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Jesus Forgives the Sinful Woman and Restores the Broken

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  1. Welcome Just Hindaway Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose of inspiring,

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  4. We hope that this podcast finds you in good shape.

  5. And now here's your message. All right now again, you

  6. know when you talk about grace, you know we are

  7. actually Tam and Tama Young your series nothing is titled

  8. Grace changes everything. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ

  9. changes everything. And Uh, as I've been preparing for this,

  10. I remember a story, uh that happened when I was

  11. in high school. Uh we had a transferring student parent transfers.

  12. Babe on schools now.

  13. But uh he was Megha Joe, you know buff uh

  14. and you cut such a buff shah and parana.

  15. So he was a he was a good guy. He's

  16. a good guy.

  17. Later on we find we found outa deito so p

  18. I mean, we didn't mind it. So he was like

  19. a normal guy until during one of our semesterral exams

  20. or quarterly exams. I forgot which one are long exams.

  21. You know, all of us were quiet doing our exams

  22. and suddenly nasally couce so from the back he carries

  23. his desk and throws it in front a blackboard bank

  24. what you in this? He runs out, I mean he

  25. something clicked, okay, and then he runs out of the classroom, tear's.

  26. His you know, uniform. Incredible.

  27. And then I was running Artigas Avenue okay, along Ortigas,

  28. and then you guidance Council Ornamenkay was running after him,

  29. took the cab and nahapala and running like crazy. And

  30. so I mean that because of that, I mean, he

  31. transferred to another school, but it left a stigma.

  32. Okay, all of us still remember.

  33. That person and parana reputation okay, and stigma that's still

  34. carried because of that situation. And I'm telling you that

  35. maybe there are you know, when we growing up, maybe

  36. high school, elementary, or maybe even your college, there are

  37. things that have made a mark, a stain or a stigma. Okay,

  38. now because of certain things that has happened in your life. Okay,

  39. maybe something small, maybe something big that has happened that

  40. left a mark that.

  41. You still carry up to today.

  42. And sometimes we wonder how you know.

  43. Erased? Okay, how can this be removed? In my life?

  44. And let me tell you, sometimes we carry some of

  45. those things in our lives because of something that has

  46. happened in the past. Now, let me tell you, the

  47. grace of the Lord Jesus christy has the ability and

  48. the capacity to erase that and change even your past,

  49. even the most painful things that has happened to you.

  50. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ can erase and

  51. change that. And I believe your story this morning exactly

  52. your story, because we will look at a person who

  53. was carrying She was carrying a stigma, okay, all throughout

  54. his life because of her profession, because of what she

  55. was doing, she had earned a bad reputation. But let

  56. me tell you, when she encountered the grace of God

  57. through Jesus Christ, something began to happen that transformed her.

  58. And I want us I believe as we look at

  59. this story, we will find ourselves in one of the

  60. characters of this story. And hopefully, as you immerse yourself

  61. in the story, we will experience God's grace just as

  62. she did. And that's why I want for us to

  63. open our bibles to the Gospel of Luke, this third

  64. book in the New Testament, Gospel of Luke, chapter seven,

  65. we will read first from verse thirty six to thirty nine. Okay,

  66. verse thirty six to thirty nine, So let's begin seven

  67. thirty six. One of the Pharisees asked him to eat

  68. with him. So this Pharisees invited Jesus to come over

  69. for dinner. He went into the Pharisees house and reclined

  70. at the table, and behold a woman of the city

  71. who was a sinner. When she learned that he was

  72. reclining at the table in the Pharisees house, brought an

  73. alabaster flask of ointment, and standing beside him, behind him

  74. rather at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his

  75. feet with her tears, wipe them with the hair of

  76. her head, and kissed his feet and anointed them with

  77. the ointment.

  78. And now when the.

  79. Pharisee who had invited him sow this, he said to himself,

  80. you know, if this man were really a prophet, he

  81. would have known who and what sort of woman this

  82. is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.

  83. Let's pray, Father, bless the preaching of your word.

  84. Let us understand and experience your grace this morning, so

  85. that we too can be transformed in change.

  86. In Jesus name a man.

  87. Now very briefly Paramaine indianad in what was happening Gay,

  88. there are three characters that we see in the story.

