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Welcome/Series Intro
Weekend Intro
One of the most fascinating (but also one of the most frustrating) things that we as humans all have in common is this:
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We can be looking at exactly the same thing—but see it completely differently.
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It’s a fascinating but frustrating ability that we have as humans.
We can be looking at the exact same thing but see it completely differently.
Let me give you some examples:
How many of you remember the great debate of 2015?
Anybody?
The great debate of 2015?
If that doesn’t ring a bell right away, let me give you a clue: “Blue or White?” There’s your clue.
How many of you remember?
So if you don’t:
In 2015 there was a picture that went viral on just about every social media outlet.
A picture of a dress—and here it is:
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So let’s have the debate once again, 7 years later.
This will blow your mind if you missed it.
How many of you see a dress that is blue and black?
Raise your hands...
Look around right now.
Notice: not everybody has their hand raised, right?
How is that possible?
But this is the debate.
Ok.
Put them down.
Now:
How many of you see a dress that is white and gold?
Raise your hands...
Ok.
There it is: the great debate of 2015.
Turns out: the dress was confirmed as being in reality black and blue.
But: it revealed that, at a neurological level, we can see the exact same thing—but see it completely differently.
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We can be looking at exactly the same thing—but can see it completely differently.
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Now, this phenomenon isn’t limited to just some sort of trick our minds play on us.
We can see other things completely differently as well.
Think about this, married people:
How many arguments have you had, or how many decisions have you tried to make, or how many discussions about your kids have revealed to you:
You know, we probably see this verydifferently.
Married people know.
We get reminders of this just about every day.
We can be looking at the exact same thing, but see it completely differently.
One more example:
In the last 5 years, we’ve seen (4) different Supreme Court Justice nominees.
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Lots of changeover in that body in our recent history.
But if you’ve ever watched those confirmation hearings, you’ll see this exact same phenomenon play out.
There’s one nominee behind the microphone.
One person.
Same one throughout the whole process.
Same nameplate and everything.
But you wouldn’t know that if all you did was listen to what different Senators said or asked that nominee over the course of the hearings.
You’d swear that they were talking to (or about) two very different people.
It’s a crazy, fascinating, frustrating ability that we humans have:
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We can be looking at exactly the same thing—but can see it completely differently.
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Transition
Now, maybe you think this phenomenon is something to be celebrated—because a diversity of perspectives is not only welcome but healthy.
Or maybe you think it’s a convenient way for people to exchange the truth or reality for their own preference or perspective.
Either way, here’s what we’re gonna say about this frustrating ability that we all have:
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There are some things that we allneed to see the same way—because eternity is at stake.
(Luke 7:36-50)
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And that’s where we’re going this weekend as we conclude our series during Lent and prepare for Good Friday and Easter.
There are some things that we all need to see the same way, because seeing them clearly and for what they truly are will help us take a step into eternity—which is life with God, both now and forever.
That’s what’s at stake.
So, turn in your Bibles with me to Luke 7:36-50.
We’ll also have them on the screen for you to follow along.
Exegesis: Luke 7:36-39
We’re going to start in verse 36:
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Luke 7:36-38 “When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table.
A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume.
As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears.
Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.”
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So there’s the scene.
A Pharisee & Jesus are having a private dinner at the Pharisee’s house, and a woman with some kind of horrible reputation, who does not have an invitation to this private dinner, interrupts.
So let’s make sure we get what’s going on here:
If you’re kinda familiar with the story of Jesus, you know that he has a bunch of run-ins with this group of people called the “Pharisees.”
And you also know that Jesus is usually at odds with them.
They usually don’t see eye-to-eye on most things.
Now: the Pharisees are a category of people who, for the most part, don’t really exist anymore.
In other words: we don’t have very many people like them today.
In our world, they would some combination of pastor… seminary professor… community leader… and Christian celebrity.
Some of them had some “celebrity” to them.
But think about that combo: pastor/professor/community leader/celebrity.
We just don’t have very many people like that today.
But it was a pretty powerful and potent combo back then.
They kinda had the corner market on influence if you were a Jewish person.
And in that role, the Pharisees saw themselves as God’s representatives.
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