"Walk With The King" Program, From the "Adoration" Series, titled "Sweet Perfume"

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"Walk With The King" Program, Practical & Encouraging Messages From The Ministry of Dr. Robert A. Cook.
From the "Adoration" Series, titled: "Sweet Perfume" (Broadcast #6897)
Scripture References: John 12:1, Mark 14

Learn about Dr. Cook's ministry at https://www.walkwiththeking.org/

Transcript

Alright, thank you very much. And hello again, my dear radio friend. How in the world are you? Yes, this is your good friend Bob Cook and I’m back with you once again for a few moments to share from the Word of God. What a delight. What a privilege. What a luxury. What an absolute thrill it is to open the Word of God and find the Holy Spirit speaking to your own heart from it. That’s the continuing miracle of the Christian life, isn’t it? “As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God,” Paul says in Romans 8. God speaks to His people through His Word and by His Holy Spirit. May that be true for you, my precious friend, this very day.

I’m looking now at John Chapter 12. We are in the Gospel of John, going through it verse by verse, trying to put a handle on it so that you can get hold of it for yourself. John 12:1, “Then Jesus, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany where Lazarus was which had been dead whom He raised from the dead. There, they made them a supper and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with Him. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. Then said one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son which should betray him, ‘Why was not this ointment sold for 300 pence and given to the poor?’ This he said. Not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag and bear what was put therein. Then said Jesus, ‘Let her alone, against the day of My burying hath she kept to this, for the poor always you have with you but Me, ye have not always.'”

John gives us this story and so indeed do Mark and Matthew. Matthew 26 and Mark 14, the story is similar, differing only in a detail or two to fill out the story. It says in Verse 8 of Matthew 26, “When his disciples saw it.” Now, Judas started it, but the others echoed it. “When his disciples saw it, they had indignation saying, ‘To what purpose is this waste?'” Small thought here while we think of it. Grumbling is contagious. Griping is contagious. You start complaining about something and other people will join you. Adverse side of the coin is true as well, praise is contagious. You start praising and rejoicing and other people will follow you. His disciples.

And the Lord Jesus said, “Why trouble ye the woman? She hath wrought a good work upon me. She hath wrought a good work upon me. It’s not how much but for whom that counts.” Then he mentions that, “She has poured this ointment on my body. She did it for my burial.” Mary was probably the only one who understood what the Lord Jesus said when He talked rather constantly about His dying and rising again. The rest of them didn’t seem to get the point. Mary did. “She did it for My burial.”

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Isaiah 55:11:
“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”