  89. First of all, of all, rather see Jesus Christ. He's

  90. the one who was invited. And at this point in

  91. time in Luke chapter seven, Jesus was gaining popularity. He

  92. was gay popularity because of his teaching. He was teaching,

  93. he was healing, he was preaching. He had what he preached,

  94. and he thought there was authority, and so he was

  95. gaining popularity among the people, among the crowds. And uh,

  96. not only that, Okay, he was also gaining some enemies

  97. because the teachers of the law, the scribes, and even

  98. some of the Pharisees were trying to question sine batmbaguito,

  99. this new rabbi, this new teacher, who is this guy?

  100. Who is this Jesus that the people are following. Now,

  101. he performed a miracle at this point in time, and

  102. that's why one of the pharisees your first protas protegist,

  103. and his name is Simon, Simon the Pharisee. Okay, so

  104. in the actual picture, Simon was a Pharisee and so

  105. when he found out about Jesus Us he was teaching

  106. and preaching and healing, he was curious, okay, and so

  107. he invited Jesus for dinner. Now another pharisee by the

  108. name of Nicodemus, remember Nicodemus, We find it in John

  109. chapter three. He was also curious about Jesus. But the

  110. reason he met with Jesus He met Jesus at night

  111. when no one was looking.

  112. Okay, Noela, mait like me meet upsilla.

  113. His his reason for meeting with Jesus was more of

  114. doctrinal and theological. He was asking Jesus about you know,

  115. about the Kingdom of God, about being born again, and

  116. all of these things about the spirit of God. Simon

  117. had another reason why he invited Jesus for dinner. Okay,

  118. there are different reasons why invite people for dinner. And

  119. obviously this was a respected and popular teacher inviting. Yeah,

  120. and the reason why he invited is not for him to,

  121. you know, to because he's signing with Jesus. He was

  122. probably trying to gauge kuntub on Jesus, kuntub on the

  123. what the reputation of this new guy Tokayato so if

  124. he proves to be who the people say he is,

  125. the Messiah, then he would be in the right. Okay,

  126. kumba meron advantage, Majo int right. But if it turns

  127. out differently na ops, fake Palato or Plato, then he

  128. would know exactly how to.

  129. Deal with this Jesus.

  130. So we find this guy Simon, the pharisee having this dinner, okay,

  131. having a party. Now, Merona, make conting joke.

  132. You're gonna m bible.

  133. Have you ever heard a pharisee having a party para

  134. It sounds like an oxymoron, right, an oxymoron, Nah parasee

  135. and partyila during their partyanilla and the latest.

  136. Or my latest philaptrees.

  137. Mama scripture tasls okay anima am a pig and blanket.

  138. As a kosher foot lahad.

  139. And in other words, it was a boring party done

  140. by the Pharisee. Okay, Majo, it was sober tahimklangurro Okay.

  141. So we see Jesus coming in, reclining at the table

  142. and it just start sing la maguento. Now the party

  143. began to be more colorful because of the third character

  144. that came in. Okay, this third character that came in. Uh, well, Phalan.

  145. The Bible does not name this woman. In other words,

  146. can you imagine by Isan Baba and Pumunta a party?

  147. He she was actually a great crasher Hindisha invited a party.

  148. Have you ever get crashed a party? Nereded Raman, raise

  149. your hands? Okay, they can a gat crash and Noman

  150. it's a party kay or is away? Dinghy crash is

  151. away ding Okay. Now the Bible did not identify concinotoll Okay.

  152. She was just said, there's a woman of the city.

  153. A woman on descriptions is a sinner, a sinful woman.

  154. In reality, this was a prostitute. This woman was a

  155. prostitute who sells her body. Now can you can you

  156. imagine a prostitute gate crashing the party of a pharisee?

  157. Can you imagine that scandal? And he she began doing

  158. some things to their guest of honors, Jesus my pina

  159. a scandalo Tomara, Wait wait yo, you're not invited, and

  160. let me tell you.

  161. Are a sinner. You're a prostitute. How dare you? Okay?

  162. And so uh. The Marajuana experience against a party in

  163. the main a gate crash and began to the coronam

  164. scandalo same party anyone experienced that. The closest I could

  165. probably relate to is I remember during the funeral of

  166. my father in Ddico, my Lily Bignam Memorial and Nakata

  167. on a South super highway in a convoy, and I

  168. had a couple of tita who were titas from the

  169. province notorious Sila because Mahili Silamas, candal funeral Sama and

  170. all of that. So all of us were mindful scandalo.

