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A fragrant offering
Why is Jesus the one worth our worship?
A fragrant offering
Jesus is about to pour out his treasure: his life (my burial)
Mary of Bethany anoints Jesus
John 12:1-11
Isaiah 53:11-12
Ephesians 5:1-2
Jesus takes our acts of faith and makes them beautiful - a fragrant offering to God
The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume
2 Corinthians 2:14-16
An exploration of true worship
and false worship
Mary took about half a litre of pure nard, an expensive perfume...
it was worth about a year's wages for a working man.
But Judas Iscariot objected. 'Why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year's wages.'
'Leave her alone,' Jesus replied. 'It was intended that she save this perfume for the day of my burial. You will always have the poor with you. You will not always have me.'
Helping the poor vs worshiping Jesus?
Idols of the heart:
even good things
What IS
The worship question:
What is truly worth my treasure?
The best of my life?
"When you take a GOOD thing
and make it an ULTIMATE thing
then that's a BAD thing" (Tim Keller)
"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" - Jesus
When worship goes bad
Scott Bessenecker describes a conversation with Jesus:
“You love my mission more than you love me,” Jesus said to me.
At first I found this a bit offensive.
I suppose Peter might have felt the same way when Jesus kept asking him later, “Do you love me?” (John 21:15 – 17.)
How can this be, I wondered? Of course I love you, Lord.
But then I began to ask myself, what was it that motivated me? What was it that I thought about and dreamed about and obsessed about?
It was his mission.
Indeed, I did love his mission more than I loved him.
It was true. I was in pursuit of Christ's mission, and in the process and passed by the mission giver without so much as a “hello.”
Everybody worships something: but what?
American Novelist David Foster Wallace
"...in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as ...not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship...is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive..."