Worship (Part 2 of 3) — Leonard Ravenhill

The Sinful Woman’s Worship in Luke 7

Okay, tonight we're going to look at the seventh chapter in the gospel recorded by Luke and the preachers. Because they don't know any better so that there are four gospels. But I'm not for gospel. There's only one gospel told by four different men.

And so they all make a different emphasis and the story that's in this chapter is in each of the four gospels. But to me, this is the most fascinating one. Luke chapter 7 and verse 36. One of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him.

And he went into the Pharisees house. And sat down to meet and behold a woman in the city who was a sinner. The emphasis is a sinner real sinner. When she knew that Jesus sat in for meat in the Pharisees house.

Brought an alabaster box of ointment and stood at his feet and began to stood at his feet behind him weeping. Began to wash his feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

Now in the Pharisee which had been them. So it he spake within himself saying this man if he were a prophet would have known who and what manner of woman this is. For she is a sinner. Jesus answering said unto him Simon.

I have somewhat to say unto thee and he said master say on. There was a certain creditor which had two debtors. The one owed in five hundred pence the other owed in fifty and when they had nothing to pay he frankly forgave them both.

Tell me therefore which of them would love him most. Simon answered I suppose that he to whom he forgave most and Jesus said unto him thou art rightly judged. He turned to a woman and said to Simon sayest thou this woman I?

Entered into thy house thou gavest me no water for my feet. But she hath washed them with her tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss. But this woman since I came. Since the time I came in I've not ceased to kiss my feet.

My head with oil thou didst not anoint. But this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. Wherefore I say unto thee her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven the same love of little he said unto her thy sins are forgiven me.

And they that sat at me with him began to say within themselves. Who is this that forgive us sins also? And he said to the woman my faith hath saved thee go in peace. If I were to put a label on this reading tonight, I would call it the complaining Christ.

Worship as Preoccupation With God

Last week you may remember that we considered the first part of a three-part message. This is a second obviously and We stated that in the erection of the tabernacle in the Old Testament. The first measurements that are given there are the measurements of the mercy seat.

Where God said there will I meet with thee? And the most important thing in the world is not how much we work for God. The most important thing in the world is how we worship him. Where is preoccupation with our needs.

Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with God himself. One of the old hymn writers says my goal is God himself not joy not peace not even blessing. See so often we think God is a kind of a great utility.

God you just call and he answers you put in your request. You give him your shopping list and sooner or later you get what you ask for. And unfortunately that idea is very prevalent in the day in which we live.

A day when there's so much talk about spiritual Christian prosperity. I'm afraid lots of Christians are. At least material prosperity. A lot of Christians are materially prosperous and spiritually bankrupt.

And you know it doesn't matter how rich you are and also you're really rich. But it doesn't matter how rich you are doesn't matter about your positions or your possessions. We're still dependent on the cross of Jesus Christ.

And God if you can get this in your mind it may help you. I was going to say a thousand years. But most of you don't live as long as that. But it will help you all your life to realize this that the only person who can change God's opinion of you is you.

No matter how much people scandalize you you'll never move God's judgment. I Tried to live in that verse in Romans 8 and I forget just which one it is right now. But it said it is God that justifies. Who is he that condemns us.

If God smiles on me do I care. Who frowns on me? If God frowns on me does it matter who smiles on me you see that the sum total of divine revelation. And the work of the cross of Jesus Christ. Is that we while we're still in the flesh?

Might walk as though or live as though we were living in heaven itself. Because the kingdom of God is within us there will be a future kingdom sure enough. But the kingdom of God is within us. That's when the other kingdom has been put out.

The Historical Setting of Jesus’ Supper

Now have you read this story tonight, I guess well. In the framework of modern life. This isn't a very exciting story is it I? Mean a woman coming and kissing the feet of Jesus washing them, so what I?

Mean, what's that compared with a man walking on the moon, and you know computers great printing machines in that context. This is a fairly trivial thing. But supposing we could we can't we may try with imagination to step back into history.

Into the framework where this thing was done. Jesus goes into the house of a Pharisee. That's like hearing that. The president of the United States after he finished his daily toil today went and sat down to eat with the Mafia.

He wears a few eyebrows. Pharisees they were very despised. We read the script you know so at least I have done. I confess so unrealistically very often. I Read it in the framework of my need. I Read it in the framework of events round about me.

