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00:08 HELLO FRIENDS, WE ALL KNOW A MARATHON IS ONE OF THE LONGEST 00:11 AND HARDEST RACES A PERSON COULD RUN. 00:13 BUT DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE ULTRAMARATHON THEY USED TO 00:16 HAVE IN AUSTRALIA? IT WAS 544 MILES FROM 00:20 MELBOURNE TO SYDNEY. IT ATTRACTED AS MANY AS 00:23 150 WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES. BUT THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED 00:26 THAT NO ONE WOULD EVER FORGET. IN 1983 A 61-YEAR-OLD POTATO 00:31 FARMER NAMED CLIFF YOUNG DECIDED TO ENTER THE RACE. 00:35 NOW PEOPLE WERE VERY AMUSED BECAUSE HE HAD ON RUBBER 00:37 GOLASHES OVER HIS BOOTS AND WHEN THE RACE BEGAN AND ALL THE 00:41 RUNNERS TOOK OFF, SURE ENOUGH OLD CLIFF WAS LEFT BEHIND 00:44 SHUFFLING ALONG VERY SLOWLY - BUT HE WAS SHUFFLING VERY 00:47 PERSISTENTLY. NORMALLY, DURING THIS 7-DAY RACE, 00:51 THE RUNNERS WOULD GO ABOUT 18 HOURS RUNNING AND THEN 00:54 THEY'D SLEEP FOR 6 HOURS, BUT NOBODY EVER TOLD CLIFF THAT. 00:58 WHEN THE OTHER RUNNERS STOPPED TO REST DURING THE 01:00 NIGHT, CLIFF JUST KEPT ON RUNNING. 01:03 SOME PEOPLE WERE AFRAID OLD CLIFF WAS GOING TO HAVE A HEART 01:05 ATTACK AND THEY WERE ASKING THE RACE ORGANIZERS TO SHOW MERCY 01:08 AND STOP THE CRAZY OLD MAN. BUT HE WOULD HAVE NONE OF IT. 01:12 EACH DAY HE WAS GAINING ON THE PACK BECAUSE WHEN THEY WERE 01:15 SLEEPING HE WAS PLODDING ALONG. DURING THE LAST NIGHT OF THE 01:19 RACE CLIFF PASSED ALL OF THESE WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES. 01:23 NOT ONLY WAS CLIFF ABLE TO RUN THAT 544-MILE RACE WITHOUT 01:27 DYING, HE WON - BEATING ALL THE OTHER RACERS BY 9 HOURS, 01:31 BREAKING THE RECORD AND BECOMING A NATIONAL HERO IN THE 01:34 PROCESS. WHAT'S REALLY AMAZING IS THAT 01:36 WHEN THEY TOLD HIM HE HAD WON THE $10,000.00 PRIZE, HE LOOKED 01:39 CONFUSED AND SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW THERE WAS A PRIZE AND HE 01:42 DECIDED TO SHARE IT WITH THE OTHER RUNNERS. 01:45 WHEN ASKED HOW HE WAS ABLE TO RUN ALL NIGHT LONG, CLIFF 01:48 RESPONDED THAT HE GREW UP ON A FARM WHERE THEY HAD ABOUT 2,000 01:50 HEAD OF CATTLE AND, BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T AFFORD HORSES, HE USED 01:53 TO HAVE TO ROUND THEM UP ON FOOT, SOMETIMES RUNNING TWO AND 01:56 THREE DAYS NON-STOP. SO, THROUGHOUT THE RACE, HE 01:59 JUST IMAGINED THAT HE WAS CHASING 02:00 AFTER THE COWS AND TRYING TO OUTRUN A STORM. 02:03 OLD CLIFF'S SECRET WAS TO KEEP ON RUNNING WHILE OTHERS WERE 02:07 SLEEPING. YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US 02:09 THAT THE RACE IS NOT NECESSARILY TO THE SWIFT. 02:13 SOMETHING LIKE AESOP'S FABLE OF THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE - THE 02:16 TORTOISE JUST KEPT ON PLODDING ALONG. 02:19 THAT'S WHY JESUS TELLS US IN MATTHEW 24:13, 'HE THAT ENDURES 02:22 UNTO THE END, THE SAME WILL BE SAVED.' 02:25 NOW YOU MIGHT SLIP AND FALL DURING THE RACE. 02:27 YOU MIGHT EVEN GET OFF TO A BAD START. 02:29 BUT IN THE CHRISTIAN RACE THAT WE RUN, THE MAIN THING IS YOU 02:32 WANT TO FINISH WELL. KEEP ON RUNNING, FRIENDS, 02:35 AND DON'T GIVE UP. (MUSIC) 02:42 >>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM? 02:45 OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND PROBABLY 02:50 TELLING STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO. 02:52 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE LAST-DAY EVENTS OF 02:56 REVELATION, 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM' IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN 03:00 EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS. 03:03 ENHANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO GOD'S 03:06 WORD. GO DEEPER. VISIT THE AMAZING BIBLE TIME LINE AT 03:11 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'. (MUSIC) 03:29 I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE WATCHING 03:30 TO THE HEROES OF FAITH PRESENTATION SERIES. 03:34 THESE ARE STORIES OF SALVATION THAT GIVE US 03:37 INSIGHTS INTO A NUMBER OF BIBLE DOCTRINES. 03:40 AND TONIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH ONE OF 03:43 THE HEROES OF FAITH THAT IS A REAL INTEREST OF MINE. 03:47 NOW, SOME OF YOU MAY ALREADY KNOW WHERE WE'RE 03:49 GOING, BUT LET ME JUST CHECK. 03:51 IF I WERE TO ASK YOU, 'WHO DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST 03:55 DEVOTED OF THE DISCIPLES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT?' 03:59 WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? >>JOHN. 04:03 >>JOHN, PETER - NOW IT'S A TRICK. 04:06 WHEN YOU SAY 'DISCIPLE' PEOPLE AUTOMATICALLY THINK 04:08 'APOSTLE'. THERE WERE A LOT OF 04:11 DISCIPLES THAT WERE NOT APOSTLES AND I'M ACTUALLY 04:14 THINKING NOT OF ONE OF THE TWELVE MEN APOSTLES, I'M 04:18 THINKING OF ONE OF THE LADY DISCIPLES. 04:21 AND I BELIEVE IT WAS MARY MAGDALENE. 04:25 YOU KNOW, SHE WAS ONE OF THE ENIGMATIC CHARACTERS 04:27 THAT YOU FIND THROUGHOUT THE GOSPEL STORY THAT 04:31 APPEARS IN A NUMBER OF INTERESTING GEOGRAPHICAL 04:35 SITUATIONS WHERE SHE IS ALWAYS AT JESUS' FEET. 04:39 IN FACT, A FEW YEARS AGO I WROTE A BOOK BY THAT TITLE 04:41 CALLED AT JESUS' FEET: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARY 04:44 MAGDALENE AND IT IS NOT AT ALL RELATED TO WHAT THEY 04:48 DID WITH MARY'S LIFE IN THE DA VINCI CODE AND SOME 04:51 OF THESE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS - AND THEY SAY THAT SHE 04:54 HAD SOME KIND OF ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS. 04:57 WE JUST TAKE THE BIBLE STORIES ABOUT MARY AND, 05:01 THROUGH THOSE STORIES, WE LEARN A LOT ABOUT THE 05:05 GOSPEL AND WE LEARN A LOT ABOUT SALVATION AND OUR 05:08 RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD. 05:11 AND SO, TODAY IS OUR CASE STUDY IN OUR HEROES OF 05:13 FAITH. WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT 05:15 WHAT THE BIBLE TELLS ABOUT MARY. 05:17 NOW, TO START WITH, THE FIRST PASSAGE WE'RE GOING 05:20 TO CONSIDER IS FROM THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, CHAPTER 8. 05:26 AND IT'S A STORY YOU ONLY FIND IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 05:30 AND IT SAYS HERE - I'LL START WITH THE FIRST VERSE 05:34 - "BUT JESUS WENT TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 05:37 NOW EARLY IN THE MORNING HE CAME AGAIN INTO THE 05:39 TEMPLE, AND ALL THE PEOPLE CAME TO HIM; AND HE SAT 05:42 DOWN AND TAUGHT THEM. THEN THE SCRIBES AND 05:46 PHARISEES BROUGHT TO HIM A WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY. 05:50 AND WHEN THEY HAD SET HER IN THE MIDST, THEY SAID TO 05:53 HIM, 'TEACHER, THIS WOMAN WAS CAUGHT IN ADULTERY, IN 05:57 THE VERY ACT. NOW MOSES, IN THE LAW, 06:00 COMMANDED US THAT SUCH SHOULD BE STONED. 06:03 BUT WHAT DO YOU SAY?' 06:05 THIS THEY SAID, TESTING HIM, THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE 06:08 SOMETHING OF WHICH TO ACCUSE HIM. 06:10 BUT JESUS STOOPED DOWN AND WROTE ON THE GROUND WITH 06:14 HIS FINGER, AS THOUGH HE DID NOT HEAR." 06:17 NOW THE REASON THAT THEY HAD DEVELOPED THIS WHOLE 06:21 TRAP WAS BECAUSE THEY WERE TRYING TO GET RID OF JESUS 06:25 AND THEY KNEW THAT ONLY THE ROMANS WERE ALLOWED TO 06:29 PRONOUNCE THE DEATH SENTENCE AND IF ANY OF THE 06:32 RABBIS OR RELIGIOUS LEADERS PRONOUNCED THE 06:34 DEATH SENTENCE ON SOMEONE - THEY WERE GOING TO 06:35 EXECUTE MARY RIGHT AWAY, THEY DIDN'T CARE. 06:37 THEN THEY WOULD RUN TO THE ROMANS AND SAY, 'THIS 06:40 RABBI, JESUS, DOESN'T RESPECT YOUR AUTHORITY.' 06:42 JESUS WOULD BE ARRESTED. IF JESUS SAID, 'NO, I 06:45 DON'T BELIEVE IN THE LAW OF MOSES, THEY WERE GOING 06:48 TO USE THEIR STONES TO CREATE A RIOT AND STONE 06:50 JESUS FOR REJECTING THE LAW OF MOSES. 06:53 SO THEY THOUGHT, 'EITHER WAY, WE'VE GOT HIM NOW.' 06:57 AND WHAT THEY DID IS - THEY CREATED A TRAP. 06:59 THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY THAT HAD COME TO JERUSALEM 07:02 FOR THE FEAST - THIS WAS A FEAST WEEK - HER NAME WAS 07:06 MARY, LATER KNOWN AS - I BELIEVE THIS WOMAN WAS 07:10 MARY MAGDALENE. I'LL TELL YOU WHY 07:12 IN A LITTLE BIT. MAGDALA WAS A TOWN ON THE 07:16 SEA OF GALILEE THAT HAD A NOTORIOUS REPUTATION. 