  171. And what happened was during the convoy convoy okay sol convoy.

  172. It so when they arrived at the funeral of another

  173. person okay office or whatever, so they began to cry

  174. and all of that, you know, and all of that,

  175. and so everyone was staring at them. So they began

  176. to cry and cry and let before mistaken identity it's oops, slowly.

  177. Got out got to the car.

  178. By the time they went to my father's funeral, melibing

  179. named Dadica praise God. Okay, but there are situations where

  180. things can be scandalous or awkward at least, right this

  181. is a situation like that. Can you imagine, Okay, this

  182. woman that's something that is very offensive to Pharisees.

  183. Well, let me tell you.

  184. To Jesus Christ, it's not offensive. It became an offering

  185. that he received. What she did that offended the Pharisees

  186. became a fragrant offering of worship. That's what grace does,

  187. the thing that causes others to stumble or don't know.

  188. Because can you imagine the Pharisees, the teachers of the law,

  189. the rabbis were holy people.

  190. If you would read the.

  191. Old Testament, it would say you have if you come

  192. in contact with anything or anyone unclean, Okay, you would

  193. be unclean. Right, that's why they are so careful what

  194. they touch, whould they associate with. But let me tell

  195. you when Jesus came to the picture, when they encountered

  196. Jesus Christ, the most, the vilest sinner, the most unclean

  197. and holy person, when she touched Jesus Christ, Jesus did

  198. not become unclean, but the unclean became clean. That's the

  199. power of the grace of Jesus Christ. Let me tell

  200. you there are some of you today. You feel like

  201. you're dirty because of your past. You feel like because

  202. of your history. You don't deserve the mercy of God.

  203. We don't deserve the grace of God. If we think,

  204. if you think you deserve the grace of God, then

  205. the more you won't receive it. But God's grace is

  206. so powerful it can penetrate the darkest, the vilest, the

  207. most secret sin, the deepest chain that you are covering.

  208. It can penetrate and can heal you and transform you.

  209. That's what happened here. This unclean sinner, prostitute and holy person,

  210. when she touched Jesus see Jesus says, did not become unclean.

  211. She became clean the power of the Christ, of the

  212. Lord Jesus Christ. So this is what happened in the story.

  213. Behold a woman of the city who was a sinner,

  214. when she learned that he was reclining at the table

  215. in the Pharisees house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment

  216. of perfume. Now again, this act became ranks as one

  217. of the most beautiful and meaningful acts of worship in

  218. the Bible.

  219. Right we're even up to today, we all know.

  220. What this woman did and what that action represents and

  221. meant or symbolized to God and to Jesus Christ, this

  222. act that she did, and she risked a lot. She

  223. risked being stoned to death for doing that right, coming

  224. over uninvited, and she as a prostitute, she risked everything

  225. just to be with Jesus, just to worship Jesus, just

  226. to sit and minister at the feet of Jesus Christ

  227. and tie you today to contain traffic iron and not

  228. in to worship, to come together. Let me tell you

  229. this woman, Hindrance, she would overcome just to be with

  230. Jesus because she experienced something that changed her forever.

  231. Now let's go on, and Gania.

  232. Standing beside him at his feet, weeping, she began to

  233. wet his feet with her tears, wipe them with the

  234. hair of her head, kissed his feet and anointed them

  235. with the oint.

  236. Man.

  237. Now listen, it's on alabaster jar that contained a very

  238. expensive perfume. They said that the cause of the perfume. You.

  239. Alabaster jar was expensive itself. It's made of semi precious stone,

  240. it's made of ornate and all of that that corrective.

  241. So malayung jung vas new flask alabaster jar perry Lamanna perfume.

  242. They said that it cost one year's wage. Okay, imagine

  243. your as well, though one year's worth plus the bonus

  244. and the extras and all of that, I guess dependence

  245. on mcannis. Well, don you know, but this was one

  246. years during that time, this was so expensive. But let

  247. me tell you something more. This jar represented her professional

  248. identity and her finaleancial security because she used this perfume.

  249. For her job as a prostitute like Papa ba Musha.

  250. So by pouring that, by breaking it and pouring at Jesus,

  251. she is making a statement that this is the past

  252. already and I'm making it and giving it to you.