Now can I let's think back between Malachi and Matthew you have 400 years. Of total darkness without any prophetic light. Total stillness without any prophetic voice. Now this incident happens here after some great revolutions have taken place.

Do you ever try to wake a sleeping man or worse still a sleeping woman? They don't usually wake up very comfortable. You know. Well, what do you think it's like waking up a sleeping nation. Between Malachi and Matthew again you have a solid block of 400 years.

You know what we learn from history. This is my definition. Nobody else's maybe it is someone else's but it's mine. The one thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history. If we did we wouldn't have all those idiots Englishmen and folk in the Falcons fighting tonight.

We wouldn't have people glorying in the fact we shot down more jets. Men that never get civilized. We've more education with more knowledge with more universities. We've more of everything and yet We stupid enough to think we can do like the barbarians did a thousand or two thousand years ago shoot people out of the sky.

So what? All we've left is a trail of orphans today trail of broken-hearted young widows. See old men design wars young men fight them all the great beards in England are stoking their beers. But it's young blood that's being poured out.

Well, you're not too happy there. So let's go on. So they've been 400 years of stillness no prophetic voice then suddenly dramatically a Character that Jesus says that no man in history and he's including Jeremiah and all the others.

There's never been a greater man living than John Baptist. I preach in a certain place a while ago and the brother came to me and he said, you know if you would go hide away for a while and wait on God and get a healing ministry, I think you could.

Well, you shake a lot of Americans and a lot of other people. You see miracles healings. That's the thing. That's the thing. Well after all I I Talked many times with Kathleen Kuhlman had dinner with her lunch with her breakfast with her talk with her and at that time a Alan was around and Jack Cole was around and there's a whole slew of tents on the country.

We used to go to Kathleen Kuhlman's meetings and when she only too well-known before she got on TV and get five six 7 ,000 people there. But what happened when she quit? What happened if she went. I told her one day I said the next time you come to town instead of preaching for 20 minutes and having a healing service for three hours.

They tell the people next month when I come I'm going to preach for three hours and have a healing meeting for 20 minutes. That means you get 10 of a congregation. I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm saying that we've had more of that ministry than any people in history.

They see John comes on the scene and the scripture is very clear. It says John did no miracle. You kind of wonder I got on without a mailing list. But don't mention that after tonight, but there you are and he didn't have a staff.

And he didn't have any financial backing. And he didn't have the acceptance of the the preachers and the hierarchy and the Sanhedrin of that day. He comes a lonely desolate Fellow they didn't even have seats to sit on now I've got you they've got wall-to-wall rugs and rubber seats about this bed.

So, you know folk can sleep easier during the Sun and I met in this day. They stood in the in the heat. And they came from Jerusalem Judea Samaria the other most parts, you know. Well, there's no media newspapers no telephones.

There Is a simple thing you can get hold of maybe you never have to advertise a fire. It's spiritual or physical if this place catches fire tonight. I hope it doesn't. I hope it's. I'm not prophetic. But if this place were to catch fire at two o 'clock tomorrow morning.

There'll be people from all around the countryside who normally sleep for somehow they'd wake up and hey. The skies growing and they would rush from everywhere to see the fire. And John Baptist. You know, I like the team.

I like to get people angry. Actually preaching is useless preaching if you don't upset somebody. And and I I go to Baptist churches, you know, and they're very much against the Pentecostal testimony. And so I say wait a minute.

Wait a minute about what well the first man that preached the baptism of the Holy Spirit was a Baptist. John Baptist was the first Pentecost. He preached the baptism with the Holy Ghost. And then when I go to the Pentecostals and they think they've got it all in the bag.

I say hey wait a minute. The first fellow that preached your message was a Baptist. What do you mean? Well, I mean what the Bible said. John Baptist came across the sky like Haley's Comet went through the sky when it was dark.

And he upset the social life he upset the religious life. He upset everything that people were not going to the temple. They're going to see this rugged ragged man out in the country not doing any miracles.

Where's the dead? Did something better than that he raised the dead nation they tried to exalt him and say was the Christ. He says no, I'm not. Don't find much humility around like that these days. Everybody's studying what our ministry does notice that.

Maybe you do. I don't know but they do on TV our ministry to do reaching it our ministries. Are you out of timber when I hear people say how much we're doing, you know, I. Because God rebuked David when he counted when he numbered Israel.