07:20 IT'S WHERE THE ROMAN SOLDIERS WENT FOR 07:21 VACATION. AND IF - YOU KNOW, THEY 07:24 HAVE JESUS OF NAZARETH - THE TOWN YOU'RE FROM. 07:27 MARY MAGDALENE IS MARY OF MAGDALA, BUT IF YOU WERE 07:30 TO SAY IT TODAY, YOU WOULD SAY, 'MARY OF LAS VEGAS.' 07:34 YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF TAKES ON - SIN CITY - TAKES 07:36 ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT SCENARIO. 07:38 AND SO, JUST THE VERY NAME MEANT SOMETHING. 07:42 AND SO THEY KNEW WHAT HER LINE OF WORK WAS, AND IT 07:45 WAS EASY TO SET HER UP. IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE - 07:48 IT SAYS THEY CAUGHT HER IN THE VERY ACT - WELL, IF 07:51 THEY CAUGHT HER IN THE ACT, WHERE'S THE MAN? 07:53 BECAUSE, ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MOSES, THE MAN AND 07:55 THE WOMAN WHO WERE GUILTY OF ADULTERY WERE TO BE 07:58 EQUALLY PUNISHED; BUT SINCE HE WAS COMPLICIT IN 08:01 THIS PLOT, THEY LET HIM GO AND THEY JUST BROUGHT HER 08:06 AND THREW HER DOWN AT THE FEET OF JESUS. 08:10 NOW JESUS ACTED LIKE HE DIDN'T HEAR THEM. 08:12 HE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING, BUT HE STOOPED DOWN ON THE 08:15 GROUND AND HE BEGAN TO WRITE IN THE DUST OF THE 08:17 TEMPLE FLOOR AS THOUGH HE DIDN'T HEAR THEM. 08:21 WELL, THEY KEPT PRESSING HIM. 08:24 THEY CONTINUED ASKING. 08:26 AND HE SAID TO THEM, "HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN AMONG 08:29 YOU" - HE STOOD UP AND SAID IN THOSE IMMORTAL 08:31 WORDS, 'HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN AMONG YOU, LET HIM 08:34 THROW THE FIRST STONE.' AND THEN HE STOOPED DOWN 08:38 AGAIN AND CONTINUED WRITING. 08:40 NOW THERE'S A LOT WE CAN LEARN HERE. 08:42 FIRST OF ALL, WHAT DO YOU THINK HE WAS WRITING? 08:46 I BELIEVE JESUS WAS THE SON OF GOD AND GOD THE SON 08:52 AND ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE WERE MADE BY CHRIST; 08:57 AND I BELIEVE JESUS WAS THERE WHEN THE TEN 08:59 COMMANDMENTS WERE DELIVERED TO MOSES. 09:01 AND THERE'S ONLY A FEW TIMES IN THE BIBLE WHEN 09:03 GOD ACTUALLY WRITES - YOU'VE GOT WHEN THE LORD 09:07 WROTE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 09:08 YOU HAVE THE HAND THAT WROTE - FROM GOD - ON THE 09:11 WALLS OF BABYLON - THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL - 09:15 THAT JUDGMENT THAT WAS WRITTEN THERE. 09:16 AND HERE YOU'VE GOT JESUS WRITING. 09:18 YOU KNOW, IT'S THE ONLY TIME IN THE BIBLE IT TALKS 09:19 ABOUT JESUS WRITING. WE'VE GOT FOUR GOSPELS ABOUT JESUS. 09:23 IT TELLS US HE SANG A SONG ONE TIME. 09:25 THIS IS THE ONLY TIME IT SAYS HE WROTE SOMETHING. 09:29 I THINK HE WAS WRITING DOWN THE LAW - MORE 09:33 SPECIFICALLY, THE SINS THAT THESE ACCUSERS WERE 09:38 BREAKING, OF THE LAW. AND HE BEGAN TO WRITE DOWN 09:42 IN DETAIL - IT TOOK THEM A MINUTE TO NOTICE IT, WHILE 09:44 THEY STOOD THERE ASKING HIM. 09:45 THEY FINALLY PAID ATTENTION. 09:46 FIRST THEY THOUGHT MAYBE HE WAS DOODLING IN THE 09:48 DUST, AND THEN THEY NOTICED HE WAS SPELLING 09:52 OUT SOME OF THEIR SPECIFIC SINS. 09:56 AND AFTER HE SAID, 'HE THAT IS WITHOUT SIN AMONG 09:58 YOU, LET HIM CAST THE FIRST STONE.' AND THEY 10:02 LOOKED AT THAT; THEY WERE OVERWHELMED WITH A SENSE 10:06 OF GUILT AND SHAME AS THOUGH THEY WERE IN THE 10:09 PRESENCE OF THE DIVINE LAW GIVER. YOU KNOW, WE'LL ALL 10:13 SOMEDAY SIT DOWN AT THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST. 10:17 AND HERE THEY WERE, IN THE HOUSE OF GOD, SEEING 10:22 THE SON OF GOD, WRITING OUT THEIR SINS AGAINST 10:24 GOD, AND THEY REALIZED THEY HAD NO RIGHT TO CLAIM 10:31 THE AUDACITY TO STONE THIS WOMAN WHEN THEY HAD SET 10:35 THIS UP AND LED HER INTO THIS SIN - YOU KNOW, IT'S 10:39 CALLED BEING AN ACCOMPLICE - SO THEY COULD JUST USE HER. 10:43 THEY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT THE LAW, ALL THEY CARED ABOUT 10:46 WAS THEIR POSITION. EVEN PILATE SAID HE KNEW 10:50 THAT THEY DELIVERED JESUS BECAUSE THEY WERE JEALOUS. 10:53 AND ONE BY ONE, AS THEY SAW THEIR SINS, 10:57 "BEGINNING WITH THE ELDEST EVEN UNTO THE LEAST:" - 11:00 THEY DROPPED THE STONES THEY PROBABLY GATHERED TO 11:03 STONE HER AND THEY WENT OUT WITH THEIR HEADS HANGING 11:05 UNTIL SOON, ALL OF THE ACCUSERS WERE GONE AND 11:10 THERE'S THIS WOMAN. NOW, YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT 11:14 THIS STORY, FOR A MOMENT, THROUGH MARY'S EYES. 11:17 CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW MORTIFYING IT WOULD BE? 11:24 I MEAN - I'VE THOUGHT BEFORE, 11:25 HOW EMBARRASSING IT WOULD BE, IF EACH OF US 11:27 HAD A VIDEO SCREEN ON OUR HEAD WHERE PEOPLE COULD 11:29 SEE WHAT WE'RE THINKING. I FLEW ON AN AIRPLANE ONE 11:32 TIME AND ON THE BACK OF EVERY SEAT THEY HAD A 11:36 LITTLE SCREEN AND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT I GOT 11:39 UP - ON AN OVERSEAS FLIGHT - AND I SAW ALL THESE 11:40 SCREENS ILLUMINATED AT EVERY CHAIR - AND I 11:42 THOUGHT, 'WHAT IF EVERYBODY HAD ONE OF THOSE 11:43 ON THEIR FOREHEAD?' AND YOU COULD SEE WHATEVER 11:47 THEY WERE THINKING? CAN GOD? HE CAN. 11:51 WE'D BE EMBARRASSED FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW WHAT WE'RE 11:53 THINKING BUT, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ALL WE 11:55 DO IS OPEN AND NAKED TO THE EYES OF HIM WITH WHOM 11:59 WE'LL HAVE TO GIVE AN ANSWER. 12:01 CAN YOU IMAGINE IF YOU WERE MARRIED AND YOU'RE 12:05 DOING SOMETHING THAT YOU SHOULDN'T BE DOING - IT IS 12:08 A SIN - AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE RELIGIOUS 12:11 LEADERS IN THE COMMUNITY COME BURSTING IN TO YOUR 12:13 PLACE OF BUSINESS AND, WITHOUT GIVING YOU A 12:16 CHANCE TO GET PROPERLY CLOTHED, THEY DRAG YOU 12:19 THROUGH THE STREETS OF THE CITY, CREATING A SPECTACLE 12:23 AS YOU GO, AND THEN THEY BRING YOU TO THE HOLIEST 12:27 PLACE ON THE PLANET AND THEY THROW YOU DOWN AT THE 12:31 FEET OF THE HOLIEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED. 12:35 WOULD THAT BE A SHAMEFUL SITUATION TO BE IN? 12:39 I'VE BEEN ARRESTED A FEW TIMES - I MENTIONED THE 12:40 OTHER DAY - AND ONE TIME, I'M NOT PROUD TO TELL YOU, 12:44 I GOT ARRESTED FOR INDECENT EXPOSURE. 12:48 I WOKE UP AND THERE WERE SEVERAL POLICE AROUND ME 12:51 AND THERE THEY WERE WRITING ME UP AND I HAD 12:52 NOTHING ON. AND THEN I'M IN JAIL - 12:57 'WHAT ARE YOU IN FOR?' 'BANK ROBBERY.' (LAUGHTER) 13:00 'WHAT ARE YOU IN FOR?' 'MURDER.' 'WHAT 13:04 ARE YOU IN FOR?' 'UH, SKINNY DIPPING.' 13:07 (LAUGHTER) IT WAS REALLY, REALLY EMBARRASSING. 13:13 I CAN'T IMAGINE HOW EMBARRASSED MARY MUST HAVE 13:16 BEEN. BUT, YOU KNOW, I HEARD A 13:18 PREACHER SAY, ONE TIME, THAT'S PROBABLY THE BEST 13:20 PLACE IN THE WORLD YOU CAN BE WHEN YOU'RE IN TROUBLE, 13:22 IS AT THE FEET OF JESUS. >>AMEN. 13:24 >>AND THERE'S WHERE SHE FIRST APPEARS IN THE 13:26 BIBLE. SHE'S AT THE FEET OF JESUS. SHE'S IN SHAME. 13:31 SHE IS FEELING SORROW FOR HER SIN AND HE KNOWS THAT 13:39 SHE'S GUILTY, BUT HE'S NOT THERE TO CONDEMN HER. 13:42 AS ALL OF HER ACCUSERS WENT OUT, JESUS FINALLY 13:46 STOOD UP AND HE SAID, "'WOMAN, WHERE ARE THOSE 13:50 ACCUSERS OF YOURS? HAS NO ONE CONDEMNED YOU?' 13:53 SHE SAID, 'NO ONE, LORD.' AND JESUS SAID TO HER, 13:56 'NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU;'" WOULDN'T YOU LIKE 13:59 TO HEAR THOSE WORDS FROM CHRIST? 14:01 >>YES. >>THOUGH SHE WAS GUILTY, 14:04 HE SAID, 'I DIDN'T COME INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN 14:06 THE WORLD, I CAME TO SAVE.' AND HE DOESN'T WANT 14:09 TO CONDEMN YOU - WE'RE ALREADY CONDEMNED. 14:12 WE'RE UNDER A DEATH SENTENCE. 14:13 HE WANTS TO SAVE US. AND HE DIDN'T JUST STOP 14:17 BY SAYING, 'NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU.' WAS JESUS 14:20 SAYING THAT ADULTERY IS NOW OKAY? 14:22 DID HE SAY, 'DON'T WORRY, THE LAW OF MOSES HAS BEEN 14:24 - IT'S NAILED TO THE CROSS. YOU CAN NOW BREAK THE 14:26 TEN COMMANDMENTS.' THAT'S NOT WHAT HE SAID. 14:29 ADULTERY WAS STILL A SIN AND IT IS TRUE THAT MOSES 14:32 SAID THAT PEOPLE THAT WERE GUILTY OF ADULTERY, IN 14:35 PARTICULAR, IF IT WAS SOMEONE THAT WAS MARRIED - 14:38 TWO PEOPLE MARRIED - THAT THE DECREE WAS STONING. 14:43 AND SO, FOR JESUS TO SAY, 'I DON'T CONDEMN YOU. 14:45 GO. YOU'RE FREE.' HOW COULD HE DO THAT? 14:51 WELL, I'VE GOT A THEORY - I CAN'T PROVE IT, BUT YOU 14:53 CAN'T DISPROVE IT. I THINK THAT THIS WAS 14:57 THE FIRST TIME THAT MARY APPEARS. 