My Dear Precious Child,
A Pharisee invited Jesus Christ to his house for dinner and Jesus went. When Jesus arrived and took his seat at the table, a woman who had heard that He was coming to dinner at the home of the political leader arrived carrying an alabaster jar of ointment. She waited behind Jesus at his feet weeping and her tears fell on His feet. She wiped her tears away with her hair. Then she covered the feet of Jesus Christ with kisses and anointed them with her ointment. When the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself that if that man were really a prophet he would have known that the woman who was touching him had a bad name in the community. (Luke 7:36-39)
Jesus brought him up and said to the Pharisee that He had something to say to him. He told the man a parable, that there was a creditor who had two men in his debt. One owed to the man $500 and the other owed to him $50. Neither one was able to pay, so the creditor forgave both of them of their debt. Jesus Christ asked the Pharisee which of the two men who owed money to the creditor would love the creditor more? The Pharisee answered that the man who owed the $500 was pardoned more, he supposed. Jesus assured the Pharisee that he was right. (Luke 7:43)
Jesus Christ turned toward the woman and told the Pharisee to look at the woman. He told the Pharisee that He had come to his house and the Pharisee did not pour water over His feet but that the woman had covered His feet with her own tears. He reminded the Pharisee that he did not give Jesus any kisses, but that the woman had covered the feet of Jesus with kisses, that neither did the Pharisee anoint His feet with oil, but that the woman had anointed the head of Jesus with ointment. (Luke 7:44-47)
Jesus told the Pharisee that the woman's sins must have been already forgiven or she would not have shown such great love. Then Jesus assured the woman that her sins were certainly forgiven. He told the woman that her faith had saved her. (Luke 7:48)
The people who were at the table with Him questioned in themselves who Jesus Christ was who thought He could forgive sins. (Luke 7:49-50) All of the people at the table were bound by the religious and political laws of the Jews and could not perceive the true identity of Jesus Christ. The veil was placed in their minds by the laws and how the devil had used the laws to enable the religious and political people to judge others instead of their using the laws to identify the works of the devil. The veil is still in their minds and can only be removed by My Holy Spirit. (II Corinthians 3:13-17)
To the Pharisees and the children of darkness all law breakers deserve My judgment and their judgment instead of My mercy. Jesus Christ came to earth to show that My mercy and forgiveness are everlasting and that I judge no person. (Psalm 100:5; Judge 5:22; John 8:15; Judge 12:47) Jesus Christ said that He came to earth to save people, not to judge them.
Your Father of Everlasting Forgiveness
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