The Disappointed Christ - Part 1 — Leonard Ravenhill

My mother used to tell me to learn something every day and I learned something. I want to pass it on to you. Never sit right in front of trumpet. I Want to read a portion of scripture from the gospel as Luke gave it to us in the seventh chapter and verse 36.

The Sinful Woman's Devotion to Jesus

One of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. He went into the Pharisees house and sat down to meet and Behold a woman in the city who was a sinner. When she knew that Jesus sat in the Pharisees house for me she brought an alabaster box of ointment and Stood at his feet behind him weeping and began to wash his feet with tears and did wipe them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and Anointed them with the ointment.

Now when the Pharisee which had bitten him saw this He Spoke within himself saying this man if he were a prophet Would know who and what manner of woman this is for she is a sinner. Jesus answering said unto him Simon.

I've somewhat to say unto thee and he said master say on. There was a certain creditor which had two debtors one owed in 500 pence and the other owed him 50. And when they had nothing with which to pay he frankly forgave them both.

Tell me therefore which of them would love him most. Simon answered and said I suppose that he to whom he forgave most and Jesus said thou hast rightly judged. He turned to the woman and said to Simon seest thou this woman I Entered into thine house.

Thou gavest me no water for my feet. But she has washed my feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head thou gavest me no kiss. But this woman from the moment. I entered this house hath 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. And to whom little is forgiven the same loveth little and he said unto her thy sins are forgiven and they said that meet.

Well who is this that forgiveth sins also. He said to my faith hath saved the ego in peace. This story is told with some variation by Matthew Mark and Luke. And we could analyze it analytically, but it's I don't like bones.

I like the chicken. I don't like the bones and I want to present it as a devotional message. And if I were to label these verses I would label them this way the disappointed Christ. There's only one thing I hate more than being disappointed and that is to be a disappointment.

Jesus Brings Division and Trouble

I'm sure that this was a social event of the season in Jerusalem. You know we say sometimes that if Jesus comes into your life. He'll bring peace. Well. That's only half the story. The other side of the the coin is he brings trouble in the United Nations.

I understand in the Charter of the United Nations while it is quite reasonable to name the name of God because. To the Jew that's all right and to the Mohammedan. It's all right because you mean God. But legally you cannot mention the name of Jesus Christ.

It is an offense. The first thing Jesus did before he could walk and talk was divide Jerusalem because the scripture says that when his birth was announced Herod was troubled and all Jerusalem with him and just a minority an old prophetess about a hundred years of age and an old man who desired to see the salvation of God and Joseph and Mary and Elizabeth and Zacharias and Not a dozen of them were expecting him to come but but the whole city was divided because of him.

He divided people before he could walk at all the last thing he did on the cross was divide men. One and said remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. The other says get off the cross save yourself and us as well do another miracle and In the middle of the his life.

He went into the synagogue and there was a division because of him. And I've seen many a house that was peaceful disrupted because Jesus came. I Used to pastor a church in the ancient city of Bath. I Mean I wasn't there when it was ancient, but the city is ancient.

Hmm it was founded by the Romans in 55 BC. And after the Germans began to bomb London, they moved the Admiralty from London to Bath and I had a lot of society up across people, you know girls who danced in Buckingham Palace and They were related to Dukes and Duchesses and whatnot and one of those very beautiful girls.

She'd studied music in I think the conservatoire at Milan and she'd studied painting under one of the modern masters in In where Brussels which is where? Belgium. Some geography for it. And she was a very charming personality.

She was beautiful to look at she was courteous. She was so well-mannered. She was always well-dressed and I remember she walked to the altar one day and confessed the need of Jesus. Though she was already a communicant in the Church of England.

And the Lord came into a life and completely transformed it. She didn't want to smoke anymore. She didn't want cocktails anymore. She didn't want parties anymore. She didn't want dancing anymore and sure enough one of her relatives her mother actually came down to see me.

What's happened to my daughter? She's embarrassing. She doesn't want a glass of sherry before we died and she refuses Cocktails and and she doesn't want to smoke and she doesn't want to play cards and gamble, you know.

Just a little bit and she's she's entirely different. I Remember another home where the kids were rebels. They came home about two or three o 'clock in the morning and they'd been through hell all night.

They'd done every dirty thing you could imagine but the parents always said well, it's nice to have you home. He knows. Well, that was a miracle in itself. I'm one of the well the ringleader in the family got one of.