14:59 IT REFERS TO HER AS A WOMAN, BUT YOU'LL SEE THAT 15:01 THERE'S ANOTHER STORY IN THE BIBLE WHERE JOHN 15:04 REFERS TO MARY AS A WOMAN IN ANOTHER EMBARRASSING 15:07 SITUATION AND ANOTHER GOSPEL WRITER TELLS US 15:09 THAT WOMAN WAS MARY. YOU SEE, WHEN THEIR 15:12 GOSPELS WERE WRITTEN, THEY DIDN'T WANT TO 15:14 EMBARRASS HER. AND SO, I THINK THAT SHE 15:19 UNDERSTOOD - HERE'S MY THEORY - 'THE REASON I CAN 15:23 LET YOU GO IS BECAUSE I'M GOING TO TRADE 15:25 PLACES WITH YOU. YES, YOU SINNED, AND THE 15:29 PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH, BUT I'M NOT HERE TO 15:32 CONDEMN YOU, I'M HERE TO SAVE YOU. 15:33 I WILL TAKE YOUR PENALTY.' >>AMEN. 15:35 >>'YOU GO AND YOU'RE FREE.' BUT NOTICE WHAT HE 15:38 SAYS: 'GO AND SIN NO MORE.' A LOT OF PREACHERS 15:42 DON'T TALK ABOUT THAT PART OF THE VERSE. 15:45 YOU NOTICE HE ALSO DIDN'T SAY, 'GO AND TRY TO SIN A 15:47 LITTLE LESS.' (LAUGHTER) HE DIDN'T SAY, 'JUST, CAN 15:51 YOU PLEASE CUT BACK ON THAT ADULTERY? 15:53 AND, YOU KNOW, SEE IF YOU COULD, YOU KNOW, GET THE 15:57 PATCH AND SLOW DOWN A LITTLE BIT.' HE SAID, 'SIN 16:01 NO MORE.' JESUS WAS CALLED JESUS BECAUSE HE WILL SAVE 16:05 HIS PEOPLE - NOT IN THEIR SINS, BUT FROM THEIR SINS. 16:09 THE LORD WANTS TO SAVE US FROM OUR SINS. 16:12 HE SAID, 'I HAVEN'T COME TO CONDEMN YOU.' THE LORD 16:14 WANTS TO GIVE US DELIVERANCE AND WHEN SHE 16:16 RECOGNIZED THAT HE WAS WILLING TO FORGIVE HER, 16:21 SHE THOUGHT, 'NOW HERE IS A REAL MAN OF GOD.' SHE 16:24 SENSED, IN THE PRESENCE OF JESUS, THE POWER AND THE 16:27 LOVE OF GOD AND MARY HAD PROBABLY KNOWN A FEW MEN 16:32 AND THEY HAD ALL HAD ULTERIOR MOTIVES. 16:34 AND HERE WAS SOMEONE WHO WAS GOING TO LOVE HER WITH 16:36 A PURE, UNSELFISH LOVE AND IT BROKE HER HEART. 16:40 YOU KNOW, I OUGHT TO SAY ONE MORE THING BEFORE I - 16:43 I LEAVE THIS FIRST POINT - IS THAT JESUS DIDN'T LIKE 16:47 IT ONE BIT WHEN THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS WERE 16:50 READY TO THROW STONES AT SOMEONE WHO IS GUILTY IN 16:53 THE CHURCH. NOW, A WOMAN IN BIBLE 16:57 ANALOGIES, OFTEN REPRESENTS - WHO KNOWS? 17:00 >>A CHURCH. >>A CHURCH. 17:02 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES AS CHRIST 17:04 LOVED THE CHURCH.' AND TELLS US, 'I'VE LIKENED 17:08 THE DAUGHTERS OF ZION' - GOD'S PEOPLE - 'TO A 17:10 DELICATE AND A COMELY WOMAN.' AND ALL THROUGH 17:13 THE BIBLE GOD COMPARES THE CHURCH TO HIS BRIDE. 17:16 AND SO HERE'S A WOMAN WHO IS INDEED GUILTY, BUT WHEN 17:20 THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS ARE GATHERING AROUND TO THROW 17:23 ROCKS AT HER, JESUS DOESN'T LIKE IT ONE BIT. 17:25 THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE READY 17:27 TO THROW ROCKS AT THE CHURCH. 17:29 AND HAS THE CHURCH SINNED? AND ARE THERE HYPOCRITES 17:32 IN THE CHURCH? YOU KNOW, IF YOU READ THE 17:34 BOOK OF EZEKIEL CHAPTER 9, IT TALKS ABOUT ANOTHER 17:36 JUDGMENT IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. 17:38 YOU KNOW, HERE MARY IS IN THE HOUSE OF GOD AND 17:41 THEY'RE READY TO JUDGE HER, BUT JESUS TURNS THE 17:44 JUDGMENT AROUND AND SAYS, 'BEGINNING AT THE ELDEST, 17:48 EVEN UNTO THE LEAST, THEY WENT OUT.' IN EZEKIEL 9 IT 17:51 SAYS, 'THE JUDGMENT, BEGINNING AT THE ELDEST' - 17:53 BEGINNING WITH THE ANCIENT MEN - THERE'S A MARK THAT 17:56 IS PLACED ON THOSE THAT ARE SAVED AND THE OTHERS 17:58 ARE DESTROYED - KIND OF LIKE REVELATION. 18:01 SO WE'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT THROWING ROCKS AT 18:04 THE CHURCH. SO HERE WE FIND MARY AT 18:07 JESUS' FEET, WEEPING TEARS OF REPENTANCE, BUT SHE 18:12 FALLS IN LOVE WITH JESUS BECAUSE HE'S WILLING 18:15 TO FORGIVE HER. NOW, WHEN WE FIRST 18:18 DISCOVER THIS PERSON, THEN WE SEE THAT SHE DOESN'T 18:22 HAVE A VERY GOOD REPUTATION. 18:24 MATTER OF FACT, LATER IN THE BIBLE IT SAYS, 'MARY 18:27 MAGDALENE, OUT OF WHOM JESUS CAST SEVEN DEVILS' - 18:32 SHE'D GOTTEN INTO TROUBLE SEVERAL TIMES. 18:33 AND IT'S NOT LIKE ONE TIME HE CAST OUT SEVEN DEVILS, 18:36 IT'S LIKE SEVEN TIMES SHE FELL AND HE FORGAVE HER. 18:40 HOW DOES A YOUNG LADY GET TO THE POINT WHERE SHE'S 18:44 GOING TO AUCTION HERSELF LIKE THAT? 18:48 YEARS AGO I WAS WORKING IN PALM SPRINGS. 18:53 I HAD JUST ACCEPTED THE LORD - I WAS A BABY 18:55 CHRISTIAN - AND, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I HAD A JOB AT 19:00 A RESTAURANT PLAYING GUITAR AND FLUTE AND IT 19:05 WAS AN AFTER-HOURS RESTAURANT IN PALM SPRINGS 19:08 - IT WAS LIKE A HIPPIE RESTAURANT CALLED T HE 19:09 PEACH AND THE FROG AND THE PEOPLE GOT OUT OF THE BARS 19:12 WHEN THE BARS CLOSED AND THEY WERE HUNGRY AND 19:14 THEY'D COME HERE AND THEY'D EAT. 19:15 SO THEY HIRED ME A LITTLE BIT AND GAVE ME FREE FOOD 19:17 TO PLAY. IT DIDN'T LAST VERY LONG 19:18 BECAUSE I'M JUST NOT REALLY VERY GOOD. 19:21 BUT THEY WERE DRUNK AND THEY DIDN'T CARE AND 19:24 SO I GOT OFF WORK REALLY LATE, IS WHAT I MEANT TO SAY. 19:28 AND SO I'M DRIVING HOME IN PALM SPRINGS - IT'S LIKE 2 19:30 OR 3 IN THE MORNING - AND I SEE THAT THERE'S THIS 19:32 MAN AND HIS DAUGHTER SITTING AT A BUS STOP AND 19:35 I THINK, 'OH, A LOT OF TOURISTS IN PALM SPRINGS 19:37 DON'T KNOW THE BUSSES STOP RUNNING AT MIDNIGHT.' AND 19:40 SO I PULLED OVER AND I SAID, 'IF YOU GUYS ARE 19:41 WAITING FOR THE BUS,' - I SAID - 'YOU'RE GOING TO 19:42 WAIT A LONG TIME. THERE'S NO BUSSES NOW.' 19:44 AND THEY SAID, 'WELL, ACTUALLY, WE CALLED A CAB, 19:46 BUT IT'S BEEN 45 MINUTES AND WE DON'T THINK HE'S 19:48 EVER COMING.' AND I SAID, 'WELL WHERE 19:49 ARE YOU GOING?' I USED TO HITCHHIKE ALL 19:50 THE TIME SO I GIVE PEOPLE A LIFT. 19:52 AND THEY SAID, 'WELL, WE'RE GOING DOWN HERE TO 19:54 THE SOUTH END OF TOWN.' I SAID, 'WELL, HOP IN.' SO 19:58 THEY BOTH HOP IN THE BACK, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS ODD 20:00 BECAUSE I WAS DRIVING A VOLKSWAGEN BUG. 20:01 (LAUGHTER) AND AS I'M DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD 20:06 TOWARDS WHERE THE MAN TOLD ME TO GO, I LOOK IN THE 20:09 REARVIEW MIRROR AND I REALIZE THIS IS NOT A 20:11 FATHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP. 20:13 THEY WERE VERY AFFECTIONATE. 20:17 AND I GOT TO WHERE HE DIRECTED ME AND HE KISSED 20:21 HER GOODNIGHT AND GOT OUT AND SHE SAT THERE. 20:24 I TURNED AROUND AND SAID, 'AND WHERE ARE YOU GOING?' 20:27 SHE SAID, 'I'M GOING BACK TO SUCH AND SUCH A PLACE.' 20:30 WELL, I KNEW ABOUT THAT PART OF TOWN AND I SAID, 20:33 'OKAY.' AND SO I TOOK OFF DRIVING AND SHE WAS STILL 20:36 IN THE BACK SEAT AND, AS I WAS GOING DOWN THE ROAD, 20:40 AS I WENT BY THE DIFFERENT STREET LIGHTS, HER FACE WOULD 20:43 ILLUMINATE EVERY NOW AND THEN AND SHE LOOKED SO SAD. 20:47 WELL, I'D JUST FOUND THE LORD AND IT JUST MADE SUCH 20:49 A CHANGE IN MY LIFE, I JUST FELT IMPRESSED - AND 20:52 I DON'T RECOMMEND THIS FOR YOUNG CHRISTIAN MEN TO DO 20:56 YOUR BIBLE STUDIES THIS WAY, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW ANY 20:59 BETTER. AND I JUST FELT IMPRESSED 21:01 AND SAID, 'WOULD YOU LIKE TO STOP AND GET 21:03 A CUP OF COFFEE?' IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO. 21:06 AND SHE SAID, 'SURE.' THEY HAD AN ALL-NIGHT COFFEE 21:09 SHOP THERE - I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE REMEMBERS - 21:11 THERE USED TO BE THIS CHAIN CALLED SAMBO'S 21:12 RESTAURANTS - TEN CENTS FOR A CUP OF COFFEE - 21:15 ALL YOU COULD DRINK. AND SO WE STOPPED THERE 21:18 AT THIS RESTAURANT AND I TALKED TO HER 21:19 FOR A MINUTE AND THEN I ADDRESSED WHAT I 21:22 UNDERSTOOD TO BE HER OCCUPATION. 21:24 NOW, I SHOULD MENTION, I GREW UP IN NEW YORK CITY 21:27 AND MY BROTHER AND I USED TO PLAY ON 42ND AND 21:29 BROADWAY AND YOU LEARN WAY TOO MUCH WAY TOO YOUNG, 21:32 SO I KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON. 21:35 AND SHE INDICATED, YES, THAT'S WHAT SHE DID. 21:41 THEN I REALIZED SHE MAY HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD MY 21:44 QUESTION AND I SAID, 'ARE YOU HAPPY?' 21:48 AND HER WHOLE EXPRESSION CHANGED. 