 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:56,500 little time that we have this morning. 137 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,400 Firstly, this 44, this way, let's tally Civ. 138 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:05,000 He turns to the woman, says to Simon, do you see this woman? 139 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:11,300 Do you see this woman? Will we see the city that 140 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:15,300 gathers at the door? I read a fascinating article, a 141 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:18,200 guy who had lost his sight in an accident and he was asked the 142 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,000 question, having lived, 20 30 years with certain are being 143 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,700 blind. What's the worst thing about 144 00:07:22,700 --> 00:07:25,000 being blind? And I kind of expected him to 145 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,100 say no. The worst thing about being 146 00:07:26,100 --> 00:07:29,800 blind is when your kids leave Lego on the floor, but he said 147 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,800 this, he said the worst thing about being blind is that people 148 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:35,900 don't see me. They see my disability. 149 00:07:37,500 --> 00:07:39,900 See when you Feast like a Pharisee, you don't see the 150 00:07:39,900 --> 00:07:42,700 little people. Now, I'm not talking about Dave, 151 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:47,000 I'm talking about, you know, the guys who had nothing to add to 152 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,200 the conversation, the people that don't have a corner office 153 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:54,000 or a Montblanc pen Pharisees, don't see the little people but 154 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:59,900 the father as Jesus sits example, sees the woman not the 155 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:03,300 disability you know it's fascinating that one of the 156 00:08:03,300 --> 00:08:08,300 greatest Miracles Jesus performs Is healing the blind giving 157 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:10,400 sight to the blind. It's almost as if he's trying to 158 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,500 give us a clue, the one of the ways the enemy comes in as he 159 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:15,900 just blinds us to the needs around us. 160 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,800 And I want to tell you parents that when your students comes to 161 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:23,900 3cr, they will be seen. We will knit them in and build 162 00:08:23,900 --> 00:08:26,200 them into the body. We will stop services so that 163 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,400 they can tell their story and be baptized. 164 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:32,000 We are not about the big in the Grand and the grandiose and we 165 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,799 have to be so careful of this because we're a big church. 166 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,200 With a big reputation and a big slippery slope. 167 00:08:39,500 --> 00:08:42,600 We got will say, I'm going to take this to someone who will 168 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:45,900 see those in. Need the first thing we need to 169 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:48,300 know. So when we Feast like a father, 170 00:08:48,700 --> 00:08:52,800 we see you begin to see you don't just get irritated with 171 00:08:52,808 --> 00:08:55,800 the lady in front of you because she's taking forever to check on 172 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,800 your kids. We see the fact that he has a 173 00:08:57,808 --> 00:09:00,400 single mom, who's just celebrating the fact. 174 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,900 She actually got two of the three kids do church and she's 175 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:07,000 hoping she can register them so that she can spend Just one hour 176 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,800 in the presence of God or someone else looks after kids, 177 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:14,200 do you see? He goes on to say, I came into 178 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,000 your house, you didn't give me any water for my feet, but she 179 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,600 has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 180 00:09:20,100 --> 00:09:22,100 I love the statement. You didn't give me any water as 181 00:09:22,100 --> 00:09:23,600 weird. You think if we water for my 182 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:24,700 feet? It's not something up. 183 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:28,100 We say every day baby have water for my feet, but at this was a 184 00:09:28,100 --> 00:09:32,200 high value item in the ancient near East because now you're 185 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:34,700 going to dinner, you've been walking through stuffs. 186 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:36,700 It's wonderful if your feet to clean. 187 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:39,600 So traditionally, you would arrive there. 188 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,700 And there would be water to wash your feet. 189 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,500 If you're or rather wealthy, you had a servant that would wish 190 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:46,500 wash your feet for you, but what does Jesus do? 191 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:50,700 Jesus gets on his knees and washes his disciples feet. 192 00:09:51,700 --> 00:09:57,500 Now this is a proper power play. This is mega church mentality. 