1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:01,700 I want to clarify something really quickly. 2 00:00:01,700 --> 00:00:05,500 Before we begin, I said, in our introduction, just a moment ago. 3 00:00:05,500 --> 00:00:09,500 I said we have now come through chapter 24 and we've gone 4 00:00:09,500 --> 00:00:14,200 through chapter 25, and really the subject matter that I have 5 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,100 discussed. As we've gone along, really I 6 00:00:16,100 --> 00:00:20,100 have chosen and I have picked various aspects of what happened 7 00:00:20,100 --> 00:00:23,500 in the last week in the life of Jesus without going verse by 8 00:00:23,500 --> 00:00:27,600 verse by verse by verse and then lose the flow of the final week. 9 00:00:28,100 --> 00:00:30,600 And I didn't want to do that. Like, for example, So, we came 10 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,700 to the end of chapter 23, we discussed the destruction of 11 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:37,600 Jerusalem, so, therefore it knocked out, chapter 24. 12 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,700 Without going verse by verse, and I wanted to do it that way. 13 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:46,200 This sermon today is number 13 in the series and we have 14 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,900 finally left Tuesday. In fact, it is sunset or after 15 00:00:50,900 --> 00:00:54,200 Sunset. Sundown, if you will on Tuesday, 16 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:58,400 which was to the Jew Wednesday. And that's just setting where 17 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,500 the scene of the things that are going to Transpire by the time 18 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:06,100 we get to chapter 26. As we begin our lesson, though 19 00:01:06,500 --> 00:01:09,900 we find that the preparation for the death of Jesus Christ is 20 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:13,100 seen in three elements. It is seen in three 21 00:01:13,100 --> 00:01:16,400 perspectives. Number one, we see the 22 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,500 preparation of what we would call the preparation of hateful 23 00:01:20,700 --> 00:01:24,400 rejection in verse 3. The very next verse here. 24 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,100 It says then the chief priests the scribes and the Elders of 25 00:01:29,100 --> 00:01:33,200 the people as Assembled at the palace of the high priest who 26 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:37,700 was called Caiaphas. In other words, after Jesus was 27 00:01:37,700 --> 00:01:41,500 speaking, or as Jesus, was speaking, those words that are 28 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:44,900 found in verse 2? Which said, when Jesus had 29 00:01:44,900 --> 00:01:48,100 finished, all these sayings, what did he say to his 30 00:01:48,100 --> 00:01:51,300 disciples? He said, in two days is the 31 00:01:51,300 --> 00:01:56,300 Passover and then he said, and the son of man will be delivered 32 00:01:56,300 --> 00:01:59,900 up to be crucified. Obviously the son of man sitting 33 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,400 Ali was the human form of the Son of God showing that our 34 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,900 Messiah was not only fully Divine, but he was also fully 35 00:02:08,900 --> 00:02:13,100 human while. Jesus was speaking, that notice 36 00:02:13,100 --> 00:02:15,000 what was happening at the very same time. 37 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:21,100 The chief priests the scribes, the Elders of the people. 38 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,800 They came to the Palace of the high priest who was called 39 00:02:25,100 --> 00:02:28,200 Caiaphas it is. Now, as I mentioned, a moment 40 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,500 ago, Wednesday, they were all together. 41 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:35,300 They're all the rulers of the people along with this Caiaphas 42 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:38,900 the high priest and they had one thing in mind. 43 00:02:39,900 --> 00:02:43,900 And I can't even fathom this. Sometimes, when we look at the 44 00:02:43,900 --> 00:02:46,900 death of the Cross, we think about what Jesus went through, 45 00:02:47,300 --> 00:02:51,400 and we think about how we felt or we would feel in our hearts 46 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,600 because of our love for Jesus. Now that we can't fathom that 47 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,000 this actually happened. But understand, hateful 48 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:04,600 rejection had to be if there was not hateful rejection, Jesus 49 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,700 would have never gone to the Cross. 50 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:11,400 So, while all this was going on, notice the It's verse, they 51 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:16,700 plotted to take Jesus, by trickery, and to kill him. 52 00:03:18,500 --> 00:03:21,100 Now, you know, it's one thing to have a plan. 53 00:03:22,300 --> 00:03:25,500 It's another thing to have somebody else in control, you 54 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:27,700 know. They had a plan that a plan, 55 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,500 their plan was, let's do this in eight days. 56 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,300 You know what Jesus said in verse to know what's going to 57 00:03:33,300 --> 00:03:35,200 happen in two days, you know, why? 58 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,600 Because on, in two days, it's going to be Friday and Jesus 59 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:42,500 would go to gothis Brown. They thought, wait a minute, we 60 00:03:42,500 --> 00:03:44,700 got this plan now and, you know, we're going to do, we're going 61 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:47,800 to get together and by trickery, we're going to figure out how 62 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,500 it's going to be that we would kill Jesus, but no. 63 00:03:51,700 --> 00:03:55,500 Otis notice. It was not going to be in their 64 00:03:55,500 --> 00:03:59,300 timetable, the very next verse notice, but they said not during 65 00:03:59,300 --> 00:04:02,800 the feast. Let there be an uproar among the 66 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:03,900 people. All right? 67 00:04:04,100 --> 00:04:06,900 Little side note. Think about all the people that 68 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:09,200 were in Jerusalem at the time of the Passover. 69 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:14,500 I've heard all manner of numbers and I have heard numbers into 70 00:04:14,500 --> 00:04:17,200 the millions. I don't know how many people 71 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:18,600 were there, but I'm going to tell you, there's a whole lot of 72 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,399 people there. Now, there's a lot of people to 73 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:24,300 that Jesus healed when he walked on the face of this Earth. 74 00:04:24,300 --> 00:04:26,100 And there were a lot of people that love Jesus. 75 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,800 And I think that's really as another side note. 76 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:33,700 That's why they he wasn't taken In Jerusalem, it was outside so 77 00:04:33,700 --> 00:04:37,300 there wouldn't be a revolution. There wouldn't be a fight and 78 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:41,000 God was totally in control, but they didn't want to do it during 79 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,800 the time of the Passover. Unless there was an uproar of 80 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,400 the people, Jesus said though, you know, what's going to happen 81 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,800 in two days, it's going to happen in the timetable that the 82 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:54,300 Lord had said. Now, the Sanhedrin, the ruling 83 00:04:54,300 --> 00:04:57,900 body, and they're all together by now, they've had more Jesus 84 00:04:57,900 --> 00:05:00,900 than they could possibly stand. He's intimidated them. 85 00:05:01,100 --> 00:05:02,900 Beyond their ability to deal with it. 86 00:05:02,900 --> 00:05:04,900 That people are now following him. 87 00:05:04,900 --> 00:05:09,300 They are threatened and Caiaphas is insecure. 