As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.and standing behind at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
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would feel what you want us to feel, that our hearts would beat in rhythm with yours. And then God, I pray our lives would change as a result of this. God, I want people to walk out different than when they came in. That as Jesus said to this woman, that we would go with a peace maybe we don't possess now. And I can't generate that. So we're asking for help. And I want to invite you family, if you're up for it, to take a minute and you pray and ask him that. Say, Lord, please teach me today. and then if you would please pray for me that the Lord would use me and I'd be helpful to you Well, Father, we love you and we trust you. Use this time and we pray that in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, not long after college, my sister and I traveled to Italy and we went to the Uffizi, which is an art museum in Florence, housing one of the largest collections of Renaissance art, probably second only to the Vatican. …
And that's always been like one of the most beautiful pictures of worship to me, you know, because we live in a time where everyone's like so reserved, at least in our country, and especially in evangelical churches, like we're just so self-aware. Like, how do I look right now? who's looking at me? Am I making a fool of myself? And I love that picture because this woman, she just comes into the room and she had her gift and she didn't care that all these religious leaders were here and all these who's who's. She came for Jesus. Then she falls at his feet and she's just crying. She's just crying. She's just sobbing. I mean, she's making a scene, but she's not trying to. She just can't control herself. She just runs and falls at his feet and starts crying. and his feet are just dripping wet because her tears are falling on his feet. And she's going, I'm sorry, sorry. She's grabbing her hair and washing his feet and pouring ointment. …
[Other Sermons by Mr. Spurgeon concerning the man sick of the palsy are as follows—#2337, Volume 39—THE PHYSICIAN PARDONS HIS PALSIED PATIENT; #2417, Volume 41—FIRST FORGIVENESS, THEN HEALING and #3016, Volume52—GOOD CHEER FROM FORGIVEN SIN.] OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST did not say to the palsied man, "Be of good cheer, your palsied limbs shall be made strong and well again." But before He had cured that terrible malady, He bade him be comforted because his sins were forgiven—as if that would be a sufficient reason for rejoicing even if he should remain palsied! If he should be carried away from the Presence of Christ upon his bed just as helpless as when he was let down from the roof into the middle of the crowded room, that would be quite a secondary matter compared with the all-important fact that his sins had been forgiven. David truly wrote, "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered," and he is blessed even though he is sick of the palsy, or suffering from all the diseases to which flesh is heir! You remember, too, how the Prophet Isaiah wrote, under the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit, "Comfort, you, comfort you My people, says your God. Speak you comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her"—what? What shall be the special cause of comfort to the Church of God?—"that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned." She might be in great trouble and distress. Her land might be trodden under the feet of invaders. Her sons and daughters might be fainting in her streets, but as her iniquity was pardoned, she had good ground for comfort! To quote another instance that is a close parallel to our text, our Lord said to the woman in the city who was a sinner—who had washed His feet with her tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed them, and anointed them with ointment—"Your sins are forgiven...Go in peace." And, truly, when sin is forgiven, we may go in peace! …
"And, behold, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at His feet behind Him weeping, and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair ofher head, and kissed His feet and she anointed them with the ointment" Luke 7:37-38. THIS is a marvelously vivid Gospel incident. Every detail is plainly and forcefully set forth, so that we can picture the scene, making it live before us, without much mental effort. And yet, in some respects, there is a great reticence, a Divine delicacy, gloriously characteristic of so tender a book as the New Testament. The Evangelist—"the beloved physician," Luke—does not lay bare the minute particulars of this woman's life's sins, but delights to dwell rather upon the story of her penitence and its fair fruits, and so makes her to shine resplendently as a wonder of redeeming Grace! The symptoms of her soul's horrible malady he reveals in a single phrase—and that of general description—but upon the details of her gracious cure he delights to dwell. …