Leaving a Legacy

Donora’s Lasting Legacy

Church Fathers - Left a Lasting Legacy

Polycarp - Athenatious - Clement - Augustin - Luther - Calvin - John Bunyan - Spurgon - William Carey - E.M. Bounds - Johnathan Edwards - Martin Lloyd Jones - R.C. Sproul

As you follow Christ in this life, live in such a way that your love for Him will leave a lasting legacy.

We are going to leave a legacy in this life

What you did through Christ

What you did to Christ

We see a Markian sandwich.

V.1-2

Sets the stage-

The Passover

Feast of the Unleavened Bread - Week

The Scribes were looking to kill Him

Riot among the people

V.3-9

Anointing -

V.3

Simon the Leper - Mary, Martha, Lazarus -

While he was in Bethany - Chapter 11

John 12:1 “1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, the one Jesus had raised from the dead.”

She Broke it- Expensive 300 Days Wages - a year salary

12-16oz

Poured it on His head

Down to the feet

Wiped with her hair.

V.4

Some were expressing indignation - Judas John 12:4-5 “4 Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was about to betray him), said, 5 “Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?””

Ps 10:7 “7 Cursing, deceit, and violence fill his mouth; trouble and malice are under his tongue.”

Have you ever been upset about what someone else is doing for Christ?

V. 8

Advance for burial

V.9

Her love for Christ has left a lasting legacy!

As we live our life thought Christ we have to understand that we are not doing things to earn God’s Love- We have it! But because we love God we do things show are love to Him. We are not working for are salvation but because of the free gift of salvation offered thought Jesus we live our lives showing our love for Him as His Spirit works through us. This is a union with Christ.

v.10-11

1 Tim 6:10 “10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”

Ps 55:12-14 “12 Now it is not an enemy who insults me— otherwise I could bear it; it is not a foe who rises up against me— otherwise I could hide from him. 13 But it is you, a man who is my peer, my companion and good friend! 14 We used to have close fellowship; we walked with the crowd into the house of God.”

Zec 11:12 “12 Then I said to them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed my wages, thirty pieces of silver.”

Comparison

Love him or Leave him

Worship Him or by at War with Him

Cherish Him or Crucify Him

Tell His Truth or Twist His Truth

Be transformed to His Word or Conformed to the World

Praise Him or Persecute Him

Adore Him or Abhore Him

When you leave this world there is only one thing that is going to matter

and that is What you did through Christ or To Christ.

As you follow Christ in this life, live in such a way that your love for Him will leave a lasting legacy.

We are going to leave a legacy in this life

What you did through Christ

What you did to Christ