Thank you. After each church service, it's helpful to consider what we've learned, how we've benefited from our time of worship.

But your participation impacts more than just yourself.

Today on Truth for Life, we'll find out how genuine corporate worship blesses us individually,

but also blesses the church and the community.

We're in Chapter 14 of Mark's Gospel.

Alistair Begg is examining the story of the woman who was criticized

for pouring an expensive jar of perfume on Jesus at Passover.

The last thing I want you to note is that she made a lasting impression.

Verse 9, I tell you the truth. Wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her. Why? Because the

Spirit of God recognized, as I said at the beginning, that the events that were up and public were

not as significant as the events that were down and private. And that, of course, is so often the

case. Did you follow what I have noted for you? She came prepared. She bore the cost. She endured the

criticism. She was commended by Jesus, and she made a lasting memory. Now, what was the issue?

Well, the issue was partly in the fact of this brokenness. It was the radical way in which she went about these

things, taking all that represented security to her, and all that represented a future for her,

and all that had been part and parcel of her life for many a day. And she broke it

in order that she might display her devotion to the Lord Jesus

Christ.

This loved ones is where I am in my heart in these days in relation to the question of worship.

And I am asking the Lord Jesus in these days to show me

from the example, for example, of this lady, Lord Jesus, what does this actually mean for me?

What will it mean for my pride to be broken? What will it mean for the splintering of my natural reserve? What will it

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