Soon as we get in the numbers game, we're in trouble right after that pride comes. Once we both makes it easier to be proud and God resisted for proud. So John Baptist comes and he upsets the apple cat.

Jesus’ Arrival and the Pharisee’s Banquet

Everybody's going not to the temple. They're going to see this strange man right after that Jesus come. And Jesus is more devastating than John. And it was this man Jesus. What that time was the greatest sensation in the world.

Maybe the Pharisee went up and timidly and said well, I don't know do this because I have a Pharisee but. Would you like to come to dinner at our house? Tuesday night Wednesday whenever it's convenient said sure.

I'll come and this Spread through town. I imagine that that man made a list, you know. The guests who were going to come to the feast. I think he got up at night and crossed some names out and put other names in he crossed other names out put some other Names in till eventually he got a little Watertight list of people just the right people.

You've got to get the right folk there, you know, then after that is to get the right food. I think he made quite a splash with that and then he got some flowers and decorated the place to make it look.

You know give it a nice aesthetic atmosphere. And I imagine he went to bed that night and said, you know, that's tomorrow's gonna be the greatest day of my life. It's gonna be a day that I'll never forget.

And it became a day never wanted to remember you've had a day like that. I mean, yeah, if you haven't it's coming. You know you get up and you say oh, it's just one of those days. And everything goes wrong during the day and your prophecy was fulfilled.

You said it was one of those days and the Lord saw it was you expected it the expectation was not cut off. No, I'm sure this will be wonderful. No, no, you want to forget it. This is a day of my exaltation.

Everybody will talk about my extravagance my banquet and instead of a day of his exaltation. It became a day of humiliation. I can imagine this Feast is all set. He set his servants up told them to watch you know.

They didn't have windows they had lattices and The certain the lookout says oh, yeah, your majesty Master so-and-so is coming. They see this beautiful chariot come up, you know, they have no Jaguar XK 120s.

And no amazing Datsun was in those days. So they had to ride horses and mules. And they had their class distinctions. And as each man comes up the fellow says it's home so it's coming and according to custom he went to the door and he hugged the man, you know held him this way and put his cheek the other way at the other side of him and Who has somebody coming distinguished person you see got the mayor of the town and the millionaire and the masters and manufacturers and all the Starry people people that have social standing.

No dares is going to get in here and he is busy doing something and his Servant says at the corner that and the boss comes up says what do you want? What do you want one? He says well. You don't have certain woman in town.

Oh now don't bring that up at the feast. I mean if she comes turn the dogs on her she's already here, but I don't see her. Oh, she's in the kitchen. See. She's making. Oh, she's making such a fuss about this Jesus fellow you'll call him this prophet or something that you have and Simon goes and looks and says hmm I surely made a blunder there.

After all if he were a prophet, he'd know what man of woman This is for she is a sinner and Jesus caught him up like that and said listen just a minute. So I wanted to know there's something there's a certain credit to have two debtors one owed him 500 pence the other owed him 50.

And when he had nothing to pay he frankly forgave them both which of them would love him most. Well logically he says the man if this man owes $500 and this man only owes $5. Well this man who had a debt of $500 forgiven will be more grateful in the man who only had $5 forgiven.

So you said you answered it correctly. Simon Sears now this woman. Now here are his complaints. I entered into our house. Now gave us me no kiss now gave us me no oil. You didn't do the ordinary task of washing feet because you see in those days there were no holes.

And lots of people couldn't even afford shoes and so they got the grip between their toes and they didn't like to sit at meet. There's grip between their toes. It was uncomfortable. I entered into my house now.

How did he come in I? Seriously doubt he came through the front door. As a clock as a hen in which he says a servant's form he wore. And in his body bought our dreadful curse on Calvary. He like a victim stood and poured his sacred blood to set us guilty captives free.

I see bumper stickers and a lot of them are silly. Even with so-called scripture on them and you see a bit of silly little face, you know with a curve in it smile. God loves you. Well, if you have that on you should have a bumper sticker at the other end that says God is angry with a wicked every Day, we could be laughing people into hell.

Worship Beyond Material Prosperity

Jesus was Attractive to sinners. I talked with a man this week a very remarkable man. I wanted to meet him for a long while in fact in the space of About ten days. I thought with two of the best-known preachers in America.

