Alex. Luke 7:36-49 is clearly an account of a woman caught in sin but fallen at Jesus's feet. The Pharisee saw a wicked woman of the world touching a prophet of God. Jesus saw a sinful woman seeking forgiveness. The Pharisee would never forgive such a person, let alone come near her. Jesus saw her heart & forgave her on that basis.
What happened to the woman after that? We're not told. Hopefully, she abstained from such a lifestyle. Did she stop sinning as well? Did Jesus' forgiving her make her totally pure of all sin at that time & for the rest of her life? My guess, is that she, like us, still had sins popping up each day, & she remained, like us, guilty before God for those sins. Her story was all pre-Cross - how she responded to God from then & how God looked at her heart & life, we don't know. But we do know, that she, like us, will be judged for what we do with the Saviour of God.
Yes, we are to forgive one another, even our enemies - that is the Spirit's leading in our hearts. God's forgiveness is based on the response of the heart & post-Cross, that response has to be in line with what the Saviour has done for us & the world. If that forgiven woman continued to believe in the Lord & trusted Christ for her salvation, she would be saved. If she forsook Him & went back to her old ways, her judgement remains. If as you believe that God will forgive all inspite of what their spiritual state is, do you think that Satan will have half a chance of sneaking into God's Kingdom? If his disciples can all get in, why not the master?
leper Simon said if this man were a prophet he wd know what manner of woman this is that touches him but
Jesus knowing their hearts said he and Mary were like 2 debtors 1 owed 50 and 1 owed 500 but my point is
he forgave both Mary and Simon their spritual debts and Simon didn't even believe Jesus was a man of God .
But here is my point we are all like debtors the whole world thus he wd have to forgive the whole world or he wd
be a hypocrite he cd not teach us to forgive our debtors if he did not forgive ALL HIS DEBTORS, HUMANITY EVERYBODY
We are all debtors but he paid everybody's sin debt that ever lived ,And if you donot believe this then you go right back
to Calvanism limited Atonement . which in essence is saying he only died for a few, oK THATS ALL I WANTED TO SAY.
GBU Chris love ya chris.
What happened to the woman after that? We're not told. Hopefully, she abstained from such a lifestyle. Did she stop sinning as well? Did Jesus' forgiving her make her totally pure of all sin at that time & for the rest of her life? My guess, is that she, like us, still had sins popping up each day, & she remained, like us, guilty before God for those sins. Her story was all pre-Cross - how she responded to God from then & how God looked at her heart & life, we don't know. But we do know, that she, like us, will be judged for what we do with the Saviour of God.
Yes, we are to forgive one another, even our enemies - that is the Spirit's leading in our hearts. God's forgiveness is based on the response of the heart & post-Cross, that response has to be in line with what the Saviour has done for us & the world. If that forgiven woman continued to believe in the Lord & trusted Christ for her salvation, she would be saved. If she forsook Him & went back to her old ways, her judgement remains. If as you believe that God will forgive all inspite of what their spiritual state is, do you think that Satan will have half a chance of sneaking into God's Kingdom? If his disciples can all get in, why not the master?
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