Sermon #S019 - (Let
Your Hair Down - Part 1)
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We want to invite you to go in
your Bibles to the book of
Ephesians chapter five.
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And if you don't mind, put your
finger over in Luke chapter
seven, Ephesians chapter five
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and we're going to begin
together at verse number two,
Ephesians chapter five,
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and verse number two, and for
those of you who are watching at
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home, do me a favor, be a
digital disciple, be an
electronic evangelist, be an
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apple apostle. And even if
you're under the Android
anointing, you're on Facebook.
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Do me a favor, just hit that
share button, a couple of times.
If you're on YouTube, copy the
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link and send it to somebody. So
that somebody at home can be
blessed with the word, as well.
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Ephesians chapter five in verse
two, and then just put your
finger over in Luke chapter
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seven in verse 36, which is
where we will land today.
Ephesians chapter five and verse
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number two, when you get there,
just say "Amen". [Congregation:
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Amen] Ephesians chapter five
and verse two, the word says and
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walk in what?
[Congregation: Love]
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In love as Christ also has loved
us and given himself for us, an
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offering and the sacrifice to
God for a sweet-smelling. What?
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[Congregation: Savor]
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Sweet-smelling savor, your
version may say aroma. The Bible
says he has loved us.
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Do you realize he loves you?
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[Congregation: Amen]
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No, no. Do you
realize he loves you?
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[Congregation: Amen]
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And the Bible says he's given
himself for us, a sacrifice, and
a sweet-smelling aroma.
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And I go over to Luke chapter
seven, and we will look
together, beginning at verse 36.
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Luke chapter seven and we will
look together at verse number 36
when you get there, just said
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"Pastor, I'm ready".
[Congregation: I'm ready
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Pastor.] Luke chapter seven and
verse number 36, a very familiar
story for many of us. Luke seven
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in verse 36. The Bible says,
then one of the Pharisees asked
him to eat with him and he went
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to the Pharisee's house and he
sat down. Begin the Bible says
that one of the Pharisees did
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what? [Congregation: Asked him.]
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Asked him, Bible says he just
asked him to eat with him and he
went to the Pharisee's house and
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sat down to eat. And behold
a woman in the city who was a
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what? [Congregation: Sinner.]
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A sinner. When she knew that
Jesus, sat at the table and the
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Pharisee's house, she brought an
alabaster flask of fragrant oil
and stood at His feet behind him
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weeping. And she began to wash
his feet with her tears and she
wiped them with the hair of her
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head. And she kissed his feet
and anointed them with fragrant
oil. Now, when the Pharisee who
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had invited him saw this, he
spoke to himself saying this
man, if he were a prophet would
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know who and what manner a woman
this is who is touching him for
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she is a sinner. And Jesus
answered and said unto him,
Simon, I have something to say
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to you. So he said, teachers,
say it and there was a certain
creditor who had two debtors who
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owed five hundred denarii and
the other 50. And when they had
nothing with which to repay, he
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freely forgave them both. Tell
me, therefore, which one of them
loved him more? Simon answered
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and said I suppose the one
whom he what? [Congregation:
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Forgave.] Forgave more and he
said unto him, you have rightly
judged. Then he turned to the
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woman and said to Simon, do you
see this woman? I entered your
house and you gave me no water
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for my feet but she is, wash my
feet with her tears and wipe
them with the hair of her head.
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You gave me no kiss, but this
woman has not ceased to kiss my
feet since the time I came in.
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You did not anoint my head with
oil, but this woman has anointed
my feet with fragrant oil.
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Therefore, I say to you, her
sins which are many are what?
[Congregation: Forgiven.]
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Forgiven, for she loved much,
but to whom little is forgiven,
the same loves little.
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Then he said unto her,
your sins are forgiven.
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[Congregation: Amen]
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And those who sat at the
table with him began to say to
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themselves, who is this that
even forgives sins? Then he said
unto the woman, your faith has
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saved you and he says go in
peace. But I'm going to read for
emphasis, verse number 38. And
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she stood at His feet behind him
weeping, and she began to wash
his feet with her tears, and she
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wiped them with the hair of her
head. Today, saints, I want to
talk to you for a little while
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under the subject. Let your hair
down. Let your hair down. Let's
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pray together. Father, I pray
that you would do something that
is unfamiliar, through a story
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that for some of us is very
familiar. I pray that in the
midst, or despite fallen
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humanity that you would allow
the love of Christ to rain
through in this message. So,
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Father, I pray that you would
hide me in the shadows of the
cross, that Jesus alone might be
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seen. That Christ alone would be
heard and at the end of our time
together may Jesus alone be
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praised. Would you multiply the
presence of your spirit in this
place? Would you overwhelm all
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evil? And would you lose the
bound? Lord, would you uplift
the downtrodden? And Lord may
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the soul who is under the weight
of sins, despair, and
condemnation, find their freedom
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and their liberty in you. We
pray this in the wonderful name
of Jesus. Let them that believe
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say together, amen.
