~ALABASTER WORSHIP~
~Extravagant ~Costly~ Worship~

There Are Very Few People… Who Truly Experience The Heart Of Worship. Many Say… “For What Purpose Is This Waste?”

Six Days Before Jesus Was To Be Crucified And Buried~ Mary Showed Her Love And Worship For Jesus~ When She Broke Open The Alabaster Flask & Anointed Jesus’ Feet With One Pound Of Expensive Spikenard Oil~ And Then She Wiped His Feet With Her Hair. And The House Was Filled With The Fragrance Of The Oil. Then One Of His Disciples, Judas Iscariot, Said “Why Was This Fragrant Oil Not Sold For Three Hundred Denarii (A Years Wages); And Given To The Poor?” This He Said; Not Because He Cared For The Poor; But Because He Was A Thief; And He Held The Treasury Box Of Money… And He Used To Take What Was Put Into It. Then Jesus Said “Let Her Alone; She Has Kept This ~(Expensive Fragrant Oil)~ For The Day Of My Burial.” “For The Poor You Have With You Always; But Me You Do Not Have Always.” (John 12:1-11)

There Is Also Another Account Of Jesus Being Anointed With Oil; On Another Occasion; Just Two Days Before His Burial. (Matt.26: 6-13). The Scriptures State… And When Jesus Was In Bethany; (Just Outside Of Jerusalem) At The House Of Simon The Leper…

A Woman Came To Him Having An Alabaster Flask Of Very Costly Fragrant Oil, And She Poured It On His Head; As He Sat At The Table.” But When His Disciples Saw It; They Were Indignant, Saying… “To What Purpose Is This Waste? For This Fragrant Oil Might Have Been Sold For Much, And Given To The Poor.”

It Is Hard To Believe That It Had Only Been (4) Days Since Jesus Had Told Them To Let The Other Woman Alone~ For Worshipping Him In The Same Manner! It Must Have Been Difficult Even For Jesus~ To Have Faith In These Guys At Times. But We Should Not Judge Them~ Until We Get All The Logs Out Of Our Own Eyes. Where Are Our Hearts When We See Someone Who Radically Worships Before God?

So We See… It Was Not Only Judas Iscariot; Who Complained And Murmured About The Cost Of This Woman’s Extravagant Worship. But In Fact; Even “His Disciples” Did. Then We Also Know… That Jesus Rebuked Them… Saying~ “Don’t Trouble The Woman… She Has Done A Good Work For Me… You Have The Poor Always… Pouring This Fragrant Oil On My Body; She Did For My Burial… Wherever This Gospel Is Preached In The Whole World… What This Woman Has Done Will Also Be Told As A Memorial To Her.”

Other Women Came To Anoint Jesus; Only (5) Days Later. They Brought Expensive Spices With Them To Anoint His Body; (3) Days After The Crucifixion.

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But The Tomb Was Empty~ The Power Of Death Could Not Hold Him~

~Jesus Christ~ Has Risen From The Dead~
~Believe On The Son Of God~ And You Too~ ~Can Receive Eternal Life~