{"id":1831,"date":"2022-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/the-pharisee-and-the-prostitute\/"},"modified":"2022-03-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T14:00:00","slug":"the-pharisee-and-the-prostitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/the-pharisee-and-the-prostitute\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pharisee And The Prostitute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day, Jesus was eating at the home of a Pharisee when a prostitute came in. <i>\u2018The woman kissed His feet and poured\u2026 perfume on them. The Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this and said to himself, \u201cIf this man really were a prophet, He would know what kind of woman is touching Him!\u201d\u2019<\/i> (Luke\u00a07:38\u201339\u00a0CEV) But Simon the Pharisee got it wrong. It wasn\u2019t that Jesus didn\u2019t <i>know<\/i>, it\u2019s that He didn\u2019t <i>care<\/i>! That day, He forgave her sin and sent her on her way redeemed, restored, and redirected. <\/p>\n<p>This story confirms what we already know; Jesus came to save sinners on the street and hypocrites in the church. No one is beyond the reach of His grace. With that in mind, think this way: <\/p>\n<p>(1) <i>Never forget what God saved you from!<\/i> Note what Jesus told Simon the Pharisee: <i>\u2018Anyone who has been forgiven for only a little will show only a little love.\u2019<\/i> (Luke\u00a07:47\u00a0CEV) Remembering the sins of his past, David wrote: <i>\u2018He\u2026 brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay\u2026 set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth\u2014praise to our God; many will see it and fear, and will trust in the Lord.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a040:2\u20133\u00a0NKJV) <\/p>\n<p>(2) <i>Remember that Jesus isn\u2019t looking at your past but at your future.<\/i> The crowd saw this woman as a weed, but Jesus saw her as a rose, and He watered it. Bottom line: if you need forgiveness today, come to Jesus. And if you have been forgiven, pour out your heart to Him in praise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, Jesus was eating at the home of a Pharisee when a prostitute came in. \u2018The woman kissed His feet and poured\u2026 perfume on them. The Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this and said to himself, \u201cIf this man really were a prophet, He would know what kind of woman is touching Him!\u201d\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}