WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.000 John 11, starting in verse 55. 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:10.080 Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country to purify themselves before the Passover. 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:14.640 They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple, What do you think? 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:16.399 He won't come to the festival, will he? 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:23.359 The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it so that they could arrest him. 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:29.519 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, the one Jesus had raised from the dead. 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:31.199 They gave a dinner for him there. 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:35.759 Martha was serving them, and Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with him. 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:43.119 Then Mary took a pound of perfume, pure and expensive nard, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped his feet with her hair. 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:46.079 So the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:54.079 Then one of the disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was about to betray him, said, Why wasn't this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor? 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:57.600 He didn't say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:01.679 He was in charge of the money bag and would steal part of what was put in it. 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:04.480 Jesus answered, Leave her alone. 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:06.799 She has kept it for the day of my burial. 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:10.640 You always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me. 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:13.680 Then a large crowd of the Jews learned he was there. 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:17.439 They came not only because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus, the one he'd raised from the dead. 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:25.120 But the chief priests had decided to kill Lazarus also, because he was the reason many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus. 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:26.239 Let's pray. 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:28.239 Lord, I thank you for this morning. 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:32.000 I thank you so much for your goodness and faithfulness in all things. 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:39.519 I thank you for the far surpassing value of knowing you, of anything that this world has to offer. 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:51.519 I ask, Lord, that as we study your word, that you would fill me with your spirit to teach, that you would fill the hearers with your spirit to rightly divide and discern what is of you, that we would draw closer to you and fall more in love with you as a result. 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:52.480 In your name. 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:53.359 Amen. 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:55.280 Go ahead and have a seat. 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:57.359 Alright. 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:02.319 So, little known fact about me. 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:04.640 I love art museums. 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:06.719 Weird thing, but it's true. 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:07.920 I love wandering through them. 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:08.560 I love doing that. 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:12.960 I am not a connoisseur, if you ask me like the difference between Picasso's blue period, red period, okay. 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:14.479 I don't have the slightest idea what you're looking at. 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:15.840 I like the pretty pictures. 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:28.000 But with that, when you go to an art museum, you get to wander through and you get to look and you get to see the artwork and the cool pieces and hear, try to discern what's going on there. 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:34.960 You get to critique it a little bit, you get a little bit of that, you get a little bit of satisfaction when you're like, mmm, don't like that one so much. 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:46.319 I went to uh the Museum of Art in Dallas, and there was one where like the top half was dark gray and the bottom half was black, and all I could think of was like, did Batman paint this? 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:52.400 I'm not see I'm not understanding the, but that's maybe it's because I'm not an arts critic with that. 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:57.840 So with that in mind, I have a slide here along those lines. 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:02.639 The picture on the right is from that same museum trip. 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:13.439 And so it's this really cool picture of uh the prodigal son through the lens of the Dust Bowl era, and it has all these different things with that. 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:15.039 Cool, right? 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:21.759 The one on the left was something that one of my kids did when they were very, very, very young. 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:24.240 Guess which one I like more? 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:34.240 Okay, now if you are here as an art critic, objectively the one on the right, better. 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:40.719 Style, technique, results, meaning. 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:47.439 But the one on the left has special value to me because my kid did it. 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:58.400 And they did it not to try to get something from me, not to launch their art career, but because they wanted to bless me and said, I made this for you. 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:05.919 And I did not in that moment go, mmm, your lot, your strokes, a little messy. 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:09.199 Didn't even try to give it a sky. 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:10.639 The sky's not white, my dear. 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:12.400 Like, you know, we didn't we didn't do that. 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:14.000 We put it on the fridge. 