  253. I'm pouring it to you, bal Anash and financial means

  254. to do her job, because that's what the grace of

  255. the Lord Jesus Christ did. It change her life. How

  256. ironic that may be appropriate that the perfume used in

  257. her profession as a prostitute became the token of her

  258. profession of her faith in Christ. The perfume she used

  259. in her profession as a prostitute would become the token

  260. of her profession of faith in.

  261. Our Lord Jesus Christ. That's grace. A numenium thinks that.

  262. Identify us with something bad in the past, when we

  263. go to the cross, Jesus transforms it and makes it

  264. into an object where we can worship. She pours out

  265. and say, Jesus, ginagameto torom it more sin, but tonight

  266. I'm breaking it and pouring it to your feet as

  267. an act of worship. Now, you alone are my security,

  268. You alone are my identity. You alone are my life

  269. and my future. That's the power of grace. She would

  270. be willing to do that. It changed everything about her. Now,

  271. let's go back to Simon. Okay, Simon, when he saw

  272. what she did, she he saw it with a different

  273. lens by reaction is Simon okay? So let's read On

  274. Okay thirty nine. When the Pharisee who had invited him

  275. saw this, he said to himself, he was not talking

  276. to Jesus.

  277. He was just thinking this.

  278. If this mancunt petto that classic babyto, he would have

  279. known what sort of woman this is who is touching him,

  280. for she is a sinner.

  281. Propheto.

  282. Right now, the good news is this. You know, there's

  283. a reason why the Holy Spirit allowed Luke to know

  284. what this guy was thinking and wrote it in this gospel.

  285. Because Jesus knew what he was thinking, alma you Simon,

  286. and that's why he gave him a story. Okay, Okay, Simon,

  287. I'll tell you a story to explain or to make

  288. a point, okay, And this is a story. Let's jump,

  289. okay to verse forty one, Sabina, there's a there's a

  290. certain money lender who had two debtors, one old five

  291. hundred denari and the other fifty what they could not pay.

  292. He canceled the debt of both. Now which of them

  293. will love him more?

  294. Okay? So which of them will love him more?

  295. Young? Five? Or you fifty or five hundred or you

  296. fifty young five hundred? Okay, very good children, because you

  297. nisa god Nis Simon sa Simon answered, majesuru, no bad

  298. trick question toa although a very simple, straightforward, very simple

  299. mathematics tiba in dnamanto trick question pro the one I

  300. suppose for whom he canceled the larger death.

  301. Now, to make this.

  302. Proper context context and fifteen donary five hundred denary, let's

  303. just say the fifty denari would be around fifty thousand

  304. pesos and the five hundred denari would be five million pesos. Okay,

  305. for our contexts. Now here's the case may Utamsila. Neither

  306. of them had any money to pay the lender, right Lampa,

  307. But because of the goodness and the compassion and the

  308. mercy of the lender, he forgave them was agad, I'll

  309. forgive both of you. Now, what does it mean? Why

  310. did Jesus tell this story to Simon? He knew that

  311. in Simon's eyes, the prostitute is the one who had

  312. the death of the five million and Shah and Hindeman

  313. fIF she go to fifty pesses, you prostituta because of

  314. her sin five million, fifty pases and compare.

  315. That is what she was thinking.

  316. Now listen, okay, that's not the point of why Jesus

  317. gave this story. You know why because if you cannot

  318. pay your debt, it doesn't matter if you only owe

  319. five centabos, everything will be taken away from you.

  320. Comunion has happened.

  321. Both of them had a debt while as a lampambaiad,

  322. whether there it's five million or five vesos. Because while mpambaiad,

  323. everything will be taken away.

  324. If you are broke, you're broke.

  325. If you can pay, then you're in the same boat.

  326. There's no difference between oweing a little and owing a lot,

  327. at least in the spiritual context. In the financial context Merionian.

  328. But in the spiritual context that Jesus was talking about,

  329. there is no difference. Now all of us have but

  330. debt that we owe God that we can never pay.

  331. Because of sin. You cannot pay.

  332. For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory

  333. of God. We owe God something, even if we wanted to.

  334. We are broke all a time on by it, kay Lord.

  335. And that's the point that Jesus was driving us. Jesus saying, Simon, Laca,

  336. you're in debt to God. Some will owe a little,

  337. some will owe more, but no one has the ability

  338. to pay God.

