Jesus laat die waarheid in hierdie les uit U Woord, diep in ons harte bly vassteek."Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little." ~ Luke 7:47 -
Let’s look at Luke 7:36-50 to see what Jesus said about the forgiveness of sins. Simon, a Pharisee, had invited Jesus to his house. While Jesus was seated at the table in Simon’s house, a woman came to Him. She began to weep and she washed His feet with her tears. Then, she wiped His feet with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with fragrant oil.
When Simon saw this, he said to himself, “This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.”
Even though Simon did not speak aloud, it is interesting that Jesus answered him by posing this question to him: “There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell Me, therefore, which of them will love him more?” Simon answered, “I suppose the one whom he forgave more.” Jesus said to him, “You have rightly judged.”
Then, Jesus turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has washed My feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head. You gave Me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came in. You did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman has anointed My feet with fragrant oil. Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”
The woman loved Jesus much because she knew that she was forgiven much. In actuality, no one has been forgiven little. We have all been forgiven much. As for this woman, she knew it. So the most “dangerous” thing about this doctrine of complete forgiveness of sins is that you will fall in love with Jesus and end up effortlessly fulfilling the greatest commandment: “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind” (Matt. 22:36-38). Hallelujah!
If you think that you have been forgiven little, then you will love little. But when you know the truth of how much you have been forgiven, you will love Jesus much! Knowing how much you have been forgiven is the secret to loving Jesus! In other words, you will only love Jesus much when you experience His lavish grace and unmerited favor in forgiving you of all your sins—past, present, and future. But His grace is cheapened when you think that He has only forgiven you of your sins up to the time you got saved, and after that point, you have to depend on your confession of sins to be forgiven.
God’s forgiveness is not given in installments. Don’t go around thinking that when you confess a sin, He forgives you only for that sin. Then, the next time you sin, you need to confess your sin again for Him to forgive you again. Such is the kind of belief that cheapens His grace. And the result of this is that because you think that He has forgiven you little, you will end up loving Him little, and deprive yourself of running to Him and seeing Him help, deliver and prosper you.
Beloved, with one sacrifice on the cross, Jesus blotted out all the sins of your entire life! Don’t cheapen His unmerited favor with your own imperfect efforts to confess all your sins. Accord this gift that Jesus has given you the value that it deserves by fully receiving and experiencing His unmerited favor today!
Dankie vir U Perfekte werk gedoen aan die kruis uit U alles omvattende liefde vir ons.
Amen.
Lukas 7: 36 - 50 -Afr. 2020 -
36 Een van die Fariseërs het Hom genooi om by hom te kom eet. Hy het die Fariseër se huis binnegegaan en vir ete aangeleun.
37 En kyk, daar was 'n sondige vrou in die dorp wat gehoor het dat Hy by die Fariseër se huis gaan eet het. Sy het 'n albasterfles vol reukolie gevat
38 en agter Jesus, by sy voete, gaan staan. Sy het gehuil en begin om sy voete met haar trane nat te maak. Sy het sy voete met haar hare afgedroog, dit gesoen, en met die reukolie ingevryf.
39 Toe die Fariseër wat Hom uitgenooi het, dit sien, het hy in sy hart gedink, as hierdie man 'n profeet was, sou hy tog geweet het wie dit is wat hom aanraak en watter soort vrou sy is, dat sy 'n sondige vrou is.
40 Maar Jesus het vir hom gesê: “Simon, Ek het iets om vir jou te sê.” “Sê maar, Meester!” antwoord hy.
41 “Twee mense was by 'n sekere geldskieter in die skuld. Die een het vyfhonderd denarius geskuld, en die ander vyftig.
42 Omdat hulle hom nie kon terugbetaal nie, het hy albei se skuld kwytgeskeld. Wie van hulle sal hom dan die meeste liefhê?”
43 Simon het geantwoord: “Ek veronderstel die een vir wie hy die meeste kwytgeskeld het.” En Jesus sê vir hom: “Jy het reg geoordeel.”
44 Toe het Hy omgedraai na die vrou en vir Simon gesê: “Sien jy hierdie vrou? Toe Ek by jou huis ingestap het, het jy nie eers vir my water vir my voete gegee nie, maar sy het my voete met haar trane nat gemaak en met haar hare afgedroog.
45 Jy het My nie 'n soen gegee nie, maar sy het, vandat Ek hier aangekom het, nie opgehou om my voete te soen nie.
46 Jy het my kop nie met olyfolie gesalf nie, maar sy het my voete met reukolie ingevryf.
47 Daarom sê Ek vir jou, haar sondes – en dit was baie – is vergewe, omdat sy baie liefde betoon het. Maar die een vir wie min vergewe word, het min liefde.”
48 En vir haar het Hy gesê: “Jou sondes is vergewe.”
49 Toe begin die mense wat aangeleun het vir ete onder mekaar sê: “Wie is hierdie man, dat hy selfs sondes vergewe?”
50 Maar Jesus het vir die vrou gesê: “Jou geloof het jou gered. Gaan in vrede.”