And she quit all the filthy things she'd done and she didn't come home at midnight. Three o 'clock or two o 'clock in the morning, but she did stay to a prayer meeting that lasted till midnight. The mother was frantic.

What in the world you want to be praying till midnight for? She never rebuked the girl when she was going to hell and you know that house got disturbed because Jesus came. And if he comes to your house, there'll be some trouble.

Worship as Speechless Adoration

Sure. I know it'll come up Thanksgiving because everybody says grace at Thanksgiving. They count their blessings. They've been counting the calories until then, but Thanksgiving we we acknowledge the Lord kind of thing one of the wisest men I ever met spiritually was dr. Tozer.

And I had the unspeakable privilege of going into his office at any time and when I was in Chicago, I sure went. And he always greeted me with something that was rather shocking and disturbing. Usually it's a let your hair down, you know, I it wasn't long like some of yours, but it was.

You know, he was meaning relax and latch the door and let's talk. And one day when I went in he said you see that rug there. I said, yes, sir. He said lend some days. I lift the phone off the cradle there and I call my secretary and say no interviews today.

No dictation today. And he said I get on that rug, which I bought in Kresge's for 69 cents. That was in the days of miracles, you know about 20 years ago 1951 actually. And he said I get on that rug at 8 o 'clock in the morning, here's a man with a colossal intellect.

Here's one of the most best red men I ever met in my life and I met some geniuses. And he finished school in the eighth grade. But he taught himself some Greek and he taught himself some Latin and he taught himself some Hebrew.

And he read all the mystics from Madame Guillaume to the ladder of sanctity to the cloud of unknowing. You could mention a thing hardly hadn't read but I don't remember for his outstanding intellectual powers.

I remember him because he had more insights on the things of God than ever man I any man I ever met and he said I get on that rug in the morning at 8 o 'clock. I'm still there at 11 or 12 or even 1 o 'clock and I haven't said a word of prayer and I haven't said a word of Praise.

I've just worshipped him. Does that sound strange to you? Many times I used to take my wife as one man said well, she was your sweetheart then she's your wife now. But anyhow when she was just a nurse.

Supervising one of the largest hospitals in England and and of course nurses always look angelic. Don't they boy aren't they deceiving? You know in the white uniforms and she would come in a white uniform and a big Dark blue cape and throw one part over her shoulder and it was lined with red and oh boy.

She looked like the Queen of Sheba to me and I found out afterwards. She was in some ways. But you know, I never get tired of looking at her even today. And many times I didn't even talk. I'd hold her in my arms and look at her and think of how beautiful she is.

But both physically and in a manners in a customs and Tosa said I don't offer a word of prayer. Just this week a lady wrote to me I get a lot of awful lot of letters. I wish I didn't but I do and and and this lady said in the letter.

I I heard you preach in 1976. And my life was completely turned around that day. I was a good Christian. I you know, I went to church I tithed. I testified that there was a dimension in my life that I'd never explored and that was the dimension of worship.

And this is how she quoted. She said you said that day the prayer is Spoken preoccupation with our needs. Praise is spoken preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is speechless Adoration. I've turned it over a thousand times in my life.

My life turned round on that because I'd explored some of the possibilities of grace. I knew something about praise. I knew something about prayer. I knew nothing about worship and I remember it and use a pastor in a in a Baptist Church.

You know, they don't know everything but this Peter said to me. He said, you know Ravenel when you spoke on Thursday night about worship now I read the Bible in Hebrew the Old Testament and I can read the New Testament in Greek and look I've got all these diplomas and all these honors and I've got a doctorate and I've got an earned PhD and I don't know a thing about worship.

Dr. Tozer would take some of the language sure of people like Faber. He said I would gaze on the majesty the holiness the perfection of Jesus there. See the king in his beauty and I would say how beautiful how beautiful the sight of thee must be.

Thine endless wisdom awesome power and glorious purity. Oh Jesus. Jesus dearest Lord forgive me if I say for very love thy sacred name a thousand times a day burn burn within me love of God. Burn fiercely night and day till all the dross of earthly love is burned.

And burned away. I'm convinced that a baptism of love will put the church back into business and revolutionize the world. I'm convinced that in every professing Christian in America live the Sermon on the Mount one day we transform America.