  339. Now listen, here's the gospel message.

  340. God is willing to forgive all the debts equally, whether

  341. you is whatever sin, small or big. If you're forgiven

  342. the grace of the Lord, Jesus Christ forgives all sin.

  343. And that's why Jesus wanted to make this point to Simon.

  344. What Jesus point to Simon is this, Simon, there is

  345. fundamentally no difference between you and that prostitute. You're the same.

  346. You're in the same boat. No matter how you think

  347. about yourself, you're in the same boat. Everyone has sinned

  348. and fallen short the glory of God. So now turning

  349. then to the woman, he said to Simon, do you

  350. see this woman.

  351. I entered your house, but you gave me no water

  352. for my feet.

  353. She wet my feet with her tears, white them with

  354. her hair. You gave me no kiss, But from the

  355. time I came in, she has not ceased to kiss

  356. my feet.

  357. You did not.

  358. Anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet

  359. with the most precious thing she has. Do you know

  360. why she's doing this? She's probably asking Simon, do you

  361. know why this woman is doing this?

  362. You did not know because.

  363. The problem of Simon, he thought he was better than

  364. the prostitute. Simon said, you don't understand, Jesus, she is

  365. a sinner. Jesus probably countered. You don't understand, Simon. She

  366. is not a sinner. She was a sinner. The grace

  367. of God forgive forgave her of her past.

  368. She is not a sinner. She was a sinner.

  369. You know why the grace of God changes the tenses

  370. in our lives. Whatever history you have, it's in the past.

  371. Tense already, whether.

  372. You feel like you feel like today.

  373. You feel like you're still in the same boat, You're

  374. still dirty, still haunting you. The grace of God changes

  375. the tenses in your life. Instead of she is a sinner,

  376. she was a sinner, instead of you living in the

  377. same boat, trying to see yourself in the same situation.

  378. As I've said it over and over again, when God

  379. relates to you, it's not in the basis of your history,

  380. but it's the basis of your destiny. Not on what

  381. has happened to you, but on who you can become

  382. in Christ.

  383. That's how God would relate to you. You call that

  384. the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

  385. That's why today there are some of you today you're

  386. still living in the past because of what has happened

  387. in your life.

  388. What has happened in the past. You cannot forgive yourself.

  389. Yes, maybe there's some areas in your life that are

  390. so deep and so dark, and you feel like the

  391. enemy has got in his roots in your life, so deep,

  392. and you say, pastor you don't know what I went through,

  393. what I did, No matter how deep the work of

  394. the enemy is. That's how deep the grace of God

  395. wants to fill you with his love, with his acceptance,

  396. with his grace. Changing the tenses in your life very important.

  397. And that's why when we go on to the next verse, Therefore,

  398. I tell you her sins, which are many, are forgiven.

  399. For she loved much, but he who is forgiven little

  400. loves little. Now Sometimes when we read this Dittian, I

  401. got a confusion. Sometimes when we read this is if

  402. not in you know?

  403. Okay?

  404. So that means when I have a lot more sins,

  405. I'll be forgiven more. The worse you are, the more

  406. you are forgiven. Right, the less you know, the less

  407. you sin, the less you will forgiven.

  408. No, it's not what Jesus was saying. What Jesus is

  409. saying is.

  410. The greater you sense your own need for forgiveness.

  411. The greater will be your love.

  412. When you are forgiven, you will have gratitude and love

  413. in exact proportion with your sense of your own sinfulness.

  414. If you think you've been greatly forgiven, you.

  415. Will greatly love God.

  416. If you think you have only been forgiven a little,

  417. you will only love God a little. You know, I

  418. I think I lived a pretty good life growing up

  419. BC before Christ.

  420. Before I became a Christian, I think Maji.

  421. Never went drugs and dog push in, the rapist and

  422. the oha whatever abuser. I think I lived a pretty

  423. okay life, a good person.

  424. Okay, But.

  425. Let me tell you something. When I was confronted with

  426. the Cross of Jesus Christ, that's when I realized the death,

  427. the gravity of sin, the sinfulness. That there's murder every

  428. time you're angry. Yeah, there's murder in your heart, you know, anger,

  429. Anger is unfulfilled murder, union, there's loss that's unfulfilled, adultery, right,

  430. all of these things when you see the death of sin.

