Welcome to Faith Chapel.
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I'm Christian
Berdahl, Director of Shepherd's
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Call Ministry.
And before we pray,
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I have a question to ask you.
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Have you ever
thought about the fact
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that we could share
truth as God's people
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in a way that would
actually drive people
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from God? Yes, it's
true and we'll explore
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this in just a moment
but first, let's pray.
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Father in heaven,
Lord, we ask that you
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would be with us as we study;
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we ask that you
would send the Holy Spirit
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to anoint our time
together. I pray that you
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would help us to
thumb through our Bibles
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and to learn new
things in Jesus name. Amen.
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Let's go straight to
the Bible and what I've
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done is I've combined
three of the four gospels
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to give us a
quick succession of what
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happened in a room
with Mary and Jesus,
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the disciples and
others had all surrounded
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an alabaster box.
Let's read Matthew 26:6,
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Jesus was in Bethany
in the house of Simon
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the leper. John
12:2, there they made him a
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supper; and Martha
served, but Lazarus was
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one of them that sat
at the table with him.
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Luke 7:37, And
behold, a woman in the city,
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which was a
sinner, when she knew that
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Jesus sat at met in
the Pharisee's house,
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brought an
alabaster box of ointment.
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John 12:3, Then
Mary took a pound of the
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ointment of
spikenard, very costly.
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Luke 7:38, And
stood at his feet behind
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him weeping, and
began to wash his feet
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with her tears, did
wipe them with the hairs
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of her head, and
kissed his feet, and anointed
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them with the ointment.
And Mark 14:3 says that
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she also
anointed his head as well.
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It sent out ripples
that impacted souls in that
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very room. In fact
ripples caused that day,
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ripples caused that
day have reached all
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the way down the
space of time to us.
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Recently I was
thinking of an illustration
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regarding ripples that
I think most of us have
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heard and that is
when, you know you cast
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a stone into a pond
that from the point of
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impact in the water
will ripple outward until
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it reaches the
shores. Friends, every choice
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that we make as Christians
or even non-Christians
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causes ripples in our
own life and even ripples
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that could affect
others. So it's important that
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we interact properly
with those around us that
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might be affected by
our choices and our actions.
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Now Mary has just
opened the alabaster box
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of, and she's
anointed Jesus and the ripples
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have already
begun to be sent out.
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The ripples from one
choice from one act have
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already started.
Mary was enjoying complete
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freedom in her
heart as she was sharing
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the oil her love with
her savior. And she had
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no guilt, no
embarrassment because
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she didn't bring a
lame offering, she brought
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an offering that
was worth an entire of
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year's wage and
beyond this she brought
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the offering of
her open heart to him.
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The ripple intersects
Jesus soul and she seized
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the divine recipient
approve of her act and
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then Jesus sends out
a positive ripple from
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himself that
intersects Mary's soul.
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You see two people
already blessed with
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in moments of one
act. But the ripples didn't
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stop with just Mary
and Jesus, you see as
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they do in our
example they continue outward
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until they hit the
shore. And they continued
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outward and they
intersected Simon,
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the disciples and
the guests in the house.
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Let's read John
12:4-6, Then saith one of his
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disciples, Judas
Iscariot, Simon's son,
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which should betray
him, Why was not this
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ointment sold for
three hundred pence and
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given to the poor?
This he said, not that
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he cared for the
poor; but because he was
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a thief, and had
the bag, and bare what
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was put therein. Now
notice, Jesus' reaction
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was very different
from Judas reaction.
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Judas reacted in a
negative way, Jesus' of
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course was a
positive. So Judas now reacts in
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a negative way and
sends out ripples himself
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and these
ripples intersects Simon,
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let's read that.
Luke, 7:39, Now when the
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Pharisee which
had bidden him saw it,
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he spake within
himself, saying, This man, if he
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were a prophet, he
would have known who and
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what manner of
woman this is that
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toucheth him:
for she is a sinner.
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You see these
negative ripples continued and
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they intersected
even the disciples.
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Let's read that in
Matthew 26:8 and 9,
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But when the
disciples saw it, they had
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indignation,
extreme anger mingled with
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disgust or
abhorrence, saying, To what
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purpose is this
waste? For this ointment
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might have been sold
for much and given to
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the poor. Friends,
Mary begins to hear these
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words of criticism,
she's thinking what's
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happening here
Jesus approved of what I
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was doing, what's
happening? She was
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about to shrink away
friends. She was afraid
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that her sister
might think her improvident
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in fact the master
might think that this was
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some sort of
extravagant gift that may be
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she shouldn't have
given, may be she wasn't
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the wise steward
here. She was about to
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shrink away without
apology. You see, the
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harsh judgmental
spirit of the disciples that
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were following
popular opinion, notice that
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the disciples were
following what Jesus did,
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because Jesus accepted
it and returned kindness
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to her. They followed
popular opinion in the
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room and what they
didn't realized was that
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day were beating
down a sister who was
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being led by the
Holy Spirit. Amazing, the
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blindness of self-
righteousness or following
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popular opinion.
