WEBVTT 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:18.500 blessed as a house when they come to bring their 00:00:18.500 --> 00:00:20.879 love and their care. They're just very real people 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:23.379 that really love Jesus and say, Lord, whatever 00:00:23.379 --> 00:00:26.559 I have, come and use it to bless the house. Amen. 00:00:26.940 --> 00:00:31.019 And I want to welcome Steve Sumner from Shiloh 00:00:31.019 --> 00:00:34.079 Church in Oakland. Let's give him a warm life 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:36.939 Bible. Welcome as he comes to the platform. Hallelujah. 00:00:41.299 --> 00:00:45.450 Yes, sir. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Let's just 00:00:45.450 --> 00:00:47.350 lift our hands to the Lord, amen. Thank you, 00:00:47.350 --> 00:00:50.409 Jesus. We thank you for your presence here. Lord, 00:00:50.409 --> 00:00:52.490 we thank you, Lord, that your word says that 00:00:52.490 --> 00:00:55.630 the rich you send away empty, but the hungry 00:00:55.630 --> 00:00:58.310 you fill with good things, Lord. And we say, 00:00:58.689 --> 00:01:01.130 we're hungry, O God. We're hungry, Lord. We're 00:01:01.130 --> 00:01:04.150 hungry for more of you, in Jesus' name. Amen. 00:01:04.250 --> 00:01:06.150 Bless your people today. Amen. You may be seated 00:01:06.150 --> 00:01:08.290 in the presence of the Lord. Amen. Let's just 00:01:08.290 --> 00:01:12.989 give the Lord a hand, clap, amen. Thank you. 00:01:13.569 --> 00:01:15.790 Thank you pastor Anthony I just want to thank 00:01:15.790 --> 00:01:18.769 you and on behalf of your pastors pastors Brad 00:01:18.769 --> 00:01:22.709 and Jen who are traveling to Cambodia Just continue 00:01:22.709 --> 00:01:24.909 to I know I know you will but to remember them 00:01:24.909 --> 00:01:27.390 in your prayers this week as they travel We prayed 00:01:27.390 --> 00:01:29.510 for them in the first service, but just remember 00:01:29.510 --> 00:01:32.090 them as special emphasis as you pray this week 00:01:32.090 --> 00:01:35.900 that the Lord would cover them we Portia, myself, 00:01:36.140 --> 00:01:38.040 Stephen, our son, we just want to thank you for 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:40.739 your hospitality, your love, Pastor Anthony Alton, 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:43.879 all of the staff and everyone here, thank you. 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:48.280 You guys make us feel so much at home. How many 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:50.500 of you know that no matter where you go, where 00:01:50.500 --> 00:01:52.359 you travel, that where the Spirit of the Lord 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:55.000 is, there's liberty and freedom. And you could 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:56.680 go to the ends of the earth and you could be 00:01:56.680 --> 00:01:58.579 connected to people you don't even know you never 00:01:58.579 --> 00:02:01.579 met But when the Spirit of the Lord is he there 00:02:01.579 --> 00:02:04.500 he breaks down barriers and it's like you've 00:02:04.500 --> 00:02:07.560 known them your entire life And so we feel that 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:09.560 way. That's the kingdom of God. God does that 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:12.360 amen And so thank you pastor Alton for giving 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:15.520 me a new title of my sermon. The price is right 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:19.300 Portia, thank you III heard that and I was like, 00:02:19.379 --> 00:02:20.919 well, you know, that's a great title of this 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:24.479 word. The price is right And this is my wife, 00:02:24.659 --> 00:02:26.520 Portia. We've been married 24 years. We'll be 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:33.460 married 20, 25 years next January. And our son, 00:02:33.699 --> 00:02:35.939 Steven, he's 20 years of age and we have a whole 00:02:35.939 --> 00:02:38.560 host of other kids that live with us. Steven's 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:40.879 our only biological son. He's a miracle. Portia, 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:43.979 when she had a surgery several years ago, she 00:02:43.979 --> 00:02:45.699 had some complications and they had to take out 00:02:45.699 --> 00:02:48.280 one of her ovaries. And the doctor says, it's 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:50.800 a miracle that you ever even got pregnant. And 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:53.490 so... Anyhow, I just appreciate and how many 00:02:53.490 --> 00:02:55.289 just appreciate the Spirit of God and what he's 00:02:55.289 --> 00:02:57.810 already done here Even the word that pastor Anthony 00:02:57.810 --> 00:03:00.430 has has given God has done so much But how many 00:03:00.430 --> 00:03:02.810 of you are greedy any greedy people in here you're 00:03:02.810 --> 00:03:06.389 greedy You want more amen and so we're gonna 00:03:06.389 --> 00:03:08.150 share the word of the Lord. Let's just pray Lord 00:03:08.150 --> 00:03:10.550 We just thank you for your word that your word 00:03:10.550 --> 00:03:13.389 comes and it gives us life Lord. It's for us. 00:03:13.389 --> 00:03:17.020 It comes and strengthens us And Lord, we just 00:03:17.020 --> 00:03:19.560 thank you. Let your life and your breath be upon 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:22.360 your word today. In Jesus name, we pray. Amen. 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:24.919 And as your pastor, Pastor Brad, has been preaching, 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:28.610 you've been teaching on worship. Song that we 00:03:28.610 --> 00:03:31.289 sang today step out our church had the opportunity 00:03:31.289 --> 00:03:33.590 to do a new worship CD And so if you like to 00:03:33.590 --> 00:03:35.750 we have some CDs that we brought and it'll bless 00:03:35.750 --> 00:03:38.210 you and your family They're at the table. There's 00:03:38.210 --> 00:03:40.110 a cost to these we brought them from the church, 00:03:40.110 --> 00:03:42.930 but that song step out and There's a there's 00:03:42.930 --> 00:03:45.909 a guitar solo on that song for for you that love 00:03:45.909 --> 00:03:48.430 rock and guitars. It's on there And so this is 00:03:48.430 --> 00:03:51.990 kind of a rocky album here rock and roll And 00:03:51.990 --> 00:03:54.330 our church had the opportunity to do this in 00:03:54.330 --> 00:03:55.889 their original songs. There's another song by 00:03:55.889 --> 00:03:58.030 Portia and then our own worship pastor at the 00:03:58.030 --> 00:03:59.870 church and other ones. And so dudes, why don't 00:03:59.870 --> 00:04:02.270 you catch this for me and give it away to somebody 00:04:02.270 --> 00:04:07.650 who wants that CD. But worship, amen. The price 00:04:07.650 --> 00:04:10.210 is right. Now turn to your neighbor and look 00:04:10.210 --> 00:04:12.669 at him. Turn to your neighbor. Get out your bony 00:04:12.669 --> 00:04:17.529 prophetic finger. Point it in your chest. See, 00:04:17.709 --> 00:04:21.149 got you. You already pointed at them. No, no 00:04:21.149 --> 00:04:23.550 pointing of the finger. Put it in your chest 00:04:23.550 --> 00:04:25.069 and look at your neighbor and tell them, say, 00:04:25.149 --> 00:04:30.370 you look great, but I see you in the future and 00:04:30.370 --> 00:04:33.709 you look a whole lot better than you do right 00:04:33.709 --> 00:04:38.170 now. Amen. Come on. That's what God has for us. 00:04:39.330 --> 00:04:41.290 When he looks at you and he sees us, he says, 00:04:41.310 --> 00:04:43.970 you look great, but his future is better, his 00:04:43.970 --> 00:04:47.310 more. God has more for us in the future. I mean, 00:04:47.310 --> 00:04:49.430 you know that God doesn't want us to settle into 00:04:49.430 --> 00:04:51.709 as pastor and he doesn't want us just to camp 00:04:51.709 --> 00:04:55.740 out, but God, he allows. times of refreshing 00:04:55.740 --> 00:05:00.240 to come to us to enlarge us, to refuel us, to 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:02.959 refill us, to refresh us so that what we could 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:05.079 take off and that we can soar. How many of you 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:09.220 know that serving God is not a hundred yard dash? 00:05:09.259 --> 00:05:13.480 It's a marathon. It's a marathon. Amen. And God 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:16.519 gives us the ability to endure, to persevere. 00:05:16.660 --> 00:05:19.519 And one way to do that is through our worship. 00:05:19.689 --> 00:05:22.430 of the King. So turn with me in your Bible. I'm 00:05:22.430 --> 00:05:24.430 going to try to speed up here and get through 00:05:24.430 --> 00:05:26.529 this word quickly. And then we're going to have 00:05:26.529 --> 00:05:28.850 the worship team. Let's give it up for the worship 00:05:28.850 --> 00:05:31.189 team. Amen. They've done an outstanding job. 00:05:31.430 --> 00:05:34.829 All of the musicians, the background singers. 00:05:35.050 --> 00:05:36.610 Steve, I know I keep stepping in front of these 00:05:36.610 --> 00:05:38.029 monitors here and I can't hear myself. If you 00:05:38.029 --> 00:05:40.889 can give me a little more juice on them. They've 00:05:40.889 --> 00:05:42.870 done a wonderful job and we're going to end with 00:05:42.870 --> 00:05:45.790 worship. But here in Mark chapter 14, and this 00:05:45.790 --> 00:05:48.709 passage is also for those of you that like to 00:05:48.709 --> 00:05:51.009 take notes and it's good to take notes because 00:05:51.009 --> 00:05:55.209 a short pencil is better than a long memory. 