If not in the world and then I met this man who is very ordinary and a very extraordinary. To the wise extraordinary. He's one of the most knowledgeable men I've ever met and until recently it was a one of the chief men on Mr. Reagan's certain committee and he resigned from it.

The remarkable thing about that man is in busy America. That man prays eight to sixteen hours a day. Giving up his work to do it giving up a pastor to do it said Lord I want to do this now. You're allowed to supply my need to keep my family and he put a figure up and said Lord I can live on that.

And not many days after somebody said I feel like to send you this and give you so much a month to the end Of the year. That's how God works. But he has learned to worship God. Now going back to this this woman came in and I like this story.

I like it very very much. Because you see it's unprecedented she wasn't copying anybody so many ministers it copies spinoffs of others. We do what they do and do all they do that. No, no, no, no. This ministry is totally unprecedented.

But it wasn't done premeditated. She's risking a neck this is a stag party. She's maybe the worst known woman in the city and she's going to knock at the door. I'm not going. But maybe she was watching and saw Jesus going to the back door in any case.

He's going to the house of a Pharisee and there appears stinking crowd anybody. Anyhow, and she goes in and he needed as he goes in she does well. He does some very wonderful things. Why did she go? Do you think she stood on the edge of a crowd many times and for all if I could just reach out and touch the hem of his garment.

If I could just get five minutes with him and unload all my rotten sins and my corruption. You think she felt left out of the crowd and then she does this very dramatic dangerous Defiant thing. Hey lady.

Watch it. Those those Pharisees you walk in there. They pull the skirt. Someone's I'd say put the dog on this stinking woman. What did she go for? Did you guess she went to worship him? How do you know for two reasons number one?

She took a gift and it was the most expensive thing that she owned in the world. And I don't need to take a gift but she never said a word to him. I Reminded you last week if you were here that dr. Tozer told me once.

But often he would lay at the feet of Jesus for four five six hours. I never say a single word. Wouldn't pray wouldn't praise. I Fasten on to some aspect of his holiness. Or his majesty or his purity or his eternity.

Or his omniscience. Or his omnipresence or his omnipotence. You often enter into that realm or he's got like the convenience store. You just say well, I don't need this and I need some stamps. I'll need some money or this give me a bit of help.

Give me a bit of strength. Is it all directed to me? I say again that prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Oh, thank you Lord for all. Thank you. Thank you.

But worship is preoccupation with God himself. My goal is God himself now. When did you last get along with God and say Lord? I've not come to ask you for a thing. I'm not going to thank you for the thing.

I want to gauge I gave on your mercy. You're lifting me out of a horrible pain. I Could be in jail tonight. I could be in. I could be a prostitute or something. And then you get past that and you gaze on his splendor his majesty.

His holiness. You see this woman goes along and again. I say that she took a gift. Hmm. Simon looks at this woman and says what shall I do with her. And Jesus steps in says wait a minute. You know, it's ironic when you think of it that we don't know who was at this Banquet, except the woman that shouldn't be on the guest list.

How many others were there? Who were there? I don't know. Oh, I can tell you one or two. But I don't doubt that this great social event it would never be repeated again. And and I think the house was jammed with people with men and Simon looks and thinks hmm.

If he knew what I wouldn't let that woman touch my feet if she put put a hammer kick her in the face. She would never touch me and contaminate me and he says wait a minute. You know what the customs are you should have washed my feet with water when I came in.

But this woman thought it all out. She's had some sleepless nights over it. I think she said when I get there, I won't wash his feet with water. I wash his feet with my tears. Maybe Charles Wesley got his inspiration there for a one of his great hens.

Oh, let me kiss like bleeding feet and bathe and wash them with my tears. The story of thy love repeat in every group in sinners ears. But all mankind with me may prove thy sovereign everlasting love, but he says let me kiss thy bleeding feet.

You see we preach the congregations as though, you know, most of you are living. Oh, you know, you've got a girl on the side. You've got another woman or you're stealing money or do something like that.

Well, that's not a way to preach to people. This is Leonard man. I taught with. I came to see me for half an hour. He stayed over three hours and I was glad he could have stayed another three as far as I was concerned.

