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I hope you.

Got enough food to eat.

I'm sure some of you probably still have some leftovers that, you know, so that you can eat that.

So, that would be good.

And then just thinking last night about a month, you know, we'll do it all over again, want me?

So, that's right.

So that'll be, that's a good thing.

Well, what I want to do today is an r-series and remember, this is a series win a life.

Well spent, and we're talkin about sewing, and we talkin about stewardship and we're talkin about sacrifice.

Let me encourage you to be here Christmas morning.

Now, I know you have children or maybe you have grandchildren that made you open up gifts early in the morning and that's great.

I understand that, but if you do it early enough, you can bring them to church with you and I would not be good.

So I won't everyone this here today.

If you would, if you can be here on Christmas morning, I want you two to be here.

I want you to bring someone with you if you can because I'm going to preach the last message.

In this series on Christmas morning and we're going to talk about sacrifice.

You know nothing ever good comes without sacrifice of something.

You say preacher, I think you got your holidays mixed up.

We talked about sacrifice on Easter.

Well, let me tell you something, the Lord sacrifice something.

When he came to this Earth as a baby and that's what we're going to talk about Christmas morning.

So you bring someone with you if you can a life.

Well, spent and don't forget this to.

Now we're going to start working on our church painting, the church coming up here in the next week or so, we're still taking up our special Christmas offering beautify new Grace until December 11th.

So, if you haven't given yet, please consider that.

You can put it in a envelope, just put beautifying, you Grace on it, or you can put painting on it, whatever you want to put, but we're going to take up that special offering up through December 11th.

Our gold is $5,000 and so I wanted to let you know that as well.

So a life well spent And so today, and if you have your Bibles with you, I want you to go ahead and start turn into John chapter 12, the Gospel of John Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, the 4th gospel chapter 12. Now for you who were with us a couple of weeks ago on a Wednesday night, I preached the sermon entitled, givers and takers.

And we talked about the lives of Abraham and lot and how Abraham was a giver and lot was a taker.

And we know how their lives ended not too well for lot.

Well, today we come to another story.

And I could have easily entitled this givers and takers.

But instead I'm entitled this, the heart of stewardship.

A contrast between generosity a giver And materialism a taker.

And we're going to look at two people in this story and John chapter 12 1, the best lessons they ever learn.

When and I learned this when I was at Fruitland, not at Southeastern.

Was a Bible study method called Truth intention.

Now what that is is the Bible is careful to present us both sides of an issue so that we can see it more in Balance.

Now, this is never more seen than in character studies.

And so remember, we studied the life of Joseph and we, we saw a lot of contrast in that when we looked at Abraham and lot, we saw some contrast in that God loves to

God loves to show us the life of one person against the backdrop of the life of another person.

The Bible does this all the time.

It gives us contract and I love the contrast the Lord taught us.

The generous nature of Abraham with the selfishness of locked.

And so to see this contrasts, you then can appreciate the influence of each life and the consequences of the choices that we make in.

John chapter 12, there's a wonderful contrast made between two people.

Marry and Judas.

And unless you see each person's motives clearly, you can appreciate what this section of scripture is teaching, you'll never appreciate it, unless you understand their mode in.

So let me set the background for you, Jesus.

This is a incident that happened in his life.

He had just raised Lazarus from the dead.

Remember that?

He raised Lazarus from the dead.

Now remember this Lazarus Mary and Martha were brother and sisters?

Okay, they lived in the same house who Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead about two weeks before.

And then all the sudden, the Jewish leaders, when they found out about it, they were irate, and they were even plotting to kill Jesus.

All right, and so so Christ had left Jerusalem.

And he had went to this little desert city, Ephraim, and then he was going to come back and celebrate the Passover in Jerusalem in while he was on his way.

This is where I remember, Zacchaeus.

This is where Jesus met Zacchaeus.

This is where this is the time where Jesus healed blind Bartimaeus, and then he visited his friend Lazarus and this is after he had raised him from the dead.

So the Lord came to the home of Mary Martha and Lazarus in the city of Bethany just outside Jerusalem.

And it is here, that John gives us a discount of this amazing event in the Life of Christ.

Not remember, when we read this today and studied this was given to us for a purpose.

So that we can contrast the attitudes of Mary and Judas and understand the results of their different choices.

Just keep that in mind.

So let's read the text.

So we're here in John.

Chapter 12, we have the background.

This is what the Bible says and we going to read down through verse 11.

Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was who had been dead whom.

He had raised from the dead there, they made him a supper and Martha served but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.

That speaking of Jesus.

Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil or let's just my the translation says very costly oil of spikenard.

All right, let's we don't use that word today.

So let's just look at it like this.

She took a very expensive jar of perfume is what it was.

It was very expensive perfume and it says here anointing the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

but one of his disciples, Judas, Iscariot Simon's son.

Who would betray him say it?

if you ever say a verse in the Bible that says one of his disciples Sayed.

Look what this sent one of his disciples and then it tells us so much more about Judas.

All the, all the tax had to say, was one of his disciples Judas said, or done say that, it says he Simon's son and he's the one who's going to betray the Lord.

So already the text is telling us there's something wrong with this Judas.

Here, there's something wrong with him and I look in verse five.

This is what Judy says, why was this perfume not sold for $300, naira and given to the poor.

Now watch the Bible, explain why he said it.

This he said not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief and had the money box.

In other words, he was the treasurer of the band of disciples they had given him the job of Treasurer.

He kept up with all the money that the disciples and Jesus had and it says and he used to take what was put in it.

So they would get some money.

People give money and Judas would say he give the financial Reports.

Say we got this, we got that and then he would take some of it.

He was a thief, that's what the Bible says but yet he was a disciple.

He was at church every Sunday.

He was at his life, he look good on the outside.

But his heart wasn't good.

Looking for seven.

This is what Jesus said to him.

Let her alone.