[Congregation: Amen] And amen.
You may be seated in the house
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of the Lord. Again, we're
talking today under the subject.
Let your hair down. You know
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friends, here we find Jesus in a
formal dinner setting of sorts.
And you must know that at this
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point, Jesus is the most
sought-after person on the face
of the planet And yet somehow
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this Pharisee, Simon is able to
get Jesus, to come to his house.
And this shows, one of the
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indiscriminate qualities of
Jesus because Jesus does not
charge an appearance fee. Simon
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doesn't have to make a
contribution to the building
fund. Jesus shows up the Bible
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says, simply because the
Pharisee invited him. And the
first thing, this teaches us
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friends is that Jesus goes
wherever he is invited. You see,
all the Pharisee did was ask for
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Jesus to come, and I can imagine
that there's all type of
speculation, as to how this
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Pharisee got Jesus to attend.
And understand that in order to
have Jesus come and a newly
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resurrected Lazarus at the
table. It is raising the social
profile of this Pharisee that
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has invited him to come. And so
folk begin to wonder, how he got
Jesus to come to his house. They
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begin to wonder what amount did
he pay and who was his
connection or plug? That got
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Jesus to come to this occasion
and I can see them pulling Simon
into a corner as they begin to
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request the hook up so that
Jesus can come to their house.
They want to know who is your
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connect, that got you into the
inner circle of Jesus. They want
to know what angle did you come
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from in order to get Jesus to
show up. And it's amazing that
they are frustrated because they
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think that Simon is withholding
the goods from them. But the
truth is like Simon is saying I
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didn't pay a certain amount, I
didn't go through a booking
agent, I didn't give a certain
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amount of money. He came simply
because I invited him to come,
and Simon wants them to know
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that the favor he has received
is simply the result of a
request made unto Jesus. And the
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reason this is important is
because there are times when we
see people experiencing divine
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favor. We see folk experiencing
professional favor or financial
favor or academic favor. And we
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think that they have an agency
that we don't have access to,
but I need somebody to know that
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favor with Jesus is not earned.
It cannot be coerced, it's not
the result of human association.
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You get divine favor when you
simply invite Jesus into the
presence of your life. Can I say
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to somebody that if you want,
supernatural and unrealistic
favor, all you've got to do is
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make your requests known unto
God? In other words, you ain't
got to know somebody that knows
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somebody. In fact, what Jesus
came to do was to dispatch with
the need of a third party. In
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other words, in order to get to
Jesus, I'm thankful that I don't
need a mediator. I don't need an
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intercessor, I can go directly
to the source and make my
request known unto God. Is there
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anybody that knows that the
Bible says you have not simply
because you ask not?
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[Congregation: Amen] The word
says that if we being evil know
how to give good gifts to our
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children, Jesus says, how much
more willing am I to give good
things to them that simply ask?
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Isaiah 66 says it will come to
pass that before you call he'll
already answer. And while you're
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yet speaking, he's already
heard. I love what the Psalmist
says in Psalm 116. He says I
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love the Lord because he heard
my cry and he inclined his ear
unto me, and as long as I live,
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I will call upon his name. And I
guess Church, what I want to do
is rebuke all politicking, stop
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all the secular hustling, stop
trying to cozy up to important
people, stop all the deal-making
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because that can only get you so
far. But if you want the
supernatural, if you want the
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exceeding abundantly, stop
trying to get close to a man and
make your requests known to God.
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Your favor is just an ask away.
[Congregation: Amen] Let me, let
me say it this way. I remember
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the first time I met Pastor
Wintley Phipps Dave. Both he and
I were preaching in as the
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parables would say a certain
place, and I remember as we were
coming in on the same flight,
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the conference sent the same
taxi to pick us up and take us
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to our hotel. And so he asked us
where we were staying and I gave
him the name of the place
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and he and his baritone voice
just begin to laugh because he
knew what type of establishment
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it was. And so before we knew
it, we begin to wind up at this
very plus, the greatest hotel
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there in the country. And I
said, Elder, how did you wind up
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here? And he says, Pastor,
you're going to learn growing up
that if you want a certain type
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of thing, you've got to ask and
let folk know what you need
because 99% of where you go is
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where you stay. And so we get to
the establishment where we are
staying and I need you to know
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that when we walked into the
lobby, I knew we were in trouble
because they didn't give us a
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keycard, they gave us a metal
key to the room. And then when
we got to the room, there was an
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overpowering fish smell that met
us at the door. And then, when
my wife went into the bathroom,
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she found the hair on the sink
from the previous guests before
we got there. Now, normally
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saints I would have tried to
rough this thing out, but how
many of us know that if mama
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ain't happy, guess what? And
nobody going to be happy and so
that night after I'm finished
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preaching. I got ready to make
my request known. I had a speech
and all the reasons why and as I
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went to the host, I said listen,
man, can you move me to the next
hotel? And before I got a chance
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to give all the reasons why I
should, he says, Pastor surely,
we will move you and we will
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grant your request. And so a
couple of days later, I ran into
Elder Phipps, he says, sir, what
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happened? How did you get here?
