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Treachery and Love

March 5, 2023 Preacher: Ryan Brice Series: The Gospel of Mark

Passage: Mark 14:1–11

Main Idea: True discipleship is marked by love and adoration for Jesus.

The Treachery of Man’s Sinful Heart

  • 1, 2 AIt 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.”
    • Deuteronomy 16:1–8
  • 10, 11 Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.
    • Luke 22:3
    • John 8:44
  • 4–6 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.
    • John 12:4–6

The Love Demonstrated By a Redeemed Heart

  • 3 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.
    • Luke 10:39, 42
    • John 11:32
    • John 12:3
  • 7–9 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.”
    • Mark 12:29–31

So What?

  • True love and adoration for Christ is evidence of a heart that has been changed by the gospel.
    • Mark 12:41–44
    • Psalm 63:1–11

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