Reading on in verse 10,
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When Jesus
understood it, He knew what
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was happening,
He said unto them,
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why trouble ye the
woman? For she hath
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wrought good work
upon me. For ye have
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the poor with you
always, but me ye not
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have always. For in
that she hath poured this
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ointment on my body,
she did it for my burial.
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Verily I say unto you,
Wheresoever this gospel
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shall be preached
in the whole world,
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there shall also this,
that this woman done be
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told as a memorial
for her. See friends,
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the ripples
continued. Simon the host,
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the ripples interested
him and Simon the host
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was surprised at the
conduct of Jesus and his
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Pharisaic pride was
offended. Because Christ
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allowed this woman
to approach Him and
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to touch Him because
He did not indignantly
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spurn her as one
whose sins were just too
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great to be forgiven
because he did not show
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that he had
realized that she had fallen.
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You see the Pharisee
says I know your sins
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and I'm gonna
show you your sins.
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Jesus didn't do
this. Jesus appeals to the
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heart. You see we can
be Pharisees and drive
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people from God the
way that we interact
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with them. Friends,
I want to encourage you
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to be like Jesus not
like Simon. Jesus knows
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nothing of this
woman who's so free in
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her
demonstrations he thought, or he
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would not allow her
to touch him. Luke 18:11
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says, The
Pharisee stood and prayed
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within himself,
God, I thank thee, that I
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am not as other
men, I'm so much better,
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extortioners, unjust,
adulterers, or even as
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this publican. You
see the Pharisee's heart
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is blind friends, is
blind to his own condition.
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The Pharisee's
heart says I must separate
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from these great
sinners, I can't associate
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with them, in fact I
need to let them know that
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they are terrible
sinners. As though the
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Pharisee's heart is
pure, as though he could
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actually pick up a
stone and cast the first
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one. Friends, we by
in large I think many
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times act as
Pharisees, act as Simon.
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We don't see as the
Bible says, we don't
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see the plank, the
telephone poll in our
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own eyes while we
can see the little speck
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in our brother's
eye. Friends, we have to
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come to a place
where we just say Lord
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I don't wanna be
the Holy Spirit anymore,
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amen. Let the Holy
Spirit do his work and help
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us Father to learn
how to love people as
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you have loved them.
You see that Pharisee's
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heart was blind,
Simon was blind to the new
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heart that Mary had.
All he could think about
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was her past, oh
Jesus doesn't do this.
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Jesus forgets the
past but we sinful beings
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we keep the past
alive and I've seen it in
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friends of mine. Where
Jesus Christ has really
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given them a new
heart like Mary and the
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Pharisees in their
lives, the friends or the
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family in their lives
won't let their past die
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and they keep
bringing it up, friends,
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that's Satanic. That's
not the spirit of Jesus
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Christ. We must
interact with others the way
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that Jesus did. But
it was Simon's ignorance;
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it was Simon's
ignorance of God and of Christ
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that lead him to
think the way that he did.
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You see he did not
realize that God's son
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must act in God's
way, amen. You see God's
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way is to act with
compassion, is to act
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with tenderness
and mercy. So I have a
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question, are you
God's child. If we are
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going to profess to
be God's children then
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we need to act God's way, amen.
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Praise the Lord. You
see the act of kissing;
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of Mary kissing
Jesus feet was disgusting
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to the Pharisee.
Because spiritual things are
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spiritually
discern. And to this unspoken
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thought of Simon
saying how could Jesus if
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he was a prophet
let this woman touch him
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who is such a sinner
Jesus goes through in
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Luke 7:40-50 and
we don't have time to
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read that friends
but he goes through a
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parable and he
teaches Simon. He says
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you know Simon,
there was a great debtor,
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and this man had
two debtors and one had
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$500 debt the other
had a 50 pence debt.
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And what Jesus
was doing was he's
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starting to show
Simon and trying to convict
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Simon's heart, the
one that rejected what
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this beautiful act was,
the one that rejected it
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he says no listen
Simon, in a parable he
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helped Simon to see
that Simon's sin was
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actually greater than
that of Mary's. You see
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Simon originally led
Mary into sin, amazing.