193 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,800 See, because Jesus is up to this point in the Book of Luke Jesus 194 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,800 has healed. The sick is given sort of the 195 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:04,900 blond. He's healed. 196 00:10:04,900 --> 00:10:07,500 A paralyzed man who has dropped right in front of him through a 197 00:10:07,500 --> 00:10:11,800 roof. He is preached with power, The 198 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,300 Sermon on the Mount. And it's believed that in that 199 00:10:15,300 --> 00:10:18,700 same town, possibly even that same day at the very start of 200 00:10:18,700 --> 00:10:21,500 Luke chapter 7, Jesus raises the Dead. 201 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:26,800 And he walks into this house and the Pharisee has the audacity to 202 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:31,000 not even offer to wash his feet. It's our proper power, struggle. 203 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,700 This pecking order. And what happens is Jesus 204 00:10:36,700 --> 00:10:39,300 doesn't say you didn't give us water to wash our feet. 205 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,600 He says, you didn't give me any water to wash my feet. 206 00:10:43,900 --> 00:10:47,500 So it's highly likely. Everyone else is feets. 207 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:51,700 Had Johnson's baby oil on it and we're looking rather fun and 208 00:10:51,700 --> 00:10:54,800 dandy. And can you imagine you sitting 209 00:10:54,900 --> 00:10:57,100 at Jesus feet? So you're up against the wall 210 00:10:57,100 --> 00:11:01,000 while they're eating and you like your, yeah, you know, 211 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,600 that's like, who had garlic last night. 212 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:09,700 You didn't like, Dirty feet. Have you ever felt unwanted? 213 00:11:10,700 --> 00:11:13,900 That's what's happening. You're welcome but your unwanted 214 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,500 welcome come build the numbers, you know, we need a fill-up and 215 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,800 I tell you, if we can put on Instagram, we had like, 400 216 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:25,000 people in the Overflow, but don't bring your stuff to me, 217 00:11:25,100 --> 00:11:29,800 you know, just keep it here. We were in had the privilege of 218 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:32,800 being in Belgium, for Christmas last year. 219 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,100 My father-in-law's Belgian. So we went over with the family, 220 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:39,200 so he lives on his own. He's getting divorced. 221 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,700 And we The family of five move in this of the first thing that 222 00:11:42,700 --> 00:11:45,400 we do is we go shopping for groceries as one would need to. 223 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,500 So takes us to like the crème de la crème grocery stores called 224 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:52,500 Dell is, it's sort of like the Esten Martin of your corner. 225 00:11:52,500 --> 00:11:55,900 Kathy is like next-level, you know, so we go in there. 226 00:11:55,900 --> 00:11:58,400 Now, we're going to buy groceries and we haggling over, 227 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,900 which loaf of bread is that the 15 Euro loaf of bread or the 12 228 00:12:01,900 --> 00:12:04,900 Euro loaf of bread, how far can we get this with the family of 229 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:07,100 five? And my beloved darling, 230 00:12:07,100 --> 00:12:09,300 father-in-law decides? No, he's going to the VIP 231 00:12:09,300 --> 00:12:11,900 section of the vrp. Store, you know where you get 232 00:12:11,900 --> 00:12:17,700 like this smoked reindeer, and frog, ha and duck liver. 233 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:25,600 So he hits off the was like okay quick got a basket full of food 234 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:30,200 and he arrives and he dumps his lobster tail and everything that 235 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:34,200 was like leaned over to my wife types and how many kidneys do we 236 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:38,200 have between us and the kids? And then we get home. 237 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:41,300 And now we unpacking, the groceries are inheritance that 238 00:12:41,300 --> 00:12:45,800 we're about to eat and my father-in-law leans over and he 239 00:12:45,808 --> 00:12:50,900 grabs the Reindeer and the foie gras and any takes it up to his 240 00:12:50,900 --> 00:12:53,300 room. Never again to be seen. 241 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:57,400 My wife is a proper melt down. Just like you had, he's like, my 242 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:01,400 father won't share his food with me. 243 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:07,600 What kind of a person does that? Yeah, you really feeling 244 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:11,200 welcomed but unwanted and I had to pull a sudden, see babies 245 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,900 actually here's something you need to understand and this is 246 00:13:13,900 --> 00:13:16,500 what we need to understand. This is a point, I Think Jesus 247 00:13:16,500 --> 00:13:21,500 is going off to hear. If he has refused to surrender 248 00:13:21,500 --> 00:13:26,200 his heart to the King of Kings because he's a very feisty 249 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,100 outspoken atheist. If he hasn't surrendered his 250 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:30,900 heart. So I heavenly father he's not 251 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:32,600 going to surrender his future his family. 