Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from,

we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Well, we're wrapping up our series this week and entitled Saturated,

and the funny thing about this message is this is a message that would probably get me a D

or an F back in college if I were submitting it to my professor of biblical preaching.

But the good news is he's not here.

I'm not even going to read you our text, which is Matthew chapter 26,

that sets up the whole message. I'm not going to read it.

I'm just going to tell the story. You can study it later.

It's the story of a woman named Mary from Bethany.

And one day, apparently, she got overwhelmed and she went out and bought

a very, very expensive alabaster jar filled with fragrant oil.

So expensive many say that this was probably worth about one year's wages.

And one day, Mary burst into the home of a man named Simon the leper.

Jesus just so happened to be in the home. Mary didn't care about anybody in the house.

She went right to Jesus. She busted open that alabaster jar of fragrant oil

and she dumped it all over his head. The disciples were indignant.

They said, what is she doing? What a waste of money.

She could have sold that oil and given the money to the poor.

And Jesus corrected them by saying, I want all of you to understand something.

This woman just did a very good thing.

And wherever my gospel is preached around the world,

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