Welcome to a new
Carter Report series,
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The Game Changers.
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These rare individuals
appear once in a lifetime.
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Like a blazing
meteor across the night sky,
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they change the
course of history.
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They show us the way forward.
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Welcome to The Game Changers.
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I'm so glad that
you're here today.
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This is the Lady
Game Changers continued.
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We're going to talk
about those remarkable women
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who changed the
course of history.
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Now, none of these ladies
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were really
political or powerful.
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I had in my original notes
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that they weren't wealthy,
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well, some of them were.
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But they weren't well connected.
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During a time when
women were treated shame,
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as second class citizens,
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they outshone most of the men.
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We're going to discover today
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that when the
men ran to the hills,
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they ran to the cross, amazing.
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During the time
when Christ lived,
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the word of a
woman didn't count.
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That's why the disciples,
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when they heard the
reports of the women,
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they said, "It's
nonsense, it's foolishness."
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But Jesus changed all that
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because He was
the great liberator.
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The first lady game changer
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in today's presentation is Mary,
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the peasant girl who
became the mother of Christ,
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the greatest person in
the history of the world.
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And I want you
to take your Bibles
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and come with me
to Matthew 1:18-24.
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We're going to turn
to the New Testament
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to Matthew 1:
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18-24,
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got it?
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Says, "Now the
birth of Jesus Christ
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was as follows,
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after his mother Mary
was betrothed to Joseph,
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before they came together,
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she was found with
child of the Holy Spirit.
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Then Joseph, her
husband, being a just man,
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not wanting to
make her public example
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was minded to put
her away secretly.
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But while he
thought about these things,
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behold, an angel of
the Lord appeared to him
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in a dream saying,
'Joseph, son of David,
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don't be afraid
to take you Mary,
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your wife,
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for that which is conceived
in her is of the Holy Spirit.
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And she will bring forth a Son,
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and you shall
call his name Jesus,
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for He should save His
people from their sins.'
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So all this was done
that it might be fulfilled
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which was spoken by the Lord
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through the prophet saying:
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"Behold, the virgin
shall be with child,
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and bear a Son,
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and they should
call His name Immanuel,'
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which is
translated, 'God with us.'
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Then Joseph, being
aroused from sleep,
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did as the angel of
the Lord commanded him
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and took to him his wife,
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but did not know her
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till she had brought
forth her first born son,
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and he called his name Jesus."
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Now this Mary,
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I'm told in
scripture, had no wealth,
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and no earthly power,
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and no political influence.
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I've seen
pictures in recent times
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like you have of
refugees at the border.
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You've seen
pictures of poor, young,
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oppressed, peasant girls.
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Mary was a bit like that.
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Did you know that
Mary and her son Jesus
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were refugees?
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Mary didn't belong to
a British royal family.
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She didn't look
anything like Princess Kate.
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Now I think Princess
Kate is very beautiful.
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In a chariot, not a
chariot but in a carriage.
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I've seen her in
this golden carriage.
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And you say, "My!
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Isn't she just
absolutely beautiful?"
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But Mary didn't
look like Princess Kate.
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Mary wasn't European.
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Did you know this?
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Mary was not a European
like I am with fair skin
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and blue eyes,
Mary was a Semite.
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She belonged to
a minority group.
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Mary was a Jew,
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more closely
related to the Arabs
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racially than to me.
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You say, "No,
this can't be true.
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Jesus was obviously
something like a European."
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No, he was a Semite.
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The great angel, Gabriel,
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visited her with
some astounding news.
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She would become
pregnant without a man's help,
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and she'd bear a son,
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and He would be the
Jewish Messiah, amazing.
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Luke 1:34, 35 says,
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"Then Mary said to the angel,
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'How can this be,
since I do not know a man?'
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And the angel
answered and said to her,
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'The Holy Spirit
will come upon you,
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and the power of the
highest will overshadow you,
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therefore, also, that
Holy One who is to be born
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will be called the Son of God.'"
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Now the skeptic says
it's absolutely impossible,
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this idea of the virgin birth.
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But I want to say to everybody
today that the great God,
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who made the stars and
the whole of the universe
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can do a few things
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that you and I
cannot understand.
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And so God said,
"I'm going to do it."
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And she didn't question,
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and she didn't doubt
the word of the Lord.
