He said some things that they didn’t like so it is difficult to believe that the invitation to dinner from this Pharisee was a friendly one. Remember, Jesus had been denouncing these Pharisees. Now Simon probably had a few of his fellow Pharisees with him. Jesus is invited to dinner by a Pharisee, we find out his name is Simon. Now here we have our setting and background. This event that we will look at this morning is only mentioned here in Luke’s Gospel.ģ6 Now one of the Pharisees was requesting Him to dine with him, and He entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. One thing we want to be careful of as we look at our passage, we don’t want to confuse this event with a similar one that happened much later in Jesus ministry involving Mary of Bethany recorded in the other 3 Gospels. Now as we come to our passage let’s look first of all at the setting. This woman really demonstrates to us that true faith cannot be hidden, and true faith shows itself in Worship, and we see a heart ready to Worship. Here we will see one of the most beautiful and awe inspiring pictures of true worship. This morning we take a look at the story of an anonymous and otherwise forgotten woman. Their hearts were all wrong when they came to worship together. Last week we saw with the Corinthian Church in how they gathered for corporate worship to celebrate the Lord’s Table they had some real Heart disease, they had some Heart issues. When it comes to Worship, the HEART of the matter is really a matter of the HEART. It has been said that * “Prayer is most often focused on the problem” *“Praise most often focuses on the provision” *“Worship, Worship focuses on the PROVIDER” Expressed in and by things we say, think & do. We’ve defined worship as our response Both personally and corporately To God – For who He is, and what He has done. Worship is a heartfelt response to our Awesome God, our Wonderful Savior which is just what we see in our passage this morning as this woman comes and pours her worship out to our Lord Worship isn’t a plan or performance, it’s not merely the time we spend singing in Church. We’ve have mentioned Way of life Worship, in all we do we should be able to worship our Lord not merely as an event but as a way of life, the way we live our lives.
Something that should affect every part of a Christian’s life.
This morning we continue on our topic of Worship.
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