The Sermon Don't betray yourself; ride in triumph by David McGee
Apr 17, 2011
Don't betray yourself; ride in triumph (30:31)
Referenced Scriptures: John 12:1-10
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John 12:1-10
1) Therefore six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
2) So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
3) Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
4) Then Judas Iscariot, Simon‘s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,
5) "Why wasn‘t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?"
6) Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
7) But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.
8) For you always have the poor with you, but you don‘t always have me."
9) A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus‘ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
10) But the chief priests conspired to also put Lazarus to death,
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I identify with the John Chapter twelve. John Chapter twelve and were to be reading it has me go through John, chapter twelve. Xavier finger and in the chapter. There, John, chapter twelve, beginning in verse one to verse three, six days before the Passover Jesus arrived to Bethany, where Lazarus live when Jesus had raised in whom Jesus had raised from the dead. There was given in Jesus on Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table within that Mary took up about a pint of pure nard an expensive perfume, and she poured it on Jesus feet and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. Now, sometimes whenever we think of the Bible characters we meet we somehow think of them in a light that doesn't make them ordinary know how they here think that the person beside you is ordinary and extraordinary. I don't think that time is longer beside this, again, I believe the overall kind of ordinary, so everybody who thinks and believes like I think you raise your hand. My goodness, how many are still here. I remember getting up to and during the art will the character of those that we see in this in this lesson on this in this venture. They are as as ordinary as yet as different as each agent, e.g. each and each and no smile battering off so the character. These individuals is a lot like us. I miss chatting there is not the Scriptures as the Jewish Passover. Now this definitely give us a little background. Rejoice in the Jewish Passover is a meal that was to commit, I know I should go back to bed or something. I took some I get what I think I took something and it really just long to get this inner ear thing and and I take this medicine. It didn't isn't working well I'll blame that about that. Okay, so the Passover is a meal commemorating the Hebrew liberation from slavery in Egypt so is an annual holiday and honor of the night in which the Lord Passover the home that had the blood apply to their door closed, state and agent when in the children of Israel were in Egypt they were slaves. They were held there against their will, and so miles. This came as an individual who is going to liberate them from the Egyptian bondage, and there was that the planks that were brought against the nation of agent and the last play. That was to be brought was the angel of death and the Angel of death was that anyone are all firstborn children in each family were males were to be would be killed by the angel of death, not those who would take the blood of the Lamb, a sacrifice and appliance of the doorpost of their home. The Angel of death would pass over that whole and so there was a celebration that Passover every year in commemorating what had happened at that time when the children of Israel were liberated from Egyptian bondage. Now they have to sacrifice a lamb in order for the blood to be applied to the home and what happened was they would have the land would be the end he broiled burger. Lebron is on whether they brought over how the company. But anyhow it was dropped and native people would eat the lamb with their clothes like traveling closer bags were packed and they were ready to leave and it was a statement of faith that God was going to liberate and so even before they were able to leave they would take this land, and they would sacrifice and put the door. The blot up around the door closed, knowing that God was going to the angel of death was going to pass over there home and on the belts and just wanted to somebody's clock going off. Mister might alarm is running the Isabel today. How so they would each of the land, and also they would have unleavened bread which we mean there is no yeast in it, meaning that it didn't have to rise. And so they could eat it in a hurry. And then there were defeated with bitter herbs. Herbs and the bitter herbs was to signify the bitterness of their slavery. So here is this meal going on, and never since Angel of death coming down upon the Egyptians, because they would believe in anything that the children of Israel believed in, because Pharaoh thought of himself as a god. So, here was this challenge between Pharaoh of Egypt, who considered himself of God and the God of the agent and the God of the Israelites, Jehovah, who I called Abraham and Isaac, and was the God of Israel, and Moses was there as his spokesman and brought this message to the Egyptians to let my people go, well this celebration van had taken place every year, and on the years following. This is initiated and became known as personal. So here is Jesus and the