88 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,000 Now, by the way, a little bit of background around this man 89 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,700 Caiaphas now. Do you remember? 90 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Me saying over the years that Caiaphas was a real crumb. 91 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:25,400 Caiaphas was a real creep. I'm so glad that Josephus said 92 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:30,000 about Caiaphas what he said, so I'm not wrong in that Caiaphas 93 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,400 was a terrible human being. In fact, do you remember when 94 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:35,300 Lazarus was raised from the dead? 95 00:05:35,900 --> 00:05:37,600 Do you remember what Caiaphas said? 96 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:41,200 Now, I can maybe understand if Caiaphas said the wait a minute. 97 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,600 People are saying that Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, 98 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:47,800 but I don't believe it. So we got to do something with 99 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,400 Jesus to get him out of the way because the people are following 100 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,600 Jesus, and it's a fake and a fraud. 101 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:56,600 Maybe, I can follow that line of thinking, but you know what 102 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:02,300 Caiaphas said, Caiaphas said he raised Lazarus from the dead. 103 00:06:02,300 --> 00:06:04,500 So we have to do something with Jesus. 104 00:06:04,700 --> 00:06:08,100 And then he said those words, he said it's better than one man. 105 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:12,200 Died and save a nation, and that's exactly what the Lord did 106 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:15,100 for the world. It's better for one man to die 107 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:18,600 for the sins of the world, then all of us to be lost but in his 108 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,000 mind he's thinking, wait a minute, we got to save the 109 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,600 nation. So let's take Jesus out of the 110 00:06:23,608 --> 00:06:25,900 way. Let's talk about Caiaphas little 111 00:06:25,900 --> 00:06:29,000 bit more. Little bit of background 112 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:34,100 Josephus, says, his name was Joseph Caiaphas, and this is 113 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:37,500 what Josephus said about him. He said he was conniving 114 00:06:37,500 --> 00:06:41,000 treacherous. Wicked, vile, and deceitful. 115 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,200 Now, I'm going to tell you, I don't know that I know about all 116 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,000 those words, when all they actually mean, but I'ma tell 117 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,200 you, it sounds pretty - to me, it's a bad guy. 118 00:06:50,100 --> 00:06:53,200 He's an awful person. With a motive. 119 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 In fact, by the way, did you know that every time he's 120 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,400 mentioned in the Scripture, it is in a one dimensional fashion. 121 00:07:02,300 --> 00:07:06,700 Every time that he is mentioned, he has one role he's pictured as 122 00:07:06,700 --> 00:07:10,400 one who is either going to plan the death of Jesus or carry it 123 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:11,600 out. Every time. 124 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:15,900 Every time the Caiaphas is mentioned, A conniving man that 125 00:07:15,900 --> 00:07:19,100 he was, he married the daughter of anise, who was his 126 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:22,100 predecessor. Now, who was Anna? 127 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:24,500 She might remember when we go back to the cleansing of the 128 00:07:24,500 --> 00:07:26,300 temple. So keep that in your mind about 129 00:07:26,300 --> 00:07:28,600 anise and cleansing of the temple, we know what happened, 130 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,300 okay, in the court of the Gentiles. 131 00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:32,400 So hold on that for just a minute. 132 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:35,900 I don't know why Caiaphas came on the scene to marry the 133 00:07:35,900 --> 00:07:38,800 daughter of anise. Incidentally, I did some reading 134 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,100 about that historically and it was actually tradition that a 135 00:07:43,100 --> 00:07:47,900 man would marry a virgin, girl. Sometimes, actually being 136 00:07:47,900 --> 00:07:52,000 betrothed to them when they were 12 or 12 and a half, I don't 137 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,100 know how old the daughter of anise was but I do know this 138 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,700 Caiaphas wanted to marry the daughter of Ennis. 139 00:07:58,700 --> 00:08:02,100 Who was the high priest at the time and has served as high 140 00:08:02,100 --> 00:08:06,100 priest? I Leave from a D6 to ad, I 141 00:08:06,100 --> 00:08:11,800 believe 15. And then from a D15, 280, 37, 142 00:08:11,900 --> 00:08:17,700 Caiaphas was the high priests. Now he married the daughter of 143 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:23,100 anise and this was a very wealthy man and incidentally 144 00:08:23,100 --> 00:08:25,500 about this. I think we have to understand 145 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:28,200 that perhaps Caiaphas must have been a politician. 146 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:31,000 Pretty good 12 to get around Roman rule. 147 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:35,200 Have you ever known? Somebody that gets along with 148 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,400 everybody because they don't stand for anything. 149 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:41,700 I'm talking about people that when they're over here, they 150 00:08:41,700 --> 00:08:45,200 agree with these guys. And then I think over here and 151 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,700 it's something totally opposite, but they agree with these guys. 152 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:49,600 Now, they're in good with these guys. 153 00:08:49,900 --> 00:08:52,000 Let me go over there and it's something totally different. 154 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,000 They agree with those guys pursue these in good with those 155 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,100 guys. One scholar said, Caiaphas must 156 00:08:57,100 --> 00:09:01,800 have been a politician among politicians to get along with 157 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:06,500 Rome that many years. In fact, in fact, it was not 158 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:11,400 common than a man would be high priest at long for 100 years. 159 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:16,700 In 100 years spanned, there were 28 High priests 28. 160 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:24,100 And the one that followed Caiaphas his successor, lasted 161 00:09:24,100 --> 00:09:27,600 50 days. So for Caiaphas to do that, no 162 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:29,600 doubt. He must have been quite a 163 00:09:29,608 --> 00:09:33,000 politician to get along with Roman government. 164 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,500 Caiaphas had bought his way in. He married the daughter of anise 165 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,900 and extremely wealthy and Crooked, Man. 166 00:09:38,900 --> 00:09:41,800 Also now I told you to hold on to the thought about Anna's. 167 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,000 Here we go. Do you remember what Jesus does? 168 00:09:45,100 --> 00:09:48,700 He makes his triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Sunday and 169 00:09:48,700 --> 00:09:52,700 then he just surveys the temple. Just takes a look at it. 170 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:55,700 He leaves. He goes to Bethany with the 171 00:09:55,700 --> 00:09:57,600 house of his dear friends. Perhaps, what? 172 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,100 We don't know that. We just know he went to Bethany, 173 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:02,900 he could have gone to Mary Martha and Lazarus his house. 