(MUSIC)
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HELLO FRIENDS, WE ALL KNOW A
MARATHON IS ONE OF THE LONGEST
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AND HARDEST RACES
A PERSON COULD RUN.
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BUT DID YOU HEAR ABOUT
THE ULTRAMARATHON THEY USED TO
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HAVE IN AUSTRALIA?
IT WAS 544 MILES FROM
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MELBOURNE TO SYDNEY.
IT ATTRACTED AS MANY AS
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150 WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES.
BUT THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED
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THAT NO ONE WOULD EVER FORGET.
IN 1983 A 61-YEAR-OLD POTATO
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FARMER NAMED CLIFF YOUNG
DECIDED TO ENTER THE RACE.
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NOW PEOPLE WERE VERY
AMUSED BECAUSE HE HAD ON RUBBER
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GOLASHES OVER HIS BOOTS AND
WHEN THE RACE BEGAN AND ALL THE
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RUNNERS TOOK OFF, SURE
ENOUGH OLD CLIFF WAS LEFT BEHIND
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SHUFFLING ALONG VERY SLOWLY
- BUT HE WAS SHUFFLING VERY
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PERSISTENTLY. NORMALLY,
DURING THIS 7-DAY RACE,
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THE RUNNERS WOULD GO
ABOUT 18 HOURS RUNNING AND THEN
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THEY'D SLEEP FOR 6 HOURS,
BUT NOBODY EVER TOLD CLIFF THAT.
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WHEN THE OTHER RUNNERS
STOPPED TO REST DURING THE
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NIGHT, CLIFF
JUST KEPT ON RUNNING.
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SOME PEOPLE WERE AFRAID OLD
CLIFF WAS GOING TO HAVE A HEART
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ATTACK AND THEY WERE ASKING THE
RACE ORGANIZERS TO SHOW MERCY
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AND STOP THE CRAZY OLD MAN.
BUT HE WOULD HAVE NONE OF IT.
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EACH DAY HE WAS GAINING ON
THE PACK BECAUSE WHEN THEY WERE
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SLEEPING HE WAS PLODDING ALONG.
DURING THE LAST NIGHT OF THE
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RACE CLIFF PASSED ALL OF
THESE WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES.
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NOT ONLY WAS CLIFF ABLE TO
RUN THAT 544-MILE RACE WITHOUT
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DYING, HE WON - BEATING ALL
THE OTHER RACERS BY 9 HOURS,
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BREAKING THE RECORD AND
BECOMING A NATIONAL HERO IN THE
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PROCESS. WHAT'S
REALLY AMAZING IS THAT
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WHEN THEY TOLD HIM HE HAD WON
THE $10,000.00 PRIZE, HE LOOKED
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CONFUSED AND SAID HE DIDN'T
KNOW THERE WAS A PRIZE AND HE
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DECIDED TO SHARE IT
WITH THE OTHER RUNNERS.
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WHEN ASKED HOW HE WAS ABLE
TO RUN ALL NIGHT LONG, CLIFF
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RESPONDED THAT HE GREW UP ON A
FARM WHERE THEY HAD ABOUT 2,000
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HEAD OF CATTLE AND, BECAUSE THEY
COULDN'T AFFORD HORSES, HE USED
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TO HAVE TO ROUND THEM UP ON
FOOT, SOMETIMES RUNNING TWO AND
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THREE DAYS NON-STOP.
SO, THROUGHOUT THE RACE, HE
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JUST IMAGINED
THAT HE WAS CHASING
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AFTER THE COWS AND
TRYING TO OUTRUN A STORM.
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OLD CLIFF'S SECRET WAS TO KEEP
ON RUNNING WHILE OTHERS WERE
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SLEEPING. YOU
KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US
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THAT THE RACE IS NOT
NECESSARILY TO THE SWIFT.
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SOMETHING LIKE AESOP'S FABLE OF
THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE - THE
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TORTOISE JUST
KEPT ON PLODDING ALONG.
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THAT'S WHY JESUS TELLS US IN
MATTHEW 24:13, 'HE THAT ENDURES
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UNTO THE END, THE
SAME WILL BE SAVED.'
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NOW YOU MIGHT SLIP
AND FALL DURING THE RACE.
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YOU MIGHT EVEN GET
OFF TO A BAD START.
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BUT IN THE CHRISTIAN RACE THAT
WE RUN, THE MAIN THING IS YOU
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WANT TO FINISH WELL.
KEEP ON RUNNING, FRIENDS,
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I WANT TO WELCOME OUR
FRIENDS WHO ARE WATCHING
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TO THE HEROES OF
FAITH PRESENTATION SERIES.
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THESE ARE STORIES OF
SALVATION THAT GIVE US
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INSIGHTS INTO A
NUMBER OF BIBLE DOCTRINES.
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AND TONIGHT, WE'RE GOING
TO BE DEALING WITH ONE OF
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THE HEROES OF FAITH THAT
IS A REAL INTEREST OF MINE.
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NOW, SOME OF YOU MAY
ALREADY KNOW WHERE WE'RE
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GOING, BUT LET ME JUST CHECK.
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IF I WERE TO ASK YOU,
'WHO DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST
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DEVOTED OF THE
DISCIPLES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT?'
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WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? >>JOHN.
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>>JOHN, PETER -
NOW IT'S A TRICK.
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WHEN YOU SAY 'DISCIPLE'
PEOPLE AUTOMATICALLY THINK
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'APOSTLE'. THERE WERE A LOT OF
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DISCIPLES THAT WERE NOT
APOSTLES AND I'M ACTUALLY
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THINKING NOT OF ONE OF
THE TWELVE MEN APOSTLES, I'M
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THINKING OF ONE OF
THE LADY DISCIPLES.
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AND I BELIEVE IT
WAS MARY MAGDALENE.
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YOU KNOW, SHE WAS ONE
OF THE ENIGMATIC CHARACTERS
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THAT YOU FIND
THROUGHOUT THE GOSPEL STORY THAT
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APPEARS IN A NUMBER OF
INTERESTING GEOGRAPHICAL
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SITUATIONS WHERE SHE
IS ALWAYS AT JESUS' FEET.
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IN FACT, A FEW YEARS AGO
I WROTE A BOOK BY THAT TITLE
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CALLED AT JESUS' FEET:
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARY
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MAGDALENE AND IT IS NOT
AT ALL RELATED TO WHAT THEY
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DID WITH MARY'S LIFE IN
THE DA VINCI CODE AND SOME
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OF THESE APOCRYPHAL
BOOKS - AND THEY SAY THAT SHE
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HAD SOME KIND OF ROMANTIC
RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS.
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WE JUST TAKE THE BIBLE
STORIES ABOUT MARY AND,
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THROUGH THOSE STORIES,
WE LEARN A LOT ABOUT THE
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GOSPEL AND WE LEARN A
LOT ABOUT SALVATION AND OUR
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RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD.
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AND SO, TODAY IS OUR
CASE STUDY IN OUR HEROES OF
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FAITH. WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT
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WHAT THE BIBLE TELLS ABOUT MARY.
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NOW, TO START WITH, THE
FIRST PASSAGE WE'RE GOING
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TO CONSIDER IS FROM THE
GOSPEL OF JOHN, CHAPTER 8.
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AND IT'S A STORY YOU ONLY
FIND IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
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AND IT SAYS HERE - I'LL
START WITH THE FIRST VERSE
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- "BUT JESUS WENT
TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
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NOW EARLY IN THE
MORNING HE CAME AGAIN INTO THE
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TEMPLE, AND ALL THE
PEOPLE CAME TO HIM; AND HE SAT
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DOWN AND TAUGHT
THEM. THEN THE SCRIBES AND
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PHARISEES BROUGHT TO HIM
A WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY.
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AND WHEN THEY HAD SET HER
IN THE MIDST, THEY SAID TO
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HIM, 'TEACHER, THIS WOMAN
WAS CAUGHT IN ADULTERY, IN
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THE VERY ACT. NOW
MOSES, IN THE LAW,
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COMMANDED US THAT
SUCH SHOULD BE STONED.
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BUT WHAT DO YOU SAY?'
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THIS THEY SAID, TESTING
HIM, THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE
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SOMETHING OF
WHICH TO ACCUSE HIM.
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BUT JESUS STOOPED DOWN
AND WROTE ON THE GROUND WITH
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HIS FINGER, AS
THOUGH HE DID NOT HEAR."
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NOW THE REASON THAT
THEY HAD DEVELOPED THIS WHOLE
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TRAP WAS BECAUSE THEY
WERE TRYING TO GET RID OF JESUS
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AND THEY KNEW THAT ONLY
THE ROMANS WERE ALLOWED TO
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PRONOUNCE THE DEATH
SENTENCE AND IF ANY OF THE
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RABBIS OR RELIGIOUS
LEADERS PRONOUNCED THE
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DEATH SENTENCE ON
SOMEONE - THEY WERE GOING TO
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EXECUTE MARY RIGHT
AWAY, THEY DIDN'T CARE.
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THEN THEY WOULD RUN TO
THE ROMANS AND SAY, 'THIS
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RABBI, JESUS, DOESN'T
RESPECT YOUR AUTHORITY.'
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JESUS WOULD BE
ARRESTED. IF JESUS SAID, 'NO, I
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DON'T BELIEVE IN THE LAW
OF MOSES, THEY WERE GOING
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TO USE THEIR STONES TO
CREATE A RIOT AND STONE
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JESUS FOR
REJECTING THE LAW OF MOSES.
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SO THEY THOUGHT,
'EITHER WAY, WE'VE GOT HIM NOW.'
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AND WHAT THEY DID IS
- THEY CREATED A TRAP.
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THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY
THAT HAD COME TO JERUSALEM
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FOR THE FEAST - THIS WAS
A FEAST WEEK - HER NAME WAS
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MARY, LATER KNOWN AS -
I BELIEVE THIS WOMAN WAS
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MARY MAGDALENE.
I'LL TELL YOU WHY
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IN A LITTLE BIT.
MAGDALA WAS A TOWN ON THE
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SEA OF GALILEE THAT
HAD A NOTORIOUS REPUTATION.
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IT'S WHERE THE
ROMAN SOLDIERS WENT FOR
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VACATION. AND
IF - YOU KNOW, THEY
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HAVE JESUS OF NAZARETH
- THE TOWN YOU'RE FROM.
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MARY MAGDALENE IS MARY
OF MAGDALA, BUT IF YOU WERE
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TO SAY IT TODAY, YOU
WOULD SAY, 'MARY OF LAS VEGAS.'
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YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF
TAKES ON - SIN CITY - TAKES
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ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT SCENARIO.
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AND SO, JUST THE
VERY NAME MEANT SOMETHING.
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AND SO THEY KNEW WHAT
HER LINE OF WORK WAS, AND IT
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WAS EASY TO SET HER UP.
IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE -
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IT SAYS THEY CAUGHT HER
IN THE VERY ACT - WELL, IF
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THEY CAUGHT HER IN
THE ACT, WHERE'S THE MAN?
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BECAUSE, ACCORDING TO
THE LAW OF MOSES, THE MAN AND
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THE WOMAN WHO WERE
GUILTY OF ADULTERY WERE TO BE
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EQUALLY PUNISHED; BUT
SINCE HE WAS COMPLICIT IN
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THIS PLOT, THEY LET HIM
GO AND THEY JUST BROUGHT HER
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AND THREW HER DOWN
AT THE FEET OF JESUS.
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NOW JESUS ACTED
LIKE HE DIDN'T HEAR THEM.
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HE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING,
BUT HE STOOPED DOWN ON THE
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GROUND AND HE BEGAN TO
WRITE IN THE DUST OF THE
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TEMPLE FLOOR AS
THOUGH HE DIDN'T HEAR THEM.
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WELL, THEY KEPT PRESSING HIM.
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THEY CONTINUED ASKING.
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AND HE SAID TO THEM,
"HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN AMONG
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YOU" - HE STOOD UP
AND SAID IN THOSE IMMORTAL
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WORDS, 'HE WHO IS
WITHOUT SIN AMONG YOU, LET HIM
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THROW THE FIRST STONE.'
AND THEN HE STOOPED DOWN
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AGAIN AND CONTINUED WRITING.
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NOW THERE'S A LOT
WE CAN LEARN HERE.
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FIRST OF ALL, WHAT DO
YOU THINK HE WAS WRITING?
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I BELIEVE JESUS WAS THE
SON OF GOD AND GOD THE SON
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AND ALL THINGS THAT WERE
MADE WERE MADE BY CHRIST;
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AND I BELIEVE JESUS
WAS THERE WHEN THE TEN
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COMMANDMENTS WERE
DELIVERED TO MOSES.
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AND THERE'S ONLY A FEW
TIMES IN THE BIBLE WHEN
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GOD ACTUALLY WRITES -
YOU'VE GOT WHEN THE LORD
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WROTE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
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YOU HAVE THE HAND THAT
WROTE - FROM GOD - ON THE
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WALLS OF BABYLON - THE
HANDWRITING ON THE WALL -
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THAT JUDGMENT
THAT WAS WRITTEN THERE.
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AND HERE YOU'VE
GOT JESUS WRITING.
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YOU KNOW, IT'S THE ONLY
TIME IN THE BIBLE IT TALKS
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ABOUT JESUS WRITING. WE'VE
GOT FOUR GOSPELS ABOUT JESUS.
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IT TELLS US HE
SANG A SONG ONE TIME.
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THIS IS THE ONLY TIME
IT SAYS HE WROTE SOMETHING.
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I THINK HE WAS
WRITING DOWN THE LAW - MORE
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SPECIFICALLY, THE SINS
THAT THESE ACCUSERS WERE
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BREAKING, OF THE LAW.
AND HE BEGAN TO WRITE DOWN
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IN DETAIL - IT TOOK THEM
A MINUTE TO NOTICE IT, WHILE
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THEY STOOD THERE ASKING HIM.
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THEY FINALLY PAID ATTENTION.
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FIRST THEY THOUGHT
MAYBE HE WAS DOODLING IN THE
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DUST, AND THEN THEY
NOTICED HE WAS SPELLING
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OUT SOME OF THEIR SPECIFIC SINS.
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AND AFTER HE SAID, 'HE
THAT IS WITHOUT SIN AMONG
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YOU, LET HIM CAST THE
FIRST STONE.' AND THEY
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LOOKED AT THAT; THEY
WERE OVERWHELMED WITH A SENSE
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OF GUILT AND SHAME AS
THOUGH THEY WERE IN THE
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PRESENCE OF THE DIVINE
LAW GIVER. YOU KNOW, WE'LL ALL
00:10:09.30\00:10:13.94
SOMEDAY SIT DOWN AT THE
JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST.
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AND HERE THEY WERE, IN
THE HOUSE OF GOD, SEEING
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THE SON OF GOD,
WRITING OUT THEIR SINS AGAINST
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GOD, AND THEY REALIZED
THEY HAD NO RIGHT TO CLAIM
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THE AUDACITY TO STONE
THIS WOMAN WHEN THEY HAD SET
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THIS UP AND LED HER INTO
THIS SIN - YOU KNOW, IT'S
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CALLED BEING AN ACCOMPLICE
- SO THEY COULD JUST USE HER.
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THEY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT
THE LAW, ALL THEY CARED ABOUT
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WAS THEIR POSITION.
EVEN PILATE SAID HE KNEW
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THAT THEY DELIVERED JESUS
BECAUSE THEY WERE JEALOUS.
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AND ONE BY ONE, AS
THEY SAW THEIR SINS,
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"BEGINNING WITH THE
ELDEST EVEN UNTO THE LEAST:" -
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THEY DROPPED THE STONES
THEY PROBABLY GATHERED TO
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STONE HER AND THEY WENT
OUT WITH THEIR HEADS HANGING
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UNTIL SOON, ALL OF
THE ACCUSERS WERE GONE AND
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THERE'S THIS WOMAN.
NOW, YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT
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THIS STORY, FOR A
MOMENT, THROUGH MARY'S EYES.
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CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW
MORTIFYING IT WOULD BE?
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I MEAN - I'VE THOUGHT BEFORE,
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HOW EMBARRASSING IT
WOULD BE, IF EACH OF US
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HAD A VIDEO SCREEN ON
OUR HEAD WHERE PEOPLE COULD
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SEE WHAT WE'RE THINKING.