00:05:56.410 --> 00:05:59.470 Amen. It's good to tell so this passage is also 00:05:59.470 --> 00:06:03.290 found in in Matthew 26 and also Luke chapter 00:06:03.290 --> 00:06:05.970 7 We're gonna bounce around in it, but this passage 00:06:05.970 --> 00:06:08.470 But I remember when I when I got saved what worship 00:06:08.470 --> 00:06:11.430 did for my life I'm the I shared my testimony 00:06:11.430 --> 00:06:14.389 last time I was here, but I was a drug addict 00:06:14.389 --> 00:06:16.250 even though I was raised in a home I had great 00:06:16.250 --> 00:06:19.490 parents I come from a family of ten children 00:06:19.490 --> 00:06:22.810 four dogs two parents three bedrooms if you can 00:06:22.810 --> 00:06:27.290 imagine that Really we did Four of my sisters 00:06:27.290 --> 00:06:30.769 were in one small bedroom with double bunks. 00:06:32.029 --> 00:06:34.329 Let's see, three of my brothers were in the other 00:06:34.329 --> 00:06:37.529 bedroom with a bunk and a bed. And then my parents' 00:06:37.769 --> 00:06:42.350 room had myself, my younger brother and my older 00:06:42.350 --> 00:06:44.689 brother. And there were two cribs on the side 00:06:44.689 --> 00:06:47.370 of the king bed, and my older brother slept in 00:06:47.370 --> 00:06:51.029 the king bed with my parents. And so, anyhow, 00:06:51.129 --> 00:06:52.910 that's just how it was. We were a Catholic family. 00:06:56.109 --> 00:06:58.670 My and my mother her her maiden name is Schmidt 00:06:58.670 --> 00:07:01.810 she she came from North Dakota and then her and 00:07:01.810 --> 00:07:05.129 her mother moved to California into Oakland back 00:07:05.129 --> 00:07:07.470 in the 40s actually my mother graduated from 00:07:07.470 --> 00:07:09.709 the same high school So here it was I'm in high 00:07:09.709 --> 00:07:12.750 school and at this Catholic high school I'm smoking 00:07:12.750 --> 00:07:14.870 pot doing drugs playing sports doing all this 00:07:14.870 --> 00:07:16.670 and I see my mother I mean walk down the hall 00:07:16.670 --> 00:07:19.180 you see your mother looking at you You know, 00:07:19.180 --> 00:07:20.939 it's like seeing Mother Mary or Jesus, you know, 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:22.800 no, no, but anyhow, but I would see my mother. 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:26.160 There's my 19th class of 1943 graduating class, 00:07:26.420 --> 00:07:29.420 Florence Schmidt, and she was from, from North 00:07:29.420 --> 00:07:32.079 Dakota. And so, but anyhow, we were raised in 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:34.379 a, in a great home, but you know, it just needed 00:07:34.379 --> 00:07:36.519 Jesus. Even though we had a little bit of knowledge 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:38.680 of Jesus, it was just crazy. It was, there was 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:42.579 just, anyhow, you get the picture. But as a teenager, 00:07:42.740 --> 00:07:45.569 my oldest sister, The first born, she was my 00:07:45.569 --> 00:07:47.430 godmother Rosemary. She was the first one to 00:07:47.430 --> 00:07:50.550 get born again and saved. And she, my sister 00:07:50.550 --> 00:07:54.990 Rosemary was a cosmetologist. She did hair. And 00:07:54.990 --> 00:07:58.529 so she worked at this beauty salon. And here 00:07:58.529 --> 00:08:01.790 on a street in Oakland comes Dr. Violet Kitely. 00:08:02.899 --> 00:08:05.759 To get her hair done and so she meets my sister 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:08.740 Rosemary and Rosemary starts to do Pastor violets 00:08:08.740 --> 00:08:11.040 hair and rose and pastor violet starts to witness 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:14.699 to my sister about Jesus and my sister Rosemary 00:08:14.699 --> 00:08:16.339 is the first in the family to get born again 00:08:16.339 --> 00:08:18.680 and saved and so she goes to this church called 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:21.000 Shiloh back then it was Shiloh temple Then it 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:22.939 became Shiloh Christian Fellowship. Now, it's 00:08:22.939 --> 00:08:25.879 this Shiloh church, but she gets saved born again 00:08:26.550 --> 00:08:28.589 and filled with the Holy Spirit and she's starting 00:08:28.589 --> 00:08:30.810 to pray for our family. Now there's 10 of us 00:08:30.810 --> 00:08:33.389 and so Rosemary is the first, I'm the ninth but 00:08:33.389 --> 00:08:35.730 she's my godmother because I didn't by the time 00:08:35.730 --> 00:08:37.470 I grew up I didn't have any aunts and uncles 00:08:37.470 --> 00:08:39.789 because they were all deceased or anyhow it's 00:08:39.789 --> 00:08:42.330 just the way it was and so Rosemary I was special 00:08:42.330 --> 00:08:44.250 to Rosemary because I mean you know when you 00:08:44.250 --> 00:08:46.389 have a lot of kids you parents you rely on the 00:08:46.389 --> 00:08:48.429 older kids to kind of parent your younger kids 00:08:48.429 --> 00:08:50.980 and so That's how it is those of you from big 00:08:50.980 --> 00:08:53.519 families know that and so Rosemary was like my 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:56.320 second mom And so she was praying for me and 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:59.679 I was 19 years of age I knew about Jesus from 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:02.799 my upbringing But I was full of drugs and and 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:05.399 hurt and pain from just my childhood And so she 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:07.539 was praying for me to come to church and so I 00:09:07.539 --> 00:09:09.539 I says well What do I have to lose to give God 00:09:09.539 --> 00:09:11.779 a chance in my life? And I mean, you know that 00:09:11.779 --> 00:09:13.919 God will bring you to those places of misery 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:16.940 and desperation Because he loves you And he has 00:09:16.940 --> 00:09:18.759 more. And also, and I shared this last time, 00:09:19.100 --> 00:09:22.100 all of us are products of prayer. Just think 00:09:22.100 --> 00:09:24.740 about it. I got saved because someone prayed 00:09:24.740 --> 00:09:27.620 for me. My sister cried out to God. So don't 00:09:27.620 --> 00:09:31.639 ever diminish your prayers for people that... 00:09:31.629 --> 00:09:34.230 you're praying for, whether they're siblings 00:09:34.230 --> 00:09:36.429 or unsaved loved ones, family members to pray 00:09:36.429 --> 00:09:38.690 for them, because I'm the product of prayer. 00:09:38.990 --> 00:09:40.990 My mother, I told someone before, my mother in 00:09:40.990 --> 00:09:43.909 high school, she, I went to a parochial school 00:09:43.909 --> 00:09:46.269 and we couldn't afford the tuition. So my mother, 00:09:46.450 --> 00:09:49.789 she was retired, but she was a retired RN. She 00:09:49.789 --> 00:09:51.929 was a nurse. My mother worked graveyard. She 00:09:51.929 --> 00:09:54.169 worked from 11 to seven every day and raised 00:09:54.169 --> 00:09:56.490 10 kids. And so basically her life was a life 00:09:56.490 --> 00:09:58.450 of sacrifice. And so here she volunteered at 00:09:58.450 --> 00:10:01.129 my high school as the nurse of the school to 00:10:00.940 --> 00:10:02.940 to help pay my tuition. And I was sitting there 00:10:02.940 --> 00:10:04.539 getting loaded and just doing crazy stuff. And 00:10:04.539 --> 00:10:06.080 I remember a teacher coming. She said, Steven, 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:07.679 you know, your mother, when your mother talks 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:10.799 about you, all she does is cry because she doesn't 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:14.340 know what to do. All she does when she thinks 00:10:14.340 --> 00:10:17.399 about you is cry and praise. And my parents were 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:19.820 devout. Now, my parents were devout. They went 00:10:19.820 --> 00:10:23.320 to mass every morning, six a .m. They got up 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:26.139 every morning and then they embraced the charismatic 00:10:26.139 --> 00:10:29.590 movement. My dad. Really, his roots came from 00:10:29.590 --> 00:10:31.789 Amy simple McPherson. He remembers times in his 00:10:31.789 --> 00:10:34.850 life where he was a little boy down in Southern 00:10:34.850 --> 00:10:37.409 California. He was in these meetings and he remembers 00:10:37.409 --> 00:10:40.129 people speaking in tongues and getting healed 00:10:40.129 --> 00:10:42.389 and getting up out of wheelchairs. And so he 00:10:42.389 --> 00:10:46.830 remembered that. And so this is where I came 00:10:46.830 --> 00:10:49.409 from. And so here I am in Shiloh and these people 00:10:49.409 --> 00:10:51.250 are playing guitars. They're jumping around, 00:10:51.250 --> 00:10:53.990 dancing, spinning, you know, and it's it's wild. 00:10:54.190 --> 00:10:57.360 These people are too happy. No one could be that 00:10:57.360 --> 00:11:01.179 happy. I want to be miserable. I want to be depressed. 00:11:01.740 --> 00:11:03.860 I want to be mad. I want to be, I want to stay 00:11:03.860 --> 00:11:05.399 stuck. Come on. You know how you are. You want 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:07.220 to, sometimes you want to stay stuck in your 00:11:07.220 --> 00:11:10.139 misery. But I remember the power of God's presence 00:11:10.139 --> 00:11:13.240 in worship. I remember sitting in the backside. 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:16.059 He was on the left side of the sanctuary in the 00:11:16.059 --> 00:11:18.179 back. And I remember just opening up my heart 00:11:18.179 --> 00:11:20.519 and starting to sing. I had never sung before. 00:11:21.179 --> 00:11:24.100 Sing? Come on. Guys don't sing. You know, we 00:11:24.100 --> 00:11:26.159 don't sing. We're, you know, we're guys, you 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:28.100 know, we don't open up our heart. We don't cry. 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:30.659 We don't do this stuff. You know, that's for 00:11:30.659 --> 00:11:37.799 the ladies. That's for sissies. But I remember 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:40.879 the presence of God touching my heart and opening 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:42.899 up my heart and lifting up my hands and singing 00:11:42.899 --> 00:11:46.159 and the presence of God coming and washing and 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:48.580 renewing and filling me and coming and trying. 