21:51 AND I STARTED TO TELL HER ABOUT JESUS AND WHAT HE 21:53 HAD DONE FOR ME AND I SAID, 'WHY DO YOU DO IT?' 21:57 SHE WAS TELLING ME SHE LIVED WITH SOME PIMP THAT, 21:59 YOU KNOW, BEAT HER UP ONE DAY AND GAVE HER GIFTS THE 22:01 NEXT DAY AND SHE WAS VERY - 17 YEARS OLD. 22:03 I'LL NEVER FORGET, HER NAME WAS MARLENE - I STILL 22:07 SEE HER WHENEVER I TELL THE STORY. 22:09 AND SHE STARTED TO CRY AND IT LEFT THOSE TYPICAL 22:11 LITTLE BLACK RIVULETS DOWN HER FACE AND HER MASCARA 22:14 AND SHE SAID, 'I JUST WANT SOMEONE TO LOVE ME.' AND I 22:20 - WHENEVER I READ ABOUT MARY MAGDALENE I THINK - 22:23 YOU'VE HEARD THIS STORY - LOOKING FOR LOVE IN ALL 22:25 THE WRONG PLACES. A LOT OF PEOPLE GET INTO 22:27 TROUBLE BECAUSE THEY'RE LOOKING FOR LOVE. 22:29 AND THAT'S WHAT SHE WAS LOOKING FOR. 22:31 AND WHEN JESUS LOVED HER WITH THAT PURE LOVE - THAT 22:35 UNCONDITIONAL LOVE - IT MELTED HER HEART AND SHE 22:37 BECAME HIS MOST DEVOTED FOLLOWER BECAUSE SHE 22:41 UNDERSTOOD SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE SEEMED TO 22:43 UNDERSTAND - AND I'LL GET TO THAT AS WE GO ON. 22:46 NEXT STUDY WE'RE GOING TO FIND MARY IS AT THE FEET 22:49 OF JESUS, BUT NOW SHE'S DOING BIBLE STUDY. 22:53 YOU TURN TO THE GOSPEL OF LUKE AND IN CHAPTER 10 YOU 22:59 CAN FIND WHERE IT SAYS THAT THERE WAS A DINNER IN 23:04 GALILEE AND VERSE 38 - LUKE 10:38, "NOW IT 23:08 HAPPENED AS THEY WENT THAT HE ENTERED A CERTAIN 23:10 VILLAGE; AND A CERTAIN WOMAN NAMED MARTHA 23:12 WELCOMED HIM INTO HER HOUSE. 23:14 AND SHE HAD A SISTER CALLED MARY, WHO ALSO SAT 23:16 AT JESUS' FEET AND HEARD HIS WORD. 23:19 BUT MARTHA WAS DISTRACTED WITH MUCH SERVING, AND SHE 23:22 APPROACHED HIM AND SAID, 'LORD, DO YOU NOT CARE 23:24 THAT MY SISTER HAS LEFT ME TO SERVE ALONE? 23:27 THEREFORE TELL HER TO HELP ME.' AND JESUS ANSWERED 23:30 AND SAID TO HER, 'MARTHA, MARTHA,'" - THAT'S THE 23:34 ONLY TIME IN THE BIBLE, I THINK, THE LORD SAYS A 23:36 WOMAN'S NAME TWICE. HE OFTEN SAID, 'ABRAHAM, 23:38 ABRAHAM' OR THE DIFFERENT - 'SAMUEL, SAMUEL' - 23:42 "'MARTHA, MARTHA, YOU ARE WORRIED AND TROUBLED 23:46 ABOUT MANY THINGS. BUT ONE THING IS 23:49 NEEDED,'"- HOW MANY THINGS? - 23:51 "'...ONE THING IS NEEDED AND MARY HAS CHOSEN THAT 23:54 GOOD PART, WHICH WILL NOT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HER.'" 23:57 LIKE THE DEMONIAC WE TALKED ABOUT THE OTHER 23:59 NIGHT, SHE'S SITTING AT JESUS' FEET, DRINKING IN 24:02 THE WORD. HE'S TEACHING HER HOW NOT 24:04 TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES THAT HAD CAUSED 24:06 PROBLEMS IN THE PAST. AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN JESUS 24:09 SAID THAT'S THE ONE THING - THIS IS SO IMPORTANT 24:11 BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT TWO WOMEN HERE - WHAT'S 24:13 A WOMAN REPRESENT? >>CHURCH. 24:14 >>SISTERS - VERY OPPOSITE - ONE IS SITTING AT THE 24:18 FEET OF JESUS IN LOVE AND DEVOTION AND DRINKING IN 24:20 THE WORD AND THE OTHER IS WORK, WORK, WORK. 24:22 SHE'S SERVING THE LORD, BUT SHE'S SO BUSY WITH THE 24:26 WORK OF THE LORD, SHE FORGETS THE LORD OF THE 24:27 WORK. AND A LOT OF PEOPLE GET 24:31 INVOLVED IN DOING GOOD DEEDS FOR CHURCH - FOR THE 24:35 LORD - AND THEY DON'T HAVE THAT ONE-ON-ONE 24:37 RELATIONSHIP - A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP. 24:40 DOESN'T THE LORD SAY THAT IN THE JUDGMENT, WHEN HE 24:42 COMES, HE'LL DECLARE TO MANY PEOPLE, 'DEPART FROM 24:45 ME, I DON'T KNOW YOU.' 'OH, BUT LORD, WE'VE 24:47 TAUGHT IN YOUR STREETS AND WE CONDUCTED MANY POTLUCKS 24:50 AND WE GAVE TO THE ORPHANAGES AND WE WENT TO 24:52 THE HOSPITALS AND WE TOOK CARE OF THE CLOTHES AND WE 24:54 WENT TO THE PRISONS.' AND HE'LL SAY, 'I DON'T KNOW 24:56 YOU.' THAT'S WHY WE'RE SAVED BY A PERSONAL 25:00 RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? 25:04 HOW DO YOU GET TO KNOW ANYBODY? 25:06 I DIDN'T MARRY KAREN THE FIRST DAY I MET HER. 25:09 WHEN YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH SOMEBODY, YOU COMMUNICATE. 25:13 WHENEVER YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE SOMEBODY IT TAKES 25:14 COMMUNICATION. YOU TALK TO THEM. 25:16 THEY TALK TO YOU. HOW DOES GOD TALK TO US? 25:20 THAT'S WHY WE SING THAT SONG EACH NIGHT - GIVE ME 25:22 THE BIBLE - IT'S THROUGH HIS WORD. 25:24 DO YOU HAVE REGULAR TIME AT JESUS' FEET LISTENING 25:26 TO HIM? YOU NEED TO - YOU NEED 25:29 TO MAKE THAT TIME. IT HAS TO BE MORE 25:31 IMPORTANT TO YOU THAN YOUR DAILY BREAD. 25:34 'I HAVE ESTEEMED THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH MORE THAN MY 25:36 NECESSARY FOOD.' JESUS SAID, 'MAN WILL NOT LIVE 25:39 BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS 25:41 FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.' DO YOU HAVE A DEVOTIONAL LIFE? 25:45 AND, IT'S NOT ONLY HIS TALKING TO YOU, IT'S YOUR 25:47 TALKING TO HIM. DO YOU PRAY? 25:50 AND THEN, OF COURSE, YOU SHOW IT BY DEEDS OF 25:53 SERVICE AND LOVE, BUT FIRST YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE 25:55 THE LOVE RELATIONSHIP. WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE 25:57 HE FIRST LOVED US. HOW DO WE LEARN ABOUT 25:59 HIS LOVE FOR US? WHEN WE LOOK IN HIS WORD 26:01 AND WE SEE WHAT HE DID FOR US. 26:05 IT INSPIRES US WITH LOVE. SO SHE SITS AT JESUS' 26:08 FEET AND SHE HEARS THE WORD. AND THIS HELPS HER DEVELOP 26:12 THAT LOVE RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS. 26:15 AND WE NEED TO HAVE THAT KIND OF RELATIONSHIP WITH 26:17 JESUS ALSO. AND THEN WE'VE GOT ANOTHER 26:20 POINT WHERE JESUS IS AT - OR MARY IS AT JESUS' FEET. 26:25 I ACTUALLY SKIPPED, I THINK, OVER POINT 2 AND I 26:27 WENT TO POINT 3. SHE SPENDS TIME AT JESUS' 26:31 FEET PRAYING FOR HER BROTHER THAT IS DEAD. 26:36 NOW, IF YOU LOOK IN JOHN CHAPTER 11 - YOU REMEMBER, 26:39 A MESSAGE COMES TO JESUS, 'YOUR FRIEND THAT YOU 26:43 LOVE, LAZARUS, IS SICK.' AND JESUS DOES NOT COME 26:48 RIGHT AWAY TO HEAL HIM. SEVERAL DAYS GO BY AND BY 26:53 THE TIME JESUS GETS THERE, LAZARUS HAS NOT ONLY DIED, 26:56 HE'S BEEN DEAD SEVERAL DAYS. 26:58 NOW, MARY HAD A BROTHER AND A SISTER. 27:02 I WANT YOU TO NOTICE SOMETHING: MARY MAGDALENE 27:05 AND MARY OF BETHANY, I BELIEVE, AND MANY SCHOLARS 27:08 BELIEVE, ARE THE SAME MARY. 27:10 HERE'S SOME REASONS FOR THAT: FIRST OF ALL, BOTH 27:13 WOMEN APPEAR TO BE WOMEN OF MEANS BECAUSE IT SEEMS 27:16 LIKE THEY ARE ABLE TO SUPPORT JESUS FROM THEIR SUBSTANCE. 27:19 MARY OF BETHANY GIVES A VERY EXPENSIVE GIFT AND IT 27:22 SAYS MARY MAGDALENE MINISTERS TO JESUS OF HER 27:27 SUBSTANCE - AND THAT'S IN LUKE CHAPTER 8. 27:29 BOTH ARE CALLED MARY - SAME NAME - BUT THAT WAS A 27:31 COMMON NAME. BOTH WERE UNMARRIED. 27:34 BOTH NAMES ARE NEVER MENTIONED TOGETHER 27:37 ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE. 27:38 YOU NEVER HEAR THE TWO MENTIONED TOGETHER. 27:40 AND, AGAIN, IT SAYS THAT YOU OFTEN FIND THEM AT 27:45 JESUS' FEET, GEOGRAPHICALLY, AND THEY 27:48 BOTH SEEM TO HAVE BAD REPUTATIONS. 27:50 AT A FEAST IT SAYS, 'DON'T LET MARY OF BETHANY TOUCH 27:52 YOU.' SAME THING ABOUT MARY MAGDALENE - 'NOT 27:55 MARY.' AND SO, BECAUSE THEY'RE NEVER MENTIONED 27:58 TOGETHER - AND SOMETIMES A PERSON - JESUS IS KNOWN AS 28:01 JESUS THE CARPENTER, AND JESUS OF NAZARETH, AND 28:04 JESUS CHRIST. AND MOUNT SINAI, IN THE 28:07 BIBLE, IS ALSO CALLED MOUNT HOREB. 28:09 AND IT'S NOT UNCOMMON TO HAVE MORE THAN ONE HANDLE 28:12 THAT PEOPLE ADDRESS YOU BY. 28:14 SO MARY HAD, WHEN SHE LIVED UP IN MAGDALA FOR 28:17 HER BUSINESS - SHE'D COME TO JERUSALEM FOR THE 28:19 FEASTS. SHE HAD A BROTHER AND 28:20 SISTER THAT LIVED IN BETHANY, WHICH WAS JUST 28:22 OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM, AND HER BROTHER LAZARUS DIED. 28:28 JESUS FINALLY COMES DOWN TO BETHANY AND THEY RUN TO 28:31 JESUS. AND YOU CAN FIND MARY - YOU CAN SEE IT HERE IN 28:34 JOHN 11:32, "THEN, WHEN MARY CAME WHERE JESUS WAS, 28:39 AND SAW HIM, SHE FELL DOWN AT HIS FEET, SAYING TO 28:42 HIM, 'LORD, IF YOU HAD BEEN HERE, MY BROTHER 28:45 WOULD NOT HAVE DIED.' THEREFORE, WHEN JESUS SAW 28:49 HER WEEPING, AND THE JEWS WHO CAME WITH HER (FROM 28:51 THE FUNERAL) WEEPING, HE GROANED IN THE SPIRIT AND 28:55 WAS TROUBLED. AND HE SAID, 'WHERE 28:56 HAVE YOU LAID HIM?' THEY SAID TO HIM, 28:59 'LORD, COME AND SEE.' JESUS WEPT." 29:03 - THAT'S THE SHORTEST VERSE IN THE BIBLE - 29:05 AT LEAST IN THE ENGLISH. 