WEBVTT 00:00:00.239 --> 00:00:05.839 Tonight, we're coming into the last three chapters of the Gospel of Mark. 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:11.919 And as I said earlier, we've done 52 messages on the Gospel of Mark looking at the life of Jesus. 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:14.640 We've called it the messy gospel. 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:16.960 And has it ever been messy? 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:18.960 Jesus led a messy life. 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:21.280 Anybody here had any messes in your life? 00:00:21.679 --> 00:00:22.000 Okay. 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:24.480 If you have, that's the Jesus life. 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:26.160 Life is not easy. 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:31.440 I hope you teach if you have children that you train them in the ways of how hard life is. 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:32.240 Life is tough. 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:33.600 Life is difficult. 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:40.880 And when you become a Jesus follower, you kind of put crosshairs on your back. 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:43.119 Satan is after you. 00:00:43.679 --> 00:00:46.640 He is the stealer, the killer, and the destroyer. 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:49.920 You now have the Spirit of God living in your life. 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:54.640 And so you become an arch enemy to the demonic world. 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:58.399 And so expect battles. 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:04.879 And so as we look at the life of Jesus, we are looking at one who is coming into his last days in a drama. 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:08.560 I'm going to call it Act One of the drama of the killing of Jesus. 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:10.799 Act one and the drama of the killing of Jesus. 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:17.519 And so next week we'll talk about Act Two, the next week Act Three, as we come into the closing of the Gospel of Mark. 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:21.280 So would you turn in your Bibles to Mark chapter 14? 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:23.680 Mark chapter 14. 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:27.680 And I'm going to, Dan, can I hand you this? 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:31.439 Because I just know what I'll do is I like prick myself when I'm moving my arms. 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:38.239 And there'll be blood everywhere, and it'll just seem like I'm trying to reenact this docudrama. 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:42.000 Mark chapter 14, verse 1. 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:47.200 After two days it was the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread. 00:01:47.519 --> 00:02:01.920 And the chief priest and the scribes sought how they might take him by trickery, underline, highlight, circle, trickery, and put him to death. 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:08.240 But they said, Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar of the people. 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:09.599 Really interesting passage. 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:13.599 I just, when I was studying this, I couldn't get off this first part. 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:15.520 Especially this word trickery. 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:18.400 Trickery actually means treachery. 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:26.879 So if you're if you if you're one of those Bibles, you know, where you actually can write in the margins, you might put over the side, circle trickery, and put treachery. 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:30.000 This, there is treachery going on. 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:34.479 And guys, trickery and treachery is Satan's way. 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:36.879 That's what he does. 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:42.000 He loves trickery and treachery, and he works best in a crowd. 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:44.400 It's called mob rule. 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:47.039 And it happens in churches all the time. 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:50.000 It happens in businesses all the time. 00:02:50.479 --> 00:03:00.159 Some of you young people have been bullied at school, and I'll bet you, even if there's one guy, he's probably got this cadre of other people around him. 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:06.319 You personally have been made fun of, or you've been in situations where there's always kind of this mob rule. 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:07.439 There's this group. 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:12.719 And so it's this is this is this is chief priest and scribes. 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:15.439 This is a group of at least a hundred. 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:21.280 And this is not whether they're gonna go after Jesus and kill him. 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:24.960 It's now they're looking for the timing and how they might do it. 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:36.159 And trickery and tre and and um and the treachery of Satan is always done in the dark, and so they can't do it in the light because of the uproar of the people. 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:38.000 Remember, we're we're only a few days. 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:55.439 We're probably only two days away, maybe three days away from Calm Sunday, where you know Jesus came in and everybody's hailing him, the king of the Jews, and they're laying down their coats and they're laying down palm branches in honor of him like he's a king. 00:03:55.919 --> 00:04:00.240 And so at this point, Jesus is still very, very popular in Jerusalem. 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:12.000 It's interesting, the same word for treachery is found in Psalm 78, talking about Israel, where we read, Israel turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers. 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:12.879 Listen to this. 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:17.199 They were turned aside like a deceitful bow. 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:18.720 Like a deceitful bow. 