But I'm hoping to meet him later. And he said, you know, I've been thinking about the difference Between the Quakers and the Puritans. We've got some lovely Quakers around here. Most of you know, the Browns they're Quakers very precious people.

I don't know anybody That lives out the gospel better than the Browns, you know, everybody's troubles. They help people even when they haven't money. I know they've got some in order to help other people not for their own me.

The Quakers of course were founded by George Fox a very dramatic character. Man that made himself a pair of leather breeches because the other breeches wore out so much. Riding horses or riding through forests and so he made himself leather breeches and he had some leather lungs.

I think the way he preached. You see they believed in two things were very conspicuous in their theology. One was what they called the inner light. You see that the human heart is dark. We're in the kingdom of darkness and then the light of the world comes and lives in us again.

You're not a Christian because you gave up smoking a prostitution a jail or some other lousy thing. You're not a Christian because you believe the Ten Commandments or try to practice a sermon on the mount.

You're not a Christian because you said God be merciful to me a sinner. In fact, you know what that word Christian doesn't occur more than about what a dozen times in the whole of the New Testament. Whereas the word disciple occurs about 25 I think 200 times over 200.

Jesus didn't come to make us Christians. He came to make us disciples and part of that word disciple is disciplined ones. A Disciple is one who brings in all that the teacher teaches. George Fox had a remarkable experience of God and he came to this country.

From England, of course as you would expect they came from England and George Fox was one of the outstanding men in history. There's another man that came with him or it works at that time by the name of John Woolman.

You get his Journal, you can still pick them up in George Fox's life. Read it. You'll find it very electrifying. You know when when when they came this was a country full of savages. There's still a lot left but There were more in those days.

When the Puritans came they came up to the Indians and said you dirty rotten criminals. You you wicked people your blood on your hands and you've got tomahawks and this all day really blasted the poor old Indians.

The Quakers went to them and loved them. William Penn. That's why wasn't either one that was given territory could walk around Pennsylvania was found it through him because they had love. Because this woman loved Jesus said she loved much and she says I'm not gonna wash his feet with water.

I'm gonna wash him with my tears. And she didn't go find the best oriental towel that she could. What in the world would she dry his feet with? Now she's pulling the pins out of her head. Oh, that wasn't the right thing to do that.

What loose women did. This is a suggestive act. You see love is blind. She doesn't care what those guys are saying round about her. She doesn't care if they're high priests or millionaires. Here is the one here is the one who is the Christ of God.

I love him. I Sensed his love and his mercy and she says all right. I've washed his feet with water now I'll dry his feet and she takes the pins out and wipes his feet with a hair of her head. My that must have felt gorgeous, I think.

My sister had long hair she could sit on it my mother used to buy special whalebone brushes. They had whalebones, you know I was gonna say for teeth or whatever it is that you know makes up the birth and my mother would Go and he would sit on a seat and mother would go over our hair night after night after night.

He used to shine. Without any of the shoe polish your girls show put on. It really shone beautifully. And mother would look at it sometimes she said Lynn come here come here and just put your put your hand on on his hair.

Oh, it's lovely. Oh, I bet let me do that again. Okay, I felt so lovely. When my mother wasn't looking I pulled it. But I've often thought of the fact that Jesus On his way to the cross. She washes his feet with water and she takes that silky hair and dries his feet with a hair of her head.

And then she brought a box of ointment. Which she was saving for her own burial. Lots of people have laid more money on one side to be better than they've given to missions. And she takes that ointment and breaks it.

Yes, she had to break the vase or she had at least to open the vase and She put it on his feet. Then what did she do? She wiped his feet again with a hair of her head. So what happened. Well, obviously the fragrance she poured out on him came back on her didn't it?

But she put that price of assignment on his feet and immediately began to dry his feet again with a hair of her head. Everybody gasps and Jesus says wherever this story is told whatever wherever men live I'll ever men live this story.

No, not the man who made the feast. Not the man who cooked the turkey. Not the man who cut down the biggest bunch of grapes to go. No, no, no, they're not mentioned this woman. Somewhere secretly she learned to worship and this was an expression of it.

She never said a word to him. You didn't say Lord. I'm not worthy to do this. I noticed what she did. She didn't just kneel. It says that she knelt at the back of him. I don't know. She must have nearly broken the neck and in other words, it was a Entirely difficult thing to do.

