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00:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
00:14 >> THERE'S ONLY TWO RECORDS IN THE BIBLE OF ANYONE KISSING 00:16 JESUS: MARY KISSED HIS FEET AND SERVED HIM; JUDAS KISSED HIS 00:21 FACE AND BETRAYED HIM. MARY WAS CONTENT TO KISS THE 00:25 LOWEST SPOT; JUDAS WANTED THE HIGHEST SPOT 00:29 AND HE BETRAYED HIM. 00:34 >> TONIGHT WE ARE GOING TO BE 00:36 DEALING WITH ONE OF THE HEROES OF FAITH THAT IS A 00:39 REAL INTEREST OF MINE. YOU KNOW, SHE IS ONE OF THE 00:43 ENIGMATIC CHARACTERS THAT YOU FIND THROUGHOUT THE GOSPEL STORY 00:48 THAT APPEARS IN A NUMBER OF INTERESTING GEOGRAPHICAL 00:52 SITUATIONS WHERE SHE'S ALWAYS AT JESUS' FEET AND, THROUGH THOSE 00:57 STORIES, WE LEARN A LOT ABOUT THE GOSPEL AND WE LEARN A 01:01 LOT ABOUT SALVATION AND OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD. 01:05 AND SO, TODAY IS OUR CASE STUDY IN OUR HEROES OF FAITH . 01:09 WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT WHAT THE BIBLE TELLS ABOUT MARY. 01:12 NOW, TO START WITH, THE FIRST PASSAGE WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER 01:15 IS FROM THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, CHAPTER 8, AND IT'S A STORY YOU 01:22 ONLY FIND IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN AND IT SAYS HERE - I'LL START 01:26 WITH THE FIRST VERSE, "BUT JESUS WENT TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 01:31 NOW EARLY IN THE MORNING HE CAME AGAIN INTO THE TEMPLE, AND ALL 01:35 THE PEOPLE CAME TO HIM; AND HE SAT DOWN AND TAUGHT THEM. 01:39 THEN THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES BROUGHT TO HIM A WOMAN CAUGHT IN 01:43 ADULTERY. AND WHEN THEY HAD SET HER IN 01:46 THE MIDST, THEY SAID TO HIM, 'TEACHER, THIS WOMAN WAS CAUGHT 01:51 IN ADULTERY, IN THE VERY ACT. NOW MOSES, IN THE LAW, COMMANDED 01:56 US THAT SUCH SHOULD BE STONED. BUT WHAT DO YOU SAY?' 01:59 THIS THEY SAID, TESTING HIM, THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING 02:03 OF WHICH TO ACCUSE HIM. BUT JESUS STOOPED DOWN AND WROTE 02:06 ON THE GROUND WITH HIS FINGER, AS THOUGH HE DID NOT HEAR.'" - 02:12 NOW, THE REASON THAT THEY HAD DEVELOPED THIS WHOLE TRAP WAS 02:18 BECAUSE THEY WERE TRYING TO GET RID OF JESUS AND THEY KNEW THAT 02:22 ONLY THE ROMANS WERE ALLOWED TO PRONOUNCE THE DEATH SENTENCE. 02:26 AND IF ANY OF THE RABBIS OR RELIGIOUS LEADERS PRONOUNCED THE 02:29 DEATH SENTENCE ON SOMEONE, THEY WERE GOING TO EXECUTE MARY RIGHT 02:31 AWAY - THEY DIDN'T CARE. THEN THEY WOULD RUN TO THE 02:33 ROMANS AND SAY, 'THIS RABBI, JESUS, DOESN'T RESPECT YOUR 02:36 AUTHORITY' - JESUS WOULD BE ARRESTED. IF JESUS SAID, 'NO, I 02:40 DON'T BELIEVE IN THE LAW OF MOSES, THEY WERE GOING TO USE 02:43 THEIR STONES TO CREATE A RIOT AND STONE JESUS FOR REJECTING 02:47 THE LAW OF MOSES. SO THEY THOUGHT, 'EITHER WAY, WE'VE GOT 02:50 HIM NOW.' AND WHAT THEY DID IS THEY CREATED A TRAP. THERE WAS A 02:54 YOUNG LADY THAT HAD COME TO JERUSALEM FOR THE FEAST - THIS 02:58 WAS A FEAST WEEK - HER NAME WAS MARY AND I BELIEVE IT WAS 03:03 MARY MAGDALENE. MAGDALA WAS A TOWN ON THE SEA OF GALILEE THAT 03:09 HAD A NOTORIOUS REPUTATION - IT'S WHERE THE ROMAN SOLDIERS 03:12 WENT FOR VACATION AND IF, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE JESUS OF 03:16 NAZARETH - THE TOWN YOU'RE FROM - MARY MAGDALENE IS MARY OF 03:20 MAGDALA BUT, IF YOU WERE TO SAY IT TODAY, YOU'D SAY 'MARY OF 03:23 LAS VEGAS.' YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF TAKES ON - SIN CITY 03:27 TAKES ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT SCENARIO AND SO JUST THE 03:31 VERY NAME MEANT SOMETHING. AND SO THEY KNEW WHAT HER LINE 03:35 OF WORK WAS AND IT WAS EASY TO SET HER UP. 03:38 NOW, CAN YOU IMAGINE IF YOU WERE MARY AND YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING 03:43 THAT YOU SHOULDN'T BE DOING - IT IS A SIN - AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, 03:48 THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN THE COMMUNITY COME BURSTING INTO 03:51 YOUR PLACE OF BUSINESS AND WITHOUT GIVING YOU A CHANCE TO 03:54 GET PROPERLY CLOTHED, THEY DRAG YOU THROUGH THE STREETS OF THE 03:59 CITY CREATING A SPECTACLE AS YOU GO AND THEN THEY BRING YOU TO 04:04 THE HOLIEST PLACE ON THE PLANET AND THEY THROW YOU DOWN AT THE 04:09 FEET OF THE HOLIEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED. 04:12 WOULD THAT BE A SHAMEFUL SITUATION TO BE IN? 04:16 I CAN'T IMAGINE HOW EMBARRASSED MARY MUST HAVE BEEN. 04:20 BUT, YOU KNOW, I HEARD A PREACHER SAY ONE TIME, 'THAT'S 04:23 PROBABLY THE BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD YOU CAN BE WHEN YOU'RE IN 04:25 TROUBLE, IS AT THE FEET OF JESUS. 04:26 >> AMEN! >> AND THERE'S WHERE SHE FIRST 04:29 APPEARS IN THE BIBLE - SHE'S AT THE FEET OF JESUS. 04:32 SHE'S IN SHAME AND WHEN SHE RECOGNIZED THAT HE WAS WILLING 04:39 TO FORGIVE HER, SHE THOUGHT, 'NOW HERE IS A REAL MAN OF GOD.' 04:44 SHE SENSED, IN THE PRESENCE OF JESUS, THE POWER AND THE LOVE OF 04:48 GOD - AND MARY HAD PROBABLY KNOWN A FEW MEN AND THEY HAD ALL 04:53 HAD ULTERIOR MOTIVES AND HERE WAS SOMEONE WHO WAS GOING TO 04:55 LOVE HER WITH A PURE, UNSELFISH LOVE AND IT BROKE HER HEART. 05:00 AND I - WHENEVER I READ ABOUT MARY MAGDALENE I THINK - YOU'VE 05:05 HEARD THIS STORY - LOOKING FOR LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES. 05:08 A LOT OF PEOPLE GET INTO TROUBLE BECAUSE THEY'RE LOOKING FOR LOVE 05:10 AND THAT'S WHAT SHE WAS LOOKING FOR. 05:12 AND WHEN JESUS LOVED HER WITH THAT PURE LOVE - THAT 05:16 UNCONDITIONAL LOVE - IT MELTED HER HEART AND SHE BECAME HIS 05:20 MOST DEVOTED FOLLOWER BECAUSE SHE UNDERSTOOD SOMETHING NO ONE 05:23 ELSE SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND, AND I'LL GET TO THAT AS WE GO ON. 05:27 NEXT STUDY WE'RE GOING TO FIND MARY IS AT THE FEET OF JESUS, 05:31 BUT NOW SHE'S DOING BIBLE STUDY. YOU TURN TO THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 05:37 AND IN CHAPTER 10 YOU CAN FIND WHERE IT SAYS THAT THERE WAS A 05:45 DINNER IN GALILEE - AND VERSE 38 - LUKE 10:38 - "NOW IT HAPPENED 05:50 AS THEY WENT THAT HE ENTERED A CERTAIN VILLAGE; AND A CERTAIN 05:52 WOMAN NAMED MARTHA WELCOMED HIM INTO HER HOUSE. 05:55 AND SHE HAD A SISTER CALLED MARY, WHO ALSO SAT AT JESUS' 05:58 FEET AND HEARD HIS WORD. BUT MARTHA WAS DISTRACTED WITH 06:02 MUCH SERVING AND SHE APPROACHED HIM AND SAID, 'LORD, DO YOU NOT 06:05 CARE THAT MY SISTER HAS LEFT ME TO SERVE ALONE? 06:08 THEREFORE TELL HER TO HELP ME.' AND JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO 06:12 HER, 'MARTHA, MARTHA,'" - YOU KNOW, IT'S THE ONLY TIME IN THE 06:15 BIBLE, I THINK, THE LORD SAYS A WOMAN'S NAME TWICE. 06:18 HE OFTEN SAID, 'ABRAHAM, ABRAHAM' OR THE DIFFERENT - 06:22 'SAMUEL, SAMUEL.' - "'MARTHA, MARTHA, YOU ARE WORRIED AND 06:27 TROUBLED ABOUT MANY THINGS. BUT ONE THING IS NEEDED,'" 06:31 - HOW MANY THINGS? >> ONE. 06:33 >> "'ONE THING IS NEEDED, AND MARY HAS CHOSEN THAT GOOD PART, 06:36 WHICH WILL NOT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HER.'" LIKE THE DEMONIAC WE 06:39 TALKED ABOUT THE OTHER NIGHT, SHE'S SITTING AT JESUS' FEET, 06:42 DRINKING IN THE WORD. HE'S TEACHING HER HOW NOT TO 06:45 MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES THAT HAD CAUSED PROBLEMS IN THE PAST. 06:49 AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN JESUS SAID THAT'S THE ONE THING, THIS IS SO 06:52 IMPORTANT BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT TWO WOMEN HERE - 06:53 WHAT'S A WOMAN REPRESENT? >> THE CHURCH. 