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:21.680 Vance, you're an archer, you're a bow hunter. 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:27.839 I mean, the image we have in Psalm 78 is that there can be a deceitful bow. 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:32.639 And a deceitful bow sends out deceitful arrows. 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:36.639 And so deception is what deceivers do. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:47.040 And so the picture of Israel and their rebellion is that they are, they have a bow that is of trickery, of treachery. 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:52.160 And so when you gave your heart to Christ, guess what? 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:55.279 You know, the target is now on your back. 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:02.800 And the enemy's always looking for individuals that he can pull back and just drive an arrow into your heart. 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:07.279 And every one of us has taken arrows to the heart. 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:10.160 Today I had some middle schoolers. 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:20.160 You know, we were at our house at this middle school D group, and we decided to change the format and not follow what we have in our PB and J bookmark, and we did uh we did David and Goliath. 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:22.399 So we did 1 Samuel 17. 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:32.800 And one of the things that was interesting about 1 Samuel 17 is David, if you recall, he comes into the Valley of Elah, and then he says, Well, I mean, will anybody take on Goliath? 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:33.839 Will anybody fight him? 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:37.360 And his older brother Eliab, and we were kind of figuring out the numbers. 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:44.879 Let's say there were about two-year gaps of eight brothers, so he's probably about 29, and David's probably about 13. 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:51.920 And Eliab just begins to go after his younger brother, and he says, You deceitful of heart. 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:54.240 You came here to look at the battle. 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:58.480 And we talked about the fact that's how Satan works, guys. 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:02.079 He goes after your heart, and it's usually someone you know. 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:07.920 And it's usually someone you thought you could trust, and they send those arrows into your heart. 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:10.720 For some of you, it was your father. 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:12.879 For some of you, it was your mother. 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:17.120 But every one of us has taken arrows to the heart, and it's painful. 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:18.879 This is what Satan does. 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:23.600 Let me give you three things I see here about trickery, three things about Satan's ways. 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:25.040 You know, we talk about God's ways. 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:26.639 Well, Satan's got some ways. 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:29.600 And here this summer, we're gonna go into spiritual warfare. 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:32.000 I'm calling that series this summer, war. 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:34.959 And we're gonna talk about Satan and demons and how they work. 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:38.959 But here's three right, right, that I see just in our passage alone. 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:43.040 Number one, Satan fears exposure. 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:46.720 Satan fears exposure. 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:51.360 So these guys have got their little plan they're hatching in some back room somewhere. 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:56.079 Number two, Satan fears light. 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:58.319 Satan fears the light. 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:01.759 Most of his work is done in darkness. 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:05.199 And then thirdly, Satan fears truth. 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:06.639 Satan fears truth. 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:15.759 So when you get in a dialogue where the issue is an issue of truth or falsehood, Satan and demons fear that. 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:21.040 They'll try to avoid that, and in so doing, cover themselves. 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:24.160 So this is the ways of Satan. 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:25.439 How do you counter it? 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:27.439 We're going to watch how you counter it. 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:34.480 You counter it with exposure, you encounter it with light, and you encounter it with truth. 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:48.240 And being in Bethany, at the house of Simon the Leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of spike nard. 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:52.079 Then she broke the flask and poured it on his head. 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:55.839 Well, in John's gospel, this is Mary of Bethany. 00:07:56.160 --> 00:08:01.120 So everybody agrees in commentators that this is the same situation. 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:03.279 And so this is Lazarus' sister. 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:06.639 I mean, Mary of Bethany's pretty cool. 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:11.680 She's watched her brother Lazarus raised from the dead by Jesus. 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:13.600 She has worshipped at his feet. 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:15.120 She's always at his feet. 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:16.639 Mary's always at his feet. 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:28.480 Remember, she's the one with her sister Martha that chooses the better way to listen to Jesus and to eyeball him and to be focused on him while Martha did all the work. 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:29.920 You remember that dialogue? 