252 00:13:33,500 --> 00:13:37,600 You going to find the stingiest, most self-centered most 253 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:41,700 self-consumed person on the planet because his heart betrays 254 00:13:41,700 --> 00:13:45,200 him. That's what it's like to Feast 255 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:49,200 with a Pharisee. Well, those who sits at our 256 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,100 door, find anything different here. 257 00:13:51,900 --> 00:13:55,700 When they walk in, I love that we have CEOs, handling the 258 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,500 parking and I love this one. Puts 20 grand into account to 259 00:14:00,500 --> 00:14:03,400 pay for everybody's coffee and I love Hilton that. 260 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,600 I, as hard as I tried. I couldn't pay for my coffee 261 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:08,400 this morning because he, you know, your heart betrays you 262 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:11,900 when you're sitting there having dinner with someone in the bill 263 00:14:11,900 --> 00:14:21,900 comes, And it's alike. So where is that suddenly 264 00:14:21,900 --> 00:14:24,500 interested in the, what your kids playing on the iPad? 265 00:14:26,700 --> 00:14:30,700 We should be a people. Who disappear like my wife did 266 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:33,000 we would we send them in my mouth and we went out to lunch 267 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,300 before he drove back and my wife went to go find out the Wi-Fi 268 00:14:37,300 --> 00:14:40,400 password so we could just double check GPS, she goes, hey, is the 269 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:42,000 bull. But the family said this, this 270 00:14:42,300 --> 00:14:46,000 these are guys in the ministry in a church in the city and they 271 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,300 said they have never had anyone pay for a meal before in their 272 00:14:50,300 --> 00:14:54,200 lives. I think he's what kind of 273 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:59,800 Community are you a part of This is radical stuff. 274 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:06,100 This is get at your heart stuff. This is, I want my people to be 275 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:09,800 looked after by you, so I'm going to be sending them to you. 276 00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:15,300 Can I trust them to you? Or they're going to find 277 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:18,800 feasting with a Pharisee and we just like well you know, I got 278 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,800 my coffee, I got my stuff so I'm going up to my room, you do. 279 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:29,400 I'll see you in the auditorium. Jumping to verse 45, he says you 280 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:32,500 didn't give me a kiss but this woman from the time I entered 281 00:15:32,500 --> 00:15:40,300 has not stopped kissing my feet. I had a lot to say on this and 282 00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:43,400 then I suddenly realized we've got a lot of offer cons people 283 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:50,000 and VCR. Afrikaans men, kiss Afrikaans 284 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:57,500 men on the lips. And I know because I've done 285 00:15:57,500 --> 00:16:01,300 market research. Bit tell me. 286 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:04,000 Do you still kiss your your boys on the lips? 287 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:08,600 Yes. Eugene is preaching as grunts 288 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:09,700 chit. Hey bud. 289 00:16:10,100 --> 00:16:13,400 Do you is this true Eugene still kisses? 290 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,700 His brother and his lips, I'm like properly freaked out 291 00:16:16,700 --> 00:16:19,600 because that's yeah, I don't know if it's my culture of my 292 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,800 introverted nature and appear. He just keeps trying to kiss me 293 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:31,100 every time I see him. So we in Belgium NE and because 294 00:16:31,100 --> 00:16:34,000 they French, that's what they do and it's and you can't go into 295 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,600 Wikipedia tutorial, how to kiss a French person because of, 296 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,900 yeah, you've really don't know what you're going to see ya. 297 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,700 And it's like, you know, do you do you sort of like fist bump 298 00:16:47,700 --> 00:16:48,500 with your cheek? You know. 299 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:53,300 So like a bump and a bum. Are you getting your lips onto 300 00:16:53,300 --> 00:16:57,500 the cheek? And you know it's awkward a has 301 00:16:57,500 --> 00:17:01,000 opened a stubble and he smells like smoked and garlic in his 302 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,000 glasses are so big. Sort of like knocks your glasses 303 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,400 off. Are you trying to go around and 304 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:09,300 then there's Omar so like who she'd, like, whoa way too frisky 305 00:17:09,500 --> 00:17:12,099 as back off there. But the worst is when it's 306 00:17:12,099 --> 00:17:15,599 another 40 year old man, random stranger, you've never seen him 307 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:17,700 before but he knows he's a friend of a friend and he walks 308 00:17:17,700 --> 00:17:21,700 into the house and it is. And do you do like the Acres? 