  431. When I saw how vile I was, I.

  432. Did not commit those things, but I saw the death

  433. of sinfulness, the sinful, the sinful nature inside of me,

  434. that all of us can have the capacity to do this.

  435. Let me post a question to you to drive home

  436. a point. What if what if you could get away

  437. with anything, any type of sin without any consequence. You

  438. could steal, there's no consequence. You could murder, Okay, you

  439. could do anything. What would you do? The sinful nature

  440. in us would think of some things already. That's the

  441. gravity of sin. It's only the grace of the Lord

  442. Jesus Christ, that restrains us from fully venting this. And

  443. that's why when I encountered the cross, I like, I

  444. knelt down. He said, Lord, and the violence of sinner

  445. and the worst of sinners, that's what I say. I encountered,

  446. and I say sex he was the most righteous in Israel,

  447. and yet sah, you know, I'm a man of unclean lips.

  448. When he encountered and he saw the depths of his

  449. sin compared to the holiness of God, that's when he

  450. knew how much the grace of God has changed him.

  451. And I pray that today you would have the same encounter,

  452. that you would encounter the depths of our own sinfulness,

  453. so that we can be eternally forever grateful, because apart

  454. from that, we will always think until asalananko. But man,

  455. the sinfulness is there. The potential to do all of

  456. these things is there, And apart from the grace of

  457. God withholding that.

  458. All of us will do that. And that's why it's

  459. so important.

  460. I pray that we have a fresh encounter with the

  461. holiness of God and with our own sinfulness. That's when

  462. true revival happens. Our revival happens when we say, Lord,

  463. I'm a man of ungling lips. I'm not as righteous I,

  464. you know, as I can be, because that's when you

  465. realize you need the grace of God.

  466. And that's why I begin to close.

  467. He said to her, this is the first time Jesus

  468. talks to the woman first time, and look what she says.

  469. He says three things to her that I believe changed

  470. her life completely, and if you get this, it will change.

  471. Yours as well.

  472. He declares three things that I believe the grace of

  473. God does did for her that I believe God wants

  474. to do for all of us this morning. The first

  475. thing he tells us, your sins are forgiven. That took

  476. care of her past. Second, he said, your faith has

  477. saved you. That takes care of her present. And he said,

  478. go in peace. That takes care of her future. The

  479. grace of God changes everything in this woman's life, her past,

  480. her present, and her future. That's what the grace of

  481. God does did to her, and I believe that's what

  482. the grace of God wants to do for all of us.

  483. I believe there's some of you here. You're still stuck

  484. in the past. Some of you you cannot get out

  485. of your present circumstance. You cannot believe that God would

  486. let you out. But let me tell you, the grace

  487. of God changes everything. He wants to give you a

  488. new perspective of life, not of what was, but on

  489. what God wants you to become, changing the tenses in

  490. your life. This morning, Amen, I'd like to ask the

  491. music group to come up. We're going to sing the song.

  492. Let me tell a story as I as I begin

  493. to close, I remember when when we were just beginning

  494. the Victory Weekend module. We probably fifteen years ago on

  495. five six or seven in Victor q se We. One

  496. of our leaders uh there were retired Aslau senior citizen

  497. and retired Insula. But they're still managing their family business there.

  498. Their the family owns a building in Pasai. So Sabasai,

  499. I may building on and in that place in Passai

  500. in Magalo Marami manavendors.

  501. You know, mayor is whatever.

  502. So Sabasi, I mean you know the reputation of Passa,

  503. that was the height of it. Yes, And he had

  504. compassion for the people there save because he knew the

  505. way to a man's heart in the Philippines is to

  506. histomach and true enough, he invite some of those human

  507. some of the vendors.

  508. So the invite your parent head.

  509. Now some food vendor nah yu maana left and that

  510. was made Munta now is as naga uh you and

  511. me just snatched them bag snatcher. Okay you mana that

  512. was Mason, a man made is some make some bumating ready?

  513. So you start in a small group. Yeah, those three people,

  514. and every week he would go there, but every time

  515. they would experience something sollakumaka in Silla. But not only that,

  516. they began to invite son grow you grow until invite Mason,

  517. my young Buga, inviteba Chamla and prostitute under her invite.

  518. But there was so much radical change in them.

  519. They went to one to one, put us a victory weekend,

  520. victory weekend, and put us a victory weekend.