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:30.800 That's Mary. 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:31.759 This is Mary. 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:33.440 So not at her house this time. 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:35.039 Mary shows up. 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:47.600 So she shows up at this guy Simon's house and she takes this beautiful, very fragrant perfume, and she pours it over his head. 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:51.840 And this perfume is referenced all through scripture. 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:56.480 But we have some folks in this church that are really into essential oils. 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:01.600 And since I injured my calf a few months ago, I'm now into essential oils. 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:02.480 Let me believe it or not. 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:05.360 And I you guys always hear me about my prayer walks. 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:06.480 I'm always injured. 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:12.559 And uh somewhere like three weeks ago I did something, and it was my ankle, and uh, so now I've got a sore ankle. 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:18.480 So now I'm back on the Adams essential oils. 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:31.039 So I looked it up, and so the spike nard comes from the nard oil, which was used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine at that time, and it came from India. 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:32.320 Verse 4. 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:39.840 But there were some who were indignant among themselves and said, Why was this fragrant oil wasted? 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:49.919 For it might have been sold for more than 300 denarii and given to the poor, and they criticized her sharply. 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:59.759 So here comes Mary, 300 denari, which one denarii was one day's wages. 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:14.000 So she basically took a year's worth of wages in this alabaster box of this spike nard and just gives it all to Jesus. 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:17.679 Is there a more beautiful picture of worship? 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:22.720 Costly worship, giving it all to Jesus. 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:23.679 Now, guess who? 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:28.639 Guess who we know from other passages in the gospel is the one who's criticizing her. 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:29.679 Does anybody know? 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:31.519 Judas. 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:36.879 Wow, he's he's he's really a man of integrity on issues of finances. 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:38.399 We're gonna find out in just a second. 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:40.639 Here's what most believe. 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:44.000 Many believe that this was Mary's dowry. 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:49.279 That she had been saving this all her life because she's not married. 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:52.399 She lives with Martha, her sister, and her brother Lazarus. 00:10:52.639 --> 00:11:05.519 And so here's probably about 60 is current financial vernacular, 60 to$70,000, just gives it to Jesus. 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:10.480 And by the way, if anybody want to give that to the road, we'll be we'll just be blessed by that. 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:20.960 But but listen, this being on a serious note here, there's only two people in this last week or so of G in Jesus' life that he actually commends. 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:34.639 Do you remember that when he went into the temple, there's an old lady who comes into the treasury and she puts like less than a penny, like an eighth of a penny in the box, and then Jesus commends her. 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:43.039 And nobody else noticed because he said she gave, remember, everything she had. 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:50.080 And then he commends this woman, two women on Mother's Day. 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:56.720 But two women, because he looks at her and he probably knows that was her dowry. 00:11:57.759 --> 00:11:59.759 Man, I just wanted to unpack this. 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:02.480 I thought I don't have time because I want to cover more of the passage. 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:10.320 But there is something of Mary's heart here that we need in our lives, church. 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:13.759 Jesus is her husband. 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:16.159 Jesus is her life. 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:18.240 Jesus is her focus. 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:22.639 Jesus, she pours out all that she has unto him. 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:40.159 In two weeks, we're gonna go in there, we're gonna have worship, we're gonna have a service, we're gonna go in there, we're gonna celebrate one-year anniversary, and some of us are gonna stay in here when we could be sleeping, when we could be going out to hang out, and we're gonna and we're gonna pray and we're gonna worship, and we're gonna pray, and we're gonna worship. 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:41.919 Why do we do that? 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:45.919 What a waste of time by the world's standards. 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:54.000 Because he's deserving of all of our focus and all of our wholehearted devotion. 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:55.519 That's why we do it. 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:13.039 But men and women, when you come into worship, when I get done here and I'm and I'm finished, and we go back into worship, you know, I adjure you, I encourage you, I I would I would strengthen your hearts to say, just drop your stuff and really focus. 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:19.919 For some, it's, you know, hands down, it's fine, because it's not the it's not the position of the body, it's the attitude of the heart. 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:26.000 For some it's it's upraised hands, but give yourself when you come back here to worship. 