Are You in Love with Jesus?
Brian Fletcher
Luke 7:36-50
Intro: Have you ever heard someone say, ''I married my best friend!'' I think I understand what they mean when they say it. However, I think that there is a difference between being best friends and being married.
There is a love that goes deeper with your spouse than it does with your best friend. So you may have started out as friends, and then started dating and then you became really good friends. You had a lot in common, you enjoyed being with each other. You started to really see the good, the bad and the ugly about each other, and yet you still wanted to be together. The comfort level of being around each other became really natural. And there was a love for each other.
But at some point, you both decided that the whole best friends thing was just not enough. You wanted to get married. You wanted to spend the rest of your lives together in a very exclusive relationship. You were ready to forsake all others for the sake of each other.
The ''best friend love'' was being given over to a ''covenantal love.'' You decided to make a life-long commitment to each other until death do you part. This is a different kind of love. This is a union where two people become one. This love is deeper than anything you have ever experienced.
This love is not ''love you bro'' but it's ''I love you more than anyone else in the world and our relationship is more significant and meaningful than any other human relationship I have!''
The question I'm asking today is: ''Are you in love with Jesus?''
On the surface this may sound like a strange question, but not after reading this passage.
This passage shows a contrast between two very different people. Simon the Pharisee and the woman who shows up as an uninvited guest to Simon's house.
One loves little, dishonors Jesus, is filled with contempt, is prideful and does not understand the depth of his own sin.
The other loves deeply, honors and anoints ...
Brian Fletcher
Luke 7:36-50
Intro: Have you ever heard someone say, ''I married my best friend!'' I think I understand what they mean when they say it. However, I think that there is a difference between being best friends and being married.
There is a love that goes deeper with your spouse than it does with your best friend. So you may have started out as friends, and then started dating and then you became really good friends. You had a lot in common, you enjoyed being with each other. You started to really see the good, the bad and the ugly about each other, and yet you still wanted to be together. The comfort level of being around each other became really natural. And there was a love for each other.
But at some point, you both decided that the whole best friends thing was just not enough. You wanted to get married. You wanted to spend the rest of your lives together in a very exclusive relationship. You were ready to forsake all others for the sake of each other.
The ''best friend love'' was being given over to a ''covenantal love.'' You decided to make a life-long commitment to each other until death do you part. This is a different kind of love. This is a union where two people become one. This love is deeper than anything you have ever experienced.
This love is not ''love you bro'' but it's ''I love you more than anyone else in the world and our relationship is more significant and meaningful than any other human relationship I have!''
The question I'm asking today is: ''Are you in love with Jesus?''
On the surface this may sound like a strange question, but not after reading this passage.
This passage shows a contrast between two very different people. Simon the Pharisee and the woman who shows up as an uninvited guest to Simon's house.
One loves little, dishonors Jesus, is filled with contempt, is prideful and does not understand the depth of his own sin.
The other loves deeply, honors and anoints ...
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