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Central Baptist Church of Ponca City, OK
DATE: Sunday PM, April 18, 2021
SERMON BY: Bro. Walter Clark
SERMON TITLE: The Gift from a Pure Heart
SERMON THEME: Mary Honors her Savior
SERMON SERIES: Guest Speakers
SERMON VERSES: John 12:1-8
Mary’s gift to Jesus...
* was precious - worth a year’s wage
* was personal - she washed the Savior’s feet, and then wiped them with her hair
* was potent - the aroma filled the house, drawing attention to the Savior. We make our gifts potent through prayer!
* brought persecution - wicked Judas questioned Mary’s motive and attempted to shame her to cover his own thefts
* was preemptive - she could not anoint him later; he was heading to the cross. We have windows of opportunity that will not always be open.
John 12:1-8 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. 3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. 4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him, 5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? 6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. 7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. 8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
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