Lesson 3325

 (Lesson 3325)(02-09-21) Mark 14:1-9

    “After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.”

    Today’s quote relates the story of the “alabaster box” and the woman who anointed Jesus with it’s contents. 

    We should note what Jesus commanded toward the end of this quote. He said; “Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.”

    I ask those of you who attend church on a regular basis, when was the last time you heard this that commandment obeyed? 

    Today’s “Christians” constantly preach “the assembling of yourselves together, as the manner of some is”. A vague encouragement to assemble as was proposed by Paul in Hebrews 10:25 They teach that quote at as if all of Christianity depends upon it for it’s existence. They will also, in some congregations, contend that all believers present should partake of  “commuion”, or “The Lord’s supper”. Another vaguely described ordinance that Jesus gave to His apostles as they observed the Passover. But, you seldom, if ever, here the straight out commandment that Jesus Gave His Apostles as that woman anointed His head with precious oil.~