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Yet the Pharisee
thought he was righteous,
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he was the one that
lead that very woman
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that he despised
into sin. You see Christ
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concealed his home
worth trust under the
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veil of a parable.
He threw upon his host
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Simon, the burden
of pronouncing sentence
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upon himself, Simon
had led the woman into
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sin that he now
despised and she had been
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deeply wronged by
him, the two debtors of
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the parable, Simon
was represented and the
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woman was
represented because Simon
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felt himself more
righteous than Mary.
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Jesus desired Simon
to see how great his
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guilt really was, he
would show him that his
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sin was greater than
hers as much greater a
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debt of 500 pence
exceeds that of 50 pence.
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You see what's
interesting to me; I want you
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to note Jesus didn't
openly rebuke Simon in
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that room. He
didn't openly, excuse me
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Simon you are gonna
cast something and blame
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upon her saying she
is a sinner you are the
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one that led her into
sin, Jesus didn't do that.
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He could have given
Simon a very straight
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rebuke. Friends, I
believe there is a lesson
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here for us, I believe
that Christ wants us to
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deal with people even
if they're great sinners
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in the way that
Jesus did with compassion,
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with tenderness and
with mercy, amen, amen.
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You see Christ was
seeking an opportunity;
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he took the
opportunity of Simon's negative
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reaction to the ripple
caused by the alabaster
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box. He took
opportunity to try to use, he
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used the situation
to try and reach Simon's
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heart. He didn't
rebuke him to stick him in his
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place like so many of
God's children do today.
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You see Christ was
appealing to his heart
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and if he could do
this and teach him without
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embarrassment that's
what he was going for.
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He wanted Simon to
have a new revelation
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about the condition
of his own heart to stop
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looking at
everyone else tinkering and
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prescribing and
meddling as many of God's
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people do today.
Friends, we need to be
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asking God, what is
it in my life? And stop
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pointing out the
sins in others friends.
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Because when we
really have that kind of
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walk, you're going
to realize that we're
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all sinners and
we're all just trying to
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figure out this
thing called Christianity.
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You see Christ works
with us the same way,
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if he can led us to
repentance in a revelation
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about ourselves
there is no need for
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embarrassment,
there is no need to openly
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rebuke us. You
know, God wants to conceal
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our sins, he
doesn't want to expose us.
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He wants to conceal
them friends and that's
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what will happen
with the blood of Christ,
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at the end of time
all of my sins can be
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bloated out, he
wants to conceal the matter
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but we, we want to
expose it, oh well if
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you only knew about
this blab, blab, blab.
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But friends no, that is
the spirit of anti-Christ,
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that is the spirit of
Satan, not the spirit of
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God, that's not how
God interacted with Simon.
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Simon as a result of
how Jesus shared truth
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with him. You see it's
important to share truth,
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amen. And by God's
grace when I stand in
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the pulpit I will
share truth, but friends it
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must come, it must
come off the way that
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Christ would have us
do. It must come from
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a converted heart
ourselves, because we
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could see truth
the wrong way and drive
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somebody from
God. I don't want that.
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Would you want to
drive someone from God
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with your truth
because you're saying it the
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wrong way? No, no,
no. Simon now began to
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see himself in a new
light, and shame seized
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upon him and he
realized that he was in
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the presence of one
superior to himself.
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Christ recounted the
opportunities that Simon
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had to show his love
for his Lord. And plainly
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yet delicately with
delicate politeness,
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these are not my
own words by the way.
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Plainly, yet with
delicate politeness,
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the Savior assured
His disciples that His
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heart is grieved
when His children neglect
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to show their
gratitude to Him by words and
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deeds of love. I'd
like to read out of Desire
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of ages page 567,
"Simon was touched by the
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kindness of Jesus in
not openly rebuking him
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before his guests. He
had not been treated as
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he desired Mary to
be treated. Here is
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another amazing
result from just one act
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of Mary's. Ripples
were sent out from her
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that interested
Simon and he rejected what
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was happening. But
because of Jesus Christ,
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because of the way
that he interacted with
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Simon. Simon's heart
was beginning to change;
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you see Jesus was
allowing the Holy Spirit
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to do his work,
amen, amen. And these
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ripples that were
sent out, Jesus says I want
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Simon. Let's read on,
Simon saw, He saw that
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Jesus did not wish
to expose his guilt to
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others, but sought
by a true statement, as
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we always must
proclaim truth, of the case to
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convince his mind, and
by, listen to this word,
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pitying kindness
to subdue his heart.
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Stern denunciation
would have hardened Simon
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against repentance.