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:21.360 When you go to somebody's house and you see artwork on the fridge, you don't tend to critique it, right? 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:26.079 If you do, we should probably talk afterwards because it's really messed up. 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:40.720 But this is the difference between art that is good in terms of its uh style, its substance, its meaning, and art that has value because of the connection and the heart it came from. 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:42.000 Does that make sense? 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:44.160 Hold on to that for a second. 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:46.000 We'll come back to it. 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:49.519 We are going to then jump into our passage. 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:51.360 Verse 55. 00:04:52.639 --> 00:05:00.480 The Jewish Passover was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country to purify themselves before the Passover. 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:05.199 They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple, what do you think? 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:07.199 He won't come to the festival, will he? 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:13.839 And the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it so that they could arrest him. 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:19.279 Here is the big picture for the rest of the book, for the most part. 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:21.680 We're ending John 11. 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:34.160 And from here until John 18, I believe, all happens at or around the Passover and the events leading up to it. 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:36.720 So there's a big chunk of this book that's happening here. 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:42.000 So it's a crazy thing when it says the Jewish Passover was near, and we go, okay, cool, the Jewish Passover is here. 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:46.079 This is the week leading up to the death of Jesus. 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:47.519 That's what's happening here. 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:51.120 Not just a Passover, the Passover. 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:55.360 And many went up to Jerusalem from the country to purify themselves before the Passover. 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:56.319 What is going on here? 00:05:56.480 --> 00:06:05.600 Well, uh, three times a year, all able-bodied Jewish men were to visit Jerusalem for the high holidays, Passover being one of them. 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:15.839 However, if along the way you were defiled by things by like by death, by other things that happened, you could not participate in the feast. 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:17.600 You either. 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:23.519 And with that in mind, the problem of that would be you disqualified from the feast. 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:24.959 So you would show up, but you couldn't do anything. 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:33.600 And so people could come early, just in case they could have a purification buffer so that they could participate in the feast. 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:35.519 That's their culture, right? 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:36.560 Think of this though. 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:39.120 This is the irony, the irony of this statement. 00:06:39.439 --> 00:07:02.879 That these well-meaning people are coming, coming early, planning ahead to purify themselves for this feast, when the Passover lamb, who was the pure spotless sacrifice for their sins, was going to be there to die on their behalf, whether they were purified or not. 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:07.759 It's an interesting idea that they came to purify themselves, but they were looking for Jesus. 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:14.079 That's a good sign, because he actually is the Passover lamb that will be sacrificed on their behalf. 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.639 And they were saying, What do you think? 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:18.160 He's not going to come to the festival, Willie. 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:19.360 They're assuming he's not going to show up. 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:19.759 Why not? 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:26.079 Well, because if you've been here with as we're going through the book of John, uh, increasingly the Jewish leaders are trying to kill him. 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:34.800 And here we see that the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, they should report it so that they could arrest him. 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:40.399 So the Pharisees and the religious leaders, their minds were made up already. 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:44.160 They already have decided on Jesus. 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:55.600 And we saw that back in the previous week's chapter, where Caiaphas, who was high priest at year, saying, You're not considering in verse 50, it's your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish. 00:07:55.839 --> 00:08:01.600 At this point, they're saying it is better to kill this man in order to preserve the integrity of our nation. 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:04.480 And that's what their mind is made up. 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:10.079 They are no longer seeking and searching and wondering about who Jesus is and about what he is about. 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:12.079 They have already concluded things. 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:15.199 Whereas the people are still asking each other, What about Jesus? 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:16.240 What's going to happen? 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:20.000 Okay, now we enter the main action of this passage. 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:21.360 Verse 12. 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.800 Six days before the Passover. 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:29.920 Just as a whole, by the way, something I should mention. 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:34.960 There are mentions in every gospel of anointings of Jesus. 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:44.559 And if you ask ten Bible scholars how those all combine, you will get 12 different opinions on how that works out. 