29:08 WHAT DOES DEATH REPRESENT IN THE BIBLE? 29:11 WELL, DEATH, OF COURSE, IS THE ABSENCE OF LIFE, BUT 29:15 HE THAT HAS THE SON HAS LIFE. 29:17 HE THAT DOESN'T HAVE THE SON DOES NOT HAVE LIFE. 29:19 ARE WE SURROUNDED BY A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE 29:21 SPIRITUALLY DEAD IN THE WORLD? 29:23 SHOULD WE SPEND TIME AT JESUS' FEET PRAYING AND 29:26 WEEPING OVER THOSE WHO ARE LOST? 29:29 IF YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT, IF YOU KNOW JESUS AND 29:32 IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN, YOU HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. 29:35 HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT? 29:37 WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE WORTH MORE THAN 29:38 EVERLASTING LIFE WITH A GLORIFIED BODY AND 29:41 PLEASURES THAT YOU CAN'T IMAGINE FOREVERMORE? 29:45 BLISS - ETERNAL GLORY - LIFE - BEAUTY - WHAT COULD 29:50 BE WORTH MORE THAN THAT? IF YOU'RE SAVED AND YOU 29:52 HAVE THAT, AND YOU KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT 29:54 ARE HEADING TOWARDS DESTRUCTION AND JUDGMENT 29:56 AND PUNISHMENT, AND YOU'VE GOT THE SERUM FOR THEIR 30:00 DISEASE AND YOU DON'T SHARE - YOU HAVE NO BURDEN - 30:04 DO YOU HAVE A BURDEN FOR THE LOST? 30:06 >>YES. >>DO PRAY FOR THOSE - DO 30:07 WE SOMETIMES WEEP AT THE FEET OF JESUS, FOR THE 30:10 WORLD THAT IS PERISHING AROUND US? 30:12 THIS IS LIKE THE CHURCH - OR LIKE MARY - THE CHURCH 30:16 SHOULD BE SPENDING TIME AT JESUS' FEET, PLEADING WITH 30:19 THE LORD FOR THE LOST. AND WHAT DID GOD DO 30:22 BECAUSE OF HER PRAYERS? DID HE PERFORM A MIRACLE? 30:26 AND GIVE NEW LIFE? 30:28 YOU KNOW, JESUS BROUGHT THEM TO THE TOMB AND HE 30:32 SAID, 'ROLL AWAY THE STONE.' AND THEY SAID, 'OH 30:36 LORD, BUT THIS IS A - THIS IS BAD, YOU KNOW, HE'S 30:38 BEEN DEAD FOUR DAYS.' AND JESUS TOLD MARTHA, HE 30:42 SAID, 'LOOK, I'M - I'M GOING TO RAISE HIM UP.' 30:44 AND SHE SAID, 'WELL, I KNOW HE'S GOING TO BE 30:45 RAISED IN THE RESURRECTION AT THE LAST DAY.' - WHICH 30:48 WAS AN IMPORTANT POINT. WHEN IS THE RESURRECTION? 30:52 THE LAST DAY. I THINK THREE OR FOUR TIMES JUST IN THE GOSPEL 30:56 OF JOHN IT SAYS THE RESURRECTION ON THE LAST DAY. 30:59 IT'S TELLING US THAT THE DAY OF THE LORD - THE 31:01 JUDGMENT DAY - WHEN THE LORD DESCENDS FROM HEAVEN, 31:04 'THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE' THE BIBLE SAYS. 31:07 AND HE SAYS, 'I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT ONE. 31:10 I'M GOING TO DO SOMETHING SPECIAL NOW. 31:13 ROLL AWAY THE STONE.' SO RELUCTANTLY, MARTHA 31:17 INSTRUCTS THE SERVANTS AND THEY ROLL AWAY THE STONE. 31:21 AND JESUS SAYS, 'LAZARUS, COME FORTH!' 31:24 AND WHEN THEY ROLL AWAY THE STONE THEY CAN SMELL 31:27 IT. THEY KNOW HE'S DEAD. 31:29 BUT THEN THEY HEAR A SHUFFLING, RUFFLING, 31:32 MUFFLED NOISE COMING FROM THE TOMB AND OUT SHUFFLES 31:36 THEIR BROTHER, VERY MUCH ALIVE, AND JESUS SAYS, 31:39 'LOOSE HIM' - UNWRAP HIM. WAS MARY GLAD THAT SHE 31:43 SPENT TIME WEEPING AT JESUS' FEET FOR 31:46 HER BROTHER? DID HE ANSWER THAT PRAYER? 31:49 BUT, YOU KNOW, SHE SAID, 'WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?' 31:51 IT WAS LATER THAN THEY THOUGHT. 31:53 SO WHEN YOU'RE PRAYING FOR LOVED ONES OR SOMEONE THAT 31:55 YOU WANT TO HAVE LIFE, YOU MUST BE PATIENT. 31:58 SOMETIMES IT EVEN LOOKS HOPELESS. 32:01 DON'T GIVE UP. KEEP PRAYING. THEY SAID, 'JESUS, WHAT 32:04 TOOK YOU SO LONG?' I KNOW LADIES THAT HAVE 32:09 PRAYED FOR THEIR HUSBANDS FOR LIKE 20 YEARS THAT 32:12 THEY'D COME TO THE LORD - OR LONGER. 32:14 PARENTS THAT HAVE PRAYED FOR THEIR CHILDREN 40 - 50 32:17 YEARS AND THEN GOD WORKS A MIRACLE. 32:20 I'VE KNOWN PEOPLE THAT HAVE COME TO THE LORD 32:21 YEARS AFTER THEIR PARENTS ARE DEAD AND I THINK THAT 32:23 GOD FINALLY MADE A WITHDRAWAL ON THE PRAYERS 32:26 THAT THE PARENTS HAD STORED IN HEAVEN, 32:28 THAT THEY MIGHT FIND LIFE. AND THOSE PARENTS ARE 32:30 GOING TO BE VERY HAPPY. THEY WENT TO THE GRAVE 32:32 THINKING THEIR CHILDREN WERE LOST AND IN THE 32:34 RESURRECTION THEY'RE GOING TO SAY, 'HOW'D 32:35 YOU GET HERE?' (LAUGHTER) AND THE ANGEL'S GOING TO 32:39 SAY, 'YOU KNOW ALL THOSE PRAYERS YOU PRAYED? 32:41 THEY WERE COMPOUNDING INTEREST AND GOD DID 32:44 SOMETHING WITH IT.' SO WE NEED TO SPEND TIME 32:47 BELIEVING AND PRAYING. THE REASON JESUS CAME INTO 32:50 THIS WORLD IS TO SAVE THE LOST. 32:52 NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN PRAYING FOR THE LOST 32:54 AND WE ARE SURROUNDED BY BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT 32:56 ARE DEAD IN TRESPASSES AND SINS. 32:59 SO THE CHURCH, LIKE MARY, NEEDS TO BE DOING THAT. 33:03 THEN WE NEED TO SPEND SOME TIME AT JESUS' FEET IN 33:06 SACRIFICE. AND THIS IS A PLACE WHERE 33:08 MARY REALLY SHINES. YOU CAN FIND THIS STORY 33:11 - AND THEY GIVE LITTLE PERSPECTIVES THAT ARE 33:13 DIFFERENT IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 12 - IT'S 33:16 CALLED THE DINNER IN BETHANY - IN MARK CHAPTER 33:18 14, IN LUKE CHAPTER 7 - AND I THINK I'M GOING TO 33:21 GO TO LUKE'S VERSION - IN LUKE CHAPTER 7, VERSE 36. 33:26 IT SAYS, "THEN ONE OF THE PHARISEES ASKED HIM TO EAT 33:30 WITH HIM. AND HE WENT TO THE 33:32 PHARISEE'S HOUSE, AND SAT DOWN TO EAT. 33:35 AND, BEHOLD, A WOMAN IN THE CITY WHO WAS A SINNER, 33:38 WHEN SHE KNEW THAT JESUS SAT AT THE TABLE IN THE 33:40 PHARISEE'S HOUSE, BROUGHT AN ALABASTER FLASK OF 33:44 FRAGRANT OIL, AND STOOD AT HIS FEET BEHIND HIM 33:48 WEEPING; AND SHE BEGAN TO WASH HIS FEET WITH HER 33:51 TEARS, AND WIPED THEM WITH THE HAIR OF HER HEAD; AND 33:54 SHE KISSED HIS FEET AND ANOINTED THEM WITH THE 33:56 FRAGRANT OIL." NOW IF YOU READ THIS 33:58 IN MARK AND JOHN, SHE ANOINTED HIS FEET AND SHE 34:01 POURED THE REMAINDER ON HIS HEAD. 34:03 THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT, BECAUSE THE WORD CHRIST - 34:08 I TOLD YOU - MEANS ANOINTED. 34:10 THE WORD MESSIAH MEANS ANOINTED. 34:13 HERE MARY, SHE ANOINTS HIM FROM HEAD TO FOOT. 34:16 YOU KNOW, ONLY A FEW PEOPLE WERE ANOINTED IN 34:19 THE BIBLE - KINGS WERE ANOINTED. 34:22 DAVID, YOU REMEMBER, WAS ANOINTED BY SAMUEL. 34:25 PROPHETS WERE ANOINTED. PRIESTS WERE ANOINTED. 34:31 SACRIFICES WERE ANOINTED. JESUS IS OUR PRIEST. 34:36 HE'S OUR PROPHET. HE IS OUR KING. HE IS OUR SACRIFICE. 34:40 SHE ANOINTED HIM FROM HEAD TO FOOT. 34:43 NOT ONLY WITH THIS VERY COSTLY OIL THAT WAS MEANT 34:45 FOR KINGS - SHE ANOINTED HIM WITH HER OWN TEARS. 34:49 NOW WHEN I FIRST READ THIS, I THOUGHT THAT THAT 34:51 MEANT SHE WAS JUST CRYING SO PROFUSELY SHE WAS 34:54 SHAKING HER TEARS OFF. 34:55 I THOUGHT, 'MAN, IF YOU CAN WASH SOMEONE'S FEET 34:56 WITH YOUR TEARS, YOU'VE GOT TO REALLY BE - YEAH - 35:00 HOW DO YOU DO - YOU'RE CUTTING ONIONS OR 35:02 SOMETHING - HOW DO YOU GET THAT MANY TEARS OUT OF 35:04 YOUR - AND THEN LATER I REALIZED THAT IT WAS A 35:06 CUSTOM IN BIBLE TIMES THAT WHEN PEOPLE WERE GOING 35:09 THROUGH TIMES OF GREAT SORROW AND THEY WERE 35:10 CRYING, THEY WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE A FLASK WITH A LITTLE 35:13 GENTLE LIP ON IT AND THEY WOULD CATCH THEIR TEARS. 35:16 AND IT WAS CONSIDERED SACRED SORROW AND THEY 35:20 WOULD BOTTLE IT AND SAVE IT AND THAT WAS A MEMORY 35:22 OF THEIR SORROWS WHEN THEY WERE WEEPING OR MOURNING 35:24 SOMETHING. AND SHE TOOK THIS VIAL OF 35:27 HER TEARS - MARY, MAYBE, HAD A BIG VIAL. 35:32 SHE POURED IT ON JESUS' FEET. 35:35 YOUR FEET, IN THE BIBLE, REPRESENT YOUR WALK. 35:38 POLITICIANS TELL US THEY FEEL OUR PAIN. 35:41 I'M NOT SO SURE. BUT JESUS DID 35:44 EXPERIENCE OUR SORROWS. HE WALKED IN OUR PAIN. 35:49 HE UNDERSTANDS OUR TEARS. THE LORD KNOWS 35:51 HOW YOU FEEL. MATTER OF FACT, GOD'S GOT 35:55 A RECORD OF EVERY TEAR YOU'VE EVER DROPPED. 35:58 THERE'S NOT A HAIR OF YOUR HEAD HE'S NOT COUNTED. 