WEBVTT - Go 4 Broke 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.000 Well, this is an incredibly special worship experience. Today we're 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:06.000 about to go into the auditorium for a time of 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:09.080 worship and faith and the Word of God. It's our 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.880 game change your offering weekend. This offering goes toward expansion 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.760 and outreach and ministries just like this. And we're calling 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.200 on our etham, that's what we call our extended family 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:19.880 all around the world. And now I love it. It's 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.560 so exciting that people join us every single weekend, not 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.119 just here, but all over the world. Yeah, and we 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:27.160 don't want you to just consume the content. We want 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:28.800 you to contribute. We want you to be a part 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.040 of this move of God. So if you've been blessed 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.880 by this ministry, this is your opportunity make a sacrificial gift, 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.360 maybe a systematic gift, maybe one time, maybe a monthly 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:40.760 recurring gift. But we're calling on all of you who 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.600 consider this your etham, your extended family, your church family, 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.240 to make a difference today. As you do. Holly and 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.159 I are praying that God will bless your life in 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.280 amazing ways. So this is it. This is the opportunity 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:54.320 be a part of this move of God. Let's go 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.360 into worship. I think you're really going to have your 0:00:56.360 --> 0:01:02.720 faith built during this time, and the best is ahead. Father. Now, 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.840 as our faith rises and as your praises fill our hearts, 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.760 we ask that you would come and have your way 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.880 among us. We have set aside this time for you 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.280 to have your way. So we put our agendas aside, 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.920 and we cast all of our anxieties out. We banished 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:25.160 them far from our thoughts and from our consciousness. Now 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.399 we come into your presence, not because we deserve to 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.160 be in your presence, or not because it's always convenient 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.000 to be in your presence, but because in your presence 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.399 that's the only place we can find peace. That's the 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.920 only place we can find rest for our soul. We've 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.839 been so weary and heavy laden, trying to figure things 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.720 out and fix things on our own. But we come 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.120 into your presence and you touch us, and you mend us, 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.360 and you make us whole again. You pick us up, 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.080 and you set us back on a path that we've 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.360 wandered from so many times. But you are still our 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.200 destination and our companion, and we thank you for being 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:12.920 with us every step along the way. Lord. I know 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.160 that I know that, I know that it was you. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.000 It was you that kept me, and it was you 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.080 that blessed me. It was you that taught me. It 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.480 was you that caught me when I was falling. You 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:30.200 were there when I arose, you were there. I thank you, Lord, 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:34.160 for every mountain that you've let me see, every summit 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.320 that you've allowed me to stand on. Also thank you 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.560 for every valley that you enabled me to go through, 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:42.280 and what you taught me in those places as well. 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.639 I thank you that everything we need is in your presence, 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.240 and nothing good will you withhold from those who seek you. 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.720 We came to seek you today, Oh God of Jacob, 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.520 to seek your face, not just your hand, but we 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.960 want to know your ways. And we thank you that 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:06.080 not one person in this place has escaped your notice, 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:12.560 and not one need is beneath your attention. Lord. Now 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:17.000 I speak a blessing over my brothers and sisters. I 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:22.280 have gathered now some in the room, many more online 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.320 all around the world. We've been expecting you to move 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:30.200 on this day. This day is wholly unto you. We've 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:37.080 consecrated ourselves. We've come into this moment with hearts full 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:41.240 of gratitude, and we don't want to just rush past it. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:49.840 This is a significant season in our lives and we 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:54.000 want to be aligned with you, our Father, who art 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.480 in Heaven. Hollywood, be thy name, Thy Kingdom, Come, Thy 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.240 will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:05.600 Right Here, as it is in Heaven. Valentine as it 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:11.600 is in Heaven. University City as it is in Heaven. Matthews, 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:17.080 as it is in Heaven, Toronto as it is in Heaven. 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:24.599 Can Paula, Uganda, as it is in Heaven. Sydney, Australia, 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.800 as it is in Heaven, Johannesburg, as it is in Heaven, 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.400 Cape Town, as it is in Heaven. Lord. I asked 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:36.920 that everywhere that the sound of this message reaches today, 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:42.000 that each person would since and know in a very 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:50.839 real way that this is a pre appointed, scheduled encounter 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:58.520 with the Holy Spirit of God. We clear out all distractions, 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:06.279 give us an undivided heart. In this moment, I prop 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.960 aside to every dry bone hear the word of the Lord. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.960 This is what the Lord says, you shall live, come 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.640 to life and stand up on your feet like a 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.880 vast great army. From the north to south, to east 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.360 and the west. We speak to the wind of the 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.680 spirit of God. We ask that you would breathe into 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:29.760 these slain that they may live. Come now, Holy Spirit, 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:35.160 through every iPhone screen, Come Holy Spirit in every auditorium, 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.839 Come Holy Spirit in every home. Come Holy Spirit in 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:43.400 every car, through every podcast, on every television screen, Come 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:48.800 Holy Spirit. Come like a mighty wind, like a rushing wind. 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.480 We came today to declare that the devil is defeated 0:05:55.480 --> 0:06:02.039 and he has no place in our lives. You know 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:07.599 what happens when praises go up, blessings come down. Come on, 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:19.400 let's give him one more worthy praise. Amen. I just 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.200 want you to sit down right now and take one 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.960 moment with me. Would you stay with me the whole time? 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.400 Okay if you need somewhere to sit, because right in 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.080 a minute, we're gonna worship and we're gonna give and 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.120 it's gonna be amazing. But I want to share a 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:39.080 thought from March Chapter fourteen, versus one through Now. I 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.000 could stop at verse nine, but I feel like the 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:42.960 people who came to church today want me to go 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:44.840 all the way to verse eleven. So that's what I'm 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:49.200 gonna do. And speaking of who's joining us today, it's 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.679 kind of complicated, we designated this weekend for our offering, 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:54.680 and of course we've been in this series and you 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.960 can just stay right underneath me. LJ. Thank you so much. 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.520 I appreciate the atmosphere helps me sound more spiritual while 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:04.120 you play ads like twenty five percent Holy Spirit effect 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.080 on me theologically. I don't actually believe that it was 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:12.440 just a little joke, but when we planned this out 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:16.200 for Game Changer, trying to get ready to give together, 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:20.320 which is really nothing to be nervous about, because all 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:24.120 that God will ever ask of you is for you 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.160 to give your best, because that's what He did for you. 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.280 He gave his best, and so as long as you're 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.120 doing that, you don't have to worry about it. The 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.200 word God gave me today was from a very beautiful 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.920 picture in scripture from Mark chapter fourteen. Now, the Passover 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.000 and the festival of unloven Bread were only two days away, 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.120 and the chief priests and the teachers of the law 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:47.800 were scheming. I mentioned that word because while they were 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:49.920 scheming to do what they were scheming to do, someone 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:53.040 else was scheming to do something as well. So just 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.600 put your finger on that word. They were scheming to 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.720 arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. But not during the festival, 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.200 they said, or the people may riot. And while he 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.720 was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.360 of Simon the Leper, and you thought your nickname from 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:10.480 high school was bad, this dude was obviously healed by 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.360 this point, because nobody would be in his home for 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.280 a dinner if he still had a contagious skin disease. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.080 You won't even let your kids get around people with 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.040 running noses, so you know he was healed. That's probably 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.400 why he had the dinner was because he was grateful 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.800 for his healing. I found out that when God touches 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.480 your life, the first thing you want to do is 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.000 open your life back up to him, and out of 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.760 gratitude for what He's done for you, you want to 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:40.040 give back something to him and to others. Usually when 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.000 God does something in our lives, our instinct, a lot 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:47.760 of times maybe is to maybe feel like we're not 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.800 worthy of it or not deserving of it, and we 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.040 feel guilty about it. But all God ever wanted you 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.200 to do was to open your life to him. And 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.040 so I'm about to show you a picture of what 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.560 that looks like. And what this offering is going to 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.240 look like as we bring it today online and at 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:06.920 our campuses that are able to have church right now 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.840 and here in this room as well. So watch this. 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:14.120 It says that a woman came with an alabaster jar 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:19.640 of very expensive perfume. This is not Tommy Hill figure 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:26.599 from nineteen ninety six. This is the purenard from the 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:31.240 Himalayan mountains. She broke the jar and poured perfume on 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:35.079 his head. Some of those present, thank you Lord. Some 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:39.840 of those present were saying indignantly to one another, why 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:41.880 this waste of perfume could have been sold for more 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.840 than a year's wages and the money given to the poor. 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:52.280 They rebuked her harshly. Jesus said, this isn't your party. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:57.959 Leave her alone. Touch somebody say, let me alone. I 0:09:57.960 --> 0:09:59.679 don't care if you thought I sang good. I wasn't 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.680 singing to you today. Care if you think it's weird 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.600 when I lift my hands, I wasn't lift in them 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.240 to you. You didn't save me, you didn't raise me. 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.640 You didn't heal me, you didn't cleanse me. You didn't 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.360 forgive me. And you don't have a heaven or hell 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.880 to put me. In a matter of fact, all the 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.840 people who don't care what anybody thinks about it, take 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.360 eighteen seconds and give God grace because he brought you 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:24.520 through this year, because he lets you see another day. 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:32.120 Come on ten nine, eight, seven, six five. All the 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:44.520 grateful people. Makes them nice. Three leave her alone, said Jesus, 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.280 Why are you bothering her? She's done a beautiful thing 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.840 to me. The poor you will always have with you, 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.000 and you can help them anytime you want, But you 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:56.640 will not always have me. She did what she could. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:02.000 She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.160 my burial. Truly, I tell you, wherever the Gospel has 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.839 preached throughout the world, what she has done will also 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:13.800 be told in memory of her. Touch your neighbor, give 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:18.360 them my title. Tell them, I don't know about you, 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:26.400 but I'm about to go for broke. Look at your 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.079 other neighbor, because that one thought you were crazy. If 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.240 you're watching online, just say it to the wall, say 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:36.719 I'm going for bro You know, I don't know what 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:42.200 kind of attitude you have towards risk and responsibility. As 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.320 for me, I try to make sure that the reward 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:49.880 is worth the risk. When I do something, I don't 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:51.600 mind taking a risk as long as I know the 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:56.080 reward is worthy of the risk. And in this passage, 0:11:56.120 --> 0:12:00.000 I see a woman who was willing to take a risk, 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.280 to make a move, and to break a barrier in 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.120 order to do something that she could not have known 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:10.000 the significance of at the time. But we're still talking 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.720 about her to this day. Somebody say, I'm going for broke. 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.560 It's a dark time in the life of Jesus, because 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.880 waiting for him in Jerusalem is a religious lynch mob. 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:28.640 He's going to be assaulted by their accusations, which are 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:33.320 not substantiated, but nevertheless acted upon. He knows this because 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:38.000 he's Jesus. I want you to notice what he's doing, 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.040 because this blessed me. In verse three, it says he 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.800 was in Bethany, reclining at the table. How cool is 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.679 that while they're scheming to kill him, he's leaned back 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:53.640 at the table, eating dessert, drinking some decaf. He's got 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.840 to get his sleep. It's Holy week. He's going to 0:12:55.880 --> 0:13:00.360 pay the price for our sins. And yet he stopped 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:05.960 by Bethany, where this really good cook named Martha lived. 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.800 He really liked Martha's cooking, and he liked the company 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:14.520 of her sister Mary. That's who the Bible's talking about 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.680 in Mark fourteen. Just so you don't think I made 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.600 it up. If you actually read John twelve, it tells 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.560 the same story, and it says that it was Mary 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:27.199 whose brother Jesus had raised from the dead. Now understand this. 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.800 One of the reasons that everybody else at the table 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.400 thought that what she did was wasteful was because they 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:39.079 did not share her personal experience. And one of the 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:44.200 ways that you can tell about someone's personal experience with 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:49.240 God is what they define as extravagant. A lot of 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.439 people think you're crazy to come to church. You have 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.280 a couple hours each week where you can actually do 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.840 what you want to do. And you would choose to 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:02.880 listen to a talk and sing some songs, and some 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.800 of you even with done an orange vest and stand 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.600 in the rain and help people get to their parking 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:15.160 spaces in the freezing rain. I mean, you're risking your 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:19.640 life out there, don't you know. And I was talking 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.800 to one of our parking volunteers a couple of weeks ago, 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.720 rolled down my window to say thank you for standing 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.360 out here in this rain. I can't even get some 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.440 people to stay through my closing prayer in church, and 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:32.440 here you are an hour early, standing in the rain. 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.800 He said something that shook me to my core. He said, no, pastor, 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:41.440 is my privilege. And I figured that what God had 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.800 done in his life must have been something so big 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:49.480 that only he knows about. Do you know what I'm saying? 