I FLEW ON AN AIRPLANE ONE
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TIME AND ON THE BACK
OF EVERY SEAT THEY HAD A
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LITTLE SCREEN AND IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT I GOT
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UP - ON AN OVERSEAS
FLIGHT - AND I SAW ALL THESE
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SCREENS ILLUMINATED
AT EVERY CHAIR - AND I
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THOUGHT, 'WHAT IF
EVERYBODY HAD ONE OF THOSE
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ON THEIR FOREHEAD?'
AND YOU COULD SEE WHATEVER
00:11:43.90\00:11:47.64
THEY WERE
THINKING? CAN GOD? HE CAN.
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WE'D BE EMBARRASSED FOR
PEOPLE TO KNOW WHAT WE'RE
00:11:51.97\00:11:53.58
THINKING BUT, YOU KNOW,
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ALL WE
00:11:53.58\00:11:55.94
DO IS OPEN AND NAKED TO
THE EYES OF HIM WITH WHOM
00:11:55.94\00:11:59.18
WE'LL HAVE TO GIVE AN ANSWER.
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CAN YOU IMAGINE IF YOU
WERE MARRIED AND YOU'RE
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DOING SOMETHING THAT YOU
SHOULDN'T BE DOING - IT IS
00:12:05.69\00:12:08.09
A SIN - AND ALL OF
A SUDDEN THE RELIGIOUS
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LEADERS IN THE COMMUNITY
COME BURSTING IN TO YOUR
00:12:11.06\00:12:13.33
PLACE OF BUSINESS
AND, WITHOUT GIVING YOU A
00:12:13.33\00:12:16.53
CHANCE TO GET
PROPERLY CLOTHED, THEY DRAG YOU
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THROUGH THE STREETS OF
THE CITY, CREATING A SPECTACLE
00:12:19.50\00:12:23.71
AS YOU GO, AND THEN
THEY BRING YOU TO THE HOLIEST
00:12:23.71\00:12:27.74
PLACE ON THE PLANET AND
THEY THROW YOU DOWN AT THE
00:12:27.74\00:12:31.95
FEET OF THE
HOLIEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED.
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WOULD THAT BE A
SHAMEFUL SITUATION TO BE IN?
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I'VE BEEN ARRESTED A
FEW TIMES - I MENTIONED THE
00:12:39.22\00:12:40.62
OTHER DAY - AND ONE TIME,
I'M NOT PROUD TO TELL YOU,
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I GOT ARRESTED
FOR INDECENT EXPOSURE.
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I WOKE UP AND THERE
WERE SEVERAL POLICE AROUND ME
00:12:48.10\00:12:51.10
AND THERE THEY WERE
WRITING ME UP AND I HAD
00:12:51.10\00:12:52.93
NOTHING ON. AND
THEN I'M IN JAIL -
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'WHAT ARE YOU IN FOR?'
'BANK ROBBERY.' (LAUGHTER)
00:12:57.21\00:13:00.48
'WHAT ARE YOU IN
FOR?' 'MURDER.' 'WHAT
00:13:00.48\00:13:04.38
ARE YOU IN FOR?'
'UH, SKINNY DIPPING.'
00:13:04.38\00:13:07.98
(LAUGHTER) IT WAS
REALLY, REALLY EMBARRASSING.
00:13:07.98\00:13:13.46
I CAN'T IMAGINE HOW
EMBARRASSED MARY MUST HAVE
00:13:13.46\00:13:16.02
BEEN. BUT, YOU KNOW, I HEARD A
00:13:16.02\00:13:18.53
PREACHER SAY, ONE TIME,
THAT'S PROBABLY THE BEST
00:13:18.53\00:13:20.43
PLACE IN THE WORLD YOU
CAN BE WHEN YOU'RE IN TROUBLE,
00:13:20.43\00:13:22.66
IS AT THE FEET OF JESUS. >>AMEN.
00:13:22.66\00:13:24.67
>>AND THERE'S WHERE
SHE FIRST APPEARS IN THE
00:13:24.67\00:13:26.27
BIBLE. SHE'S AT THE FEET
OF JESUS. SHE'S IN SHAME.
00:13:26.27\00:13:31.67
SHE IS FEELING SORROW
FOR HER SIN AND HE KNOWS THAT
00:13:31.67\00:13:39.51
SHE'S GUILTY, BUT HE'S
NOT THERE TO CONDEMN HER.
00:13:39.51\00:13:42.22
AS ALL OF HER ACCUSERS
WENT OUT, JESUS FINALLY
00:13:42.22\00:13:46.05
STOOD UP AND HE SAID,
"'WOMAN, WHERE ARE THOSE
00:13:46.05\00:13:50.43
ACCUSERS OF YOURS?
HAS NO ONE CONDEMNED YOU?'
00:13:50.43\00:13:53.53
SHE SAID, 'NO ONE,
LORD.' AND JESUS SAID TO HER,
00:13:53.53\00:13:56.70
'NEITHER DO I CONDEMN
YOU;'" WOULDN'T YOU LIKE
00:13:56.70\00:13:59.87
TO HEAR THOSE WORDS FROM CHRIST?
00:13:59.87\00:14:01.57
>>YES. >>THOUGH SHE WAS GUILTY,
00:14:01.57\00:14:04.04
HE SAID, 'I DIDN'T COME
INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN
00:14:04.04\00:14:06.27
THE WORLD, I CAME TO
SAVE.' AND HE DOESN'T WANT
00:14:06.27\00:14:09.21
TO CONDEMN YOU -
WE'RE ALREADY CONDEMNED.
00:14:09.21\00:14:12.08
WE'RE UNDER A DEATH SENTENCE.
00:14:12.08\00:14:13.25
HE WANTS TO SAVE US.
AND HE DIDN'T JUST STOP
00:14:13.25\00:14:17.05
BY SAYING, 'NEITHER DO
I CONDEMN YOU.' WAS JESUS
00:14:17.05\00:14:20.16
SAYING THAT
ADULTERY IS NOW OKAY?
00:14:20.16\00:14:22.96
DID HE SAY, 'DON'T
WORRY, THE LAW OF MOSES HAS BEEN
00:14:22.96\00:14:24.39
- IT'S NAILED TO THE
CROSS. YOU CAN NOW BREAK THE
00:14:24.39\00:14:26.73
TEN COMMANDMENTS.'
THAT'S NOT WHAT HE SAID.
00:14:26.73\00:14:29.93
ADULTERY WAS STILL A SIN
AND IT IS TRUE THAT MOSES
00:14:29.93\00:14:32.70
SAID THAT PEOPLE THAT
WERE GUILTY OF ADULTERY, IN
00:14:32.70\00:14:35.00
PARTICULAR, IF IT WAS
SOMEONE THAT WAS MARRIED -
00:14:35.00\00:14:38.77
TWO PEOPLE MARRIED -
THAT THE DECREE WAS STONING.
00:14:38.77\00:14:43.11
AND SO, FOR JESUS TO
SAY, 'I DON'T CONDEMN YOU.
00:14:43.11\00:14:45.88
GO. YOU'RE FREE.'
HOW COULD HE DO THAT?
00:14:45.88\00:14:51.32
WELL, I'VE GOT A THEORY
- I CAN'T PROVE IT, BUT YOU
00:14:51.32\00:14:53.22
CAN'T DISPROVE IT.
I THINK THAT THIS WAS
00:14:53.22\00:14:57.79
THE FIRST TIME
THAT MARY APPEARS.
00:14:57.79\00:14:59.56
IT REFERS TO HER AS A
WOMAN, BUT YOU'LL SEE THAT
00:14:59.56\00:15:01.60
THERE'S ANOTHER STORY
IN THE BIBLE WHERE JOHN
00:15:01.60\00:15:04.53
REFERS TO MARY AS A
WOMAN IN ANOTHER EMBARRASSING
00:15:04.53\00:15:07.04
SITUATION AND ANOTHER
GOSPEL WRITER TELLS US
00:15:07.04\00:15:09.20
THAT WOMAN WAS
MARY. YOU SEE, WHEN THEIR
00:15:09.20\00:15:12.14
GOSPELS WERE
WRITTEN, THEY DIDN'T WANT TO
00:15:12.14\00:15:14.28
EMBARRASS HER. AND
SO, I THINK THAT SHE
00:15:14.28\00:15:19.48
UNDERSTOOD - HERE'S MY
THEORY - 'THE REASON I CAN
00:15:19.48\00:15:23.08
LET YOU GO IS
BECAUSE I'M GOING TO TRADE
00:15:23.08\00:15:25.49
PLACES WITH YOU.
YES, YOU SINNED, AND THE
00:15:25.49\00:15:29.56
PENALTY FOR SIN IS
DEATH, BUT I'M NOT HERE TO
00:15:29.56\00:15:32.19
CONDEMN YOU, I'M
HERE TO SAVE YOU.
00:15:32.19\00:15:33.70
I WILL TAKE YOUR
PENALTY.' >>AMEN.
00:15:33.70\00:15:35.80
>>'YOU GO AND YOU'RE
FREE.' BUT NOTICE WHAT HE
00:15:35.80\00:15:38.10
SAYS: 'GO AND SIN NO
MORE.' A LOT OF PREACHERS
00:15:38.10\00:15:42.70
DON'T TALK ABOUT
THAT PART OF THE VERSE.
00:15:42.70\00:15:45.37
YOU NOTICE HE ALSO
DIDN'T SAY, 'GO AND TRY TO SIN A
00:15:45.37\00:15:47.04
LITTLE LESS.' (LAUGHTER)
HE DIDN'T SAY, 'JUST, CAN
00:15:47.04\00:15:51.05
YOU PLEASE CUT
BACK ON THAT ADULTERY?
00:15:51.05\00:15:53.72
AND, YOU KNOW, SEE IF
YOU COULD, YOU KNOW, GET THE
00:15:53.72\00:15:57.42
PATCH AND SLOW DOWN A
LITTLE BIT.' HE SAID, 'SIN
00:15:57.42\00:16:01.19
NO MORE.' JESUS WAS CALLED
JESUS BECAUSE HE WILL SAVE
00:16:01.19\00:16:05.93
HIS PEOPLE - NOT IN THEIR
SINS, BUT FROM THEIR SINS.
00:16:05.93\00:16:09.26
THE LORD WANTS TO
SAVE US FROM OUR SINS.
00:16:09.26\00:16:12.33
HE SAID, 'I HAVEN'T COME
TO CONDEMN YOU.' THE LORD
00:16:12.33\00:16:14.80
WANTS TO GIVE US
DELIVERANCE AND WHEN SHE
00:16:14.80\00:16:16.27
RECOGNIZED THAT HE WAS
WILLING TO FORGIVE HER,
00:16:16.27\00:16:21.54
SHE THOUGHT, 'NOW HERE
IS A REAL MAN OF GOD.' SHE
00:16:21.54\00:16:24.61
SENSED, IN THE PRESENCE
OF JESUS, THE POWER AND THE
00:16:24.61\00:16:27.88
LOVE OF GOD AND MARY
HAD PROBABLY KNOWN A FEW MEN
00:16:27.88\00:16:32.49
AND THEY HAD ALL
HAD ULTERIOR MOTIVES.
00:16:32.49\00:16:34.79
AND HERE WAS SOMEONE WHO
WAS GOING TO LOVE HER WITH
00:16:34.79\00:16:36.36
A PURE, UNSELFISH LOVE
AND IT BROKE HER HEART.
00:16:36.36\00:16:40.96
YOU KNOW, I OUGHT TO SAY
ONE MORE THING BEFORE I -
00:16:40.96\00:16:43.20
I LEAVE THIS FIRST POINT
- IS THAT JESUS DIDN'T LIKE
00:16:43.20\00:16:47.77
IT ONE BIT WHEN THE
RELIGIOUS LEADERS WERE
00:16:47.77\00:16:50.81
READY TO THROW STONES
AT SOMEONE WHO IS GUILTY IN
00:16:50.81\00:16:53.27
THE CHURCH.
NOW, A WOMAN IN BIBLE
00:16:53.27\00:16:57.11
ANALOGIES, OFTEN
REPRESENTS - WHO KNOWS?
00:16:57.11\00:17:00.92
>>A CHURCH. >>A CHURCH.
00:17:00.92\00:17:02.78
THE BIBLE SAYS, 'HUSBANDS
LOVE YOUR WIVES AS CHRIST
00:17:02.78\00:17:04.59
LOVED THE CHURCH.' AND
TELLS US, 'I'VE LIKENED
00:17:04.59\00:17:08.06
THE DAUGHTERS OF
ZION' - GOD'S PEOPLE - 'TO A
00:17:08.06\00:17:10.36
DELICATE AND A COMELY
WOMAN.' AND ALL THROUGH
00:17:10.36\00:17:13.33
THE BIBLE GOD COMPARES
THE CHURCH TO HIS BRIDE.
00:17:13.33\00:17:16.53
AND SO HERE'S A WOMAN WHO
IS INDEED GUILTY, BUT WHEN
00:17:16.53\00:17:20.64
THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS
ARE GATHERING AROUND TO THROW
00:17:20.64\00:17:23.37
ROCKS AT HER, JESUS
DOESN'T LIKE IT ONE BIT.
00:17:23.37\00:17:25.91
THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE
OUT THERE THAT ARE READY
00:17:25.91\00:17:27.38
TO THROW ROCKS AT THE CHURCH.
00:17:27.38\00:17:29.38
AND HAS THE CHURCH
SINNED? AND ARE THERE HYPOCRITES
00:17:29.38\00:17:32.05
IN THE CHURCH? YOU
KNOW, IF YOU READ THE
00:17:32.05\00:17:34.28
BOOK OF EZEKIEL CHAPTER
9, IT TALKS ABOUT ANOTHER
00:17:34.28\00:17:36.79
JUDGMENT IN THE HOUSE OF GOD.
00:17:36.79\00:17:38.99
YOU KNOW, HERE MARY IS
IN THE HOUSE OF GOD AND
00:17:38.99\00:17:41.29
THEY'RE READY TO JUDGE
HER, BUT JESUS TURNS THE
00:17:41.29\00:17:44.83
JUDGMENT AROUND AND
SAYS, 'BEGINNING AT THE ELDEST,
00:17:44.83\00:17:48.20
EVEN UNTO THE LEAST, THEY
WENT OUT.' IN EZEKIEL 9 IT
00:17:48.20\00:17:51.00
SAYS, 'THE JUDGMENT,
BEGINNING AT THE ELDEST' -
00:17:51.00\00:17:53.40
BEGINNING WITH THE ANCIENT
MEN - THERE'S A MARK THAT
00:17:53.40\00:17:56.94
IS PLACED ON THOSE THAT
ARE SAVED AND THE OTHERS
00:17:56.94\00:17:58.84
ARE DESTROYED -
KIND OF LIKE REVELATION.
00:17:58.84\00:18:01.58
SO WE'VE GOT TO BE
CAREFUL ABOUT THROWING ROCKS AT
00:18:01.58\00:18:04.58
THE CHURCH. SO
HERE WE FIND MARY AT
00:18:04.58\00:18:07.48
JESUS' FEET, WEEPING
TEARS OF REPENTANCE, BUT SHE
00:18:07.48\00:18:12.65
FALLS IN LOVE WITH
JESUS BECAUSE HE'S WILLING
00:18:12.65\00:18:15.36
TO FORGIVE HER.
NOW, WHEN WE FIRST
00:18:15.36\00:18:18.43
DISCOVER THIS PERSON,
THEN WE SEE THAT SHE DOESN'T
00:18:18.43\00:18:22.26
HAVE A VERY GOOD REPUTATION.
00:18:22.26\00:18:24.90
MATTER OF FACT, LATER
IN THE BIBLE IT SAYS, 'MARY
00:18:24.90\00:18:27.57
MAGDALENE, OUT OF WHOM
JESUS CAST SEVEN DEVILS' -
00:18:27.57\00:18:32.04
SHE'D GOTTEN INTO
TROUBLE SEVERAL TIMES.