And I see it all over
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today, Stern
denunciation hardens people
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but patient
admonition convinced him of
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his err and he saw
the magnitude of the
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debt which he owed
his Lord. His pride was
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humbled and he
repented, and the proud
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Pharisee became a
lowly, self-sacrificing
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disciple. Friends, do
you see within moments
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of Mary's unstudied
act of anointing Jesus
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and Judas's
negative reaction to it,
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but Jesus' positive
reaction to it, and Jesus'
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positive reaction in
dealing with Simon and
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reaching his
heart. You know it was
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important what
Jesus said but it was the
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way that Jesus said
it that actually made
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the difference for
Simon. Did you read that,
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it said that he
appreciated the fact
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that he did not
openly rebuke him?
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Friends there is a
way to share truth,
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there is a way to
witness for God and it's
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not filled with
humanism, it's not filled with
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self, it's being
surrendered as Jesus
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Christ was always to
his father to allow the
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Holy Spirit to do
the work in the heart.
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Amen, amen. That's
right. Each choice, each
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choice we make
friends can have an incredible
00:20:05.02\00:20:09.18
impact upon
people. And we need to be
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careful of what we
say, when we say it and
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how we say it. It's
not enough just to go
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out there and share
truth and say well either
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you accept it or you
don't, it's not gonna
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win souls. When we
go forward to the world,
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when we go to our
own families, when we
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go to our neighborhoods
and our churches and
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we share truth from
the love that is God
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then we will win
souls, amen, amen. Each choice
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we make friends
can either woo people,
00:20:43.70\00:20:47.01
and the way that we
interact with them can
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woo them to God or
we can push them away
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and they will
reject God. Christ wants us
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to come to
repentance friends. Not just the
00:21:00.56\00:21:03.78
world out there he
wants you, he wants me
00:21:03.88\00:21:07.26
to come to
repentance and if he can do
00:21:07.87\00:21:10.19
that without exposing
us without embarrassing
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us without openly
rebuking us, He is going
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to. Because it's
never a fun thing to be
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embarrassed in
front of people, right?
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So why don't we
do with each other.
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You know the true
religion of God, when we
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embrace Christianity
for what it truly is,
00:21:29.91\00:21:32.24
the true religion of
God sets us free from
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guilt. The true
religion of God is not a
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religion based on
guilt but total freedom from
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it. Hallelujah. That
just fires me up 'cause I
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had lots of guilt
in my life and my past.
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Because I wasn't
raised in a church,
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I was a worldly guy
engaging in everything.
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I had lots of guilt,
but Jesus set me free from
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that friends. And
you know what you,
00:21:58.88\00:22:01.26
if I stay faithful
will never know about the
00:22:01.30\00:22:03.85
sins I have
committed in my past because
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God's gonna bloat it
out with his blood, amen,
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amen. You know I
doubt that Mary would
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have ever thought
that by pouring this
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alabaster box, the
ointment upon her savior
00:22:16.21\00:22:20.63
that it would led to
the salvation of the very
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man that first
wronged her, incredible.
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That's awesome to
me. I mean God put it all
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together that they
would be in that room
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and Jesus had the
right words being led by
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the Holy Spirit to
say what he did and it
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convinced the very
offender against Mary and
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he became a lowly
sacrificing disciple.
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He became a
Christian; oh he had the garbs
00:22:46.24\00:22:49.62
of religion for years.
But he became a Christian.
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Now, I know it's not
beyond the possibility for
00:22:57.78\00:23:01.30
us to make bad
choices and when we make
00:23:01.35\00:23:04.88
bad choices we are
held responsible for those
00:23:05.00\00:23:09.09
bad choices friends.
But Mary didn't make a
00:23:09.12\00:23:12.09
bad choice, she
made the right choice and
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when we make right
choices, we leave the
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results with God. Have
you ever realized though,
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that by making a
right choice evil can come
00:23:22.45\00:23:26.83
from it? Yeah. Not
just a hardened heart,
00:23:26.90\00:23:30.90
but actual evil can
come from even a right
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choice. Judas looked
on this act with great
00:23:34.71\00:23:39.84
displeasure, instead
of waiting to hear what
00:23:39.96\00:23:42.08
Christ would say of
the matter, he began to
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whisper his
complaints to those near him and
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throwing reproach
upon Christ for suffering
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such ways. What a
sharp lesson too, Christ
00:23:50.78\00:23:54.06
could have given to
Judas who had dropped
00:23:54.09\00:23:57.16
the seeds of criticism
and evil thinking into the
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minds of the disciples.