disciples. They are meeting here. It was six days before Passover celebration in which they were commemorating the freedom from slavery. Now, we now are preparing for the fulfillment of God 's presence in our lives we we look at the death of Jesus Christ coming up on Good Friday we look at the death of Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God that was sacrificed for our sin that we would not have that death would pass over us that we are free from our sin and Jesus the Lamb of God, his blood shed upon the cross so that we would have the cleansing in the removal of sin from our lives by heart by his forgiveness so that we have this preparation going on. So John, chapter twelve. We also have the preparation of Martha, who was serving Lazarus, who is reclining at the table and Mary, who is taken this perfume and she has anointed the feet of Jesus, so Martha her act of worship wasn't serving. Lazarus has active worship was in fellowship with Jesus and Mary. Her act of worship was an anointing the feet of Jesus, so HP having expression of their faith and each of them talking out expressing how what Jesus had meant to them and what was there for himself. They were having this dinner in honor of Jesus, while verse and chapter twelve in verse four, one of the disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to be trained and objective. Why wasn't this perfume stole the money given to the poor it was worth a year 's wages cannot say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was of the as paper and the money back in and the years to help himself to what was what was put into it. So Janice Wise objecting so here's deciding that every ill last versus just been a few days risen from the dead and all this is going on in honor of Jesus and Jonas is assaying and why you think. Here's worth a year 's salary that is wrapped up in this perfume and you're just wasting it by dumping it on. Genevieve Jesus, you should have sold it and given it to the poor, while why didn't Jesus stop Judas from stealing. I was always kind? you think about sometimes. Janice is this guy and he is the pizza treasurer. All of the disciples, and he keeps the money that people would give to Jesus in them because they didn't have jobs that pay them. They had a ministry that they would go out and serve people and they needed to eat and do these things, and so they needed to receive funds and jitters with the guy competitor, but and he kept what the problem was Janice Hattaway, a winding his own pocket from the moneybags for that was given to the disciples and so the ever think that if Jesus would have caught to the same pages, you're stealing from the money back you think the Jews would've changed and the challenge that I think of the Scripture says, and he knows to do right and doesn't do it to him it is sin. So if were caught doing something. Do we really change. But if we know to do right in the first place. Why do we keep doing wrong why do we challenge ourselves and confronting ourselves with breaking God 's command whenever we know we should be very, are we waiting it out when I get caught then I'll see if we get caught. Are we really sorry or we decide we got caught in KM and learning what's going on here is that John is right here and in the end, the presence of Jesus. He's very the presence of the disciples. He's very the presence of Lazarus is risen from the dead, and he still won't change his ways. He still won't change what's going on. Is it important that we look at ourselves. We recognize godly sorrow work of repentance. Godly sorrow is a sorrow from our heart. It says, you know, I am genuinely. I genuinely feel your heart and I'm sorry for hurting you. God hurts when we say, because God has it hurts him to see if it hurts God to see how we are hurting ourselves and and and failing to need up to our best expectations for us to need up to what God created us to be our sin is not hurting us, but more intensely than her God, and I hate to talk about this woman and Sunday school in Kenya can't leave this to you again within Illini Center AI computer user same story and church. I've already heard about one home now. I can thought not. Relatives say a close, I thought about it in the wrong track again if it owns as for me to do that while you do this, I'm out of that soldiers as anyhow. Dennis lies they were it was the always funny money taken money out of my account on the plot and in Jesus didn't confront him because he was trying now i.e. left Judas Bell is aware because just needed to know that what he was doing was wrong. He areas of the presence of God, and in the presence of Jesus and the disciples and miracles and all that and he still continued to do the wrong thing. Why would he do such a thing and I thought about godly sorrow. Godly sorrow is that what we need. We know that we have hurt God is God. God hurts when we sin, and of when we do wrong and hurt, Scott, I counseled an individual number of years ago and he wasn't. He was an individual who had done some very bad things to some of his family members and his wife said if you go to Christian counseling. I won't we won't press charges, and in old Goa while that man was sitting in my office and were talking about the things that he did, and and I was trying to and are trying to ascertain if he really felt sorry for what he did or if he was just sorry he got caught. He was sorry he got caught. He didn't change on the inside into a relationship with Jesus Christ is one that changes us from