LAVISH LOVE Mark 14:1-11
MAIN POINTS: 1. The Climate Jesus Is In 2. The Contrast of True Worship 3. The Conclusion of Judas
QUESTION: What is the kindest thing anyone has ever done for you?
1. THE CLIMATE JESUS IS IN
MARK 14:1-2 After two days it was the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a treacherous way to arrest and kill Him. “Not during the festival,” they said, “or there may be rioting among the people.”
CLIMATE: Jesus is surrounded by fake, flippant, or foolish worship
CULTURE OF WORSHIP: 1. Fake Worship
MARK 14:1 After two days it was the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a treacherous way to arrest and kill Him.
NATURE OF WORSHIP: • Worshipper • Object of Worship • Sacrifice of Worship • Consequence of Worship
CULTURE OF WORSHIP: 1. Fake Worship 2. Flippant Worship
MARK 14:2 “Not during the festival,” they said, “or there may be rioting among the people.”
CULTURE OF WORSHIP: 1. Fake Worship 2. Flippant Worship 3. Foolish Worship
MATTHEW 20:17-21 While going up to Jerusalem, Jesus took the 12 disciples aside privately and said to them on the way: “Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death.
MATTHEW 20:17-21 Then they will hand Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked, flogged, and crucified, and He will be resurrected on the third day.” Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons approached Him with her sons. She knelt down to ask Him for something. “What do you want?” He asked her.
2. THE CONTRAST OF TRUE WORSHIP
MARK 14:3-5 While He was in Bethany at the house of Simon who had a serious skin disease, as He was reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of pure and expensive fragrant oil of nard. She broke the jar and poured it on His head.
MARK 14:3-5 But some were expressing indignation to one another: “Why has this fragrant oil been wasted? For this oil might have been sold for more than 300 denarii and given to the poor.” And they began to scold her.
JOHN 12:1-3 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, the one Jesus had raised from the dead. So they gave a dinner for Him there; Martha was serving them, and Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him. Then Mary took a pound of fragrant oil—pure and expensive nard—anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped His feet with her hair. So the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.
QUESTION: Who was Mary?
MARY’S WORSHIP: 1. It was voluntary. 2. It was costly. 3. It was offensive to others. 4. It was pleasing to Jesus.
MARK 14:6-9 Then Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a noble thing for Me. You always have the poor with you, and you can do what is good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have Me.
MARK 14:6-9 She has done what she could; she has anointed My body in advance for burial. I assure you: Wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her.”
3. THE CONCLUSION OF JUDAS
MARK 14:10-11 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to hand Him over to them. And when they heard this, they were glad and promised to give him silver. So he started looking for a good opportunity to betray Him.
JOHN 12:4-8 Then one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was about to betray Him), said, “Why wasn’t this fragrant oil sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor?” He didn’t say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief.
JOHN 12:4-8 He was in charge of the money-bag and would steal part of what was put in it. Jesus answered, “Leave her alone; she has kept it for the day of My burial. For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”
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