174 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,600 We don't know that and it doesn't say he just went to 175 00:10:05,608 --> 00:10:09,000 Bethany and he went there for the night when he came back to 176 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,700 nice day. The next day, he curses that fig 177 00:10:11,700 --> 00:10:15,900 tree and then he cleansed the temple. 178 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,500 Remember that he overturned the tables of the money changers and 179 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:23,000 Jesus was Furious. He was angered by that. 180 00:10:23,500 --> 00:10:26,300 He said, you've made it a den of Thieves, the house of worship. 181 00:10:26,300 --> 00:10:30,200 You've made a den of Thieves, remember what else he does, he 182 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:33,700 looks and he saw all the merchandise being sold. 183 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:36,300 Do you know who was in control of all the merchandise. 184 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:38,900 It was the man that we're talking about right now. 185 00:10:38,900 --> 00:10:44,100 It was anise and he had what was called, by the way, the bazaars 186 00:10:44,100 --> 00:10:47,500 of anise All the commercial things. 187 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:50,100 So guess what? He got a piece of all of it, you 188 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:52,200 know, Jesus. Did he put him out of business? 189 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:54,200 You think he's not mad about that? 190 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,400 Put him out of business, that's what Jesus did. 191 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,200 He cast them all out? Jesus, even did this to he came 192 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:04,700 on the scene and he said, no, wait a minute. 193 00:11:04,700 --> 00:11:08,000 You're using the court of the Gentiles, which by the way, was 194 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,100 the only place that a gentile could go. 195 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,700 That was it. He said, you're using the court 196 00:11:13,700 --> 00:11:17,500 of the Gentiles as a thoroughfare to carry. 197 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:21,000 Whatever you're transporting and go through said, get out, don't 198 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,300 do that anymore. It just enough to I would 199 00:11:25,300 --> 00:11:26,900 imagine. And this was quite disgusted 200 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:30,700 with Jesus he's the father-in-law the son-in-law is 201 00:11:30,700 --> 00:11:34,200 Caiaphas Caiaphas married. The daughter may be getting into 202 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,600 the upper class, maybe getting into the wealth and Prestige and 203 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,100 power of the office. There was no king in Israel. 204 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:45,400 So he had the most power and he understands we have to get rid 205 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:49,700 of Jesus and it has to be done through the legal process and 206 00:11:49,700 --> 00:11:52,500 really as twisted and as perverted as they had it. 207 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:56,300 It that really was their desire, but they had to have an angle, 208 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,500 they had to have an angle and remember this. 209 00:12:00,700 --> 00:12:04,800 In ad, 30. When Jesus began his personal 210 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:10,900 Ministry, the law changed. And it was called pucks Rama and 211 00:12:10,900 --> 00:12:14,800 it was dealing with the sword. It means peace among the Roman 212 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:19,300 peace and the idea was nobody could execute someone except 213 00:12:19,300 --> 00:12:21,800 Rome you couldn't send some settings, anybody to die. 214 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:23,900 You think that's a mistake, absolutely? 215 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:25,700 Not. You think that's coincidence. 216 00:12:25,700 --> 00:12:27,400 No way. You know why? 217 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:32,200 Because the Jews would destroy, or kill someone or execute 218 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:36,500 someone by stoning and if they Stone Jesus to death, the Bible 219 00:12:36,500 --> 00:12:40,800 isn't true. Why did they go to Pilot later 220 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:42,000 on? I'll tell you why they went to 221 00:12:42,008 --> 00:12:44,600 pilate. They had to it was the law. 222 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,500 You think that's a mystery? Nope. 223 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,000 God did that. I'll take that to my grave. 224 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,000 God. Did that change the law and ad 225 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,800 30. So that in a t-33 Jesus would 226 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,500 have to nail be nailed on a cross. 227 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:00,800 And he would have to be one as in such a way. 228 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:05,200 That Jesus says, when I be lifted up, I will draw all men. 229 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,800 Unto me had to be the cross. Well, they had to figure out a 230 00:13:08,808 --> 00:13:14,200 way to come up with a legal manner, in which they could kill 231 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:20,700 Jesus, and it needed a Betrayer and verses 3 and 4 verses 3 and 232 00:13:20,700 --> 00:13:23,500 4. Part of the preparation for that 233 00:13:24,300 --> 00:13:28,200 was simply hateful. Rejection there had to be. 234 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:34,000 Now as we move forward, though, as we talk about all the things 235 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,300 in which had happened. There's a very beautiful scene. 236 00:13:37,300 --> 00:13:39,800 I got to tell you, I've never actually preached on these 237 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,400 verses before now that we're going to talk about. 238 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,000 Oh, I've referenced it, we all know the story of it. 239 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,300 We sing songs. About it. 240 00:13:46,900 --> 00:13:49,200 But there's something very, very beautiful that happens. 241 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:53,900 And that's the second part of the preparation of Jesus going 242 00:13:53,900 --> 00:13:56,800 to the cross. And it is the preparation of 243 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:00,500 loving worship. You know, there wasn't just 244 00:14:00,500 --> 00:14:02,800 enemies who wanted Jesus to go to the cross. 245 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:10,400 I must say that again, it wasn't just enemies that wanted Jesus 246 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:14,600 to go to the cross. Do you remember one, who sat at 247 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:19,100 his feet, who sat at his feet and hung on every word that he 248 00:14:19,100 --> 00:14:23,000 said? Whose sister was upset serving 249 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,300 others, and she was sitting at the feet of the master. 250 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,600 Do you remember when Jesus spoke to those women when he went to 251 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,500 raise Lazarus from the dead? And Jesus told them that they're 252 00:14:33,500 --> 00:14:35,700 going to see the glory of God and in their mind you don't they 253 00:14:35,700 --> 00:14:37,400 said oh we're talking about the resurrection. 