Jesus' Miracles and the Host's Failure to Honor Him

Because it's totally selfless. Everybody envied this man in Jerusalem. I'm sure did you hear the news, you know, the miracle worker or they had trouble. Jesus had been in the synagogue. Jesus had made real what they'd been reciting for for the last hundred or a thousand years that when he has come the eyes of the blind shall be open and the ears of the deaf and stopped and the lame shall leap as a heart and the tongue of the dumb shall sing and Jesus was doing that every day and he astounded the people and he terrified the priests that were there doing nothing but mumbling.

Why they'd been after Jesus from the very time that they said that there's a rival King. His name is Jesus. We'll be celebrating it before long. Except we celebrate it wrong. You see three wise men kneeling in a in a manger and they never were in the manger.

Anyhow, the Bible says so. They didn't go to see the babe they went to see a young child. But again, Jerusalem was troubled by Jesus. He was a thorn in their flesh. But this man managed to get him corralled him as it were and he was coming to dinner.

And I'm sure the man had a problem. I'm sure he kind of you know he made a list of guests then he crossed somebody's name out and put something else his name in and When he got the right folk on the list, he got the right food.

I don't think he served him hamburgers and potato chips. Would you if the president of the United States was coming. Well, maybe you would but anyhow. Normally you make a banquet. And I suggest to you this man spent everything he had and he put a banquet fit for a king.

And after he got the right folk and the right food He got the right flowers to give it an aesthetic atmosphere and then he spent almost a sleepless night. Oh. They're all coming in the morning the millionaires coming the the mayor of the city the greatest merchant and all the famous people and people are going to be staring out Of the windows watching everybody come to my house.

And He persuaded himself beyond any argument that this was going to be a day That he would never never want to forget and it became a day that he never never wanted to remember. Did you ever have a day like that?

You know sooner you got out of bed you trot on the cat or something and oh boy. That's trouble and everything went wrong. Your mother-in-law came and all the other tribulations that you can have. You know one thing after another came and he said, you know what people are going to leave this banquet talking about my Generosity and they left it talking about his stupidity.

The Woman's Extravagant Love and Worship

Because nothing went right. Oh Sure, he was at the door when the servant said Your excellency see who's coming down the road not in a Cadillac or a Porsche, you know. He's coming a lovely chariot drawn by a couple of nice black horses and driven by a couple of Nubian slaves and man.

He was excited. Look who's coming into my house boy. I'll put a label on the chair where where he he sat. I Went into one of those nice restaurants. Where was it McDonald's or somewhere? But and they stuck on the back of the chair.

Robert Goulet sat here I nearly pulled it off and wrote Leonard Rainier Saturday, but anyhow. Yeah. What an honor to sit where an opera singer has been sitting. This man said these these chairs they'll be kind of sacrosanct after this I'll say well.

Do you know who sat there? You knew sat here and you knew sat somewhere else and and and when when the man came in he did the oriental thing he kissed him on one cheek and then in the other and pointed and a slave a Servant because they wore no hose and you got a lot of grip between your toes and so they washed their feet after they kissed them and this parade went on for a while and Then as he somebody excited.

Oh, yeah, your excellency. It was coming down and he rushed to the door. Somebody passed him but he didn't bother because he never came on a horse and a chariot you see. And then a man said sir. He said no.

No, there's a celebrity coming out. So this is very very urgent. What's wrong? Are you burning the food? No, you know that woman that lives in the city. Well, why bring that up right here if she comes turn the dogs on her.

Do you think I'd I'd bring a woman like that with such a reputation? He said your excellency. She's already hit where she's in the kitchen a friend of mine went to the dedication and the Almost exaltation of a young preacher.

He graduated with honors. And He was to be ordained in one of the established churches and he had his clerical attire and all the rest of it and his Grandmother was there, you know weeping. She put him through college and The other relatives were there and it was oh, it was very stiff and formal.

Our our son. They've already said that he has the potential to be a bishop. Maybe the Archbishop of Canterbury and he'd already got the arch but they said he's got a lot of potential and my friend had to preach the I Don't know he called the service there, but they it was a kind of a Charge they were giving to the preacher and in what he did.

Instead of exalting him do not he did he said you today have become a slave of people. Your job is to be their servant and do the most menial task not just guide the traffic in the pulpit. You to bear their sorrows and you to go sit with them in their misery and you have to wash their feet.

He's speaking metaphorically there a hymn writer says of Jesus a servant's form he wore. And in his body bore our dreadful curse on Calvary. That's why he came. He's the only man that came into the world With an ambition to die and here is a man who has in his presence the most amazing man that ever lived.

