Meeting Jesus - Encounters that Transform: Beauty in the Broken

SERMON SERIES: Meeting Jesus - Encounters that
Transform
SERMON TITLE: Beauty in the Broken
SPEAKER: Won Jae Hudson Yu
SYNOPSIS: Jesus encounters a broken woman who shows beauty
in her brokenness.
SCRIPTURE: Luke 7:36-50

Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman

36 When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner
with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the
table. 37 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. 38 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.


39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said
to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is
touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”


40 Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell
you.”


“Tell me, teacher,” he said.


41 “Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One
owed him five hundred denarii,[a] and the other fifty. 42
Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the
debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”


43 Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the bigger
debt forgiven.”


“You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.


44 Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, “Do
you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me
any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and
wiped them with her hair. 45 You did not give me a kiss,
but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing
my feet. 46 You did not put oil on my head, but she has
poured perfume on my feet. 47 Therefore, I tell you, her
many sins have been forgiven—as her great love has shown. But
whoever has been forgiven little loves little.”


48 Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”


49 The other guests began to say among themselves, “Who is
this who even forgives sins?”


50 Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go
in peace.”