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Oh my goodness, I had 
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I had to hold back 'cause I was 
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I'm not going to be able to 
talk. 

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So let me ask you, have you ever
witnessed someone worship, 

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worship Jesus in a way that made
you feel uncomfortable? 

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Not because they were showy, 
because it, it stirred something

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up in you. 
Maybe you watch somebody give to

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the church and they, they were 
giving extravagantly and you're 

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like, I don't know, man. 
Or maybe you heard somebody say 

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a prayer. 
That was an absolute confidence 

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that God is going to provide and
be there in their life. 

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And you're like, man, that seems
a little bit naive. 

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Or maybe, or maybe you've seen 
somebody take a radical change 

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in their life to follow Jesus. 
And you're looking at it like 

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you'd kind of gone a little bit 
too far. 

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And you've convinced yourself, 
you convince yourself that your 

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response is the mature one. 
It's the responsible one, it's 

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the wise one. 
But what if it's not wisdom? 

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What if it's something else 
entirely? 

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I'll never forget when my wife 
came up to me and she was 

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excited. 
She was being presented with a 

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ministry opportunity and she had
a chance to start a homeschool 

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Group, A Christian homeschool 
group in Korea and, and in 

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China. 
And this is a chance for her to 

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impact lives, a chance for her 
to step into something bigger. 

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And my first words to her were 
not, I'm so proud of you. 

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They were not, wow, What? 
What is God doing in our lives 

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that we could go on this 
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No, my first response was, have 
you really thought about how 

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much time this is going to take?
You know, our, our, our kids 

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schedule. 
Our schedules are pretty busy. 

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Are you ready for this, this 
kind of commitment, this kind of

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responsibility? 
Immediately I shut down the joy 

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before it could even start to 
grow roots or take something 

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simpler. 
She loves to bake cakes. 

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She will bake a cake. 
She will create a beautiful, 

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elaborate cake for a birthday, 
for a celebration. 

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And every single time I look at 
that cake and I can't hold my 

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mouth and I say, honey, you 
know, Costco's right down the 

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street, $30 sheet cake. 
We could have this handled. 

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She's pouring out love, 
creativity, celebrating, and I'm

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over here calculating, 'cause I 
don't see the glass half full, I

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see it half empty. 
And if I'm being brutally honest

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with you, it's empty because 
it's cracked, it's leaking. 

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I don't leave room for God, I 
don't leave room for the joy He 

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brings. 
I don't leave room for 

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extravagant worship. 
And I'm realizing I don't have a

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practical problem, I have a 
cynicism problem. 

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And when I see somebody wasting 
money, wasting resources, 

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wasting time on Jesus, their 
carefully planned out lives, my 

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first reaction isn't, wow, look 
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criticism. 
I'm realizing I'm not the wise 

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one in the room. 
I'm the cynic that gets in the 

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way of the Lord. 
In John chapter 12, we're going 

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to witness a dinner party, and 
at the dinner party there's 

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going to be 3 different types of
people's responses, how they 

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respond to Jesus, and they're 
going to be completely 

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different. 
One will be 1 worships 

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extravagantly. 
The next will be one group 

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watches skeptically and lastly, 
1 criticizes harshly and Jesus 

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reveals that the response, the 
responses that they are showing,

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it's really it's really about 
their hearts. 

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That's our big idea for today. 
Your worship reveals what you 

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truly treasure. 
Your worship, the things you 

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worship. 
It truly shows what you 

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treasure. 
And the question I'm going to 

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ask now and I want you to think 
about this and we're going to 

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get to this at the end. 
Are you more like Mary? 

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Are you more like the disciples 
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So if you ever Bibles turn with 
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going to start in verse one. 
If you don't have your Bible, so

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it's OK, we're going to have on 
the screen. 

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But some quick context. 
So what's happening, what we've 

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been reading through for the 
last month or so is Jesus had 

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just raised his best friend 
Lazarus from the dead, not 

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freshly did not. 
Maybe he's kind of sleeping. 

