WEBVTT 00:00:00.239 --> 00:00:05.759 Now, John chapter 11, we read how Jesus has come into this family crisis. 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:08.320 He shows up into this family crisis. 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:13.279 We have Lazarus, who's sick and dying, and Lazarus has two sisters, Mary and Martha. 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:14.800 And Jesus loved these people. 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:17.039 The text says that he loved this family. 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:17.519 He knew these. 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:19.679 These were his friends. 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:22.160 Eventually, Lazarus dies. 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:24.640 Jesus never went to see him. 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:25.920 Lazarus dies. 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:30.879 And then after the death, Jesus goes and Jesus shows up. 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:33.439 The two sisters hear that Jesus is coming. 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:36.719 Martha goes out to greet Jesus, but Mary doesn't go. 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:39.039 Mary doesn't go out to greet Jesus. 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:44.560 You have to wonder why Mary not going out to greet her friend? 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:48.880 Well, she just lost her brother. 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:51.359 Maybe she's just too sad. 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:56.640 Or maybe she's sad and most likely also hurt. 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:01.920 Because she felt like Jesus could have come earlier. 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:04.079 Could have done something. 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:05.680 Right? 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:07.920 Could have done something about all this hurt. 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:09.920 But he didn't. 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:12.879 You know this feeling probably. 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:17.760 It might be sort of like if you're constructing a thousand-piece puzzle, right? 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:21.200 And you've been working on this thousand-piece puzzle and you've been working away at it. 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:28.480 You're just a few pieces away from this great feat, and it's on the you know the coffee table in your den, and you're you're so close to it. 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:46.799 And just to make make it a little bit more lifelike, let's also, so at the same same time, your boss has berated you, your mom has like judgmentally like made that few comments upon you, and your sweet someone or spouse or whoever they uh you've been hoping and working for them to change because you want them to change. 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:49.280 They're not changing, so life's just not working out. 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:51.920 But you you have you have this puzzle, right? 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:57.439 And you're like, if I can't get anything else together, I can at least, I can at least accomplish this puzzle. 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:15.759 I will have this puzzle, I will get this puzzle done just when you're working your way to the end of your three-year-old son or your three-year-old grandson or nephew or neighbor, whoever, he shows up with his grubby little hands and he walks up and he looks you in the eye and he puts his hands on that puzzle and hew! He just flings it off, right? 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:20.319 And pieces go everywhere, and they bounce into the kitchen, under the fridge, they're all over the place. 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:22.719 And you are fuming. 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:26.080 It was the only thing you had left. 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:28.240 You were counting on this. 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:32.240 And you're frustrated, right? 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:38.240 And you're sad for what you lost, you're sad for all this mess, not just the puzzle, but all of it, right? 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:41.120 You're not sure any of it can be repaired. 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:44.159 You're at the end of yourself. 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:44.639 Right? 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:46.639 I'm just trying to get you to feel something. 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:48.560 You're at the end of yourself. 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:51.759 This is probably how Mary felt. 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:54.639 Her brother was sick. 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:58.879 The person that she put hope in didn't show up. 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:01.039 Then he shows up late. 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:05.759 And that's what we get in John 11. 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:07.919 We get Mary undone. 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:15.280 And it's then in that undone that Jesus meets her. 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:20.319 And when he meets her, what's interesting is he doesn't lecture her about her lack of faith. 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:22.159 Like, oh, you love little faith. 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:26.000 Like, why aren't you more faithful through your brother's death? 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:28.400 You know, like, oh you he doesn't do that at all. 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:30.639 He he cries with her. 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:32.400 He cries with her. 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:45.759 And it begs the question like, what if in all the places, what if in all the places you think you're getting a lecture from God, or you think you're going to get a lecture from God? 00:03:46.000 --> 00:04:01.280 What if actually God is just waiting to be with you and cry with you over that loss, that mistake, that shame, that failure, that sin. 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:08.080 Now, if you know the story, Jesus shows up, he redeems the whole situation. 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:14.319 He raises Lazarus back to life, and this is one of his big miracles that validated his deity. 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:21.279 And it's all leading into this cross and this resurrection, because in John 11, 25, he says, I am the oh, you see that? 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:21.920 You see that? 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:24.000 He thought that was fancy stuff. 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:26.480 I am the resurrection and the life. 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:32.079 Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live. 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.839 And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:38.560 Do you believe this? 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:43.439 Christy and I are still survivor nerds. 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:45.680 Uh it's still showing, it's still airing. 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:47.600 I don't know if you know, it's 38 seasons. 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:48.879 Like it's still going on. 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:51.839 98% of you quit watching 15 years ago. 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:53.519 But it won't go away. 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:55.279 It's still there, and we're in it. 