the inside, and it's not just that were sorry we got caught and were not making excuses were recognizing that the things that we do that things are called sin are the things that are actually destroy us and and and or hurts the I got my missile means I am sorry by for hurting you and I ask you to forgive me of my sins. Because of this, and I have done against Joe Buck live in God 's concern because it is said that was done against ourselves. It is actually hurting us and stopping us from becoming the person that God created us to be so Janice is caught he is apprehended by Jesus in verse seventy is Janice Leonhardt, along subject is getting on Martha's case for using this oil. This perfume to anoint the feet of Jesus and Jesus Kyle Janice labor alone and was intended that she should say this perfume for the dam. My burial. Sometimes we just don't get it. There's more to life and where were at. There's more to life than exactly what's going on around us to Jonas. There's no doubt things are going to continue as they are maybe now they either. Jesus is going to be on the cane and drive out the Romans wire something to happen, but Genesys. All contact with trying to get a year 's wages stopped in his bag. He doesn't seem really what's going on around him, Judas in what is now his life of lies is confronted by Jews leave her alone. Jude Janice was not concern for the poor, but for the purpose. The bank the money back to bring change. Judas was surrounded by a resurrected Lazarus. He was seeing Martha and her active service in having this dinner in honor Jesus and we have Mary's anointing his feet with this perfume and drying it with her hair and judges is uncomfortable in the presence of such expression of love. He's uncomfortable with all of his lies and is uncomfortable with his position that he has brought himself to and so then you have the dinner would have the Passover. We have the dinner in honor of Jesus and remembering last verses been raised from the dead. We have Martha serving Mary anointing Lazarus reclining at the table. The first line, a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and pay not only because of him, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. So here we have this setting and asleep and just for a little bit, jump back to John chapter eleven when Jesus DeLay has returned to Bethany and Lazarus had died. We haven't verse twenty four and twenty five. They said Mary Martha said to Jesus, if you had been here, our brother would not have died. So here's this this Lebron what we what we preparing for unprepared for the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, but what's happening in these moments prior to this day prior to this whining triumphantly into Jerusalem, we have this already out on a limb for them and makes meaning going on that with Mary Martha life as the three closest friends of Jesus outside of the disciples. You have the disciple to New Hampshire this and you have all this going on and adhere on Mary Martha and Lazarus there and just a few days before you have Jesus there are brother would not have died down and I was thinking of the soliciting of how may times God has showed up in our lives touched us changed us make provisions for us even when we doubted his delays even when we doubted how much we didn't understand why he delayed. In addition, Jesus declared, he said I am the resurrection and the life. He believes in me will live, even though he dies. And whoever lives and believes in me will never die to believe that anything he said in a statement of Mary and Martha when Lazarus was still in the gray and they said yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the son of God was coming to the world. It is in that spirit of awareness is in that spirit of awareness. Martha herbs the meal. It is in that spirit of awareness that Mary anoints his feet. It is in that spirit of awareness. Lazarus is reclining at the table with Jesus. He's alive because this man spoke his name and called him out of the grave. It seemed that awareness that spirit of awareness that all this is taking place and there is Judas saying why didn't you sell that perfume and twenty years worth of money in my pouch and then not only as juice, but then there's a crowd outside. We want to see Jesus. But we want to see what has hurt the guy who was then brought back from the dead I in that spirit in that atmosphere, there is achieving free one of a new verse ten. They were making plans to kill Lazarus as well, for account of him many Jews were going over to Jesus and putting their faith in him because of what happened the last result. The setting of a resurrected Lazarus and other personnel on the anointing mayhap phrased and judges. Jonas has missed out on a years worth of money, but not in his pocket. Please not been a missed out on the thirty pieces of silver that the priests are going to get to him in order to kill Jesus and hopefully as a side effect to kill Lazarus in all this is going on. Why, because Jesus is becoming so powerful and so influential that the Pharisees are losing their influence upon the people and they want rid of them. Usually what happens when doubt begin at the house. Judas couldn't see the reality of life in front of Lazarus was alive and brought forth from the dead and Judah 's witness and wanted to say it showed us all that money that perfume and gave me the money. The priest. What did they say we not only have to kill Jesus. We have to kill Lazarus as well because Lazarus