PASSION WEDNESDAY (Jesus anointed & betrayed)

I AM PASTOR DEB

English - April 05, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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It's Passion Wednesday. Today we commemorate the anointing of Jesus' feet and the betrayal of Judas.

The anointing of Jesus was an act of worship, God deserves our worship. He doesn’t hold back from us and we should not hold back from Him, we should be willing to worship and exalt God at all costs.

So, like Mary in this story, we should give our wholehearted devotion to God. Jesus reveals in Matthew 22:37 that the greatest commandment of all is to, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’” Love is more than an emotion; it’s an action.

Judas’s story contains another important lesson for parents, leaders, and friends who grieve over someone they love who has abandoned the faith. They worry:

Where did we go wrong?What more could we have done?Did we fail in our teaching?Did we fail in our example?Should we have immersed our son or daughter or friend in a different environment?

But Judas teaches us that even the best example, the most compelling evidence, and the finest teaching—the ultimate environment for incubating faith—cannot, in and of themselves, change the human heart.