Today’s reading 9/19 Luke 7:36-50

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Hoping someone here can help me with this. In today’s Gospel reading Jesus says that the sinful woman’s faith has saved her. Where did her faith come from? She couldn’t have had Gods Grace, so what was it that told her to seek Jesus? For someone like myself who left the church years ago and then was somehow called back (while in a state of mortal sin, so it couldn’t have been Gods Grace that called me back), what was that force that brought me Home? Was it innate faith? The prayers of my mom? What called sinners to Jesus and what calls those who have cut themselves off from Grace back to the church? Thanks in advance!!
 
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Her faith would have still been a movement from God first, which she then assented to through her own agency.
 
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Where did her faith come from? She couldn’t have had Gods Grace, so what was it that told her to seek Jesus?
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Why is it that you suspect she “couldn’t have had” grace? Wouldn’t that mean that no one to whom Jesus spoke could have had grace? Wouldn’t that mean that none of us could, either?

Conversely, if we can have grace, and the Jews among whom Jesus could have grace, then so could she.
 
Only because you lose your grace when you sin mortally. You cut yourself off from God’s grace. Additionally, as Jesus was still living and hadn’t redeemed us yet, I assume it’s safe to say that the sinful woman was similarly cut off from grace due to original sin, right?
 
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No, grace has always existed, it is not something new that came about after Christ’s resurrection. If you look at the Old Testament law for example, enshrined in the law were means of the repentant sinner to be forgiven by God, through the system of animal sacrifices, which point us to the ultimate fulfillment in Christ Jesus. This grace has ALWAYS been by faith. I have never understood the idea that you cut yourself off from grace, when grace by definition is the unearned favor of God. You can reject God’s grace, but you don’t earn his grace. Grace was given freely through Christ, and it is received by faith.
 
He said to the woman, “Your FAITH has saved you, go in peace” v. 50. Scripture says,
“by Grace are we saved, THRU FAITH…” Faith is the agent that gives Life to the
“seed” and God gives it growth, of course it MUST be nurtured by water and
sunshine, but God ultimately gives it Life.
 
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Only because you lose your grace when you sin mortally. You cut yourself off from God’s grace. Additionally, as Jesus was still living and hadn’t redeemed us yet, I assume it’s safe to say that the sinful woman was similarly cut off from grace due to original sin, right?
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I don’t think that means that you can’t receive grace in that state (of mortal sin). If we couldn’t receive His grace, we could not be saved.

I think “cut off from God’s grace” means that we have fallen from grace into a condition which is metaphorically called “dead in our sins” (i.e. mortal sin). But we have free will and God continually offers us His grace.

Remember, where sins exists, grace abounds. That doesn’t mean that sin produces grace. It means that God never tires of being merciful to sinners and continually calls us to Himself.
 
God’s always calling us back like the good Father -of a herd of prodigals. “We love Him because He first loved us” (John 4:19). “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom 5:8).
 
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@fhansen Yes, and He not only is the propitiation for OUR sins
but of ALL sins, the only exception to this is blasphemy of the
Holy Spirit, which denies that Jesus is the Savior, “If anyone
denies Me before men, the Son of man will deny Him before
the angels of heaven”.Matt. 10:33 But I think that it only
applied to the Pharisees who kept saying publicly that it
wasn’t the Holy Spirit that enabled Jesus to do miracles
but the devil!!
 
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