is a testimony. I somewhat thought what this Jesus is doing. And here in our life, we are confronted with a some of these very same things about our faith. What does our faith tell us, are we preparing for what God is coming. You know, there is a radio station and billboards around and I know I'm more than a young are they twenty days now they're telling that Jesus is coming back onto Saturday go. I believe that Jesus is coming back. Yes, do I believe he is coming back in twenty days. Not a good come back sooner you can back this afternoon. We don't know when he's coming that and the ideas our hearts need to be ready because you see which state was sometimes I think were not Judas but were like tutors in the sense that we see the miraculous. We see God doing wonderful things. And when we don't understand and so therefore we make stupid statements/ Y Y Y wash up and go that way. Why do something that I is another. They're not a minor. They cry when they were sing the songs, and why don't other sorry micron at the same time, and why do you feel different. Whenever there is a presence of God, and it was while why why why do we do all that and when I get out of that when I get out of that lets American Adam Duncan, all men allow that perfume on his feet. While one issue get out of that I needed money out of that Pentagon money and put it in my price. What is she in Michigan without the timepieces the what do we get out of worshiping Jesus and from the Jewish leaders for the new that could accuse Jesus of blasphemy against our and against the claim that he was gone to the big negative views. That is something, but not Lazarus. You see the Holy Spirit comes to arrest us the arrests us in our life detaches us in his grace and his mercy in Texas also has Grayson 's mercy, to save us from the downward spiral of sin and of lies and deceit. That's were Judas is going. He's on a downward spiral and barriers in the presence of God, and he can't see God. The priests are plotting to kill Jesus because he raised Lazarus from the dead is becoming too powerful. We've got to get rid but you see for you and I we can't wait until sin enslaves us and you can imagine the Judas has less than a week to change his ways is less than a week to change his ways, but will he sad to say no. He said he missed out on the way of a year 's wages with the perfume. But there are thirty pieces of silver waiting for him at the consolation prize in him lies, Judas will become in his final act of betrayal, Judas will betray self against that kind of this whole place. I was heading with this Passover with Mary Martha and Lazarus, that Judas is betraying himself and and that's what God wants to save us from the betrayal of ourselves. Even, you don't need to get I'm going singsong for women before we close in the event that the trail on self and in this is what this is that the consequences if we have the triumphal entry, which is about to happen and this is the setting of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem that racist term, while all the stuff we think we would put things out of context would Jesus rode triumphantly in Jerusalem. He happy everything is great. Now everything is in turmoil. Any wine can try out he lives in triumph because he knows that he is going to overcome sin a novelty is going to set people free on the punishment of sin and the betrayal of themselves with this struggle behind him. The struggle ahead of him. None of it turns Jesus from his pack, verse twelve, said the next day, Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem being there the power of Satan to dissuade people this way the hearts of man he would ride triumphantly over sin. He is going there to conquer death, hell and the grave, and he in this setting. In this dinner that Jesus is experiencing various the service of Martha. There is the breaking of the perfume and the worship of Mary, there is the presence of Lazarus risen from the dead. There is Judas, who is hollering at Mary for wasting perfume. The high priest, who were plotting to kill Jesus and kill Lazarus and then there's Jesus was he doing is going arrive triumphantly into Jerusalem is the nose who he is. He is the Messiah, the one awaited for in a few days. His blood will be shed on the cross to be the cleansing of our sins, just as that lamb 's blood was poured upon the doorpost of the whole in an ancient and that the angel of death passed over when the blood of Jesus Christ is applied to our lives are. We are saved from our sin and that is cleansing from our sin and death does not have place in our lives anymore, sandwiches, the destructive agent of him immediately of our soul is washed from our line, and we no longer are confident in our product God were not confident that that spiraled downward Judas and coming against those who are worshiping Jesus were not in that anymore we stand for what it is. We recognize that the King of Kings and Lords Jesus Christ is alive. He rides triumphantly, his body will be scourged is his life will be sacrificed upon the cross, the Lamb of God the sacrifice of God, God himself would pay the penalty for the sin of the world. He arrives triumphantly to fulfill the will of the father, he rides triumphant even know sin would become sin for us, that we who are sinful might no forget that's the tribe that's setting of Jesus entering triumphantly into Jerusalem and Brad to come the others that if we went, what would be our triumphant song if we had, and I'm not being in the plumper