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:34.080 Each morning when you get up in the morning before you go to work, give yourself at least briefly to God's word and and to worship. 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:40.639 Something, there's a transaction that's happening in the heavenlies when we worship like that. 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:50.320 So Jesus said, This is great, let her alone. 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:52.240 Why do you trouble her? 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:54.559 She has done a good work for me. 00:13:54.720 --> 00:14:01.919 You have the poor with you always, and whenever you wish, you may do them good, but me you do not have always. 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:03.759 She has done what she could. 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:08.080 She has come beforehand to anoint my body for burial. 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:18.799 Assuredly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her. 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:21.120 My goodness. 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:27.120 So now for six months, this is the fourth time Jesus has predicted his death. 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:29.600 Martha gets it. 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:31.759 The disciples don't. 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.000 The chief priests don't. 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:36.399 The scribes don't. 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:37.919 Pilate doesn't. 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:40.000 He's clueless of everything. 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:44.720 And she notices him, and she's realizing his days are numbered. 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:46.080 He's told us that. 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:51.360 And so she takes all that she has, she pours it upon him in worship to him. 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:53.759 And I just I just love this part. 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:55.360 Look at it with me, you guys. 00:14:55.440 --> 00:15:05.600 It says, um with you always, and wherever you wish, you may do them good. 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:07.120 But me you do not have always. 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:08.480 She has done what she could. 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:13.759 She has come beforehand to anoint my body. 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:18.799 She comes beforehand to anoint my body. 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:21.440 So here's why I think that's significant. 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:23.279 He hasn't died yet. 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:25.600 He hasn't gone to the cross yet. 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:34.879 And yet, there is some kind of a transaction in the spiritual realm between Jesus and Mary. 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:37.840 That Mary picks up on something. 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:40.000 She knows something's about to happen. 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:44.000 She has divine intelligence that he's going to the cross. 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:46.879 Others don't, because she's a worshiper. 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:49.919 And men and women, we become worshipers. 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:52.559 God downloads information. 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:55.600 God downloads his heart into our heart. 00:15:55.679 --> 00:16:00.320 And worship is our heart, connecting heart to heart with his heart. 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:06.080 And there is this, there is this divine connection that occurs. 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:13.679 Worship by the world's standards, listen, guys, is a waste of time. 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:18.720 Mary has chosen to waste her life to follow Christ. 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:20.159 Are you willing? 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:23.600 Are you willing to waste your life for Christ? 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:48.559 Dietrich Bonhoffer, pastor, martyr, spy, during the rise of the Nazi regime, the Nationalist Socialist Party in Germany in the 1930s, Lutheran pastor gave his life to try to destroy Hitler, developed a church movement called the Confessing Church. 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:53.600 And in his great book, and mine is just torn apart, I just got a new one. 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:58.559 The book Cost of Discipleship, which I would highly recommend to all of you to look at. 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:04.880 It'll be one of our prominent books in our library when we get that done, is The Cost of Discipleship by Bonhoeffer, said this. 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:15.200 And it just so resonated with me again when I was reading about Mary and her worship, and I was thinking about that woman in the treasury who gave all that she had into the treasury. 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.559 Listen to these words from Bonhoeffer. 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:23.279 Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of the church. 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:26.319 We are fighting today for costly grace. 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:31.200 Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheap wares. 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:38.000 The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolation of religion are thrown away at cut prices. 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:40.400 Grace without limits. 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:42.720 Grace without price. 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:45.599 Grace without cost. 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:49.279 Cheap grace means the justification of sin. 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:51.359 Don't miss this, really important point. 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:56.400 Justification of sin without the justification of the sinner. 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:02.799 Grace alone does everything they say, and so everything can remain just the same. 