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Look Again – Easter 2023

Anointed

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Anointed 
Saturday.  Jerusalem.  Circa 33 AD.
Passover was near and the Jewish people were on their annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem.  Jesus, too, neared the city.  But His Jerusalem was to be unlike any other.
Along the way Jesus and His apostles stop in Bethany to visit long time friends, including, Mary, Martha, and Lazarus.   Events unfold that foreshadow Jesus’s coming Passover experience.
While sharing dinner with friends, Jesus is anointed with expensive perfume.  Some in the assembly think it an outrageous waste – 300 dinarii!  Jesus replied, “Leave her alone. She did this in preparation for my burial.  You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.” John 12:7-8 NLT
Jesus knew that His final journey to Jerusalem would begin the following day.  Cue the donkey:
Rejoice, O people of Zion!
Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem!
Look, your king is coming to you.
He is righteous and victorious,
yet he is humble, riding on a donkey –
riding on a donkey’s colt. Zechariah 9:9 NLT
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3-18 The Greatest Love-Story of All Time: Prologue

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The Greatest Love-Story Of All Time: Prologue

Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 NLT

Much is made in sports of the GOAT, the greatest of all time. This quarterback, this forward, that cyclist.  What about the GLOAT?  The greatest love-story of all time.  Anthony and Cleopatra?  Romeo and Juliette?

Not. Even. Close. The greatest love-story of all time is God sending His only Son, Jesus the Christ, to die for us on the cross.  That is the unmatched GLOAT.

Join is in our Easter 2023 series (GLOAT) as we follow Christ’s journey to the cross and back.  A journey of love. We begin tomorrow as Christ resolutely turns His face toward Jerusalem and His Passover. And then we continue on April 1 as Christ arrives in Jerusalem.


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