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:48.639 So general consensus is that Matthew and Mark at least are identical accounts. 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:51.279 Possibly John, Luke may be a different account. 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:53.279 I'm not going to reconcile that all today. 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:54.559 That's not our goal with that. 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:58.320 But ultimately, Jesus was anointed during his ministry. 00:08:58.480 --> 00:08:59.759 Good, good, awesome. 00:08:59.919 --> 00:09:05.679 So here we see six days before the Passover, which to us is just a date and a state stamp. 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:16.000 If he was arrested on the Passover, the night of the Passover, and crucified the day later, this is a week before his death. 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:20.080 Pretty heavy time of Jesus' life. 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:24.320 And it's not like he got here and thought, huh, I wonder what's gonna happen. 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:25.600 I'm sure this will turn out fine. 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:32.559 We see in the Synoptic Gospel that he is repeatedly telling them, we're going to Jerusalem and I'm going to die and rise again. 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:35.360 He keeps telling them this over and over and over again. 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:36.799 So this is on his mind. 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:42.960 And Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, the one Jesus raised from the dead. 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:45.759 I love that John thought that he needed to specify that. 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:48.720 Where Lazarus was, you know, the one who was raised from the dead. 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:51.120 Like we all know who Lazarus is, thanks. 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:56.320 Not the one who made amazing hummus, the one who was risen from the dead. 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:03.679 And what's happening here, Bethany, which is right by Jerusalem, they gave a dinner for him there. 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:05.919 This is a feast. 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:08.399 This is a celebration. 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:10.320 This is the word for dinner there. 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:17.279 It's the same one that we have for a meal, but also the same words that we have for a big festival, for a feast. 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:20.000 It's a huge, I don't know, I'll put it this way. 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:25.039 If somebody raises your brother from the dead, you should have a feast for them. 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:26.879 Bare minimum. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:29.279 And we see that here. 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:30.480 So what's happening? 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:32.559 Martha is serving them. 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:33.600 Anyone surprised by that? 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:34.000 No? 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:34.480 Okay. 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:35.600 So, which is cool. 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:37.759 And he does not criticize her for that. 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:42.000 Lazarus is one of those reclining at the table with him. 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:50.639 Which again, if you're part of that family, every time he gets a cold, you're gonna get a little twitchy. 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:52.240 You've already seen him die once. 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:53.759 So this is not going to be a good thing. 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:57.120 But here Lazarus is reclining at the table. 00:10:57.519 --> 00:10:59.440 Where is Mary? 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:02.639 Enter Mary. 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:11.279 Again, this is a dinner, a big thing, assumedly a lot of guests, assumedly a formal thing. 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:13.039 Martha is serving. 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:16.240 Verse 3. 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:28.960 Mary took a pound of perfume, pure and expensive nard, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped his feet with her hair. 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:33.279 So the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:36.240 Okay, let's break down what just happened. 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:37.840 She took a pound of perfume. 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:45.840 The word is litra, it literally means like 12 ounces, but 12 ounces is really specific, so I think the CSB went with a pound just to make life easy for us. 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:54.480 Of pure and expensive nard, which we will later see is evaluated around 300 denari. 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:56.639 Denari being a day's wage. 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:05.200 So if you take out the Sabbaths when they don't work, it's a year's salary, is how much this perfume cost. 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:06.799 That's crazy. 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:11.600 She anointed Jesus' feet. 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:15.200 So she poured it on his feet. 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:18.559 And then she wiped his feet with her hair. 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:28.000 As good Christians, we know this story, and we are accustomed to this story, and you go, well, yeah, that's what she does. 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:29.360 That's what Mary's do. 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:34.720 This is a big deal for a number of reasons. 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:38.879 Number one, twice they point out how expensive this was, right? 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:48.399 Also, that she anointed his feet and wiped his feet with her hair. 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:57.919 Next chapter, John 13, we get to see this from the Jesus action side, where he washes his disciples' feet. 00:12:58.159 --> 00:12:58.799 Right? 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:00.960 So this is the precursor of that. 