00:18:32.04\00:18:33.98
AND IT'S NOT LIKE ONE
TIME HE CAST OUT SEVEN DEVILS,
00:18:33.98\00:18:36.28
IT'S LIKE SEVEN TIMES
SHE FELL AND HE FORGAVE HER.
00:18:36.28\00:18:40.55
HOW DOES A YOUNG LADY
GET TO THE POINT WHERE SHE'S
00:18:40.55\00:18:44.29
GOING TO AUCTION
HERSELF LIKE THAT?
00:18:44.29\00:18:48.96
YEARS AGO I WAS
WORKING IN PALM SPRINGS.
00:18:48.96\00:18:53.53
I HAD JUST ACCEPTED
THE LORD - I WAS A BABY
00:18:53.53\00:18:55.70
CHRISTIAN - AND, BELIEVE
IT OR NOT, I HAD A JOB AT
00:18:55.70\00:19:00.94
A RESTAURANT PLAYING
GUITAR AND FLUTE AND IT
00:19:00.94\00:19:05.87
WAS AN AFTER-HOURS
RESTAURANT IN PALM SPRINGS
00:19:05.87\00:19:08.38
- IT WAS LIKE A
HIPPIE RESTAURANT CALLED T HE
00:19:08.38\00:19:09.64
PEACH AND THE FROG AND
THE PEOPLE GOT OUT OF THE BARS
00:19:09.64\00:19:12.78
WHEN THE BARS CLOSED
AND THEY WERE HUNGRY AND
00:19:12.78\00:19:14.35
THEY'D COME HERE AND THEY'D EAT.
00:19:14.35\00:19:15.82
SO THEY HIRED ME A
LITTLE BIT AND GAVE ME FREE FOOD
00:19:15.82\00:19:17.42
TO PLAY. IT
DIDN'T LAST VERY LONG
00:19:17.42\00:19:18.99
BECAUSE I'M JUST
NOT REALLY VERY GOOD.
00:19:18.99\00:19:21.62
BUT THEY WERE DRUNK
AND THEY DIDN'T CARE AND
00:19:21.62\00:19:24.09
SO I GOT OFF WORK REALLY
LATE, IS WHAT I MEANT TO SAY.
00:19:24.09\00:19:28.53
AND SO I'M DRIVING HOME
IN PALM SPRINGS - IT'S LIKE 2
00:19:28.53\00:19:30.53
OR 3 IN THE MORNING -
AND I SEE THAT THERE'S THIS
00:19:30.53\00:19:32.73
MAN AND HIS DAUGHTER
SITTING AT A BUS STOP AND
00:19:32.73\00:19:35.57
I THINK, 'OH, A LOT OF
TOURISTS IN PALM SPRINGS
00:19:35.57\00:19:37.31
DON'T KNOW THE BUSSES
STOP RUNNING AT MIDNIGHT.' AND
00:19:37.31\00:19:40.21
SO I PULLED OVER AND
I SAID, 'IF YOU GUYS ARE
00:19:40.21\00:19:41.61
WAITING FOR THE BUS,' -
I SAID - 'YOU'RE GOING TO
00:19:41.61\00:19:42.91
WAIT A LONG TIME.
THERE'S NO BUSSES NOW.'
00:19:42.91\00:19:44.78
AND THEY SAID, 'WELL,
ACTUALLY, WE CALLED A CAB,
00:19:44.78\00:19:46.68
BUT IT'S BEEN 45
MINUTES AND WE DON'T THINK HE'S
00:19:46.68\00:19:48.18
EVER COMING.' AND
I SAID, 'WELL WHERE
00:19:48.18\00:19:49.55
ARE YOU GOING?' I
USED TO HITCHHIKE ALL
00:19:49.55\00:19:50.99
THE TIME SO I
GIVE PEOPLE A LIFT.
00:19:50.99\00:19:52.42
AND THEY SAID, 'WELL,
WE'RE GOING DOWN HERE TO
00:19:52.42\00:19:54.52
THE SOUTH END OF TOWN.'
I SAID, 'WELL, HOP IN.' SO
00:19:54.52\00:19:58.36
THEY BOTH HOP IN THE
BACK, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS ODD
00:19:58.36\00:20:00.13
BECAUSE I WAS
DRIVING A VOLKSWAGEN BUG.
00:20:00.13\00:20:01.83
(LAUGHTER) AND AS
I'M DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD
00:20:01.83\00:20:06.97
TOWARDS WHERE THE MAN
TOLD ME TO GO, I LOOK IN THE
00:20:06.97\00:20:09.90
REARVIEW MIRROR AND
I REALIZE THIS IS NOT A
00:20:09.90\00:20:11.54
FATHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP.
00:20:11.54\00:20:13.94
THEY WERE VERY AFFECTIONATE.
00:20:13.94\00:20:17.21
AND I GOT TO WHERE HE
DIRECTED ME AND HE KISSED
00:20:17.21\00:20:21.25
HER GOODNIGHT AND GOT
OUT AND SHE SAT THERE.
00:20:21.25\00:20:24.02
I TURNED AROUND AND SAID,
'AND WHERE ARE YOU GOING?'
00:20:24.02\00:20:27.52
SHE SAID, 'I'M GOING BACK
TO SUCH AND SUCH A PLACE.'
00:20:27.52\00:20:30.13
WELL, I KNEW ABOUT THAT
PART OF TOWN AND I SAID,
00:20:30.13\00:20:33.70
'OKAY.' AND SO I TOOK
OFF DRIVING AND SHE WAS STILL
00:20:33.70\00:20:36.06
IN THE BACK SEAT AND, AS
I WAS GOING DOWN THE ROAD,
00:20:36.06\00:20:40.27
AS I WENT BY THE DIFFERENT
STREET LIGHTS, HER FACE WOULD
00:20:40.27\00:20:43.87
ILLUMINATE EVERY NOW AND
THEN AND SHE LOOKED SO SAD.
00:20:43.87\00:20:47.51
WELL, I'D JUST FOUND THE
LORD AND IT JUST MADE SUCH
00:20:47.51\00:20:49.24
A CHANGE IN MY LIFE, I
JUST FELT IMPRESSED - AND
00:20:49.24\00:20:52.98
I DON'T RECOMMEND THIS
FOR YOUNG CHRISTIAN MEN TO DO
00:20:52.98\00:20:56.79
YOUR BIBLE STUDIES THIS
WAY, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW ANY
00:20:56.79\00:20:59.22
BETTER. AND I
JUST FELT IMPRESSED
00:20:59.22\00:21:01.09
AND SAID, 'WOULD
YOU LIKE TO STOP AND GET
00:21:01.09\00:21:03.22
A CUP OF COFFEE?'
IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO.
00:21:03.22\00:21:06.53
AND SHE SAID, 'SURE.'
THEY HAD AN ALL-NIGHT COFFEE
00:21:06.53\00:21:09.53
SHOP THERE - I DON'T
KNOW IF ANYONE REMEMBERS -
00:21:09.53\00:21:11.43
THERE USED TO BE
THIS CHAIN CALLED SAMBO'S
00:21:11.43\00:21:12.97
RESTAURANTS - TEN
CENTS FOR A CUP OF COFFEE -
00:21:12.97\00:21:15.60
ALL YOU COULD DRINK.
AND SO WE STOPPED THERE
00:21:15.60\00:21:18.27
AT THIS RESTAURANT
AND I TALKED TO HER
00:21:18.27\00:21:19.67
FOR A MINUTE AND
THEN I ADDRESSED WHAT I
00:21:19.67\00:21:22.21
UNDERSTOOD TO BE HER OCCUPATION.
00:21:22.21\00:21:24.95
NOW, I SHOULD MENTION,
I GREW UP IN NEW YORK CITY
00:21:24.95\00:21:27.28
AND MY BROTHER AND I
USED TO PLAY ON 42ND AND
00:21:27.28\00:21:29.98
BROADWAY AND YOU LEARN
WAY TOO MUCH WAY TOO YOUNG,
00:21:29.98\00:21:32.75
SO I KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON.
00:21:32.75\00:21:35.22
AND SHE INDICATED,
YES, THAT'S WHAT SHE DID.
00:21:35.22\00:21:41.46
THEN I REALIZED SHE
MAY HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD MY
00:21:41.46\00:21:44.17
QUESTION AND I
SAID, 'ARE YOU HAPPY?'
00:21:44.17\00:21:48.77
AND HER WHOLE
EXPRESSION CHANGED.
00:21:48.77\00:21:51.34
AND I STARTED TO TELL
HER ABOUT JESUS AND WHAT HE
00:21:51.34\00:21:53.07
HAD DONE FOR ME AND I
SAID, 'WHY DO YOU DO IT?'
00:21:53.07\00:21:57.38
SHE WAS TELLING ME SHE
LIVED WITH SOME PIMP THAT,
00:21:57.38\00:21:59.48
YOU KNOW, BEAT HER UP ONE
DAY AND GAVE HER GIFTS THE
00:21:59.48\00:22:01.15
NEXT DAY AND SHE
WAS VERY - 17 YEARS OLD.
00:22:01.15\00:22:03.45
I'LL NEVER FORGET, HER
NAME WAS MARLENE - I STILL
00:22:03.45\00:22:07.12
SEE HER WHENEVER
I TELL THE STORY.
00:22:07.12\00:22:09.46
AND SHE STARTED TO CRY
AND IT LEFT THOSE TYPICAL
00:22:09.46\00:22:11.73
LITTLE BLACK RIVULETS
DOWN HER FACE AND HER MASCARA
00:22:11.73\00:22:14.93
AND SHE SAID, 'I JUST
WANT SOMEONE TO LOVE ME.' AND I
00:22:14.93\00:22:20.17
- WHENEVER I READ ABOUT
MARY MAGDALENE I THINK -
00:22:20.17\00:22:23.17
YOU'VE HEARD THIS STORY
- LOOKING FOR LOVE IN ALL
00:22:23.17\00:22:25.11
THE WRONG PLACES. A
LOT OF PEOPLE GET INTO
00:22:25.11\00:22:27.44
TROUBLE BECAUSE
THEY'RE LOOKING FOR LOVE.
00:22:27.44\00:22:29.98
AND THAT'S WHAT
SHE WAS LOOKING FOR.
00:22:29.98\00:22:31.81
AND WHEN JESUS LOVED HER
WITH THAT PURE LOVE - THAT
00:22:31.81\00:22:35.12
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE - IT
MELTED HER HEART AND SHE
00:22:35.12\00:22:37.82
BECAME HIS MOST
DEVOTED FOLLOWER BECAUSE SHE
00:22:37.82\00:22:41.62
UNDERSTOOD SOMETHING
NO ONE ELSE SEEMED TO
00:22:41.62\00:22:43.16
UNDERSTAND - AND I'LL
GET TO THAT AS WE GO ON.
00:22:43.16\00:22:46.36
NEXT STUDY WE'RE GOING
TO FIND MARY IS AT THE FEET
00:22:46.36\00:22:49.46
OF JESUS, BUT NOW
SHE'S DOING BIBLE STUDY.
00:22:49.46\00:22:53.84
YOU TURN TO THE GOSPEL OF
LUKE AND IN CHAPTER 10 YOU
00:22:53.84\00:22:59.07
CAN FIND WHERE IT SAYS
THAT THERE WAS A DINNER IN
00:22:59.07\00:23:04.98
GALILEE AND VERSE 38
- LUKE 10:38, "NOW IT
00:23:04.98\00:23:08.95
HAPPENED AS THEY WENT
THAT HE ENTERED A CERTAIN
00:23:08.95\00:23:10.35
VILLAGE; AND A
CERTAIN WOMAN NAMED MARTHA
00:23:10.35\00:23:12.32
WELCOMED HIM INTO HER HOUSE.
00:23:12.32\00:23:14.62
AND SHE HAD A SISTER
CALLED MARY, WHO ALSO SAT
00:23:14.62\00:23:16.69
AT JESUS' FEET
AND HEARD HIS WORD.
00:23:16.69\00:23:19.36
BUT MARTHA WAS DISTRACTED
WITH MUCH SERVING, AND SHE
00:23:19.36\00:23:22.43
APPROACHED HIM AND
SAID, 'LORD, DO YOU NOT CARE
00:23:22.43\00:23:24.70
THAT MY SISTER HAS
LEFT ME TO SERVE ALONE?
00:23:24.70\00:23:27.34
THEREFORE TELL HER TO
HELP ME.' AND JESUS ANSWERED
00:23:27.34\00:23:30.31
AND SAID TO HER,
'MARTHA, MARTHA,'" - THAT'S THE
00:23:30.31\00:23:34.21
ONLY TIME IN THE BIBLE,
I THINK, THE LORD SAYS A
00:23:34.21\00:23:36.28
WOMAN'S NAME TWICE.
HE OFTEN SAID, 'ABRAHAM,
00:23:36.28\00:23:38.28
ABRAHAM' OR THE
DIFFERENT - 'SAMUEL, SAMUEL' -
00:23:38.28\00:23:42.95
"'MARTHA, MARTHA, YOU
ARE WORRIED AND TROUBLED
00:23:42.95\00:23:46.29
ABOUT MANY
THINGS. BUT ONE THING IS
00:23:46.29\00:23:49.12
NEEDED,'"- HOW MANY THINGS? -
00:23:49.12\00:23:51.29
"'...ONE THING IS
NEEDED AND MARY HAS CHOSEN THAT
00:23:51.29\00:23:54.73
GOOD PART, WHICH WILL
NOT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HER.'"
00:23:54.73\00:23:57.70
LIKE THE DEMONIAC WE
TALKED ABOUT THE OTHER
00:23:57.70\00:23:59.33
NIGHT, SHE'S SITTING AT
JESUS' FEET, DRINKING IN
00:23:59.33\00:24:02.24
THE WORD. HE'S
TEACHING HER HOW NOT
00:24:02.24\00:24:04.51
TO MAKE THE SAME
MISTAKES THAT HAD CAUSED
00:24:04.51\00:24:06.21
PROBLEMS IN THE PAST.
AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN JESUS
00:24:06.21\00:24:09.24
SAID THAT'S THE ONE
THING - THIS IS SO IMPORTANT
00:24:09.24\00:24:11.71
BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT
TWO WOMEN HERE - WHAT'S
00:24:11.71\00:24:13.45
A WOMAN REPRESENT? >>CHURCH.
00:24:13.45\00:24:14.62
>>SISTERS - VERY
OPPOSITE - ONE IS SITTING AT THE
00:24:14.62\00:24:18.09
FEET OF JESUS IN LOVE
AND DEVOTION AND DRINKING IN
00:24:18.09\00:24:20.52
THE WORD AND THE
OTHER IS WORK, WORK, WORK.
00:24:20.52\00:24:22.86
SHE'S SERVING THE LORD,
BUT SHE'S SO BUSY WITH THE
00:24:22.86\00:24:26.16
WORK OF THE LORD, SHE
FORGETS THE LORD OF THE
00:24:26.16\00:24:27.76
WORK. AND A LOT OF PEOPLE GET
00:24:27.76\00:24:31.33
INVOLVED IN DOING GOOD
DEEDS FOR CHURCH - FOR THE
00:24:31.33\00:24:35.20
LORD - AND THEY
DON'T HAVE THAT ONE-ON-ONE
00:24:35.20\00:24:37.74
RELATIONSHIP - A
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP.
00:24:37.74\00:24:40.18
DOESN'T THE LORD SAY
THAT IN THE JUDGMENT, WHEN HE
00:24:40.18\00:24:42.21
COMES, HE'LL DECLARE TO
MANY PEOPLE, 'DEPART FROM
00:24:42.21\00:24:45.31
ME, I DON'T KNOW
YOU.' 'OH, BUT LORD, WE'VE
00:24:45.31\00:24:47.58
TAUGHT IN YOUR STREETS
AND WE CONDUCTED MANY POTLUCKS
00:24:47.58\00:24:50.45
AND WE GAVE TO THE
ORPHANAGES AND WE WENT TO
00:24:50.45\00:24:52.15
THE HOSPITALS AND WE TOOK
CARE OF THE CLOTHES AND WE
00:24:52.15\00:24:54.76
WENT TO THE PRISONS.'
AND HE'LL SAY, 'I DON'T KNOW
00:24:54.76\00:24:56.99
YOU.' THAT'S WHY
WE'RE SAVED BY A PERSONAL
00:24:56.99\00:25:00.60
RELATIONSHIP WITH
JESUS. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?