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:06.720 The Christian can just live like the rest of the world. 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:12.559 But costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field. 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:17.279 For the sake of it, a man will gladly go and sell all that he has. 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:23.119 It is the pearl of great price to buy, which the merchant will sell all his goods. 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:30.400 It is the kingly rule of Christ, for whose sake a man will pluck out the eye which causes him to stumble. 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:36.720 It is the call of Jesus Christ, at which the disciple leaves his nets and follows him. 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:42.720 Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow. 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:47.759 And it's grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:51.759 It is costly because it cost a man his life. 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:57.119 And it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. 00:18:58.319 --> 00:18:59.680 Men and women. 00:19:01.680 --> 00:19:08.319 Mary understands costly grace, and the disciples are still living in cheap grace. 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:10.880 Look at verse 10. 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:16.960 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priest to betray him to them. 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:20.480 So this is a guy who just said, Well, what are we doing with all this anointing all? 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:22.400 $70,000 worth of anointing all. 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:23.839 Why don't we give it to the poor? 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:28.640 And when they heard it, they were glad and they promised to give him money. 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:33.440 So he sought how he might conveniently betray him. 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:40.640 So Jesus, who had just criticized the finances, is actually about to take finances to betray Jesus. 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:43.279 So he's obviously a hypocrite. 00:19:43.920 --> 00:19:46.960 Listen, guys, Satan always works through betrayal. 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:50.720 Betrayal is a great tool of the enemy. 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:54.160 And if you haven't been betrayed, it's coming. 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:57.279 Betrayal hurts because it's always a friend. 00:19:57.839 --> 00:19:59.039 People you trusted. 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:05.200 And so all of us have been betrayed, or you will be betrayed. 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:16.880 And it really, really hurts because the thing about betrayal is that in most cases, you have given your heart to someone, and then they stabbed you with your heart. 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:20.640 And so Satan works through betrayal. 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:25.119 Moses was betrayed, David was betrayed, and now Jesus is betrayed. 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:31.920 So Satan's way here is betrayal and rebellion, and God's way is always loyalty and submission. 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:34.640 And you're going to be tempted to betray others. 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:36.480 Now listen to this, this is really important. 00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:38.640 And we look at Jesus and we go, wow. 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:43.599 Or we look at our own lives and go, wow, but have you betrayed Jesus? 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:47.039 Well, all of us, if we're honest, we have to say we have. 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:51.599 Are you being tempted right now to betray someone that loves you? 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:54.079 And that someone has given their heart to you. 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:56.640 Let me just say this. 00:20:57.119 --> 00:20:59.920 All betrayal is demonic. 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:04.240 All betrayal is demonic. 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:10.240 And it always looks good for the betrayer because you don't betray unless there's some benefit to you. 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:12.640 But you'll always get caught. 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:15.920 Because God hates betrayal. 00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:17.599 God hates it. 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:32.000 And so if you're being tempted to betray a colleague or to betray your husband or to betray your wife or to betray a friend, just remember Pastor Steve told you it's always demonic. 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:36.960 Run from it, confess it, and get it right. 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:38.079 Get right. 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:47.519 Loyalty, submission, love, forgiveness, I don't care what they've done to you, always wins. 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:49.599 There's always blessing on that. 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:51.599 Believe me, it works. 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:59.759 Now, on the first day of unleavened bread when they killed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, Where do you want us to go and prepare that we? 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:01.519 We may eat the Passover. 00:22:01.680 --> 00:22:07.599 So this is either Wednesday or Thursday, according to your view of that Passover of that year. 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:15.759 Some believe it was Wednesday because of the three days in the tomb issue that he was actually killed on Thursday. 00:22:16.319 --> 00:22:17.839 We might call that Good Thursday. 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:22.480 Actually, in the liturgical church, it's called Monday Thursday. 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:26.799 So we don't know exactly which day it was, but there's different theories on that. 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:37.599 But it's the first day of the Passover lamb who is killed, and Jesus is about to be killed, foreshadowing the prophetic nature of the Passover meal. 