1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:02,700 But stand for the reading of God's word. 2 00:00:05,300 --> 00:00:09,100 The nine statements of Jesus, prior to the triumphal entry 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,700 recorded in John 11 through John 12 78728. 4 00:00:14,700 --> 00:00:19,200 I'm going to read these slowly so just let them fall over you. 5 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:31,600 Your brother will rise again. I am the resurrection and the 6 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,700 life whoever believes in me, though. 7 00:00:35,700 --> 00:00:37,700 He die. Yet shall he? 8 00:00:37,700 --> 00:00:42,800 Live and everyone who lives and Believes In Me, shall never die. 9 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:49,200 Do you believe this? Where have you laid him? 10 00:00:52,900 --> 00:00:59,900 Take away the stone. Did I not tell you that if you 11 00:00:59,900 --> 00:01:03,700 believed, you would see the glory of God. 12 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,700 Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 13 00:01:10,300 --> 00:01:13,900 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of 14 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:18,200 the people standing around that, they may believe that you sent 15 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:22,700 me. Lazarus. 16 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:34,400 Come out. Unbind him and let him go. 17 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:44,700 Leave her alone. So that she may keep it for the 18 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:49,200 day of my burial for the poor. You will always have with you 19 00:01:49,700 --> 00:01:56,600 but you do not always have me. This is the word of the Lord. 20 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,800 Thanks. Be to God, please be seated. 21 00:02:05,700 --> 00:02:11,000 Yesterday afternoon, at 2:00. Some of you had traveled to 22 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Nashville to be with the Covenant family there or with 23 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,000 the dunlap's. Those two Memorial Services 24 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,300 happening. The first at 12 for Cindy Peak, 25 00:02:21,900 --> 00:02:23,800 and then the service for Holly it too. 26 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:32,000 Hundreds of you gathered here in this sanctuary. 27 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:37,200 And we participated in worshipped with them, is that 28 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,700 service was livestream to this place alone. 29 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:45,600 When the service was over people lingered. 30 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,000 I had a quick conversation with boots and Susan Nolan who were 31 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,000 sitting behind me. And then the next two 32 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:59,300 conversations were with parents in our own congregation who lost 33 00:02:59,300 --> 00:03:04,400 children Who went through the unthinkable reality of having to 34 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,800 bury a child. It's because they know. 35 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,200 They know better than I do. Better than most of us do what 36 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:20,800 it's like to lose a child. And in time if the Scruggs need 37 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,000 them, but they want me to tell them is that they're here, 38 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,700 because there were other people in this church who have lost 39 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:31,300 children, who were there for them when it happened. 40 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:40,900 I was a part of both of those stories. and I remember 41 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:49,600 immediately the chaos, The confusion, the overwhelming 42 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:54,200 grief, the crowds. I remembered it all. 43 00:03:56,500 --> 00:03:57,900 And we're seeing that again, aren't we? 44 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:07,500 When there is a death. Especially in untimely death one 45 00:04:07,500 --> 00:04:09,800 in which we have heard. So many times this week, there 46 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:12,800 are no words, there are no words, but when there are no 47 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:19,200 words, there is the word and we don't take that word lightly his 48 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,899 word. It's everything we have. 49 00:04:21,899 --> 00:04:23,900 We either Believe It, Or we don't. 50 00:04:23,900 --> 00:04:29,200 And if we do, we find ourselves in a place of unbelievable 51 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:33,900 security where we can say this really, really hurts. 52 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:40,200 It's and I'm going to be okay, we're going to be okay. 53 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:47,100 Friends, what we need? Constantly. 54 00:04:47,100 --> 00:04:51,700 But in moments, especially like this is we need certainty. 55 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,100 Jesus Christ before he set on that Beast of Burden. 56 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:03,700 Was with his disciples as his very good friend died. 57 00:05:04,700 --> 00:05:10,900 And he knew what was happening. When Jesus delayed and goings, 58 00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:13,900 John 11, you might open your Bible to John 11 or grab the 59 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:15,200 blue Pew. Bible in front of you will be 60 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,700 helpful. When you see what takes place 61 00:05:17,700 --> 00:05:20,700 there. Jesus is doing everything on 62 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:23,700 purpose in order to bring glory to his father. 