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:13.200 Jesus is going to get down, he's going to put on towel, and he's going to wash his disciples' feet, which was what a lowly, the lowliest, bottom of the bottom toll totem pole servant would do. 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:16.480 And they were appalled that he would do such a thing. 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:22.399 Here Mary is going way beyond that. 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:24.320 So, a few things with this. 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:27.200 Total disregard for the value of the perfume. 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:30.000 She didn't have to do this. 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:33.919 Water would have sufficed, right? 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:38.720 But she takes something that is worth a year's salary. 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:45.519 She doesn't dump it just on, like basically, she doesn't present it to him as a gift. 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:51.120 She doesn't put some like on his head to anoint him. 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:54.480 She dumps it out on his feet. 00:13:54.720 --> 00:14:02.320 Feet are gross in, especially like sandal era, where they are traveling by foot a whole lot. 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:09.440 So dumping this on his feet and then wiping his feet with her hair is gnarly. 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:21.279 It is a whole lot of dust and dirt and other gross things combined with perfume that is now all over her. 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:25.360 They don't have showers back then. 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:29.360 It's not like that happened, and then she's like, I'll be right back. 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:36.480 And then however amount of time is appropriate for showering after that comes back, goes, okay, now we're all good. 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:39.759 This is like, there's no plan B for this. 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:46.879 There's no, okay, now I'm gonna sit down at the feast and have dinner while everyone's like away from her. 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:47.759 Okay. 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:51.120 Total disregard for the value of the perfume. 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:54.240 Total disregard for herself. 00:14:55.600 --> 00:15:02.399 She acted not as a servant in her own house, but way lower than that. 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:10.399 You would not ask your servant to wipe a guest's feet with their hair. 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:13.519 Nobody would do that. 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:18.240 And Mary here does this to Jesus. 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:22.159 All of this summing up in the phrase, Jesus is better. 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:23.519 Jesus is more. 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:33.279 The value that was poured out, the honor of her position in her own house was poured out, her own well-being was poured out. 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:39.279 This is not a moment where you're thinking of yourself in that situation. 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:43.679 So this is a good time to talk about worship. 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:48.159 So I have a slide for the main Greek word for worship here. 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:49.840 Pros kuneho. 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:56.799 We want to romanticize this word, but it is pros towards kuon dog. 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:05.360 It's basically the concept of a dog licking its master's hand in affection and allegiance. 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:20.559 You see that, this word used in times with kings, especially with um in the Far East, for basically kissing the hand, like an act of devotion, an act of subservience, an act of allegiance with that. 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:33.200 There is no, this is uh, and so we have here as well kneeling prostration to do homage, make abasis, whether in order to respect, express respect or to make supplication. 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:47.440 So this being a good picture of worship, pouring out before the Lord, without thought for self, the glory and honor and value due to him. 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:52.080 If this was done to anybody else, it would be real weird. 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:57.200 But because it's Jesus, it is appropriate. 00:16:58.159 --> 00:17:04.880 And so perfume, two big purposes here. 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:16.000 Number one, to adorn the self and say, look at me, look at me, look at me, or to uh anoint a burial, which they just went through, by the way. 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:20.960 It's for the head and body, but she dumps it on his feet. 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:29.599 It would have been beneath her if she did this with a water and a towel, but she does this with perfume and with her hair. 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:36.480 So even the feet of the Savior are worthy to be anointed and wiped with the sweetest that the earth can offer. 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:44.799 So this is what I would present to you in this situation with Mary is that this is her best finger painting. 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:54.240 It is extra, it's over the top, it's clumsy, it's beautiful. 00:17:55.920 --> 00:18:05.440 And it is basically it is the art on the fridge of the Savior, to where, from his perspective, you have the heart. 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:10.880 Jesus doesn't go, man, that was a lot of money you just spent on me. 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:14.240 He doesn't seem to be worried about that. 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:19.440 But we'll see later his response to this whole situation. 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:30.799 But this is the beauty that I see in this is that she is uh fully, clumsily, beautifully worshipping the savior in this way. 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:35.519 And the result, the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:37.759 Understatement of the century. 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:38.640 Okay. 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:43.200 12 ounces, right? 