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Opening Song
O Come O Come Eric W instrumental followed by congregational song
Intro
Powerful things
Luke 7:36-50 story Much Love…much forgiveness…much understanding…tears
Early in the ministry of Jesus, he sits in the home of a pharisee for a meal.
A woman who was known in town as a “sinner” enters the home with a jar of perfume, falls at the feet of Jesus and begins to weep.
Washing his feet with her tears, drying them with her hair, and anointing them with perfume.
The host, a man named Simon watches the whole thing down his nose.
Thinking, if this man was really a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching him.
Luke tells us Jesus replies to his thought.
I used to think this was a supernatural moment…but I would bet it was simply the look on his face that told Jesus how this man viewed the woman at his feet.
So he tells a story of a creditor with 2 debtors.
One owed the equivalent of a year and a half’s wages.
The other about a month and a half’s.
Neither could could pay and the creditor forgave the debts of both.
Jesus asks: Which of them will love him more?
I suppose the one he forgave more.
Jesus points to the woman.
You did not give me water for my feet, she washed them with tears.
You did not greet me with a kiss, but she has kissed my feet.
Her many sins were forgiven, so she loves much.
The one forgiven little…loves little.
Tears are a wondrous thing.
Our cries, with or without them, come from a deeper place than simple thought.
We cry in grief and sadness, we cry in joy and awe.
We cry out for our team to succeed and when we see injustice.
Tonight, as we reflect on the last day in the life of Jesus, there are many cries.
Cries of stress and sorrow, cries of shame, cries for blood… As we consider the great price that was paid that we might receive life:
do you take it for granted?
Has the story become too familiar, too ordinary?
Or do you let it affect you, the forgiveness you have recieved driving you like the woman to the feet of Jesus in tears.
Not tears of shame or guilt, but tears of grateful love for the God who so loved the world that he gave…his very son.
His very life for the ones he loves.
The story begins Thusday night in the garden:
Gethsemane Jesus
Luke 22:39-46 CSB “He went out and made his way as usual to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.
When he reached the place, he told them, “Pray that you may not fall into temptation.”
Then he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and began to pray, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me—nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
Then an angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.
Being in anguish, he prayed more fervently, and his sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
When he got up from prayer and came to the disciples, he found them sleeping, exhausted from their grief.
“Why are you sleeping?” he asked them.
“Get up and pray, so that you won’t fall into temptation.””
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The tears of Jesus fall with his sweat to the ground as his humanity struggles in the knowledge of the agony about to come.
As he does the great work of prayer, he asks for a way out, but even greater, asks for the will of God to be done above his own.
How many times do you see the grief to come and feel the weight of it pressing you into the floor.
With all your heart you want relief.
What if we imitated our savior?
offering God our needs, our heart for freedom, but also surrendering to his will even if the answer doesn’t come the way we wished?
Can we, like Jesus trust in the love and goodness of God ?
Once and For All
Peter Denies and Cries
Fear
Into the garden one of Jesus’ disciples, Judas Iscariot enters the scene at the head of a mob.
One he trusted has betrayed him.
To to an open arrest, but with a mob in the night.
His disciples offer resistance, but Jesus surrenders and the darkness seems victorious.
Luke 22:54-62 CSB “They seized him, led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house.
Meanwhile Peter was following at a distance.
They lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, and Peter sat among them.
When a servant saw him sitting in the light, and looked closely at him, she said, “This man was with him too.”
But he denied it: “Woman, I don’t know him.”
After a little while, someone else saw him and said, “You’re one of them too.”
“Man, I am not!” Peter said.
About an hour later, another kept insisting, “This man was certainly with him, since he’s also a Galilean.”
But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter.
So Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”
And he went outside and wept bitterly.”
Only hours before at dinner, Peter swore that nothing would cause him to defect.
He would be loyal to death.
The tears fall here as he realizes in the moment of truth we wasn’t loyal when faced with a serving woman challenges him.
How often have you cried when the moment of testing reveals how weak your faith truly is?
How frustrated have you gotten when you realize you have fallen into the same sin, the same guilt, the same shame once more?
These tears are painful…but they can also be restoring.
When we grieve our falling, we give Jesus the chance to lift us back up…just as Jesus will do for Peter.
Never fight tears of repentance.
The tears of knowing the harm we have done and the good we have missed.
For in those cries we find forgiveness and the chance to grow in faithfulness.
Trial
Jesus is beaten and mocked by this mob as they wait for daylight and the chance to deliver him to the chief priest and the sanhedrin.
When the leaders arrive, they demand that Jesus tell them if he is the Messiah, the son of God.
Jesus calls out their unbelief, but affirms their accusation and they prove the unbelief Jesus predicted by taking him up and leading him to the Roman governor Pilate
Above All
The Crowd Cries Out
They tell Pilate that here is a man who claims kingship.
They make false accusations and shout different lies, until Pilate asks Jesus if he is a king.
Jesus replies, “You say so”
Pilate saw no reason, but at their continued insistence, he sends him to Herod to get his opinion.
Herod enjoyed mocking and shaming him , but ultimately sends him back to Pilate with no verdict.
Desire
Luke 23:13-25 “Pilate called together the chief priests, the leaders, and the people, and said to them, “You have brought me this man as one who misleads the people.
But in fact, after examining him in your presence, I have found no grounds to charge this man with those things you accuse him of.
Neither has Herod, because he sent him back to us.
Clearly, he has done nothing to deserve death.
Therefore, I will have him whipped and then release him.”
Then they all cried out together, “Take this man away!
Release Barabbas to us!” (He had been thrown into prison for a rebellion that had taken place in the city, and for murder.)
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