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Not like we could probably do 
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This guy's gone. 
He's been dead for four days, 

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body decomposing. 
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healing. 
This was a resurrection, an 

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undeniable unstoppable proof 
that Jesus is and has power over

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death. 
This is 6 days before Jesus will

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be betrayed, arrested, beaten, 
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perfect man willingly going to 
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John chapter 12, verse one. 
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Jesus came to Bethany where 
Lazarus was the one Jesus had 

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raised from the dead. 
So they gave him a dinner for 

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him. 
There Martha was serving them 

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and Lazarus was one of those 
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Then Mary took a pound of pure a
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Nard anointed Jesus's feet and 
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So the house was filled filled 
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perfume. 
Then one of his disciples, Judas

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Iscariot said the one of his 
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was about to portray him said 
why wasn't this perfume sold for

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300 Denari verse 7 Jesus 
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She has kept it for the day of 
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For you will always have the 
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always have me. 
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Lazarus is there once wrapped up
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Now he's just sitting there 
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It's filled with people, it's 
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dinner like nothing ever 
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Martha's in the kitchen doing 
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She's serving, serving Jesus 
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Now she understands what she's 
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For the disciples, they're there
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about what happened and why 
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In the culture, when you went to
dinner with them, they would put

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a few drops of cheap perfume on 
your head and guests would have 

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their feet washed. 
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In fact, she does the complete 
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She takes the most expensive 
perfume a year, a year's worth 

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of wages, 70 to $100,000. 
In this bottle. 

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They see Mary take it out. 
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They know that this could have 
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savings account, maybe even her 
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And she does the unthinkable. 
She pours every last drop out. 

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Then, in complete surrender, she
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and starts to wipe Jesus with 
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The entire house goes silent. 
Everyone knows Mary just gave 

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everything she had. 
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She let it all out. 
Now watch these three responses.

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Response #1 Mary's extravagant 
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Mary's worship reveals a heart 
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Why, Mary? 
Why? 

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Why would you pour out an entire
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Here's what Mary understood. 
Jesus is worth everything. 

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He's worth everything. 
Mary had just watched Jesus 

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raise her brother from the dead.
Jesus calling out Lazarus, come 

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out, come out alive. 
And Mary's looking at this jar 

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of perfume and sees, sees this 
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investment. 
This isn't a security. 

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This is something I can give to 
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who actually made a difference 
in my life, brought my brother 

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back from the dead. 
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She didn't calculate. 
She broke it open and poured out

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everything. 
Because when you truly, when you

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truly treasure Jesus, 
extravagant worship isn't 

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wasteful. 
It's the only reasonable 

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response. 
But notices Mary, she's not the 

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only one in that room. 
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cynical caution because of the 
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their hearts are for safety and 
they're cynical. 

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Look back at verse 4. 
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Judas, spoke up with criticism. 
But if you look at the other 

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accounts, if you look at 
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says this. 
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they were indignant. 
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It wasn't just Judas. 
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room, the inner circle, the ones
who've been following Jesus for 

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years, the ones who had seen him
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They watched Mary pour out 
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They wondered why. 
Why this waste? 

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The disciples were not like 
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They weren't evil. 
But they were skeptical. 

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They were cynical, they were 
calculating. 

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They agreed this could have been
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the poor. 
And on the surface that sounds 

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noble. 
But what really is revealed is 

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they didn't believe Jesus was 
worth that much. 

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They'd follow Jesus, They'd 
serve Jesus. 

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They even left their jobs to be 
with Jesus. 

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But pour out everything. 
Come on now, let's not get 

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carried away. 
And if I'm being real, if I'm 

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being honest with you, I'm just 
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When somebody gets an 
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opportunity, I don't say that's 
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No, I say, have we really 
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I am not hostile to worship. 
I love worship, but I'm 

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cautious. 
I'm skeptical. 

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I'm practical. 
When I see somebody worship me 

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in a way that I don't worship, 
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them. 
And Jesus calls that cynicism, 

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cynicism, Show, show. 
Cynicism shows up when you've 

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seen Jesus do incredible things.
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You hold back your worship and 
your trust. 

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You leave no space for him to 
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The disciples, they've seen 
Jesus turn water into wine, feed

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the 5000, heal the blind, walk 
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And they still wonder. 
They still question, Mary, are 

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you worshipping Jesus too much? 
Have you gone overboard? 