06:56 >> SISTERS - VERY OPPOSITE - ONE IS SITTING AT THE FEET OF JESUS 06:59 IN LOVE AND DEVOTION AND DRINKING IN THE WORD 07:01 AND THE OTHER IS WORK, WORK, WORK. 07:03 SHE'S SERVING THE LORD, BUT SHE'S SO BUSY WITH THE WORK OF 07:07 THE LORD, SHE FORGETS THE LORD OF THE WORK. 07:10 AND A LOT OF PEOPLE GET INVOLVED IN DOING GOOD DEEDS FOR CHURCH - 07:16 FOR THE LORD - AND THEY DON'T HAVE THAT ONE-ON-ONE 07:19 RELATIONSHIP - A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP. DOESN'T THE LORD 07:22 SAY THAT IN THE JUDGMENT, WHEN HE COMES, HE'LL DECLARE TO 07:24 MANY PEOPLE, 'DEPART FROM ME. I DON'T KNOW YOU.' 'OH, BUT 07:27 LORD, WE TAUGHT IN YOUR STREETS AND WE CONDUCTED MANY POTLUCKS 07:31 AND WE GAVE TO THE ORPHANAGES AND WE WENT TO THE HOSPITALS AND 07:34 WE TOOK CARE OF THE CLOTHES AND WE WENT TO THE PRISONS AND HE'LL 07:37 SAY, 'I DON'T KNOW YOU.' THAT'S WHY WE'RE SAVED BY A 07:40 PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS. 07:43 HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? HOW DO YOU GET TO KNOW ANYBODY? 07:47 I DIDN'T MARRY KAREN THE FIRST DAY I MET HER. 07:50 WHEN YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH SOMEBODY, YOU COMMUNICATE. 07:54 WHENEVER YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE SOMEBODY IT TAKES COMMUNICATION 07:56 - YOU TALK TO THEM, THEY TALK TO YOU. 07:58 HOW DOES GOD TALK TO US? THAT'S WHY WE SING THAT SONG 08:02 EACH NIGHT, GIVE ME THE BIBLE - IT'S THROUGH HIS WORD. 08:05 DO YOU HAVE REGULAR TIME AT JESUS' FEET, LISTENING TO HIM? 08:09 YOU NEED TO - YOU NEED TO MAKE THAT TIME. 08:12 IT HAS TO BE MORE IMPORTANT TO YOU THAN YOUR DAILY BREAD. 08:15 'I'VE 'STEEMED THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH MORE THAN MY NECESSARY 08:18 FOOD.' JESUS SAID, 'MAN WILL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY 08:21 EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.' DO YOU HAVE A 08:25 DEVOTIONAL LIFE? AND, IT'S NOT ONLY HIS TALKING 08:27 TO YOU, IT'S YOU'RE TALKING TO HIM. DO YOU PRAY? 08:31 AND THEN, OF COURSE, YOU SHOW IT BY DEEDS OF SERVICE AND LOVE, 08:35 BUT FIRST YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE THE LOVE RELATIONSHIP. 08:38 WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US. HOW DO WE LEARN ABOUT 08:40 HIS LOVE FOR US? WHEN WE LOOK IN HIS WORD AND 08:43 WE SEE WHAT HE DID FOR US, IT INSPIRES US WITH LOVE. 08:48 SO SHE SITS AT JESUS' FEET AND SHE HEARS THE WORD AND THIS 08:52 HELPS HER DEVELOP THAT LOVE RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS - AND WE 08:57 NEED TO HAVE THAT KIND OF RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS ALSO. 09:00 THEN WE'VE GOT ANOTHER POINT WHERE MARY IS AT JESUS' FEET 09:03 PRAYING FOR HER BROTHER THAT IS DEAD. 09:08 NOW, IF YOU LOOK IN JOHN CHAPTER 11, YOU REMEMBER A MESSAGE COMES 09:12 TO JESUS, 'YOUR FRIEND THAT YOU LOVE, LAZARUS, IS SICK.' AND 09:20 JESUS DOES NOT COME RIGHT AWAY TO HEAL HIM. 09:24 SEVERAL DAYS GO BY AND, BY THE TIME JESUS GETS THERE, LAZARUS 09:27 HAS NOT ONLY DIED, HE'S BEEN DEAD SEVERAL DAYS. 09:30 AND THEY RUN TO JESUS AND YOU CAN FIND MARY, YOU CAN SEE IT 09:33 HERE IN JOHN 11:32, "THEN, WHEN MARY CAME WHERE JESUS WAS, AND 09:38 SAW HIM, SHE FELL DOWN AT HIS FEET, SAYING TO HIM, 'LORD, IF 09:43 YOU HAD BEEN HERE, MY BROTHER WOULD NOT HAVE DIED.' THEREFORE, 09:47 WHEN JESUS SAW HER WEEPING, AND THE JEWS WHO HAD COME WITH HER 09:51 FROM THE FUNERAL - WEEPING, HE GROANED IN HIS SPIRIT AND WAS 09:54 TROUBLED. AND HE SAID, 'WHERE HAVE YOU LAID HIM?' THEY SAID TO 09:58 HIM, 'LORD, COME AND SEE.' JESUS WEPT." - THAT'S THE SHORTEST 10:02 VERSE IN THE BIBLE - AT LEAST IN THE ENGLISH. 