309 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,000 It was, it was a thing. Okay, just really was a thing. 310 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,400 I didn't want to go out in case you meet someone on the streets 311 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:35,800 of your, huh? But Jesus is, Greet them with a 312 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,800 holy kiss. You know, never Lauren used to 313 00:17:39,808 --> 00:17:42,600 be in a church that he says he lived because the elders would 314 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,100 stand at the door and greet everyone to the holy kiss. 315 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:48,300 What does this mean? I don't know. 316 00:17:50,100 --> 00:17:54,500 I have looked I've read the best that the way I can describe what 317 00:17:54,500 --> 00:17:59,800 Jesus is going after is imagine you just got married to your 318 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:04,100 wife. And then like the Americans the 319 00:18:04,100 --> 00:18:07,700 next day you go you'd called off to go fight on the front lines 320 00:18:07,700 --> 00:18:12,000 and Afghanistan Vietnam. Whatever the case might be and 321 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,800 you do your tour of Duty and after six months or a year you 322 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:17,300 come back for the very first time. 323 00:18:18,300 --> 00:18:22,200 When Jesus says you didn't kiss me, he's saying that moment. 324 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,200 That's the moment where she comes running and he comes 325 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,900 running, and he's dropping his gear and she's leaving the kid 326 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:31,200 behind them. The that that's what he's 327 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,600 saying. So I didn't feel any of that 328 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:39,300 when I walked into your house and he calls us to this place of 329 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:43,700 intimacy and openness and vulnerability, where, you know, 330 00:18:43,700 --> 00:18:47,600 you are loved your kid for you can belong before you believe 331 00:18:49,300 --> 00:18:53,800 that this is home. We so glad to have you here. 332 00:18:55,300 --> 00:19:00,500 And I know there's a species here that doesn't get. 333 00:19:00,900 --> 00:19:03,600 While this is a big deal. You know, Homo Sapien extra 334 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:07,300 vertices. The game I'm proud that as last, 335 00:19:08,700 --> 00:19:11,200 but to the introvert. So there any introverts here. 336 00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:13,700 Hands up. Okay, please introverts. 337 00:19:13,700 --> 00:19:15,900 Cannot ask you to raise your hand. 338 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:24,800 My hand is up. And I want to talk to 339 00:19:25,100 --> 00:19:29,300 introverts. I am a stereotypical introvert. 340 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,100 And I had the privilege of meeting another stereotypical 341 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:36,600 interviewed by the name of Michael eaten. 342 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,000 I don't know if you know him, he's passed away but he is like 343 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:43,600 one of the foremost theologians of our time and when he came to 344 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:47,400 3cr it was packed to the rafters we would spend hours. 345 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,900 As he's just unpack the word and you've never seen God that way 346 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:54,700 and understood script that way, an unprecedented theological 347 00:19:54,700 --> 00:19:58,100 gift, but you take him to dinner and he opens up a book at the 348 00:19:58,100 --> 00:20:08,200 table. he said, like, Do we just carry on eating? 349 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:11,100 What like what do you do? It's all good. 350 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:15,700 It's not a holy kiss moment. You don't know what to do with 351 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:18,100 that but that's the way we behave. 352 00:20:18,100 --> 00:20:22,500 When new people come to 3cr and someone comes if the city is 353 00:20:22,508 --> 00:20:25,500 going to be at our door. There needs to be a lot of holy 354 00:20:25,500 --> 00:20:29,300 kissing going on a welcoming in and so I want to speak to us 355 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:31,800 introverts and ask you this question. 356 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,500 What do people feel on the other side of you? 357 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,900 can I tell you what people feel on the other side of me because 358 00:20:43,900 --> 00:20:48,700 my introvert nature, If you're standing there and I'm having a 359 00:20:48,708 --> 00:20:51,400 conversation with you, you're probably thinking. 360 00:20:51,900 --> 00:20:57,900 And I've heard people say this to me is so cold, arrogant aloof 361 00:20:58,500 --> 00:21:05,400 distant disinterested But it needs to be sanctified. 