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Encounters With Jesus

Benjamin Ng

Jesus’ Encounter With The Devil

Jesus’ Encounter with the First Disciples

Jesus’ Encounter with Philip and Nathanael

Jesus Encounter at the Wedding Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Nicodemus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman at the Well

Jesus’ Encounter With The Centurion

Jesus Encounter with the Blind Man Near Bethsaida

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man by the Pool of Bethesda

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Sick of Palsy

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples in the Storm

Jesus’ Encounter with the Blind, Dumb Demoniac

Jesus’ Encounter with the Demoniacs of the Gadarenes

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Issue of Blood

Jesus’ Encounter with the Five Thousand

Jesus’ Encounter with John the Baptist

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples on the Sea

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus’ Encounter with Martha and Mary

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Born Blind

Jesus’ Encounter with the 10 Lepers

Jesus’ Encounter with the Rich Young Ruler

Jesus’ Encounter with Blind Bartimaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with Zacchaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Spirit of Infirmity

Jesus’ Encounter at Simon’s Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter and His Denial

Jesus’ Encounter with Pilate

Jesus’ Encounters at the Cross

Jesus’ Encounter on the Road to Emmaus

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter at the Sea of Tiberias

Thank you for this time, for watching over us this past week, for the blessed Sabbath hours, the holy time that we're in right now.

And Lord, I just pray that you would please draw close to us as we study now.

As we open your word, open our hearts and our minds, O Lord.

Draw us close to thy throne of grace and mercy, and illumine our hearts and our minds with your Spirit, we pray in Jesus' name.

And so our study for this evening is Jesus' encounter at Simon's feast.

It's found here in Luke chapter 7 starting in verse 36.

The Bible says this, and 1 of the Pharisees desired him, that he 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 meet 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 did wipe them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with ointment." So a Pharisee, he decides to throw a big party for Jesus And he invites him and many of the people I'm sure from the town and of course This woman decides to come as well She was probably an uninvited guest, but I guess because the doors are always open for everybody, she came as well.

And we know this story in somewhat of a fashion.

We know that this woman, her name is Mary.

And we can see this in other parts of the Bible as her story is told in all 4 of the Gospels.

You see in Luke here we don't see her name, but in John chapter 12 starting in verse 1, This is what the Bible says.

Then Jesus, 6 days before the Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

There they made him a supper, and Martha served, but Lazarus was 1 of them that sat at the table with him.

Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

And so this is how we know that this person who comes in Luke, it's Mary, it's the same story.

This is the Mary whose sister is Martha and the brother is Lazarus.

And what's very interesting, in the previous chapter of John chapter 11 we've just read John chapter 12 in the previous chapter Lazarus was sick until the point that he died And Jesus was the 1 that came eventually to resurrect Lazarus.

So Mary, she had much to be thankful for.

She wasn't just thankful for Jesus saving her from her sins.

You know, she's famously and typically known as the woman that was caught in adultery and the Pharisees said that she was caught in the very act they were dragging her through the streets and threw her at the feet of Jesus ready to condemn her and to stone her and Jesus was the 1 that forgave her that loved her and and released her from from this problem and this situation and you know she had been possessed by evil spirits and demons and Jesus had cast them out time upon time.

Jesus had shown much mercy to her and her family.

And so Christ, he was close to this family.

He had an encounter that we've looked at before about with the 2 sisters, Mary and Martha.

And you know, he had taught at their house even and Mary had the privilege of sitting at the feet of Jesus and learning from him.

But she comes in to this feast, it's Simon's house.

He's opened up, pardon me I let the cat out of the hat, It was the Pharisees house who we don't know the name yet but we'll figure out in a second we'll see it but of course the title of our message gives it away as well his name is Simon but she comes into the house and she brings this box of perfume and she breaks it open and it fills, the aroma fills the whole room and grabs the attention of everybody.

She's wiping her, the feet of Jesus with her hair and she pours that ointment on his head and it just flows down.

And You know friends, what's very interesting, how much was this perfume that she brought to pour upon Christ and to anoint him with this wonderful perfume?

Well we read it in John 12 in verse 5, why was not this ointment sold for 300 pence and given to the poor.

And you know, when we judge things secondhand, that's why I say at least.

Usually it's worth less after you've bought it, isn't it?

So we will take that value, 300 pennies, right?

And you know, at that time, a penny is worth a day's wage.

Well, in Matthew chapter 20, verses 1 to 2, this is what the Bible says.

For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.

And when he had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

So we know that 1 penny is worth about 1 day's wage.

And today 300 days of work really is more than what we work in a year.

But for the sake of calculation, let's just take it as a day's wage.

Okay, 300 pennies is 300 days work, which is about 1 year's of work.

And if we convert that, how much is that worth in our time today?

Well, how much does a person earn in 1 year?

Well approximately here in Malaysia it's about I would say 3 to 4000 ringgit.

Let's stay on the high end and maybe in other parts of the world it's about the same but just the same dollar value.

About 50, 000 that she gave to Christ, just like that.

And so this is how much Mary loved Jesus.

That's how much she was willing to sacrifice for the Savior, the 1 who had helped her, her sister, her brother, her family so much.

She gave up 1 year of what she earned back to Christ.

But upon seeing this, how does Simon the Pharisee react?

Let's go back to Luke chapter 7 and now read verse 39.

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." Now look, Mary was famous.

She was famous for all the wrong reasons.

She had been dragged out on the streets publicly.

And so this Pharisee looks at this woman and you know he's disgusted that even Jesus who is meant to be someone more than just a normal human being, that Jesus would allow this woman to touch him.

And to the extent that he says in himself what?

You know this Pharisee did not even think as Jesus more than a prophet he didn't even look at him as the Messiah he had that little faith in Christ he said if Jesus really was a prophet he would know what sort of woman it is that's touching him.

But you see, he's just throwing this party for just for show, it seems.

I mean, obviously he's invited Jesus to his house.

Jesus at this time is very famous, right?

And so he's so glad that Jesus would come to his house.

And so he must be feeling pretty proud about this.

But he's saying it to himself, all these bad thoughts about Mary and even about Christ.

And we'll come back to this in a second, but let's continue.

And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have some what to say unto thee.

And so Jesus, being God, being the Messiah, reads the thoughts of his heart.

And now he's about to give him this object lesson, this little parable to teach him about the thoughts of his own heart.

There was a certain creditor which had 2 debtors.

And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both.

Tell me therefore, 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.

It's about 2 people who owe a sum of money.

The other owed 501 owed 10 times more than the other.

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Encounters With Jesus

Jesus’ Encounter at Simon’s Feast

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