10:06 YOU KNOW, JESUS BROUGHT THEM TO THE TOMB AND HE SAID, 'ROLL AWAY 10:11 THE STONE AND THEY SAID, 'OH LORD, BUT THIS IS A - THIS IS 10:16 BAD, YOU KNOW, HE'S BEEN DEAD FOUR DAYS.' AND JESUS TOLD 10:20 MARTHA, HE SAID, 'LOOK, I'M GOING TO RAISE HIM UP.' AND SHE 10:23 SAID, 'WELL, I KNOW HE'S GOING TO BE RAISED IN THE RESURRECTION 10:25 AT THE LAST DAY,' - WHICH IS AN IMPORTANT POINT: WHEN IS THE 10:28 RESURRECTION? THE LAST DAY. 10:32 I THINK, THREE OR FOUR TIMES, JUST IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN IT 10:35 SAYS, 'THE RESURRECTION IN THE LAST DAY.' IT'S TELLING US THAT 10:38 THE DAY OF THE LORD - THE JUDGMENT DAY - 'WHEN THE LORD 10:41 DESCENDS FROM HEAVEN THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE' THE BIBLE 10:44 SAYS. AND HE SAYS, 'I'M NOT TALKING 10:47 ABOUT THAT ONE, I'M GOING TO DO SOMETHING SPECIAL NOW. 10:51 ROLL AWAY THE STONE.' SO, RELUCTANTLY, MARTHA INSTRUCTS 10:56 THE SERVANTS AND THEY ROLL AWAY THE STONE. 10:59 AND JESUS SAYS, 'LAZARUS, COME FORTH.' AND, WHEN THEY ROLL AWAY 11:04 THE STONE, THEY CAN SMELL IT. THEY KNOW HE'S DEAD, BUT THEN 11:09 THEY HEAR A SHUFFLING, RUFFLING, MUFFLED NOISE COMING FROM THE 11:12 TOMB AND OUT SHUFFLES THEIR BROTHER, VERY MUCH ALIVE. 11:17 AND JESUS SAYS, 'LOOSE HIM' - UNWRAP HIM. 11:20 WAS MARY GLAD THAT SHE SPENT TIME WEEPING AT JESUS' FEET FOR 11:24 HER BROTHER? DID HE ANSWER THAT PRAYER? 11:27 BUT, YOU KNOW, SHE SAID, 'WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?' 11:29 IT WAS LATER THAN THEY THOUGHT. SO WHEN YOU'RE PRAYING FOR LOVED 11:32 ONES OR SOMEONE THAT YOU WANT TO HAVE LIFE, YOU MUST BE PATIENT. 11:37 >> DON'T FORGET TO REQUEST 11:38 TODAY'S LIFE CHANGING FREE RESOURCE. 11:41 NOT ONLY CAN YOU RECEIVE THIS FREE GIFT IN THE MAIL, 11:43 YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A DIGITAL COPY STRAIGHT TO YOUR COMPUTER 11:45 OR MOBILE DEVICE. 11:47 TO GET YOUR COPY OF TODAY'S FREE GIFT, 11:49 SIMPLY CALL US AND ASK FOR THE OFFER NUMBER SHOWN 11:52 ON YOUR SCREEN, 11:54 OR VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS AND DOWNLOAD A DIGITAL COPY, 11:56 AND BE SURE TO SELECT THAT DIGITAL DOWNLOAD OPTION 11:59 ON THE REQUEST PAGE. 12:00 IT'S NOW EASIER THAN EVER 12:02 FOR YOU TO STUDY GOD'S WORD WITH AMAZING FACTS 12:04 WHEREVER AND WHENEVER YOU WANT. 12:06 AND MOST IMPORTANT, TO SHARE IT WITH OTHERS. 12:11 >> SOMETIMES IT EVEN LOOKS HOPELESS. 12:13 DON'T GIVE UP. KEEP PRAYING. 12:16 THEY SAID, 'JESUS, WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?' 12:19 I KNOW LADIES THAT HAVE PRAYED FOR THEIR HUSBANDS LIKE 12:24 20 YEARS, THAT THEY'D COME TO THE LORD - OR LONGER. 12:27 PARENTS THAT HAVE PRAYED FOR THEIR CHILDREN - 40 - 50 YEARS - 12:32 AND THEN GOD WORKS A MIRACLE. I'VE KNOW PEOPLE THAT HAVE COME 12:34 TO THE LORD YEARS AFTER THEIR PARENTS WERE DEAD AND I THINK 12:36 THAT GOD FINALLY MADE A WITHDRAWAL ON THE PRAYERS THE 12:39 PARENTS HAD STORED IN HEAVEN, THAT THEY MIGHT FIND LIFE. 12:43 AND THOSE PARENTS ARE GOING TO BE VERY HAPPY - THEY WENT TO 12:45 THEIR GRAVE THINKING THEIR CHILDREN WERE LOST. 12:47 IN THE RESURRECTION THEY'RE GOING TO SAY, 'HOW'D YOU GET 12:48 HERE?' (LAUGHTER) AND THE ANGELS ARE 12:52 GOING TO SAY, 'YOU KNOW ALL THOSE PRAYERS YOU PRAYED? 