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:46.000 We're approximating here. 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:51.599 Imagine dumping out four big bottles of perfume in a room. 00:18:51.920 --> 00:19:01.200 For those of you who have teenagers, imagine spraying out three full bottles of Axe Body Spray in a room. 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:08.799 The phrase perfume headache doesn't even scratch the surface of that. 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:16.880 And I could see Martha, who at the tomb was like, Lord, there's already been a stench because he's been dead for just four days, being like, There's a stench in here now, Mary. 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:18.079 Thanks. 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:22.799 But there's no way to ignore this and avoid this. 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:28.240 And none of this is go is actually drawing attention to her in this way. 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:30.640 It's not like people are like, oh, I gotta do that. 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:33.599 People are like, what just happened? 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:42.240 And by the way, uh I'm sure that you're all are aware that a large percentage of your taste ability is also your olfactory ability. 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:46.480 So whatever they're doing for the rest of this feast, it's gonna smell like Spike Nard. 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:49.759 So it's gonna taste like that the whole time. 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:53.920 Anyway, how are people gonna react to this? 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:56.079 That's not a normal situation. 00:19:57.519 --> 00:19:59.680 We get to see the first reaction here. 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:04.880 One of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was about to betray him. 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:10.799 So we are John's already giving us a little bit of background of where his heart is in this situation. 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:17.680 He says, why wasn't this perfume sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor? 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:32.559 The disturbing nature of somebody who is like pouring themselves out to the Lord in worship, instantly being met with criticism. 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:36.640 He's not reading the room very well. 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:49.599 Maybe a really good art critic, but in this sense, he's criticizing the f Jesus' fridge art, which is not a good idea and doesn't go well for him. 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:52.799 Why wasn't what are you doing, Mary? 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:56.319 What how could you do this? 00:20:56.480 --> 00:21:00.079 We could have sold this for 300 denarii, we could have sold it for a year's wage. 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:02.400 Think of all the poor people we could have helped with this. 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:07.839 And then John gives a little uh he's not about to give Judas any credit here. 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:11.440 He didn't say this because he cared about the poor, because he was a thief. 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:17.599 He was in charge of the money bag and he would steal part of what was put in it. 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:27.680 So he's disgusted and he ridicules her, and he is also indicating that he was better spent elsewhere. 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:42.559 Imagine what it would look like to say, I know that you just dumped this out on the feet of the one who in a week will be nailed to a cross on your behalf. 00:21:43.279 --> 00:21:46.799 But we could have sold this and done some other stuff. 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:54.319 Very clear misvaluing of what he has before him. 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:57.759 Because the value for him is gonna be 30 pieces of silver. 00:21:59.039 --> 00:21:59.759 And then. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:08.240 That is what we see here is that it is not just that Judas is like, man, I had a different vision for what was going to go down. 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:15.440 He is not only betraying his own heart, but he is also undervaluing Jesus. 00:22:16.799 --> 00:22:34.720 So, in other words, because he is a thief, he's really in tune to what he thinks Mary is doing wrong, but completely oblivious to the blaring red flag in his own life. 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:44.480 And he wants to take what was given to Jesus and take a little bit of that for himself. 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:49.279 Now I'm sure that we don't ever do that in any areas in our life, so we don't need to dive into that. 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:54.720 But yeah, it is a crazy thing that is not just that he's like, oh man, I really wanted this to go differently. 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:57.759 He he saw a payday out of this. 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:00.640 When she's pouring this out before Jesus. 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:07.519 Okay, what does this remind me of when he is critiquing this? 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:10.880 Well, let's take a look at 2 Samuel 6. 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:12.240 We have a slide for that. 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:23.759 David, King David, it was reported to King David, the Lord had blessed Obed Edom's family and all that belonged to him because of the ark of the Lord. 00:23:24.079 --> 00:23:30.799 So David went and had the ark of God brought up from Obed Edom's house to the city of David with rejoicing. 00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:36.799 When those carrying the ark of the Lord advanced six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf. 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:40.400 David was dancing with all his might before the Lord and wearing a linen ephod. 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:46.640 He and the whole house of Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of the ram's horn. 00:23:46.799 --> 00:24:02.240 And as the ark of the Lord was entering the city of David, Saul's daughter Michal looked down from the window, saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart. 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:05.200 What on earth is happening here? 00:24:05.359 --> 00:24:05.680 Okay. 