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:58.480 Like we're into the tribes and we're into the immunity challenges. 00:04:58.639 --> 00:04:59.439 We love Joe. 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:01.600 I don't know if y'all love Joe, if you know Joe is. 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:03.680 He's a Joe's a stud, he wins everything. 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:05.120 Like we love Joe. 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:08.399 And we love immunity idols, that's always really exciting. 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:16.480 And if you remember how it works, because most of you quit watching, uh, if you remember how it works, uh, the tribe that loses the immunity challenge has to go to tribal. 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:21.759 When you go to tribal, the tribe has to vote out one of your own. 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:29.199 So you all write on these cards and then they put them in the little pot, and then Jeff reads them name by name. 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:33.439 And as he as he reads, it's just their faces, you know, all your name's called. 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:37.279 You're like, oh no, you look around, like, you know, you didn't see it coming, you know, and that's how you get voted out. 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:38.720 You didn't see it coming. 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:39.920 Always. 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:43.040 And then the dreadful thing happens, right? 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:47.120 Name's called, dreams are demolished, and maybe you needed the money. 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:52.160 Maybe maybe you're in the situation where you really needed this, you really needed this million dollars. 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:54.240 Or maybe you just love the game. 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:56.560 Or maybe you felt betrayed. 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:04.000 And Jeff looks you in the eyes, he puts out your torch, you know, it's very dramatic, and he says, Oh, the tribe has spoken. 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:06.800 And then you you go past Jeff, you walk down this path. 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.120 This is the loser's path, this is the path of death. 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:10.160 You're out of the game. 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:11.839 There's nothing left here. 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:13.519 Game's over. 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:16.720 Only the rejected walk down this path. 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:22.319 But, hey, this year, season 38. 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:25.120 It's different, right? 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:27.759 Like we have to do something different to keep the thing going. 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:33.680 It's different because at the end of the path, just when death is certain, there's a sign. 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:35.680 Who's watching? 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:36.399 Is anybody? 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:38.240 Oh, more than I thought. 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:40.160 Just this side of the room. 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:42.959 I don't know it was weird. 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:45.199 There's a sign. 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:52.240 And it says, if you want to keep playing the game, go to the left and get in the boat. 00:06:53.519 --> 00:07:00.959 And what's amazing is this walk down this path, because it's the path of rejection and death, you're out of the game. 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:02.639 And they're frustrated. 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:04.879 Like at this point, like everybody reacts a little differently. 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:08.160 Some people are like, they're confused, what just happened? 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:12.000 Or some people are angry, some people, some people just immediately, they're sad. 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.079 They're just immediately, but all of them are sad. 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:15.360 All of them are sad. 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:21.759 And then all of a sudden, they see the sign and everything changes. 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:23.839 Because they've been redeemed. 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:25.199 That's why. 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:30.240 Like all the sudden, something happened outside of them and it's given to them. 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:32.319 They did nothing for it. 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:35.360 They couldn't have caused it, they didn't see it coming. 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:40.720 Like it was the survivor gods spoke into their life and it showed up. 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:43.040 This proclamation showed up. 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:47.600 You see, redemption's always received. 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:48.560 That's what redemption is. 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:51.360 The boat takes these players to Redemption Island. 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:53.680 Redemption's always received. 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:59.279 And this is like our redemption in Jesus, the death that was due to us, right? 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:02.720 Passed us over. 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:07.120 Somebody else made provision for us. 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:11.120 So this is a thought coming into John 12, verse 1. 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:16.079 Six days before the Passover, so hold on to that, Jesus came to Bethany. 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:17.040 So this is what's going on. 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:19.040 There's something going on here in the community. 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:24.160 Six days before Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:25.199 We just talked about all of that. 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:26.319 Here's point number one. 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:28.399 We're all looking for Passover. 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:30.319 We're all looking for Passover. 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:32.559 And Jesus is our Passover. 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:44.799 So a little Bible study here is that centuries before Israel was captive in Egypt, God finally hears the prayers of the Israelites and begins to move on their behalf. 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:46.639 And he says, okay, here's the deal. 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:51.200 There's going to be this huge, horrible plague that's going to help cause your release. 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:52.240 And here's the deal. 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:56.399 Anyone who doesn't sacrifice a lamb, take the blood and put it over the doorframe. 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:57.360 I know it's weird. 00:08:57.919 --> 00:08:59.039 It's very ancient, right? 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:00.559 It's not our culture. 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:03.440 Put the blood on the doorframe. 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:12.799 If you have that blood on the door frame, death will pass you over, and you'll live. 