because we don't announce there is any and I know what we do upon branches whenever where on the table. We take advantage of the person next to us and beat them with why I'm downstairs for you to take home with you, but I was thinking as I was putting this together. I was thinking of what would be our song of triumph. What would be the song that we would say in triumph is, we have to sweep. We recognize what God has done for us, he saved us from our sin. He is triumphant in our lives, and thenI identify with the John Chapter twelve. John Chapter twelve and were to be reading it has me go through John, chapter twelve. Xavier finger and in the chapter. There, John, chapter twelve, beginning in verse one to verse three, six days before the Passover Jesus arrived to Bethany, where Lazarus live when Jesus had raised in whom Jesus had raised from the dead. There was given in Jesus on Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table within that Mary took up about a pint of pure nard an expensive perfume, and she poured it on Jesus feet and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. Now, sometimes whenever we think of the Bible characters we meet we somehow think of them in a light that doesn't make them ordinary know how they here think that the person beside you is ordinary and extraordinary. I don't think that time is longer beside this, again, I believe the overall kind of ordinary, so everybody who thinks and believes like I think you raise your hand. My goodness, how many are still here. I remember getting up to and during the art will the character of those that we see in this in this lesson on this in this venture. They are as as ordinary as yet as different as each agent, e.g. each and each and no smile battering off so the character. These individuals is a lot like us. I miss chatting there is not the Scriptures as the Jewish Passover. Now this definitely give us a little background. Rejoice in the Jewish Passover is a meal that was to commit, I know I should go back to bed or something. I took some I get what I think I took something and it really just long to get this inner ear thing and and I take this medicine. It didn't isn't working well I'll blame that about that. Okay, so the Passover is a meal commemorating the Hebrew liberation from slavery in Egypt so is an annual holiday and honor of the night in which the Lord Passover the home that had the blood apply to their door closed, state and agent when in the children of Israel were in Egypt they were slaves. They were held there against their will, and so miles. This came as an individual who is going to liberate them from the Egyptian bondage, and there was that the planks that were brought against the nation of agent and the last play. That was to be brought was the angel of death and the Angel of death was that anyone are all firstborn children in each family were males were to be would be killed by the angel of death, not those who would take the blood of the Lamb, a sacrifice and appliance of the doorpost of their home. The Angel of death would pass over that whole and so there was a celebration that Passover every year in commemorating what had happened at that time when the children of Israel were liberated from Egyptian bondage. Now they have to sacrifice a lamb in order for the blood to be applied to the home and what happened was they would have the land would be the end he broiled burger. Lebron is on whether they brought over how the company. But anyhow it was dropped and native people would eat the lamb with their clothes like traveling closer bags were packed and they were ready to leave and it was a statement of faith that God was going to liberate and so even before they were able to leave they would take this land, and they would sacrifice and put the door. The blot up around the door closed, knowing that God was going to the angel of death was going to pass over there home and on the belts and just wanted to somebody's clock going off. Mister might alarm is running the Isabel today. How so they would each of the land, and also they would have unleavened bread which we mean there is no yeast in it, meaning that it didn't have to rise. And so they could eat it in a hurry. And then there were defeated with bitter herbs. Herbs and the bitter herbs was to signify the bitterness of their slavery. So here is this meal going on, and never since Angel of death coming down upon the Egyptians, because they would believe in anything that the children of Israel believed in, because Pharaoh thought of himself as a god. So, here was this challenge between Pharaoh of Egypt, who considered himself of God and the God of the agent and the God of the Israelites, Jehovah, who I called Abraham and Isaac, and was the God of Israel, and Moses was there as his spokesman and brought this message to the Egyptians to let my people go, well this celebration van had taken place every year, and on the years following. This is initiated and became known as personal. So here is Jesus and the disciples. They are meeting here. It was six days before Passover celebration in which they were commemorating the freedom from slavery. Now, we now are preparing for the fulfillment of God 's presence in our lives we we look at the death of Jesus Christ coming up on Good Friday we look at the death of Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God that was sacrificed for our sin that we would not have that death would pass over us that we are free from our sin and Jesus the Lamb of