36:00 I'VE COUNTED MY OWN, ACTUALLY, IT'S NOT THAT 36:03 BIG OF A DEAL. (LAUGHTER) BUT HE KNOWS 36:05 WHAT YOU'RE EXPERIENCING. AND SO SHE BATHES HIS FEET 36:09 WITH HER TEARS, WIPES THEM WITH HER HAIR - THAT'S A 36:11 WOMAN'S GLORY IS HER HAIR. THIS IS A SYMBOL OF 36:14 COMPLETE SUBMISSION - AT HIS FEET, CRYING, 36:17 ANOINTING, KISSING HIS FEET. AND THE FRAGRANT OIL 36:21 FILLED THE HOUSE. NOW THE PHARISEE WHO HAD 36:25 INVITED HIM, HE SAW THIS AND SOME OF THE APOSTLES 36:27 ALSO SAW IT AND, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS JUDAS - 36:30 THE GOSPEL OF JOHN - JUDAS MURMURED AND HE SAID, 36:33 'OH, WHAT A WASTE! IF THIS OINTMENT HAD BEEN 36:36 SOLD IT COULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO THE POOR.' 36:38 JUDAS DIDN'T CARE ABOUT THE POOR, HE CARED ABOUT THE 36:40 MONEY IN THE BAG AND HE USED TO ROB FROM IT. 36:44 IT'S INTERESTING: MARY'S SACRIFICE CONVICTED JUDAS' 36:48 GREED AND SELFISHNESS AND SO HE CRITICIZED HER GIFT 36:53 AND JESUS SAID, 'LET HER ALONE, THE POOR YOU HAVE 36:55 WITH YOU ALL THE TIME, BUT ME YOU DON'T ALWAYS HAVE.' 36:58 AND HE GOES ON TO SAY, 'WHAT THIS WOMAN HAS DONE 37:00 WILL ALWAYS BE SPOKEN OF WHERE THE GOSPEL IS BEING 37:02 PREACHED.' AND IT'S BEING SPOKEN OF TODAY. 37:07 AND SIMON - IT TELLS US THAT HE IS CALLED SIMON 37:10 THE LEPER, IN THE OTHER GOSPELS - HE WAS A 37:12 PHARISEE WHO JESUS HEALED FROM LEPROSY AND HE HAS 37:15 THIS FEAST IN BETHANY - PROBABLY THE FEAST THAT 37:18 MARTHA WAS RUSTLING AROUND GETTING READY FOR - HAS 37:21 THIS FEAST IN BETHANY TO HONOR JESUS AND JESUS 37:24 COMES AND WHEN THEY SEE MARY, WHO HAD A BAD 37:27 REPUTATION IN TOWN, AND JESUS IS LETTING HER TOUCH 37:31 HIM, SIMON SAYS WITHIN HIMSELF, "THIS MAN, IF HE 37:35 WERE A PROPHET, WOULD KNOW WHO AND WHAT MANNER OF 37:38 WOMAN THIS IS WHO IS TOUCHING HIM, FOR SHE IS A 37:41 SINNER." THERE YOU HAVE IT. 37:44 THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT 37:46 MARY. HE, EVIDENTLY, THOUGHT SHE 37:48 WAS A BIGGER SINNER THAN HE WAS. 37:50 JESUS, KNOWING WHAT HE'S THINKING AND WHAT JUDAS IS 37:52 THINKING - YOU KNOW, I ALSO THOUGHT IT WAS VERY 37:54 INTERESTING - THERE'S ONLY TWO RECORDS IN THE 37:57 BIBLE OF ANYONE KISSING JESUS. 37:59 MARY KISSED HIS FEET AND SERVED HIM. 38:02 JUDAS KISSED HIS FACE AND BETRAYED HIM. 38:06 MARY WAS CONTENT TO KISS THE LOWEST SPOT. 38:09 JUDAS WANTED THE HIGHEST SPOT AND HE BETRAYED HIM. 38:16 AND SO SIMON IS THINKING, 'IF THIS MAN WAS A PROPHET 38:19 - EVEN THOUGH HE HEALED ME FROM LEPROSY - I - HOW 38:20 DOES HE LET THIS WOMAN' - AND I'M WONDERING, HOW 38:23 DOES SIMON KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT THIS WOMAN? 38:26 "AND JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO HIM, 'SIMON, I'VE 38:29 GOT SOMETHING TO SAY TO YOU.' HE SAID, 'MASTER, 38:31 SAY ON.' 'THERE WAS A CERTAIN CREDITOR THAT HAD 38:34 TWO DEBTORS. ONE OWED FIVE HUNDRED 38:36 DENARII, AND THE OTHER FIFTY. AND WHEN THEY HAD NOTHING 38:39 WITH WHICH TO REPAY, HE FREELY FORGAVE THEM BOTH. 38:42 TELL ME, THEREFORE, WHICH OF THEM WILL LOVE HIM MORE?' 38:46 SIMON ANSWERED AND SAID, 'I SUPPOSE THE ONE WHOM HE 38:48 FORGAVE MORE.'" AND HE SAID 'YOU'RE RIGHT.' HE 38:51 TURNED TO THE WOMAN AND HE SAID TO SIMON, 'DO YOU SEE 38:53 THIS WOMAN?' - EVERYONE SAW THE WOMAN. 38:56 THEY COULD SMELL WHAT SHE'D DONE ALL THROUGH THE 38:57 HOUSE. 'YOU SEE THIS WOMAN? 38:59 I ENTERED YOUR HOUSE; YOU GAVE ME NO WATER TO WASH 39:01 MY FEET.' WHICH WAS THE CUSTOMARY, POLITE THING TO DO. 39:07 'BUT SHE'S WASHED MY FEET WITH HER TEARS AND WIPED 39:09 THEM WITH THE HAIR OF HER HEAD. 39:12 YOU GAVE ME NO KISS BUT THIS WOMAN HAS NOT CEASED 39:14 TO KISS MY FEET SINCE THE TIME I CAME IN. 39:17 YOU DID NOT ANOINT MY HEAD WITH OIL, BUT THIS WOMAN 39:20 HAS ANOINTED MY FEET WITH FRAGRANT OIL. 39:22 THEREFORE I SAY TO YOU, HER SINS, WHICH ARE MANY,' 39:27 - HE'S NOT CONTESTING THAT. 39:29 SHE WAS A BIG SINNER - 'HER SINS, WHICH ARE MANY, 39:31 ARE FORGIVEN.' ISN'T IT GOOD TO KNOW THAT JESUS 39:33 CAN FORGIVE MANY SINS? >>AMEN. 39:35 >>AND THEN CHRIST GOES ON TO SAY, 'FOR SHE LOVED 39:41 MUCH.' - "...HER SINS, WHICH ARE MANY, ARE 39:43 FORGIVEN, FOR SHE LOVED MUCH. 39:46 BUT TO WHOM LITTLE IS FORGIVEN, THE SAME LOVES 39:49 LITTLE." IS IT SAFE TO UNDERSTAND? 39:52 HE WHO IS FORGIVEN MUCH, LOVES MUCH. 39:55 I USED TO READ THIS AND I THOUGHT, 'LORD, I NEED TO 39:58 LOVE YOU MORE.' - WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 39:59 I'VE GOT TO GO OUT AND SIN A LITTLE MORE? 40:02 - 'AND THE MORE I SIN, THE MORE YOU FORGIVE ME, THE 40:03 MORE I'LL LOVE YOU.' I THOUGHT, 'WELL, THAT'S 40:05 KIND OF A STRANGE WAY TO WORK THINGS.' IS JESUS 40:08 SAYING - YOU KNOW, PEOPLE GROW UP IN THE CHURCH. 40:10 I PREACHED THIS MESSAGE ONCE, MANY YEARS AGO, AND 40:12 A LADY CAME UP AND SAID, 'I'VE BEEN IN THE CHURCH 40:13 FOR GENERATIONS.' OF COURSE, NOBODY'S REALLY 40:15 IN THE CHURCH FOR GENERATIONS BECAUSE GOD 40:17 HAS NO GRANDCHILDREN. BUT SHE SAID, 'YEAH, YOU 40:20 KNOW, MY PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS - WE'VE BEEN 40:21 IN THE CHURCH FOR YEARS. I GREW UP IN THE CHURCH 40:23 AND I HEAR THESE TESTIMONIES OF PEOPLE WHO 40:24 ARE OUT THERE AND THEY'RE JUST REALLY IN THE GUTTER 40:26 AND THE LORD SAVES THEM. THEY'VE GOT THESE DRAMATIC 40:28 TRANSFORMATIONS AND TESTIMONIES 40:30 AND I THOUGHT, 'I'VE NEVER DONE 40:31 ANYTHING REALLY WILD LIKE THAT.' I FIGURE IF I'M 40:33 GOING TO LOVE THE LORD, I NEED TO JUST GO OUT THERE 40:35 AND GO BERSERK AND THEN REPENT AND COME BACK AND 40:38 THEN I'LL HAVE A TESTIMONY AND THEN I'LL REALLY LOVE 40:39 THE LORD.' AND I SAID, 'GOD FORBID!' 40:43 THE LORD ISN'T SAYING YOU'VE GOT TO GO OUT THERE 40:45 AND BE A SCANDALOUS SINNER AND THEN COME BACK TO THE 40:47 LORD AND THEN YOU'LL REALLY LOVE AND APPRECIATE 40:49 JESUS, HE SAID, 'HE THAT IS FORGIVEN MUCH, LOVES 40:52 MUCH.' WHO IS NOT FORGIVEN MUCH? 40:55 >>AMEN. >>SIMON, EVIDENTLY, 40:57 THOUGHT THAT SHE WAS A BIG SINNER AND HE WAS 40:58 A LITTLE SINNER. CHEER UP, YOU'RE 41:00 ALL BIG SINNERS. THERE ARE NO LITTLE 41:03 SINNERS OUT THERE. YOU ALL QUALIFY BECAUSE NO 41:07 MATTER WHAT YOU THINK YOUR LIST OF SINS ARE OR WHAT 41:09 YOUR RECORDS LOOK LIKE, YOUR SINS ARE ENOUGH TO 41:11 PUT JESUS ON THE CROSS ALL BY YOURSELF. 41:15 EVERYTHING THAT JESUS WENT THROUGH HE WOULD HAVE HAD 41:17 TO GO THROUGH FOR YOU. SO YOU DO QUALIFY. 41:22 THE THING IS, DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOU'VE BEEN 41:24 FORGIVEN? HE THAT KNOWS HOW MUCH 41:28 THEY'VE BEEN FORGIVEN, LOVES MUCH. 41:31 AND YOU KNOW HOW YOU CAN TELL HOW MUCH YOU'VE BEEN 41:33 FORGIVEN? HOW MUCH DID IT COST TO 41:37 BUY YOUR FORGIVENESS? THEY SAY, 'HOW MUCH 41:40 IS SOMETHING WORTH?' IT'S WORTH WHAT SOMEONE 41:42 WILL PAY FOR IT. HOW MUCH WAS PAID 41:45 FOR YOUR REDEMPTION? QUITE A BIT. 41:49 THAT'S HOW MUCH YOU'RE WORTH. 41:50 HE THAT KNOWS HOW MUCH THEY'RE FORGIVEN. 41:54 IF YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH JESUS PAID FOR YOU, YOU 41:56 WILL LOVE MUCH. AND THEN HE SAID TO THE 41:59 WOMAN, 'YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN.' WOULDN'T YOU 42:02 LIKE TO HAVE HIM SAY THAT TO US? HERE SHE IS, SHE'S MAKING 42:05 THIS GREAT SACRIFICE - SHE SPENT ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY 42:07 A GIFT FOR A KING AND SHE POURS IT OUT ON JESUS. 42:10 YOU KNOW, SHE HEARD JESUS SAY SEVERAL TIMES - 42:13 CHRIST, BEFORE HE GOES TO THE CROSS - HE SAYS TO THE 42:16 DISCIPLES, 'I'M GOING TO JERUSALEM. 42:19 I'M GOING TO BE BETRAYED INTO THE HANDS OF SINNERS. 42:22 I'LL BE CRUCIFIED. I'LL BE BEATEN AND JUDGED 42:24 AND I'LL RISE THE THIRD DAY.' AND THE DISCIPLES 42:28 SAID, 'NO, NO, LORD, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? 42:29 NO, DON'T - NONE OF THAT.' THE DISCIPLES WEREN'T 42:31 LISTENING. CHRIST SAID IT SO OFTEN 42:33 THAT EVEN HIS ENEMIES REMEMBERED IT. 42:35 THEY WENT TO PILATE AND SAID, 'WE HEARD THIS 42:37 DECEIVER SAY HE'D RISE AFTER THREE DAYS. 42:40 HIS ENEMIES HEARD IT. MARY HEARD IT TOO. 42:43 AND JESUS SAID, 'SHE'S COME TO ANOINT ME BEFORE 42:47 MY BURIAL.' WE TYPICALLY GIVE GIFTS TO PEOPLE AFTER 42:50 THEY'RE - YOU KNOW, THEIR FLOWERS AT THEIR FUNERAL 42:53 OR SOMETHING, AND EVERYONE SAYS THESE WONDERFUL 42:56 THINGS AFTER THEY'RE GONE - THAT THEY NEVER SAID 42:57 WHEN THEY WERE ALIVE. SOME OF THEM AREN'T EVEN 43:01 TRUE AND THEY STILL SAY WONDERFUL THINGS, RIGHT? 43:04 MARY WANTED TO SHOW HER LOVE WHILE JESUS WAS ALIVE. 43:09 AND IF YOU WANT THE LORD TO KNOW THAT YOU LOVE HIM, 43:12 DO IT WHILE HE'S BLESSING YOU. 43:17 SHE GAVE A GENEROUS GIFT. DO YOU THINK SHE EVER 43:18 REGRETTED MAKING THAT SACRIFICE FOR JESUS? 