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Look at Luke 1:38, Luke 1:38,
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"Then Mary said, 'Behold
the manservant of the Lord!
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Let it be to me
according to your word.'
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And the angel
departed from her.'"
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She didn't have a lot of money.
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You know what she had?
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She had a lot of faith,
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and she had a lot of
faith in the great God
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who made the stars.
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She was given, my
friends, the greatest honor.
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The greatest honor
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is not to be the
president of the United States
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because you may be here
today and gone tomorrow,
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or the king or the
queen of Great Britain.
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That's not the greatest honor.
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Now I was brought up
to believe in royalty.
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I was brought up to
believe in marching soldiers,
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and their big hats,
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and really swinging their arms.
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I was brought up to
believe in marching bands
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and all of that stuff...
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but Mary wasn't.
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Mary was a peasant girl.
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But she was not
an ignorant girl,
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Mary was an educated girl
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because she knew the scriptures.
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She breaks forth
into a hymn of praise.
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Luke 1:46-49,
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Mary said, "My
soul magnifies the Lord,
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and my spirit is
rejoiced in God, my Savior.
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For he has regarded
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the lowly state of
His maidservant...'"
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Just think of
this, how beautiful.
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"For behold, henceforth
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all generations
will call me blessed.
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For he who is mighty has
done great things for me.
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Holy is his name."
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She was poor
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but she was not uneducated.
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She had a
marvelous grasp of scripture.
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Her baby was born in a barn
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in a little town by
the name of Bethlehem
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in a shed behind a
very, very cheap motel,
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and they couldn't
get into the motel.
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I want the women here to think
of this young peasant girl,
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she's having a baby,
no doctors, no nurses.
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What were all the priests doing?
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What were all the great
religious leaders doing?
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Totally oblivious
to the greatest event
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in the history of the world.
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What does that tell you?
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And when she takes this
little baby in her arms,
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maybe nine pounds
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and she kisses this baby,
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she kisses the
face of Almighty God.
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Can you believe it?
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She brings Him up, and
she has Him for 30 years.
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The Bible tells us,
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"She had other
sons and daughters."
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Mark 6:3 says,
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"Is this not the
carpenter, the Son of Mary,
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and brother of James,
Joses, Judas, and Simon?
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And are not His
sisters here with us?
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So they were offended at Him."
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So he had brothers and sisters.
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Were these the children of
Joseph by another marriage?
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We are not told in scripture.
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1 Corinthians 9:5 says,
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"Do we have no right to
take along a believing wife,
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as do also the other apostles,
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the brothers of
the Lord, and Cephas?"
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And so Jesus had
brothers and sisters.
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Did Mary have grandchildren?
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Probably.
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Was she a perpetual virgin
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as is taught by the
great Roman Catholic Church?
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And that is why they call her
still the Blessed Virgin Mary,
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is this taught in the Bible?
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No, it's not.
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If you look at Matthew 1:24, 25,
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it says, "Then Joseph,
being aroused from sleep,
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did as the angel of
the Lord commanded him,
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and took to him his wife,
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and did not know her," or
have relationships with her,
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"till she had brought
forth her firstborn Son,
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And he called His name Jesus."
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Mary was not a perpetual virgin.
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Was say she sinless?
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The Roman Catholic doctrine
of the Immaculate Conception
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says that, "Immediately
after her conception,
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she was made free of all
her hereditary defilement."
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Thus she was totally sinless.
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Is this taught in the Bible?
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No, it is contradicted
by every text in the Bible.
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Mary was a sinner,
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saved by grace,
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and Jesus was a savior.
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We don't pray to Mary
'cause Mary can't save us.
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We follow the Bible, we
don't follow the church.
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When Jesus was crucified
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and the men ran for the hills,
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Mary is there at the cross.
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Jesus mentions her in
His dying breath to John,
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John was there.
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Jesus loved His
mother and she loved Him.
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She is there at Pentecost
when the spirit is poured out,
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then nothing else in
scripture, history is silent.
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The pope says
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that she was
assumed into heaven,
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this is called the
Doctrine of the Assumption,
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but it is a pious myth
not taught in the Bible.
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It is just another
man made tradition.
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Mary is sleeping with
the rest of the saints
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are waiting the resurrection,
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but one day I'd tell you
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on the authority
of the Word of God,
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Mary will be
with her Son in glory.
