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What would you say if I asked you to identify THE greatest Sports event of all time?

A lot of choices - not so easy to pick THE greatest!
When Jesus Christ was asked what the greatest thing a human being can do in God’s sight, He didn’t hesitate.

This evening we’re going to talk about this - about a meal that Jesus shared with Rabbi Simon and a Prostitute.

I. SIN FORGIVEN

When the Bible’s says “a sinful life” that’s the simple way of saying she led the life of a prostitute.

Simon has a spiritual problem we see on display here.

• Simon is able to say “she” in a sinner but not “I”
• He understood that she had sins of the flesh but was not able to understand that he had sins of the heart!
• Spiritual arrogance - pride & self-hypocrisy upset Jesus so He tells him a story…a parable -





A. Response to debt

• 500 Denarii = $165K, 50 Denarii = $15K
• Neither had the money to pay it back so the money lender graciously forgave the debt of both.
• Jesus asked Simon; Which one will love the money lender more?

Who are these people are in the parable
• Money Lender = God
• 2 Debtors = Prostitute & Simon

The Point - the more a person realizes how big a sin debt they have and are bankrupt and can’t pay it - the more a person is thankful for forgiveness.

What’s tragic is that Simon owed big like the prostitute but he thought $15K wasn’t that much.

He simply couldn’t see it because of his arrogance. He had no chance of paying his debt anymore than the prostitute.

B. God’s forgiveness activated

3 ways God’s forgiveness is activated -

• Recognize we are sinners
• Recognize our debt to God cannot be paid
• Recognize God’s undeserved mercy is our hope for for-giveness

• All of these done by the prostitute
• None of these done by Simon

II. GOD TRANSFORMS LIVES
If you are here today and you haven’t yet trusted Jesus in a real and personal way to be your Savior and Lord, this is a great message for you.

There’s an amazing connection in the scriptures here for us - re-garding God transforming lives.

• John 11 - the story of Lazarus being raised from the dead.

John 11:1-2; Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)

• In our text, the prostitute is none other than Mary, the sister of Lazarus & Martha.
• This is an amazing transformation of Mary -
• This is what He does to every human life - He transforms us inside out -

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