00:25:00.60\00:25:04.27
HOW DO YOU GET TO KNOW ANYBODY?
00:25:04.27\00:25:06.57
I DIDN'T MARRY KAREN
THE FIRST DAY I MET HER.
00:25:06.57\00:25:09.50
WHEN YOU FALL IN LOVE
WITH SOMEBODY, YOU COMMUNICATE.
00:25:09.50\00:25:13.01
WHENEVER YOU'RE GOING
TO LOVE SOMEBODY IT TAKES
00:25:13.01\00:25:14.84
COMMUNICATION. YOU TALK TO THEM.
00:25:14.84\00:25:16.58
THEY TALK TO YOU.
HOW DOES GOD TALK TO US?
00:25:16.58\00:25:20.35
THAT'S WHY WE SING THAT
SONG EACH NIGHT - GIVE ME
00:25:20.35\00:25:22.72
THE BIBLE - IT'S
THROUGH HIS WORD.
00:25:22.72\00:25:24.35
DO YOU HAVE REGULAR
TIME AT JESUS' FEET LISTENING
00:25:24.35\00:25:26.96
TO HIM? YOU NEED TO - YOU NEED
00:25:26.96\00:25:29.62
TO MAKE THAT
TIME. IT HAS TO BE MORE
00:25:29.62\00:25:31.99
IMPORTANT TO YOU
THAN YOUR DAILY BREAD.
00:25:31.99\00:25:34.30
'I HAVE ESTEEMED THE
WORDS OF HIS MOUTH MORE THAN MY
00:25:34.30\00:25:36.56
NECESSARY FOOD.' JESUS
SAID, 'MAN WILL NOT LIVE
00:25:36.56\00:25:39.40
BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY
EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS
00:25:39.40\00:25:41.90
FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.' DO
YOU HAVE A DEVOTIONAL LIFE?
00:25:41.90\00:25:45.51
AND, IT'S NOT ONLY HIS
TALKING TO YOU, IT'S YOUR
00:25:45.51\00:25:47.28
TALKING TO HIM. DO YOU PRAY?
00:25:47.28\00:25:50.65
AND THEN, OF COURSE,
YOU SHOW IT BY DEEDS OF
00:25:50.65\00:25:53.52
SERVICE AND LOVE, BUT
FIRST YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE
00:25:53.52\00:25:55.62
THE LOVE RELATIONSHIP.
WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE
00:25:55.62\00:25:57.65
HE FIRST LOVED US.
HOW DO WE LEARN ABOUT
00:25:57.65\00:25:59.59
HIS LOVE FOR US?
WHEN WE LOOK IN HIS WORD
00:25:59.59\00:26:01.89
AND WE SEE WHAT HE DID FOR US.
00:26:01.89\00:26:05.23
IT INSPIRES US WITH
LOVE. SO SHE SITS AT JESUS'
00:26:05.23\00:26:08.70
FEET AND SHE HEARS THE
WORD. AND THIS HELPS HER DEVELOP
00:26:08.70\00:26:12.63
THAT LOVE
RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS.
00:26:12.63\00:26:15.64
AND WE NEED TO HAVE THAT
KIND OF RELATIONSHIP WITH
00:26:15.64\00:26:17.64
JESUS ALSO. AND
THEN WE'VE GOT ANOTHER
00:26:17.64\00:26:20.94
POINT WHERE JESUS IS AT -
OR MARY IS AT JESUS' FEET.
00:26:20.94\00:26:25.38
I ACTUALLY SKIPPED, I
THINK, OVER POINT 2 AND I
00:26:25.38\00:26:27.12
WENT TO POINT 3. SHE
SPENDS TIME AT JESUS'
00:26:27.12\00:26:31.09
FEET PRAYING FOR HER
BROTHER THAT IS DEAD.
00:26:31.09\00:26:36.39
NOW, IF YOU LOOK IN JOHN
CHAPTER 11 - YOU REMEMBER,
00:26:36.39\00:26:39.66
A MESSAGE COMES TO
JESUS, 'YOUR FRIEND THAT YOU
00:26:39.66\00:26:43.30
LOVE, LAZARUS, IS
SICK.' AND JESUS DOES NOT COME
00:26:43.30\00:26:48.80
RIGHT AWAY TO HEAL HIM.
SEVERAL DAYS GO BY AND BY
00:26:48.80\00:26:53.01
THE TIME JESUS GETS THERE,
LAZARUS HAS NOT ONLY DIED,
00:26:53.01\00:26:56.18
HE'S BEEN DEAD SEVERAL DAYS.
00:26:56.18\00:26:58.25
NOW, MARY HAD A
BROTHER AND A SISTER.
00:26:58.25\00:27:02.15
I WANT YOU TO NOTICE
SOMETHING: MARY MAGDALENE
00:27:02.15\00:27:05.75
AND MARY OF BETHANY, I
BELIEVE, AND MANY SCHOLARS
00:27:05.75\00:27:08.26
BELIEVE, ARE THE SAME MARY.
00:27:08.26\00:27:10.59
HERE'S SOME REASONS FOR
THAT: FIRST OF ALL, BOTH
00:27:10.59\00:27:13.16
WOMEN APPEAR TO BE WOMEN
OF MEANS BECAUSE IT SEEMS
00:27:13.16\00:27:16.33
LIKE THEY ARE ABLE TO SUPPORT
JESUS FROM THEIR SUBSTANCE.
00:27:16.33\00:27:19.60
MARY OF BETHANY GIVES A
VERY EXPENSIVE GIFT AND IT
00:27:19.60\00:27:22.30
SAYS MARY MAGDALENE
MINISTERS TO JESUS OF HER
00:27:22.30\00:27:27.04
SUBSTANCE - AND
THAT'S IN LUKE CHAPTER 8.
00:27:27.04\00:27:29.44
BOTH ARE CALLED MARY -
SAME NAME - BUT THAT WAS A
00:27:29.44\00:27:31.55
COMMON NAME.
BOTH WERE UNMARRIED.
00:27:31.55\00:27:34.68
BOTH NAMES ARE
NEVER MENTIONED TOGETHER
00:27:34.68\00:27:37.72
ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE.
00:27:37.72\00:27:38.65
YOU NEVER HEAR THE
TWO MENTIONED TOGETHER.
00:27:38.65\00:27:40.49
AND, AGAIN, IT SAYS
THAT YOU OFTEN FIND THEM AT
00:27:40.49\00:27:45.46
JESUS' FEET,
GEOGRAPHICALLY, AND THEY
00:27:45.46\00:27:48.10
BOTH SEEM TO
HAVE BAD REPUTATIONS.
00:27:48.10\00:27:50.83
AT A FEAST IT SAYS,
'DON'T LET MARY OF BETHANY TOUCH
00:27:50.83\00:27:52.73
YOU.' SAME THING
ABOUT MARY MAGDALENE - 'NOT
00:27:52.73\00:27:55.44
MARY.' AND SO, BECAUSE
THEY'RE NEVER MENTIONED
00:27:55.44\00:27:58.41
TOGETHER - AND SOMETIMES
A PERSON - JESUS IS KNOWN AS
00:27:58.41\00:28:01.54
JESUS THE CARPENTER,
AND JESUS OF NAZARETH, AND
00:28:01.54\00:28:04.85
JESUS CHRIST. AND
MOUNT SINAI, IN THE
00:28:04.85\00:28:07.38
BIBLE, IS ALSO
CALLED MOUNT HOREB.
00:28:07.38\00:28:09.28
AND IT'S NOT UNCOMMON TO
HAVE MORE THAN ONE HANDLE
00:28:09.28\00:28:12.79
THAT PEOPLE ADDRESS YOU BY.
00:28:12.79\00:28:14.69
SO MARY HAD, WHEN SHE
LIVED UP IN MAGDALA FOR
00:28:14.69\00:28:17.93
HER BUSINESS - SHE'D
COME TO JERUSALEM FOR THE
00:28:17.93\00:28:19.49
FEASTS. SHE HAD A BROTHER AND
00:28:19.49\00:28:20.70
SISTER THAT LIVED IN
BETHANY, WHICH WAS JUST
00:28:20.70\00:28:22.53
OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM,
AND HER BROTHER LAZARUS DIED.
00:28:22.53\00:28:28.60
JESUS FINALLY COMES DOWN
TO BETHANY AND THEY RUN TO
00:28:28.60\00:28:31.57
JESUS. AND YOU CAN FIND
MARY - YOU CAN SEE IT HERE IN
00:28:31.57\00:28:34.61
JOHN 11:32, "THEN, WHEN
MARY CAME WHERE JESUS WAS,
00:28:34.61\00:28:39.41
AND SAW HIM, SHE FELL
DOWN AT HIS FEET, SAYING TO
00:28:39.41\00:28:42.82
HIM, 'LORD, IF YOU
HAD BEEN HERE, MY BROTHER
00:28:42.82\00:28:45.62
WOULD NOT HAVE DIED.'
THEREFORE, WHEN JESUS SAW
00:28:45.62\00:28:49.02
HER WEEPING, AND THE
JEWS WHO CAME WITH HER (FROM
00:28:49.02\00:28:51.73
THE FUNERAL) WEEPING, HE
GROANED IN THE SPIRIT AND
00:28:51.73\00:28:55.00
WAS TROUBLED.
AND HE SAID, 'WHERE
00:28:55.00\00:28:56.90
HAVE YOU LAID
HIM?' THEY SAID TO HIM,
00:28:56.90\00:28:59.13
'LORD, COME AND
SEE.' JESUS WEPT."
00:28:59.13\00:29:03.24
- THAT'S THE
SHORTEST VERSE IN THE BIBLE -
00:29:03.24\00:29:05.57
AT LEAST IN THE ENGLISH.
00:29:05.57\00:29:08.14
WHAT DOES DEATH
REPRESENT IN THE BIBLE?
00:29:08.14\00:29:11.58
WELL, DEATH, OF COURSE,
IS THE ABSENCE OF LIFE, BUT
00:29:11.58\00:29:15.25
HE THAT HAS THE SON HAS LIFE.
00:29:15.25\00:29:17.69
HE THAT DOESN'T HAVE
THE SON DOES NOT HAVE LIFE.
00:29:17.69\00:29:19.69
ARE WE SURROUNDED BY
A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE
00:29:19.69\00:29:21.36
SPIRITUALLY DEAD IN THE WORLD?
00:29:21.36\00:29:23.69
SHOULD WE SPEND TIME
AT JESUS' FEET PRAYING AND
00:29:23.69\00:29:26.80
WEEPING OVER THOSE WHO ARE LOST?
00:29:26.80\00:29:29.96
IF YOU REALLY THINK
ABOUT IT, IF YOU KNOW JESUS AND
00:29:29.96\00:29:32.47
IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN,
YOU HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.
00:29:32.47\00:29:35.50
HAVE YOU EVER
THOUGHT ABOUT THAT?
00:29:35.50\00:29:37.17
WHAT COULD
POSSIBLY BE WORTH MORE THAN
00:29:37.17\00:29:38.77
EVERLASTING LIFE
WITH A GLORIFIED BODY AND
00:29:38.77\00:29:41.44
PLEASURES THAT YOU
CAN'T IMAGINE FOREVERMORE?
00:29:41.44\00:29:45.05
BLISS - ETERNAL GLORY -
LIFE - BEAUTY - WHAT COULD
00:29:45.05\00:29:50.19
BE WORTH MORE THAN
THAT? IF YOU'RE SAVED AND YOU
00:29:50.19\00:29:52.65
HAVE THAT, AND YOU
KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT
00:29:52.65\00:29:54.86
ARE HEADING TOWARDS
DESTRUCTION AND JUDGMENT
00:29:54.86\00:29:56.93
AND PUNISHMENT, AND
YOU'VE GOT THE SERUM FOR THEIR
00:29:56.93\00:30:00.43
DISEASE AND YOU DON'T
SHARE - YOU HAVE NO BURDEN -
00:30:00.43\00:30:04.50
DO YOU HAVE A
BURDEN FOR THE LOST?
00:30:04.50\00:30:06.17
>>YES. >>DO PRAY FOR THOSE - DO
00:30:06.17\00:30:07.64
WE SOMETIMES WEEP AT
THE FEET OF JESUS, FOR THE
00:30:07.64\00:30:10.64
WORLD THAT IS
PERISHING AROUND US?
00:30:10.64\00:30:12.94
THIS IS LIKE THE CHURCH
- OR LIKE MARY - THE CHURCH
00:30:12.94\00:30:16.11
SHOULD BE SPENDING TIME
AT JESUS' FEET, PLEADING WITH
00:30:16.11\00:30:19.11
THE LORD FOR THE
LOST. AND WHAT DID GOD DO
00:30:19.11\00:30:22.45
BECAUSE OF HER PRAYERS?
DID HE PERFORM A MIRACLE?
00:30:22.45\00:30:26.42
AND GIVE NEW LIFE?
00:30:26.42\00:30:28.06
YOU KNOW, JESUS
BROUGHT THEM TO THE TOMB AND HE
00:30:28.06\00:30:32.96
SAID, 'ROLL AWAY THE
STONE.' AND THEY SAID, 'OH
00:30:32.96\00:30:36.06
LORD, BUT THIS IS A -
THIS IS BAD, YOU KNOW, HE'S
00:30:36.06\00:30:38.93
BEEN DEAD FOUR DAYS.'
AND JESUS TOLD MARTHA, HE
00:30:38.93\00:30:42.70
SAID, 'LOOK, I'M - I'M
GOING TO RAISE HIM UP.'
00:30:42.70\00:30:44.77
AND SHE SAID, 'WELL,
I KNOW HE'S GOING TO BE
00:30:44.77\00:30:45.84
RAISED IN THE RESURRECTION
AT THE LAST DAY.' - WHICH
00:30:45.84\00:30:48.64
WAS AN IMPORTANT POINT.
WHEN IS THE RESURRECTION?
00:30:48.64\00:30:52.48
THE LAST DAY. I THINK THREE
OR FOUR TIMES JUST IN THE GOSPEL
00:30:52.48\00:30:56.18
OF JOHN IT SAYS THE
RESURRECTION ON THE LAST DAY.
00:30:56.18\00:30:59.39
IT'S TELLING US THAT
THE DAY OF THE LORD - THE
00:30:59.39\00:31:01.92
JUDGMENT DAY - WHEN THE
LORD DESCENDS FROM HEAVEN,
00:31:01.92\00:31:04.83
'THE DEAD IN CHRIST
WILL RISE' THE BIBLE SAYS.
00:31:04.83\00:31:07.66
AND HE SAYS, 'I'M NOT
TALKING ABOUT THAT ONE.
00:31:07.66\00:31:10.73
I'M GOING TO DO
SOMETHING SPECIAL NOW.
00:31:10.73\00:31:13.57
ROLL AWAY THE STONE.'
SO RELUCTANTLY, MARTHA
00:31:13.57\00:31:17.67
INSTRUCTS THE SERVANTS
AND THEY ROLL AWAY THE STONE.
00:31:17.67\00:31:21.14
AND JESUS SAYS,
'LAZARUS, COME FORTH!'
00:31:21.14\00:31:24.28
AND WHEN THEY ROLL AWAY
THE STONE THEY CAN SMELL
00:31:24.28\00:31:27.28
IT. THEY KNOW HE'S DEAD.
00:31:27.28\00:31:29.48
BUT THEN THEY HEAR
A SHUFFLING, RUFFLING,
00:31:29.48\00:31:32.35
MUFFLED NOISE COMING
FROM THE TOMB AND OUT SHUFFLES
00:31:32.35\00:31:36.46
THEIR BROTHER, VERY
MUCH ALIVE, AND JESUS SAYS,
00:31:36.46\00:31:39.43
'LOOSE HIM' - UNWRAP
HIM. WAS MARY GLAD THAT SHE
00:31:39.43\00:31:43.87
SPENT TIME
WEEPING AT JESUS' FEET FOR
00:31:43.87\00:31:46.00
HER BROTHER? DID
HE ANSWER THAT PRAYER?
00:31:46.00\00:31:49.54
BUT, YOU KNOW, SHE
SAID, 'WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?'