254 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:42,800 And Jesus was talking about Lazarus, they understood. 255 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:47,900 They were some that understood notice this in the preparation 256 00:14:47,900 --> 00:14:49,600 of the Cross, something else happened. 257 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:53,400 Now, if you look at the chronological sequence, this is 258 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:57,200 a flashback a number of days. It's Wednesday now. 259 00:14:57,300 --> 00:15:00,200 But now there's a flashback to Saturday and it's this right 260 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:07,200 here, when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper 261 00:15:07,900 --> 00:15:13,700 now, This is the flashback when was it when he was in Bethany? 262 00:15:14,500 --> 00:15:18,600 Now if you want to know why that there's a jump back there, it 263 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:22,300 has to because it really fits. There's something connected with 264 00:15:22,300 --> 00:15:26,200 the Betrayal of Jesus with the complaint of Mary's act of 265 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:28,800 kindness. And so it had to happen. 266 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,200 And Jesus reflects back on it, when he first arrived in 267 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,800 Bethany, it was on Saturday. When Jesus came there, he left 268 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:39,700 Jericho and he came to the city and He stayed with Mary Martha 269 00:15:39,700 --> 00:15:42,700 and Lazarus to be part of all the events. 270 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:46,800 Now this phrase right here he stays at the house of Simon the 271 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,800 leper. Now I look to try to find out 272 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:54,300 who this actually was and I don't know because I believe 273 00:15:54,300 --> 00:15:58,400 there's 30 some Simon's mentioned in the New Testament. 274 00:15:58,900 --> 00:16:01,900 So who was he? I don't know who he was but he 275 00:16:01,900 --> 00:16:05,300 Simon the leper. Meaning there was a time when he 276 00:16:05,300 --> 00:16:09,000 had leprosy and I think this is I think this is Important. 277 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,900 There was a time he had leprosy, he couldn't have had leprosy 278 00:16:13,900 --> 00:16:17,900 currently because nobody would have gone to his house. 279 00:16:18,100 --> 00:16:23,500 Number two, there was no cure for leprosy, except to Jesus, 280 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:28,700 that tells me that this man Simon the leper and a prior time 281 00:16:28,700 --> 00:16:33,600 or a previous time with his leprosy was healed by Jesus. 282 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:38,200 So on this day on this Saturday, he invites the Lord over to his 283 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:40,200 house. For a meal. 284 00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:45,000 And he was Simon used to be the leper. 285 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,700 You know, who else was there? It was Mary. 286 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:51,500 There's Martha. There was Lazarus. 287 00:16:52,700 --> 00:16:55,200 Quite a few guests. What about the esteemed guests? 288 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,700 We might say the 12 apostles. They were there too. 289 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,400 Good group for supper very important. 290 00:17:04,700 --> 00:17:13,000 Verse 7, notice. A woman came to him. having an 291 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:18,300 alabaster flask a very costly fragrant oil and she poured it 292 00:17:18,300 --> 00:17:25,900 on his head as he sat at the table, Now this Alex Alabaster 293 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:31,000 flask was some, some translations say alabaster box 294 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:35,200 and the flask they're simply means it was a thin Alabaster 295 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:40,100 almost transparent vessel the word box in the King James 296 00:17:40,100 --> 00:17:44,000 should be translated vessel and it was a bottle type thing. 297 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:48,200 It was very thin and it was very fat at the bottom and it came up 298 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,400 with a neck up to the top and there would be a cork in it. 299 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,600 So basically, just Picture in your mind. 300 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:57,000 Not a box. Picture of a pouring vessel. 301 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:08,700 Just a vessel a bottle. Inside of it, though, was very 302 00:18:08,700 --> 00:18:14,500 costly fragrant perfume. Very costly 300 denarii. 303 00:18:14,500 --> 00:18:17,900 I that's one year's wages now, I think there's some beautiful 304 00:18:17,900 --> 00:18:19,800 pictures here. Let's take a look at them. 305 00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:23,500 First of all, we know that if a man works for a day back then 306 00:18:24,300 --> 00:18:26,600 the average man that worked all day long when he got finished 307 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:30,600 with the his test all day long. He would be paid one Denarius. 308 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,400 So when somebody said a Denarius, he talking about a 309 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:39,300 day's wages, however, that means of exchange was then in its 310 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:43,600 value, if you worked all day, You got a Denarius, Jesus dealt 311 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:45,700 with that. He called it, a penny in the 312 00:18:45,700 --> 00:18:47,900 parable of the vineyard, it was the Denarius. 313 00:18:48,700 --> 00:18:52,100 Okay, so if you didn't work, seven days a week, which they 314 00:18:52,100 --> 00:18:56,600 didn't, it's about 300 days worth of working or so, 315 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:01,700 therefore, a Year's wages was three hundred denarii. 316 00:19:01,700 --> 00:19:06,900 I, that is costly fragrant oil inside that bottle. 317 00:19:07,300 --> 00:19:10,200 Now, why did they have it? You know, it's interesting, 318 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,100 perhaps, they were wealthy, I don't know, there were some 319 00:19:12,100 --> 00:19:14,900 wealthy people there, but it was very, very customary that you 320 00:19:14,900 --> 00:19:18,300 had that stuff. You know, people would travel 321 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,700 through dirt. They didn't have payment 322 00:19:21,700 --> 00:19:23,300 Pavements. Like we have, they travel 323 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:25,900 through dirt, they didn't have shoes. 324 00:19:25,900 --> 00:19:30,100 Like we have, they were open sandals, so their feet would get 325 00:19:30,100 --> 00:19:33,100 filthy, no doubt. What a great custom, it was to 326 00:19:33,100 --> 00:19:36,300 wash the feet of someone when they would come into your midst 327 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:41,400 and you know, I'll tell you something to when you go out and 328 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:46,000 you walk out of the hot sun and you haven't had a shower in a 329 00:19:46,300 --> 00:19:48,700 while. I'll and you didn't have any 330 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:50,700 Right Guard because they didn't have that damn it. 331 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,900 In fact, right and guard. And Old Spice were far long way 332 00:19:53,900 --> 00:19:57,900 off. Okay, you're going to have body 333 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:00,300 odor. So it was very common people, 334 00:20:00,300 --> 00:20:03,900 kept this stuff, they kept this fragrant oil around, you know 335 00:20:03,900 --> 00:20:05,800 why? Because when the people would 336 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:11,000 come for the dinner, they would annoy each person and not only 337 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,600 was it something of honor to the person, but guess what? 338 00:20:14,700 --> 00:20:17,700 It was a value to everyone else that had to smell. 