(Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
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… and her sister Martha. This Martha, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair. So the sister sent word to Jesus, Lord, the one you love is sick. So we have a really, really sick man, and we have two desperate sisters who are in need of the Lord to do work. And I think that a lot of us are here, many of us walked in today, where we need God to show up in some way in our lives to do work. And whether in this story, you are sick like Lazarus. You are grieving or you are desperate. We are all in need of a Savior. And I love that reminder in Philippians that he's not just the one that starts it, but he's the one that finishes the work. Amen. If you're taking notes today, I want to talk for the next 30 minutes about the work in the weight. The work in the weight. Let's pray one more time together. Thank you, Lord, for your work that you've started in us, that you are the one that initiates, you are the one that began it. God, we just pray today that we would hear your word, but we would receive your word and we would apply your word. Let it change us from the inside out in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. I am a, let's, how do we put this? I'm a firstborn daughter. …
And so the two sisters sent a message to their Lord, the friend of Lazarus. And they said, Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick. Conspicuous by its absence is the lack of invitation. Please come. It's like the nurse at an elementary school calling a mother, telling the mother that the child is sick at school. The nurse doesn't ask, will you please come? She just assumes the mother will come and asks, what time will you be here? It's with that same tone that they sent the message. It wasn't an unrealistic or demanding presumption. It was as you would expect. Lord, Lazarus is sick, nigh unto death. The one whom you love. Jesus did not go immediately. As a matter of fact, he purposely delayed going. Verse 4. When he heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto death. Now, he did not mean by that that the man will not die. He meant death is not the ultimate in this sickness. The ultimate plan is not death. …
… the village of Mary and her sister Martha it was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. Now what's remarkable about verse two is that that anointing hasn't happened yet in the gospel of John. It happens in chapter 12. So John is reaching forward to something that hasn't happened yet and is coming, draws it into this moment, in his writing and says, that's the Mary I'm talking about. Why would he do that? Evidently, he's doing it because that moment, that anointing and then the washing or the wiping with her hair was so extraordinarily affectionate that it draws attention to the relationship now between Jesus and Mary, right? What else can you think is that if a woman weeps wipes his feet with her hair, that's really unusual. there's a love here and it's going, I'm sure, in both directions. She for him, he for her. So notice that Mary is loved and loves Jesus. …
… Now, a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with the perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair. It was her brother, Lazarus, who was ill. So the sisters sent word to Jesus, saying, Master, the one you love is ill. When Jesus heard this, he said, Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard that he was ill, he remained for two days in the place where he was. Then after this, he said to his disciples, Let us go back to Judea. The disciples said to him, Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and you want to go back there? Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in a day? If one walks during the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of the world. But if one walks at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. …
… be a Bethany in 2026? So there was a man named Lazarus. He was from Bethany in the village of Mary and her sister Martha. This Mary, whose brother Lazarus lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair. So the sisters sent word to Jesus, Lord, the one you love is sick. When he heard this, Jesus said, this sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God so that God's son may be glorified through it. Now, Jesus loved Martha and her sister, Mary and Lazarus. He loved them. So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was for two more days. Everybody say two more days. He stayed there for two more days. And then he said to his disciples, let us go back to Judea. But rabbi, they said a short while ago, the Jews, they try to stone you. And yet you are going back. Jesus answered, are there not 12 hours by daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble for they see this world's light. …
Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. Therefore the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick. Now when Jesus heard that, he said, this sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it. Now, Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when He heard that He was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was. And then after this, He said to the disciples, let us go to Judea again. The disciples said to Him, Rabbi, lately the Jews sought to stone you, and are you going there again? Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world. …