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*Intro*
Happy early Thanksgiving!
I am so thankful to have this opportunity to open God’s Word with you this morning.
I am humbled and honored to have this privilege.
I want to take this time to also say thank you from the bottom of our hearts to all of you.
Thank you for graciously welcoming my family into your church family.
Thank you for your care, love and support these past few months.
We really do thank God for you!
I see EFCC, with the TM and EM together, as two different segments of the same army, with the same Commander-in-Chief, Jesus Christ!
As an EM, we have a lot of work to do and so we continue to ask for your prayers.
How many of you have a welcome mat outside your home?
I have one outside my home and it says, “welcome” on it, but the more and more I think about it, it is really there so people can wipe their feet before they enter rather than really a welcome.
I wonder: Do I really welcome everyone into our home?
Well, not really.
Actually the word “welcome” means a “greeting given due to joy upon someone’s arrival.”
If that is the case, there are some people I do not welcome.
I do not welcome Jehovah Witnesses or any cult.
I do not welcome people trying to sell things.
I welcome family and friends.
I welcome church members (don’t worry).
So really my welcome has some terms attached to it.
Did you know that Jesus has some terms attached his welcome?
Jesus welcomes anyone to come to Him, but they must come on His terms.
Today I want to talk about a person who welcomed Jesus into his home, but another person who was not welcomed by anyone, but welcomed by Jesus.
The title of the message is “The kind of person Jesus welcomes.”
What kind of people does Jesus welcome to Himself?
What kind of worship will get the attention of the Savior?
This question is answered in Luke 7:36-50.
Let’s look at this story.
In Luke 7: 36-38, we learn that:
*I.   **The kind of person Jesus welcomes is one who truly worships Him** (Luke 7:36-38).*
Jesus is most honored when we offer Him our highest devotion.
So far in Luke, people are trying to figure out who Jesus is.
In this chapter alone, He is seen as a healer (Luke 7:1-10), raiser of the dead (Luke 7:11-17) and the one projected to come though he will be rejected just like John the Baptist (Luke 7:18-35).
Luke will teach us more about who Jesus is from this event.
In Luke 7:36 we find that Jesus was invited to a meal at a Pharisee’s home.
Luke records a lot of meals.[1]
Jesus is always eating in Luke.
He will fit well at EFCC! Pharisees were the religious leaders of that day.
Three things described them:
a)    Proper—outwardly they made no mistakes.
Never miss any services and kept all the rules.
b)   Separatists—they do not hang out with anyone who was not like them.
c)    Experts—they always had the right answers.
They were quick to point out wrongs in others.
For example, if you were late to any meetings, they would tell you that you arrived 7 minutes and 12 seconds after the meeting started.
Because of these things, they thought they were the closest to God.
We will see if that is really the case.
So a Pharisee named Simon invites Jesus into his home for dinner and Jesus goes.
He always goes where He is invited.
If Matthew the tax collector invites Him, he would go.
If Simon the Pharisee invites Him, he would go.
For Jesus it is not class, color or your background, but it is invitation.
Why did Simon invite Jesus?
We are not sure.
Did he hear so much about him and wanted to see for himself what He was about?
Did he want to trap Him and find faults with Him? Did he want to host a famous rabbi?
Whatever the case, he welcomed Jesus into his home.
Life then is more public than personal.
This is very different than our time.
If there was ever talk about a rabbi coming to someone’s house, everyone knew about it.
The door would be left open so that people can come, sit by the walls and hear the conversation.
But once you were invited to a home, three things were done to welcome you.
The host would place his hand on the guest’s shoulder and gave him the kiss of peace, which was a kiss on both cheeks.
This was a mark of respect which was never omitted in the case of a distinguished Rabbi.
The roads were very dusty, and shoes were merely soles held in place by straps across the foot.
So always cool water was poured over the guest’s feet to cleanse and comfort them.
Either a pinch of sweet-smelling incense was burned or some rose extract was placed on the guest’s head.
These things good manners demanded, and apparently, in this case, not one of them was done.
When you would have a meal back then, the guests did not sit, but reclined, at table.
They lay on low couches, resting on the left elbow, leaving the right arm free, with the feet stretched out behind; and during the meal the sandals were taken off.
Today, that would be seen as rude.
Jesus and Simon may have just started reclining and before even the meal was served, look what happens in Luke 7:37.
An unwanted guest comes to the party.
She is called a woman of the city, “who was a sinner.”
Though we cannot be absolutely sure, she may have been a prostitute.
By the way, this is not Mary Magdalene or Mary of Bethany (who did anoint Jesus’ feet later).
This is a different person.
Somehow, somewhere, she heard the teachings of Jesus.
Perhaps one day she was standing on the street corner trying to find some customers when she saw a large crowd gathering.
Around her neck she has a necklace from which hangs a small, alabaster jar of perfume.
Curious, she decides to stand in the back to hear him speak to the crowd.
She has known many men, but not like this God-man, Jesus Christ.
Perhaps on that day she heard him say, “Come unto me all who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest” (Matt.
11:28).
She has tried to allure many men, but this man was calling her to Himself.
This man, when he looked at her, didn’t notice her hair or her body, but he saw deeper.
He saw not the shape of her body, but the shape of the soul, which was empty.
Being with so many men, her heart has become hard and numb.
But that day His words melted her heart.
He tells her that love that she has longed for is not found on the street corner, but in Himself.
And this love is so pure it can wash away the deepest of sin.
This love is the love of God.
The crowd is always with Jesus, but she wishes to speak with him.
But that day He moved on with His disciples and she could not get near Him.
Somehow she heard that Jesus had a dinner appointment with a Pharisee and decided that no matter what, she must get to Jesus.
Listening with the crowd is not enough.
Standing with the people is not enough.
She needs a personal touch.
She doesn’t care where He is going to be.
She doesn’t care what He will say.
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