339 00:20:20,100 --> 00:20:24,000 That's what it was for. It's very, very common routine 340 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,500 function. A gesture of kindness. 341 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,500 Now, Matthew and Mark don't tell us who the woman is, but John 342 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:35,900 does in John chapter 12 and verse 3, John tells us, it's 343 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:40,000 Mary, the sister of Martha. It was very common to anoint the 344 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,400 guests with the strong perfume at the time of meal. 345 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,600 Now, I want you to picture this, can you understand? 346 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,300 This is Mary's the one that's going to do it. 347 00:20:50,700 --> 00:20:54,900 And she comes to Jesus and doesn't go any further. 348 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:58,700 She's going to that's what she was doing. 349 00:20:58,700 --> 00:21:02,100 That's how it started started out with the custom. 350 00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:05,900 And all of a sudden she takes it to Jesus and doesn't go any 351 00:21:05,900 --> 00:21:09,100 further. Doesn't go any further than 352 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:12,200 Jesus. She understands that he's moving 353 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:16,200 toward his death and somehow, in her, in her mind, she 354 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,800 understands to prepare Jesus in such a way. 355 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,400 Because in Jesus, going to the Cross, get this in Jesus going 356 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,400 to the Cross. Her Redemption was in that too. 357 00:21:28,700 --> 00:21:30,200 Do you think that the cross like that? 358 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:33,900 I mean, seriously, we sing songs. 359 00:21:33,900 --> 00:21:36,600 We had wonderful songs that we sung that were so appropriate 360 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,800 this morning for our topic. All the songs were very 361 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,800 appropriate. But do you think about that? 362 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,900 What do you think about when Jesus went to the cross? 363 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:49,800 And when you think about Jesus, and what he has done to, you 364 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:54,000 understand your Redemption? You personally, Dave Morgan, 365 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:59,400 your Redemption was in that too. You too Terry Osmond. 366 00:22:00,700 --> 00:22:05,600 Your Redemption. Your Redemption Mary understood. 367 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,500 Wait a minute. He's going to the cross and my 368 00:22:08,500 --> 00:22:14,600 Redemption is part of it. He's going to Bear my sins, too. 369 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:20,600 She starts with Jesus and she can't go any further. 370 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,900 And if you compare marks account and John's account, you know, 371 00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:27,900 she does she's shatters the entire bottle. 372 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,800 And then in verse 7 or it says, she poured it on his head. 373 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:37,800 Now, she shattered the bottle. I don't know what it smells 374 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,400 like. I have cologne. 375 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,800 If you put on a little too much, your wife says A little dab. 376 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:51,000 Will do you back it off a little pretty strong. 377 00:22:52,300 --> 00:22:55,400 I can't imagine what this must have been other than it was very 378 00:22:55,400 --> 00:23:02,300 strong fragrant smell. She breaks the entire bottle and 379 00:23:02,300 --> 00:23:05,600 in one gospel account. It says she pours it on his 380 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:10,500 head. But John says she poured it on 381 00:23:10,508 --> 00:23:14,000 his feet. The, some of which is to say she 382 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:18,600 took that Alabaster flax, she broke it and she poured it all 383 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,800 over his body. As an act of love, it was an act 384 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,200 of Honor. She was absolutely controlled by 385 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,500 service by worship that she couldn't deal with their 386 00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:31,100 strength. Let me ask you something. 387 00:23:31,300 --> 00:23:37,600 Do you start the Lord like that? Just answer to yourself, but I'm 388 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,000 asking real direct. Okay. 389 00:23:40,100 --> 00:23:42,100 And just pretend like I plugged your name right in it. 390 00:23:44,100 --> 00:23:45,900 I plugged it in. So what I'm saying this, I'm 391 00:23:45,900 --> 00:23:52,600 speaking to you. Do you serve the Lord like that? 392 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,200 Serve the Lord without restraint. 393 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:05,100 Or do you? Just give him a little along the 394 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:09,300 way. Do you serve him without 395 00:24:09,300 --> 00:24:10,800 restraint? Are you pulling back? 396 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:15,300 Just a little Think about it in your life. 397 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:20,200 You know what she was doing? She was honoring worshipping and 398 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,900 serving the lord without restraint. 399 00:24:22,900 --> 00:24:26,200 She took something that was extremely expensive and dump the 400 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,900 whole thing on one guest, you know why, it was the only guest 401 00:24:29,900 --> 00:24:33,800 that matter. And I'm going to tell you 402 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:37,500 something else, too. If the Lord is not number one in 403 00:24:37,500 --> 00:24:39,900 your life, there's nothing in the world that matters in your 404 00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:42,300 life period. Nothing nothing matters. 405 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,600 The things in your life matter only because the Lord's number 406 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:50,300 one in your life. If he's not, we need to go back 407 00:24:50,300 --> 00:24:54,600 to serving him without restraint and cut her loose and serve him 408 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,600 with everything. We got Sometimes we do this 409 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,800 though, okay? Okay, okay, but I'm really busy 410 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:05,100 on the skim a little that's serving the lord with restraint. 411 00:25:06,100 --> 00:25:09,200 So pouring out her, love her heart, her compassion, her 412 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,300 unrestrained devotion, and in doing. 413 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:14,300 So, she was honoring. The one that was going to die 414 00:25:14,300 --> 00:25:18,800 and rise again, for her salvation bearing, her sins. 415 00:25:18,900 --> 00:25:20,900 And notice what happens. Here's a response. 416 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:24,700 Here of others, as they watched her Devotion to Jesus. 