43:22 NEXT, WHAT WE FIND IS THAT MARY IS - SHE'S AT JESUS' 43:27 FEET NOW, IN SURRENDER AT THE CROSS. 43:30 NOW THIS IS A FASCINATING PICTURE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, 43:35 THE APOSTLES IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, THEY WERE 43:38 VERY BOLD AND AT THE LAST SUPPER, PETER SAID, 43:41 'THOUGH ALL MEN FORSAKE THEE, I'LL NOT FORSAKE 43:43 YOU.' AND WHEN THE MOB FIRST CAME TO ARREST 43:45 JESUS, PETER PULLED OUT A SWORD, BUT THEY ALL 43:49 SCATTERED AND RAN. AND THEN AT THE CROSS IT 43:52 SAID THAT THEY 'STOOD AFAR OFF BEHOLDING THESE 43:55 THINGS' - IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE - BUT IF YOU GO TO 43:57 JOHN CHAPTER 19, VERSE 25, "NOW THERE STOOD BY THE 44:03 CROSS OF JESUS HIS MOTHER, AND HIS MOTHER'S SISTER, 44:08 MARY THE WIFE OF CLOPAS, AND MARY MAGDALENE." 44:14 IT'S THE DEVOTED WOMEN WHO ARE ACTUALLY THERE AT THE 44:16 CROSS, THE OTHERS ARE STANDING WATCHING AT A 44:18 DISTANCE. THEY'RE AFRAID, BUT THE 44:21 WOMEN DON'T CARE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THEM. 44:25 THEY'RE WILLING - THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT JESUS' 44:27 SUFFERING. THEY WANT JESUS TO 44:28 SEE THAT THEY CARE. THEY'RE BEING SYMPATHETIC 44:31 AND EMPATHETIC AND THEY'RE SHOWING THEIR LOVE THERE 44:34 AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS. YOU KNOW, HERE WE SEE MARY 44:38 AT JESUS' FEET AGAIN, DON'T WE? 44:40 WEEPING, NO DOUBT, AT HIS FEET, BEHOLDING HIM, 44:45 FINALLY PAYING THE DEBT FOR WHAT HE HAD PROMISED 44:48 EARLIER WHEN HE SAID, 'GO AND SIN NO MORE. 44:51 I DON'T CONDEMN YOU.' ALL OF US, LIKE MARY, NEED TO 44:55 SPEND TIME AT JESUS' FEET BEHOLDING HIM AS OUR 44:57 SACRIFICE. HOW MANY SONGS ARE 45:00 WRITTEN ABOUT THE CROSS? AT THE CROSS, AT THE CROSS 45:04 WHERE I FIRST SAW THE LIGHT. BENEATH THE CROSS OF JESUS 45:07 I WILL TAKE MY STAND. JESUS KEEP ME NEAR THE 45:09 CROSS - WHY DO ALL THESE HYMN WRITERS WRITE 45:12 ABOUT THE CROSS? BECAUSE THE CROSS IS THE 45:14 AXLE ON WHICH THE GOSPEL ROTATES. 45:17 IT IS THE VERY FULCRUM ON WHICH THE WHOLE BIBLE 45:21 PIVOTS. IT'S AT THE CROSS YOU SEE 45:23 CHRIST'S POWER OF LOVE AND IT'S AT THE CROSS YOU CAN 45:27 EVEN SEE THE DEVIL'S LOVE FOR POWER. 45:30 YOU SEE THE GREAT CONTRAST BETWEEN GOD EMPTYING 45:33 HIMSELF AT THE CROSS AND YOU SEE THE DIABOLICAL VILLAIN 45:38 - THE ARCH FIEND - THE DEVIL - HOW HE'S TRYING TO 45:41 EXTRACT ALL THE SUFFERING. JESUS IS SAYING, 'FATHER, 45:44 FORGIVE THEM.' AND IT'S AT THE CROSS WE SEE 45:48 HIS LOVE FOR US. HOW ARE WE GOING TO 45:50 REPENT OF OUR SINS? THE BIBLE SAYS 'IT'S THE 45:53 GOODNESS OF GOD THAT LEADS US TO REPENTANCE.' AND SO 45:55 IT WAS THROUGH SEEING THIS SACRIFICE THAT IT BRINGS 46:01 US TO COMPLETE SURRENDER. SO HERE MARY'S AT HIS FEET 46:05 WEEPING AT THE CROSS. YOU KNOW, THE CROSS IS ONE 46:08 OF THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD TRUTHS IN THE BIBLE. 46:12 PEOPLE THINK THE CROSS IS A GOOD LUCK CHARM. 46:15 EVERYONE'S IN A HURRY TO WEAR THE CROSS, BUT THEY 46:17 DON'T WANT TO BEAR THE CROSS. 46:18 CHRIST SAID, 'IF YOU WOULD COME AFTER ME, YOU MUST 46:20 DENY YOURSELF DAILY, TAKE UP YOUR CROSS, AND FOLLOW 46:22 ME.' PAUL SAID, 'I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST.' I 46:26 REMEMBER READING ONE TIME, IN WORLD WAR II IN ITALY 46:29 THAT THIS SOLDIER JUMPED INTO A FOXHOLE JUST AS 46:33 BULLETS CHAFED OVER HIS HEAD. 46:36 AND HE WANTED TO GET A LITTLE DEEPER BECAUSE THE 46:37 FOXHOLE WASN'T QUITE DEEP ENOUGH. 46:39 AND SO, WITH HIS BARE HANDS HE'S DIGGING IN THE 46:41 FOXHOLE AND HE UNEARTHED A SILVER CRUCIFIX THAT 46:44 ANOTHER SOLDIER HAD, EVIDENTLY, LEFT THERE 46:45 BEFORE. AND RIGHT AT THAT MOMENT A 46:48 CHAPLAIN JUMPED INTO THE FOXHOLE AND DUCKED AND THE 46:53 SOLDIER SAID, 'BOY, AM I EVER GLAD TO SEE YOU. 46:56 CAN YOU TELL ME HOW TO MAKE THIS THING WORK?' 46:58 (LAUGHTER) AND THAT'S KIND OF HOW IT IS IN CHRISTIANITY. 47:02 EVERYONE'S WANTING TO KNOW - 'WE COULD PUT THE CROSS 47:04 ON THE CHURCH' AND 'PEOPLE WEAR CROSSES' AND 'HOW DO 47:07 YOU MAKE IT WORK?' YOU KNOW, IT'S THROUGH 47:10 SEEING THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS AND SEEING HIS LOVE 47:14 FOR US - BY BEHOLDING THAT - THERE'S A TRANSFORMING 47:17 INFLUENCE WHEN WE SEE HIS LOVE. 47:19 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT JESUS DYING ON THE CROSS 47:21 FOR YOUR SIN, IT'S HARD TO BE ANGRY AT THE PETTY 47:23 THINGS WE DO TO EACH OTHER. 47:26 IT HELPS GIVE THINGS PERSPECTIVE. 47:28 BUT I NEED TO HASTEN ALONG. 47:31 NEXT YOU SEE #6 - MARY IN SERVICE AT THE TOMB . 47:37 WHEN THEY TOOK HIS BODY DOWN FROM THE CROSS, THE 47:40 WOMEN WENT ALONG TO WATCH AFTER HIM. 47:44 MARK CHAPTER 15, VERSE 45, "AND WHEN HE KNEW IT OF 47:48 THE CENTURION, HE GAVE THE BODY TO JOSEPH. 47:51 AND HE BOUGHT FINE LINEN, AND TOOK HIM DOWN, AND 47:54 WRAPPED HIM IN THE LINEN, AND LAID HIM IN A 47:55 SEPULCHER WHICH WAS HEWN OUT OF A ROCK, AND ROLLED 47:58 A STONE UNTO THE DOOR OF THE SEPULCHER. 48:01 AND MARY MAGDALENE AND MARY THE MOTHER OF JOSES 48:05 BEHELD WHERE HE WAS LAID." 48:06 THAT MEANS THEY OVERSAW THE CARE OF HIS BODY. 48:10 YOU SEE THE DEVOTION EVEN THERE. 48:12 AND I - YOU KNOW, BEFORE - THEY DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO 48:14 ANOINT HIS BODY AND SABBATH WAS APPROACHING 48:18 AND THAT WAS VERY SACRED TO JESUS AND THE APOSTLES. 48:20 IT SAYS THEY WENT HOME AND PREPARED SPICES AND KEPT 48:23 THE SABBATH ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT - IN LUKE 48:26 CHAPTER 53. BUT BEFORE THEY DID THAT, 48:28 THEY DID WRAP HIM BECAUSE WHEN JESUS AROSE, THERE 48:31 WERE WRAPPINGS THAT HE SET ASIDE. 48:34 WHO DO YOU THINK WRAPPED HIS FEET? 48:37 CAN'T PROVE IT, BUT I JUST PICTURE MARY SAYING, 'LET 48:40 ME WRAP HIS FEET.' AND THE OTHER MARY WRAPPED THE TOP 48:43 END AND - YOU CAN READ ALSO ABOUT THAT IN LUKE 48:48 CHAPTER 53 - 'THE WOMEN ALSO THAT CAME WITH HIM 48:50 FROM GALILEE FOLLOWED AFTER. 48:52 THEY BEHELD THE TOMB AND HOW HIS BODY WAS LAID.' 48:55 YOU KNOW, IT'S IMPORTANT TO SIT AT HIS FEET, BUT 48:58 DOING WHAT MARTHA DOES IS ALSO IMPORTANT AND THAT'S 49:00 SERVICE. BUT YOU NOTICE THE LOVE 49:02 AND THE LISTENING COMES BEFORE THE SERVICE. 49:07 NOW IT'S INTERESTING THAT, WHEN YOU READ IN MARK 49:10 16:9, IT SAYS, 'WHEN HE AROSE EARLY ON THE FIRST 49:14 DAY OF THE WEEK, HE APPEARED FIRST TO MARY 49:17 MAGDALENE, WHICH LEADS US TO THE NEXT POINT: JESUS 49:21 IS NOW - OR MARY IS NOW AT JESUS' FEET IN SONG. 49:26 OF ALL THE PEOPLE HE COULD APPEAR TO - WHEN HE AROSE 49:29 EARLY ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK HE APPEARED TO 49:31 MARY MAGDALENE - AND IT GOES ON TO SAY, "OUT OF 49:34 WHOM HE HAD CAST SEVEN DEMONS." 49:37 WHY DOES IT SAY SEVEN? IN THE BIBLE, ISN'T THAT 49:40 AN IMPORTANT NUMBER? DOESN'T THAT KIND OF 49:41 CAPTURE YOUR ATTENTION? SEVEN. 49:45 YOU KNOW, I WAS READING AND YOU CAN LOOK IN 49:46 PROVERBS CHAPTER 6, VERSE 16 - SIN IS SORT OF 49:50 ENCOMPASSED IN SEVEN THINGS, ACCORDING TO 49:51 SOLOMON, "THESE SIX THINGS THE LORD HATES, YES, SEVEN 49:55 ARE AN ABOMINATION TO HIM: A PROUD LOOK, A LYING 49:59 TONGUE," - YOU'VE HEARD OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, HUH? 50:02 - "HANDS THAT SHED INNOCENT BLOOD, A HEART 50:04 THAT DEVISES WICKED PLANS, FEET THAT ARE SWIFT IN 50:07 RUNNING TO EVIL, A FALSE WITNESS WHO SPEAKS LIES, 50:10 AND ONE WHO SOWS DISCORD AMONG BRETHREN," - 'THESE 50:14 THINGS I HATE' - SO WHEN IT SAYS HE CAST SEVEN 50:17 DEVILS OUT OF MARY, WHAT DOES MARY REPRESENT? 50:19 SHE'S A TYPE OF THE CHURCH. YOU CAN FIND ANY SIN YOU 50:23 MIGHT COMMIT SOMEWHERE IN THOSE CATEGORIES, BUT THE 50:25 GOOD THING IS HE CAST ALL THOSE DEVILS OUT. 50:27 HE CAN FORGIVE AND DELIVER FROM ALL OF THAT. 50:31 YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE ALSO SAYS 'A RIGHTEOUS MAN MAY 50:33 FALL SEVEN TIMES, BUT HE RISES AGAIN.' 50:38 SO MARY IS NOW AT JESUS' FEET. 50:39 IT TELLS US THE STORY IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN THAT, 50:42 YOU KNOW, THE WOMEN CAME VERY EARLY. 