63 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:29,500 And what they desperately needed is. 64 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:31,300 The same thing we desperately need. 65 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,600 A week ago, Friday. Many of you were in this 66 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:44,400 Sanctuary for memorial service. For Sam Flores senior. on Monday 67 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:50,600 morning, a week ago, tomorrow, I received a text very early in 68 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:55,100 the morning from Nancy Burger, who said, David is gone to be 69 00:05:55,300 --> 00:06:01,800 with the Lord David Berger, our beloved Brother husband. 70 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,200 Father grandfather, great-grandfather the list goes 71 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,700 on. I wasn't shocked. 72 00:06:10,100 --> 00:06:12,700 He's in the presence of the Lord, he wanted to be there so 73 00:06:12,700 --> 00:06:17,300 bad. He lived a long, beautiful life 74 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,600 tomorrow and three will have his service in the sanctuary. 75 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:28,000 But later that morning. when we received word of what was 76 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:38,800 happening in Nashville, You, you immediately recognized how 77 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:45,200 broken this world is how evil the world has. and the next 78 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:52,500 several days would, Unveil so much of the glory of God and so 79 00:06:52,500 --> 00:07:00,800 much more still to come. When Jesus delayed in going, all 80 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:05,600 of this was intentional. The words that he spoke these 81 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:10,500 nine statements, they give us something and I hope that you'll 82 00:07:10,500 --> 00:07:13,400 take them and you'll think of them often this week along with 83 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:17,000 all the other things we receive. But here's what they give us. 84 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,300 They give us a certainty. I want to talk about certainty. 85 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:27,900 They also reveal to us, freedom. They also revealed to us 86 00:07:27,900 --> 00:07:32,100 something about a fragrance and something about faith. 87 00:07:33,100 --> 00:07:35,600 So what I'm going to do is simply walk through this for a 88 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:40,400 few minutes talking about certainty, Freedom fragrance, 89 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:46,600 and faith. We right now. 90 00:07:47,100 --> 00:07:50,500 And whenever we encounter tragedy, whenever we encounter 91 00:07:50,500 --> 00:07:54,500 trauma, whenever we encounter the reality of the sin, in this 92 00:07:54,500 --> 00:08:00,400 world inside us outside of us in us against us, we need 93 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:04,600 certainty. And certainty is so attractive. 94 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,900 It's it's so powerful you can see it yesterday when Chad, 95 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,800 Priam preachy. Did you know the remembrance of 96 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,000 his daughter? There was such security. 97 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,500 And certainty and confidence. We need that. 98 00:08:17,500 --> 00:08:21,200 And that's what Jesus brings is he with his disciples comes 99 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:25,600 towards the Two Sisters, Mary, and Martha, and the crowds that 100 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:30,300 had come to comfort them. But what is the certainty? 101 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,000 It's two things. The first is certainty about 102 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,900 what is going to happen. So Look, what Jesus says the 103 00:08:37,900 --> 00:08:46,100 very first statement he says your brother will rise again. 104 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,100 Jesus says your brother will rise again. 105 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,500 He is certain. He knows what is going to 106 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:59,300 happen. He goes on to say that whoever 107 00:08:59,300 --> 00:09:01,500 believes in me, though. He die. 108 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,400 He shall live and everyone who lives and Believes In Me, shall 109 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:10,000 never die. Jesus is telling us what is 110 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:15,400 going to happen. We can be certain that when he 111 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:19,100 speaks these words, these are the things that will come true. 112 00:09:19,700 --> 00:09:23,600 All who are in Christ, will rise again. 113 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:28,100 But the certainty isn't just in what he says. 114 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:33,700 Because anybody can say anything, and people do say 115 00:09:33,700 --> 00:09:37,100 things all the time that they have no ability to prove will be 116 00:09:37,100 --> 00:09:39,300 true. They have no ability to 117 00:09:39,300 --> 00:09:44,700 guarantee that, but Jesus did. And he does and there's 118 00:09:44,700 --> 00:09:47,600 certainty, when we cling to his word, your brother will rise. 119 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:53,400 Again, But it's because of who he is. 120 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:58,800 But he can make those statements and because of who he is, that 121 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,400 we can be certain look with me again. 