Lesson

Parable of The Debtors
Thanking My Savior


Background information of Jewish customs
Host supplies water to guests to wash feet
Host gives a polite kiss as an appropriate greeting
Host pours oil on guest heads – the oil was sweet or olive oil for pleasant smells and to make hair smooth & elegant.
Customary for uninvited guests to join a gathering in a house as an observer. The needy could eat the leftovers.

Read Luke 7:36 – 50

Compare Simon vs. the Sinful Woman

3 Questions in the story:

1. “Which of them will love Him more?”
2. “Do you see this woman?”
3. “Who is this who even forgives sins?”

Forgiveness: All or nothing, costly, final, free, received by Faith, public

How do we apply this in our lives? Are we more like Simon or the woman?

Small sinners are still sinners & need to repent.

We, like the debtors, have nothing with which to pay.

See you next week,
Beth Upton