If you're an old school Athe Creeker, you might feel a little disoriented as we've been going through the IAM statements.

We got a little bit ahead on Sundays.

You know, I think we were in chapter 15 last.

But it's because we were doing the I am statements of Jesus, finished that up last weekend.

But now we're kind of back on our normal, you know, plan here

to go right, right through. So John chapter 12 is where we left off. We have what one might call

the first church service in Bethany. Right there where, you know, what's a church service? The reason I call it that is

it's a group of people, a small group, and it was centered around the person and the work of Jesus

Christ. Any good church service will be centered on Jesus Christ. And that's what this little

service was. It was only a few people, two or more, you might recognize that phrase.

Each member of the house was doing something different for that service, all of which could

make for a blessed church, and we're going to see that.

It's here in Bethany.

It's a service with three attendees, and Jesus is the center of attention.

Three attendees, three roles that they play,

and we're going to see that. So let's take a look here. It's John chapter 12, verse one. Then Jesus,

six days before the Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

There they made him a supper, and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.

Then took Mary, a pound of ointment, of Spike-Nard, very costly,

and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. Then said Jesus, pardon me, then said one of his disciples, Judas Ascariot,

Simon's son, which should betray him, why was not this ointment sold for 300 pence and given to the poor?

This, he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag and bear what was put there in.

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