122 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:03,900 The first statement, your brother will rise. 123 00:10:03,900 --> 00:10:08,100 Again, if you're in Christ Jesus, you will rise again. 124 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:12,700 If he doesn't return, first you will die, your children will 125 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:14,700 die, your grandchildren will die. 126 00:10:14,900 --> 00:10:18,800 But all who are in Christ, we will rise again, death doesn't 127 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,900 win, evil doesn't win. We are his forever. 128 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,900 But it's because of who he is, that we have the certainty. 129 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:33,000 What does he say? Next verse 25, I Am The Great. 130 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:34,900 I Am statements in the Gospel of John. 131 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:39,400 I am the resurrection and the life. 132 00:10:39,500 --> 00:10:42,800 I am the resurrection and the life. 133 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,200 He wasn't just resurrected. He is the resurrection and the 134 00:10:46,208 --> 00:10:51,500 life, our certainty is in what he says will happen, and it's in 135 00:10:51,500 --> 00:10:55,500 who he is. Take a minute now and think 136 00:10:55,500 --> 00:10:59,500 about all, you know who are in Christ that is their reality. 137 00:11:01,100 --> 00:11:05,200 Billy Barnes who serves on staff with Chad at covenant. 138 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:06,800 It's been there a long, long time. 139 00:11:07,900 --> 00:11:12,600 Yesterday. He says, he said when you know, 140 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:19,500 the who The what and the why become less overwhelming? 141 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:22,700 He could have said the what and the why don't matter? 142 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:29,700 I'm glad he didn't. Because I like, you want to ask 143 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:33,300 why? I want to ask what happened? 144 00:11:34,100 --> 00:11:38,000 Why did you let this happen? Well, so did Mary and so did 145 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Martha. If you look at John 11, you see 146 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,100 that the crowds have asked that look with me at verse 36. 147 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:48,600 So the Jews said, see how he loved him. 148 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,100 They're talking about Jesus shortest, verse in the Bible was 149 00:11:52,100 --> 00:11:55,800 just before that Jesus wept, even though he knew what was 150 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:57,500 going to happen. He knew he was going to call 151 00:11:57,500 --> 00:12:00,100 Lazarus out. He wept. 152 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:01,700 He had compassion. Passion. 153 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:06,800 His soul was troubled and so those crowds who had come said 154 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:11,700 these words could not. He who opened the eyes of the 155 00:12:11,700 --> 00:12:15,800 blind, man also have, kept this man from dying. 156 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,900 Of course, he could have, if he'd just come a little earlier, 157 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:25,600 if he had just made it on time, before his eyes were closed. 158 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,800 And he breathed his last Jesus, could have kept him from dying, 159 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:33,200 the crowds were asking the questions Martha and Mary as 160 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,800 well. Verse 21 Martha said to Jesus 161 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,000 Lord if you had been here listen to her certainty, my brother 162 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:47,800 would not have died. but whatever, even now I know that 163 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:53,200 whatever you ask from God, God will give you Mary, a few verses 164 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,600 down in verse 32, when she's been told Jesus is here. 165 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,000 It says now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him she 166 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:05,200 fell at his feet saying to him. Lord, if you had been here, my 167 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:09,400 brother would not have died when Jesus saw her weeping. 168 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,100 And the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply 169 00:13:13,100 --> 00:13:15,400 moved in spirit and greatly troubled. 170 00:13:15,700 --> 00:13:19,700 That's our savior. He's deeply moved, he's grieved 171 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,000 and he has the whole picture. Her in mind. 172 00:13:23,300 --> 00:13:27,900 We have certainty. In days like this because of 173 00:13:27,900 --> 00:13:33,600 what he said will happen and because of who he is and you see 174 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,300 this take place in what comes next? 175 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,000 It's the commands of Christ. Is that read the nine 176 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,500 statements? Did you hear them? 177 00:13:43,900 --> 00:13:48,300 He makes commands for a place of authority, whatever he declares 178 00:13:48,300 --> 00:13:51,200 and demands happens. We'll and listen to what he 179 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:57,100 says. Verse 39, take away the stone. 