God, his blood shed upon the cross so that we would have the cleansing in the removal of sin from our lives by heart by his forgiveness so that we have this preparation going on. So John, chapter twelve. We also have the preparation of Martha, who was serving Lazarus, who is reclining at the table and Mary, who is taken this perfume and she has anointed the feet of Jesus, so Martha her act of worship wasn't serving. Lazarus has active worship was in fellowship with Jesus and Mary. Her act of worship was an anointing the feet of Jesus, so HP having expression of their faith and each of them talking out expressing how what Jesus had meant to them and what was there for himself. They were having this dinner in honor of Jesus, while verse and chapter twelve in verse four, one of the disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to be trained and objective. Why wasn't this perfume stole the money given to the poor it was worth a year 's wages cannot say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was of the as paper and the money back in and the years to help himself to what was what was put into it. So Janice Wise objecting so here's deciding that every ill last versus just been a few days risen from the dead and all this is going on in honor of Jesus and Jonas is assaying and why you think. Here's worth a year 's salary that is wrapped up in this perfume and you're just wasting it by dumping it on. Genevieve Jesus, you should have sold it and given it to the poor, while why didn't Jesus stop Judas from stealing. I was always kind? you think about sometimes. Janice is this guy and he is the pizza treasurer. All of the disciples, and he keeps the money that people would give to Jesus in them because they didn't have jobs that pay them. They had a ministry that they would go out and serve people and they needed to eat and do these things, and so they needed to receive funds and jitters with the guy competitor, but and he kept what the problem was Janice Hattaway, a winding his own pocket from the moneybags for that was given to the disciples and so the ever think that if Jesus would have caught to the same pages, you're stealing from the money back you think the Jews would've changed and the challenge that I think of the Scripture says, and he knows to do right and doesn't do it to him it is sin. So if were caught doing something. Do we really change. But if we know to do right in the first place. Why do we keep doing wrong why do we challenge ourselves and confronting ourselves with breaking God 's command whenever we know we should be very, are we waiting it out when I get caught then I'll see if we get caught. Are we really sorry or we decide we got caught in KM and learning what's going on here is that John is right here and in the end, the presence of Jesus. He's very the presence of the disciples. He's very the presence of Lazarus is risen from the dead, and he still won't change his ways. He still won't change what's going on. Is it important that we look at ourselves. We recognize godly sorrow work of repentance. Godly sorrow is a sorrow from our heart. It says, you know, I am genuinely. I genuinely feel your heart and I'm sorry for hurting you. God hurts when we say, because God has it hurts him to see if it hurts God to see how we are hurting ourselves and and and failing to need up to our best expectations for us to need up to what God created us to be our sin is not hurting us, but more intensely than her God, and I hate to talk about this woman and Sunday school in Kenya can't leave this to you again within Illini Center AI computer user same story and church. I've already heard about one home now. I can thought not. Relatives say a close, I thought about it in the wrong track again if it owns as for me to do that while you do this, I'm out of that soldiers as anyhow. Dennis lies they were it was the always funny money taken money out of my account on the plot and in Jesus didn't confront him because he was trying now i.e. left Judas Bell is aware because just needed to know that what he was doing was wrong. He areas of the presence of God, and in the presence of Jesus and the disciples and miracles and all that and he still continued to do the wrong thing. Why would he do such a thing and I thought about godly sorrow. Godly sorrow is that what we need. We know that we have hurt God is God. God hurts when we sin, and of when we do wrong and hurt, Scott, I counseled an individual number of years ago and he wasn't. He was an individual who had done some very bad things to some of his family members and his wife said if you go to Christian counseling. I won't we won't press charges, and in old Goa while that man was sitting in my office and were talking about the things that he did, and and I was trying to and are trying to ascertain if he really felt sorry for what he did or if he was just sorry he got caught. He was sorry he got caught. He didn't change on the inside into a relationship with Jesus Christ is one that changes us from the inside, and it's not just that were sorry we got caught and were not making excuses were recognizing that the things that we do that things are called sin are the things that are actually destroy us and and and or hurts the I got my missile means I am sorry by for hurting you and I ask you to forgive me of my sins. Because of this, and I have done against Joe Buck live in God 's concern because it is said that was done against ourselves. It is actually hurting us and stopping us from