I says, I just took your advice
and made my request known. I got
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what I asked for. And how many
of us know that when you make
your requests known unto God?
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That God is going to grant the
request of his children. And
saint, let me just pause to say
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to some of us that sometimes we
overthink religion, and
sometimes we add stipulations
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that are not in the scripture.
See the Bible says, friends that
he goes to the Pharisee's house,
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simply because he invited him.
Now, as I looked at this, I
initially begin to feel a
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certain type of way because when
I looked at how Pharisees moved
and how they begin to relate to
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certain people, I begin to
wonder why Jesus would even go
and spend time with a
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self-righteous Pharisee. But how
many of us know that the beauty
of the gospel is simultaneously
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the offense of the gospel in
that Jesus goes to whoever
invites him to come? The reason
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Jesus ate with sinners is
because they invited him to
come. The reason he eats with
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Publicans is because they
invited him to come. The reason
he sat down with uptight Martha
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was because she invited him to
come. The reason he would sit
with the Pharisees is because
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they invited him to come. And I
guess church I'm trying to make
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this simple. The good news for
somebody today is that if you
want Christ operating in your
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life. All you've got to do
is give an invitation for him to
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show up. And see I need somebody
to know that Jesus is not going
to strong-arm his way into your
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life. In fact, I need you to
know the door has to be opened
and he's got to be welcomed in.
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He says behold I stand at the
door and knock, and if you open
up the door, I'll come in and
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sit with you and you with me, I
guess what I'm saying teachers
is that if you want Christ in
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your classroom, all you've got
to do is invite him in. Couples,
if you want Jesus in the
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marriage, you've just got to
daily invite him in. Young folk,
if you want Christ in your
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relationship, you've got to
invite him in. And I guess the
inverse is true, that if there
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is a deficit of the presence of
Christ more than likely it's
because he's not been invited.
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In other words, if you don't
invite him to oversee your
business, he's not going to grab
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the wheel without consent and
God is saying that I'm just
looking for an invitation to be
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a part of your entire
experience. Are you with me
today? And she understands the
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other reason that some may not
be experiencing the full
presence of Jesus Christ is
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because too many of us
compartmentalize our religion.
In other words, we have a box
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for our spirituality that we
reserve on the weekend. We've
got a box for our work. We've
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got a box for our academic life.
We've got a box for our social
life. We've got a box for our
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work life, but the problem is we
don't allow one to bleed over
into the next, but you've got to
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get to a place friends where you
don't just put Jesus in a
religious box. You've got to
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allow Jesus to be Lord and touch
every level and every
compartment of your human
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experience. Are you hearing me
today friends? In other words,
we want to keep Jesus in the
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glass box that we only break in
the case of emergencies. But
you've got to get to a place
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where Jesus becomes 411, not
just 911. [Congregation: Amen]
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You've got to let Jesus into
your work, you've got to let
Jesus into your dating.
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You've got to let Jesus oversee
every particular portion of your
life. Are you hearing me today,
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friends? And in fact, let me say
it this way. How many of us in
this space are old enough that
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before central air conditioning?
Do you remember the days of the
window unit? Anybody remember
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those old-school window units?
Maybe you don't have to be old
enough. Maybe just broke enough
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you all hearing me today? And
it's crazy because those window
units would cool the room that
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you were in. But guess what,
they could not cool the entire
house and so if you are hot on
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the other side, you had to go
where the unit was in order to
get some relief. And see that's
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why I'm thankful for central air
conditioning and heating because
when the unit is central to the
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house, you don't have to leave
one room to go to the next to
get well. It sets relief to
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whatever room you are in. And
what I'm saying to somebody
today is stop making Jesus the
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window unit. You've got to make
Jesus central to your life. And
when Jesus is central to the
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house, he can bless whatever
room you are in. You ain't got
to go from one room to the next,
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but he'll send blessings to the
kitchen. He'll bless the living
room. He'll bless the classroom.