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:51.700 That was the birthing of the transformation because 00:11:51.700 --> 00:11:53.720 I didn't know how to change. I didn't know how 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:55.700 to stop doing the things I was doing. But you 00:11:55.700 --> 00:11:57.919 know, when you open up your heart to God, how 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:00.519 many know that the word of God says Jesus in 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:04.879 Revelations one, it says Jesus first loved us 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:09.899 and then he washed us. Jesus doesn't wash you 00:12:09.899 --> 00:12:12.679 first. He doesn't wash you and then love you. 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:17.029 No, he loves you and then he washes you. That's 00:12:17.029 --> 00:12:19.070 the scripture in revelations 1 4 I believe it 00:12:19.070 --> 00:12:22.049 is he he loves us and so this love of Jesus started 00:12:22.049 --> 00:12:25.149 to overwhelm my soul and I started to worship 00:12:25.149 --> 00:12:27.970 and as I worshiped guess what happened the washing 00:12:27.970 --> 00:12:30.970 came and the transformation came and and and 00:12:30.970 --> 00:12:33.789 those areas in my life that I thought I would 00:12:33.789 --> 00:12:36.929 never have victory in God started to change and 00:12:36.929 --> 00:12:39.769 I was like wow This is a miracle. This is a miracle 00:12:39.769 --> 00:12:41.769 for me to change and so how many no God brings 00:12:41.769 --> 00:12:43.990 victory in your life And so that was the start 00:12:44.250 --> 00:12:48.210 of my process in worship. So I'm a worshiper. 00:12:48.629 --> 00:12:51.210 You're a worshiper. God makes us worshippers. 00:12:51.309 --> 00:12:52.669 How many of you love the presence of God? And 00:12:52.669 --> 00:12:55.629 that's what the focus is of worship. And it's 00:12:55.629 --> 00:12:57.389 tied in with the word. How many of you know you 00:12:57.389 --> 00:12:59.830 can't just worship? You can't be a one -winged 00:12:59.830 --> 00:13:01.210 bird. If you're just a one -winged bird, you 00:13:01.210 --> 00:13:02.610 just flap around. How many of you know you need 00:13:02.610 --> 00:13:05.940 balance? You need what? Worship. Praise and worship. 00:13:06.220 --> 00:13:08.019 You also need prayer in the word. You need to 00:13:08.019 --> 00:13:09.980 have balance We need to have a what to have a 00:13:09.980 --> 00:13:11.879 two -winged bird So what that you can soar and 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:14.539 so as we look into the word in this passage here 00:13:14.539 --> 00:13:18.639 in mark 14 It says that it was the feast of the 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:21.440 Passover and the feast of the unleavened bread 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:24.500 Jesus was on his way to the cross now Jesus is 00:13:24.500 --> 00:13:29.000 on his way to die in The this passage and it 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.379 says the Pharisees are trying plotting to kill 00:13:31.379 --> 00:13:35.120 him But they say no because of the feast and 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.940 then if you look down to verse 10 it says right 00:13:37.940 --> 00:13:41.659 after this story of this Exuberant worship which 00:13:41.659 --> 00:13:44.820 we're going to look at from verses 2 through 00:13:44.820 --> 00:13:49.279 8 It says that after this story his very own 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:52.879 Disciple Judas betrayed him. So this is the backdrop 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:55.519 of the story on his way to the cross on his way 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:58.919 to death His very own person, His very own friend, 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:01.919 His very own disciple is going to betray Him. 00:14:02.100 --> 00:14:05.159 But yet there's a story of exuberant worship. 00:14:05.700 --> 00:14:08.460 And it says that He was in the town of Bethany. 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:12.159 Now Bethany means misery. He was in the town 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:13.840 of misery. Now aren't you so glad that Jesus 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:17.360 is not intimidated by misery? He's not intimidated 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:20.240 by our doubts or our fears. Jesus is so secure 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:24.309 in who He is as God. That no no matter what the 00:14:24.309 --> 00:14:26.929 situation God's not intimidated by any fears 00:14:26.929 --> 00:14:30.590 doubts He just he's got and so he comes into 00:14:30.590 --> 00:14:33.129 the town of misery and there's this gentleman 00:14:33.129 --> 00:14:36.970 named Simon who's a Pharisee God's not intimidated 00:14:36.970 --> 00:14:39.450 by religious people come on some of us can get 00:14:39.450 --> 00:14:41.929 religious at times we can allow that Pharisaical 00:14:41.929 --> 00:14:44.289 spirit to come upon us even though we're saved 00:14:44.289 --> 00:14:46.590 filled with the Holy Spirit We have to be careful 00:14:46.590 --> 00:14:49.529 that we don't what Pharisees what they just had 00:14:49.529 --> 00:14:52.649 the the Letter of the law and they had the pointing 00:14:52.649 --> 00:14:54.929 of the finger. Sometimes we could have spiritual 00:14:54.929 --> 00:14:57.250 prejudice in our life We could be around church 00:14:57.250 --> 00:14:59.590 We get a little bit ingrown and we start to point 00:14:59.590 --> 00:15:01.590 the finger if something is not the way we like 00:15:01.590 --> 00:15:03.950 it Oh, the music's too loud or this or that come 00:15:03.950 --> 00:15:06.250 on We get caught up onto a lot of externals that 00:15:06.250 --> 00:15:08.409 don't really matter a whole lot in the kingdom 00:15:08.409 --> 00:15:10.929 of God But that's what happens is when you get 00:15:10.929 --> 00:15:14.570 ingrown and you don't allow the flow of the spirit 00:15:14.570 --> 00:15:16.350 How many know that the healthiest people are 00:15:16.350 --> 00:15:20.399 people that pour themselves out? that serve Do 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:23.559 you know there's a study of people that that 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:25.879 live the longest and live the healthiest? Sometimes 00:15:25.879 --> 00:15:27.720 people say, okay, when I get to a certain age, 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:30.360 I'm going to retire. And they retire. How many 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:32.500 of you know there's no retirement in God? Come 00:15:32.500 --> 00:15:35.059 on, you're never going to retire. So from God, 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:36.720 amen. But sometimes people think, okay, I'm going 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:38.639 to get to this age and I'm going to have this 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:39.860 money. I'm going to stop doing anything. I'm 00:15:39.860 --> 00:15:41.480 just going to live for myself. I'm going to just 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:43.500 go out and play golf, fish, hunt, do whatever. 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:46.899 And those people end up dying very shortly afterwards. 00:15:47.700 --> 00:15:51.340 But they find out people that Serve that give 00:15:51.340 --> 00:15:54.039 themselves away to other people that continue 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:57.100 they live healthy long lives And that's a that's 00:15:57.100 --> 00:15:59.899 an illustration to us in the kingdom of God that 00:15:59.899 --> 00:16:03.259 you stay healthy as you allow an outflow But 00:16:03.259 --> 00:16:05.080 when you become ingrown and that's what Pharisees 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:07.379 they became ingrown you become critical pointing 00:16:07.379 --> 00:16:09.720 of the finger until this is the story Jesus comes 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:13.100 to Bethany the house of misery and there Simon 00:16:13.100 --> 00:16:17.720 the Pharisee who had leprosy so You had misery, 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:19.879 you had a Pharisee, and you had leprosy. And 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:21.120 I told the other servants, I'm not going to rap 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:22.879 to you, but come on, it all rhymes together. 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:25.659 It's a pretty miserable place. Now, who would 00:16:25.659 --> 00:16:27.980 want to be invited to this supper? It's probably 00:16:27.980 --> 00:16:31.360 a pretty sad supper. Come on, you're in the house 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:33.460 of misery with a Pharisee who had leprosy. Now, 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:35.299 come on, leprosy, you wouldn't even go there. 