Moments with Jesus Matter | Mike Teixeira

Big Idea: Moments with Jesus Matter

1. When Jesus is in the house…

Luke 7:36-38 (NLT)

³⁶ One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat. ³⁷ When a certain immoral woman from that city heard he was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. ³⁸ Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping. Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. Then she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them.

2. When Jesus something He wants to

Luke 7:39 (NLT)

³⁹ When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching him. She’s a sinner!”

Luke 7:40-46 (NLT)

⁴⁰ Then Jesus answered his thoughts. “Simon,” he said to the Pharisee, “I have something to say to you.”

“Go ahead, Teacher,” Simon replied.

⁴¹ Then Jesus told him this story: “A man loaned money to two people—500 pieces of silver^[] to one and 50 pieces to the other. ⁴² But neither of them could repay him, so he kindly forgave them both, canceling their debts. Who do you suppose loved him more after that?”

⁴³ Simon answered, “I suppose the one for whom he canceled the larger debt.”

“That’s right,” Jesus said. ⁴⁴ Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Look at this woman kneeling here. When I entered your home, you didn’t offer me water to wash the dust from my feet, but she has washed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair. ⁴⁵ You didn’t greet me with a kiss, but from the time I first came in, she has not stopped kissing my feet. ⁴⁶ You neglected the courtesy of olive oil to anoint my head, but she has anointed my feet with rare perfume.

Michael Jr- “Life will bring you people and circumstances that God will use to reveal the places in your life where you’re not free”

What’s an offended heart like Simon’s look like?

• When we’re angry about THEM and THEIR sin, more than our own

• When a schedule filled with spiritual activities doesn’t lead to loving people more

8 steps for cultivating an unoffendable heart

1. Determine to be a good forgiver

2. Refuse to over-react

3. Seek first to understand- then to be understood

4. Believe the best, not the worst

5. Grace people, don’t shame people

6. Refuse to pick up someone else’s offense

7. Trust God to make it right

8. Ask God to help you love people

3. When Jesus changes the narrative of our story from to

Luke 7:47-48 (NLT)

⁴⁷ “I tell you, her sins—and they are many—have been forgiven, so she has shown me much love. But a person who is forgiven little shows only little love.” ⁴⁸ Then Jesus said to the woman, “Your sins are forgiven.”

3 moments with Jesus that matter…

1. When Jesus is in the house…

2. When Jesus something He wants to

3. When Jesus changes the narrative of our story from to