becoming the person that God created us to be so Janice is caught he is apprehended by Jesus in verse seventy is Janice Leonhardt, along subject is getting on Martha's case for using this oil. This perfume to anoint the feet of Jesus and Jesus Kyle Janice labor alone and was intended that she should say this perfume for the dam. My burial. Sometimes we just don't get it. There's more to life and where were at. There's more to life than exactly what's going on around us to Jonas. There's no doubt things are going to continue as they are maybe now they either. Jesus is going to be on the cane and drive out the Romans wire something to happen, but Genesys. All contact with trying to get a year 's wages stopped in his bag. He doesn't seem really what's going on around him, Judas in what is now his life of lies is confronted by Jews leave her alone. Jude Janice was not concern for the poor, but for the purpose. The bank the money back to bring change. Judas was surrounded by a resurrected Lazarus. He was seeing Martha and her active service in having this dinner in honor Jesus and we have Mary's anointing his feet with this perfume and drying it with her hair and judges is uncomfortable in the presence of such expression of love. He's uncomfortable with all of his lies and is uncomfortable with his position that he has brought himself to and so then you have the dinner would have the Passover. We have the dinner in honor of Jesus and remembering last verses been raised from the dead. We have Martha serving Mary anointing Lazarus reclining at the table. The first line, a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and pay not only because of him, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. So here we have this setting and asleep and just for a little bit, jump back to John chapter eleven when Jesus DeLay has returned to Bethany and Lazarus had died. We haven't verse twenty four and twenty five. They said Mary Martha said to Jesus, if you had been here, our brother would not have died. So here's this this Lebron what we what we preparing for unprepared for the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, but what's happening in these moments prior to this day prior to this whining triumphantly into Jerusalem, we have this already out on a limb for them and makes meaning going on that with Mary Martha life as the three closest friends of Jesus outside of the disciples. You have the disciple to New Hampshire this and you have all this going on and adhere on Mary Martha and Lazarus there and just a few days before you have Jesus there are brother would not have died down and I was thinking of the soliciting of how may times God has showed up in our lives touched us changed us make provisions for us even when we doubted his delays even when we doubted how much we didn't understand why he delayed. In addition, Jesus declared, he said I am the resurrection and the life. He believes in me will live, even though he dies. And whoever lives and believes in me will never die to believe that anything he said in a statement of Mary and Martha when Lazarus was still in the gray and they said yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the son of God was coming to the world. It is in that spirit of awareness is in that spirit of awareness. Martha herbs the meal. It is in that spirit of awareness that Mary anoints his feet. It is in that spirit of awareness. Lazarus is reclining at the table with Jesus. He's alive because this man spoke his name and called him out of the grave. It seemed that awareness that spirit of awareness that all this is taking place and there is Judas saying why didn't you sell that perfume and twenty years worth of money in my pouch and then not only as juice, but then there's a crowd outside. We want to see Jesus. But we want to see what has hurt the guy who was then brought back from the dead I in that spirit in that atmosphere, there is achieving free one of a new verse ten. They were making plans to kill Lazarus as well, for account of him many Jews were going over to Jesus and putting their faith in him because of what happened the last result. The setting of a resurrected Lazarus and other personnel on the anointing mayhap phrased and judges. Jonas has missed out on a years worth of money, but not in his pocket. Please not been a missed out on the thirty pieces of silver that the priests are going to get to him in order to kill Jesus and hopefully as a side effect to kill Lazarus in all this is going on. Why, because Jesus is becoming so powerful and so influential that the Pharisees are losing their influence upon the people and they want rid of them. Usually what happens when doubt begin at the house. Judas couldn't see the reality of life in front of Lazarus was alive and brought forth from the dead and Judah 's witness and wanted to say it showed us all that money that perfume and gave me the money. The priest. What did they say we not only have to kill Jesus. We have to kill Lazarus as well because Lazarus is a testimony. I somewhat thought what this Jesus is doing. And here in our life, we are confronted with a some of these very same things about our faith. What does our faith tell us, are we preparing for what God is coming. You know, there is a radio station and billboards around and I know I'm more than a young are they twenty days now they're telling that Jesus is coming back onto Saturday go. I believe that Jesus is coming back. Yes, do I believe he is coming back in twenty days. Not