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Mary had the greatest honor
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that was ever
given to a human being.
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Our second great
lady is another Mary.
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And she is a bit
of a mystery woman.
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And this part of my talk
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may have just a
little bit of controversy,
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and I'm glad about that.
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Mary Magdalene was the
woman possessed by seven demons,
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who became Christ's
friend and disciple.
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Luke 8:1-3,
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we read about this lady.
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Luke 8, the woman with a pass.
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"Now it came to pass afterward,
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that He went through
every city and village,
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preaching and
bringing the glad tidings
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of the kingdom of God.
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And the twelve were with Him,
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and certain woman
who had been healed
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of evil spirits and infirmities,
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Mary called Magdalene,"
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she came from a town
by the name of Magdala,
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"out of whom had
come seven demons,
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and Joanna, the wife of Chuza,
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Herod's steward and
Susanna, and many others
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who provided for Him
from their sustenance."
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But every time the
women are mentioned,
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it is invariably Mary Magdalene.
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Note this well.
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It's quite extraordinary.
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Mary Magdalene is mentioned
12 times in the gospels,
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
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more than most of the apostles.
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She had hit bottom.
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Her life was a disaster.
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Now this is the scenario.
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It says Jesus cast
seven demons out of her.
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But Jesus on one other
occasion spoke about a person,
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who had one demon, and
the demon was cast out,
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and Jesus said,
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"When the house
was vacant and empty,
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seven of the
demons came back in."
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This may have happened to Mary.
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She may have had a
demon cast out by the Lord,
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but she lapsed back into sin.
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And seven demons came into her.
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She was much worse off.
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She was probably afflicted
with physical, and nervous,
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maybe even mental problems
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because of the demonism.
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Hers was a hopeless case,
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we would say today.
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Many years ago,
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Dr. John Hammond and I
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was summoned to go
to a home in Australia
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in a little town by
the name of Woy Woy.
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This lady was
coming to my meetings.
00:16:41.50\00:16:44.20
And one night she stayed behind
after the meeting and she said,
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"I have a terrible problem,
I need for you to come."
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I said, "What is it?"
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She said, "Every time
I get into bed at night,
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a demon gets in with me."
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Dr. Hammond and I will come.
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When we walk
through the front door
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of this home in Australia,
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our hair stood up.
00:17:09.26\00:17:12.59
We felt we were in
the presence of demons.
00:17:12.63\00:17:16.50
She told me that the curtain,
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she said, "Look at the
curtain rods at night time"
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and she had all these
beautiful little children.
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They were sitting in
one part of the living room,
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and I was
sitting there terrified.
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She said, "The
curtain rods come out,
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and they flow around
the room and they chase us."
00:17:34.38\00:17:40.02
She told me how she
turned away from Christ.
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She'd been a believer,
00:17:42.86\00:17:44.39
and she turned away from Christ,
00:17:44.43\00:17:46.49
and she went along to seances.
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If you go along to a seance,
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you're putting your soul
in the hands of the devil.
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And the devil had possessed her.
00:17:55.04\00:17:58.57
And when we knelt
down to pray for her,
00:17:58.61\00:18:00.91
she would go into a trance.
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And Dr. Hammond and I
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spent much of the
night there praying for her
00:18:04.45\00:18:07.52
that the
spirits would leave her,
00:18:07.55\00:18:09.55
and we could
feel their presence.
00:18:09.58\00:18:14.09
So don't scoff
about demon possession
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because it happens.
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Then Mary Magdalene met Jesus
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and her life
was totally changed.
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She lived at least for a while
00:18:28.70\00:18:30.77
in the fishing
village of Magdala,
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a fishing town that
was rich and corrupt,
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not far, notice
this, not far from Bethany.
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Then there is some controversy
00:18:44.29\00:18:45.62
concerning the Marys
of the New Testament.
00:18:45.65\00:18:47.62
Every Bible
scholar will tell you this.
00:18:47.66\00:18:51.56
Now some believe, including me,
00:18:51.59\00:18:55.60
that she's the woman
of Luke 7:36 and onwards.
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Please turn to Luke 7.
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Luke
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and onwards.
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"That one of the Pharisees
asked Him they eat with him.
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And He went to
the Pharisee's house,
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sat down to eat.