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Because here's the thing about 
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It always assumes the worst. 
When I see the glass half empty,

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I'm not being realistic. 
I'm refusing to believe God will

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fill it up. 
When I kill my wife's joy. 

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I'm not being wise. 
I'm refusing to God that God 

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actually has a calling in her 
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When I'm calculating worship, 
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I'm refusing to believe Jesus is
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Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, 
but it's really just unbelief 

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with a spreadsheet. 
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The disciples are in that room. 
They're in there with Jesus. 

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They're watching. 
They're watching this beautiful 

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act, they can smell, they're 
experiencing it, and yet they 

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still miss it because they're 
cynical enough to critique it. 

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And some of you, like me or like
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Jesus, you're in the room, 
you're in church, you're 

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serving, You know the answers. 
But when someone else worships 

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extravagantly, they give 
sacrificially, they trust 

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recklessly, they pray 
expectantly. 

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Your first thought isn't I want 
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No, it's I'm not sure if that's 
wise. 

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I'm not sure if that's 
responsible. 

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I think that might, might be too
much because I'm the mature one.

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But Jesus is about to show us 
that cynicism isn't maturity. 

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It's a prison, a prison that 
keeps you from experiencing the 

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fullness of God, what God wants 
to do in your life. 

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Response #3 Judas Judas 
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Judas criticism reveals a heart 
that treasures something other 

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than Jesus. 
It's treasuring money. 

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Mary is on her knees worshiping.
Everyone is in there witnessing 

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this costly worship and the one 
person that can't keep his mouth

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shut is Judas. 
Verse four. 

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He says this. 
Then one of the his disciples, 

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Judas Iscariot, was about to 
betray him and he said why 

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wasn't this perfume sold for 300
denarii and given to the poor 

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six. 
He didn't say this because he 

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cared about the poor, but 
because he was a thief. 

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He was in charge of the money 
bag and when still part of it, 

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what was put into it? 
The disciples, they questioned 

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this worship, but Judas 
condemned this worship. 

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He didn't think this was just 
wasteful, wasteful. 

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He was angry about it. 
John opens up the curtain of his

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heart because he didn't care 
about the poor. 

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He was a thief. 
Judas had been around Jesus for 

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three years, seen every miracle,
heard every sermon, sat with 

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dinner after dinner, getting the
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himself. 
He had Jesus, he had all of him.

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He had it all and he missed it 
all because his heart, his heart

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treasured more morning. 
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than the Messiah. 
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He'd seen the the sick being 
healed, the storms being called,

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raised from the dead, heard 
every sermon. 

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He'd be in the front row of the 
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But when he looked at Jesus, he 
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He saw a way to fund his agenda,
a resource to manage your 

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worship. 
Your worship reveals what you 

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truly treasure. 
He never saw Jesus as a 

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treasure. 
He saw Jesus as a tool. 

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Verse 7 Jesus answered, leave 
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the day of my burial. 
For you always have the poor 

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with you, but you do not always 
have me. 

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Jesus is not saying don't care 
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us He commands us to take care 
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But the hard truth is, what you 
criticize in others often 

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reveals what you treasure in 
secrets. 

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What you criticize in others 
often reveals what you treasure 

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in secret. 
It's not a secret anymore. 

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Some of you were thinking, this 
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You're asking me to worship. 
You're asking me to do something

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that sounds irresponsible. 
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practically, Judas wasn't wrong.
That was a lot of money. 

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But here's what he missed. 
This isn't about perfume. 

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This is about the person. 
Three people groups in that 

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room. 3 responses to Judas, to 
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Excuse me. 
Mary is our model. 

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She's our model. 
This is the hearts we're aiming 

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for. 
The disciples are the mirror. 

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And if we're honest, this is 
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We love Jesus, but we calculate.
We follow Jesus, but we hold 

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back. 
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This is where cynicism leads. 
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Jesus but miss him entirely. 
I asked you to think about that.