a good come back sooner you can back this afternoon. We don't know when he's coming that and the ideas our hearts need to be ready because you see which state was sometimes I think were not Judas but were like tutors in the sense that we see the miraculous. We see God doing wonderful things. And when we don't understand and so therefore we make stupid statements/ Y Y Y wash up and go that way. Why do something that I is another. They're not a minor. They cry when they were sing the songs, and why don't other sorry micron at the same time, and why do you feel different. Whenever there is a presence of God, and it was while why why why do we do all that and when I get out of that when I get out of that lets American Adam Duncan, all men allow that perfume on his feet. While one issue get out of that I needed money out of that Pentagon money and put it in my price. What is she in Michigan without the timepieces the what do we get out of worshiping Jesus and from the Jewish leaders for the new that could accuse Jesus of blasphemy against our and against the claim that he was gone to the big negative views. That is something, but not Lazarus. You see the Holy Spirit comes to arrest us the arrests us in our life detaches us in his grace and his mercy in Texas also has Grayson 's mercy, to save us from the downward spiral of sin and of lies and deceit. That's were Judas is going. He's on a downward spiral and barriers in the presence of God, and he can't see God. The priests are plotting to kill Jesus because he raised Lazarus from the dead is becoming too powerful. We've got to get rid but you see for you and I we can't wait until sin enslaves us and you can imagine the Judas has less than a week to change his ways is less than a week to change his ways, but will he sad to say no. He said he missed out on the way of a year 's wages with the perfume. But there are thirty pieces of silver waiting for him at the consolation prize in him lies, Judas will become in his final act of betrayal, Judas will betray self against that kind of this whole place. I was heading with this Passover with Mary Martha and Lazarus, that Judas is betraying himself and and that's what God wants to save us from the betrayal of ourselves. Even, you don't need to get I'm going singsong for women before we close in the event that the trail on self and in this is what this is that the consequences if we have the triumphal entry, which is about to happen and this is the setting of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem that racist term, while all the stuff we think we would put things out of context would Jesus rode triumphantly in Jerusalem. He happy everything is great. Now everything is in turmoil. Any wine can try out he lives in triumph because he knows that he is going to overcome sin a novelty is going to set people free on the punishment of sin and the betrayal of themselves with this struggle behind him. The struggle ahead of him. None of it turns Jesus from his pack, verse twelve, said the next day, Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem being there the power of Satan to dissuade people this way the hearts of man he would ride triumphantly over sin. He is going there to conquer death, hell and the grave, and he in this setting. In this dinner that Jesus is experiencing various the service of Martha. There is the breaking of the perfume and the worship of Mary, there is the presence of Lazarus risen from the dead. There is Judas, who is hollering at Mary for wasting perfume. The high priest, who were plotting to kill Jesus and kill Lazarus and then there's Jesus was he doing is going arrive triumphantly into Jerusalem is the nose who he is. He is the Messiah, the one awaited for in a few days. His blood will be shed on the cross to be the cleansing of our sins, just as that lamb 's blood was poured upon the doorpost of the whole in an ancient and that the angel of death passed over when the blood of Jesus Christ is applied to our lives are. We are saved from our sin and that is cleansing from our sin and death does not have place in our lives anymore, sandwiches, the destructive agent of him immediately of our soul is washed from our line, and we no longer are confident in our product God were not confident that that spiraled downward Judas and coming against those who are worshiping Jesus were not in that anymore we stand for what it is. We recognize that the King of Kings and Lords Jesus Christ is alive. He rides triumphantly, his body will be scourged is his life will be sacrificed upon the cross, the Lamb of God the sacrifice of God, God himself would pay the penalty for the sin of the world. He arrives triumphantly to fulfill the will of the father, he rides triumphant even know sin would become sin for us, that we who are sinful might no forget that's the tribe that's setting of Jesus entering triumphantly into Jerusalem and Brad to come the others that if we went, what would be our triumphant song if we had, and I'm not being in the plumper because we don't announce there is any and I know what we do upon branches whenever where on the table. We take advantage of the person next to us and beat them with why I'm downstairs for you to take home with you, but I was thinking as I was putting this together. I was thinking of what would be our song of triumph. What would be the song that we would say in triumph is, we have to sweep. We recognize what God has done for us, he saved us from our sin. He is triumphant in our lives, and then