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Behold, a woman in the
city who was a sinner,"
00:19:23.89\00:19:28.06
means a prostitute,
00:19:28.10\00:19:30.60
"and she knew that
Jesus sat on the table
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in the Pharisee's house,
00:19:33.13\00:19:35.17
brought an alabaster
flask of fragrant oil,
00:19:35.20\00:19:40.14
and stood at His
feet behind Him weeping,
00:19:40.18\00:19:42.94
and she began to wash
his feet with her tears,
00:19:42.98\00:19:46.35
and wiped them
with a hair of her head,
00:19:46.38\00:19:49.48
and she kissed His feet
00:19:49.52\00:19:51.49
and anointed them
with fragrant oil.
00:19:51.52\00:19:56.02
Then He turned to the woman,"
00:19:56.06\00:19:57.39
because she is terribly
criticized by the Pharisee,
00:19:57.43\00:20:02.36
the righteous person,
00:20:02.40\00:20:06.17
"turned to the woman,
said to Simon, the Pharisee,
00:20:06.20\00:20:09.80
'Do you see this woman?
00:20:09.84\00:20:11.17
I entered your house,
00:20:11.21\00:20:12.87
you gave Me no
water for My feet,
00:20:12.91\00:20:14.71
but she is washed
my feet with her tears,
00:20:14.74\00:20:17.85
wiped them with
the hair of her head.'"
00:20:17.88\00:20:20.22
Pharisee wouldn't do this,
he was too righteous, too good.
00:20:20.25\00:20:25.92
"You gave me no kiss
00:20:25.95\00:20:27.29
but this woman has
not ceased to kiss My feet
00:20:27.32\00:20:29.22
since the time I came in.
00:20:29.26\00:20:31.06
You did not anoint my
head, with tears, with oil,
00:20:31.09\00:20:35.43
but this woman has anointed
My feet with fragrant oil.
00:20:35.46\00:20:39.37
Therefore I say
to you, her sins,
00:20:39.40\00:20:43.07
which are many are
forgiven, for she loved much.
00:20:43.10\00:20:46.01
But to whom little is
forgiven, the same loves little.
00:20:46.04\00:20:49.61
Then He said to her,
'Your sins are forgiven.'"
00:20:49.64\00:20:53.92
So here is a woman
00:20:53.95\00:20:55.58
that comes into the
house of Simon, the Pharisee,
00:20:55.62\00:20:59.89
it is the town of Bethany,
00:20:59.92\00:21:02.52
and she comes with a flask
00:21:02.56\00:21:04.83
of extremely expensive oil.
00:21:04.86\00:21:11.07
Now some believe
00:21:11.10\00:21:15.40
that Christ cast out
the demons from this woman,
00:21:15.44\00:21:19.07
and she showed her
gratitude and joined His team
00:21:19.11\00:21:23.24
as recorded a few
verses down the road
00:21:23.28\00:21:27.82
in Luke 8.
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Listen carefully
00:21:30.79\00:21:33.22
because I'm going to have
folks write to me on this.
00:21:33.25\00:21:37.46
The story of a woman anointing
Jesus with expensive perfume
00:21:37.49\00:21:42.13
is recorded four
times in the gospels.
00:21:42.16\00:21:46.23
And I have put up the
four references, Luke 7,
00:21:46.27\00:21:50.27
we've read it.
00:21:50.31\00:21:51.64
You can take notes.
00:21:51.67\00:21:53.34
Matthew 26,
Mark 14, and John 12,
00:21:53.38\00:21:58.61
and they all have
remarkable similarities.
00:21:58.65\00:22:04.19
But they vary a little bit
because the Bible is written
00:22:04.22\00:22:08.99
through the eyes of
different personalities.
00:22:09.02\00:22:14.23
And so the anointing
is mentioned four times.
00:22:14.26\00:22:18.13
Many similarities,
happens in Bethany,
00:22:18.17\00:22:22.87
in the home of Simon,
00:22:22.90\00:22:25.87
this Pharisaical humbug,
00:22:25.91\00:22:29.18
and the perfume
is very expensive.
00:22:29.21\00:22:33.21
It happens in Bethany,
00:22:33.25\00:22:34.85
the home of
Lazarus, Mary, Martha,
00:22:34.88\00:22:38.65
and Simon the Pharisee.