180 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,900 It's a command. Verse 43. 181 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,500 Lazarus. Come out. 182 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:13,400 I want you to picture. That scene because it really 183 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:17,300 happened. It would be as if you were at a 184 00:14:17,300 --> 00:14:22,700 graveside service or you were at a memorial service like on 185 00:14:22,700 --> 00:14:25,500 Friday when mr. Flores has body in casket was 186 00:14:25,500 --> 00:14:29,000 here. And suddenly someone with 187 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:33,000 authority somebody with certainty said mr. 188 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:42,100 Flores wake up come out, get up in the casket opens and he does 189 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:47,000 this is what happened. Lazarus wasn't just mostly dead. 190 00:14:50,300 --> 00:14:55,800 He was dead, no heartbeat, no blood pressure. 191 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,000 He was dead. Jesus, delayed four days. 192 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:03,900 They're concerned about the stench. 193 00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:08,400 And Jesus says, take away the stone. 194 00:15:10,700 --> 00:15:15,300 And then Lazarus in a loud voices, says, come out. 195 00:15:15,700 --> 00:15:19,800 He heard his voice. He was dead, but he heard His 196 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:27,100 Voice come out. Can you imagine your eyes fixed 197 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:31,900 on that tomb? How long did it take before this 198 00:15:31,900 --> 00:15:34,400 dead man? Now live walks out? 199 00:15:34,900 --> 00:15:42,600 I don't know. but the crowds, Had never and would never see 200 00:15:43,100 --> 00:15:48,700 anything quite like that. Christ would rise, but they 201 00:15:48,700 --> 00:15:52,200 wouldn't see him walk out. He would walk around for a while 202 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:56,600 before he ascended. Jesus Christ had the authority 203 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:59,200 to make these commands. Take away the stone. 204 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:05,000 They did Lazarus come out. When that happened, this 205 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:10,300 certainty led to a freedom. Of Freedom, so profound that a 206 00:16:10,308 --> 00:16:12,600 dead man, who still Bound in the death? 207 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:17,500 Clothes comes out and Jesus gives another command unbind 208 00:16:17,500 --> 00:16:22,000 him. And the third command, then let 209 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:26,400 him go. Who were the ones who went up to 210 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:29,400 Lazarus and just began to take off? 211 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:33,100 What was wrapped around him? Can you imagine it really 212 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:40,400 happened and then Lazarus walked in fact, what comes next is 213 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:45,200 another type of freedom There is a freedom that takes place in. 214 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:50,200 John's gospel is, Jesus tells a story Or John tells a story of 215 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:54,300 what happened to Jesus that Jesus would later say whenever 216 00:16:54,300 --> 00:16:58,100 this is talked about whenever this passion week is described, 217 00:16:58,300 --> 00:17:04,200 we will make sure that you hear about this woman. 218 00:17:06,300 --> 00:17:11,300 It's the anointing of Jesus feet where this last statement comes 219 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:16,099 before, Jesus gets on the beasts of burden in John's gospel. 220 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:21,900 Look with me again at chapter 12, It says, six days before the 221 00:17:21,900 --> 00:17:27,000 Passover Jesus therefore came to Bethany where Lazarus was whom, 222 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:31,100 Jesus had raised from the dead. So they gave a dinner for him 223 00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:34,700 there. Well, this is a celebration but 224 00:17:34,700 --> 00:17:37,900 it's also a great risk. People aren't supposed to be 225 00:17:37,900 --> 00:17:41,500 having parties in which Jesus has been invited to nor Lazarus, 226 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:45,000 the religious leaders, wanted Jesus dead and they wanted 227 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:50,700 Lazarus debt. Fame was spreading. 228 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,000 We're having a party, they're celebrating. 229 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:57,900 So, they gave a dinner for him there. 230 00:17:58,300 --> 00:18:00,800 Martha served. Of course she did. 231 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,500 And Lazarus was one of those reclining with him. 232 00:18:04,500 --> 00:18:07,200 That's with Jesus at the table, imagine the scene. 233 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,800 Mary. This is the Mary of Mary, and 234 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:12,700 Martha. This is the Mary, that's the 235 00:18:12,700 --> 00:18:17,200 sister of Lazarus. Where is she? 236 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:22,400 She is where she always is the three times Mary's mentioned of 237 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:26,500 the Gospel. All three times, she is at the 238 00:18:26,500 --> 00:18:31,500 feet of Jesus, may that be where we are this week. 239 00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:36,500 When you're at the feet of someone, in this time it was a 240 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:40,000 picture of discipleship. It was a picture of listening. 