He came up to me, eyes quivering...

Have you ever been so desperate for kindness that your eyes trembled at the possibility of Hope?

A Stranger in a Strange Land

Wouldn't the spectre of a lively community give you the kind of hope that makes your eyes tremble with desperation?

Hospitality in the Middle East

• Love for Strangers
• A social Necessity
• Ensures survival for both guest and host.

I save you, in turn, I am saved.

Bible's View on Hospitality

• Deut. 9:10
• Leviticus 19:34
• Matt. 25:40

While we are not in a desert, harsh environments still exist.

Luke 7:18 - 8:3

Some Thoughts

• Names
• Hair
• Love

Names

• "the One"
• "none is Greater"
• Pharisees
• Sinful
• blind, lame, deaf, ...

What's in a name?
A lot when your labeled a Pharisee...

Jesus is declaring that labels, what we think of others, belonging to a sect, does not dictate how faithful we are to loving others.

Hair?

Judgements

• You judge based on signs
• Pharisees reject teaching
• You have judged rightly
• Woman is judged as sinful
• Pharisee judges Jesus

How does harsh judgement influence the Pharisee?

Harsh Judgment breeds

• distrust
• fear
• rejection
• resentment
• hostility

How many times have we let our judgement makes us act harshly toward others?

Did the recovering drug addict know that I claim to be a Christian?

You are forgiven for you have Loved Much!

Living a life of love toward others,faithfully, is evidence of the unseen?