12:54 THEY WERE COMPOUNDING INTEREST AND GOD DID SOMETHING WITH IT.' 12:58 SO WE NEED TO SPEND TIME BELIEVING AND PRAYING. 13:02 THE REASON JESUS CAME INTO THIS WORLD IS TO SAVE THE LOST. 13:05 NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAT PRAYING FOR THE LOST AND WE ARE 13:07 SURROUNDED BY BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT ARE DEAD IN 13:10 TRESPASSES AND SINS. SO THE CHURCH, LIKE MARY, 13:13 NEEDS TO BE DOING THAT. THEN WE NEED TO SPEND SOME TIME 13:17 AT JESUS' FEET IN SACRIFICE. AND THIS IS A PLACE WHERE MARY 13:22 REALLY SHINES. YOU CAN FIND THIS STORY - AND THEY GIVE LITTLE 13:26 PERSPECTIVES THAT ARE DIFFERENT. IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 13:28 12, IT'S CALLED THE DINNER IN BETHANY . 13:31 IN MARK CHAPTER 14, IN LUKE CHAPTER 7 - I THINK I'M GOING TO 13:35 GO TO LUKE'S VERSION IN LUKE CHAPTER 7, VERSE 36 - IT SAYS, 13:41 "THEN ONE OF THE PHARISEES ASKED HIM TO EAT WITH HIM. 13:44 AND HE WENT TO THE PHARISEE'S HOUSE, AND SAT DOWN TO EAT. 13:48 AND BEHOLD, A WOMAN IN THE CITY WHO WAS A SINNER, WHEN SHE KNEW 13:52 THAT JESUS SAT AT THE TABLE IN THE PHARISEE'S HOUSE, BROUGHT AN 13:56 ALABASTER FLASK OF FRAGRANT OIL, AND STOOD AT HIS FEET BEHIND HIM 14:01 WEEPING; AND SHE BEGAN TO WASH HIS FEET WITH HER TEARS, AND 14:05 WIPED THEM WITH THE HAIR OF HER HEAD;" - THAT'S A WOMAN'S GLORY 14:07 IS HER HAIR. THIS IS A SYMBOL OF COMPLETE 14:09 SUBMISSION - AT HIS FEET, CRYING, ANOINTING, KISSING HIS 14:14 FEET - AND THE FRAGRANT OIL FILLED THE HOUSE. 14:18 AND SIMON, IT TELLS US THAT HE'S CALLED 'SIMON THE LEPER' IN THE 14:23 OTHER GOSPELS - HE WAS A PHARISEE WHO JESUS HEALED FROM 14:26 LEPROSY AND HE HAS THIS FEAST IN BETHANY - PROBABLY THE FEAST 14:30 THAT MARTHA WAS RUSTLING AROUND AND GETTING READY FOR - HAS THIS 14:33 FEAST IN BETHANY TO HONOR JESUS AND JESUS COMES AND WHEN THEY 14:37 SEE MARY, WHO HAD A BAD REPUTATION IN TOWN, AND JESUS IS 14:41 LETTING HER TOUCH HIM. SIMON SAYS WITHIN HIMSELF, "THIS 14:46 MAN, IF HE WERE A PROPHET, WOULD KNOW WHO AND WHAT MANNER OF 14:50 WOMAN THIS IS WHO'S TOUCHING HIM, FOR SHE IS A SINNER." 14:54 THERE YOU HAVE IT. 14:56 THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT MARY. 14:58 HE, EVIDENTLY, THOUGHT SHE WAS A BIGGER SINNER THAN HE WAS. 15:01 "AND JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO HIM, 'SIMON, I HAVE SOMETHING TO 15:05 SAY TO YOU.'" HE SAID, "'MASTER, SAY ON.' 'THERE WAS A 15:08 CERTAIN CREDITOR WHO HAD TWO DEBTORS. ONE OWED FIVE HUNDRED 15:12 DENARII, AND THE OTHER FIFTY. AND WHEN THEY HAD NOTHING WITH 15:15 WHICH TO REPAY, HE FREELY FORGAVE THEM BOTH. 15:18 TELL ME, THEREFORE, WHICH OF THEM WILL LOVE HIM MORE?' 15:22 SIMON ANSWERED AND SAID, 'I SUPPOSE THE ONE WHOM HE FORGAVE 15:24 MORE.' AND HE SAID TO HIM, 'YOU HAVE RIGHTLY JUDGED.' THEN HE 15:27 TURNED TO THE WOMAN AND SAID TO SIMON, DO YOU SEE THIS WOMAN?'" 15:29 - EVERYONE SAW THE WOMAN. THEY COULD SMELL WHAT SHE HAD 15:32 DONE ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE. "'...DO YOU SEE THIS WOMAN? 