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:33.680 They are wanting to bring the ark to the city of David, to its resting place, and so they're having this crazy thing where it's being brought appropriately, and they're making these huge sacrifices every six steps, and they're praising the Lord, and David is dancing with all his might before the Lord, dressed as a servant, and he's leaping and he's praising the Lord. 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:35.839 Why is he so ecstatic here? 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:45.039 Well, earlier in that chapter, he tried it the first time, he didn't do it as prescribed, and he got someone killed. 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:58.000 So the first time he tried to move the ark, he did not have the his heart was not where the Lord prescribed for the ark to be moved, the way it was supposed to be moved. 00:24:58.240 --> 00:25:00.720 Somebody died as a result of that. 00:25:01.759 --> 00:25:21.519 Do you think that that plays into his worship here when the Lord is accepting his sacrifices as he's doing it as called, and doing so joyfully, extremely joyfully, in that this is being accepted when once it was so poorly done. 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:31.279 And Michal here looks down and is disgusted that the king would act this way. 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:37.599 Saul's daughter knows a thing or two about how a king should act. 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:44.000 And like, wow, she's actually gonna confront him later when he comes home happy. 00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:46.000 Really poor choice. 00:25:46.240 --> 00:26:04.079 Um but with that in mind, I see a similar heart in that with Judas as I see here, where we at this point in time, see how I switch to we uh can become art museum critiques, criticizers, critics. 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:10.640 When it's fridge art on the Lord's wall. 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:13.599 And it's a distance. 00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:14.720 What ways do we do that? 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:16.559 How can we do that? 00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:22.880 It's amazing how uh nuanced that can be and how it's a heart issue, ultimately, what it comes down to. 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:26.720 And that can look a whole lot like this is not what I prefer. 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:29.839 This is not what I am used to. 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:32.559 I only like it when this person does it. 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:34.720 I don't like it when that person does it. 00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:37.039 I only like this style. 00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:41.359 I only like this combined with that, combined with that. 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:45.519 We can be quickly become those things and go, like, wait, where was my mind and where was my heart this entire time? 00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:50.319 And as we worship the Lord, and as we seek that, um it's a heart issue. 00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:56.880 Again, God was not like, man, all that perfume spent on me, what a lucky guy I am. 00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:04.640 Rather, he loved the worship of his child and the heart of his child. 00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:13.680 And so we can very easily, and again, I want to be very, very, very careful here to say this we want to, this is not a biblical issue. 00:27:13.839 --> 00:27:16.160 If things are being done in a non-biblical way, that's a problem. 00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:19.359 If things are being done in a very, very distracting way, that's a problem. 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:28.720 What uh Mary did was in a house, not a church, so please don't bring your flags for worship next week. 00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:31.279 Um worship leader approval. 00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:38.000 And um, yeah, or or you know, dump out, just decide to bring like a pound of perfume and just go wild with that. 00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:50.640 Um it was in it was in a house setting, it was very different with that, but ultimately it's an interesting thing of do we worship in a way that is um undignified at times appropriately? 00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:57.839 Or is it more we need to do things in in the way that uh we would be expected to do so? 00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:58.799 What where's the heart? 00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:00.000 What does that matter? 00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:04.079 So here we see Judas, his heart is nowhere near that. 00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:06.640 He wants to spend that. 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:14.160 He wants to spend that not on Jesus, he wants to spend it with the guise of on the poor, but really on himself. 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:22.640 And then Jesus responds, leave her alone. 00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:28.559 Before we continue that, imagine if you're married. 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:30.160 Right? 00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:50.319 Celebration feast, and then you just go for it with Jesus, pour out a year's worth of perfume, of money worth of perfume on Jesus' feet. 00:28:50.480 --> 00:29:00.559 You wipe his feet with your hair and are instantly shamed as a result, and then instantly backed by the Messiah. 00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:02.480 That's a roller coaster. 00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:04.319 That's a whole thing with that. 00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:07.599 But how cool is it that Jesus is like, leave her alone. 00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:16.480 I would react this way if you come into my house and start criticizing my kids' artwork. 00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:22.240 That's just not, it's one of those, like, you are not the arbiter of these things. 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:27.440 We all have enough of our own problems, if that makes sense. 00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:36.799 We all have enough to work on ourselves to not have to be the uh arbiters, and I know the next thing that's gonna be said is like, well, we want to be fruit inspectors. 00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:38.160 Yes, that's true. 00:29:39.759 --> 00:29:42.640 We have a wide range of things that we think that that applies to. 00:29:43.039 --> 00:29:49.200 But ultimately, we want to also be looking at our own selves. 