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:17.840 And so that's what happens, and this helps free the Israelites. 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:21.679 And so Passover festival is birthed out of this. 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:27.600 Once a year to celebrate this deliverance and God's liberation of the people. 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:31.919 And so Jesus is here, this festival in mind, this history in mind. 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:38.480 And he says, I'm the resurrection and I'm the life. 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:41.440 And he's saying, I'm I'm your Passover. 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:42.960 Like I'm I'm that blood. 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:44.559 I'm the blood on the doorframe. 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:45.919 So death will pass you over. 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:47.440 Judgment will pass you over. 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:50.000 There's no death upon your sin. 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:55.840 Your sin and death is taken upon me on the cross. 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:57.919 My blood provides for you. 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.759 Eternal life, and righteousness is given to you. 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:03.679 And this is our point. 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:05.679 This is the point that we're all looking for Passover. 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:07.840 We all want judgment to pass us over. 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:14.720 We all want righteousness to come to us, justification for our lives and ourselves and our souls. 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:15.840 We all want this. 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:17.840 We just don't know where to get it. 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:21.679 And Jesus says, You're all searching for Passover. 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:22.960 I'm your Passover. 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:24.960 I'm your Passover. 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:32.240 You don't have to keep making sacrifice after sacrifice after sacrifice after sacrifice. 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:34.639 Verses 2 and 3. 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:36.639 Here a dinner was given in Jesus' honor. 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:41.519 Martha served while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:42.480 That'd be interesting. 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:43.519 He just came back to life. 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:45.120 I don't know what that conversation is like. 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:49.919 Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume. 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:53.840 She poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair. 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:56.320 And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:01.360 Point number two is this perfume is wonderful for perfume. 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:04.399 But don't make perfume your Savior. 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:06.399 And here's what I'm talking about. 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:11.919 Mary breaks open this jar, maybe it says it's probably a year's wages. 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:15.600 I don't know,$50,000,$75,000 worth of perfume. 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:19.200 I mean, it's the most precious thing they had in their home. 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:28.480 She finds the most expensive, precious thing she can get, and she pours it out on his feet, right? 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:31.279 She's saying, like, you can you can have this. 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:33.039 You are worth this. 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:34.960 Right? 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:46.799 The bridge into our lives is saying, like, my job, my dream, the dream of my job, the dream of my family, the dream of my romantic life, my my aspirations, my coping, my escapes. 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:48.799 You can you can have this. 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:53.039 Where else am I loved like this? 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:56.639 Where else am I actually passed over? 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:01.519 And there's this response, like, how ridiculous. 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:03.679 Like, what a what a waste. 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:05.519 What a waste. 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:06.240 Oh my gosh. 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:08.320 I mean, can you imagine sitting there and you'd see something like that happen? 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:10.159 You go, like, you just get$50,000. 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:13.039 You just poured out$50,000. 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:16.399 Like, why didn't you get like something else? 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:21.279 $50,000 of perfume. 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:24.320 And the point is not one of money. 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:26.559 It really has nothing to do with money. 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:31.120 It's about what you give ultimate worth to in your life. 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:36.000 A few weeks ago, I mentioned the documentary, Won't You Be My Neighbor? 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:36.480 The Mr. 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:39.120 Rogers documentary that came out last year, won some awards. 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:40.879 Really fantastic documentary. 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:44.879 There's this one scene, it's right when his show becomes super popular. 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:46.559 It's being filmed in Pittsburgh. 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:49.120 It kind of hits, it's starting to hit a lot. 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:51.279 A lot of people are starting to know about it. 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:58.159 And the local PBS chapter there in Pittsburgh, they decide to open the doors to the public to come, and you can come and meet Mr. 00:12:58.240 --> 00:12:58.559 Rogers. 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:01.759 And they think, well, maybe a hundred people will show up or something, right? 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:08.320 Like they're not quite sure exactly what they're gonna get, but they thought this might be a nice way to open the doors and let some kids meet Mr. 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:08.799 Rogers. 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:20.080 And so they let it be known on the news and everything, and that Saturday morning, there is a line of people, parents and children, all the way down the block, around the block. 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:26.320 And then they show these clips of all these children coming in, and they're all sitting in front of sitting in front of Mr. 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:27.039 Rogers. 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:28.399 Anybody grow up on Mr. 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:29.039 Rogers? 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:29.440 Right? 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:34.720 Can you imagine when you were little, like if you saw him right in front of you? 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:43.360 And their faces, I mean, it and he's giving them, he is giving them complete undivided attention. 