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:38.960 Verse 13. 00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:48.799 And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, Go into the city, and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water, follow him. 00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:53.039 Now that's really weird because women carried the pitchers of water at that time. 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:59.039 So it's very noticeable there's going to be a man carrying a pitcher of water, not a woman. 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:09.359 Wherever he goes in, say to the master of the house, the teacher says, Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with my disciples? 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:16.880 Then he will show you a large upper room furnished and prepared, there, make ready for us. 00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:21.759 Now, tradition believes that this is actually Mark's home. 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:29.680 So Mark, who's writing this gospel, he was not one of the Lamb's twelve, but he's probably one of the 120 on the outskirts. 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:30.960 This is his home. 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:34.720 So he's an eyewitness of what he's writing. 00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:42.160 So his disciples went out, came into the city, found it just as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover. 00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:44.880 In the evening he came with the twelve. 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:54.799 So Jesus, the Passover lamb, is foreshadowing his coming death through taking the Passover on the day that the Passover Lamb is killed. 00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:56.079 Verse 18. 00:23:56.319 --> 00:24:03.680 Now as they sat and ate, Jesus said, Asurely I say to you, one of you who eats with me will betray me. 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:07.599 So it's not going to be just Judas betraying him. 00:24:09.599 --> 00:24:11.359 It's going to be everyone. 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:15.119 They began to be sorrowful and say to him one by one, Is it I? 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:16.400 And I said, Is it I? 00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:21.519 And he answered and he said to them, Is one of the twelve who dips with me in the dish. 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:24.960 The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of him. 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:29.279 But woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. 00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:33.279 It would have been good for that man had he never been born. 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:39.839 So the custom of dipping the bread in the bowl was a sign of devotion and commitment. 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:51.519 You know, probably the worst story of antiquity, of betrayal, is the story of the Last Supper. 00:24:52.640 --> 00:25:09.440 Here's Judas right there, and everybody's going to betray him, basically, at the table, but he's actually going to dip in the same bowl with Jesus as a sign of devotion, a sign of commitment, a sign of loyalty, and yet he's already conjuring up his deceptive plan. 00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:22.000 But isn't it cool that even if you've been betrayed, and I'm not neglecting the fact, I mean, that's not God's perfect will. 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:29.279 Any kind of betrayal is not God's perfect will, but that even in betrayal, God can carry out his plan. 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:36.880 That whether you've been betrayed through divorce or you've been betrayed through adultery, or you've been betrayed at work. 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:48.880 Man, I've known dozens of guys that have, you know, built companies, and then kind of the second in charge figures out a way to kind of steal the company away and they get ripped off. 00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:51.279 God can still use that. 00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:53.200 God's working in this, you guys. 00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:55.680 God's at work in your betrayal. 00:25:56.559 --> 00:26:07.920 You may have been betrayed as a youngster, may have been raped, may have been beaten, may have had stuff stolen from you that goes to the very heart of who you are. 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:10.160 God can redeem that. 00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:11.920 God can redeem that. 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:21.440 And he will teach you stuff at a level that others maybe haven't had to experience because he's going to use you to bring healing to others. 00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:23.359 So God's in charge here. 00:26:31.440 --> 00:26:33.039 This is my body. 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:38.559 Then he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it. 00:26:39.039 --> 00:26:40.319 Verse 24. 00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:43.920 And he said to them, This is my blood of the new covenant. 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:46.160 We just read that in Jeremiah 31. 00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:52.319 A new covenant, which is shed for many. 00:26:52.880 --> 00:27:02.079 As surely I say to you, I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it anew in the kingdom of God. 00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:07.279 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:08.799 Well, here's the new covenant. 00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:10.160 Let me read from Jeremiah 31. 00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:11.839 We just we just did this in our reading. 00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:34.160 Behold, the days are coming, so this is now the day, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them over to the hand, the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord, but this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. 