15:35 I ENTERED YOUR HOUSE; YOU GAVE ME NO WATER FOR MY FEET,'" - 15:37 WHICH WAS THE CUSTOMARY, POLITE THING TO DO - "'BUT SHE HAS 15:43 WASHED MY FEET WITH HER TEARS AND WIPED THEM WITH THE HAIR OF 15:45 HER HEAD. YOU GAVE ME NO KISS, BUT THIS 15:49 WOMAN HAS NOT CEASED TO KISS MY FEET SINCE THE TIME I CAME IN. 15:53 YOU DID NOT ANOINT MY HEAD WITH OIL, BUT THIS WOMAN HAS ANOINTED 15:56 MY FEET WITH FRAGRANT OIL. THEREFORE I SAY TO YOU, HER 16:00 SINS, WHICH ARE MANY,'" - HE'S NOT CONTESTING THAT - SHE WAS 16:04 A BIG SINNER - "...'HER SINS, WHICH ARE MANY, ARE FORGIVEN,'" 16:08 - ISN'T IT GOOD TO KNOW THAT JESUS CAN FORGIVE MANY SINS? 16:10 >> AMEN, >> AND THEN GO - CHRIST GOES ON 16:13 TO SAY, "...FOR SHE LOVED MUCH - HER SINS, WHICH ARE MANY, ARE 16:18 FORGIVEN, FOR SHE LOVED MUCH. BUT TO WHOM LITTLE IS FORGIVEN, 16:24 THE SAME LOVES LITTLE.'" IS IT SAFE TO UNDERSTAND HE WHO IS 16:28 FORGIVEN MUCH LOVES MUCH? WHO IS NOT FORGIVEN MUCH? 16:33 SIMON, EVIDENTLY, THOUGHT THAT SHE WAS A BIG SINNER AND HE WAS 16:36 A LITTLE SINNER. CHEER UP, YOU'RE ALL BIG SINNERS. 16:38 (LAUGHTER) THERE ARE NO LITTLE SINNERS OUT THERE. 16:42 YOU ALL QUALIFY, BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK YOUR LIST 16:46 OF SINS ARE, WHAT YOUR RECORD LOOKS LIKE, YOUR SINS 16:48 WERE ENOUGH TO PUT JESUS ON THE CROSS ALL BY YOURSELF. 16:52 EVERYTHING THAT JESUS WENT THROUGH, HE WOULD HAVE HAD TO GO 16:54 THROUGH FOR YOU. SO YOU DO QUALIFY. 16:59 THE THING IS, DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOU'VE BEEN FORGIVEN? 17:03 HE THAT KNOWS HOW MUCH THEY'VE BEEN FORGIVEN LOVES MUCH. 17:10 AND YOU KNOW HOW YOU CAN TELL HOW MUCH YOU'VE BEEN FORGIVEN? 17:12 HOW MUCH DID IT COST TO BUY YOUR FORGIVENESS? 17:16 THEY SAY, 'HOW MUCH IS SOMETHING WORTH?' 17:18 IT'S WORTH WHAT SOMEONE'LL PAY FOR IT. 17:21 HOW MUCH WAS PAID FOR YOUR REDEMPTION? 17:24 QUITE A BIT. THAT'S HOW MUCH YOU'RE WORTH. 17:29 HE THAT KNOWS HOW MUCH THEY'RE FORGIVEN - IF YOU UNDERSTAND HOW 17:32 MUCH JESUS PAID FOR YOU - YOU WILL LOVE MUCH. 17:35 AND HE SAID TO THE WOMAN, "YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN." 17:39 WOULDN'T YOU LIKE FOR HIM TO SAY THAT TO US? 17:41 HERE SHE IS, SHE'S MAKING THIS GREAT SACRIFICE - SHE SPENT 17:44 ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY A GIFT FOR A KING AND SHE POURS IT OUT ON 17:47 JESUS. YOU KNOW, SHE HEARD JESUS SAY, 17:50 SEVERAL TIMES, CHRIST, BEFORE HE GOES TO THE CROSS, HE SAYS TO 17:54 THE DISCIPLES, 'I'M GOING TO JERUSALEM. 17:56 I'M GOING TO BE BETRAYED INTO THE HANDS OF SINNERS. 17:59 I'LL BE CRUCIFIED. 18:01 I'LL BE BEATEN AND JUDGED AND I'LL RISE THE THIRD DAY.' 18:04 AND THE DISCIPLES SAID, 'NO, NO, LORD. 18:06 WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? NO - DON'T - NONE OF THAT!' 18:08 THE DISCIPLES WEREN'T LISTENING. CHRIST SAID IT SO OFTEN THAT 18:11 EVEN HIS ENEMIES REMEMBERED IT. THEY WENT TO PILATE AND SAID, 18:14 'WE HEARD THIS DECEIVER SAY THAT HE'D RISE AFTER THREE DAYS.' 18:16 HIS ENEMIES HEARD IT. MARY HEARD IT TOO. 18:22 AND JESUS SAID, 'SHE'S COME TO ANOINT ME BEFORE MY BURIAL. 18:26 WE TYPICALLY GIVE GIFTS TO PEOPLE AFTER THEY'RE - YOU KNOW, 18:29 FLOWERS AT THEIR FUNERAL OR SOMETHING. 18:33 AND EVERYONE SAYS THESE WONDERFUL THINGS AFTER THEY'RE 18:34 GONE THAT THEY NEVER SAID WHEN THEY WERE ALIVE. 18:37 SOME OF THEM AREN'T EVEN TRUE AND THEY STILL SAY WONDERFUL 18:39 THINGS, RIGHT? MARY WANTED TO SHOW HER 18:44 LOVE WHILE JESUS WAS ALIVE. AND IF YOU WANT THE LORD TO KNOW 18:47 THAT YOU LOVE HIM, DO IT WHILE HE'S BLESSING YOU. 18:53 SHE GAVE A GENEROUS GIFT. DO YOU THINK SHE EVER REGRETTED 18:57 MAKING THAT SACRIFICE FOR JESUS? NEXT, WHAT WE FIND, IS THAT MARY 19:02 IS - SHE'S AT JESUS FEET NOW IN SURRENDER AT THE CROSS. 