417 00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:29,200 They got mad. You know, they said notice when 418 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,900 his disciples saw it, they were indignant and they said, to what 419 00:25:32,900 --> 00:25:37,600 purpose is this waste. There's a couple things that 420 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,700 come to me. A couple things that jump out 421 00:25:40,700 --> 00:25:43,600 number one, anytime you're going to do something that's good. 422 00:25:45,100 --> 00:25:47,900 Hear me now. Anytime you're going to do 423 00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:52,600 something that's good. That reminds somebody else of 424 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:54,900 what they're not doing them self. 425 00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:00,400 They're going to criticize you. It's okay. 426 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:05,400 Anyone that has ever done. Anything worth anything has been 427 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:06,900 criticized. So so what? 428 00:26:08,700 --> 00:26:10,900 You know, these type of picture this precious lady. 429 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,300 And she dumps the whole thing on Jesus, and now you got the 430 00:26:14,308 --> 00:26:16,400 disciples, you got the 12 or they're right there, and they're 431 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:21,000 going to be kidding me. What a waste What a waste? 432 00:26:22,700 --> 00:26:26,300 You spend it all. We could have done this. 433 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,500 We could have given it to the poor. 434 00:26:29,700 --> 00:26:33,100 We could have done that. Now first of all, I think this 435 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:35,400 is the important Point here. It's not time for meeting the 436 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,900 eat needs of others at the time for worship. 437 00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:41,400 Now, in John, chapter 12 and verse 6, it says Judas was the 438 00:26:41,408 --> 00:26:45,100 one that made the suggestion and he did so not because he cared 439 00:26:45,100 --> 00:26:47,800 about the poor. But because he held the bag, 440 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:53,200 notice John 12 and 6, this he said not that he cared for the 441 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,700 poor. But because he was a thief and 442 00:26:55,700 --> 00:26:59,500 he had money, he had the money box and he used to take what was 443 00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:03,200 put in it in. Other words, it's not about 444 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,200 that. You know what he wanted? 445 00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:08,400 Judas was thinking in his mind you what I could do I could have 446 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,200 sold it for. 300 denarii. I give it to the poor. 447 00:27:11,300 --> 00:27:14,100 Absolutely not, Jesus called him a thief. 448 00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:18,200 He wanted to put it in the pouch. 449 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:24,300 It was all about the money. In a stick, it in his robe. 450 00:27:25,500 --> 00:27:27,200 He knew the whole thing was coming down. 451 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,100 He knew it was the end of everything and he wanted the 452 00:27:30,108 --> 00:27:32,900 stuff in the bag. Get that bag is fat and full as 453 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:36,200 it can. He already knew what was going 454 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,500 to happen. He already knew he could have 455 00:27:38,500 --> 00:27:41,100 got a Year's wages and what a great thing he could have had a 456 00:27:41,108 --> 00:27:44,600 Year's wages. Notice the next verse. 457 00:27:46,100 --> 00:27:49,900 When Jesus was aware of it, he said to them. 458 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:56,700 Why do you trouble this woman for she has done a good work? 459 00:27:56,700 --> 00:27:58,000 Do you know what this word means? 460 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,300 Right here. She's done a good work. 461 00:28:00,900 --> 00:28:05,900 It means this in the original. She has done excellently. 462 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:12,200 She's done excellently. Leave her alone. 463 00:28:13,500 --> 00:28:19,500 She's done excellently. Do you know why she had done 464 00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:22,200 excellently? It's because she gave all she 465 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,300 had. I'm going to tell you. 466 00:28:25,300 --> 00:28:29,500 This is the coaching me a coat. I coach for 12 years I'm now 467 00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:31,800 done, I'm gonna tell you right now. 468 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,300 Nothing in the world ever matters in my mind and nothing 469 00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:38,800 in the world. Ever is acceptable in my mind. 470 00:28:40,500 --> 00:28:45,300 then when you give your best, If it's not your best, I'm going to 471 00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:46,200 say it. Shame on. 472 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,400 You be your best. Having a bad day. 473 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,200 So what be your best? Be your best. 474 00:28:52,300 --> 00:28:54,700 Whatever. That is be your best, you're 475 00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:57,300 discouraged a little bit. You got to serve God. 476 00:28:57,300 --> 00:29:00,700 So what serve God and be your best, whatever that is. 477 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,800 Is it going to be the best you have ever been? 478 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,800 No, probably not when you're having a bad day. 479 00:29:08,100 --> 00:29:12,700 But be your best. I'm going to tell you something, 480 00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:14,700 the Lord in the day of judgment. I don't believe this for a 481 00:29:14,700 --> 00:29:15,900 minute. I don't believe that in the day 482 00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:17,300 of judgment, it's all going to be laid out. 483 00:29:17,300 --> 00:29:18,700 They're going to say, okay, Frank brancato. 484 00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:20,800 How many people did you baptize? I don't believe that at all. 485 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,100 How many people were actually successful in converting? 486 00:29:25,100 --> 00:29:26,400 I don't think that's going to be in there at all. 487 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:30,800 I will say this, though. I think what's going to be, 488 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,700 there is this What was your effort? 489 00:29:36,100 --> 00:29:39,100 Did you try? Did you do your best? 490 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,200 Did you work? You might have failed in the 491 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,200 results. So what did your work? 492 00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:50,800 She did excellently because she gave her all. 493 00:29:52,700 --> 00:29:55,800 If everybody in the Lord's Church would just start doing 494 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,400 their all. Can you imagine what we'd be? 495 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:04,100 And I'm going to tell you right now, I say this out of love, 496 00:30:04,100 --> 00:30:06,300 every one of you, listen to me, I say this out of love, I 497 00:30:06,300 --> 00:30:09,600 guarantee you this, every single one of you has more, that's 498 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,800 fact. That's fact, you got more. 499 00:30:14,900 --> 00:30:17,100 Oh no, I'm just, no, no, no, no, you got more. 500 00:30:17,100 --> 00:30:20,100 You got way more. We all have way more. 501 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,500 Then it says in verse 11. Look at this. 502 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,700 I love the Lord's response for. You have the poor with you 503 00:30:27,700 --> 00:30:30,600 always. So they said no, wait a minute. 504 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,400 We could have sold this to give it to the poor. 505 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:37,200 Jesus already knew and John 12 and 6 know it, you're a liar. 506 00:30:37,900 --> 00:30:40,900 It's not why you want it but they addresses what they said 507 00:30:40,900 --> 00:30:43,700 for you have the poor with you always but me. 508 00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:49,100 You do not always have I'm going to tell you there's a time to 509 00:30:49,100 --> 00:30:51,000 meet the needs of the poor in the Bible. 