241 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:45,000 It was a picture of learning and more than even the 12 she 242 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,400 understood something more of what was about to happen. 243 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:56,900 And Mary moves towards Jesus. And she's about to do something 244 00:18:56,900 --> 00:19:04,900 so unthinkable. So extravagant so ridiculous. 245 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:11,200 She takes a pound of expensive ointment perfume. 246 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:18,300 And anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped it. 247 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:24,900 Wiped his feet with her hair, the house was filled with the 248 00:19:24,900 --> 00:19:31,200 fragrance of the perfume. How expensive was the perfume? 249 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:36,900 It was worth one year's salary and those times. 250 00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:44,000 Many years ago, I don't want to embarrass her but a member of 251 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,400 our church. I was in a meeting and she was 252 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:50,000 wearing a delightful perfume but I notice it. 253 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:55,200 My anniversary was coming up and I said that's really pretty. 254 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:57,400 My wife doesn't really buy perfume like that. 255 00:19:57,700 --> 00:19:58,600 I would. What are you wearing? 256 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,600 I'd love to know. She gave you the name of it and 257 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:07,400 I looked it up and I was like, oh, she's over there. 258 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,200 That's like that's so you're of my salary. 259 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,000 It wasn't really that much. But it was a lot. 260 00:20:21,700 --> 00:20:25,200 I never bought that for Christina. 261 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,200 I found some old Avon I think in my moms. 262 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,500 This was worth. A year. 263 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:46,100 Of wages. and, As Mary had sat at the feet of Jesus and she 264 00:20:46,100 --> 00:20:51,200 knew he would be at this dinner. She could think of no better use 265 00:20:51,700 --> 00:20:58,400 than to take this this box. This pint of nard worth so much 266 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:05,200 and break it. And pour it out on the feet of 267 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:11,800 Jesus. The first recorded words of 268 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:20,200 Judas, Iscariot are now spoken. As the fragrance fills the air, 269 00:21:20,300 --> 00:21:23,800 imagine that beautiful scent verse for Judas. 270 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:29,000 Iscariot one of the disciples who was about to betray him 271 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:34,900 said, why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii. 272 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:39,000 I given to the poor. He said this not because he 273 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,200 cared about the poor. But because he was a thief and 274 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,500 having charge of the money bag, he used to help you used it to 275 00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:48,500 help himself to what was put in it. 276 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:55,200 It's amazing, isn't it? A woman who's holding and pite, 277 00:21:55,500 --> 00:21:59,200 the years with the south of salary in a box that's 278 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,300 fragrance. She is willing not just to pour 279 00:22:02,300 --> 00:22:04,300 out a little and save some more for later. 280 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:08,300 She is going to break it all, it's all going to be gone, it 281 00:22:08,300 --> 00:22:11,500 will be on him and in her hair and that's it. 282 00:22:12,700 --> 00:22:16,600 And Judas sees it. He condemns her. 283 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:21,400 This is wasteful but it's not because he cared about the poor. 284 00:22:22,100 --> 00:22:26,800 It's because he cared about not busting open the treasury that 285 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:32,300 he held except for his own hand, such a contrast. 286 00:22:33,900 --> 00:22:39,100 Judas condemns her. And in his final statement 287 00:22:39,100 --> 00:22:44,400 before he goes on the donkey writing in to Jerusalem. 288 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:50,700 Jesus says this, leave her alone so that she may keep it for the 289 00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:55,700 day of my burial for the poor. You always have with you but you 290 00:22:55,700 --> 00:22:58,900 do not always have me. Jesus was not being callous to 291 00:22:58,900 --> 00:23:02,200 the poor, he was simply making his statement because of what 292 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,300 Judas said. I'm not going to be here that 293 00:23:04,300 --> 00:23:07,900 much longer. What she has done. 294 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:13,300 Should not be condemned, Judas, or any of the other people that 295 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:15,100 thought like he did. But didn't speak. 