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Which one are you? 
Because I've realized I've spent

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most of my Christian life as a 
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Not hostile to Jesus, but not 
worshipping him in full 

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surrender. 
Not betraying him, but not 

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pouring out everything I have. 
I'm the guy who serves Jesus, 

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but practicality is my first 
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I'm the guy who worship worships
Jesus, but only to the point to 

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the That makes sense to me. 
If you're worshipping in a way 

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that I don't know, I don't 
experience, I don't understand, 

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it might not be the right way. 
The truth is, we all spend 

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extravagantly on what we love, 
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Worth it. 
Driving 6 hours to go meet 

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somebody that you think you 
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That's love staying up all night
to finish your kids science 

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board because you love them. 
That's the only reason I'm not 

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calling Mary's worship over the 
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Jesus just brought back her 
brother from the dead, so 

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pouring out everything she had 
perfectly natural the most 

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reasonable response to a 
resurrection is extravagant 

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worship. 
What I'm saying is, my 

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calculations often don't account
for who Jesus is and what Jesus 

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has actually done in my life. 
I'm over here doing math, trying

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to figure it out, but I'm not 
including the most important 

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variable, Jesus himself. 
That's not wisdom, that's 

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cynicism. 
Religion calculates, but 

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relationships, Relationships 
pours out. 

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Everything that you have. 
The disciples they're doing in 

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religion. 
Mary, Mary is in a relationship.

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And Judas, I need you to hear 
this. 

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You can be around Jesus and 
still miss him. 

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You can attend church every 
week, you can serve on teams, 

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you can know all the answers. 
You can do all the right things,

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but you can still treasure 
something greater than Jesus. 

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And maybe Jesus isn't your 
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You go to church. 
You go to church on Sunday 

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because it's expected of you, 
You, your family. 

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This is what your family does. 
This is a family legacy. 

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This is a religious check box. 
I have to do this on Sunday. 

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Or maybe you're hoping that 
Jesus will improve your life, 

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give you peace, fix your 
problems, bless your plans. 

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But what if? 
But what if he's not? 

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He's not asking just to be your 
helper. 

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What if he's calling? 
He's calling you to surrender 

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your life to Him, to make him 
your greatest treasure. 

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I asked this, 'cause maybe 
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but and maybe you missed him. 
Three years Judas was with Jesus

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and he missed it. 
I bet you don't let that be your

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story. 
Understand what Mary understood.

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Her brother was dead and Jesus 
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That's why she didn't hesitate. 
That's why she poured out 

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everything. 
That's why the cost was not too 

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high. 
When you've seen someone you 

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love be brought back from 
physical or spiritual death, you

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don't stop and ask, is this too 
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You ask, what can I possibly do 
to worship the one thing that 

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made such a difference in my 
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And here's what Mary understood.
And some of us are missing. 

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This just isn't Lazarus's story.
This is our story too. 

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Listen to how the Paul, the 
apostle Paul describes every 

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single one of us before Jesus. 
Ephesians chapter 2, verse 2 

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says, And you were dead in your 
trespasses and sins, in which 

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you previously walked, according
to the ways of this world, 

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according to the ruler of the 
power of the air, the Spirit now

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working in the disobedient. 
We too all previously lived 

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among them in our fleshly 
desires, carrying out the 

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inclinations of our flesh and 
our thoughts, and we were by 

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nature children under wrath, as 
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sin, chained to the world, 
living just like everyone else. 

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That was me, That is some of 
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Verse 4, The 2 greatest words. 
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But God, who is rich in mercy 
because of His great love that 

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He has for us, for you, for me, 
made us alive with Christ, even 

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though we were dead in 
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You, me, we are saved by grace. 
You can't save yourselves. 

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Jesus lived a perfect life, the 
life you can't live. 

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He died the death that you 
deserved, and he rose to offer 

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forgiveness and eternal life. 
That's why Mary worshipped 

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extravagantly. 
She understood I was dead and he

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made me alive. 
If that's true, if Jesus has 

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saved you from death, then 
what's too much to give him? 

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The question I have to ask, I 
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It always is. 
Has Jesus made you alive? 

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Or are you still dead in this 
room hearing about Jesus, 

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watching others worship, but 
you've never actually 

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surrendered to him? 
Don't be like Judas. 