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He'll bless the bedroom. He'll
bless the dining room. When he
is central to everything in your
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existence. Are you hearing me
today, friends? And so, the
Bible says to us here in Luke
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chapter six in verse 37. The
Bible says, behold a woman in
the city who was a sinner when
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she knew that Jesus sat at the
table in the Pharisee's house,
she brought an alabaster flask
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of fragrant oil, the Bible says.
You see the second thing this
story teaches us friends of mine
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is that true holiness receives.
It doesn't repel. Okay, let me
say to you all on this side,
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that real righteousness receives
sinners. It does not reject or
repel sinners. You see, friends,
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Christ is the centerpiece of
this particular occasion and
it's amazing that the Bible says
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that there is a woman who is a
sinner who finds her way to
Jesus in the house. And
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understand that when Luke
describes her as a sinner, this
is not a reference to her fallen
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human nature. What he is telling
here is that she is a notorious
sinner, that she has a
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reputation for being a sinner.
In fact, both the Greeks and
scholars suggest that she was
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notorious in such a way because
she was probably a harlot or
somebody that worked in the sex
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trade for a living. And you got
to get how awkward this
situation is because when she
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walks into this room, she is
avoided by the men that have
visited her and she is reviled
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by the women whose men she has
shared. And so you got to get
that to hang with a group of
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Pharisees, this is not her
crowd. That she brings tension
to the room, not by what she
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does, but it's made awkward just
because of who she is. And see
what Luke describes is a
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situation where Jesus does not
invite her in, but she has been
monitoring or tracking Christ's
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movements. She has been stalking
his location, and the Bible says
that she comes for him even when
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Jesus does not send for her, and
what Jesus does in this story,
what it does is it's got me
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rethinking the way that I see
holiness. I mean, is anybody
seeing this amazing contrast in
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the room? That the woman who is
sinful is drawn to a God who is
sinless. That a woman of
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complete filth is attracted to a
God of complete holiness. That
the one who is a commandment
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breaker is drawn to the
commandant giver. That the one
who only knows sin is drawn to
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the God who knows no sin. And
isn't it crazy saints, that she
is made to feel uncomfortable by
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everybody but Jesus?
[Congregation: Clapping] Oh
yeah, you hear me. In other
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words, man, she is intimidated
by the Pharisees, but she is
received by Jesus. She is looked
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down upon by the other women,
but she is welcomed by Jesus.
She is inspected by everybody
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else, but she is received by
Jesus. She is made to feel
unworthy by everybody in the
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room but Jesus. And see this got
me rethinking friends of mine on
how I see holiness and how it
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functions because see, I used to
think that the chief attribute
of holiness was its sternness
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and disability to indict or
intimidate sinners. Is there
anybody that remembers the old
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paradigm of how we talked about
holiness in the church? Because
most of us, real talk are still
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intimidated by the word
holiness. Because we were talked
that sin cannot stand in the
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presence of a holy God.
[Congregation: Clapping] And
see, if sin cannot stand in the
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presence of a holy God, that
must mean Christ is not God. In
other words, Paul says that in
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him dwelt the fullness of the
Godhead bodily. In fact, the
primary accusation against
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Christ was that this man
receives sinners and he eats
with them. How do I know that
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Jesus is God? In John one, the
Bible says in the beginning, was
the word and the word was with
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God, and the Word was God, and
the Word became flesh and it
dwelt amongst us. In other
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words, you realize that the
primary reason that Jesus came
wasn't just to die on a sinner's
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cross. Jesus had to come in
human form to show us what God
was actually like. You see
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friends, I thought true holiness
intimidated sinners. I thought
it rejected sinners. I thought
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it inspected sinners. I thought
it indicted sinners. I thought
it ran sinners away, but we see
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no such thing in the holiest one
to ever walk on the face of the
planet Earth. Is there anybody
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that's thankful that the Holy
One did not reject sinners? But
he welcomed Tax Collectors, he
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sat down with prostitutes. He
received the ungodly. He says
all that come unto me, I will in
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no wise cast them out. And let
me just say this with all the
bonus I can muster up that if
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your religion repels, indicts,
inspects, or reject sinners, it
is not the religion of Jesus
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Christ. Read your Bible today,
Saints. Did you notice something
about Jesus preaching that Jesus
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spent more time rebuking
self-righteousness than
unrighteousness? In other words,
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I need you all to understand
that our savior was dealing with
matters of the heart. So he was
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not walking around inspecting
makeup and skirt lengths, and
tattoos and what you were
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wearing. Jesus preached that
transformation and not
standards. Thank you so much for
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joining us for The Breath of
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Snell. We hope and pray that you
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message and that you will allow
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