296 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:20,600 I am commending it. What she has done is not a 297 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,000 wasteful thing. It is a wonderful thing. 298 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:27,000 It's so wonderful. That whenever this story is told 299 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:33,500 about my life, this story of her extravagant worship is going to 300 00:23:33,508 --> 00:23:38,700 be told so two thousand plus years later on the second day of 301 00:23:38,700 --> 00:23:44,200 April. 20:23, you're hearing what Jesus said would take place 302 00:23:44,900 --> 00:23:49,700 because He commands it. This week. 303 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:59,000 We will celebrate his passion. With certainty this week, we 304 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:04,900 will celebrate his passion with the freedom of knowing that all 305 00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:10,800 who trust in him have been freed from sin and death. 306 00:24:13,300 --> 00:24:18,600 This passion week, we will worship him in the freedom, like 307 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,800 our sister Mary. Sitting at his feet. 308 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,800 But there's one final thing I want to look at. 309 00:24:31,700 --> 00:24:36,000 Just after Jesus said, who he was, and what would happen? 310 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,700 Your brother will rise again. I am the resurrection and the 311 00:24:39,700 --> 00:24:43,600 life. He says these words verse 26. 312 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:51,200 Do you believe this? That's what he says to Martha. 313 00:24:52,100 --> 00:24:58,900 Do you believe this? Pat, Hoban and Ashley Boone. 314 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:05,000 Have released a very short devotional each day. 315 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,900 And if you're interested in receiving, it just reach out to 316 00:25:06,900 --> 00:25:11,300 them. It's based on Psalm 51, and it 317 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:16,000 was sent to me this morning. Have mercy on me, o God, 318 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,700 according to your steadfast love, according to your abundant 319 00:25:18,700 --> 00:25:22,400 Mercy blot out my transgressions Wash Me thoroughly from my 320 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,900 iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. 321 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,700 Psalm 51 part. First two verses and this is 322 00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:31,300 their short devotion. They promise it will be between 323 00:25:31,300 --> 00:25:34,900 100 and 150 words each day. So I can read it. 324 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:38,700 I want you to listen. As we enter into Holy Week, we 325 00:25:38,700 --> 00:25:44,000 have to ask ourselves. Just what do I believe about 326 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,400 this? Time of the year. 327 00:25:47,300 --> 00:25:52,500 Do I actually believe that? I need God to have mercy on me 328 00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:57,100 according to his steadfast love. Do I really believe? 329 00:25:57,100 --> 00:26:00,700 I need him to wash me thoroughly from my iniquity to cleanse me 330 00:26:00,700 --> 00:26:05,900 from my sin or do I think that is all up to me? 331 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,900 These are all important questions. 332 00:26:09,900 --> 00:26:12,000 And I love the dependency on God here. 333 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:18,800 Oh Lord, please show me what I really believe. 334 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:34,200 Do you really believe? that you and I were born in sin. 335 00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:38,100 All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 336 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:43,900 Do you really believe that we deserve death for eternity 337 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:49,700 separated from God and Hell? Do you really believe that 338 00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:54,700 because of his great love for us, God, the Father sent his 339 00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:59,100 son, Jesus Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. 340 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:05,200 Do you really believe that he alone is the way to eternal life 341 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,400 as he says? I am the way the truth and the 342 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,700 life. There's no way to the father 343 00:27:09,700 --> 00:27:14,000 except through me. Do you really believe what he 344 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,200 said is going to happen for followers of his Christians? 345 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:22,400 We will rise again. Do you really believe that he is 346 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:29,400 the resurrection and the life? I believe that many, many, many 347 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,600 of you do. But it's an important question 348 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:39,200 for all of us. One of the signs. 349 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:45,100 Of true belief. Is the fragrance. 350 00:27:46,300 --> 00:27:51,800 Of our worship. It is not something that we do 351 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:57,000 in order for God to accept us, we never could there's no amount 352 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,600 of nard, no amount of perfume. No, no value that man could put 353 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:06,200 something on that. Could make us earn God's favor. 