5. QUESTIONS MUNA
1. HAS SOMEONE SINNED AGAINST YOU?
2. HAVE YOU SINNED AGAINST SOMEONE?
6. ABOVE ALL, MAINTAIN CONSTANT LOVE WITH ONE
ANOTHER, FOR LOVE COVERS A MULTITUDE OF SINS.
1 PETER 4:8
7. I don’t think we’re talking about squishy, mushy,
emotion-drenched love here, either. We are here in the
realm of costly love. Love that lays aside its rights, love
that pours goodness and kindness into difficult situations,
love that chooses to see the best in others, even when
they are at their most unlovely, love that keeps no record
of wrongs, always perseveres, rejoices in truth.
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Love that forgives even (or especially) when
forgiveness isn’t deserved. This, I think, is the love
that covers a multitude of sins, preserving and
protecting what is good, hiding what is ugly from
view, repairing the damage that we do to ourselves
and to others.
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When we sin, our instinct, like Adam in the garden, is to hide what we’ve done, to
explain it away, to make excuses, to, well, cover it up. Maybe what Peter is
reminding us of in this passage is that the best way to hide our sin is to
stubbornly persist in loving each other. Maybe the best way to cover up what we
have done and continue to do to each other is to expose it for what it is: pitifully
small, transitory, and ultimately powerless in the face of love, the strongest and
truest thing our world has ever seen.
17. In ancient Near Eastern culture, a woman’s hair was an
erotic symbol. For a woman to let her hair down in
public was scandalous enough, but to rob a man’s feet
with her hair was beyond the pale. To do this at a
party where prominent religious leaders were present
was breathtaking.
18. LUKE 7:39
When Simon, the Pharisee who had invited him saw
this, he said to himself, “If this man was the prophet I
thought he was, he would have known what kind of
woman this is who is falling all over him.”
20. WHAT KIND OF WOMAN WAS SHE?
We don’t know her name, her age, or her
history. We know only that she was bad for
a season. To be specific, she sold her body
for money. Because her sinful lifestyle was
common knowledge, people whispered
about her, eyed her with disdain, avoided
her company.
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21. WHAT KIND OF WOMAN WAS SHE?
Her sins weren’t listed in detail because they
didn’t need to be. The world’s oldest profession
hardly requires a job description.
She came alone, bearing a small alabaster vial of
perfume. Did she intend to give the Lord this
“flask of ointment”, this “jar of fragrant oil”? Or
did she mean simply to anoint his head, a
common gesture of respect?
Whatever her plans, they flew out the window
the moment she saw him.
Jesus.
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24. Bad Girls of the Bible
Simon saw a prostitute, period. He didn’t see her as a
person, nor had he “noticed” her acts of worship for
what they were.
25. LUKE 6: 37-38
Don’t judge others, and God won’t judge you. Don’t
be hard on others, and God won’t be hard on you.
Forgive others, and God will forgive you.
27. SOLIDARITY
FANCY WORD TO BE ON SOMEONE’S
SIDE UNCONDITIONALLY.
IT VIEWS SIN AS A FAILURE TO LOVE.
28. Guests in a home were usually offered water so they
could wash their feet, because most people either went
barefoot or wore sandals and would come in the house
with very dusty feet. Guests were also greeted with a
kiss on the cheek, and special ones often had sweet-
smelling olive oil poured on their head.
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29. LUKE 7: 44-46
He turned toward the woman and said to Simon,
“Have you noticed this woman? When I came into
your home, you didn’t give me any water so I could
wash my feet. But she has washed my feet with her
tears and dried them with her hair. You didn’t greet
me with a kiss, but from the time I came in, she has
not stopped kissing my feet. You didn’t even pour
olive oil on my head, but she has poured expensive
perfume on my feet.
30. She cried so hard that “her tears began to wet his feet “(Luke 7:38
CJB). You know she must have been mortified. But she couldn’t
stop her tears—not when her heart was filled to overflowing. She
sank to her knees, then bowed her head so low it touched the
ground.
Jesus didn’t pull away, didn’t scold her, didn’t make her feel
foolish. No, he gladly received the baptism of her tears,
recognizing this heartfelt expression for what it was—worship,
pure and holy. She could have used her sleeves to dry his tear-
drenched feet. Instead, “she wiped them with the hair of her
head” (NKJV). Far more personal, more humble, more sacrificial.
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31. She pressed her lips to his feet, “kissing them many times” (NCV).
Not just once in shy affection, but “over and over again” (GW)
with an abundance born of passion. It was customary to kiss a
man’s hand or cheek or the hem of his garment. But this woman
kissed his dirt-covered, stone-bruised feet.
Then she reached for her alabaster box, “and poured perfume”
(Luke 7:38) on his feet—the same perfume she wore to advertise
her services. So much for slipping under the radar at Simon’s
gathering.
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33. Bad Girls of the Bible
Simon saw a prostitute, period. He didn’t see her as a
person, nor had he “noticed” her acts of worship for what
they were.
But Jesus missed nothing. He saw her. He saw her sordid
past, her humble present, and her glorious future. He
quickly described all the ways she’d honored him—unlike
Simon—then finished with this startling announcement:
“Her sins, which are many, are forgiven” (Luke 7:47 ASV).
34. “WHEN WE LOOK AT PEOPLE,
WE SHOULD BE LOOKING FOR WAYS
THAT THEY ARE LOVELY.”
35. ABOVE ALL, MAINTAIN CONSTANT LOVE WITH ONE
ANOTHER, FOR LOVE COVERS A MULTITUDE OF SINS.
1 PETER 4:8