00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:43.839 After those days, says the Lord, I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:50.319 No more shall every man teach his neighbor and every man his brother, says the Lord. 00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:52.880 Know the Lord, for they shall know me. 00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:54.319 Guys, you know him. 00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:56.640 You know the Lord. 00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:02.559 When you gave your heart to Christ, the Spirit of God came into your heart. 00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:04.880 You have a new heart. 00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:10.559 That hardened heart is a heart of flesh. 00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:13.599 That hardened heart can now hear things from God. 00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:16.400 Gang, listen, you can hear things from God. 00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:20.799 You can listen for the voice of the Holy Spirit and hear from Him. 00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:29.279 Not just in reading His Word, but in visions and dreams, in prophetic utterances, supernatural stuff. 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:35.920 The other day I went into a coffee shop and I knew something about the guy at the bar. 00:28:36.160 --> 00:28:38.559 It was like the way it was set up, it's kind of like a bar. 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:39.359 And I don't know. 00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:42.480 I mean, I knew this guy, he had a Wichita State hat on. 00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:44.000 That's kind of weird. 00:28:44.079 --> 00:28:45.359 I don't even know about Wichita State. 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:48.720 That was the first game that Isaac, my son, started in on second base. 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:50.240 But anyway, Wichita State. 00:28:50.319 --> 00:28:50.720 That's all I know. 00:28:50.799 --> 00:28:53.920 So I'm looking at him and I and I knew stuff. 00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:58.079 I knew in my heart that this guy is going through a divorce. 00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:00.000 And he wasn't wearing a ring. 00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:07.039 So made my order, walked up to him, started dialogue, and I said, This is a weird thing. 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:10.880 You know, I I feel like God told me something about you. 00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:15.359 And I was like, oh no, it's not this is not gonna go well. 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:34.160 By the look, it's like, oh, I've I've met, you know, a lunatic, religious lunatune has come, you know, and I said, um, this may are I know I know you should have a ring on, but it's if I I felt like this way I always say it, whenever these things happen, I just say, I could be wrong, I probably am wrong. 00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:37.359 But I just had this sense that you might be going through a divorce. 00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:40.799 I don't even see a ring on your finger, so I'm probably wrong, right? 00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:42.400 He goes, No, I I'm married. 00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:43.359 I went, oh. 00:29:43.759 --> 00:29:46.880 He said, but there's a reason why I'm not wearing the ring. 00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:55.039 And so he began to share some stuff about his life, and we had a chance to pray. 00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:57.119 Folks, you have that heart. 00:29:57.359 --> 00:29:58.960 You have a heart to hear from God. 00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:02.000 And if you start living a life where you start, God speak to me today. 00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:06.000 God lead me at work, lead me at my job, lead me in my family. 00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:07.440 God will speak to you. 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:11.279 I mean, can you imagine the Lord, the what we know of the Lord and all of his love and grace? 00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:12.480 We've got this guy down there. 00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:14.640 I mean, every day he's bugging me. 00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:19.759 I mean, he like he's he's down in Colorado Springs, and he's always saying, God, lead me and guide me. 00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:21.680 Man, what a nut. 00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:22.880 You know? 00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:25.359 God's looking for people like that. 00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:42.480 I mean, he's looking for situations with saints who are led by the Spirit, hear from the Spirit, walk in the power of the Spirit, and I'm telling you guys, God can use us to change our world through the power of the new covenant. 00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:53.920 And so here tonight, we're gonna take the bread and we're gonna take the juice because it's symbolic as well as spiritual powers on this for this new heart of a new covenant. 00:30:54.079 --> 00:30:55.359 He lives with us. 00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:57.359 He's with us right here. 00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:02.000 And so you can wake up each morning and say, Jesus, I know you're right here. 00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:06.799 God, as I go to work and I've got to go into this situation with my boss, I know you'll be with me. 00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:10.240 God, may I, all that I do have integrity on it. 00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:14.000 May I not exaggerate over here or lie over there. 00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:15.200 I'm gonna tell the truth. 00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:16.960 I'm gonna have to trust you with it. 00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:22.960 See, that's the personal, vital, dynamic, growing relationship we have with Jesus Christ. 00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:24.640 And that's what this is about. 00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:30.319 And so in a few minutes, when the worship team comes up, we're gonna start taking communion. 00:31:31.119 --> 00:31:33.920 And we're not just taking communion because that's what you do. 00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:40.400 We're taking communion because it represents the covenant of what we're reading here really happened. 00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:48.559