The Questions Jesus Asked About Worship

Watch the full Sunday service and message by Pastor Dennis Jacobson below.

SERMON TEXT

It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.”

And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that? For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her. But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me. She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial. And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”

SERMON NOTES

This woman expressed her love for Jesus extravagantly

• • Her love was lavish
  • Her love was humbling
  • Her love was costly
  • Her love was risky
  • Her love was for Jesus alone

Others questioned the act

• • They were indignant
  • They were offended
  • They rebuked her

Jesus commended her and spoke prophetically about her

• • She did what she could with what she had
  • She gave her all, and the best she had

What is it that you are willing to break and pour over Jesus?