510 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:55,000 Does tell us, we must do that and it's not new here all the 511 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,600 way back in the Old Testament. Let me give you a passage. 512 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,200 I'm talking about Deuteronomy 15:11. 513 00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:03,800 So this is our responsibility of helping those that are in need. 514 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,900 Watch for the poor will never cease from your land. 515 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:09,100 That's what he was saying up here. 516 00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:11,500 By the way, they're always going to be there. 517 00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:14,100 I'm going to be here for a short time, all right? 518 00:31:14,500 --> 00:31:16,200 The poor will never cease from the land. 519 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,900 Therefore, I command you saying, you shall open up your hand 520 00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:22,700 wide. To your brother. 521 00:31:23,900 --> 00:31:27,300 To you're poor and you're needy in your land. 522 00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:30,300 This should be your thought, I'd call my typos. 523 00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:34,300 This is not our, it's, your open, your hand wide. 524 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,100 Okay? So we understand that. 525 00:31:36,100 --> 00:31:37,600 We have to help those that are in need. 526 00:31:38,700 --> 00:31:41,100 What's going on here though? It's a very simple principle. 527 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,200 It's saying this folks worshiping God is the ultimate 528 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:50,500 priority in your life. What she did was an act of 529 00:31:50,500 --> 00:31:53,200 worship. Worship means to kiss the hand 530 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,800 of its the bow, the head before it is to literally put your head 531 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:01,700 down, symbolically for the Lord. You know what he's saying? 532 00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:04,900 Yeah, you got to take care of the poor, but that is not as 533 00:32:04,900 --> 00:32:08,100 important as worshiping me. That's what he said. 534 00:32:10,100 --> 00:32:11,800 Nothing is more important than worship. 535 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:19,200 At a low store one time. One time, there were some people 536 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,900 that were at services on signing member who was just remember, I 537 00:32:22,908 --> 00:32:27,300 just remember the words. And they were Services Sunday 538 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:29,200 morning. Oh you be back this afternoon. 539 00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:32,200 Oh no. We're going to go down to the 540 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,900 soup kitchen down there. Well, feed the hungry. 541 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,100 Don't you see what's wrong with that? 542 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:40,800 Yeah, we take care of the hungry. 543 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:42,800 Absolutely. Yeah. 544 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,300 We take care of the needs of the poor. 545 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:48,700 Absolutely. But nothing is a priority over 546 00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:50,100 worship. Nothing. 547 00:32:51,900 --> 00:32:54,100 That's what the Lord was saying. You got the poor always. 548 00:32:54,100 --> 00:32:56,600 They're never going to stop being around you but worship is 549 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,200 number one. So what we can't do folks, we 550 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:04,900 can't justify not going to Services just because we're 551 00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:08,000 going to do some good thing over here as a humanitarian. 552 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,100 You can't erase your worship to the Lord. 553 00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:13,900 That's number one. That's what he was saying. 554 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,900 It's the Supreme act that any Christian could ever do. 555 00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:23,200 Now notice though, what Jesus said about her, he first said, 556 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,700 leave her alone. She is done excellently. 557 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,600 You got the poor always. I'm not gonna always be here. 558 00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:37,000 Then notice what he said for in pouring this fragrant oil on my 559 00:33:37,100 --> 00:33:41,600 body. She did it for my burial. 560 00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:47,000 In other words, it was in preparation, it was in 561 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,200 preparation of Jesus. Going to the Cross died for the 562 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,200 sins of the world. It is in preparation. 563 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:59,900 For my burial verse 13. Assuredly, I say to you wherever 564 00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:02,400 the gospel is preached in the whole world. 565 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:06,000 What this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to 566 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:11,000 her in that amazing. What if you got to be married? 567 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:17,100 What if Mary was you? Jesus said it is so excellent. 568 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,199 That whenever the gospel, when I'm what we mean by that is is 569 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:24,400 the gospel accounts in the in the gospel accounts whenever 570 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,300 that is red or preached. It's going to be in there, it's 571 00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:30,600 going to be in that scripture. You know, why it's going to show 572 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:35,400 what she had done as a memorial to her in her honor of the Lord. 573 00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:39,800 Matthew Mark and John wherever that's preach that has this 574 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,100 account whenever anyone reads that you're going to remember 575 00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:46,800 what this woman did as a memorial of her loving worship. 576 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,600 So, in preparing for the cross, we have hateful rejection, 577 00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:53,199 Caiaphas Chief priests and Elders. 578 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:57,700 All them to, we have loving worship of Mary, but then 579 00:34:57,700 --> 00:35:00,000 there's a final one and I'll be very brief about this. 580 00:35:00,700 --> 00:35:05,600 It is betraying hypocrisy. That's number three. 581 00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:10,300 And that's verse 14. Then one of the twelve called 582 00:35:10,300 --> 00:35:14,000 Judas Iscariot went to the chief priests now picture this, when 583 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,400 did he do it? It goes back to Saturday. 584 00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:22,600 It's following what Jesus just said. 585 00:35:24,700 --> 00:35:28,000 This guy was a creep to, it goes all the way back. 586 00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:33,900 Judas went out that night in Bethany after her earring, Jesus 587 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,500 And left and went straight to the chief priests that Saturday 588 00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:40,700 night. And what did he do? 589 00:35:40,700 --> 00:35:44,200 When he got there? Verse 15 and said, what are you 590 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:48,000 willing to give me if I deliver him to you and they counted out 591 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:53,000 to him, 30 pieces of silver? It's all about the money. 