00:16:35.379 --> 00:16:37.320 In those days, if someone had leprosy, you wouldn't 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:39.700 even go to their house. They were marked. That's 00:16:39.700 --> 00:16:41.899 like someone with AIDS. You know, in our day, 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:45.299 you're like, oh, that's homosexual, that fag. 00:16:47.140 --> 00:16:50.960 He's gay Yeah, right. Well, that's the big taboo 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:54.679 in our day Right. I know we don't agree but God 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:57.860 doesn't hate homosexual. He hates the homosexuality, 00:16:58.019 --> 00:17:01.039 but he doesn't hate people That's a big prejudice 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:03.059 in our day, especially where we live. Come on. 00:17:03.059 --> 00:17:04.700 I live in the heart of I live in San Francisco 00:17:04.700 --> 00:17:09.299 Right. So that's what that's what leprosy was 00:17:09.299 --> 00:17:11.200 like. That was that's Come on, you wouldn't even 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:13.619 go. So here's Jesus. He's really breaking down 00:17:13.619 --> 00:17:15.579 all the barriers. Come on. Jesus is on the way 00:17:15.579 --> 00:17:17.539 of the cross and now he's going to stop and hang 00:17:17.539 --> 00:17:22.880 out with the Pharisee who had leprosy. And so 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:25.440 here he is sitting down and it says there was 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:30.480 a woman that came in that had an alabaster box 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:38.339 of. Worship of ointment. And she just broke it 00:17:38.339 --> 00:17:41.819 upon. the head of Jesus, she just poured it out. 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:45.500 This, this oil, this ointment that represented 00:17:45.500 --> 00:17:48.920 a year's worth of wages and whatever you make 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:51.440 in a year, how they're small and big. That's 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:53.279 what it was. That's what it was worth. And she 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:55.880 says, you know, my worship, it doesn't matter. 00:17:56.019 --> 00:18:02.299 The price is right. Jesus is the price. And I 00:18:02.299 --> 00:18:05.000 have to get to Jesus. We sang about stepping 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:07.740 out of the boat today, stepping out, stepping 00:18:07.740 --> 00:18:11.900 in to the promise. I believe you, God, for the 00:18:11.900 --> 00:18:13.279 impossible. Come on, how many of you have some 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:15.619 impossible situations that you're facing? But 00:18:15.619 --> 00:18:17.759 you know that faith is the currency of the kingdom 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:20.599 of heaven? Come on, we sang that. That's why 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:23.859 that song is so wonderful, because we all have 00:18:23.859 --> 00:18:27.630 to come to God on the basis of faith. Faith is 00:18:27.630 --> 00:18:29.470 the currency of heaven you receive everything 00:18:29.470 --> 00:18:32.970 from God on the basis of your faith That's why 00:18:32.970 --> 00:18:34.630 it's important to have the word in you because 00:18:34.630 --> 00:18:37.009 faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word 00:18:37.009 --> 00:18:39.690 of God It produces faith inside of you. And so 00:18:39.690 --> 00:18:42.430 we have faith we believe you God for the impossible 00:18:42.430 --> 00:18:45.049 here This woman is and she wasn't invited to 00:18:45.049 --> 00:18:48.789 the men's party It was a men's party. She was 00:18:48.789 --> 00:18:51.150 a woman. There was great social class there. 00:18:51.450 --> 00:18:54.430 She wasn't allowed to come in there She could 00:18:54.430 --> 00:18:57.809 have been slapped stone beat ridiculed, but she 00:18:57.809 --> 00:19:00.970 doesn't care. She says, I'm going to go to Jesus 00:19:00.970 --> 00:19:04.289 and she breaks this alabaster box. Now, come 00:19:04.289 --> 00:19:06.250 on, she could have just it was worth a year's 00:19:06.250 --> 00:19:09.049 wages. She could have said, it's not worth all 00:19:09.049 --> 00:19:10.650 that. You know, my worship doesn't really take 00:19:10.650 --> 00:19:13.230 all that. It doesn't take that much. You know, 00:19:13.250 --> 00:19:15.650 I can just I can just get by with 10 percent. 00:19:15.710 --> 00:19:17.890 Come on, you know, it's like a tithe. Come on, 00:19:17.970 --> 00:19:20.150 10 percent. She could have just taken 10 percent 00:19:20.150 --> 00:19:23.609 of the oil and save the 90 percent. Or she could 00:19:23.609 --> 00:19:25.349 have said, OK, God, you're you're you're worthy 00:19:25.349 --> 00:19:31.500 of 25 % I'm gonna keep 75 % back for myself or 00:19:31.500 --> 00:19:33.140 she go, okay God I'm gonna give you half, you 00:19:33.140 --> 00:19:35.099 know, but I'll keep this other half for me But 00:19:35.099 --> 00:19:38.960 no, it says that she just broke it She broke 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:42.180 it all come on Isn't Jesus worthy of it all and 00:19:42.180 --> 00:19:45.319 she dumped it out now. She didn't just She just 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:49.119 didn't do it before Jesus. She did it to Jesus 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:52.279 Come on say I'm gonna do it to Jesus. Our worship 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:54.759 is not as we say. It's not come on. It's not 00:19:54.759 --> 00:19:57.799 a show It's nothing that we do before God, but 00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:01.140 our worship is something that we do to God and 00:20:01.140 --> 00:20:05.319 God responds to our worship. Come on, isn't that 00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:07.259 the kind of worship you want, the kind of worship 00:20:07.259 --> 00:20:10.559 that you do to God that causes him to respond 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:12.819 to you? And so her faith was God, I'm going to 00:20:12.819 --> 00:20:14.539 give it all to you. I'm going to break this. 00:20:14.700 --> 00:20:16.819 I don't care what the cost is. I don't care if 00:20:16.819 --> 00:20:19.859 it was worth 10 years wages. It's still not enough 00:20:19.859 --> 00:20:23.119 for you because Jesus, she had a revelation of 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:26.910 the beauty of Jesus. And so she just poured it 00:20:26.910 --> 00:20:29.470 on him dumped it on his head and just she's just 00:20:29.470 --> 00:20:31.230 come on It's coming. No worship can get messy. 00:20:31.809 --> 00:20:33.789 Come on. Can you get this picture in your mind? 00:20:34.049 --> 00:20:36.869 She's you know, if you had hair More hair than 00:20:36.869 --> 00:20:38.710 I have or less here what it doesn't matter But 00:20:38.710 --> 00:20:40.869 she's dumping it and she's I think Jesus had 00:20:40.869 --> 00:20:42.890 longer hair probably had a beard and you know 00:20:42.890 --> 00:20:44.970 The Bible says that's what the the anointing 00:20:44.970 --> 00:20:50.009 is like right in Psalms 133 it says how Good 00:20:50.009 --> 00:20:52.089 and how pleasant it is for us to dwell together 00:20:52.089 --> 00:20:55.369 in unity. That's why the devil hates unity He 00:20:55.369 --> 00:20:58.410 fights unity. He tries to divide us from within 00:20:58.410 --> 00:21:02.170 kingdoms can only be Destroyed from within think 00:21:02.170 --> 00:21:05.210 about your own life, right? God comes to bring 00:21:05.210 --> 00:21:07.450 unity in your own world and your own come on. 00:21:07.470 --> 00:21:09.849 How many guys Sometimes even your own life you 00:21:09.849 --> 00:21:11.109 feel like you can be two and three different 00:21:11.109 --> 00:21:13.349 people sometimes come on there come on you just 00:21:13.349 --> 00:21:16.650 be honest with me right because he comes to unite 00:21:16.650 --> 00:21:19.829 you and bring Solidify your heart to fear the 00:21:19.829 --> 00:21:21.950 Lord is what the scripture says and so says beholden 00:21:21.950 --> 00:21:24.009 how good and how pleasant it is for us to dwell 00:21:24.009 --> 00:21:27.890 together in unity because it's like the anointing 00:21:27.890 --> 00:21:31.630 oil that was poured upon Aaron's head and it 00:21:31.630 --> 00:21:34.670 ran down his beard and I ran down his garment 00:21:34.670 --> 00:21:38.000 Psalms one it says there the Lord commands the 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:40.900 blessing. And it says, it's also going to be 00:21:40.900 --> 00:21:43.299 like the dew of Herman. So what the dew of Herman, 00:21:43.380 --> 00:21:45.339 that's the, that speaks of us of refreshing. 00:21:45.460 --> 00:21:48.140 God comes to refresh us. And so here it was, 00:21:49.019 --> 00:21:52.339 she did this. And as she did this, the Pharisees 00:21:52.339 --> 00:21:55.339 and the other men there, they started to say, 00:21:56.259 --> 00:22:00.059 we could have sold this for more than 300 dinari. 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:02.440 This this could have been there. What a waste 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:04.220 is what they said. They said this is a waste 00:22:04.220 --> 00:22:08.180 You know this worship doesn't take all that We're 00:22:08.180 --> 00:22:10.319 giving too much of our time in the service to 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:17.200 worship. We need to get to the word Portia says 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:19.440 she yeah, even the jar was worth something. She 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:21.420 didn't worry about the the alabaster jar She 00:22:21.420 --> 00:22:23.599 just broke that too. Come on. It was the the 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:31.839 oil and the jar the whole shebang And so they 00:22:31.839 --> 00:22:36.680 said, why is she doing this? Why is this exuberant 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:38.460 worship taking place? And then Jesus looked at, 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:41.480 Jesus said, leave her alone. Jesus, I think, 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:43.099 got a little bit indignant here. He said it with 00:22:43.099 --> 00:22:45.279 a little force behind him. Like he may have just 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:47.579 said, be quiet or shut up or leave her alone. 