When Giving Feels Like Losing
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When Giving Feels Like Losing

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 20, 20262 min
  • Religion

Mary poured out something priceless on Jesus and everyone thought it was wasteful. But Jesus saw it differently. What looks like loss to the world can be worship to God.

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If you had a $50,000 bottle of perfume, would you pour it out on someone's feet? Because that is what a woman named Mary did for Jesus. And everyone around her thought she was wasting it. But what if what everybody else called waste was actually a form of worship?

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This is all coming to us from a story in John chapter 12. I want to read it with you. We're going to start in verse 3. It says this,

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Then Mary took a 12-ounce jar of expensive perfume made from the essence of Nard. She anointed Jesus' feet with it, wiping his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance. But Judas Iscariot, the disciple who would soon betray Jesus, said,

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