50:44 MARY, EVIDENTLY RENDEZVOUSED WITH THE 50:46 OTHER WOMEN, BUT SHE GOT THERE FIRST. 50:48 SHE STARTED TO BACKTRACK AND SHE ENCOUNTERED THE 50:50 OTHER WOMEN COMING WITH THE SPICES. 50:52 THEY CAME TOGETHER, THEY SAW THE ANGELS, THOSE 50:54 WOMEN RAN OFF TO TELL THE APOSTLES. 50:55 MARY FOUND JOHN AND PETER - THEY WERE IN DIFFERENT 50:58 PLACES - THEY COME RUNNING BACK TO THE TOMB. 51:00 THE TOMB IS EMPTY, THEY LEAVE. 51:03 I DID A DEEP STUDY IN THE SEQUENCE OF HOW THIS 51:05 HAPPENED BECAUSE I WROTE ABOUT IT. 51:08 AND THEN MARY'S THERE ALONE. ALL THESE OTHER PEOPLE HAD 51:11 COME AND GONE, INCLUDING THE APOSTLES. 51:14 MARY'S THERE ALONE AND SHE WON'T LEAVE. 51:17 SHE THINKS 'THIS IS THE LAST PLACE I SAW MY LORD, 51:19 AND I'M NOT LEAVING UNTIL I FIND HIM. 51:22 I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GO FROM HERE BUT I, WITH MY 51:24 OWN EYES, PLACED HIS BODY IN THIS TOMB AND I'M GOING 51:28 TO WAIT FOR HIM.' THERE SHE WAS WITH HER EYES - 51:32 BEEN CRYING ALL WEEKEND, WAITING. 51:36 HOW MANY OF YOU HEARD THAT STORY YEARS AGO, ABOUT 51:40 GREYFRIAR'S BOBBY? 51:42 THERE WAS A LITTLE SCOTTISH TERRIER MANY 51:45 YEARS AGO IN SCOTLAND - EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - HAD 51:48 A SHEPHERD MASTER AND HIS NAME WAS OLD JOCK. 51:53 AND AFTER YEARS OF THE DOG LOVING AND WORKING WITH 51:55 HIS MASTER, HIS MASTER DIED AND HE WAS BURIED IN 51:57 THE CHURCH CEMETERY - GREYFRIAR'S CHURCH - AND 52:02 THAT DOG, FOR THE NEXT 14 YEARS, HE'D GO INTO TOWN 52:05 ONCE A DAY AND HE'D BEG FOR A LITTLE BIT OF FOOD 52:07 AND THEN HE SPENT THE REST OF HIS TIME ON HIS 52:09 MASTER'S GRAVE. AND THERE'S A MONUMENT 52:12 THERE AND THEY ENDED UP BURYING THE DOG THERE. 52:14 HE SAID, 'THIS IS THE LAST PLACE I SAW MY MASTER.' 52:17 AND THE DOG WOULDN'T LEAVE. ANY OF YOU EVER HEARD 52:19 THAT STORY BEFORE? BEAUTIFUL STORY. 52:21 YOU KNOW, THEY TALK ABOUT MAN'S BEST FRIEND - THE 52:24 DEVOTION OF A DOG - AND HERE'S MARY. 52:27 SHE SAYING, 'THIS IS WHERE I SAW HIM. 52:29 I'M NOT LEAVING.' AND JESUS SAW THAT LOVE AND 52:32 THAT DEVOTION. SHE'S THERE CRYING AND SHE 52:37 LOOKS UP AND SHE SEES HIM, BUT SHE DOESN'T 52:38 KNOW IT'S HIM. HER EYES ARE SWOLLEN AND 52:40 RED WITH TEARS AND HE SAYS, 'MARY,' - SHE 52:45 THOUGHT IT WAS THE GARDENER - AND, 52:47 ACTUALLY, HE WAS. JESUS PLANTED A GARDEN 52:52 EASTWARD IN EDEN - THE GARDEN OF EDEN - ALL 52:55 THINGS THAT WERE MADE, WERE MADE BY HIM. 52:58 AND THEN SHE HEARD HIM SAY HER NAME, 'MARY.' SHE 53:02 SAID, 'IF YOU'VE TAKEN AWAY MY LORD, TELL ME 53:03 WHERE YOU'VE LAID HIM AND I'LL TAKE CARE OF HIS 53:05 BODY.' LISTEN TO THAT LOVE. 53:07 AND, YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS HAVE THESE PICTURES IN MY 53:09 MIND. I THINK JESUS WAS A STRONG 53:11 CARPENTER AND SHE SAYS, 'I'LL TAKE CARE OF HIS 53:13 BODY.' AND I TRY AND PICTURE - WHAT 53:15 IF THEY SAID HIS BODY IS OVER THERE? 53:16 MARY'S GOING TO GO GET HIS BODY AND SHE'S GOING TO 53:18 DRAG THE FORM OF THE CARPENTER'S BODY. 53:22 SHE DIDN'T KNOW HOW SHE WAS GOING TO DO IT. 53:23 SHE SAID, 'I'LL TAKE CARE OF IT.' MAYBE HIS BODY WAS 53:26 EVICTED - IT'S A RICH MAN'S GRAVE - WHO KNOWS 53:27 WHAT THE ROMANS DID? BUT SHE SAID, 'I'LL TAKE 53:30 CARE OF IT.' LOOK AT THAT. SHE DIDN'T KNOW HOW, BUT 53:31 SHE WAS GOING TO DO IT. AND HE SAYS, 'MARY.' AND 53:35 THEN IT REGISTERS AND SHE THROWS HERSELF DOWN. 53:39 SHE HAD HEARD THAT VOICE BEFORE, CASTING OUT DEVILS. 53:42 THROWS HERSELF DOWN AT JESUS' FEET TO WORSHIP 53:44 HIM. HE SAYS, 'DON'T DETAIN ME. 53:45 I'M NOT YET ASCENDED TO MY FATHER, BUT GO TO MY 53:49 BRETHREN AND TELL THEM THAT I ASCEND TO MY GOD 53:51 AND TO YOUR GOD. I WANT YOU TO GO AND TELL 53:54 THEM.' NOW THINK ABOUT THAT. 53:56 OF ALL THE PEOPLE JESUS COULD HAVE CHOSEN TO SHARE 53:58 THE GOOD NEWS, WHY WOULD HE PICK MARY? 54:03 PETER HAD BEEN TO THE TOMB. 54:04 MAYBE HIS OWN MOTHER HAD BEEN THERE. 54:07 JOHN HAD BEEN THERE - THE BELOVED DISCIPLE? 54:09 HE WAITS UNTIL THEY'RE ALL GONE AND THIS PERSON THAT 54:12 EVERYBODY FIGURED WAS AN OUTCAST FROM SOCIETY, HE 54:18 REVEALS HIMSELF TO HER. YOU KNOW, IF I WAS THE 54:21 LORD, I WOULD HAVE ORCHESTRATED THE 54:22 RESURRECTION DIFFERENTLY. I WOULD HAVE HAD JESUS, 54:27 LIKE, FIRST APPEAR TO PILATE AND SAY, 'NOW 54:30 WHAT DO YOU THINK?' (LAUGHTER) THOSE ROMAN 54:33 SOLDIERS DIDN'T DO A GOOD JOB KEEPING ME IN.' OR, 54:37 YOU KNOW, BETTER YET, I WOULD HAVE GONE TO THE 54:38 SANHEDRIN AND GONE TO CAIAPHAS AND ANNAS THE 54:40 HIGH PRIEST AND SAID, 'SO, YOU DIDN'T THINK I 54:43 WAS THE SON OF GOD? NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK?' 54:45 JUST LOOK AT THEM, YOU KNOW, JUST WATCH THEM 54:46 SHAKE. JESUS DOES THINGS DIFFERENTLY. 54:51 HE PICKED SOMEONE THAT WAS CONSIDERED THE WEAKEST OF 54:53 THE WEAK. THE LORD, WHEN HE TURNED 54:56 THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN, IT SAYS, 'NOT MANY WISE, NOT 54:59 MANY NOBLE,' BUT HE TAKES PEOPLE THAT HAVE 55:02 SIMPLE LOVE. HE DOESN'T DO THINGS 55:06 LIKE YOU AND I DO. HE TAKES HUMBLE MEANS AND 55:09 THE LORD THEN USED MARY AND GAVE HER THE GREATEST 55:12 MESSAGE IN THE WORLD. HE SAID, 'I WANT YOU TO 55:14 GO' - WHAT IS THE CHURCH SUPPOSED TO DO? 55:17 FIRST WE SEE HER COMING TO JESUS IN THE TEMPLE IN 55:20 REPENTANCE, AND IN THE END SHE'S GOING WITH A SONG IN 55:22 HER HEART - THIS IS THE LAST TIME MARY APPEARS IN 55:24 THE BIBLE. THE LAST TIME YOU SEE HER, 55:26 SHE IS RUNNING TO TELL OTHERS THAT JESUS IS ALIVE. 55:30 HE COMMISSIONS HER WITH THE GOOD NEWS TO GO TELL 55:33 PEOPLE ABOUT THE RESURRECTION. 55:35 AND THIS IS WHAT THE CHURCH IS SUPPOSED TO DO. 55:37 HERE YOU SEE THE SEVEN POINTS I'VE JUST GIVEN 55:39 YOU: SHE'S AT HIS FEET WEEPING IN THE TEMPLE, FOR 55:42 FORGIVENESS OF SINS; SHE'S AT HIS FEET PRAYING FOR 55:45 HER DEAD BROTHERS AND SISTERS - FOR RESURRECTION 55:49 - AND JESUS DOES IT; AT HIS FEET LEARNING AND 55:51 LISTENING - DEVOTIONS; AT HIS FEET GIVING; AT HIS 55:54 FEET BEHOLDING HIM ON HIS CROSS - SIX - AT HIS FEET 55:57 IN SERVICE - SEVEN - AT HIS FEET WORSHIPING AND 56:00 PROCLAIMING HIM AS THE RISEN SAVIOR. 56:03 YOU KNOW, IF THE LORD COULD USE MARY - IF HE 56:06 COULD FORGIVE MARY, HE CAN DO THAT FOR US. 56:08 BUT ALL OF US ARE LIKE MARY. 56:10 ALL OF US NEED TO EXPERIENCE THOSE SEVEN 56:12 POINTS. TIME SERVING, LISTENING, 56:17 PRAYING, WORSHIPING, PROCLAIMING AT 56:20 JESUS' FEET. AND IT BEGINS BY COMING 56:22 IN SORROW AND PRESENTING OURSELVES. 56:24 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT OUR SINS ARE, HE IS IN THE 56:27 BUSINESS OF SAVING US FROM OUR SINS. 56:29 DO YOU BELIEVE THAT FRIENDS? >>AMEN. 56:31 >>HE WANTS TO DO THAT FOR YOU. 56:33 WE NEED TO SPEND TIME, LIKE MARY, AT JESUS' FEET. 56:36 AND THERE MIGHT BE SOME TIME WE NEED TO SPEND AT 56:38 JESUS' FEET WEEPING. (SOFT BACKGROUND MUSIC 56:41 PLAYING) I READ A QUOTE BY VANCE HAVNER, WHERE HE 56:43 SAID, 'GOD USES BROKEN THINGS. 56:46 HE TAKES BROKEN SOIL TO PRODUCE A CROP, BROKEN 56:49 CLOUDS TO GIVE RAIN, BROKEN GRAIN TO GIVE BREAD 56:53 AND BROKEN BREAD TO GIVE STRENGTH. 56:55 IT'S A BROKEN ALABASTER BOX THAT GIVES FORTH 56:57 PERFUME. IT'S PETER WEEPING AND 57:00 BROKEN THAT RETURNS TO GREATER POWER. 57:02 AND IT WAS MARY WHO, BROKENHEARTED, CAME TO 57:05 JESUS AND HE WAS ABLE TO USE HER. 57:08 HAVE YOU FALLEN AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS? 57:11 HAVE YOU BEEN BROKEN? 57:12 HAVE YOU ACCEPTED JESUS AS YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOR? 57:16 ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS COME JUST LIKE YOU ARE. 57:18 YOUR LIFE MIGHT BE DEFILED. 57:20 KNOW THAT YOU ARE A BIG SINNER AND THAT JESUS WILL 57:22 FORGIVE THOSE SINS AND YOU CAN LOVE HIM MUCH. 57:25 DO YOU WANT THAT EXPERIENCE, FRIENDS? 57:27 YOU WHO ARE WATCHING? LET'S ASK HIM. 57:30 OH DEAR FATHER, WE'RE MOVED AND ENCOURAGED BY 57:33 THE DEVOTION OF MARY AND IT INSPIRES US - HER FAITH 57:38 - THAT WE MIGHT HAVE THIS DEVOTION TOO. 57:40 WE KNOW THIS STORY'S IN YOUR WORD SO WE CAN HAVE 57:42 THIS EXPERIENCE AND WE PRAY FOR THAT NOW, IN 57:46 JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 57:48 (MUSIC) |
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