Mary moved from disappointment and frustration with Jesus to a deeper understanding of who He truly was.

She realized that Jesus didn't owe her anything. He deserved everything.

Her extravagant worship was an expression of love, gratitude, repentance, and surrender.

She was willing to look foolish in her sincere worship of Jesus.

She saw honoring Jesus as a privilege, not an obligation or a way to gain recognition.

When we truly understand who Jesus is, we will want to give Him everything.

Martha continued to serve, but this time without the complaining we saw previously.

Her gifts hadn't changed, but her heart had.

She learned to see serving Jesus and others as a privilege.

Serving with a grateful heart changes how we approach even the most ordinary tasks.

A dirty church is often a used church. When people gather, there will always be work to do.

Our love for Jesus should overflow into how we love and serve the people around us.

Judas criticized Mary's extravagant worship, disguising his greed as concern for the poor.

Judgment and skepticism can reveal deeper issues in our own hearts.

We must be careful not to judge others without first examining our own motives.

Doing and saying all the right things does not necessarily mean our hearts belong to Jesus.

Judas spent time with Jesus but never truly surrendered to Him.

We can be close to the things of God while remaining resistant to the transformation of God.

What we treasure reveals where our hearts truly are.

Jesus knew Judas was stealing from the ministry's moneybag, yet He continued to show patience and grace.

Jesus demonstrated that His security was never found in earthly possessions.

Our treasure reveals our hearts, and the wrong treasure can blind and harden us.

Jesus valued people more than possessions.

Money is a tool, not our source of security.

Saving and being financially wise are not wrong, but our hope must never rest in our resources.

God is our provider, our security, our rock, and our ever-present help in times of trouble.

Tithing is returning to God what belongs to Him. It is an act of faithfulness and trust.

Biblical generosity goes beyond the tithe. God calls us to give our entire lives to Him.

We cannot treat generosity as a box to check while withholding our compassion, time, and resources from others.

God calls us to love people in ways that sometimes cost us something.

True surrender means giving God control over our money, possessions, time, and security.

People are the real treasure. Our greatest investment is in what matters eternally.

Like Mary: From angry manipulators to unashamed worshippers.

Like Martha: From ungrateful servants to grateful servants.

Unlike Judas: From judgmental thieves to generous, surrendered givers, if we are willing to repent.

Is there a place where I am still skeptical?

Is there a place where I am withholding?

Is there a place where I am stingy or angry with God?

Is there a place where I am complaining about serving?

Is my treasure in the wrong thing?

• 1 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
  2 He makes me lie down in green pastures;
  He leads me beside quiet waters.
  3 He restores my soul;
  He guides me in the paths of righteousness
  For His name’s sake.  4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
  I fear no evil, for You are with me;

• 1 “I tell you the truth, anyone who sneaks over the wall of a sheepfold, rather than going through the gate, must surely be a thief and a robber! 2 But the one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice. 5 They won’t follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don’t know his voice.”
  6 Those who heard Jesus use this illustration didn’t understand what he meant

• Then this message came to me from the Lord: 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds, the leaders of Israel. Give them this message from the Sovereign Lord: What sorrow awaits you shepherds who feed yourselves instead of your flocks. Shouldn’t shepherds feed their sheep? 3 You drink the milk, wear the wool, and butcher the best animals, but you let your flocks starve. 4 You have not taken care of the weak. You have not tended the sick or bound up the injured. You have not gone looking for those who have wandered away and are lost. Instead, you have ruled them with harshness and cruelty.

• 1 “What sorrow awaits the leaders of my people—the shepherds of my sheep—for they have destroyed and scattered the very ones they were expected to care for,” says the Lord.
  2 Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to these shepherds: “Instead of caring for my flock and leading them to safety, you have deserted them and driven them to destruction. Now I will pour out judgment on you for the evil you have done to them. 3 But I will gather together the remnant of my flock from the countries where I have driven them. I will bring them back to their own sheepfold, and they will be fruitful and increase in number. 4 Then I will appoint responsible shepherds who will care for them, and they will never be afraid again. Not a single one will be lost or missing. I, the Lord, have spoken!
  “For the time is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will raise up a righteous descendant from King David’s line. He will be a King who rules with wisdom. He will do what is just and right throughout the land. 6 And this will be his name: ‘The Lord Is Our Righteousness.’ In that day Judah will be saved, and Israel will live in safety.

• 7 So he explained it to them: “I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. 8 All who came before me were thieves and robbers. But the true sheep did not listen to them. 9 Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved. They will come and go freely and will find good pastures. 10 The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.

• 6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

• 15 Moses said to the Lord, 16 “May the Lord, the God who gives breath to all living things, appoint someone over this community 17 to go out and come in before them, one who will lead them out and bring them in, so the Lord’s people will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”
  18 So the Lord said to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit of leadership, and lay your hand on him.

• 11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep.12 A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep because they don’t belong to him and he isn’t their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock.13 The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep.
  14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me, 15 just as my Father knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice my life for the sheep.16 I have other sheep, too, that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice, and there will be one flock with one shepherd.
  17 “The Father loves me because I sacrifice my life so I may take it back again. 18 No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father has commanded.”
  19 When he said these things, the people were again divided in their opinions about him. 20 Some said, “He’s demon possessed and out of his mind. Why listen to a man like that?” 21 Others said, “This doesn’t sound like a man possessed by a demon! Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”