So I've got a story to start off with, and that is that my boys were showing great interest in football all of the sudden.

They wanted to play all the time, they played in the backyard, and so Bridget started doing some due diligence of finding some leagues for us to play in.

And so she kind of showed me what she found, and she basically said, hey, I think we should sign them up for this I-9 sports.

And we went with I-9 sports because for me, it is like the lowest pressure on the kids. It's like it's fun, it's for the kids to enjoy it, to learn some things, but it's like low pressure.

And that's what I wanted, because I did not want to get in a fight with a family, with a parent, because a six-year-old dropped a football and they thought it ruined their chance of them joining the NFL.

I mean, so I was like, that's what I want. And so my kids are learning football, and so we were there a couple of weeks ago, and the coach has all the players there, I walk up, and the coach says, alright kids, I've got a very important question for you, who wants to be running back?

And none of the kids did anything, but Mitchell, and Mitchell, me, me, me, me, I want to pick me, I want to be running back, I want to be running back.

So the coach says, alright Mitchell, do you want to be running back? He said, yes, what does it even mean?

What does it even mean? So today's the title of the message is, you are a disciple, watch out, because I think there are times when we look back in Alderson, pastor said, do you want to follow Jesus? And we said, yes, I want to follow Jesus, what does it mean?

And we had that moment of like, wait a second, now what? What am I doing now? And I'm sharing that because there are some certain pressures, spiritual pressures that we experience, and we are all disciples that believe in Jesus, and when we believe in Jesus, there are some spiritual pressures that come up against us, and that's what we will talk about today.

So in doing so, we're going to look at Judas, Peter, and then the story of Mary, when Mary anointed Jesus his feet, and so we'll explore those three areas.

And in the Bible, there's not a ton of information on Judas. Judas is one of the 12 disciples, and it's always referred to as Judas, the one who betrayed Jesus.

And we can look at that and be like, oh, what it was Judas thinking like, Jesus, he betrayed Jesus, how did he come on? And we can look down and be like, what was what was going on with Judas that he had to go mess everything up.

And so we can look at him like that of like, what, what was going on? And so there's actually been several like fictional books on Judas of like, what was going on in the psyche of Judas, what was going on in this mind and this heart, what was happening and all of that.

And I think there's this passage that actually pulls back the curtains and let us see kind of what was going on with Judas. And so that's what we will explore today.

And so we are going to be looking in Matthew, I'm sorry, John 12 and in Matthew 26. So if you want to be ready, you can be ready for Matthew 26. But we'll start in John 12.

And the first point is letting Satan in Judas, let Satan in to his heart. And so we will explore that Judas, I mean, John 12, starting verse one, it says, then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, was where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he being Jesus had raised him from the dead.

There, they made him a supper in Mars, a served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him. Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spiking art, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair in the house was filled with the fragrance of oil.

But one of his disciples, Judas, a scary Simon son, who would betray him said, why was this fragrant oil not sold for 300 denari and given to the poor in this specific story is told in Matthew, mark a little bit in Luke and then in John.

So we're going to kind of go through a couple of them to see how they thread together because each one of them gives some unique details. Mark 14 actually says, and he criticized her sharply in talking about how Judas criticized her sharply for anointing or feet, picking up the story in Matthew 26 says, but when Jesus was aware of it, he said to them, why do you, why do you trouble the woman for she has done a good work for me.

For you have the poor with you always, but me, you do not have always for in pouring this fragrant oil on my body, she did it for my burial assuredly, I say to you, whenever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her. So basically, let me give you what's happening in the story. Lazarus dies. Jesus raises Lazarus from the grave.

They're having a nice dinner now with Lazarus in this two sisters, Mary and Marissa in their gather around think about like just amazing conversations that you would have with Lazarus right after he'd been raised from the dead. I mean, he'd come up with some pretty fun questions for him.

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