00:31:49.54\00:31:51.27
IT WAS LATER THAN THEY THOUGHT.
00:31:51.27\00:31:53.11
SO WHEN YOU'RE PRAYING
FOR LOVED ONES OR SOMEONE THAT
00:31:53.11\00:31:55.24
YOU WANT TO HAVE
LIFE, YOU MUST BE PATIENT.
00:31:55.24\00:31:58.71
SOMETIMES IT
EVEN LOOKS HOPELESS.
00:31:58.71\00:32:01.15
DON'T GIVE UP. KEEP
PRAYING. THEY SAID, 'JESUS, WHAT
00:32:01.15\00:32:04.39
TOOK YOU SO LONG?' I
KNOW LADIES THAT HAVE
00:32:04.39\00:32:09.76
PRAYED FOR THEIR
HUSBANDS FOR LIKE 20 YEARS THAT
00:32:09.76\00:32:12.09
THEY'D COME TO
THE LORD - OR LONGER.
00:32:12.09\00:32:14.46
PARENTS THAT HAVE PRAYED
FOR THEIR CHILDREN 40 - 50
00:32:14.46\00:32:17.57
YEARS AND THEN
GOD WORKS A MIRACLE.
00:32:17.57\00:32:20.20
I'VE KNOWN PEOPLE
THAT HAVE COME TO THE LORD
00:32:20.20\00:32:21.70
YEARS AFTER THEIR PARENTS
ARE DEAD AND I THINK THAT
00:32:21.70\00:32:23.91
GOD FINALLY MADE A
WITHDRAWAL ON THE PRAYERS
00:32:23.91\00:32:26.07
THAT THE PARENTS
HAD STORED IN HEAVEN,
00:32:26.07\00:32:28.31
THAT THEY MIGHT FIND
LIFE. AND THOSE PARENTS ARE
00:32:28.31\00:32:30.65
GOING TO BE VERY
HAPPY. THEY WENT TO THE GRAVE
00:32:30.65\00:32:32.08
THINKING THEIR
CHILDREN WERE LOST AND IN THE
00:32:32.08\00:32:34.05
RESURRECTION
THEY'RE GOING TO SAY, 'HOW'D
00:32:34.05\00:32:35.25
YOU GET HERE?' (LAUGHTER)
AND THE ANGEL'S GOING TO
00:32:35.25\00:32:39.09
SAY, 'YOU KNOW ALL
THOSE PRAYERS YOU PRAYED?
00:32:39.09\00:32:41.16
THEY WERE
COMPOUNDING INTEREST AND GOD DID
00:32:41.16\00:32:44.73
SOMETHING WITH IT.'
SO WE NEED TO SPEND TIME
00:32:44.73\00:32:47.10
BELIEVING AND PRAYING.
THE REASON JESUS CAME INTO
00:32:47.10\00:32:50.57
THIS WORLD IS TO SAVE THE LOST.
00:32:50.57\00:32:52.20
NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT
THAN PRAYING FOR THE LOST
00:32:52.20\00:32:54.34
AND WE ARE SURROUNDED BY
BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT
00:32:54.34\00:32:56.40
ARE DEAD IN TRESPASSES AND SINS.
00:32:56.40\00:32:59.24
SO THE CHURCH, LIKE
MARY, NEEDS TO BE DOING THAT.
00:32:59.24\00:33:03.38
THEN WE NEED TO SPEND
SOME TIME AT JESUS' FEET IN
00:33:03.38\00:33:06.05
SACRIFICE. AND
THIS IS A PLACE WHERE
00:33:06.05\00:33:08.95
MARY REALLY SHINES.
YOU CAN FIND THIS STORY
00:33:08.95\00:33:11.32
- AND THEY GIVE
LITTLE PERSPECTIVES THAT ARE
00:33:11.32\00:33:13.72
DIFFERENT IN THE GOSPEL
OF JOHN CHAPTER 12 - IT'S
00:33:13.72\00:33:16.26
CALLED THE DINNER IN
BETHANY - IN MARK CHAPTER
00:33:16.26\00:33:18.36
14, IN LUKE CHAPTER 7 -
AND I THINK I'M GOING TO
00:33:18.36\00:33:21.90
GO TO LUKE'S VERSION -
IN LUKE CHAPTER 7, VERSE 36.
00:33:21.90\00:33:26.33
IT SAYS, "THEN ONE OF THE
PHARISEES ASKED HIM TO EAT
00:33:26.33\00:33:30.14
WITH HIM. AND HE WENT TO THE
00:33:30.14\00:33:32.11
PHARISEE'S HOUSE,
AND SAT DOWN TO EAT.
00:33:32.11\00:33:35.58
AND, BEHOLD, A WOMAN IN
THE CITY WHO WAS A SINNER,
00:33:35.58\00:33:38.71
WHEN SHE KNEW THAT
JESUS SAT AT THE TABLE IN THE
00:33:38.71\00:33:40.85
PHARISEE'S HOUSE,
BROUGHT AN ALABASTER FLASK OF
00:33:40.85\00:33:44.89
FRAGRANT OIL, AND
STOOD AT HIS FEET BEHIND HIM
00:33:44.89\00:33:48.62
WEEPING; AND SHE BEGAN
TO WASH HIS FEET WITH HER
00:33:48.62\00:33:51.39
TEARS, AND WIPED THEM
WITH THE HAIR OF HER HEAD; AND
00:33:51.39\00:33:54.00
SHE KISSED HIS FEET
AND ANOINTED THEM WITH THE
00:33:54.00\00:33:56.63
FRAGRANT OIL."
NOW IF YOU READ THIS
00:33:56.63\00:33:58.30
IN MARK AND JOHN, SHE
ANOINTED HIS FEET AND SHE
00:33:58.30\00:34:01.74
POURED THE
REMAINDER ON HIS HEAD.
00:34:01.74\00:34:03.81
THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT,
BECAUSE THE WORD CHRIST -
00:34:03.81\00:34:08.48
I TOLD YOU - MEANS ANOINTED.
00:34:08.48\00:34:10.81
THE WORD MESSIAH MEANS ANOINTED.
00:34:10.81\00:34:13.62
HERE MARY, SHE
ANOINTS HIM FROM HEAD TO FOOT.
00:34:13.62\00:34:16.95
YOU KNOW, ONLY A FEW
PEOPLE WERE ANOINTED IN
00:34:16.95\00:34:19.39
THE BIBLE - KINGS WERE ANOINTED.
00:34:19.39\00:34:22.56
DAVID, YOU REMEMBER,
WAS ANOINTED BY SAMUEL.
00:34:22.56\00:34:25.33
PROPHETS WERE
ANOINTED. PRIESTS WERE ANOINTED.
00:34:25.33\00:34:31.53
SACRIFICES WERE
ANOINTED. JESUS IS OUR PRIEST.
00:34:31.53\00:34:36.87
HE'S OUR PROPHET. HE IS
OUR KING. HE IS OUR SACRIFICE.
00:34:36.87\00:34:40.91
SHE ANOINTED HIM
FROM HEAD TO FOOT.
00:34:40.91\00:34:43.11
NOT ONLY WITH THIS VERY
COSTLY OIL THAT WAS MEANT
00:34:43.11\00:34:45.88
FOR KINGS - SHE
ANOINTED HIM WITH HER OWN TEARS.
00:34:45.88\00:34:49.78
NOW WHEN I FIRST READ
THIS, I THOUGHT THAT THAT
00:34:49.78\00:34:51.12
MEANT SHE WAS JUST
CRYING SO PROFUSELY SHE WAS
00:34:51.12\00:34:54.09
SHAKING HER TEARS OFF.
00:34:54.09\00:34:55.29
I THOUGHT, 'MAN, IF
YOU CAN WASH SOMEONE'S FEET
00:34:55.29\00:34:56.52
WITH YOUR TEARS, YOU'VE
GOT TO REALLY BE - YEAH -
00:34:56.52\00:35:00.23
HOW DO YOU DO -
YOU'RE CUTTING ONIONS OR
00:35:00.23\00:35:02.56
SOMETHING - HOW DO YOU
GET THAT MANY TEARS OUT OF
00:35:02.56\00:35:04.53
YOUR - AND THEN LATER
I REALIZED THAT IT WAS A
00:35:04.53\00:35:06.94
CUSTOM IN BIBLE TIMES
THAT WHEN PEOPLE WERE GOING
00:35:06.94\00:35:09.27
THROUGH TIMES OF
GREAT SORROW AND THEY WERE
00:35:09.27\00:35:10.77
CRYING, THEY WOULD ACTUALLY
HAVE A FLASK WITH A LITTLE
00:35:10.77\00:35:13.41
GENTLE LIP ON IT AND
THEY WOULD CATCH THEIR TEARS.
00:35:13.41\00:35:16.61
AND IT WAS CONSIDERED
SACRED SORROW AND THEY
00:35:16.61\00:35:20.38
WOULD BOTTLE IT AND
SAVE IT AND THAT WAS A MEMORY
00:35:20.38\00:35:22.35
OF THEIR SORROWS WHEN
THEY WERE WEEPING OR MOURNING
00:35:22.35\00:35:24.15
SOMETHING. AND
SHE TOOK THIS VIAL OF
00:35:24.15\00:35:27.36
HER TEARS - MARY,
MAYBE, HAD A BIG VIAL.
00:35:27.36\00:35:32.43
SHE POURED IT ON JESUS' FEET.
00:35:32.43\00:35:35.46
YOUR FEET, IN THE
BIBLE, REPRESENT YOUR WALK.
00:35:35.46\00:35:38.83
POLITICIANS TELL
US THEY FEEL OUR PAIN.
00:35:38.83\00:35:41.47
I'M NOT SO SURE. BUT JESUS DID
00:35:41.47\00:35:44.54
EXPERIENCE OUR
SORROWS. HE WALKED IN OUR PAIN.
00:35:44.54\00:35:49.04
HE UNDERSTANDS OUR
TEARS. THE LORD KNOWS
00:35:49.04\00:35:51.85
HOW YOU FEEL.
MATTER OF FACT, GOD'S GOT
00:35:51.85\00:35:55.05
A RECORD OF EVERY
TEAR YOU'VE EVER DROPPED.
00:35:55.05\00:35:58.25
THERE'S NOT A HAIR OF
YOUR HEAD HE'S NOT COUNTED.
00:35:58.25\00:36:00.56
I'VE COUNTED MY OWN,
ACTUALLY, IT'S NOT THAT
00:36:00.56\00:36:03.09
BIG OF A DEAL.
(LAUGHTER) BUT HE KNOWS
00:36:03.09\00:36:05.49
WHAT YOU'RE EXPERIENCING.
AND SO SHE BATHES HIS FEET
00:36:05.49\00:36:09.60
WITH HER TEARS, WIPES
THEM WITH HER HAIR - THAT'S A
00:36:09.60\00:36:11.77
WOMAN'S GLORY IS HER
HAIR. THIS IS A SYMBOL OF
00:36:11.77\00:36:14.27
COMPLETE SUBMISSION
- AT HIS FEET, CRYING,
00:36:14.27\00:36:17.57
ANOINTING, KISSING HIS
FEET. AND THE FRAGRANT OIL
00:36:17.57\00:36:21.91
FILLED THE HOUSE.
NOW THE PHARISEE WHO HAD
00:36:21.91\00:36:25.01
INVITED HIM, HE SAW
THIS AND SOME OF THE APOSTLES
00:36:25.01\00:36:27.62
ALSO SAW IT AND, YOU
KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS JUDAS -
00:36:27.62\00:36:30.29
THE GOSPEL OF JOHN -
JUDAS MURMURED AND HE SAID,
00:36:30.29\00:36:33.05
'OH, WHAT A WASTE! IF
THIS OINTMENT HAD BEEN
00:36:33.05\00:36:36.22
SOLD IT COULD HAVE
BEEN GIVEN TO THE POOR.'
00:36:36.22\00:36:38.86
JUDAS DIDN'T CARE ABOUT
THE POOR, HE CARED ABOUT THE
00:36:38.86\00:36:40.80
MONEY IN THE BAG AND
HE USED TO ROB FROM IT.
00:36:40.80\00:36:44.20
IT'S INTERESTING: MARY'S
SACRIFICE CONVICTED JUDAS'
00:36:44.20\00:36:48.80
GREED AND SELFISHNESS
AND SO HE CRITICIZED HER GIFT
00:36:48.80\00:36:53.51
AND JESUS SAID, 'LET
HER ALONE, THE POOR YOU HAVE
00:36:53.51\00:36:55.18
WITH YOU ALL THE TIME,
BUT ME YOU DON'T ALWAYS HAVE.'
00:36:55.18\00:36:58.21
AND HE GOES ON TO SAY,
'WHAT THIS WOMAN HAS DONE
00:36:58.21\00:37:00.12
WILL ALWAYS BE SPOKEN OF
WHERE THE GOSPEL IS BEING
00:37:00.12\00:37:02.92
PREACHED.' AND IT'S
BEING SPOKEN OF TODAY.
00:37:02.92\00:37:07.09
AND SIMON - IT TELLS
US THAT HE IS CALLED SIMON
00:37:07.09\00:37:10.13
THE LEPER, IN THE
OTHER GOSPELS - HE WAS A
00:37:10.13\00:37:12.59
PHARISEE WHO JESUS
HEALED FROM LEPROSY AND HE HAS
00:37:12.59\00:37:15.60
THIS FEAST IN BETHANY
- PROBABLY THE FEAST THAT
00:37:15.60\00:37:18.27
MARTHA WAS RUSTLING
AROUND GETTING READY FOR - HAS
00:37:18.27\00:37:21.64
THIS FEAST IN BETHANY
TO HONOR JESUS AND JESUS
00:37:21.64\00:37:24.11
COMES AND WHEN THEY
SEE MARY, WHO HAD A BAD
00:37:24.11\00:37:27.01
REPUTATION IN TOWN, AND
JESUS IS LETTING HER TOUCH
00:37:27.01\00:37:31.51
HIM, SIMON SAYS WITHIN
HIMSELF, "THIS MAN, IF HE
00:37:31.51\00:37:35.48
WERE A PROPHET, WOULD
KNOW WHO AND WHAT MANNER OF
00:37:35.48\00:37:38.45
WOMAN THIS IS WHO IS
TOUCHING HIM, FOR SHE IS A
00:37:38.45\00:37:41.32
SINNER." THERE YOU HAVE IT.
00:37:41.32\00:37:44.43
THERE'S NO QUESTION
ABOUT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT
00:37:44.43\00:37:46.03
MARY. HE, EVIDENTLY, THOUGHT SHE
00:37:46.03\00:37:48.13
WAS A BIGGER SINNER THAN HE WAS.
00:37:48.13\00:37:50.77
JESUS, KNOWING WHAT HE'S
THINKING AND WHAT JUDAS IS
00:37:50.77\00:37:52.70
THINKING - YOU KNOW, I
ALSO THOUGHT IT WAS VERY
00:37:52.70\00:37:54.50
INTERESTING - THERE'S
ONLY TWO RECORDS IN THE
00:37:54.50\00:37:57.07
BIBLE OF ANYONE KISSING JESUS.
00:37:57.07\00:37:59.54
MARY KISSED HIS
FEET AND SERVED HIM.
00:37:59.54\00:38:02.61
JUDAS KISSED HIS
FACE AND BETRAYED HIM.
00:38:02.61\00:38:06.65
MARY WAS CONTENT TO
KISS THE LOWEST SPOT.
00:38:06.65\00:38:09.52
JUDAS WANTED THE HIGHEST
SPOT AND HE BETRAYED HIM.
00:38:09.52\00:38:16.52
AND SO SIMON IS THINKING,
'IF THIS MAN WAS A PROPHET
00:38:16.52\00:38:19.23
- EVEN THOUGH HE HEALED
ME FROM LEPROSY - I - HOW
00:38:19.23\00:38:20.60
DOES HE LET THIS WOMAN'
- AND I'M WONDERING, HOW
00:38:20.60\00:38:23.63
DOES SIMON KNOW SO
MUCH ABOUT THIS WOMAN?