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:51.559 Because what she's doing to me is a beautiful, 00:22:51.859 --> 00:22:55.019 one translation says, what she's doing to me 00:22:55.019 --> 00:22:58.900 is a beautiful thing. And that's what our worship 00:22:58.900 --> 00:23:02.460 is. It's beautiful. to Jesus. That's what we're 00:23:02.460 --> 00:23:05.079 doing. We're worshipping him. We're we're we're 00:23:05.079 --> 00:23:08.559 lavishing our praise and our love all the areas 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:11.819 of our life. And he says, the poor you're going 00:23:11.819 --> 00:23:16.019 to have with you always. But me, you won't have 00:23:16.019 --> 00:23:17.740 with me. And he was talking about the cross. 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:20.740 And you think about it. What is the time frame 00:23:20.740 --> 00:23:26.619 of our worship? There's a story of a lady. She 00:23:26.619 --> 00:23:30.880 was working for a company and the employer wanted 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:34.680 to Give her the option of going into early retirement 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:37.599 and so she wasn't sure she'd been working for 00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:40.380 this company for a long time and she wasn't sure 00:23:40.380 --> 00:23:43.619 if she should take the the The deal that they 00:23:43.619 --> 00:23:45.180 were offering and just take the money and go 00:23:45.180 --> 00:23:47.339 for early retirement or should she wait out? 00:23:47.420 --> 00:23:49.359 Another five ten years and so she went to her 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:51.480 pastor. She said pastor. I'm struggling with 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:54.099 this decision What should I do? And so the pastor 00:23:54.099 --> 00:23:56.119 he prayed and he came back to her and he says 00:23:56.119 --> 00:24:00.819 well Miss miss Smith I think you should just 00:24:00.819 --> 00:24:03.220 go ahead and take, take it now, take the settlement 00:24:03.220 --> 00:24:05.660 now. And that's what I think the Lord wants you 00:24:05.660 --> 00:24:07.079 to do. And so they prayed and that's what she 00:24:07.079 --> 00:24:09.980 felt she was to do. So she did that. And as it 00:24:09.980 --> 00:24:13.140 turns out, five to 10 years later, this woman 00:24:13.140 --> 00:24:17.180 suffered some illness and she didn't even know 00:24:17.180 --> 00:24:19.319 her own name. She had a dementia and illness 00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:22.000 that came upon her. So what's the point of is 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:25.200 not so much her illness, but the opportunity 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:28.920 that we have is now. The opportunity we have 00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:32.759 to pour our treasure boxes upon Jesus is now 00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:35.039 we don't have tomorrow You know, you're you're 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:37.759 not promised tomorrow. We can't say oh next week 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:39.720 I'm gonna do this or you know when I get this 00:24:39.720 --> 00:24:41.720 right with my life or when this happens Or well, 00:24:41.819 --> 00:24:43.299 you know, we want to make plans. We said wait 00:24:43.299 --> 00:24:45.359 God when this is when you do this Then I'm gonna 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:48.259 do this. No now everyone say now is the time 00:24:48.259 --> 00:24:53.000 now is the time for us to worship with exuberant 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:56.519 worship, amen so we're gonna look at this story 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:00.640 here from another passage and Clip over in your 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:04.380 Bibles to the book of Luke chapter 7 because 00:25:04.380 --> 00:25:07.619 I really like this story in the book of Luke 00:25:07.619 --> 00:25:13.180 The way he says it so here it is in Luke 7 I 00:25:13.180 --> 00:25:18.460 believe it's chapter our verse 37 36 and It says 00:25:18.460 --> 00:25:21.240 one of the Pharisees. I like the way Luke says 00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:25.039 he says a woman from the city who was a sinner. 00:25:26.039 --> 00:25:28.019 Come on. How many of you know that Jesus likes 00:25:28.019 --> 00:25:30.680 sinners? He likes, you know what? He likes you 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:34.480 and you're a sinner. Whether you like it or not, 00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:37.940 you are. Okay. Now we don't practice sin, but 00:25:37.940 --> 00:25:39.980 come on. We're sinners saved by grace. Amen. 00:25:40.220 --> 00:25:42.480 So here was this woman who, who was identified 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:48.759 as a sinner of the city. And so Simon says to 00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:51.079 come down and sit. And it says that this woman, 00:25:51.339 --> 00:25:54.250 she's Come on, just get the picture here. So 00:25:54.250 --> 00:25:57.829 Jesus is at Simon's house with the boys and they're 00:25:57.829 --> 00:25:59.670 sitting down eating and this woman is on the 00:25:59.670 --> 00:26:01.769 outskirts. She's probably looking through the 00:26:01.769 --> 00:26:04.369 doorway or looking through the window. Now, she's 00:26:04.369 --> 00:26:07.269 not invited to this party, but yet she has faith. 00:26:07.309 --> 00:26:09.789 If I could just do something to Jesus, it's going 00:26:09.789 --> 00:26:13.049 to change my life. And she's probably sitting 00:26:13.049 --> 00:26:16.400 there, probably contemplating. All of the doubts, 00:26:16.660 --> 00:26:18.900 the fears, the unbelief, what are they going 00:26:18.900 --> 00:26:21.259 to think about me? Because once I step through 00:26:21.259 --> 00:26:23.759 that threshold and get out into the open, there's 00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:26.480 no turning back. There's going to be the opinions 00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:28.180 of men, there's going to be ridicule, there's 00:26:28.180 --> 00:26:30.000 going to be all these thoughts, these accusations. 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:32.819 But you know what? Her worship, she didn't care. 00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:34.259 Come on, how many know that you have to have 00:26:34.259 --> 00:26:36.599 a I don't care what people think about me type 00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:39.420 of worship? And it says that she came behind 00:26:39.420 --> 00:26:42.180 Jesus and she fell at His feet. And it says that 00:26:42.180 --> 00:26:47.359 she began to cry. She began to weep. She wept. 00:26:47.900 --> 00:26:51.519 And then she washed Jesus' feet with her tears. 00:26:52.140 --> 00:26:56.779 She wiped His feet with her hair. She kissed 00:26:56.779 --> 00:27:01.180 His feet with her mouth. And she anointed His 00:27:01.180 --> 00:27:07.440 feet with oil. And as she was doing this exuberant 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:12.200 worship, Simon says within himself, how many 00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:14.740 of you guys talk to yourself? Come on. Now, if 00:27:14.740 --> 00:27:16.200 you start talking back to yourself after you 00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:18.400 talk to yourself, then we'll let you see Pastor 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:22.900 Anthony or somebody. But come on, how many of 00:27:22.900 --> 00:27:25.299 you talk to yourself? So Simon is talking to 00:27:25.299 --> 00:27:28.000 himself and he says, if this man truly were a 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:29.779 prophet, if he really was the son of God, he 00:27:29.779 --> 00:27:33.539 would know what type of woman this is. And Jesus 00:27:33.539 --> 00:27:35.579 knows what he's thinking. That's even scarier. 00:27:35.579 --> 00:27:38.140 How many know that God knows your thoughts? Come 00:27:38.140 --> 00:27:39.740 on, he knows your thoughts. He knows what you're 00:27:39.740 --> 00:27:41.859 thinking and he's still not intimidated. How 00:27:41.859 --> 00:27:44.099 many know if we were to display all of your thoughts 00:27:44.099 --> 00:27:46.119 from yesterday, the good, the bad, the ugly, 00:27:46.220 --> 00:27:47.859 how many here would, everything that went through 00:27:47.859 --> 00:27:49.680 your mind, would you stay and watch the show? 