He was the greatest preacher that ever preached because he preached the most perfect sermon the Sermon on the Mount which we still can't digest. He had somebody who pre-existed Before time ever was and will last for billions and trillions of years as we count time.

But eternity is timeless and he had the Son of God there. It is at this Sitting at this table to eat and he never recognized him. And as sure as God is in heaven some of you will leave this meeting this morning and what recognizes here.

He guarantees his presence his presence makes the feast and Jesus goes and looks and he apparently that this this fellow goes and looks Simon. No, he says in our language I blew it. I blew it. He's no prophet.

If he really were a prophet, he'd know what manner of woman this is. She is a sinner and you know, Jesus knew what he was in in that man's mind. And you know what? He knows every thought in your mind this morning.

There's not one thing you've hidden. There's not a sin you've ever done. You've forgotten it. You smeared it over. You've erased it from your mind and God Almighty knows every sin you ever committed. You say I got away with it.

No, you didn't payday someday. That woman's a sinner. She's ruined so many people and Jesus looked at him and said Simon. I know what you're thinking. Let me tell you something. There were two men and there were two men in debt to the same man one in debt for 500 pence and the other just for 50.

And the man was in a good frame of mind and he says well, I want to tell you something I may surprise you but you don't owe me 50 50 dollars anymore. And you don't mean owe me 500 you're forgiven. Which of them would love him most?

Well, you don't need a course in philosophy to find the answer to that. Do you? Why man I did a millstone right my neck you mean that I'm not drowning in debt anymore. No, you're not drowning in debt anymore.

It's all forgiven. Oh. You're the greatest guy. I remember that you as long as I live. I remember the chair I was sitting on when I got rid of my debt. I know when people say sometimes you see how you say this thing I don't really know.

Well, if you don't I do you're not. Somebody once said to a friend of mine. You can't even prove you're alive. He said you keep your nose there a minute now show you whether I am or not. So the man took his nose away.

Are you suggesting a man carrying a hundred and twenty pounds on his back? His back's nearly breaking that somebody lifts it up and and somebody says have you lost your bird? This is I don't know. Let me see.

Oh, it's gone. I didn't even notice it. Well, isn't sin a debt isn't something that wakes you up in the night sometimes and the times when you fear. Oh god, if somebody could get the record of my life, I'd want to jump down a sewer or something.

Sure the Lord has Got an account of all of us. I Entered into thine house. Thou gave us me no water. Thou gave us me no oil. Thou gave us me no kiss, but this woman. She's not cease to do this. You see what I like about this thing is this you know that this this thing that she did was was unprecedented.

But it wasn't unpremeditated. I Could have seen a heart going like that as she stood at the door. They may turn the dogs on me. They may kick me out. Now why in the world did she go. Took me 50 years to find out.

I'll tell you why she went. She didn't just go there to pay homage to a man who've been doing so much good blessing everybody healing everybody knocking lunatic minds straight and and driving the devil out of people and and giving blind eyesight and unplugging deaf ears and cleansing lepers.

Why did she go? She went to worship him, how do you know because she never said a word to him that's why. And Secondly she took the most precious thing that she owned and gave it to a thinking sense and lure to him.

You're bringing the gold of pure adoration. You you give him the the wine as it were of your love. What did you bring Jesus this morning. Ten bucks for the offering. Did you come loaded with Thanksgiving.

Worship, Scripture, and the Fragrance of Christ

Oh I can't prove this but I've an idea that logically it's true that that one day Charles Wesley had considered this and he wrote one Of his lovely hymns. He wrote over 3 ,000 of them and and the hymn he wrote was this.

Oh, let me kiss thy bleeding feet and bathe and wash them with my tears. The story of thy love repeat in every drooping sinners ears that all mankind with me may prove thy sovereign everlasting love. This woman says I know what the custom is.

The custom is to get a basin and wash his feet. I won't watch those sacred feet with water. I'll wash them with my tears. I Won't even buy an expensive towel to dry his feet. I'll pull the pins of my hair out now dry his feet.

With the hairs of my head. I won't buy that cheap oil that you usually use for anointing. I'll give him the most precious thing that I have. She washed his feet and and she wiped them with the hairs of her head and Jesus enjoyed every minute of it and within a few days He was hanging on a cross and everybody was weeping except one woman and it wasn't the mother of Jesus.