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:50.799 And their faces in reaction are complete admiration, complete awe, complete amazement. 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:55.039 And in a way, it's a tiny, it's a tiny glimpse of worship in a way. 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:02.320 I mean, these little kids are like, my my feelings matter to this man? 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:12.159 Like when my feelings don't matter to my my brother or my sister or my mom or my dad, like this this man is telling me constantly that my feelings matter. 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:17.039 This man is telling me constantly that I'm loved. 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:21.919 And he's right here, like he's right in front of me. 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:25.840 So of course these children are in awe. 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:29.759 All of us worship. 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:33.600 None of us have a worship problem. 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:40.080 We all worship something. 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:44.000 We worship that which we love. 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:51.200 We worship that which we think loves us, or at least it gives value to us. 00:14:53.279 --> 00:15:03.679 Our problem is knowing that which truly loves us without condition, and that which deserves our love and worship in return. 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:07.039 And this is when we understand Mary. 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:10.080 Because this all of a sudden she gets. 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:14.559 All of a sudden she goes, you love me like that? 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:15.840 You would cry with me? 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:19.759 You would come into my hurt, into my pain, into my lack of faith. 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:21.519 You'll hear me. 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:24.799 Oh, you're the resurrection life, you're gonna die for me? 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:26.720 You're gonna be my Passover? 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:29.120 Have my perfume. 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:32.159 Have it all. 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:32.879 Have my heart. 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:35.440 Have my quiet moments, have my loud moments, have it all. 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:37.440 Just have my life. 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:44.559 And point number three is this extravagant worship comes in the wake of extravagant love. 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:52.159 I don't have to give you a lot of tips on how to worship if we can begin to understand how much God loves us. 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:53.759 All of a sudden you begin to worship. 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:55.600 I begin to worship. 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:58.879 I read a quote a few months ago, about a month ago or so. 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:00.480 It's by the theologian J.I. 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:01.200 Packer. 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:03.360 Here's a bit of that quote. 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:26.159 There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God, and the thought that for some unfathomable reason he wants me as his friend and desires to be my friend and has given his son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:31.360 Not merely that we may know God, but that he knows us. 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:35.759 See, Mary knows he loves her. 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:49.840 Colossians 3.16 says this: be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks, so always giving thanks. 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:52.639 It's not set to a location or a place or time. 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:59.600 Always giving thanks for all the things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father. 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:06.400 So no reference here to a place of worshiping in a temple because you are the temple. 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:14.240 And no reference to worshiping at a service at a place time because you have your own worship service anywhere, any place, anytime. 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:21.680 And now we begin to go back to Mary and understand that this is worship, it's not a temple, it's just hers, her and Jesus. 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:25.359 There's perfume on the floors, perfume on his feet. 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:32.240 And then she reaches up and she undoes her hair. 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:34.400 Falls down. 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:37.519 She's already bowed down. 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:40.720 She takes her hair. 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:43.359 I mean, this is so undignified. 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:45.440 I mean, it's undignified like even today. 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:48.000 I don't know if I would want to do that. 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:50.400 Even more undignified then. 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:56.559 She takes her hair and just begins to wipe his feet. 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:02.880 She doesn't seem to care too much about what other people think. 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:06.480 She doesn't seem to care too much about how much that perfume just costs. 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:08.640 She seems quite free. 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:12.880 Free from people's approval, free from money and materials. 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:16.319 And she's free because she knows she's loved. 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:18.799 She's free because she understands this Jesus. 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:22.240 That he actually loves her without conditions. 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:23.920 He is the resurrection, the life. 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:28.960 He is the Passover, and He is worthy of her worship. 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:36.480 My brothers and sisters, may your heart overflow with extravagant worship because He loves you extravagantly. 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:37.599 Let's pray together. 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:49.519 God, thank you for this good story that leads us into Easter that reminds us that you are the Passover, that you provided a way so that we do not have to continue to live our lives. 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:56.720 Sacrifice after sacrifice, as to be accepted, absolved, forgiven, righteous, have life eternal. 00:18:56.799 --> 00:18:57.839 But it is found in you. 00:18:57.920 --> 00:18:58.640 It's already done. 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:00.319 It's been proclaimed. 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:04.480 Maybe rest and know it more in our hearts. 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:09.279 And may our hearts worship you in response. 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:18.559 Not to earn anything, not to maintain anything, but just the response of knowing we're loved. 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:20.160 And you are worthy. 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:26.559 In Jesus' name. 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:27.759 Amen.