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:55.319 How do you would run for cover? No, no. So Jesus 00:27:55.319 --> 00:27:58.059 knows our thoughts. So he knows what Simon is 00:27:58.059 --> 00:28:03.230 thinking and he turns to Simon and He says, Simon, 00:28:03.269 --> 00:28:04.609 I'm going to tell you a story. He says there 00:28:04.609 --> 00:28:08.309 was a story. There was a story of a creditor 00:28:08.309 --> 00:28:11.509 who had two debtors and one of the debtors owed 00:28:11.509 --> 00:28:15.150 500 denarii, which is over a year's wages, and 00:28:15.150 --> 00:28:18.910 the other owed 50. But the debtors had nothing 00:28:18.910 --> 00:28:22.410 whereby to repay the creditor. But the creditor 00:28:22.410 --> 00:28:26.950 freely forgave both of their debts. He says, 00:28:26.970 --> 00:28:31.400 Simon, which one? is going to love or be more 00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:34.579 appreciative of what the creditor did and Simon 00:28:34.579 --> 00:28:39.559 said the one whom more was forgiven and Jesus 00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:42.299 says Simon you have answered correct come on 00:28:42.299 --> 00:28:45.440 let's think about that to the revelation that 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:49.460 you have of how much God has forgiven you That's 00:28:49.460 --> 00:28:51.839 going to be the level of your worship. And my 00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:54.640 prayer to God is, God, let me always remember 00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:57.480 the price that was paid for my salvation. Let 00:28:57.480 --> 00:29:00.779 me always have lavish love for you. Let me always 00:29:00.779 --> 00:29:03.960 have wonderful worship to you. Let me always, 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:07.240 let me never grow cold in my understanding or 00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:10.079 my revelation of the price that was paid for 00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:14.700 my salvation. Let that produce exuberant joy 00:29:14.700 --> 00:29:17.220 and exuberant love out of my life. And that's 00:29:17.220 --> 00:29:21.220 what God wants. He says this to Simon to get 00:29:21.220 --> 00:29:23.579 him to understand and then he he looks at the 00:29:23.579 --> 00:29:26.420 woman While he's still talking to Simon and he 00:29:26.420 --> 00:29:29.920 says Simon. Do you see this woman? He says I 00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:34.180 came into your house and you gave me no water 00:29:34.180 --> 00:29:38.880 For my feet, but this woman has not ceased to 00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:43.740 wash my feet with her tears He says Simon. Do 00:29:43.740 --> 00:29:47.359 you see this woman? You greeted me with no kiss 00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:49.779 which was the custom of the day But this woman 00:29:49.779 --> 00:29:54.640 has not ceased to kiss my feet out of love Do 00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:57.980 you see this woman Simon you gave me no oil for 00:29:57.980 --> 00:30:01.519 my head? But this woman has anointed my feet 00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:05.960 with precious costly oil I tell you Simon her 00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:09.160 sins that are many are Forgiven and then he says 00:30:09.160 --> 00:30:11.960 to me he says go in peace your faith has saved 00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:15.150 you Your faith. Come on, this woman, this act 00:30:15.150 --> 00:30:18.730 of faith. Worship is an act of faith. Our worship 00:30:18.730 --> 00:30:21.309 is an act of faith. Sometimes you think we feel 00:30:21.309 --> 00:30:23.609 like singing songs? Do you just get out of bed 00:30:23.609 --> 00:30:26.630 in the morning? This is the day. This is the 00:30:26.630 --> 00:30:28.869 day. No, sometimes you got to kick yourself in 00:30:28.869 --> 00:30:31.269 the rear and say, come on. Flesh, come on. You 00:30:31.269 --> 00:30:33.930 got to say it's a faith act. Come on. How many 00:30:33.930 --> 00:30:35.509 of you know that your feelings will catch up? 00:30:36.349 --> 00:30:38.890 You know that sometimes you do it because it's 00:30:38.890 --> 00:30:41.490 based upon God's Word you base you do it out 00:30:41.490 --> 00:30:43.829 of obedience to the Word of God You do it because 00:30:43.829 --> 00:30:46.289 God says to do it and you don't worry about your 00:30:46.289 --> 00:30:48.710 feelings. What did we think? I'm not gonna live 00:30:48.710 --> 00:30:53.730 by what I see I'm not gonna live by what I feel 00:30:53.730 --> 00:30:57.009 Right, isn't that what we said and that was the 00:30:57.009 --> 00:31:01.109 act of faith That was the act of faith of this 00:31:01.109 --> 00:31:03.960 woman and it brought her what it saved her Her 00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:07.200 faith saved her. Her worship saved her. And it 00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:10.059 didn't just save her, but it also brought peace 00:31:10.059 --> 00:31:16.299 to her. Now, in this story, Jesus declares back 00:31:16.299 --> 00:31:19.039 in Mark, he says, wherever this gospel is preached, 00:31:19.579 --> 00:31:23.160 what this woman has done is going to be remembered 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:27.200 with the sharing of the gospel. You go ahead 00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:29.859 and read it read it in in mark 14 read it in 00:31:29.859 --> 00:31:32.880 in Matthew 26 what wherever the good news of 00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:35.700 the gospel is preached What this woman has done 00:31:35.700 --> 00:31:39.039 for me as an act of worship is also going to 00:31:39.039 --> 00:31:43.579 be told as a memorial to her Come on. This is 00:31:43.579 --> 00:31:46.599 Jesus talking This is this is Jesus's prophecy 00:31:46.599 --> 00:31:51.400 about this woman and so mark I'm not mark, but 00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:54.599 John if you look at John chapter 11 when Jesus 00:31:54.599 --> 00:31:58.029 is going to to Mary and Martha's house when, 00:31:58.029 --> 00:32:02.430 when Lazarus is sick, he's dead. John chapter 00:32:02.430 --> 00:32:05.990 11, verse two, it says, this is the Mary who 00:32:05.990 --> 00:32:10.029 anointed Jesus's feet with oil. So John echoes 00:32:10.029 --> 00:32:13.930 the voice of Jesus. John declares that this is 00:32:13.930 --> 00:32:17.490 the Mary that worshiped. With exuberance you 00:32:17.490 --> 00:32:19.630 see how powerful this is. This is throughout 00:32:19.630 --> 00:32:23.109 the Bible So turn with me over two chapters or 00:32:23.109 --> 00:32:26.210 three chapters to Luke chapter 10 and we see 00:32:26.210 --> 00:32:31.289 another unfolding of Mary Worshipping Jesus Luke 00:32:31.289 --> 00:32:33.470 chapter 10, you know the story very well and 00:32:33.470 --> 00:32:36.230 then we're going to I'm gonna share another verses 00:32:36.230 --> 00:32:40.109 of Scripture and we're going to worship and close 00:32:40.109 --> 00:32:42.690 the service but We know this passage. This is 00:32:42.690 --> 00:32:46.269 the story of Mary and Martha. It says verse 30. 00:32:46.410 --> 00:32:48.529 It says now it happened as they went that he 00:32:48.529 --> 00:32:50.470 entered a certain village. I think it was the 00:32:50.470 --> 00:32:54.069 village of misery again and a certain woman named 00:32:54.069 --> 00:32:58.190 Martha welcomed him into her house and she had 00:32:58.190 --> 00:33:02.809 a sister called Mary who also sat at Jesus's 00:33:02.809 --> 00:33:07.720 feet and heard his word worship. Think about 00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:11.059 it Mary and Martha are both sitting at Jesus's 00:33:11.059 --> 00:33:13.640 feet Worshipping hearing his word, but if you 00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:15.640 look at their names what their names Martha and 00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:18.880 Mary Their names are derived from the same root 00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:21.980 word. It means rebellion It comes from the root 00:33:21.980 --> 00:33:24.400 word Miriam in the Old Testament. How many of 00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:26.200 you have some rebellion in you? Come on. There's 00:33:26.200 --> 00:33:30.099 some rebellious areas in your life Both of these 00:33:30.099 --> 00:33:33.599 sisters had it This rebellion come we do we have 00:33:33.599 --> 00:33:35.240 that nature in us that doesn't want to do what 00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:37.970 God wants us to do But they're sitting at the 00:33:37.970 --> 00:33:41.369 feet of Jesus and God wants to transform their 00:33:41.369 --> 00:33:44.670 nature. But Martha gets distracted with much 00:33:44.670 --> 00:33:48.410 serving. Come on, how many of you know some people 00:33:48.410 --> 00:33:50.230 that are all there? And sometimes we could be 00:33:50.230 --> 00:33:51.970 like that. We want to deal with our issues through 00:33:51.970 --> 00:33:55.309 being busy. Doesn't work. We want to deal with 00:33:55.309 --> 00:33:57.490 our issues that we have through serving. You 00:33:57.490 --> 00:33:59.470 know anybody that wants to serve? There was a 00:33:59.470 --> 00:34:00.809 young man that used to serve in our church. I 00:34:00.809 --> 00:34:05.329 was like, Vernon, just sit down and be still. 00:34:06.149 --> 00:34:08.369 Let God touch you, but he was always running 00:34:08.369 --> 00:34:11.050 around the church busy busy duty duty. That's 00:34:11.050 --> 00:34:12.449 good. That's good. There's nothing wrong with 00:34:12.449 --> 00:34:16.369 serving But God wants you to serve from a heart 00:34:16.369 --> 00:34:19.449 of worship Because there's something more that 00:34:19.449 --> 00:34:21.730 God wants to do in your life Vernon There's a 00:34:21.730 --> 00:34:23.929 deeper place that God wants to go and it's only 00:34:23.929 --> 00:34:25.929 going to be on this area of rebellion in your 00:34:25.929 --> 00:34:29.349 life It's only going to be driven out by sitting 00:34:29.349 --> 00:34:32.940 at Jesus's feet not through serving It's not 00:34:32.940 --> 00:34:35.260 that serving is not important. We need to serve. 00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:37.380 I'm not saying don't serve. We need to serve. 00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:40.059 Jesus said what? A servant is the greatest. Hear 00:34:40.059 --> 00:34:42.760 me correctly. But it's the priority. What is 00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:45.219 the priority? Because if we're just a Martha 00:34:45.219 --> 00:34:47.679 and not a Mary, then we're not going, we're going 00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:49.920 to serve in the wrong attitude. How many has 00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:52.179 ever served, found someone doing something, but 00:34:52.179 --> 00:34:55.219 they do it in a bad attitude? You know, if Portia 00:34:55.219 --> 00:34:56.880 ever asked me to do something and I do it in 00:34:56.880 --> 00:34:59.679 a bad attitude, she'll say to me, I wish she 00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:03.389 just wouldn't do it. Right. All right. Have you 00:35:03.389 --> 00:35:04.989 ever asked your wife to do something she doesn't 00:35:04.989 --> 00:35:08.429 have bad at? Right. Come on. We want to serve 00:35:08.429 --> 00:35:11.510 what out of out of worship. That's why we serve. 