00:38:23.63\00:38:26.87
"AND JESUS ANSWERED AND
SAID TO HIM, 'SIMON, I'VE
00:38:26.87\00:38:29.44
GOT SOMETHING TO SAY
TO YOU.' HE SAID, 'MASTER,
00:38:29.44\00:38:31.47
SAY ON.' 'THERE WAS A
CERTAIN CREDITOR THAT HAD
00:38:31.47\00:38:34.14
TWO DEBTORS. ONE
OWED FIVE HUNDRED
00:38:34.14\00:38:36.38
DENARII, AND THE OTHER
FIFTY. AND WHEN THEY HAD NOTHING
00:38:36.38\00:38:39.65
WITH WHICH TO REPAY, HE
FREELY FORGAVE THEM BOTH.
00:38:39.65\00:38:42.58
TELL ME, THEREFORE, WHICH
OF THEM WILL LOVE HIM MORE?'
00:38:42.58\00:38:46.29
SIMON ANSWERED AND SAID,
'I SUPPOSE THE ONE WHOM HE
00:38:46.29\00:38:48.22
FORGAVE MORE.'" AND HE
SAID 'YOU'RE RIGHT.' HE
00:38:48.22\00:38:51.63
TURNED TO THE WOMAN AND
HE SAID TO SIMON, 'DO YOU SEE
00:38:51.63\00:38:53.43
THIS WOMAN?' -
EVERYONE SAW THE WOMAN.
00:38:53.43\00:38:56.06
THEY COULD SMELL WHAT
SHE'D DONE ALL THROUGH THE
00:38:56.06\00:38:57.23
HOUSE. 'YOU SEE THIS WOMAN?
00:38:57.23\00:38:59.87
I ENTERED YOUR HOUSE;
YOU GAVE ME NO WATER TO WASH
00:38:59.87\00:39:01.64
MY FEET.' WHICH WAS THE
CUSTOMARY, POLITE THING TO DO.
00:39:01.64\00:39:07.88
'BUT SHE'S WASHED MY
FEET WITH HER TEARS AND WIPED
00:39:07.88\00:39:09.68
THEM WITH THE HAIR OF HER HEAD.
00:39:09.68\00:39:12.28
YOU GAVE ME NO KISS BUT
THIS WOMAN HAS NOT CEASED
00:39:12.28\00:39:14.98
TO KISS MY FEET
SINCE THE TIME I CAME IN.
00:39:14.98\00:39:17.92
YOU DID NOT ANOINT MY
HEAD WITH OIL, BUT THIS WOMAN
00:39:17.92\00:39:20.49
HAS ANOINTED MY
FEET WITH FRAGRANT OIL.
00:39:20.49\00:39:22.86
THEREFORE I SAY TO YOU,
HER SINS, WHICH ARE MANY,'
00:39:22.86\00:39:27.56
- HE'S NOT CONTESTING THAT.
00:39:27.56\00:39:29.16
SHE WAS A BIG SINNER -
'HER SINS, WHICH ARE MANY,
00:39:29.16\00:39:31.63
ARE FORGIVEN.' ISN'T
IT GOOD TO KNOW THAT JESUS
00:39:31.63\00:39:33.64
CAN FORGIVE MANY SINS? >>AMEN.
00:39:33.64\00:39:35.77
>>AND THEN CHRIST GOES
ON TO SAY, 'FOR SHE LOVED
00:39:35.77\00:39:41.04
MUCH.' - "...HER
SINS, WHICH ARE MANY, ARE
00:39:41.04\00:39:43.21
FORGIVEN, FOR SHE LOVED MUCH.
00:39:43.21\00:39:46.15
BUT TO WHOM LITTLE IS
FORGIVEN, THE SAME LOVES
00:39:46.15\00:39:49.68
LITTLE." IS IT
SAFE TO UNDERSTAND?
00:39:49.68\00:39:52.52
HE WHO IS
FORGIVEN MUCH, LOVES MUCH.
00:39:52.52\00:39:55.62
I USED TO READ THIS AND
I THOUGHT, 'LORD, I NEED TO
00:39:55.62\00:39:58.29
LOVE YOU MORE.' -
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:39:58.29\00:39:59.53
I'VE GOT TO GO OUT
AND SIN A LITTLE MORE?
00:39:59.53\00:40:02.36
- 'AND THE MORE I SIN,
THE MORE YOU FORGIVE ME, THE
00:40:02.36\00:40:03.93
MORE I'LL LOVE YOU.'
I THOUGHT, 'WELL, THAT'S
00:40:03.93\00:40:05.07
KIND OF A STRANGE WAY
TO WORK THINGS.' IS JESUS
00:40:05.07\00:40:08.34
SAYING - YOU KNOW,
PEOPLE GROW UP IN THE CHURCH.
00:40:08.34\00:40:10.31
I PREACHED THIS MESSAGE
ONCE, MANY YEARS AGO, AND
00:40:10.31\00:40:12.34
A LADY CAME UP AND
SAID, 'I'VE BEEN IN THE CHURCH
00:40:12.34\00:40:13.64
FOR GENERATIONS.' OF
COURSE, NOBODY'S REALLY
00:40:13.64\00:40:15.68
IN THE CHURCH FOR
GENERATIONS BECAUSE GOD
00:40:15.68\00:40:17.31
HAS NO GRANDCHILDREN.
BUT SHE SAID, 'YEAH, YOU
00:40:17.31\00:40:20.08
KNOW, MY PARENTS AND
GRANDPARENTS - WE'VE BEEN
00:40:20.08\00:40:21.48
IN THE CHURCH FOR
YEARS. I GREW UP IN THE CHURCH
00:40:21.48\00:40:23.28
AND I HEAR THESE
TESTIMONIES OF PEOPLE WHO
00:40:23.28\00:40:24.85
ARE OUT THERE AND THEY'RE
JUST REALLY IN THE GUTTER
00:40:24.85\00:40:26.45
AND THE LORD SAVES THEM.
THEY'VE GOT THESE DRAMATIC
00:40:26.45\00:40:28.52
TRANSFORMATIONS AND TESTIMONIES
00:40:28.52\00:40:30.49
AND I THOUGHT, 'I'VE NEVER DONE
00:40:30.49\00:40:31.49
ANYTHING REALLY WILD
LIKE THAT.' I FIGURE IF I'M
00:40:31.49\00:40:33.03
GOING TO LOVE THE LORD,
I NEED TO JUST GO OUT THERE
00:40:33.03\00:40:35.36
AND GO BERSERK AND THEN
REPENT AND COME BACK AND
00:40:35.36\00:40:38.57
THEN I'LL HAVE A TESTIMONY
AND THEN I'LL REALLY LOVE
00:40:38.57\00:40:39.83
THE LORD.' AND I
SAID, 'GOD FORBID!'
00:40:39.83\00:40:43.57
THE LORD ISN'T SAYING
YOU'VE GOT TO GO OUT THERE
00:40:43.57\00:40:45.34
AND BE A SCANDALOUS
SINNER AND THEN COME BACK TO THE
00:40:45.34\00:40:47.58
LORD AND THEN YOU'LL
REALLY LOVE AND APPRECIATE
00:40:47.58\00:40:49.31
JESUS, HE SAID, 'HE
THAT IS FORGIVEN MUCH, LOVES
00:40:49.31\00:40:52.45
MUCH.' WHO IS NOT FORGIVEN MUCH?
00:40:52.45\00:40:55.75
>>AMEN. >>SIMON, EVIDENTLY,
00:40:55.75\00:40:57.29
THOUGHT THAT SHE WAS
A BIG SINNER AND HE WAS
00:40:57.29\00:40:58.65
A LITTLE
SINNER. CHEER UP, YOU'RE
00:40:58.65\00:41:00.52
ALL BIG SINNERS.
THERE ARE NO LITTLE
00:41:00.52\00:41:03.66
SINNERS OUT THERE.
YOU ALL QUALIFY BECAUSE NO
00:41:03.66\00:41:07.23
MATTER WHAT YOU THINK
YOUR LIST OF SINS ARE OR WHAT
00:41:07.23\00:41:09.80
YOUR RECORDS LOOK
LIKE, YOUR SINS ARE ENOUGH TO
00:41:09.80\00:41:11.73
PUT JESUS ON THE
CROSS ALL BY YOURSELF.
00:41:11.73\00:41:15.34
EVERYTHING THAT JESUS
WENT THROUGH HE WOULD HAVE HAD
00:41:15.34\00:41:17.07
TO GO THROUGH FOR
YOU. SO YOU DO QUALIFY.
00:41:17.07\00:41:22.64
THE THING IS, DO YOU
KNOW HOW MUCH YOU'VE BEEN
00:41:22.64\00:41:24.55
FORGIVEN? HE THAT KNOWS HOW MUCH
00:41:24.55\00:41:28.08
THEY'VE BEEN
FORGIVEN, LOVES MUCH.
00:41:28.08\00:41:31.72
AND YOU KNOW HOW YOU CAN
TELL HOW MUCH YOU'VE BEEN
00:41:31.72\00:41:33.59
FORGIVEN? HOW
MUCH DID IT COST TO
00:41:33.59\00:41:37.19
BUY YOUR
FORGIVENESS? THEY SAY, 'HOW MUCH
00:41:37.19\00:41:40.43
IS SOMETHING WORTH?'
IT'S WORTH WHAT SOMEONE
00:41:40.43\00:41:42.70
WILL PAY FOR IT.
HOW MUCH WAS PAID
00:41:42.70\00:41:45.50
FOR YOUR
REDEMPTION? QUITE A BIT.
00:41:45.50\00:41:49.04
THAT'S HOW MUCH YOU'RE WORTH.
00:41:49.04\00:41:50.61
HE THAT KNOWS HOW
MUCH THEY'RE FORGIVEN.
00:41:50.61\00:41:54.08
IF YOU UNDERSTAND HOW
MUCH JESUS PAID FOR YOU, YOU
00:41:54.08\00:41:56.68
WILL LOVE MUCH.
AND THEN HE SAID TO THE
00:41:56.68\00:41:59.08
WOMAN, 'YOUR SINS ARE
FORGIVEN.' WOULDN'T YOU
00:41:59.08\00:42:02.42
LIKE TO HAVE HIM SAY THAT TO
US? HERE SHE IS, SHE'S MAKING
00:42:02.42\00:42:05.02
THIS GREAT SACRIFICE -
SHE SPENT ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY
00:42:05.02\00:42:07.99
A GIFT FOR A KING AND
SHE POURS IT OUT ON JESUS.
00:42:07.99\00:42:10.49
YOU KNOW, SHE HEARD
JESUS SAY SEVERAL TIMES -
00:42:10.49\00:42:13.80
CHRIST, BEFORE HE GOES TO
THE CROSS - HE SAYS TO THE
00:42:13.80\00:42:16.80
DISCIPLES, 'I'M
GOING TO JERUSALEM.
00:42:16.80\00:42:19.27
I'M GOING TO BE BETRAYED
INTO THE HANDS OF SINNERS.
00:42:19.27\00:42:22.40
I'LL BE CRUCIFIED.
I'LL BE BEATEN AND JUDGED
00:42:22.40\00:42:24.91
AND I'LL RISE THE
THIRD DAY.' AND THE DISCIPLES
00:42:24.91\00:42:28.04
SAID, 'NO, NO, LORD,
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
00:42:28.04\00:42:29.38
NO, DON'T - NONE OF
THAT.' THE DISCIPLES WEREN'T
00:42:29.38\00:42:31.68
LISTENING.
CHRIST SAID IT SO OFTEN
00:42:31.68\00:42:33.45
THAT EVEN HIS
ENEMIES REMEMBERED IT.
00:42:33.45\00:42:35.65
THEY WENT TO PILATE
AND SAID, 'WE HEARD THIS
00:42:35.65\00:42:37.02
DECEIVER SAY HE'D
RISE AFTER THREE DAYS.
00:42:37.02\00:42:40.09
HIS ENEMIES HEARD
IT. MARY HEARD IT TOO.
00:42:40.09\00:42:43.53
AND JESUS SAID, 'SHE'S
COME TO ANOINT ME BEFORE
00:42:43.53\00:42:47.13
MY BURIAL.' WE TYPICALLY
GIVE GIFTS TO PEOPLE AFTER
00:42:47.13\00:42:50.30
THEY'RE - YOU KNOW,
THEIR FLOWERS AT THEIR FUNERAL
00:42:50.30\00:42:53.97
OR SOMETHING, AND
EVERYONE SAYS THESE WONDERFUL
00:42:53.97\00:42:56.37
THINGS AFTER THEY'RE
GONE - THAT THEY NEVER SAID
00:42:56.37\00:42:57.91
WHEN THEY WERE ALIVE.
SOME OF THEM AREN'T EVEN
00:42:57.91\00:43:01.08
TRUE AND THEY STILL SAY
WONDERFUL THINGS, RIGHT?
00:43:01.08\00:43:04.95
MARY WANTED TO SHOW HER
LOVE WHILE JESUS WAS ALIVE.
00:43:04.95\00:43:09.22
AND IF YOU WANT THE LORD
TO KNOW THAT YOU LOVE HIM,
00:43:09.22\00:43:12.35
DO IT WHILE HE'S BLESSING YOU.
00:43:12.35\00:43:17.26
SHE GAVE A GENEROUS
GIFT. DO YOU THINK SHE EVER
00:43:17.26\00:43:18.69
REGRETTED MAKING
THAT SACRIFICE FOR JESUS?
00:43:18.69\00:43:22.96
NEXT, WHAT WE FIND IS
THAT MARY IS - SHE'S AT JESUS'
00:43:22.96\00:43:27.64
FEET NOW, IN
SURRENDER AT THE CROSS.
00:43:27.64\00:43:30.94
NOW THIS IS A FASCINATING
PICTURE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW,
00:43:30.94\00:43:35.41
THE APOSTLES IN THE
GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, THEY WERE
00:43:35.41\00:43:38.45
VERY BOLD AND AT THE
LAST SUPPER, PETER SAID,
00:43:38.45\00:43:41.18
'THOUGH ALL MEN
FORSAKE THEE, I'LL NOT FORSAKE
00:43:41.18\00:43:43.22
YOU.' AND WHEN THE
MOB FIRST CAME TO ARREST
00:43:43.22\00:43:45.82
JESUS, PETER PULLED
OUT A SWORD, BUT THEY ALL
00:43:45.82\00:43:49.22
SCATTERED AND RAN.
AND THEN AT THE CROSS IT
00:43:49.22\00:43:52.43
SAID THAT THEY 'STOOD
AFAR OFF BEHOLDING THESE
00:43:52.43\00:43:55.36
THINGS' - IN THE GOSPEL
OF LUKE - BUT IF YOU GO TO
00:43:55.36\00:43:57.87
JOHN CHAPTER 19, VERSE
25, "NOW THERE STOOD BY THE
00:43:57.87\00:44:03.71
CROSS OF JESUS HIS
MOTHER, AND HIS MOTHER'S SISTER,
00:44:03.71\00:44:08.98
MARY THE WIFE OF
CLOPAS, AND MARY MAGDALENE."
00:44:08.98\00:44:14.28
IT'S THE DEVOTED WOMEN
WHO ARE ACTUALLY THERE AT THE
00:44:14.28\00:44:16.58
CROSS, THE OTHERS ARE
STANDING WATCHING AT A
00:44:16.58\00:44:18.22
DISTANCE.
THEY'RE AFRAID, BUT THE
00:44:18.22\00:44:21.06
WOMEN DON'T CARE WHAT'S
GOING TO HAPPEN TO THEM.
00:44:21.06\00:44:25.53
THEY'RE WILLING -
THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT JESUS'
00:44:25.53\00:44:27.46
SUFFERING. THEY WANT JESUS TO
00:44:27.46\00:44:28.73
SEE THAT THEY CARE.
THEY'RE BEING SYMPATHETIC
00:44:28.73\00:44:31.43
AND EMPATHETIC AND
THEY'RE SHOWING THEIR LOVE THERE
00:44:31.43\00:44:34.50
AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS.
YOU KNOW, HERE WE SEE MARY
00:44:34.50\00:44:38.01
AT JESUS' FEET AGAIN, DON'T WE?