19:08 NOW THIS IS A FASCINATING PICTURE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, 19:13 THE APOSTLES, IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, THEY WERE VERY BOLD 19:16 AND, AT THE LAST SUPPER, PETER SAID, 'THOUGH ALL MEN FORSAKE 19:19 THEE, I'LL NOT FORSAKE YOU.' AND WHEN THE MOB FIRST CAME TO 19:22 ARREST JESUS, PETER PULLED OUT A SWORD, BUT THEY ALL SCATTERED 19:26 AND RAN. AND THEN, AT THE CROSS, IT 19:30 SAYS THAT THEY STOOD AFAR OFF BEHOLDING THESE THINGS, IN THE 19:33 GOSPEL OF LUKE, BUT IF YOU GO TO JOHN CHAPTER 19, VERSE 25, "NOW 19:38 THERE STOOD BY THE CROSS OF JESUS HIS MOTHER, AND HIS 19:44 MOTHER'S SISTER, MARY THE WIFE OF CLOPAS, AND MARY MAGDALENE." 19:50 IT'S THE DEVOTED WOMEN WHO WERE ACTUALLY THERE AT THE CROSS. 19:54 THE OTHERS ARE STANDING, WATCHING AT A DISTANCE. 19:56 THEY'RE AFRAID, BUT THE WOMEN DON'T CARE WHAT'S GOING TO 20:00 HAPPEN TO THEM. THEY'RE WILLING - THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT JESUS' 20:04 SUFFERING. THEY WANT JESUS TO SEE THAT THEY CARE. 20:07 THEY'RE BEING SYMPATHETIC AND EMPATHETIC AND THEY'RE SHOWING 20:10 THEIR LOVE THERE AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS. 20:13 YOU KNOW, HERE WE SEE MARY AT JESUS' FEET AGAIN, DON'T WE? 20:18 WEEPING, NO DOUBT, AT HIS FEET, BEHOLDING HIM FINALLY PAYING THE 20:23 DEBT FOR WHAT HE HAD PROMISED EARLIER WHEN HE HAD SAID, 20:26 'GO AND SIN NO MORE. 20:28 I DON'T CONDEMN YOU.' ALL OF US, LIKE MARY, NEED TO SPEND TIME AT 20:33 JESUS' FEET BEHOLDING HIM AS OUR SACRIFICE. HOW MANY SONGS ARE 20:38 WRITTEN ABOUT THE CROSS? 'AT THE CROSS, AT THE CROSS, 20:41 WHERE I FIRST SAW THE LIGHT' 'BENEATH THE CROSS OF JESUS I 20:44 WILL TAKE MY STAND' 'JESUS KEEP ME NEAR THE CROSS' - WHY DID ALL 20:47 THESE HYMN WRITERS WRITE ABOUT THE CROSS? 20:50 BECAUSE THE CROSS IS THE AXLE ON WHICH THE GOSPEL ROTATES. 20:54 IT IS THE VERY FULCRUM ON WHICH THE WHOLE BIBLE PIVOTS. 20:59 IT'S AT THE CROSS YOU SEE CHRIST'S POWER OF LOVE AND IT'S 21:04 AT THE CROSS YOU CAN EVEN SEE THE DEVIL'S LOVE FOR POWER. 21:07 YOU SEE THE GREAT CONTRAST BETWEEN GOD EMPTYING HIMSELF AT 21:11 THE CROSS AND YOU SEE THE DIABOLICAL VILLAIN - THE ARCH 21:16 FIEND - THE DEVIL, HOW HE'S TRYING TO EXTRACT ALL THE 21:19 SUFFERING. JESUS IS SAYING, 'FATHER, 21:21 FORGIVE THEM.' AND IT'S AT THE CROSS WE SEE HIS LOVE FOR US. 21:26 NEXT, YOU SEE #6 - MARY IN SERVICE AT THE TOMB. 21:32 WHEN THEY TOOK HIS BODY DOWN FROM THE CROSS, THE WOMEN WENT 21:37 ALONG TO WATCH AFTER HIM. MARK CHAPTER 15, VERSE 45, "SO 21:43 WHEN HE FOUND OUT FROM THE CENTURION, HE GRANTED 21:46 THE BODY TO JOSEPH. THEN HE BOUGHT FINE LINEN, 21:49 TOOK HIM DOWN, AND WRAPPED HIM IN THE LINEN. 21:51 AND HE LAID HIM IN A SEPULCHER WHICH HAD BEEN HEWN OUT OF THE 21:53 ROCK, AND ROLLED A STONE AGAINST THE DOOR OF THE 21:56 SEPULCHER. AND MARY MAGDALENE AND MARY THE 21:59 MOTHER OF JOSES OBSERVED WHERE HE WAS LAID." 22:02 THAT MEANS THEY OVERSAW THE CARE OF HIS BODY. YOU SEE THE 22:06 DEVOTION EVEN THERE. AND I - YOU KNOW, BEFORE, THEY DIDN'T HAVE 22:10 TIME TO ANOINT HIS BODY. THE SABBATH WAS APPROACHING AND THAT 22:14 WAS VERY SACRED TO JESUS AND THE APOSTLES. 22:16 AND IT SAYS THEY WENT HOME AND PREPARED SPICES AND KEPT THE 22:19 SABBATH ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT - IN LUKE CHAPTER 53 22:22 - BUT BEFORE THEY DID THAT, THEY DID WRAP HIM, BECAUSE WHEN JESUS 22:25 ROSE, THERE WERE WRAPPINGS THAT HE SET ASIDE. 