00:35:11.949 --> 00:35:14.130 And so Jesus looks at Martha. Listen what Martha 00:35:14.130 --> 00:35:16.889 says in verse 40. He says, Martha, you're distracted 00:35:16.889 --> 00:35:20.610 with much serving. But first, Martha complains 00:35:20.610 --> 00:35:23.550 to Jesus, Jesus, this is not fair, Jesus. Aren't 00:35:23.550 --> 00:35:25.690 you concerned that I'm the only one serving? 00:35:26.670 --> 00:35:29.250 Look, I'm doing all this work, work, but Mary 00:35:29.250 --> 00:35:33.590 is just sitting at your feet. In renewal time. 00:35:38.050 --> 00:35:41.030 She's just floating around. I won't even go there. 00:35:41.090 --> 00:35:46.010 Let me just get back to the verse here. Verse 00:35:46.010 --> 00:35:48.170 40, but Martha was distracted with much serving 00:35:48.170 --> 00:35:50.429 and she approached him and said, Lord, don't 00:35:50.429 --> 00:35:52.630 you care that my sister has left me to serve 00:35:52.630 --> 00:35:56.210 alone? Therefore tell her to help me. And Jesus 00:35:56.210 --> 00:35:59.760 says to her. Martha, Martha, you are worried 00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:02.380 and troubled about many things, but one thing 00:36:02.380 --> 00:36:06.039 is needed. And Mary has chosen that good part, 00:36:06.219 --> 00:36:11.099 which will not be taken away from her. She chose 00:36:11.099 --> 00:36:13.880 it. Come on, say we got to choose it. You have 00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:16.519 to choose it. She chose the one. Everyone say 00:36:16.519 --> 00:36:20.349 one thing. She's chosen the one thing and it's 00:36:20.349 --> 00:36:22.510 the best thing and it's not gonna be taken away 00:36:22.510 --> 00:36:24.809 from her and it's the same way in our life that 00:36:24.809 --> 00:36:27.150 we could choose the best thing and the best thing 00:36:27.150 --> 00:36:30.289 and The highest thing is to be at the feet of 00:36:30.289 --> 00:36:33.789 Jesus There's a song we used to sing about worship 00:36:33.789 --> 00:36:36.789 at his footstool and worship at his footstool 00:36:36.789 --> 00:36:39.170 There's so many songs and you read the Psalms 00:36:39.170 --> 00:36:41.489 as talks about worship at the footstool There's 00:36:41.489 --> 00:36:44.130 another song we used to sing that down at your 00:36:44.130 --> 00:36:48.369 feet. Oh Lord. It's the most high place When 00:36:48.369 --> 00:36:52.110 we humble ourselves Before the Lord guess what 00:36:52.110 --> 00:36:55.210 in his grace and his mercy he he lifts us up 00:36:55.210 --> 00:36:58.510 and This was the place of worship. You know, 00:36:58.510 --> 00:37:00.889 I was preparing for this thinking about the price 00:37:00.889 --> 00:37:05.150 is right There's a story in the book of Ruth 00:37:05.150 --> 00:37:08.050 there's another woman and we know this in Ruth 00:37:08.050 --> 00:37:12.050 chapter 3 Turn this and we're gonna we're gonna 00:37:12.050 --> 00:37:15.010 wrap up here in Ruth the book of Ruth chapter 00:37:15.010 --> 00:37:20.050 3. There's the story Naomi and Ruth and we know 00:37:20.050 --> 00:37:24.190 this Ruth was a Moabite Moabite means the house 00:37:24.190 --> 00:37:28.590 of incest Moab came from when the daughters of 00:37:28.590 --> 00:37:30.809 Lot had had sex with their daughter and that 00:37:30.809 --> 00:37:33.110 the son was named Moab and so it came from this 00:37:33.110 --> 00:37:37.809 and the Moabites were not a part of Israel's 00:37:37.809 --> 00:37:41.769 lineage or heritage and this is where where Naomi 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:44.960 And her husband, it says in the beginning of 00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:47.860 Ruth, it says that there was a famine in Bethlehem. 00:37:48.619 --> 00:37:52.099 Bethlehem means the house of bread. And it says 00:37:52.099 --> 00:37:53.860 there was a famine in Bethlehem. And so they 00:37:53.860 --> 00:37:56.840 journeyed down to Moab. And we know the story. 00:37:56.860 --> 00:38:01.420 What happened? Her husband died. The two sons 00:38:01.420 --> 00:38:10.500 took wives of Moab, Ruth, and the other wife. 00:38:10.679 --> 00:38:13.500 And the two sons died and all that Naomi was 00:38:13.500 --> 00:38:16.159 left with was her two daughter -in -laws. And 00:38:16.159 --> 00:38:19.400 we know the story how Ruth clave unto Naomi and 00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:22.019 says, no, where you go, I'm going to go. Where 00:38:22.019 --> 00:38:24.260 you dwell, I'm going to dwell. Your people are 00:38:24.260 --> 00:38:25.900 going to be my people. Your God is going to be 00:38:25.900 --> 00:38:29.619 my God. And we know the story. And then when 00:38:29.619 --> 00:38:33.159 she comes back into the house of bread, they 00:38:33.159 --> 00:38:35.719 find out that there's a kinsman redeemer named 00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:40.739 Boaz. And Boaz. represents Jesus in our life. 00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:43.880 He's the one. And in Ruth chapter three, let 00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:46.400 me just, for the sake of time, let me get through 00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:48.420 this, but I want to share these scriptures about 00:38:48.420 --> 00:38:53.860 being at the feet of Jesus. And let me just read 00:38:53.860 --> 00:38:58.063 this in Ruth 3 .3. It says, Naomi's talking to... 00:38:58.059 --> 00:39:01.000 Ruth and says therefore wash yourself and anoint 00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:03.900 yourself put on your best garment and go down 00:39:03.900 --> 00:39:06.320 to the threshing floor But do not make yourself 00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:09.179 known to the man until he has finished eating 00:39:09.179 --> 00:39:11.679 and drinking Then it shall be when he lies down 00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:14.000 that you will notice the place where he lies 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:17.800 and you will go in and uncover His feet everyone 00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:21.320 say feet and Lie down and he will tell you what 00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:24.880 you should do and she said and he and she said 00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:30.619 to her all that you say to me I will do. Can 00:39:30.619 --> 00:39:35.659 you make that declaration to the Lord? All that 00:39:35.659 --> 00:39:40.860 you say to me, I will do. That's obedience. And 00:39:40.860 --> 00:39:44.000 this was an act of obedience. Come on. It's the 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:47.219 same story here with Ruth. Ruth going in and 00:39:47.219 --> 00:39:51.940 uncovering a mature man's feet. She could have 00:39:51.940 --> 00:39:54.750 been stoned. She could have been killed. Boaz 00:39:54.750 --> 00:39:57.630 was a noble man of his city and this was another 00:39:57.630 --> 00:40:00.289 act of faith. This was another act of worship 00:40:00.289 --> 00:40:03.730 She had to be obedient, but it was crazy Exuberant 00:40:03.730 --> 00:40:07.070 worship it required her to do something that 00:40:07.070 --> 00:40:10.949 she had to risk it all so to speak This was the 00:40:10.949 --> 00:40:12.809 back to this was her act. It wasn't just like, 00:40:12.909 --> 00:40:16.949 you know skipping along the Hill and Dale to 00:40:16.949 --> 00:40:20.010 get there. No, this was life and death worship 00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:23.780 Verse five and she said to her all that you say 00:40:23.780 --> 00:40:26.519 to me I will do verse six so she went down to 00:40:26.519 --> 00:40:28.320 the threshing floor and did according to all 00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:30.780 that her mother -in -law instructed and after 00:40:30.780 --> 00:40:33.059 Boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was cheerful 00:40:33.059 --> 00:40:35.719 and he went and lied down at the end of the heap 00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:38.500 of the grain and she came softly and uncovered 00:40:38.500 --> 00:40:42.920 his feet which speaks to us of progression and 00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:45.039 Laid down and it happened at midnight that the 00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:48.860 man was startled and turned to himself And there 00:40:48.860 --> 00:40:53.360 a woman was lying at his feet. And he said to 00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:56.500 her, Who are you? So she answered, I am Ruth, 00:40:56.639 --> 00:41:00.400 your maid servant. Take your maid servant under 00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:04.980 your wing, for you are a close relative. That 00:41:04.980 --> 00:41:08.239 was her worship. That was her song. I told the 00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:10.360 first service as a song and that I think Portia 00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:13.159 wrote one verse 10. And he says, Then he said 00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:15.750 to her, Blessed are you. of the Lord, my daughter, 00:41:16.090 --> 00:41:19.210 for you have shown me more kindness at the end 00:41:19.210 --> 00:41:22.489 than at the beginning and that you did not go 00:41:22.489 --> 00:41:25.909 after young men, whether poor or rich. And now, 00:41:25.949 --> 00:41:28.849 my daughter, do not be afraid, for I will do 00:41:28.849 --> 00:41:32.349 for you all that you request for all the people 00:41:32.349 --> 00:41:36.730 of my town know that you are a virtuous woman. 