It's the woman who said those feet with a nail and the blood running out. I had them in my hands the other day. I washed them with my tears. I Have lost it but a Woman's hair is her glory. My nice to Jesus.

Oh the disciples criticize. They criticize you whatever you do. If you don't want to do anything, you don't want criticizing do nothing then you'll be criticized for doing nothing. What extravagant love?

She washed his feet not with water, but she washed them with tears. She dried them not with the towel, but with a hair of a head she poured on his feet not cheap oil but the most expensive thing that she had and Then she took the hair of a head again and wiped his feet with a hair of a head.

Well, what happened? The fragrance she poured out on him came back on her and wherever she went people said. And I I never smelled a fragrance like that. I was preaching in Windsor Ontario a few years ago.

32 churches joined together not one of them invited me back after that. We had quite a good week. Least I did they didn't. I did. None the Monday night I preached on Elijah and afterwards We just sang at him.

A little guy ran on the platform. He was a handsome little fella. He had a you know, it's a kind of a straw blonde. He wasn't you know. These some of these blonde you see, you know, it's that's what you call suicide blonde.

Died with their own hand but anyhow. He was a natural honey blonde and his hair was parted in the center and he bright blue eyes. And he said could I speak to you and I said sure what do you want to say?

He said I said first of all, how old are you? He said 11 years of age. I said fine I was once 11 a century or something like that back, but You're 11. Hmm. Well, what do you want to tell me? He said I've just read your book.

Why revival tariffs? It's a great book. Then I knew of course he was intelligent. And and he said I'm reading your other book now meet for men. Would you autograph my book? Oh I said sure sure. She'll be very happy to do it.

So I ought to grasp the boat. I Said would you do something for me? He said yes that I would I said would you autograph mine a Little boy 11 years of age weighed it through why that books make preachers mad Preacher call me not long ago and he said I'm in a fashionable church I've got everything marvelous Manson.

I got provided with automobiles and all I live in luxury and Somebody gave me a book why revival tariffs and I read the third chapter and said get out of here. And in my office He said I have maybe thousands of books and and my my shelves reach about well the bookcases reach about seven feet up and he said I I threw the book blue get out of here and it went down the Back of the great big bookcase.

And he said for three years we had a lot of fun in the church. And then we really hit trouble and he said I was crouched on the floor weeping and and oh I said God I need an answer and he said the Lord said the answers behind the bookcase.

So he had to get the bookcase loose from the wall. He had to take hundreds of volumes out put them on the floor get somebody to help him yank the thing out and then he found The book then he put the shelves back and then he put the books back.

See it cost you a lot when you fool in my books, but anyhow. Then he read the book. Oh, he said it was shattering and here's an 11-year-old boy. Enjoy the book and so I signed the book off he went my lady came up blonde beautiful, you know smiling and Lovely hair and I was just just a doll of a woman and he said That little boy that came up.

I said he's your boy. How did you know? Oh, I got pretty good eyes. I Mean, he's a carbon copy of his mother. He's got your lovely teeth. He's got your rosy cheeks. He's got your blue eyes. He's got your blonde hair.

Who did I think he was Julius Caesar? Sure, he's your little boy. She said he's a lovely little guy. Oh, he loves the Lord and he prays. She said I'd like to talk but I have to go. Would you come to my house?

I said sure when tomorrow what time is your husband home three o 'clock? I'll be there at 315. I went. Oh, where do you live? It's always good to know that. As the Irishman said don't bother about the address just come.

Well, I said where do you live? And she said two blocks away from the church. Why I Didn't say two blocks away from the church downtown Windsor can't be much of a house. And it sure wasn't. I knocked at the door and she said oh come in.

My husband's just drying off. He's been shaving. Come in brother. I mean nice to see you and I walked in and I look around quickly like that but boy, you know women are quick sometimes and not all slow and She beat me to it.

And she said it's not much of a house. Is it. I said no don't think I give you $5 for everything in it. No, that's right. She said it's not much of a house. But it's a beautiful home. Never go down the street and see a guy advertising in the newspaper outside homes for say you can't sell a home anymore.

They can sell a rainstorm. You can sell a house. You make it a home or not a home. And the husband came out. Hey my my wife told you about your message last night good. We sat down and I said you've got a marvelous boy.

How many do you have she says six? That's a load. She said every night when suppers over we put all the dishes in the sink and Daddy takes the Bible and we have a whole hour of Bible study and Then I take one of the children in room by itself and give them that child another hour.