00:44:38.01\00:44:40.91
WEEPING, NO DOUBT, AT
HIS FEET, BEHOLDING HIM,
00:44:40.91\00:44:45.15
FINALLY PAYING THE DEBT
FOR WHAT HE HAD PROMISED
00:44:45.15\00:44:48.18
EARLIER WHEN HE
SAID, 'GO AND SIN NO MORE.
00:44:48.18\00:44:51.35
I DON'T CONDEMN YOU.'
ALL OF US, LIKE MARY, NEED TO
00:44:51.35\00:44:55.09
SPEND TIME AT JESUS'
FEET BEHOLDING HIM AS OUR
00:44:55.09\00:44:57.96
SACRIFICE. HOW MANY SONGS ARE
00:44:57.96\00:45:00.76
WRITTEN ABOUT THE CROSS?
AT THE CROSS, AT THE CROSS
00:45:00.76\00:45:04.20
WHERE I FIRST SAW THE LIGHT.
BENEATH THE CROSS OF JESUS
00:45:04.20\00:45:07.14
I WILL TAKE MY STAND.
JESUS KEEP ME NEAR THE
00:45:07.14\00:45:09.84
CROSS - WHY DO ALL
THESE HYMN WRITERS WRITE
00:45:09.84\00:45:12.04
ABOUT THE CROSS?
BECAUSE THE CROSS IS THE
00:45:12.04\00:45:14.54
AXLE ON WHICH
THE GOSPEL ROTATES.
00:45:14.54\00:45:17.85
IT IS THE VERY FULCRUM
ON WHICH THE WHOLE BIBLE
00:45:17.85\00:45:21.15
PIVOTS. IT'S AT
THE CROSS YOU SEE
00:45:21.15\00:45:23.79
CHRIST'S POWER OF LOVE
AND IT'S AT THE CROSS YOU CAN
00:45:23.79\00:45:27.79
EVEN SEE THE
DEVIL'S LOVE FOR POWER.
00:45:27.79\00:45:30.29
YOU SEE THE GREAT
CONTRAST BETWEEN GOD EMPTYING
00:45:30.29\00:45:33.16
HIMSELF AT THE CROSS AND
YOU SEE THE DIABOLICAL VILLAIN
00:45:33.16\00:45:38.87
- THE ARCH FIEND - THE
DEVIL - HOW HE'S TRYING TO
00:45:38.87\00:45:41.40
EXTRACT ALL THE SUFFERING.
JESUS IS SAYING, 'FATHER,
00:45:41.40\00:45:44.04
FORGIVE THEM.' AND
IT'S AT THE CROSS WE SEE
00:45:44.04\00:45:48.04
HIS LOVE FOR US.
HOW ARE WE GOING TO
00:45:48.04\00:45:50.18
REPENT OF OUR SINS?
THE BIBLE SAYS 'IT'S THE
00:45:50.18\00:45:53.18
GOODNESS OF GOD THAT
LEADS US TO REPENTANCE.' AND SO
00:45:53.18\00:45:55.92
IT WAS THROUGH SEEING
THIS SACRIFICE THAT IT BRINGS
00:45:55.92\00:46:01.39
US TO COMPLETE SURRENDER.
SO HERE MARY'S AT HIS FEET
00:46:01.39\00:46:05.16
WEEPING AT THE CROSS.
YOU KNOW, THE CROSS IS ONE
00:46:05.16\00:46:08.63
OF THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD
TRUTHS IN THE BIBLE.
00:46:08.63\00:46:12.10
PEOPLE THINK THE
CROSS IS A GOOD LUCK CHARM.
00:46:12.10\00:46:15.34
EVERYONE'S IN A HURRY
TO WEAR THE CROSS, BUT THEY
00:46:15.34\00:46:17.27
DON'T WANT TO BEAR THE CROSS.
00:46:17.27\00:46:18.64
CHRIST SAID, 'IF YOU
WOULD COME AFTER ME, YOU MUST
00:46:18.64\00:46:20.78
DENY YOURSELF DAILY,
TAKE UP YOUR CROSS, AND FOLLOW
00:46:20.78\00:46:22.98
ME.' PAUL SAID, 'I AM
CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST.' I
00:46:22.98\00:46:26.85
REMEMBER READING ONE
TIME, IN WORLD WAR II IN ITALY
00:46:26.85\00:46:29.92
THAT THIS SOLDIER
JUMPED INTO A FOXHOLE JUST AS
00:46:29.92\00:46:33.39
BULLETS CHAFED OVER HIS HEAD.
00:46:33.39\00:46:36.26
AND HE WANTED TO GET A
LITTLE DEEPER BECAUSE THE
00:46:36.26\00:46:37.96
FOXHOLE WASN'T
QUITE DEEP ENOUGH.
00:46:37.96\00:46:39.39
AND SO, WITH HIS BARE
HANDS HE'S DIGGING IN THE
00:46:39.39\00:46:41.06
FOXHOLE AND HE
UNEARTHED A SILVER CRUCIFIX THAT
00:46:41.06\00:46:44.23
ANOTHER SOLDIER HAD,
EVIDENTLY, LEFT THERE
00:46:44.23\00:46:45.73
BEFORE. AND
RIGHT AT THAT MOMENT A
00:46:45.73\00:46:48.67
CHAPLAIN JUMPED INTO THE
FOXHOLE AND DUCKED AND THE
00:46:48.67\00:46:53.34
SOLDIER SAID, 'BOY, AM
I EVER GLAD TO SEE YOU.
00:46:53.34\00:46:56.04
CAN YOU TELL ME HOW
TO MAKE THIS THING WORK?'
00:46:56.04\00:46:58.55
(LAUGHTER) AND THAT'S KIND
OF HOW IT IS IN CHRISTIANITY.
00:46:58.55\00:47:02.48
EVERYONE'S WANTING TO
KNOW - 'WE COULD PUT THE CROSS
00:47:02.48\00:47:04.75
ON THE CHURCH' AND 'PEOPLE
WEAR CROSSES' AND 'HOW DO
00:47:04.75\00:47:07.39
YOU MAKE IT WORK?'
YOU KNOW, IT'S THROUGH
00:47:07.39\00:47:10.29
SEEING THE SACRIFICE OF
JESUS AND SEEING HIS LOVE
00:47:10.29\00:47:14.36
FOR US - BY BEHOLDING
THAT - THERE'S A TRANSFORMING
00:47:14.36\00:47:17.20
INFLUENCE WHEN WE SEE HIS LOVE.
00:47:17.20\00:47:19.33
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK
AT JESUS DYING ON THE CROSS
00:47:19.33\00:47:21.14
FOR YOUR SIN, IT'S HARD
TO BE ANGRY AT THE PETTY
00:47:21.14\00:47:23.94
THINGS WE DO TO EACH OTHER.
00:47:23.94\00:47:26.41
IT HELPS GIVE
THINGS PERSPECTIVE.
00:47:26.41\00:47:28.24
BUT I NEED TO HASTEN ALONG.
00:47:28.24\00:47:31.28
NEXT YOU SEE #6 - MARY
IN SERVICE AT THE TOMB .
00:47:31.28\00:47:37.42
WHEN THEY TOOK HIS BODY
DOWN FROM THE CROSS, THE
00:47:37.42\00:47:40.59
WOMEN WENT ALONG
TO WATCH AFTER HIM.
00:47:40.59\00:47:44.59
MARK CHAPTER 15, VERSE
45, "AND WHEN HE KNEW IT OF
00:47:44.59\00:47:48.63
THE CENTURION, HE
GAVE THE BODY TO JOSEPH.
00:47:48.63\00:47:51.87
AND HE BOUGHT FINE
LINEN, AND TOOK HIM DOWN, AND
00:47:51.87\00:47:54.17
WRAPPED HIM IN THE
LINEN, AND LAID HIM IN A
00:47:54.17\00:47:55.80
SEPULCHER WHICH WAS HEWN
OUT OF A ROCK, AND ROLLED
00:47:55.80\00:47:58.71
A STONE UNTO THE
DOOR OF THE SEPULCHER.
00:47:58.71\00:48:01.51
AND MARY MAGDALENE AND
MARY THE MOTHER OF JOSES
00:48:01.51\00:48:05.08
BEHELD WHERE HE WAS LAID."
00:48:05.08\00:48:06.58
THAT MEANS THEY
OVERSAW THE CARE OF HIS BODY.
00:48:06.58\00:48:10.45
YOU SEE THE DEVOTION EVEN THERE.
00:48:10.45\00:48:12.12
AND I - YOU KNOW, BEFORE
- THEY DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO
00:48:12.12\00:48:14.72
ANOINT HIS BODY AND
SABBATH WAS APPROACHING
00:48:14.72\00:48:18.43
AND THAT WAS VERY SACRED
TO JESUS AND THE APOSTLES.
00:48:18.43\00:48:20.76
IT SAYS THEY WENT HOME
AND PREPARED SPICES AND KEPT
00:48:20.76\00:48:23.33
THE SABBATH ACCORDING TO
THE COMMANDMENT - IN LUKE
00:48:23.33\00:48:26.03
CHAPTER 53. BUT
BEFORE THEY DID THAT,
00:48:26.03\00:48:28.70
THEY DID WRAP HIM
BECAUSE WHEN JESUS AROSE, THERE
00:48:28.70\00:48:31.01
WERE WRAPPINGS
THAT HE SET ASIDE.
00:48:31.01\00:48:34.18
WHO DO YOU THINK
WRAPPED HIS FEET?
00:48:34.18\00:48:37.55
CAN'T PROVE IT, BUT I
JUST PICTURE MARY SAYING, 'LET
00:48:37.55\00:48:40.38
ME WRAP HIS FEET.' AND
THE OTHER MARY WRAPPED THE TOP
00:48:40.38\00:48:43.85
END AND - YOU CAN READ
ALSO ABOUT THAT IN LUKE
00:48:43.85\00:48:48.46
CHAPTER 53 - 'THE
WOMEN ALSO THAT CAME WITH HIM
00:48:48.46\00:48:50.79
FROM GALILEE FOLLOWED AFTER.
00:48:50.79\00:48:52.36
THEY BEHELD THE TOMB
AND HOW HIS BODY WAS LAID.'
00:48:52.36\00:48:55.90
YOU KNOW, IT'S IMPORTANT
TO SIT AT HIS FEET, BUT
00:48:55.90\00:48:58.23
DOING WHAT MARTHA DOES
IS ALSO IMPORTANT AND THAT'S
00:48:58.23\00:49:00.47
SERVICE. BUT YOU NOTICE THE LOVE
00:49:00.47\00:49:02.40
AND THE LISTENING
COMES BEFORE THE SERVICE.
00:49:02.40\00:49:07.31
NOW IT'S INTERESTING
THAT, WHEN YOU READ IN MARK
00:49:07.31\00:49:10.78
16:9, IT SAYS, 'WHEN HE
AROSE EARLY ON THE FIRST
00:49:10.78\00:49:14.52
DAY OF THE WEEK, HE
APPEARED FIRST TO MARY
00:49:14.52\00:49:17.85
MAGDALENE, WHICH LEADS
US TO THE NEXT POINT: JESUS
00:49:17.85\00:49:21.59
IS NOW - OR MARY IS
NOW AT JESUS' FEET IN SONG.
00:49:21.59\00:49:26.73
OF ALL THE PEOPLE HE
COULD APPEAR TO - WHEN HE AROSE
00:49:26.73\00:49:29.40
EARLY ON THE FIRST DAY
OF THE WEEK HE APPEARED TO
00:49:29.40\00:49:31.97
MARY MAGDALENE - AND
IT GOES ON TO SAY, "OUT OF
00:49:31.97\00:49:34.17
WHOM HE HAD CAST SEVEN DEMONS."
00:49:34.17\00:49:37.91
WHY DOES IT SAY SEVEN?
IN THE BIBLE, ISN'T THAT
00:49:37.91\00:49:40.21
AN IMPORTANT
NUMBER? DOESN'T THAT KIND OF
00:49:40.21\00:49:41.64
CAPTURE YOUR ATTENTION? SEVEN.
00:49:41.64\00:49:45.28
YOU KNOW, I WAS
READING AND YOU CAN LOOK IN
00:49:45.28\00:49:46.75
PROVERBS CHAPTER 6,
VERSE 16 - SIN IS SORT OF
00:49:46.75\00:49:50.15
ENCOMPASSED IN
SEVEN THINGS, ACCORDING TO
00:49:50.15\00:49:51.89
SOLOMON, "THESE SIX THINGS
THE LORD HATES, YES, SEVEN
00:49:51.89\00:49:55.99
ARE AN ABOMINATION TO
HIM: A PROUD LOOK, A LYING
00:49:55.99\00:49:59.43
TONGUE," - YOU'VE HEARD OF
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, HUH?
00:49:59.43\00:50:02.33
- "HANDS THAT SHED
INNOCENT BLOOD, A HEART
00:50:02.33\00:50:04.43
THAT DEVISES WICKED
PLANS, FEET THAT ARE SWIFT IN
00:50:04.43\00:50:07.07
RUNNING TO EVIL, A
FALSE WITNESS WHO SPEAKS LIES,
00:50:07.07\00:50:10.47
AND ONE WHO SOWS DISCORD
AMONG BRETHREN," - 'THESE
00:50:10.47\00:50:14.64
THINGS I HATE' - SO
WHEN IT SAYS HE CAST SEVEN
00:50:14.64\00:50:17.31
DEVILS OUT OF MARY,
WHAT DOES MARY REPRESENT?
00:50:17.31\00:50:19.88
SHE'S A TYPE OF THE
CHURCH. YOU CAN FIND ANY SIN YOU
00:50:19.88\00:50:23.05
MIGHT COMMIT SOMEWHERE
IN THOSE CATEGORIES, BUT THE
00:50:23.05\00:50:25.42
GOOD THING IS HE
CAST ALL THOSE DEVILS OUT.
00:50:25.42\00:50:27.62
HE CAN FORGIVE AND
DELIVER FROM ALL OF THAT.
00:50:27.62\00:50:31.53
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE ALSO
SAYS 'A RIGHTEOUS MAN MAY
00:50:31.53\00:50:33.66
FALL SEVEN TIMES,
BUT HE RISES AGAIN.'
00:50:33.66\00:50:38.03
SO MARY IS NOW AT JESUS' FEET.
00:50:38.03\00:50:39.83
IT TELLS US THE STORY
IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN THAT,
00:50:39.83\00:50:42.80
YOU KNOW, THE
WOMEN CAME VERY EARLY.
00:50:42.80\00:50:44.64
MARY, EVIDENTLY
RENDEZVOUSED WITH THE
00:50:44.64\00:50:46.24
OTHER WOMEN, BUT
SHE GOT THERE FIRST.
00:50:46.24\00:50:48.34
SHE STARTED TO BACKTRACK
AND SHE ENCOUNTERED THE
00:50:48.34\00:50:50.35
OTHER WOMEN
COMING WITH THE SPICES.
00:50:50.35\00:50:52.08
THEY CAME TOGETHER,
THEY SAW THE ANGELS, THOSE
00:50:52.08\00:50:54.15
WOMEN RAN OFF TO
TELL THE APOSTLES.
00:50:54.15\00:50:55.92
MARY FOUND JOHN AND
PETER - THEY WERE IN DIFFERENT
00:50:55.92\00:50:58.15
PLACES - THEY COME
RUNNING BACK TO THE TOMB.
00:50:58.15\00:51:00.96
THE TOMB IS EMPTY, THEY LEAVE.
00:51:00.96\00:51:03.79
I DID A DEEP STUDY IN
THE SEQUENCE OF HOW THIS
00:51:03.79\00:51:05.96
HAPPENED BECAUSE
I WROTE ABOUT IT.
00:51:05.96\00:51:08.63
AND THEN MARY'S THERE ALONE.
ALL THESE OTHER PEOPLE HAD
00:51:08.63\00:51:11.57
COME AND GONE,
INCLUDING THE APOSTLES.
00:51:11.57\00:51:14.00
MARY'S THERE ALONE
AND SHE WON'T LEAVE.
00:51:14.00\00:51:17.17
SHE THINKS 'THIS IS THE
LAST PLACE I SAW MY LORD,
00:51:17.17\00:51:19.61
AND I'M NOT
LEAVING UNTIL I FIND HIM.