00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:53.200 What if Judas was like, wow, I'm a thief? 00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:54.559 That's a problem. 00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:56.079 I need to repent. 00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:04.400 Maybe I don't need to sell the Savior for 30 pieces of silver. 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:08.880 But at no point in time does Judas go, oh wow, maybe maybe my heart's not in a good place. 00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:11.200 But Jesus points it out, leave her alone. 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:13.759 She has kept it for the day of my burial. 00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:15.359 He knows what's coming. 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:16.720 It's a week. 00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:18.559 A week ahead of time. 00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:27.839 This family is also very acutely familiar with burials. 00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:29.839 That's a big deal. 00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:32.079 That's not what I hear that's like, she kept it for the day of my burial. 00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:33.359 I'm like, okay, I'm not sure what that means. 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:35.440 They're like, we just had one of those. 00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:41.200 Uh, but he's saying it for him, not for Judas. 00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:44.480 How crazy that is that he's saying, like, she's done it for my burial. 00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:46.160 And I could see them being like, wait, what? 00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:48.079 Like, you'll see, it's okay. 00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:51.440 You always have the poor with me, you don't always have me. 00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:55.279 Now, do you want to be very, very careful to say this? 00:30:55.359 --> 00:31:02.799 Is that we see throughout scripture the the importance of honoring and valuing and caring for the poor and the widow and the fatherless and those in need. 00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:04.960 It's not like Jesus is like, ah, that don't matter. 00:31:05.119 --> 00:31:06.880 He knows Judas's heart. 00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:14.960 He's pointing out that Judas has an unequal idea of what is valuable. 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:20.880 He has devalued Jesus and he has valued the funds here for himself. 00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:23.759 And so when he says here, he's like, you don't always have me. 00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:26.880 He's not saying, ah, poor, whatever, they're always gonna be there. 00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:28.319 You're always gonna have poor people around. 00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:33.279 He's mainly saying, know what's in front of you. 00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:39.119 So, interesting thing is he continues in verse 9, there's a large crowd of the Jews. 00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:41.440 He learned he was there, that learned he was there. 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:46.480 And they came not only because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus, the one he raised from the dead. 00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:50.559 Large crowd had come for Passover. 00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:54.960 Now they're coming to see Jesus, and Lazarus, to see him. 00:31:55.519 --> 00:32:06.319 And verse 10, the chief priests had decided to kill Lazarus also, because he was the reason many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus. 00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:17.920 So Lazarus here is the living testimony of the power of God, of the work of the Messiah, of the work of the Messiah, bringing to life that which is dead, raising to new life. 00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:21.200 And the chief priests don't like that one bit. 00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:23.279 Why don't they like that one bit? 00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:28.640 They didn't say this does not comport with our ideology. 00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:32.400 Or this is this is a dangerous teaching. 00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:37.039 That's the Jews were deserting them in believing in Jesus. 00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:39.200 It was threatening their kingdom. 00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:48.079 They sought to take what belongs to Jesus and keep it for themselves. 00:32:48.319 --> 00:32:49.680 Just like Judas. 00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:51.920 You can see this, and you can see that. 00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:53.279 So this is a human issue. 00:32:53.359 --> 00:32:56.000 This is not like bur Judas, boot Judas. 00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:57.519 You can boot Judas a little bit. 00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:15.920 But uh ultimately, this is a human issue when we see what belongs to Jesus, what rightfully is due to him as the Savior, as Messiah, as God, and we go, ah, but I really want a little bit of that for myself. 00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:25.839 And that's the what we see mirrored multiple times with uh Judas and with the religious leaders here. 00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:29.440 And it comes down to covetousness. 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:31.440 That's ultimately what it boils down to. 00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:35.920 And that is uh a danger and something that we can see in all of us. 00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:39.440 So, why did we just study this? 00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:52.000 Number one, is there something that you sit there and go like, uh, it's a little bit too valuable to be to be giving to Jesus? 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:55.279 And I'm not talking about money and we're not taking a collection. 00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:56.559 This is nothing to do with that. 00:33:56.640 --> 00:33:58.319 I just want to say that very, very clearly. 00:33:58.480 --> 00:33:59.839 Very clearly and abundantly. 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:01.359 I'm talking on a personal level. 00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:04.480