You see Judas is the one
00:23:59.69\00:24:01.87
that started all
the junk. How justly the
00:24:01.90\00:24:05.05
accuser might have
been accused. He, who
00:24:05.16\00:24:08.89
reads the motives of
every heart Christ and
00:24:08.95\00:24:11.07
understands every
action, might have opened
00:24:11.14\00:24:13.20
before those at the
feast dark chapters in the
00:24:13.23\00:24:17.75
experience of Judas.
But the savior rebuked
00:24:17.78\00:24:21.82
him openly. No
that's what happened,
00:24:21.86\00:24:24.74
the savior rebuked
him not even the man that
00:24:25.90\00:24:33.15
was going to go and
betray him, he rebuked
00:24:33.18\00:24:36.27
not friends. Amazing.
Jesus Christ had perfect
00:24:36.30\00:24:42.86
control over his
tongue at all times.
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If self one little
ounce of self would have
00:24:47.31\00:24:49.65
risen up in Jesus
even to defend Mary.
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He would have
rebuked him. Well that's
00:24:54.98\00:24:57.17
what we do. Well no,
you're not gonna talk
00:24:57.20\00:24:59.59
to her that way and
just lay him out, but no,
00:24:59.62\00:25:03.48
that's not what my
savior did. He reproached
00:25:03.92\00:25:06.69
him not, rebuked
him not. Matthew 26:14,
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Then one of the
twelve, called Judas
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Iscariot, went unto
the chief priests and said
00:25:16.83\00:25:19.95
unto them, what will
ye give me and I will
00:25:19.98\00:25:23.36
deliver him unto you?
And they covenanted with
00:25:23.39\00:25:27.07
him for thirty pieces
of silver. And from that
00:25:27.10\00:25:30.02
time on he sought
opportunity to betray him.
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Why did he do
this? Because he had a
00:25:34.17\00:25:37.27
hardened heart, he
saw what was going on and
00:25:37.34\00:25:39.78
when Jesus said why
trouble you the woman,
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do you realize that
because Judas was the
00:25:43.23\00:25:45.85
one that said what's
going on, why all this
00:25:45.88\00:25:48.21
waste. And Jesus
said why you trouble the
00:25:48.24\00:25:50.31
woman. She's done
a good work. That was
00:25:50.36\00:25:53.23
enough of a rebuke,
how simple. That was
00:25:53.29\00:25:55.82
enough of a
rebuke to Judas that he
00:25:55.85\00:25:59.79
decided Christ must
die. You see the ripples
00:25:59.90\00:26:08.10
that were caused
from that one simple act
00:26:08.13\00:26:11.21
have been felt all
the way down to our day.
00:26:11.37\00:26:14.65
Oh Mary, did the
right thing, didn't she.
00:26:15.06\00:26:17.49
But would Mary have
ever thought that her
00:26:18.06\00:26:20.52
one beautiful act
would have sealed Judas and
00:26:20.55\00:26:23.55
his decision I
must have him killed.
00:26:23.62\00:26:26.24
She would have
never thought that.
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Friends, was it Mary's
fault? No, is it our fault
00:26:29.69\00:26:33.25
if people react
evil for our good? No.
00:26:33.34\00:26:36.89
It's not our fault
and it wasn't Mary's
00:26:37.89\00:26:39.87
fault, it was Judas
fault friends. And Judas
00:26:39.90\00:26:43.27
had to own that. And
friends it's amazing to
00:26:43.43\00:26:46.52
me what happened
shortly thereafter,
00:26:46.55\00:26:48.76
the ripple that Judas
sent out from that one
00:26:48.81\00:26:50.99
decision to betray
his savior took the life
00:26:51.05\00:26:53.79
of Jesus Christ. And
the disciples felt it,
00:26:54.31\00:26:59.47
Mary felt it and we
can feel it all the way
00:27:00.11\00:27:02.48
down to today and
friends Jesus, the stone
00:27:02.51\00:27:06.67
decided to be cast
into this pond of earth.
00:27:07.45\00:27:10.19
He decided to be cast
here and the ripples have
00:27:10.23\00:27:13.05
gone out for eternity
and they will continue
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and friends, I wanna
ask you this question,
00:27:15.74\00:27:17.35
have the ripples
intersected your heart.
00:27:17.52\00:27:19.14
They've interested
mine and I said Lord
00:27:19.49\00:27:21.18
please help me to
react to people the way
00:27:21.21\00:27:23.44
that you want me to,
help me to be a Christian,
00:27:23.55\00:27:25.87
help me to be a life
unto life, not death unto
00:27:26.11\00:27:29.64
death with my
words. Help me to look upon
00:27:29.67\00:27:32.80
people as you do.
Jesus chose to be cast
00:27:32.83\00:27:37.39
into this world
and cause ripples that
00:27:37.82\00:27:40.40
can save you and me, praise God.
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