354 00:28:08,300 --> 00:28:12,200 Mary knew about the grace of God. 355 00:28:12,700 --> 00:28:17,200 She knew what it was like to sit at the feet of this man, who was 356 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:22,700 so full of love and truth who had never sinned The only 357 00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:27,200 rational thought she had about showing her love to him. 358 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:32,700 Was to do something. So extravagant Would you 359 00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:35,900 describe your worship as extravagant? 360 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,700 Would you describe the way you got ready for worship today as 361 00:28:41,100 --> 00:28:45,800 preparation for extravagance? Would you define the way in 362 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,400 which you're thinking about holy week this week is I'm going to 363 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:53,800 sit like Mary did at the feet of Jesus and God would you show me 364 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:55,800 what you want me to bring For Your Glory? 365 00:28:55,800 --> 00:29:03,400 Not so I can earn salvation but because I'm saved I want to do 366 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,700 that which is extravagance. Maybe it's just lifting your 367 00:29:06,700 --> 00:29:10,100 voice in a different way. Maybe it's being less afraid of 368 00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:12,600 what people think about what you're doing and worship. 369 00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:17,500 Mary. Went into a room. 370 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:26,500 And she broke open this treasured possession, and she 371 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:32,400 took down her hair and she washed his feet being condemned 372 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:39,600 by one of his followers. Jesus would soon get on that 373 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:44,300 donkey. He would ride towards Jerusalem. 374 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:49,700 To the Garden of Gethsemane. Walking to the place of the 375 00:29:49,700 --> 00:29:55,100 skull where he would be broken, open where he would be poured 376 00:29:55,100 --> 00:29:58,500 out. We're all of him would be given 377 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:04,700 the greatest of all value ever. That we who trust in him. 378 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,900 Could live forever. Wren. 379 00:30:10,900 --> 00:30:16,800 Ask. Our Father, the Son, and the 380 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,800 Holy Spirit. To show you what you really 381 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:27,300 believe. And when he does ask him how he 382 00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:34,300 wants you to worship Him. As she did sitting at his feet. 383 00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:40,000 Giving all she had. The late Jack Miller who was a 384 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:44,000 professor at Westminster Seminary used to say when's the 385 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:51,500 last time you did something just because you loved Jesus. 386 00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:57,600 Not. So you can earn His favor. 387 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:02,100 Not so you could earn salvation just because you have learned 388 00:31:02,100 --> 00:31:05,100 something of the love he has for you. 389 00:31:07,500 --> 00:31:10,300 Chad was asked on Monday afternoon, he shared this 390 00:31:10,300 --> 00:31:13,000 yesterday. But one of his elders. 391 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,600 The statement that went something like this, do you 392 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,900 believe our hope you believe the things that you have been 393 00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:24,300 teaching us for the Last 5 Years? 394 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:34,800 And Chad with unfaltering certainty said, yes and more. 395 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:45,800 I believe him. because in him, Is the one. 396 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:56,500 Who is the way the truth and the life in him as the one who is in 397 00:31:56,500 --> 00:32:02,000 all who profess Jesus, who said I am the resurrection. 398 00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:06,000 And the life. Father in heaven. 399 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,700 You have brought us to this place in your history of 400 00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:14,500 redemption. A place that this side of 401 00:32:14,500 --> 00:32:18,600 Heaven, in our Earthly lives. We will never forget And is it 402 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,600 Opportunity by your grace and For Your Glory to be real? 403 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:28,100 To be honest to grieve, but to also confess again. 404 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:36,100 What we believe about you? to see the certainty of what is 405 00:32:36,100 --> 00:32:42,200 going to happen and the certainty of who who will make 406 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:47,700 it happen. Father, please buy your powerful 407 00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:52,900 presence in the Holy Spirit. Make us see more fully. 408 00:32:54,200 --> 00:33:00,500 Who we are in Christ Jesus now and forever in Jesus. 409 00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:03,700 Holy name we pray. Amen. 410 00:33:04,300 --> 00:32:58,100 Stan. Who we are in Christ Jesus now 411 00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:01,800 and forever in Jesus. Holy name we pray. 412 00:33:02,900 --> 00:33:04,700 Amen. Stan.