362 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,200 This needs to be a place where people are welcomed with arms 363 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:14,000 open wide and I know for us in Traverse, it's going to take a 364 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,800 lot of work. It's this is not a free-for-all 365 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:19,500 for the extroverts, to tell us what to do. 366 00:21:19,500 --> 00:21:24,000 This is you and me saying, let us listen to the Holy Spirit. 367 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:26,600 There's get out of our comfort zones. 368 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:30,800 In those moments, they just be aware of facial expressions and 369 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:32,500 I quickly, we just want to go into a little hole. 370 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,300 If the city is going to be at our door, we need to be aware of 371 00:21:36,300 --> 00:21:37,700 these things. Last one. 372 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:43,300 Verse 46, you didn't put oil on my head but she is poured 373 00:21:43,300 --> 00:21:46,500 perfume on my feet just in short, this is a an incredible 374 00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:48,000 phrase. It's an imagery that sort of 375 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,900 like a metaphor of anointing that is only found in the New 376 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:54,700 Testament relating to Jesus, except for one moment. 377 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,000 And that's when Jesus tells the parable of the prodigal of the 378 00:21:59,300 --> 00:22:02,900 Good Samaritan. And I never actually saw it 379 00:22:02,900 --> 00:22:05,400 before I was doing a word search and I suddenly came across this 380 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:06,600 moment. I've never seen it. 381 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,300 The Good Samaritan finds this guy beaten to the brink of 382 00:22:10,300 --> 00:22:13,400 death, he binds him up and then he anoints him. 383 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:17,400 He pours wine and perfume and oil on the wound. 384 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:22,400 He wants to bring healing. That's what this says to me. 385 00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:24,600 Is Jesus saying you didn't annoy me. 386 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,400 You didn't take care of a need here. 387 00:22:29,300 --> 00:22:33,600 And we are we look at the whole row of versus Wade issue in 388 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:35,200 America when it was falling apart. 389 00:22:35,300 --> 00:22:37,900 There was a pasta that got up in there in the heat of this thing. 390 00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:42,400 You know in the abortion laws and anti-abortion people were 391 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:44,800 fighting against one another. You got two things to the 392 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,700 following said I don't know if you're aware of this but one out 393 00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:51,000 of every three children is aborted in America. 394 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:57,000 One out of every three pregnancies end in abortion, And 395 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,400 then he said this, he said, one that makes one of the most 396 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,600 dangerous places to be in America is in the womb of a 397 00:23:03,608 --> 00:23:09,900 mother. And I thought you are such a 398 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:15,600 insert expensive Pharisee. Really. 399 00:23:17,900 --> 00:23:22,600 The city is on our door and she walks in carrying the guilt and 400 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:27,300 shame of what she had to do as a teenager. 401 00:23:29,100 --> 00:23:31,500 And you get up, there you go. Yeah, that makes you a womb. 402 00:23:31,500 --> 00:23:33,400 One of the most dangerous places to be. 403 00:23:35,700 --> 00:23:40,400 Pharisee. Jesus said you didn't anoint my 404 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:44,800 head with oil. You didn't buy and me up and 405 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:50,800 take care of me. And we as a community, we need 406 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:55,000 to know that if the city is at our door, if you are entrusting 407 00:23:55,100 --> 00:23:58,800 your children to us, if you are bringing your entire family to 408 00:23:58,900 --> 00:24:01,800 join 3cr, you need to know this place. 409 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,300 You will be seen in this place. You'll be served and in this 410 00:24:05,300 --> 00:24:10,800 place, you will be safe. We're not called to point 411 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:15,200 fingers, we call to pour wine and oil and anointing and bind 412 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:20,700 up the Brokenhearted. And we are so quick to criticize 413 00:24:20,700 --> 00:24:23,400 and judge and condemn. Forgetting. 