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.480 It must be something that means something to him. Maybe 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.680 when he thinks about what he deserves and realizes that 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.520 the grace of God went all the way and did 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:03.120 not only well he spare him from the punishment he deserved, 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:07.400 but gave him blessings that he didn't deserve, he came 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:12.440 to the conclusion it's a privilege. And so I was 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:18.360 interested in the fact that Mary came in and interrupted 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:23.440 the dinner. And she was risking a lot in this scenario, 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.760 because not only was it not customary, it was not 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:30.040 appropriate for a woman to come into a meeting of 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.640 men like this. The Bible was written in an even 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.920 more misogynistic time than the one we live in, if 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:41.000 you can believe that. But something caused her to make 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.960 her way. Well when she did it, the Bible says, 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:50.400 does anybody have a bottle water something like that. Yeah, 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:55.520 at a word, you had that for me in case 0:15:55.560 --> 0:16:06.080 I got thirsty. Now she wasn't obviously carrying Pellegrino or 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:10.320 she now number five. But you have to remember that 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:17.280 she she poured out this perfume on the head of Jesus. 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.160 This is different than the woman in Luke seven, who 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.560 had lived a sinful life in that town. She poured 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.280 it on the feet of Jesus and she wiped his 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.800 feet with her hair. This is a different account. And 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:33.760 Mark says she she poured out what she had that 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.920 was where three hundred denii denarii is a day's wage. 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.000 So now you see why all the disciples thought this 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.640 is a little bit ridiculous, because you know, if what 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.400 she intended to do was to show Jesus that she 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:52.040 loved him, that'll do it. You know, that's that's plenty, right, 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.080 I mean, how much how much perfume do you really need? 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.440 Some of you guys need to learn. Two sprays is 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:07.600 totally enough. I'm helping a teenager right now. Two phrase 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:13.880 from a distance, it's enough. Somebody says enough. So when 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:21.439 is it enough? Is that enough? Is that enough? Is 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.680 that enough? By now the fragrance is filling the room, 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:28.680 and is that enough? We all get to decide that, 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.199 we all get to decide that at some point, you know, 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.560 as God has called us to pour out our lives, 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:39.879 we get to decide is that enough. I called on 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:43.680 our church for this year end offering. I said, according 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.200 to what God has done in your life and how 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:46.840 He's blessed you, and how you want to see Him 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:50.120 move through this ministry and in your own life. And 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.720 for those who are online who are connected to this ministry, 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.160 you decide out of how much that God has done 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.240 for you, how much you would like to give to him. 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:04.159 And you get to decide is that enough? I mean, 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:08.640 let's be reasonable about this, right, because the disciples made 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:13.040 the argument, Hey, from a practical standpoint, we could like 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.160 feed some kids in Haiti if we keep the rest. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.800 And yet she did the irrational thing, the illogical thing, 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:28.119 the ridiculous thing, the sacrificial thing, the stupid thing, the 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.520 strategic thing. How can it be stupid and strategic? Well, 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.000 apparently Mary had a sense that she was not going 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:42.560 to have this opportunity for very long. It doesn't say 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:46.320 in the text whether she had a special intuition that 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.560 Jesus wouldn't be back at their house again before he 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:52.760 hung on the cross. We don't know. I was reading 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.399 the text trying to figure out whether she did this 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:57.560 because she knew this is the last time, this is 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:02.960 the last chance. Next time that I see him, they'll 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:06.760 be taking him down to bury him. I wonder, I 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.240 was thinking, Mary, did you know, like the Christmas song, 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:15.200 did she know? Did she know that this was it? 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.280 Did she know this was the last chance. The Bible 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.639 doesn't record, so we can only speculate, but something in 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:23.960 her watch what she did. She went through the through 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.760 the crowd of people who probably were looking at her 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:30.639 sideways for being there. Martha was serving in the kitchen. 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.080 Another text says, but Mary really served no practical purpose, 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.640 and she poured out everything that she had on his head, 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:42.199 and she considered it not to be a waste, but 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:50.080 she called it worship. Yet all of those details really 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.320 don't serve the purpose for the word that God gave me, 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.760 for our church today and for our extended family across 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.720 the world today. Because I want you to notice one 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:02.520 small phrase that the Bible says, before we give our 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:05.560 offering in just a moment we're gonna worship, and we're 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:07.600 gonna pray, and we're gonna believe God for some things 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:11.199 to happen in our future. And we're gonna We're going 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:13.280 to commemorate some of the things that God has done 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:15.560 in our past. We're going to set up some stones 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.080 on the other side of the Jordan that He's brought 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.920 us across. But I want you to notice one little detail. 