  521. I remember that I was there.

  522. Una talagan iona ta.

  523. Lahya.

  524. I'm I just go through that case the Lord will

  525. do something Megaga vincil Lord. So I remember that going

  526. through that, and I could just imagine your counseling and time.

  527. But they were so turned around encountering God, experiencing the

  528. grace of God that that small group began to grow

  529. this area and again twenty thirty, after a couple of

  530. years Kashnabanda name building. The building was sold already, so

  531. we had they had to in endor Malati church, even

  532. though a small group. I still remember on their own

  533. they would go and I remember that story that what's

  534. the difference between those people and us, right, Kaka, Because

  535. sometimes there's more of Simon in us right than we're

  536. there to think. But you know what, I realized, we're

  537. just the same mhm. But we're dealing with the same thing, sinfulness.

  538. Maybe at first Blanscapela, No, apart from the grace of God,

  539. we are just the same. And that's why today I

  540. want for you to understand that the grace of God

  541. changes everything.

  542. No matter where you came.

  543. From, whatever your history is, it changes everything in your life.

  544. And I want all of us to receive God's grace.

  545. How do we receive God's grace? This is my last scripture.

  546. It says in First Peter chapter five Versus five, to

  547. say that cloth yourself, all of you, with humility towards

  548. one another. For God opposes the proud, but gives grace

  549. to the humble.

  550. Humble yourselves.

  551. Therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that at

  552. the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your

  553. anxieties on him, because He cares for you. The difference

  554. between Simon and the woman. There's pride in Simon, amility

  555. in the woman. If there's pride in you, it is

  556. God himself who will oppose you. But if we humble

  557. ourselves saying Lord, I don't deserve you, I don't deserve this,

  558. then the grace of God is already yours. And listen,

  559. some of you, you feel like you're in a dead end.

  560. But today hearing the grace of God, Jesus is in

  561. the business of still rewriting the scripts of your life,

  562. changing the tenses and the verbs some ani And if

  563. you would allow give it to him, give the pen

  564. to him, and allow him to be the one to

  565. edit your story and make his story of your life,

  566. you will have the best possible ending ever because His

  567. grace changes everything. And let me tell you, the grace

  568. of God changes our guilt into gratitude. It's a catalyst

  569. that changed us, that change me, and it's a catalyst

  570. that can change people that you encounter. I hope Matangna

  571. whatever by us, we have of the people around us,

  572. that we will be agents of God's grace that changes

  573. the people that we encounter. Amen, does all stand up? Father,

  574. We thank you. Indeed, we don't deserve all of this.

  575. We don't deserve nothing. But it's only by your grace

  576. that you have changed us, touched us. And so as

  577. we sing and worship, let this be the of our

  578. hearts because I believe the Holy Spirit wants to change

  579. some of you this morning, LORDI thank you for your grace. Truly,

  580. your grace changes everything to the cross where we can

  581. come to you be who we are at our worst

  582. and yet find acceptance, full acceptance. And today, as we

  583. are in an attitude of prayer as we bow our

  584. heads before him, I feel that there are some some

  585. of you you just need a just a new turn

  586. of life, a new turn of lief, like starting over.

  587. And the grace of God allows you to do that,

  588. to start over, because you've been chained to the past.

  589. You've been it's like you cannot move forward. But let

  590. me tell you, the grace of God cuts you all

  591. of those the things that has kept you. God wants

  592. to remove and change those tenses in your life from

  593. just being who you are, who you were to who

  594. God has destined and created you to become in Christ.

  595. So if you're that, if you just feel like you

  596. need that, you need a just a brand you leave,

  597. just a.

  598. Turnover and new thinks, just lift your hands to God.

  599. I believe God's grace is here and will touch your life.

  600. Just lift your hands to him.

  601. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you that

  602. no sin, no failure, what nothing in the past could

  603. separate them from your love in Christ. So even today,

  604. let your grace change everything, change their past, change their them,

  605. change their future, because we thank you that your grace

  606. changes everything. And so even right now we declare that,

  607. even as you said that if everyone is in Christ,

  608. he is a new creation. The old has gone, that

  609. you has come. I speak newness and refreshing wholeness.

  610. Peace. Let you beginnings.

  611. Arise that they will walk in the new things that

  612. you have for them. We commit them to you Lord

  613. in Jesus name, Amen, and Amen.

  614. Thank you for listening.

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  617. God bless you all.