Extravagant Love wk.13-6

0:00Grace and peace beloved, it's Sunday, February the 29th, 2026, did I fool anyone? It's Wednesday, April the 1st, 2026, it's day 4 and our holy week, our walk with Jesus to the cross. So family, keep in mind that we are still in our 52 week series of remaining in this presence. Tomorrow or Thursday will be the 7th day of our 13th week, the last day of the first of four quarters. Nonetheless, our walk with Jesus continues our journey of transformation. Our relationship deepens as we immerse ourselves in the significance of the love God displays toward us by sending Jesus into the world to pay the wage of sin so that when Jesus returns

1:03the second time to judge sin, those who call upon Him as Lord and Savior will be spared. Upon Sunday, three days ago, four days ago, we celebrated Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem, asking ourselves, what kind of king am I welcoming into my life? The next day, Monday, we witnessed Jesus cleansing the temple and referenced that it was symbolic of Jesus coming into our hearts and clearing out the clutter that prevents our total oneness with Him. Yesterday, Tuesday, the 3rd day of our passion week, holy week, week. We titled it teaching in a temple. This is where Jesus' confronts empty religion and reveals the heart of the Father. We read 2.5 chapters from the Gospel of Matthew, grasping a vivid display of Jesus'

2:07orientation with the Jewish leaders, as well as his heavy heart for Israel's rejection of the truth, and thank you to those of you who express the joy of reading that much scripture in one episode. The reading was not only informative, it was also transformative. Today, Wednesday, we reflect on what sacrificial love looks like as we identify with the woman giving of her very expensive fragrance that symbolizes anointing Jesus for burial. Heavenly Father, first and foremost, we love you, Lord God. The love that we have for you is because of the love that you first gave us. We're grateful to be able to call you Father, our Father, our loving Father, our kind Father.

3:13And yet you are a just Father. We trust that in your infinite wisdom and in your sovereignty that you're knowing all and knowing what to do with all that you know, that we are in good hands. We trust your just. We thank you Lord Father God for another day and another opportunity to receive of you this day, our dearly bread. Look forward to being heroes and doers of your world, then in the mighty and magnificent name of Jesus, our Lord, you will be glorified, glory, hallelujah. Family, friends, today continuing in the gospels this time, the gospel of Luke, we reach out to 7 verses 36 to 50 and we're going to title this particular episode by the Holy Spirit, as striving at love versus calculated religion, we'll be reading from the Passion translation

4:20once again. The gospel of Luke chapter 7 verses 36 to 50. Afterward our Jewish religious leader named Simon asked Jesus to his home for dinner, Jesus accepted the invitation. When he went to Simon's home, it took his place at the table. In the neighborhood there was an immoral woman of the streets known to all to be a prostitute. When she heard about Jesus being in Simon's house, she took an exquisite flask made from alabaster, filled it with the most expensive perfume, went right into the home of the Jewish religious leader and knelt at the feet of Jesus in front of all the guests, broken and weeping. She covered his feet with the tears that fell from her face. She kept crying and drying his feet with her long hair.

5:25Over and over she kissed Jesus' feet, then she opened her flask and anointed his feet with a costly perfume as an act of worship. When Simon saw what was happening, he thought, this man can't be a true prophet. If he were really a prophet, he would know what kind of sinful woman is touching him. Jesus said, Simon, I have a word for you. Go ahead teacher, I want to hear it, he answered. It's a story about two men who were deeply in debt. One owed the bank $100,000 and the other only owed $10,000. When it was obvious that neither of them would be able to repay their debts, the kind bank ungratiously wrote off the debts and forgave them all that they owed. Tell me, Simon, which of the two debtors would be the most thankful?

6:26Which one would love the bank of most? Simon answered, I suppose it would be the one with the greatest debt forgiven. You are right, Jesus agreed, and he spoke to Simon about the woman still weeping at his feet. Don't you see this woman kneeling here? She is doing for me what you didn't bother to do. When I entered your home as your guest, you didn't think about offering me water to wash the dust off my feet. Yet, she came into your home and washed my feet with her many tears and then dried my feet with her hair. You didn't even welcome me into your home with the customary kiss of greeting, but from the moment I came in, she has not stopped kissing my feet. You didn't take the time to anoint my head with fragrant oil, but she anointed my head and feet with the finest perfume.

7:30She has been forgiven of all her many sins. This is why she has shown me such extravagant love. But those who are soon, they have very little to be forgiven, will love me very little. Then Jesus said to the woman at his feet, all your sins are forgiven. While the denigas said among themselves, who is the one who can even forgive sins? Then Jesus said to the woman, your faith in me has given you life. Now you may leave and walk in the ways of peace. Glory, hallelujah. Thank you for your word this morning, Father God. So friends, family, what do we have? A woman breaks open an alabaster jar, a most precious possession and pours it on Jesus.

8:32The disciples call it waste. Jesus calls it worship. Her weeping displays the depth of our heart. Friends, family, this week, holy week, let's offer Jesus something costly, not necessarily expensive but costly. We are likely to make concessions and sacrifices quite often when we know we are going to get something out of it. This week, let us give even if there's no return to it for us. We could offer our time, we could offer our attention, we could offer our surrender and even offer our love. Family, extravagant love is not measured by the size of the gift but by the size of the heart behind it.

9:33So reflect on this, what does sacrificial love look like for me today? Alabaster jar is Jesus inviting me to break open, glory hallelujah. Father God, our Lord and Savior Jesus, our anointed one, receives my offering on today, receives our offering on God. We offer ourselves unto you. Whatever it is, let it be given in love, whether it is our time, whether it is our commitment to do or not to do, whether it's turning down something for the week. Father God, whatever we do, let it be out of love that we have from you.

10:39We even offer ourselves unto you as a living sacrifice, and the Scripture tells us that this is our reasonable, it's not even extravagant, this is our reasonable form of worship. So we give ourselves unto you, Lord God, we give ourselves unto others if that's what you would have us to do today. This week we look for opportunities to serve, to give, to do, to be so that you may be glorified. We are your hands, we are your feet. We love to be called your disciples and we show this, not only by the love we have one for another, but by the love that we have for those who you place in our feet of influence. We love you, we honor and praise you, in the mighty and magnificent name of Jesus, our Lord, we give you praise.

11:40Grace and peace, family, remember, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Peace and peace be unto you.