00:41:37.429 --> 00:41:39.889 It was her worship. Dudes of you in the worship 00:41:39.889 --> 00:41:41.650 team if you guys want to just make your way back 00:41:41.650 --> 00:41:43.590 to the stage because we're gonna end here with 00:41:43.590 --> 00:41:46.050 a time of worship But the point I'm bringing 00:41:46.050 --> 00:41:49.769 out is it was at the feet of Jesus. It was at 00:41:49.769 --> 00:41:53.269 the feet Uncovering the feet the feet speak of 00:41:53.269 --> 00:41:56.789 our walk. They speak of our progression And this 00:41:56.789 --> 00:42:01.829 is was the act that Ruth did And Boaz responses 00:42:01.829 --> 00:42:04.269 that everything that you're requiring everything 00:42:04.269 --> 00:42:06.570 that you want everything that you're requesting 00:42:06.570 --> 00:42:09.610 of me I'm going to do it for you How many know 00:42:09.610 --> 00:42:11.909 that when your ways please the Lord and your 00:42:11.909 --> 00:42:14.389 worship? There's not anything the scripture says 00:42:14.389 --> 00:42:17.329 no good thing will he withhold from them Psalm 00:42:17.329 --> 00:42:20.610 84 11 no good thing will he withhold from them 00:42:20.610 --> 00:42:27.199 that walk up rightly Now Think about the story 00:42:27.199 --> 00:42:29.119 back in Luke and I want to share this and we're 00:42:29.119 --> 00:42:30.679 gonna worship Portia We'll share a little bit 00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:32.739 and we're just gonna worship here, but you know 00:42:32.739 --> 00:42:36.480 the part back in Luke chapter 7 verse 38 Where 00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:40.699 it says Mary it says she wept And then she had 00:42:40.699 --> 00:42:44.920 tears and she washed and she wiped and she kissed 00:42:44.920 --> 00:42:49.599 and she anointed Think about that. There's five 00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:53.789 W's I wrote down she wept she had a cry What 00:42:53.789 --> 00:42:56.889 is God saying to us? He wants a cry to come forth 00:42:56.889 --> 00:43:00.630 in our life that produces a moisture of the spirit 00:43:00.630 --> 00:43:06.690 that washes that wipes away That brings us into 00:43:06.690 --> 00:43:11.190 intimacy kissing that worships And it causes 00:43:11.190 --> 00:43:14.090 us to have a new wonder of our God. There's like 00:43:14.090 --> 00:43:20.289 five W's there weeping washing wiping worshiping 00:43:20.289 --> 00:43:23.230 and wonder And I looked at this verse and I said, 00:43:23.329 --> 00:43:28.250 you know, God, this is what you did to me. Jesus, 00:43:28.250 --> 00:43:32.969 this is what you did for my life. You had a cry 00:43:32.969 --> 00:43:37.710 for your church and you washed it with your own 00:43:37.710 --> 00:43:41.769 blood and you wiped away all of our sins and 00:43:41.769 --> 00:43:44.070 you cast them into the sea of your forgetfulness 00:43:44.070 --> 00:43:48.090 and you bring us into a place of intimacy with 00:43:48.090 --> 00:43:52.380 you. You kiss us. Come on, you know the story 00:43:52.380 --> 00:43:54.980 of the prodigal son. What did the father do? 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:57.619 It said he hugged his son's neck and he kissed 00:43:57.619 --> 00:44:04.480 him. And then it says he anointed him with oil. 00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:07.960 Isn't that what God does for us? That's what 00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:12.119 God does for us. So I want you to stand to your 00:44:12.119 --> 00:44:14.900 feet right now. Just lift your hands and open 00:44:14.900 --> 00:44:18.079 your heart. Just think about the alabaster box 00:44:18.079 --> 00:44:20.559 of your worship. I hope the revelation of the 00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:24.460 word there of what Jesus has done for you, that 00:44:24.460 --> 00:44:27.599 he cries for you. He cries for his church. There's 00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:32.340 a cry in God's heart. He washes. He weeps. He 00:44:32.340 --> 00:44:36.500 renews. He kisses. You know, Pastor Patrick Kitely, 00:44:37.260 --> 00:44:39.599 he said this in other service, and my husband 00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:41.159 said this, but he didn't say it in this service. 00:44:41.260 --> 00:44:43.980 So I just want to share real quick. He was telling, 00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:46.000 asking the church, you said, what is your greatest 00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:50.880 weapon? And he said, is it? prayer and all the 00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:52.980 intercessors. Yes. Yes, prayer. I mean, you can't 00:44:52.980 --> 00:44:54.960 do nothing without prayer. Prayer is definitely 00:44:54.960 --> 00:44:57.900 the greatest weapon. He says, what about worship? 00:44:58.340 --> 00:45:00.460 Oh, no, no. The worshipers know that. That is 00:45:00.460 --> 00:45:02.940 the greatest weapon. Worship is definitely the 00:45:02.940 --> 00:45:04.940 greatest weapon that you could have because you 00:45:04.940 --> 00:45:06.599 know, I've been in the presence of god when I 00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:08.980 worship. He says, well, what about the word? 00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:11.139 All the word people. Oh, yeah. That's the sword 00:45:11.139 --> 00:45:14.659 of the spirit. Yeah. That's it. That's the one. 00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:16.460 The sword of the spirit is the greatest weapon. 00:45:16.730 --> 00:45:19.010 And he says, yeah, those are one all powerful 00:45:19.010 --> 00:45:21.369 weapons, but it's not the greatest. The greatest 00:45:21.369 --> 00:45:25.030 weapon is obedience. Obedience is the greatest 00:45:25.030 --> 00:45:27.889 weapon. So I was like, God, help me to be obedient. 00:45:28.510 --> 00:45:30.210 My husband was looking at, I want you to look 00:45:30.210 --> 00:45:34.130 up that song for me really quick. As he was ministering, 00:45:34.130 --> 00:45:36.230 I was thinking about it. You know, this woman, 00:45:36.789 --> 00:45:38.769 people were talking about, I mean, Jesus, Jesus 00:45:38.769 --> 00:45:40.690 was in trouble because he hung around with people 00:45:40.690 --> 00:45:42.789 that nobody liked. He hung around with people 00:45:42.789 --> 00:45:45.309 like. I mean, even if Simon was a former leper, 00:45:45.489 --> 00:45:47.869 somebody said Simon was a former leper, but some 00:45:47.869 --> 00:45:50.030 people won't even go to the people's house they 00:45:50.030 --> 00:45:52.610 used to be sick. Okay, you know what? That was 00:45:52.610 --> 00:45:55.769 a former leper. I don't trust that former leper. 00:45:55.969 --> 00:45:58.110 He said, I ain't going to that house. You see? 00:45:58.349 --> 00:46:00.630 So a lot of times we can become religious people. 00:46:00.789 --> 00:46:02.590 Oh, I ain't going around that. Oh, she was a 00:46:02.590 --> 00:46:05.389 prostitute. She was this. Oh, I ain't going around 00:46:05.389 --> 00:46:08.889 them. But Jesus didn't care. And that's that 00:46:08.889 --> 00:46:11.449 was one of the problems. that the Pharisees had 00:46:11.449 --> 00:46:15.349 with Jesus was that Jesus did not care about 00:46:15.349 --> 00:46:18.949 who that person was. He saw a picture of them 00:46:18.949 --> 00:46:22.329 later on and that's how he sees us. He sees a 00:46:22.329 --> 00:46:24.949 picture of us finished. You know what I'm thinking 00:46:24.949 --> 00:46:28.510 about the subject of worship, Cece Winings. She 00:46:28.510 --> 00:46:31.170 sings this song about the alabaster box. I just 00:46:31.170 --> 00:46:32.630 want to share a little bit of that song which 00:46:32.630 --> 00:46:35.329 you just read it for you and I want you to think 00:46:35.329 --> 00:46:37.679 about your life. because a lot of times people 00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:39.960 say you know i don't really take all that dancing 00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:43.019 and praising you know but she has a song that 00:46:43.019 --> 00:46:47.300 breaks it down for us it goes like this the room 00:46:47.300 --> 00:46:52.019 grew still as she made her way to jesus she stumbles 00:46:52.019 --> 00:46:55.920 through the tears that made her blind she felt 00:46:55.920 --> 00:47:00.159 such pain some spoken anger heard folks whisper 00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:04.219 there's no place here for her kind still on she 00:47:04.219 --> 00:47:07.659 came through the shame that flushed her face 00:47:07.659 --> 00:47:12.260 until at last she knelt before his feet and though 00:47:12.260 --> 00:47:16.880 she spoke no words everything she said was heard 00:47:16.880 --> 00:47:20.460 as she poured her love for the master from the 00:47:20.460 --> 00:47:25.460 box of alabaster and I've come to pour my praise 00:47:25.460 --> 00:47:29.800 on him like oil from Mary's alabaster box don't 00:47:29.800 --> 00:47:34.190 be angry if I wash his feet with my tears And 00:47:34.190 --> 00:47:37.570 I dry them with my hair. You weren't there the 00:47:37.570 --> 00:47:40.809 night he found me. I'm gonna say that part again. 00:47:42.110 --> 00:47:44.650 You weren't there the night he found me. You 00:47:44.650 --> 00:47:48.190 did not feel what I felt when he wrapped his 00:47:48.190 --> 00:47:51.449 love all around me. And you don't know the cost 00:47:51.449 --> 00:47:55.489 of the oil in my alabaster box. I just want you 00:47:55.489 --> 00:47:58.500 to think about that. This woman did not even 00:47:58.500 --> 00:48:02.199 recycle the jar. She just didn't care what nobody 00:48:02.199 --> 00:48:05.539 else was thinking. You know, while he's with 00:48:05.539 --> 00:48:08.340 you, worship him. Five years from now, you might 00:48:08.340 --> 00:48:11.860 not even know your own name. But today, today 00:48:11.860 --> 00:48:14.500 you can come, just come on up. Today, just worship 00:48:14.500 --> 00:48:17.159 him one more time, just a few more minutes. Today, 00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:20.139 you can worship him. Today, that you hear his 00:48:20.139 --> 00:48:23.599 voice. Today, you can sit at his feet. Today, 00:48:24.619 --> 00:48:28.170 not tomorrow. Tomorrow is not promised, but while 00:48:28.170 --> 00:48:31.610 you have Him with you, you can worship Him. You 00:48:31.610 --> 00:48:32.469 can worship Him.