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:25.200 In verse three, it says before she poured the perfume, 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:32.840 she broke the jar. She broke the long neck of 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:34.960 this flask that her perfume would have been in. She 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:38.560 drove from Argentina. Well, you can't drive from Argentina, Kenyon. 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:46.480 She came at a great risk to herself, and she said, 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:51.720 I'm going for broke. I wonder when's the last time 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:56.320 in your relationship with God that you win for broke. 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.399 Most of us do not consult our faith when we 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:03.359 are gauging what God is telling us to do. We 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:08.520 can sold our convenience, we can sold our resources. And 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.280 I noticed three things in the passage. I noticed that 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:16.040 one group of people takes offense to the woman's gift. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:20.200 That happens sometimes even today, when I talk about giving 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:25.920 some people get offended by it. They get mad, they 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.439 get an attitude, they get in their feelings. As I 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:31.640 talk about the very thing that Jesus said would determine 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:35.000 the course of your life and the condition of your heart. 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:37.280 He said, where your treasure is, your heart will be also. 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:40.159 But yet when you start talking about treasure, people have 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:42.600 to deal with their heart, and so often it causes 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:48.879 us to be offended. So some people choose offense other people. 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:52.960 In a moment like this, they start to feel sense 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:57.280 of obligation, you know, almost like a guilt trip, like okay, okay, 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:01.040 I keep stealing the elevation pin, I probably should drop 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:03.520 something in how many did you tape it? You know, 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:11.720 do the math? And then some people other people marry 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:16.560 people married not married married people. Some people decide, you 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:21.720 know what this is not. This is not offensive, This 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:27.880 is not an obligation. This is an opportunity. See that's 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:30.520 how I've come to see it now. I'm not saying 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:33.800 I always saw it that way, but now this offering 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:39.520 for me and for my house is an opportunity. And 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:43.000 I stand before you today making a declaration in your presence. 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:48.639 I'm going for broke. You know, it's kind of ironic 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:53.240 that this woman went for broke right before Jesus did 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:57.240 the same for her. He did not withhold his life, 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:00.640 he did not spare his life. He did not call 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:03.560 the legions of angels that could have come and prevented 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:06.880 him from having to die. In fact, Thomas even tried 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:09.600 to keep Jesus from going to Jerusalem. He said, they 0:23:09.640 --> 0:23:12.480 want to kill you. But Jesus looked at Thomason said, 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:16.840 I'm going for broke. I'm going all in. I'm willing 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:19.520 to give myself for the joy that is set before me. 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:23.880 I'm willing to endure the cross, despising as shame. I'm 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:32.000 going for broke. I'm going for broke, going for broke today, 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:34.800 and I'm not ashamed of it, because there are some 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:40.000 things in my life that I want to break. Somebody say, 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:43.919 break it. When I'm giving this offering today, I'm not 0:23:44.000 --> 0:23:48.760 just giving an offering. I'm breaking a jar. There are 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:51.359 some things in my life that I am breaking today 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:54.359 as I give. And number one is I'm breaking the 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:59.119 grip of complacency in my life. I'm breaking the grip 0:23:59.280 --> 0:24:02.920 of greed in my life. Somebody shall break it. Look 0:24:02.960 --> 0:24:05.400 at somebody say I'm breaking and I'm about to break it. 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:07.440 You better get out of my way if you don't 0:24:07.440 --> 0:24:09.760 want any glass in your eyes, because I'm about to 0:24:09.840 --> 0:24:13.840 break the grip of greed in my life. I refuse 0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:18.120 to be controlled by stuff and materialism and the spirit 0:24:18.160 --> 0:24:21.240 of Mammon. I'm about to break the grip of greed 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:28.159 in my life. Second thing I want to break is 0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:32.719 the cycle of scarcity. When I give today, I am 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:35.879 declaring that God will supply all my needs according to 0:24:35.880 --> 0:24:39.640 his glorious riches I said. When I give today, I'm 0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:44.520 declaring with this alabaster bottle that my God is more 0:24:44.560 --> 0:24:48.520 than enough. As I give today, i am declaring that 0:24:48.600 --> 0:24:51.880 He is my source, and he will withhold no good 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:55.399 thing from those who trust him. So I'm breaking the 0:24:55.440 --> 0:24:59.760 cycle of never enough. I'm reversing the worry cycle in 0:24:59.760 --> 0:25:03.159 my life. We've talked about this. I'm starting with my source, 0:25:03.280 --> 0:25:08.879 not my situation. Somebody shall break it. Shout it louders, 0:25:08.880 --> 0:25:12.320 say break it now. As a church, today, as we give, 0:25:12.359 --> 0:25:16.880 we are breaking barriers. Right now. Our church is poised 0:25:16.960 --> 0:25:19.800 at the very beginning of a new model of ministry. 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:23.360 It's the most exciting time that the church has ever 0:25:23.440 --> 0:25:26.760 had to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I thought 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:29.080 my Evan would back me up on my left side. 0:25:29.200 --> 0:25:33.000 I can't hear y'all as I preach this message. We 0:25:33.080 --> 0:25:35.760 are now doing what the disciples could only have dreamed 0:25:35.800 --> 0:25:40.040 about doing. As this message connects with people from every 0:25:40.080 --> 0:25:43.679 walk of life, people who might not otherwise go to church, 0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:46.320 people who might not be able to go to church, 0:25:46.880 --> 0:25:49.040 people who might not have the faith, people might not 0:25:49.080 --> 0:25:51.720