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Don't miss him when you're this 
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Romans 10/9 says if you confess 
with your mouth that Jesus is 

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Lord and you believe in your 
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dead, you will be saved. 
It simply says, if you admit 

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that Jesus, I am a Sinner, I 
cannot save myself, I believe 

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you. 
I believe that Jesus died and 

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rose again and I surrender Jesus
be my Lord. 

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If that's your heart right now, 
I suggest I urge you to 

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surrender your life to Jesus. 
I'm going to give you a chance. 

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Maybe that's something you want 
to do right now. 

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If we all could bow our heads, 
if you're willing to ask for 

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forgiveness and for salvation, 
pray this to God. 

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Jesus, I know, I know. 
I'm a Sinner. 

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I cannot save myself. 
I want you to save me. 

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I want you to adopt me into your
family. 

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I surrender everything to you. 
I receive your promise of 

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forgiveness, your promise of 
adoption, your promise of 

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eternal life. 
Jesus be my Lord, with no one 

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looking around. 
If you prayed that for the very 

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first time would you be brave 
and raise your hand for me to 

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see I see your hand. 
Anybody else? 

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You can put your hands down in 
Jesus name, Amen. 

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If you raise your hand, and I 
have seen raise hands in this 

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room, welcome to the family of 
God. 

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There are tables in the back of 
our sanctuary that have signs 

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that say I raised my hand at 
those tables. 

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There's people that they want to
celebrate with you. 

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They want to give you a Bible. 
They want to talk about what it 

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looks like in their lives for 
them to surrender and what it 

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looks like for you to give it 
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For those who've already known 
Jesus, if Jesus is truly your 

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greatest treasure, then what 
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It's easy to sing on Sunday, but
it's hard to live out on Monday.

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This week I'm challenging you. 
I'm going to ask you. 

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I'm asking myself the hard 
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What's the one thing? 
What's the one thing in your 

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life that you won't give to 
Jesus? 

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Identify your hold back. 
Your hold back is a thing that 

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that you hesitate to surrender 
because it feels too costly, 

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feels too risky, feels too 
important, too important. 

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Tim Keller calls us the idols of
our hearts, the things, the 

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treasures that we're unwilling 
to give to God, that we can't 

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give up. 
It could be your time, could be 

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your money, could be your 
passions, could be your 

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reputation. 
This week, I urge you to talk to

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God. 
Have Him reveal that in your 

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life. 
Write it down. 

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The thing I'm holding back from 
Jesus is this #2 take one step 

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of extravagant worship. 
Don't just pray, Do something. 

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This week. 
If it's time, sign up to serve. 

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We have a lot of things 
happening right now. 

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If it's money, set up your 
tithe. 

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If it's your reputation, share 
Jesus with somebody this week. 

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Break open your bottle and pour 
all you have out be. 

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Here's what I'm learning. 
The only thing more costly than 

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extravagant worship is 
withholding worship and missing 

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out. 
What God wants to do in my life 

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#3 the last thing is pray a 
dangerous prayer. 

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Pray, Jesus. 
I have been treating this thing 

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as more valuable than you. 
I've been cynical instead of 

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expectant. 
I've been calculating instead of

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trusting. 
Jesus, I repent. 

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I want to change my wise, my 
ways. 

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I want to look to you. 
I don't want to run from my 

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past. 
Show me what it looks like to be

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obedient and give me the courage
to obey. 

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Here is the key, you and I, we 
can't do this on our own. 

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This isn't about our willpower. 
This is about the Holy Spirit 

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transforming hearts, turning a 
disciple's heart that calculates

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into a merry heart that pours 
out everything. 

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Ask him. 
Ask him to replace your cynicism

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with expectancy, your skepticism
with trust, your caution with 

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courage. 
I invite the prayer team to come

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out right now during our closing
song. 

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I encourage you to come and pray
with them. 

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Pray about anything. 
Maybe you've recognized that God

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is calling you to give him 
something. 

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Come pray about that. 
If you all could stand right 

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now, we're going to sing our 
last song together. 

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As you stand, as the call, as 
the Lord calls you, as the 

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Lord's asking you to move. 
Let him meet you. 

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Let him transform your hearts.