22:28 WHO DO YOU THINK WRAPPED HIS FEET? 22:31 CAN'T PROVE IT, BUT I JUST PICTURE MARY SAYING, 'LET ME 22:36 WRAP HIS FEET.' AND THE OTHER MARY WRAPPED THE TOP END AND - 22:42 YOU CAN READ ALSO ABOUT THAT IN LUKE CHAPTER 53 - THE WOMEN, 22:45 ALSO, THEY CAME WITH HIM FROM GALILEE - FOLLOWED AFTER - THEY 22:48 BEHELD THE TOMB AND HOW HIS BODY WAS LAID. YOU KNOW, IT'S 22:52 IMPORTANT TO SIT AT HIS FEET, BUT DOING WHAT MARTHA DOES IS 22:55 ALSO IMPORTANT AND THAT'S SERVICE. BUT YOU NOTICE THE LOVE 22:58 AND THE LISTENING COMES BEFORE THE SERVICE. 23:01 NOW IT'S INTERESTING THAT, WHEN YOU READ IN MARK 16:9, IT SAYS, 23:08 'WHEN HE AROSE EARLY ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, HE 23:12 APPEARED FIRST TO MARY MAGDALENE, WHICH LEADS US TO THE 23:15 NEXT POINT: JESUS IS NOW - OR MARY IS NOW AT JESUS' FEET 23:20 IN SONG. NOW THINK ABOUT THAT: OF ALL THE 23:24 PEOPLE THAT JESUS COULD HAVE CHOSEN TO SHARE THE GOOD 23:26 NEWS, WHY WOULD HE PICK MARY? PETER HAD BEEN TO THE TOMB. 23:32 MAYBE HIS OWN MOTHER HAD BEEN THERE. 23:34 JOHN HAD BEEN THERE - THE BELOVED DISCIPLE. 23:36 HE WAITS UNTIL THEY'RE ALL GONE AND THIS PERSON THAT EVERYBODY 23:40 FIGURED WAS AN OUTCAST FROM SOCIETY, HE REVEALS HIMSELF TO 23:45 HER. YOU KNOW, IF I WAS THE LORD, 23:49 I WOULD HAVE ORCHESTRATED THE RESURRECTION DIFFERENTLY. 23:52 I WOULD HAVE HAD JESUS, LIKE, FIRST APPEAR TO PILATE AND SAY, 23:57 'NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK?' 23:58 (LAUGHTER) THOSE ROMAN SOLDIERS DIDN'T DO A VERY GOOD JOB 24:03 KEEPING ME IN ORDER' - YOU KNOW, BETTER YET, I WOULD HAVE GONE TO 24:05 THE SANHEDRIN AND THEN GONE TO CAIPHAS AND ANNAS, THE HIGH 24:08 PRIESTS AND SAID, 'SO, YOU DIDN'T THINK I WAS THE SON OF 24:10 GOD? NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK?' 24:12 JUST LOOK AT THEM, YOU KNOW, JUST WATCH THEM SHAKE. 24:15 JESUS DOES THINGS DIFFERENTLY. HE PICKED SOMEONE THAT WAS 24:19 CONSIDERED THE WEAKEST OF THE WEAK. 24:22 THE LORD, WHEN HE TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE-DOWN, IT SAYS, 'NOT 24:25 MANY WISE, NOT MANY NOBLE, BUT HE TAKES PEOPLE THAT HAVE SIMPLE 24:30 LOVE.' HE DOESN'T DO THINGS LIKE YOU AND I DO. 24:34 HE TAKES HUMBLE MEANS. AND THE LORD THEN USED MARY AND 24:38 GAVE HER THE GREATEST MESSAGE IN THE WORLD. HE SAID, 'I WANT YOU 24:41 TO GO' - WHAT IS THE CHURCH SUPPOSED TO DO? 24:44 FIRST WE SEE HER COMING TO JESUS IN THE TEMPLE IN REPENTANCE. 24:48 IN THE END SHE'S GOING WITH A SONG IN HER HEART. 24:50 THIS IS THE LAST TIME MARY APPEARS IN THE BIBLE. 24:52 THE LAST TIME YOU SEE HER, SHE IS RUNNING TO TELL OTHERS THAT 24:55 JESUS IS ALIVE. HE COMMISSIONS HER WITH THE GOOD 24:58 NEWS TO GO TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THE RESURRECTION. AND THIS IS WHAT 25:03 THE CHURCH IS SUPPOSED TO DO. HERE YOU SEE THE SEVEN POINTS 25:06 I'VE JUST GIVEN YOU. 1) SHE'S AT HIS FEET WEEPING IN 25:08 THE TEMPLE FOR FORGIVENESS OF SINS. 25:11 2) SHE'S AT HIS FEET PRAYING FOR HER DEAD BROTHERS AND SISTERS - 25:14 FOR RESURRECTION - AND JESUS DOES IT. 25:17 3) AT HIS FEET LEARNING AND LISTENING - DEVOTIONS. 25:20 4) AT HIS FEET GIVING. 5) AT HIS FEET BEHOLDING 25:23 HIM ON HIS CROSS. 6) AT HIS FEET IN SERVICE. 25:25 7) AT HIS FEET WORSHIPING AND PROCLAIMING HIM AS THE RISEN 25:29 SAVIOR. >> AMEN. 25:31 >> YOU KNOW, IF THE LORD CAN USE MARY - IF COULD FORGIVE MARY, HE 25:34 CAN DO THAT FOR US, BUT ALL OF US ARE LIKE MARY. ALL OF US NEED 25:37 TO EXPERIENCE THOSE SEVEN POINTS - TIME SERVING, LISTENING, 25:44 PRAYING, WORSHIPING, PROCLAIMING AT JESUS' FEET. 25:48 AND IT BEGINS BY COMING IN SORROW AND PRESENTING OURSELVES. 25:51 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT OUR SINS ARE, HE IS IN THE BUSINESS OF 25:54 SAVING US FROM OUR SINS. 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