Keep pouring out love

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Keep pouring out love

• John chapter 12 vs. 1 to 11
• Inverkeithing Baptist Church
• 27th March 2009

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• Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an
  expensive perfume she poured it on Jesus' feet
  and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house
  was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
• John 12 vs. 3

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1/ Mary gave the thing she valued most

• "Why wasn't this perfume sold and the money
  given to the poor? It was worth a year's wages.
• John 12 vs. 5

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1/ Mary gave the thing she valued most

• Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an
  expensive perfume she poured it on Jesus' feet
  and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house
  was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
• John 12 vs. 3

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1/ Mary gave the thing she valued most
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1/ Mary gave the thing she valued most

• You prepare a table before me        in the
  presence of my enemies.        You anoint my
  head with oil        my cup overflows.
• Psalm 23 vs. 5

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1/ Mary gave the thing she valued most
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1/ Mary gave the thing she valued most

• "Leave her alone," said Jesus. "Why are you
  bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to
  me. The poor you will always have with you, and
  you can help them any time you want. But you will
  not always have me. She did what she could. She
  poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare
  for my burial. I tell you the truth, wherever the
  gospel is preached throughout the world, what she
  has done will also be told, in memory of her."
• Mark 14 vs. 6 to 9

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2/ Judas would like to have taken the thing
Mary valued most

•   Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you,
  the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil! (He meant
  Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one
  of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)
• John 6 vs. 7071

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2/ Judas would like to have taken the thing
Mary valued most

• He did not say this because he cared about
  the poor but because he was a thief as keeper of
  the money bag, he used to help himself to what
  was put into it.
• John 12 vs. 6

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2/ Judas would like to have taken the thing Mary
valued most

• Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one
  of the Twelve. And Judas went to the chief
  priests and the officers of the temple guard and
  discussed with them how he might betray Jesus.
  They were delighted and agreed to give him money.
  He consented, and watched for an opportunity to
  hand Jesus over to them when no crowd was
  present.
• Luke 22 vs. 3 to 6

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2/ Judas would like to have taken the thing
which Mary valued most
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3/ The Critics with disapproval are silenced by
Jesus approval

• "Leave her alone," Jesus replied. " It was
  intended that she should save this perfume for
  the day of my burial.
• John 12 vs. 7

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3/ The Critics with disapproval are silenced by
Jesus approval

• You will always have the poor among you, but
  you will not always have me."
• John 12 vs. 8

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3/ The Critics with disapproval are silenced by
Jesus approval

• Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an
  expensive perfume she poured it on Jesus' feet
  and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house
  was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
• John 12 vs. 3

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3/ The Critics with disapproval are silenced by
Jesus approval
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