It's a very expensive thing to do. She took the ointment which should have been for her own funeral. She poured it out and it came back. Frida Hambree Allen wrote this. I haven't memorized it totally.

But this is a lovely lovely thing that says the same thing within the veil. That's in the place where you shut the world out. And you shut all other thoughts out and you shut out all your needs and you shut out even your praise and you start gazing on his loveliness on his mercy on his pity on his compassion.

Frida Hambree Allen says within the veil be this beloved. I portion Within the secret of thy Lord to dwell beholding him until thy face is glory. Thy life is love. Thy lips his praise shall tell Within the veil for only as thou gazest upon the matchless beauty of his face.

Canst thou become a living revelation of his great heart of love? His untold grace Within the veil his fragrance poured upon thee. Outside the veil that fragrance shed abroad. Within the veil his hand shall tune the music.

Of your heart shall tune the music which sounds on earth the praises of thy God. Within the veil thy spirit deeply anchored. Thou walkest calm of a world of strife. Within the veil thy soul with him united shall live on earth the resurrection life.

Heaven’s Life in the Present

One of the common sayings of mr. Spurgeon great preacher there mr. Spurgeon used to say a little bit of faith Will get you to heaven. But a little bit more of that faith will bring heaven down to you.

You see the word says we are citizens of Heaven. Paul says was it to the Philippians our conversation is in heaven. He's not talking about this conversation. You're not talking about something verbal that will bear his citizenship.

Our citizenship is in heaven to go to England you find a lot of cities that end with Chester to Chester and Manchester and Rochester and all I don't have the others Chester itself. And everywhere where a city the name of the city ends with with.

The Chester means the Romans once had a colony there. Now the Romans were in England 55 years before Jesus Christ was born 55 BC. The Romans went to England. And when they got there they found almost semi savages and what they did up they set up colonies and they lived inside that Colony as though they were living in Rome like the American ambassador to France.

Or England, they don't keep the 4th of July. But they shut up the embassy and they get their turkey out and they have a swell. Do they live as Americans on that day. Maybe other days, but they separate every other.

They separate their distinctive American holidays. Even in a strange land. Well, that's exactly what we're supposed to do. We're supposed to be his workmanship. We're supposed to be living on earth. Within the veil by spirit deeply anchored thou walkers come above a world of strife if the world's going to pieces.

It's going to hell if it's full of war. The folio circumstances as chaotic as they can be. Within the veil by spirit deeply anchored thou walkers come above a world of strife. Within the veil by spirit deeply anchored.

Within the veil by spirit deeply anchored thou walk. Let me put it straight here within the veil by spirit deeply anchored thou walkers come above the world of strife within the veil thy soul with him united.

Shall live on earth the resurrection life. Now one of the versions says she brought him a she brought him some ointment. She stood at his feet look listen weeping washing wiping kissing. Extravagant love, isn't it?

But love isn't love if it isn't extravagant if love doesn't break up your pattern of life. Well, you're sure not in love. If your love doesn't make you reach out to do things that previously wouldn't do be sure you're not in love.

She wiped them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet anointed them with the ointment. What happened? Well, I'll tell you what happened the most amazing thing happened, but Jesus recognized the thing that she'd done.

He not only recognized it. He received it. You know, we not only received it. He rewarded it. This is gonna be a memorial. Now one of the Virgin say she took a pound of ointment a pound just a little thing like this in a in a fancy jar.

That wasn't made on a machine. Somebody have to sculpt it out of the rock or something and they fill it with that ointment and it gives you the price of it 300 pence. And those days people work for a penny a day.

And surely she hadn't been fasting for a year. She must have been saving for years. She'd have to buy clothing. She would have to buy other things and yet she she saves up this vast amount of money you know in our system of living.

And she buys one pound of ointment. Well, so what so what what does it matter? Do you care if it's a pound or five pound? Well, you may not but I do. Because you see she does this. Just before Jesus was crucified.

It was that some feminine instinct that she had just a week before Jesus is crucified. And you remember when he's crucified all his disciples had run away his mother's at the back of the crowd. And I guess everybody there at that crucifixion was full of sorrow and full of anguish except this one woman.

And I kind of thing their face lit up and said well hallelujah. Bless the Lord. Yeah, I can see the nail through his feet. I can see the blood running down and to think just a week ago I had those feet in my hands and I even kissed his feet and I took my hair.