592 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,600 It's all about the money. He was going to get as much as 593 00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,700 he could. You know, I think about that. 594 00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:01,200 I don't know. I know this. 595 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,200 I know that according to Exodus 30 pieces of silver was the 596 00:36:04,207 --> 00:36:06,700 price of a slave. I get it. 597 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,200 I get, I get that. I understand that it's the price 598 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:14,100 of a slave and I know that when Joseph was sold into slavery, I 599 00:36:14,100 --> 00:36:18,000 know that he was sold for 20 pieces of silver in the price of 600 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,300 a Slave. I don't think about it that much 601 00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:23,800 because I've done some research and years and years and years 602 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,900 later at the time that Paul wrote to Philemon about onesimus 603 00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:32,300 the slave, the amount to purchase a slave there was way 604 00:36:32,300 --> 00:36:36,600 more than that. So I look at 30 pieces of silver 605 00:36:37,300 --> 00:36:40,900 to a man that nothing else mattered, but the money and I 606 00:36:40,900 --> 00:36:44,900 look at a very paltry sum For a guy that really wanted the 607 00:36:44,908 --> 00:36:48,600 money. They counted out to him, 30 608 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:53,100 pieces of silver. And remember this folks, Jesus 609 00:36:53,100 --> 00:36:54,800 just said what he said in Bethany. 610 00:36:55,700 --> 00:36:57,800 He's, he gave a little sermon about this wonderful. 611 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,800 Precious woman that anointed him and worshiped him. 612 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,600 And all of that he said, leave her alone. 613 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,300 She has done excellently. You know what happened 614 00:37:05,300 --> 00:37:10,200 immediately? Judas betrays him Begins the 615 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,400 Betrayal, then verse 16. Listen. 616 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,500 So from that time, he sought opportunity to betray him. 617 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,900 Got the money and from that time Luke 1:37 and six says. 618 00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:23,100 So he promised and sought opportunity to betray him to 619 00:37:23,100 --> 00:37:25,600 them in the absence of the multitude. 620 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,200 In other words, this is even before the triumphal entry on 621 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:33,700 Sunday. Awful it was before I cleanse 622 00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:37,300 the temple on Monday. It was before all the preaching 623 00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:41,100 that he did on Tuesday. He was looking for a moment to 624 00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:46,400 betray Jesus. So what Jesus Will is receiving 625 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,400 love from Mary, the plot is beginning in Judas, his mind. 626 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:55,000 and I think about this, I think, you know, From that time. 627 00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,700 He sought opportunity to betray him, I don't understand you. 628 00:37:58,707 --> 00:38:02,500 No one scholar said, he is the greatest example of lost 629 00:38:02,500 --> 00:38:04,600 opportunity, the world ever knew. 630 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:10,600 Now, I do believe, I don't believe that God made Judas even 631 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,000 though prophetically speaking. He would be the one who lifts 632 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,100 his heel against Jesus. I don't think God from a 633 00:38:17,100 --> 00:38:20,500 prophetic standpoint made Judas do anything. 634 00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:24,000 I think God is so brilliant and all knowing that he knew that he 635 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,000 would and in the fact that he knew that he would, he used that 636 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:34,400 for his cause It's kind of like God using the wrath of men to 637 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,900 praise him. Like we're told. 638 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,700 Lost opportunity, he's a traitor in burned. 639 00:38:42,700 --> 00:38:45,600 In his mind, there's only three ways, folks. 640 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,300 Listen, there's only three ways to approach the death of Christ. 641 00:38:49,300 --> 00:38:52,200 There's three ways. Number one. 642 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:58,700 Hateful rejection. Somebody might say no-oh-oh you 643 00:38:58,700 --> 00:39:01,700 can rejecting on. Hey, I mean, I love Jesus. 644 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:10,200 No, Jesus said, if you love me, keep my Commandments. 645 00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:16,400 If you love me, keep my words. And if you do that, if you keep 646 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,100 my Commandments, you will abide in my love. 647 00:39:19,100 --> 00:39:22,100 As I've kept the father's Commandments and abide in his 648 00:39:22,100 --> 00:39:24,300 love. You know what that means? 649 00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:27,400 You can't love Jesus with That obedience? 650 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:31,300 No, you can't. Can't. 651 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,500 So one way, one way to respond or approach the death of crisis 652 00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:39,100 with hateful rejection. That's what Caiaphas did. 653 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:41,800 That's what the chief priests did. 654 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:46,100 That's what the elders did. Or you can do this, you can 655 00:39:46,100 --> 00:39:48,400 approach it from loving worship. Like Mary did. 656 00:39:49,500 --> 00:39:51,500 You can make him the focal point of your life. 657 00:39:51,700 --> 00:39:53,900 You can be so appreciative for what he's done for you. 658 00:39:53,900 --> 00:39:56,100 That you're willing to devote your entire life to him. 659 00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:00,800 Or number three, You can do it with betraying, the Paw cracy 660 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:06,300 like Judas. Some people, folks, some people 661 00:40:06,300 --> 00:40:10,100 today fall in those categories, affect everybody does. 662 00:40:12,100 --> 00:40:15,000 We are stopped to consider that there when somebody hears the 663 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,200 gospel, they fall into one of those three categories once they 664 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:22,600 hear it. Absolutely like this. 665 00:40:24,700 --> 00:40:29,500 Some hate because they rejected. Some love because they're 666 00:40:29,500 --> 00:40:32,300 willing to devote and worship and get this one over here. 667 00:40:32,300 --> 00:40:34,300 And you can see us over here. Don't forget that one. 668 00:40:35,900 --> 00:40:40,300 Some pretend. Judas was pretending. 669 00:40:41,700 --> 00:40:45,700 Pretending to be there with the Lord, knowing the whole time he 670 00:40:45,700 --> 00:40:49,000 was nothing but a hypocrite and he was trying to find an 671 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,900 opportunity to betray Jesus. Which one are we? 672 00:40:54,300 --> 00:40:59,900 Which one are we? Rejection love or do we pretend 673 00:40:59,900 --> 00:41:03,600 in our life? 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