Day 73 - Reading the New Testament in one year.
Praise Alert: Heather was back to church. Joshua is receiving rehabilitation. Blanca is in rehab…… improving.
Mark 14:1-26
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
14 Now the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. 2 “But not during the festival,” they said, “or the people may riot.”
3 While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.
4 Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume? 5 It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages[a] and the money given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly.
6 “Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7 The poor you will always have with you,[b] and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. 8 She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. 9 Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”
10 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them. 11 They were delighted to hear this and promised to give him money. So he watched for an opportunity to hand him over.
The Last Supper
12 On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”
13 So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. 14 Say to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ 15 He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”
16 The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.
17 When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve. 18 While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me.”
19 They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, “Surely you don’t mean me?”
20 “It is one of the Twelve,” he replied, “one who dips bread into the bowl with me. 21 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
22 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is my body.”
23 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.
24 “This is my blood of the[c] covenant, which is poured out for many,” he said to them. 25 “Truly I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
26 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman
March 14th The faith-infusing scenery
“I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.” GALATIANS 2:21
To rely on a righteousness that is based on our own ability to keep the law is a direct insult to the cross of Christ. If it was even remotely possible for us to produce a righteousness acceptable to God, then Christ has died for nothing. Paul clearly declares that our self-achieved righteousness would set aside the grace of God. Righteousness does not come out of ourselves. Righteousness comes to us as a gift, based upon the death of Christ. To say “Christ died in vain” is a strong statement that exposes the consequence of anyone trusting in his own righteousness to please God. In Galatians 3:1-2 Paul continues to describe the faith-infusing scenery: 1 “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?” In these two verses we see the connection between seeing and hearing. In verse 1 the scenery of Calvary is clearly portrayed before our eyes; but in verse 2 what we see comes to us through hearing. The hearing is the seeing, and the seeing is the hearing. It is from this seeing and hearing that God’s righteousness at the cross is made known. It is from this seeing and hearing that faith is both revealed to us and generated in us. From this seeing and hearing we believe that through Christ’s death we are officially constituted righteous. Such a realization keeps us from looking to
ourselves as the source of anything. When we know that our righteousness is wholly the Lord Himself, then we can only live from Him as our source.
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
14 Now the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. 2 “But not during the festival,” they said, “or the people may riot.”
3 While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.
4 Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume? 5 It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages[a] and the money given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly.
6 “Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7 The poor you will always have with you,[b] and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. 8 She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. 9 Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”
10 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them. 11 They were delighted to hear this and promised to give him money. So he watched for an opportunity to hand him over.
The Last Supper
12 On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”
13 So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. 14 Say to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ 15 He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”
16 The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.
17 When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve. 18 While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me.”
19 They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, “Surely you don’t mean me?”
20 “It is one of the Twelve,” he replied, “one who dips bread into the bowl with me. 21 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
22 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is my body.”
23 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.
24 “This is my blood of the[c] covenant, which is poured out for many,” he said to them. 25 “Truly I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
26 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman
March 14th The faith-infusing scenery
“I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.” GALATIANS 2:21
To rely on a righteousness that is based on our own ability to keep the law is a direct insult to the cross of Christ. If it was even remotely possible for us to produce a righteousness acceptable to God, then Christ has died for nothing. Paul clearly declares that our self-achieved righteousness would set aside the grace of God. Righteousness does not come out of ourselves. Righteousness comes to us as a gift, based upon the death of Christ. To say “Christ died in vain” is a strong statement that exposes the consequence of anyone trusting in his own righteousness to please God. In Galatians 3:1-2 Paul continues to describe the faith-infusing scenery: 1 “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?” In these two verses we see the connection between seeing and hearing. In verse 1 the scenery of Calvary is clearly portrayed before our eyes; but in verse 2 what we see comes to us through hearing. The hearing is the seeing, and the seeing is the hearing. It is from this seeing and hearing that God’s righteousness at the cross is made known. It is from this seeing and hearing that faith is both revealed to us and generated in us. From this seeing and hearing we believe that through Christ’s death we are officially constituted righteous. Such a realization keeps us from looking to
ourselves as the source of anything. When we know that our righteousness is wholly the Lord Himself, then we can only live from Him as our source.
A cure for the Ebola virus and the D-68 virus, Areyda, Ariel, Ariana, Cookie, Daina, Cy, Debbie, Derithia, Heather, Mia, Marquis, Monig-get her voice back, Paul and Iyana, Robert, Shirley and family, and Willie.
Health and Healing
Health and Healing
Vonetta's mom and Willie
Support and Comfort
Praise Alert
Blanca is in rehab….improving.
Blanca is in rehab….improving.
National
Passengers in Westchester train wreck.
Passengers in Westchester train wreck.
Conflict between citizens and police officer.
International
Israel and Palestine
Iraq
Iraq
Syrians
Ukraine
Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.
Song(s) of the Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W1EdvUfaRY
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Missing Nigerian Christian girls.
Song(s) of the Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W1EdvUfaRY
No copyright infringement intended
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