414 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,400 That we are. The foremost need is of God's 415 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,800 forgiveness. I had a crazy story and I'll end 416 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,400 with us. British family went on holiday 417 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:38,500 and the last summer season, they managed to get a lovely Villa in 418 00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:42,800 Spain on the coast. And The Story Goes, where house 419 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,100 is sort of on the rise of the Hill, got the garden flowing 420 00:24:46,100 --> 00:24:48,600 down, at the very bottom of the garden was a bit of a war with 421 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,500 the gate and then there was a sea wall, kind of like, you 422 00:24:51,500 --> 00:24:54,100 know, the tidal pool wall that so just handle some of the 423 00:24:54,108 --> 00:24:57,400 crashing of the wave and then the ocean and they had an 424 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:01,600 eight-year-old little boy. Who loved the sea was mesmerized 425 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,400 by it. So, they had lived in this 426 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,700 apartment in London, and now he's on the coast of Spain and 427 00:25:07,700 --> 00:25:09,500 he would spend his days sort of playing in the garden with a lot 428 00:25:09,500 --> 00:25:11,900 of the time. Just staring over the wall over 429 00:25:11,900 --> 00:25:16,100 this gate, and one day, they had some Storm come through. 430 00:25:16,100 --> 00:25:17,500 So the waves are bigger than normal. 431 00:25:17,900 --> 00:25:21,800 And so he was down watching the water and decided, he's going to 432 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:26,000 go and sit on this sea wall. Get a closer look at. 433 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:30,300 What's going down. Open the gate walked and set and 434 00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:32,900 almost immediately. He got washed away by Rogue Wave 435 00:25:32,900 --> 00:25:35,800 into the sea and his dad was in the kitchen. 436 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:39,800 What's this whole thing? Unfold came running a screaming. 437 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,700 Somebody help me somebody help me, he got there, jumped into 438 00:25:43,700 --> 00:25:47,500 the water and both true story, both the father and the little 439 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:52,100 boy drowned And this is part of the story that I heard that 440 00:25:52,100 --> 00:25:54,200 caught my attention. The mother is now sitting with 441 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:58,900 the paramedics or whoever it is that's busy debriefing at home 442 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:04,200 and she says I know what happened Said, my husband cannot 443 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:09,200 swim. But there's no way he would have 444 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,100 stood by the side. While his son was being 445 00:26:11,100 --> 00:26:14,900 swallowed by the storm Waters. And so he jumped in the hope 446 00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:17,600 that he could do something rather than doing nothing. 447 00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:25,200 And we are a community that are called to live as radically as 448 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:30,900 that to jump into these storms because we serve a god who's 449 00:26:30,900 --> 00:26:34,700 jumped into our storms. We are called to live. 450 00:26:34,700 --> 00:26:39,700 Radical selfless loves We're others in need of seen. 451 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:45,200 They served, but they safe. There is we are bound up and 452 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,800 healed and restored and redeemed that we can lean into others 453 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,500 lives. You know, the is a therapist, 454 00:26:51,500 --> 00:26:55,800 this is whatever is not transformed is transferred. 455 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,200 Put a Biblical spin on that. Whatever is not redeemed, is 456 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,200 repeated. If the city is going to come to 457 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,600 our doors, let us be those willing to jump into the storms. 458 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,100 They will know that here. It'll be seen to be served. 459 00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:13,300 They'll be safe. Let's pray. 460 00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:17,500 Heavenly father, I want to thank you for what we had the 461 00:27:17,500 --> 00:27:21,600 privilege of witnessing today. See how you reaching into the 462 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,000 city, who reaching into the school's, you reaching into the 463 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,000 students. You're adding to us before the 464 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,900 with it comes as huge responsibility that when people 465 00:27:29,900 --> 00:27:32,700 come through our doors, are pray, Lord God, that's by the 466 00:27:32,700 --> 00:27:36,500 leading of your Holy Spirit, The Gentle Whispers of your voice, 467 00:27:36,500 --> 00:27:39,300 the guarding of your word and and the culture and Community 468 00:27:39,300 --> 00:27:42,800 here, that this will be a place where we Feast with the father. 469 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,900 We weren't Feast like Pharisees. not just on a Sunday but every 470 00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:52,200 day in the workplace, laughs group, when we dealing with 471 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:56,400 those standing begging at the robots petrol, jockeys and the 472 00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:02,000 lady, busy tearing up our bill at the till May we be a people? 473 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:09,500 Like Jesus, know, and serve a God who jumped into a storm and 474 00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:13,700 that we jump into this and may the city be better for it in 475 00:28:13,700 --> 00:28:14,500 Jesus name.