Family Devotion and the Transforming Presence of Christ

Wait a minute. I said don't the children rebel. Yeah, they do. They rebel if daddy stops at 10 minutes to 7 they say you're shortchanging us. I said but really is there any turmoil in the house? No. She said he knows the cause of turmoil.

No me usually I get up late and I'm fussing and I forget that you're not the School and one upsets his milk and the other fella forgot the party and something else happened, you know, but I solved it.

You see this house starts moving just after 6 in the morning. So I'm up at 5 and I get still with God. Oh I sang it thousands of times, but I started doing it. Take time to be holy speak off with thy Lord.

And she said, you know, but by the time the children start squawking and coming. She says I'm in peace and quietness and I live in serenity. Now my daddy was a hellfire preacher. He sure preached. Believed in the laying on of hands and boy did it hurt.

And you know, I Was far more impressed by my mother's saintliness than my dad is preaching. The lady said if I want to impress these children. It's no good saying read that text and do this and do something else if they don't see the fragrance in GF Jesus in me take the texts off the wall and stop hammering scriptures into them.

I want them to see the beauty of Jesus Christ in their mother. And this woman poured ointment and and it came back onto her head and Therefore she was a fragrant wherever she went. What you give out you get back.

Frida Hanbury Allen wrote to him years ago. I don't memorize it all most of it. I've got she wrote this within the veil. That's when you're in your closet in prayer or in your closet in in adoration to the Lord.

Within the veil be this beloved. I portion within the secret of thy Lord to dwell Beholding him until thy face your face his glory thy life his 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 without the veil that fragrance shed abroad.

Within the veil by his hand shall tune the music which sounds on earth the praises of thy God. Within the veil thy spirit deeply anchors anchored thou walkers calm above a world of strife. Within the veil thy soul with him united shall live on earth the resurrection life.

Again, I say this woman came. She brought her her alabaster box of ointment. She wasn't following somebody else's pattern. She just brought that ointment and and put it there on his feet and what happened to the gift.

First of all he recognized it. Secondly, he received it and thirdly he rewarded it. He said whatever the Bible is printed men will talk right to the end of the age. They'll talk about the woman who came with this gift and Did this very beautiful act of adoration?

Again there's nothing in the story that ever says that she she she. That she said a word to Jesus. It was speechless adoration. She kissed his feet and She washed his feet with her tears and she wiped his feet.

With the hairs of her head and very shortly after again, Jesus was crucified. Simon forgot to do it. He forgot the common courtesies of life is the way of life. But when a person came in you wash their feet and you kissed them and I'm sure that you had some affection for them.

And this man forgot to do the decent thing. Do you know how many millions of people have not had any food in in the world this week? Mm-hmm. How many times have you thank God? I'll just just thank him at home.

You're going to restaurant and it's convenient to wear glasses in the restaurant isn't you know, you see to see somebody go like this. That was when they were saying grace. One of the most famous of modern hymn writers was in a restaurant in a in California one of these swell places.

I Wasn't there. My friend wasn't there, but his friend was there and this famous man did this. He took his glasses off wiped his eyes and and My friend's friend said why don't we say grace? I just said it you did went just now.

Oh, I thought you're wiping your eyes. Well, then he said you say. And all right, all right. Every father shut up within a restaurant ease. Oh, you may not have to say that way on your knees and tell everybody there.

Somebody might think you're a Pharisee. But on the other hand, are you ashamed to do it, you know in the office with that smart crowd that live like the devil. They couldn't get a house next to a hog if the hogs knew how they lived.

And you're afraid to honor Jesus by saying your grace in the office or before the office staff or read the Word of God at Lunchtime while they're reading playboy or something and you come in here and sing my Jesus.

I love thee who you're fooling. Not God. I entered into thine house. Thou gave us me no water. Thou gave us me no oil. Thou gave us me no kiss, but this woman. She's got a fever of excitement. She's got a fever of joy here.

He is the greatest man in the world. And I'm privileged to bring a gift now. You'll have to put all the four stories together to get a lot of wealth out of them. You see it says that this woman bought an alabaster box of ointment and it weighed only a pound.

Does that make any difference? Yes, it does. I'm very glad that that's mentioned. Why? When you see a little while after the cross. There were two men going up a hill and they were carrying over a hundred pounds of the same stuff on their backs.