Matthew 26:6-13 (Jesus Club @ Curtis)

Title: He is worthy of Everything

AS SHORT AS POSSIBLE!

Introduction (5 min)

Will Sarno, Kale and Aiden’s homie.

In Bible College in Tacoma, WA. Working for my dad, going to church in Tacoma.

Testimony in under 2 min!

Scripture (1 min)

Matthew 26:6–13 NKJV

And when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table. But when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor.” But when Jesus was aware of it, He said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me. For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always. For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial. Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”

Super Short: What’s happening here? (2 min)

A woman has come to Jesus, knowing who He was (She was most likely a close friend). Sees Him sitting in Simon’s place and runs in to dump her expensive (1 year’s wage) oil/perfume on Jesus’ head. When His disciples saw it they’re angry, they don’t understand who Jesus is. But as they ridicule the woman Jesus swoops in to protect her and questions why the disciples would be against such an act of worship and prophecy. He affirms what she did was good and gives her so much respect that her act of worship will be known for the rest of time.

Three Major Questions You Need to Ask Yourself Base on This Passage.

Q: 1 (4-5 min)

Matthew 26:7 NKJV

a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table.

Do you know who Jesus is?

This woman KNEW Jesus, He wasn’t a simple stranger off the street that she decided to dump a year’s worth wage of oil out on Jesus’ head.

This act was intentional because she recognized who He was and that He was worthy of all that she Had.

She knew Jesus. She knew that Jesus had given up all of heaven as God and Lord to come down and be made into a servant, ALL so that humankind would come to know God. She knew that Jesus was perfect and blameless, yet He was going to die a brutal death just as He told His disciples He would in vv. 1,2 of this chapter. She knew that

Do you know Him in the same way?

Q: 2 (3 min)

Matthew 26:8–9 NKJV

But when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor.”

Do you recognize what Jesus had done and continues to do for those who love Him?

Jesus did not shun the woman in the moment that she came to Jesus’ feet.

Have you ever done something that felt embarrassing? Or something that you did and your friends or strangers started to laugh or make fun of you?

This woman has done the exact same thing, but remember she: (1) did it on purpose and (2) experienced the shame of everyone around her mocking/questioning her.

The point is she is in a vulnerable state before Jesus, and what does He do?

Where all the others in the room pointed fingers at the woman Jesus pointed the finger back at them as He asked them:

Matthew 26:10 NKJV

But when Jesus was aware of it, He said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me.

Q:3 (3-4 min)

Are you willing to give up everything for Jesus?

The woman comes to Jesus pouring out her oil, that was worth a full year’s worth of money! I know most of y’all might not know how to put that into perspective.

For context, most people don’t spend more than a quarter of a years salary on their wedding ring for their WIFE. This woman spilled out a years’ worth of money onto Jesus’ head.

The disciples see it and are upset, they don’t get it. Jesus is WORTH everything we have.

I believe this woman came to the knowledge that there was NOTHING that she could give Jesus that He wasn’t worthy of. He is worthy of all we have.

He has given EVERYTHING for us.

1 John 4:9–10 NKJV

In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

and 1 John 4:19

1 John 4:19 NKJV

We love Him because He first loved us.

He gave everything for us. He didn’t have to do it, yet He chose to freely. The question ‘Is He worthy?’ is a bad question the real question is ‘How could He not be worth everything we have?’.

Are you willing to give Him everything? Your reputation, your image at school, your love for your friends maybe even a bf or gf, your future, your heart!

If you’re not, something is more important to you than Him, that’s not a problem because I told you it is but because you are hardwired to worship God but if something is above Him life is going to feel empty. Turn to Him, give Him everything. He offers us life and life to the full!

Call to Action (2 min)

The time for action for the sake of the Gospel is NOW!

What does that mean?

It means there’s nothing worth putting off a true relationship with Jesus for!

You’ll forget the three questions I asked you in this video in the next week, but you will not forget the day you surrender everything to Jesus. Putting our trust in Jesus actively as an identity and a life choice is what will reconnect us to what we’re made for.

Jesus loves you, but everyone says that. How about this? Jesus loved you enough to do WAY more than talking about it, He actually acted on His love for you. To the point that if you get this, there will never be a love that anyone else could give you that would ever come close to how Jesus’ love. I’m praying that the Holy Spirit opens your eyes to see this love.

Quick Gospel prezzy.

Call to (1) new relationship with Jesus, and (2) Give everything to Him.

Commission them to talk and pray with the youth leaders.