00:51:19.61\00:51:22.58
I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO
GO FROM HERE BUT I, WITH MY
00:51:22.58\00:51:24.98
OWN EYES, PLACED HIS BODY
IN THIS TOMB AND I'M GOING
00:51:24.98\00:51:28.45
TO WAIT FOR HIM.'
THERE SHE WAS WITH HER EYES -
00:51:28.45\00:51:32.42
BEEN CRYING ALL
WEEKEND, WAITING.
00:51:32.42\00:51:36.83
HOW MANY OF YOU HEARD
THAT STORY YEARS AGO, ABOUT
00:51:36.83\00:51:40.03
GREYFRIAR'S BOBBY?
00:51:40.03\00:51:42.56
THERE WAS A LITTLE
SCOTTISH TERRIER MANY
00:51:42.56\00:51:45.23
YEARS AGO IN SCOTLAND -
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - HAD
00:51:45.23\00:51:48.60
A SHEPHERD MASTER AND
HIS NAME WAS OLD JOCK.
00:51:48.60\00:51:53.07
AND AFTER YEARS OF THE
DOG LOVING AND WORKING WITH
00:51:53.07\00:51:55.34
HIS MASTER, HIS MASTER
DIED AND HE WAS BURIED IN
00:51:55.34\00:51:57.45
THE CHURCH CEMETERY -
GREYFRIAR'S CHURCH - AND
00:51:57.45\00:52:02.25
THAT DOG, FOR THE NEXT
14 YEARS, HE'D GO INTO TOWN
00:52:02.25\00:52:05.42
ONCE A DAY AND HE'D BEG
FOR A LITTLE BIT OF FOOD
00:52:05.42\00:52:07.76
AND THEN HE SPENT THE
REST OF HIS TIME ON HIS
00:52:07.76\00:52:09.86
MASTER'S GRAVE.
AND THERE'S A MONUMENT
00:52:09.86\00:52:12.59
THERE AND THEY ENDED
UP BURYING THE DOG THERE.
00:52:12.59\00:52:14.20
HE SAID, 'THIS IS THE
LAST PLACE I SAW MY MASTER.'
00:52:14.20\00:52:17.07
AND THE DOG WOULDN'T
LEAVE. ANY OF YOU EVER HEARD
00:52:17.07\00:52:19.03
THAT STORY
BEFORE? BEAUTIFUL STORY.
00:52:19.03\00:52:21.47
YOU KNOW, THEY TALK
ABOUT MAN'S BEST FRIEND - THE
00:52:21.47\00:52:24.57
DEVOTION OF A DOG
- AND HERE'S MARY.
00:52:24.57\00:52:27.54
SHE SAYING, 'THIS
IS WHERE I SAW HIM.
00:52:27.54\00:52:29.68
I'M NOT LEAVING.' AND
JESUS SAW THAT LOVE AND
00:52:29.68\00:52:32.68
THAT DEVOTION.
SHE'S THERE CRYING AND SHE
00:52:32.68\00:52:37.09
LOOKS UP AND SHE
SEES HIM, BUT SHE DOESN'T
00:52:37.09\00:52:38.89
KNOW IT'S HIM. HER
EYES ARE SWOLLEN AND
00:52:38.89\00:52:40.32
RED WITH TEARS AND
HE SAYS, 'MARY,' - SHE
00:52:40.32\00:52:45.03
THOUGHT IT WAS
THE GARDENER - AND,
00:52:45.03\00:52:47.30
ACTUALLY, HE WAS.
JESUS PLANTED A GARDEN
00:52:47.30\00:52:52.47
EASTWARD IN EDEN -
THE GARDEN OF EDEN - ALL
00:52:52.47\00:52:55.34
THINGS THAT WERE
MADE, WERE MADE BY HIM.
00:52:55.34\00:52:58.14
AND THEN SHE HEARD HIM
SAY HER NAME, 'MARY.' SHE
00:52:58.14\00:53:02.01
SAID, 'IF YOU'VE
TAKEN AWAY MY LORD, TELL ME
00:53:02.01\00:53:03.85
WHERE YOU'VE LAID HIM
AND I'LL TAKE CARE OF HIS
00:53:03.85\00:53:05.21
BODY.' LISTEN TO THAT LOVE.
00:53:05.21\00:53:07.95
AND, YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS
HAVE THESE PICTURES IN MY
00:53:07.95\00:53:09.15
MIND. I THINK JESUS WAS A STRONG
00:53:09.15\00:53:11.19
CARPENTER AND SHE
SAYS, 'I'LL TAKE CARE OF HIS
00:53:11.19\00:53:13.59
BODY.' AND I TRY
AND PICTURE - WHAT
00:53:13.59\00:53:15.02
IF THEY SAID HIS
BODY IS OVER THERE?
00:53:15.02\00:53:16.73
MARY'S GOING TO GO GET
HIS BODY AND SHE'S GOING TO
00:53:16.73\00:53:18.06
DRAG THE FORM OF
THE CARPENTER'S BODY.
00:53:18.06\00:53:22.80
SHE DIDN'T KNOW HOW
SHE WAS GOING TO DO IT.
00:53:22.80\00:53:23.87
SHE SAID, 'I'LL TAKE CARE
OF IT.' MAYBE HIS BODY WAS
00:53:23.87\00:53:26.27
EVICTED - IT'S A RICH
MAN'S GRAVE - WHO KNOWS
00:53:26.27\00:53:27.80
WHAT THE ROMANS DID?
BUT SHE SAID, 'I'LL TAKE
00:53:27.80\00:53:30.04
CARE OF IT.' LOOK AT
THAT. SHE DIDN'T KNOW HOW, BUT
00:53:30.04\00:53:31.47
SHE WAS GOING TO DO IT.
AND HE SAYS, 'MARY.' AND
00:53:31.47\00:53:35.34
THEN IT REGISTERS AND
SHE THROWS HERSELF DOWN.
00:53:35.34\00:53:39.35
SHE HAD HEARD THAT VOICE
BEFORE, CASTING OUT DEVILS.
00:53:39.35\00:53:42.42
THROWS HERSELF DOWN
AT JESUS' FEET TO WORSHIP
00:53:42.42\00:53:44.85
HIM. HE SAYS, 'DON'T DETAIN ME.
00:53:44.85\00:53:45.89
I'M NOT YET ASCENDED
TO MY FATHER, BUT GO TO MY
00:53:45.89\00:53:49.22
BRETHREN AND TELL THEM
THAT I ASCEND TO MY GOD
00:53:49.22\00:53:51.83
AND TO YOUR GOD. I
WANT YOU TO GO AND TELL
00:53:51.83\00:53:54.20
THEM.' NOW THINK ABOUT THAT.
00:53:54.20\00:53:56.30
OF ALL THE PEOPLE JESUS
COULD HAVE CHOSEN TO SHARE
00:53:56.30\00:53:58.97
THE GOOD NEWS, WHY
WOULD HE PICK MARY?
00:53:58.97\00:54:03.37
PETER HAD BEEN TO THE TOMB.
00:54:03.37\00:54:04.91
MAYBE HIS OWN
MOTHER HAD BEEN THERE.
00:54:04.91\00:54:07.44
JOHN HAD BEEN THERE
- THE BELOVED DISCIPLE?
00:54:07.44\00:54:09.71
HE WAITS UNTIL THEY'RE
ALL GONE AND THIS PERSON THAT
00:54:09.71\00:54:12.61
EVERYBODY FIGURED WAS
AN OUTCAST FROM SOCIETY, HE
00:54:12.61\00:54:18.25
REVEALS HIMSELF TO
HER. YOU KNOW, IF I WAS THE
00:54:18.25\00:54:21.62
LORD, I WOULD
HAVE ORCHESTRATED THE
00:54:21.62\00:54:22.96
RESURRECTION DIFFERENTLY.
I WOULD HAVE HAD JESUS,
00:54:22.96\00:54:27.10
LIKE, FIRST APPEAR
TO PILATE AND SAY, 'NOW
00:54:27.10\00:54:30.67
WHAT DO YOU THINK?'
(LAUGHTER) THOSE ROMAN
00:54:30.67\00:54:33.50
SOLDIERS DIDN'T DO A
GOOD JOB KEEPING ME IN.' OR,
00:54:33.50\00:54:37.21
YOU KNOW, BETTER YET,
I WOULD HAVE GONE TO THE
00:54:37.21\00:54:38.54
SANHEDRIN AND GONE TO
CAIAPHAS AND ANNAS THE
00:54:38.54\00:54:40.58
HIGH PRIEST AND SAID,
'SO, YOU DIDN'T THINK I
00:54:40.58\00:54:43.14
WAS THE SON OF GOD?
NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK?'
00:54:43.14\00:54:45.21
JUST LOOK AT THEM,
YOU KNOW, JUST WATCH THEM
00:54:45.21\00:54:46.61
SHAKE. JESUS DOES
THINGS DIFFERENTLY.
00:54:46.61\00:54:51.29
HE PICKED SOMEONE THAT
WAS CONSIDERED THE WEAKEST OF
00:54:51.29\00:54:53.96
THE WEAK. THE
LORD, WHEN HE TURNED
00:54:53.96\00:54:56.42
THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN,
IT SAYS, 'NOT MANY WISE, NOT
00:54:56.42\00:54:59.09
MANY NOBLE,' BUT HE
TAKES PEOPLE THAT HAVE
00:54:59.09\00:55:02.70
SIMPLE LOVE. HE
DOESN'T DO THINGS
00:55:02.70\00:55:06.77
LIKE YOU AND I DO. HE
TAKES HUMBLE MEANS AND
00:55:06.77\00:55:09.87
THE LORD THEN USED MARY
AND GAVE HER THE GREATEST
00:55:09.87\00:55:12.41
MESSAGE IN THE WORLD.
HE SAID, 'I WANT YOU TO
00:55:12.41\00:55:14.81
GO' - WHAT IS THE
CHURCH SUPPOSED TO DO?
00:55:14.81\00:55:17.48
FIRST WE SEE HER COMING
TO JESUS IN THE TEMPLE IN
00:55:17.48\00:55:20.32
REPENTANCE, AND IN THE
END SHE'S GOING WITH A SONG IN
00:55:20.32\00:55:22.92
HER HEART - THIS IS THE
LAST TIME MARY APPEARS IN
00:55:22.92\00:55:24.72
THE BIBLE. THE
LAST TIME YOU SEE HER,
00:55:24.72\00:55:26.52
SHE IS RUNNING TO TELL
OTHERS THAT JESUS IS ALIVE.
00:55:26.52\00:55:30.46
HE COMMISSIONS HER WITH
THE GOOD NEWS TO GO TELL
00:55:30.46\00:55:33.06
PEOPLE ABOUT THE RESURRECTION.
00:55:33.06\00:55:35.66
AND THIS IS WHAT THE
CHURCH IS SUPPOSED TO DO.
00:55:35.66\00:55:37.63
HERE YOU SEE THE
SEVEN POINTS I'VE JUST GIVEN
00:55:37.63\00:55:39.83
YOU: SHE'S AT HIS FEET
WEEPING IN THE TEMPLE, FOR
00:55:39.83\00:55:42.40
FORGIVENESS OF SINS;
SHE'S AT HIS FEET PRAYING FOR
00:55:42.40\00:55:45.84
HER DEAD BROTHERS AND
SISTERS - FOR RESURRECTION
00:55:45.84\00:55:49.24
- AND JESUS DOES IT;
AT HIS FEET LEARNING AND
00:55:49.24\00:55:51.15
LISTENING - DEVOTIONS;
AT HIS FEET GIVING; AT HIS
00:55:51.15\00:55:54.72
FEET BEHOLDING HIM ON
HIS CROSS - SIX - AT HIS FEET
00:55:54.72\00:55:57.65
IN SERVICE - SEVEN -
AT HIS FEET WORSHIPING AND
00:55:57.65\00:56:00.16
PROCLAIMING HIM
AS THE RISEN SAVIOR.
00:56:00.16\00:56:03.73
YOU KNOW, IF THE LORD
COULD USE MARY - IF HE
00:56:03.73\00:56:06.36
COULD FORGIVE MARY,
HE CAN DO THAT FOR US.
00:56:06.36\00:56:08.43
BUT ALL OF US ARE LIKE MARY.
00:56:08.43\00:56:10.20
ALL OF US NEED TO
EXPERIENCE THOSE SEVEN
00:56:10.20\00:56:12.33
POINTS. TIME SERVING, LISTENING,
00:56:12.33\00:56:17.04
PRAYING,
WORSHIPING, PROCLAIMING AT
00:56:17.04\00:56:20.41
JESUS' FEET. AND
IT BEGINS BY COMING
00:56:20.41\00:56:22.61
IN SORROW AND
PRESENTING OURSELVES.
00:56:22.61\00:56:24.85
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT
OUR SINS ARE, HE IS IN THE
00:56:24.85\00:56:27.22
BUSINESS OF
SAVING US FROM OUR SINS.
00:56:27.22\00:56:29.65
DO YOU BELIEVE
THAT FRIENDS? >>AMEN.
00:56:29.65\00:56:31.25
>>HE WANTS TO DO THAT FOR YOU.
00:56:31.25\00:56:33.42
WE NEED TO SPEND TIME,
LIKE MARY, AT JESUS' FEET.
00:56:33.42\00:56:36.52
AND THERE MIGHT BE SOME
TIME WE NEED TO SPEND AT
00:56:36.52\00:56:38.43
JESUS' FEET WEEPING.
(SOFT BACKGROUND MUSIC
00:56:38.43\00:56:41.83
PLAYING) I READ A QUOTE
BY VANCE HAVNER, WHERE HE
00:56:41.83\00:56:43.47
SAID, 'GOD USES BROKEN THINGS.
00:56:43.47\00:56:46.74
HE TAKES BROKEN SOIL
TO PRODUCE A CROP, BROKEN
00:56:46.74\00:56:49.77
CLOUDS TO GIVE RAIN,
BROKEN GRAIN TO GIVE BREAD
00:56:49.77\00:56:53.64
AND BROKEN BREAD
TO GIVE STRENGTH.
00:56:53.64\00:56:55.21
IT'S A BROKEN
ALABASTER BOX THAT GIVES FORTH
00:56:55.21\00:56:57.88
PERFUME. IT'S PETER WEEPING AND
00:56:57.88\00:57:00.08
BROKEN THAT
RETURNS TO GREATER POWER.
00:57:00.08\00:57:02.65
AND IT WAS MARY WHO,
BROKENHEARTED, CAME TO
00:57:02.65\00:57:05.92
JESUS AND HE
WAS ABLE TO USE HER.
00:57:05.92\00:57:08.26
HAVE YOU FALLEN AT
THE FOOT OF THE CROSS?
00:57:08.26\00:57:11.16
HAVE YOU BEEN BROKEN?
00:57:11.16\00:57:12.63
HAVE YOU ACCEPTED JESUS
AS YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOR?
00:57:12.63\00:57:16.13
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS
COME JUST LIKE YOU ARE.
00:57:16.13\00:57:18.53
YOUR LIFE MIGHT BE DEFILED.
00:57:18.53\00:57:20.80
KNOW THAT YOU ARE A BIG
SINNER AND THAT JESUS WILL
00:57:20.80\00:57:22.94
FORGIVE THOSE SINS
AND YOU CAN LOVE HIM MUCH.
00:57:22.94\00:57:25.91
DO YOU WANT THAT
EXPERIENCE, FRIENDS?
00:57:25.91\00:57:27.61
YOU WHO ARE
WATCHING? LET'S ASK HIM.
00:57:27.61\00:57:30.75
OH DEAR FATHER, WE'RE
MOVED AND ENCOURAGED BY
00:57:30.75\00:57:33.95
THE DEVOTION OF MARY AND
IT INSPIRES US - HER FAITH
00:57:33.95\00:57:38.45
- THAT WE MIGHT
HAVE THIS DEVOTION TOO.
00:57:38.45\00:57:40.82
WE KNOW THIS STORY'S IN
YOUR WORD SO WE CAN HAVE
00:57:40.82\00:57:42.96
THIS EXPERIENCE AND
WE PRAY FOR THAT NOW, IN
00:57:42.96\00:57:46.03
JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
00:57:46.03\00:57:48.63
(MUSIC)
00:57:48.63\00:57:49.63