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Luke 7:36-50
Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman
36Now one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went to the Pharisee's house and reclined at the table. The dignity with which Jesus views this woman is ironic, given her humble, “undignified” posture before him and given the way that Simon the Pharisee views the woman. It’s a powerful picture of the principal that Jesus teaches in his little parable of the forgiven debts. While, on one level, it can be said that Simon’s “debt” is ultimately the same as the woman’s and that his self-righteousness blinds him from seeing it, I think there’s also something else going on here.
There are reputations involved. Simon is a respectable Pharisee, whom everyone looks up to due to his high position in Jewish society. The woman is looked down on, due to public knowledge of her lifestyle as “sinful.” So from the vantage point of that social value system or economy, the distance that the woman’s reputation has to travel to gain respectability is far greater than that of Simon.
HOWEVER, in forgiving the woman’s “debt,” Jesus also removes her from that social economy of respectability and reputation and places her in different economy altogether. An economy not based on the currency of reputation, respectability and outward religiosity, but rather on faith, forgiveness, and relationship with Himself – a system known in other parts of Jesus’ teaching as the Kingdom of God.
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Luke 6:27-28
Love for Enemies
27“But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, Jesus' teaching here comes to focus on a supernatural, divinely reflective, others-centered love that flies in the face of conventional human logic. And in such a time as this, an important question to ask might be: How might American Christians promote this kind of love in such a way that it influences American foreign policy?
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Luke 6:29-31
29If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic.
29If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic.
This supernatural, Kingdom-style love that turns conventional love upside down is exceedingly generous, giving, and others-centred. However, for Christ-followers who embody this love, it doesn't make them pushovers. Rather, it carries the potential to absorb the inertia of selfishness and greed and transforms them.
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