00:22:38.69\00:22:41.09
And look at John 12:3.
00:22:41.12\00:22:44.29
John 12:3, now this is Mary,
00:22:44.33\00:22:48.53
the sister of
Martha and Lazarus.
00:22:48.56\00:22:51.77
"Then Mary took a pound
00:22:51.80\00:22:53.13
of very costly
oil of spikenard,"
00:22:53.17\00:22:56.74
I think this is the same story,
00:22:56.77\00:22:59.51
"and anointed the feet of Jesus,
00:22:59.54\00:23:01.34
and wiped His
feet with her hair.
00:23:01.38\00:23:03.65
And the house was filled
with the fragrance of the oil."
00:23:03.68\00:23:07.88
Now listen, I'm going to
tell you some amazing things.
00:23:07.92\00:23:10.15
In one of the gospel,
00:23:13.25\00:23:14.59
we may read it
today, we have time.
00:23:14.62\00:23:19.36
The people with hard heart say,
00:23:19.39\00:23:21.50
"This could have been
sold for a large sum of money,
00:23:21.53\00:23:25.23
and the money
given to the poor."
00:23:25.27\00:23:28.27
They said this
perfume was worth 300 denarii,
00:23:28.30\00:23:32.57
which is more
than a year's wages.
00:23:32.61\00:23:37.68
So let's bring it into our
own society here in America.
00:23:37.71\00:23:43.72
Let's say...
00:23:43.75\00:23:46.79
This is a step in the dark,
00:23:46.82\00:23:48.16
but let's say the
average salary in America
00:23:48.19\00:23:50.46
for an individual is $50,000.
00:23:50.49\00:23:54.36
Then this
perfume ounce for ounce
00:23:54.40\00:23:57.73
is worth about three
times as much as gold is.
00:23:57.77\00:24:01.27
You can't say it's
worth its weight in gold.
00:24:05.01\00:24:07.14
No, gold, say, $1,500 an ounce.
00:24:07.18\00:24:12.31
But about 12
ounces of this stuff
00:24:12.35\00:24:16.69
works at about $4,000 an ounce.
00:24:16.72\00:24:21.62
You can understand
why the Pharisee, Simon,
00:24:21.66\00:24:26.03
and Judith were hopping mad.
00:24:26.06\00:24:30.67
What an extravagance.
00:24:30.70\00:24:32.03
But Jesus said,
"Leave her alone."
00:24:32.07\00:24:37.77
Now this stuff, would you know,
00:24:37.81\00:24:39.14
like to know
where it comes from?
00:24:39.17\00:24:40.88
It comes from the
Himalayas in India.
00:24:40.91\00:24:45.45
The foothills of the Himalayas
up about 10,000 or 12,000 feet.
00:24:45.48\00:24:50.49
It is made out of
the spike of this plant.
00:24:50.52\00:24:54.19
It is called spikenard.
00:24:54.22\00:24:56.22
And she poured more
than a year's wages.
00:25:00.36\00:25:05.73
Some believe that Mary,
00:25:05.77\00:25:07.24
the sister of
Lazarus and Martha,
00:25:07.27\00:25:11.17
is the same lady
as Mary of Magdala.
00:25:11.21\00:25:15.31
Here's the scenario.
00:25:15.34\00:25:17.91
She lives in
Bethany but she leaves home.
00:25:17.95\00:25:24.35
She's a young person who's gone
00:25:24.39\00:25:26.32
while sick to deaths
of organized religion,
00:25:26.35\00:25:31.56
she went to a fishing town.
00:25:31.59\00:25:35.30
She became a prostitute.
00:25:35.33\00:25:39.33
She became filled with demons.
00:25:39.37\00:25:43.71
And she found Jesus.
00:25:43.74\00:25:46.01
Or more
accurately, Jesus found her.
00:25:46.04\00:25:51.98
And then she returns to Bethany.
00:25:52.01\00:25:57.15
Now much, much more
about the Lady Game Changers
00:25:57.19\00:26:03.46
and Mary, the ex-prostitute,
in just a few moments.
00:26:03.49\00:26:09.36
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00:26:23.81\00:26:27.28
Churches and schools sprang up
00:26:27.32\00:26:29.85
and multiplied
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00:26:29.88\00:26:35.26
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