Reading: Luke 7:36-50

Pharisees — so many of them religious pretenders and spiritual frauds. Pharisees — so many of them adversaries to godliness and truth. Pharisee — now used interchangeably with hypocrite.

So many of these men actively worked against Jesus. And hated Him. And plotted His death.

Were any of them beyond redemption?

If not, what would my attitude toward them have been? (Or for a worse question yet, would I have been one of them?)

Perhaps this one was not in the “so many of them” category:

“And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat” (36).

Why should that verse have stood out to me this morning?

What message is Jesus trying to get through to me?

For what is He preparing me?

from Luke 7:40

A little bit more from Luke 7: Which Will Love Most?