Download Lesson: 3.24.19 Class Notes – Luke 7.40-50

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Your love for the Lord is directly related to your estimate of how greatly you have sinned and how much he has forgiven you. It’s not how much you sin, but how deeply you feel it that matters. If you figure that you are a “little sinner,” then all you need is a “little Savior.” If you are a “moderate sinner,” then what you need is a “moderate Savior.” But if you are “big sinner,” you need a “big Savior.” And those who have a “little Savior,” will love him very little. But those who have a “big Savior” will love him greatly. Many of us who were raised in the church struggle precisely at this point. We don’t love Christ very much because we have forgotten what we were and what we would have been if Christ had not found us. When our sin seems small, our love cannot be very great.

There are hundreds of people like the Pharisee today: respectable, conventional, good people. They look down their noses at the permissive society. They curl their lip at the decay in moral standards. Like the Pharisee, they think they’re good, but they are not; they’re simply dull. They think they’re being moral, but they are not; they’re simply feeling sanctimonious.

What an important warning to those of us who value righteousness and truth. Humility, compassion, love, and righteous tolerance mark true followers. We can never forget that we are debtors to grace who, in the presence of Jesus, know we still have a long way to go.

Q: How does Jesus helps us? [We can’t do it, but there’s One who can. Because of Jesus, this is possible]