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Tha “Sinner”—Episode II

Yo, Peep dis trak frum Episode I:

Yeah, an’ it true. This lady wuzn’t no Mary or Martha, an’ she wuz a sinner. But, do that mean dat Mary an’ Martha AREN’T sinners? BY-NO-MEANS. Even tho to many peeps of they day, Mary an’ Martha prolly projected az “good people,” they would be judgin’ on appearance, an’ that be bug.

Dat’zackly what tha Pharisee’z were all about. Az we learned in Episode I, Jesus wuz chillin’ at a Pharisee’z crib, when a “woman of ill repute” popped right in tha middle of dinner to find Jesus. I still don’t wanna get too deep, yet, into tha Pharisee thang, but them katz personified self-righteousness, an’ “holier than thou ness.” Yeah, they woulda pronounced Mary an’ Martha “good” an’ the lady in our narrative a “sinner” in a New York minute.

An’ datz jus like mankind, to judge a book by it cover. In our age, in tha U.S. of A., “image” be errythang. Mang if U don’t look sporty, if U ain’t rockin’ righteous gear flossin’ ice, if U ain’t cruisin’ Crenshaw in a fly whip on phat rimz, mang, U ain’t livin’. In our country, if peeps ain’t “livin’ large,” they ain’t livin’, str8 up. An’ we look at peeps an’ our minds instantaneously size ‘em, an’ judge ‘em dope or wack, B 4 they bust one move, or spit one syllable. That tha way we be, fam.

But, God, don’t peep thangz dat way. He look past tha floss/an’ scope all tha dross. lol Check what God spitz to tha Prophet Samuel, when Sam be lookin’ for a king of Israel to anoint from among the sons of Jesse:

“Do not consider his appearance or his height… The LORD does not look at the things that man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.*” *I Sam. 16:7

So, it not tha wrapper that countz, fam, it what inside the package. Even Jesus dropped Science ‘bout dis to hiz twelve homebwoyz afta tha Pharisees’ self-righteousness got Him heated:

“Are you still so dull? (Yeah, dis be Jesus @ hiz homiez lol) Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man “unclean.” For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander, THESE are what make a man unclean…” Mt. 15:16-20

Woah.

So, inside, regardless of how sporty or fly we may “appear,” they a lotta wackness deep inside. Inside a Mary. Inside a Martha. Inside tha woman who wuz a “sinner.” Inside …us.

No one summed it up bettah than Apostle Paul, drawin’ from a mess o’ Scriptz:

“There is no one righteous, not even one;
there is no one who understands,
no one who seeks God.
All have turned away,
They have together become worthless;
There is no one who does good,
Not even one.
Their throats are open graves;
Their tongues practice deceit.
The poison of vipers is on their lips.
Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
Rom 3: 10-14

Double woah.

n’ dat ain’t all. Apostle Paul goez on:

“Their feet are swift to shed blood; Ruin and misery mark their ways, And the way of peace they do not know. There is no fear of God before their eyes.” Rom. 3:15-18

Hmm. Do katz act like dat in tha barrio or tha hood…?

Apostle Paul caps us all wit dis slug to tha cora:

“…for ALL have sinned and come short of the Glory of God.”

ALL. Have sinned. Come short. Miss’d tha mark…

So yeah, we well into Episode II of our series “The Sinner. ” An’ now U mebbe thinkin’:

“Mang! Who pulled sun’z chain? How come he always dwellin’ y fixatin’ on “sin,” an’ “sinners” so much? It seem like in his last few jawnz he been swoll, beefin’ at us all ‘bout sin, bein’ wicked, how bad we be, etc. Whatz UP wit DAT?? Slow ya roll G!” lol

Well, it ain’t dat I out to make errybody feel low at my expense, or dat I like jus vexin’ fo tha fun of it. Itz jus dat unless WE ALl Really come to accept the fact dat we are by nature—right from birth—Anti-God—sinners--and dat we all are facing the wrath an’ judgment of a Truly HOLY-by-Nature GOD, we risk goin’ thru life like it triflin’, an’ endin’ it in Total Destruction. We could go our entire life, in all it’z wack Anti-Godness, and face tha Eternal Consequences.

But, our HOLY, but totally LOVING, God worked out a Celestially Dope Solution for our terminal wackness—a Solution available to anyone, any sinner, who will grab on to it.

Yo, Jesus spit: “It is not the “healthy” who need a doctor but the sick. I have not come to call the “righteous” but…sinners.” Matt. 9: 12-13

Unless we realize that sin be a problem—THE Problem—of our lives, of our very existence, we will not seek God’s Solution to our sin problem, or hear His call to seek it.

An, dat be ‘zactly tha reason the “wayward woman” in our narrative--this woman “who had lived a sinful life”--crashed the Pharisee’s party. She learned that…Jesus…was there. She, unlike the Pharisees, knew what she was. She didn’t front. In fact, she wuz prolly sick to death of all the lies an’ pretense. She, in poignant, heroic humility, dropped all the appearance of bein’ “healthy,” and heard and responded to a Holy, but Loving God’s call. This “sinful” woman, recognized that she was “sick,” sought out the Doctor--God’s Solution--the only ONE who could forever cure the terminal illness of her soul.

The Doctor’s in, fam. 24/7. He always on call. No appointment necessary

I’m out.

Paz.

~1~

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John 3:30