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How 2 B Broken & Spilled Out
Contributed by Thomas Monroe on Mar 21, 2002 (message contributor)
Summary: Looking at the woman and her offering for understanding of brokenness and offering.
How 2 B Broken & Spilled Out
Illus: Piggy Bank with $1 million: Valuable because of its contents which can only be poured out when it is broken. Test tube with antidote for arthritis: valuable for its contents only if it is broken open and used.
I. A Valuable Commodity: Could have brought something much less valuable, but she felt Jesus deserved the very best. How about you and I?
A. The perfume & woman:
1. Worth a year’s wages: Today = $25-
30,000. So valuable that she
causes a little stir in Judas’
greedy heart! Sell it and give it
to me, I mean the poor through me.
2. How obtained? We don’t know.
Heirloom, dowry, etc.
B. The N.U.T.S. (Christians) (Never
Underestimate The Spirit) gang:
1. Mankind is the most valuable
aspect of God’s creation. “Of all
His creatures great and small, God
loves you most of all!”
2. Psalmist in 139:15-16, “He knit me
in my mother’s womb”, He put me
together in a more dramatic way
than I could put together a 500
piece puzzle. He assembled me for
a plan that He had for me.
(Jer 1:4-5, Ephesians 2:10)
C. The normals:
1. Just as valuable as you and I.
While we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us!
2. God hates sin, not sinners!
II. Brokenness = Openness
A. The perfume & woman:
1. In order to be used, she had to
break open the jar.
2. In order to be used, she had to be
willing to surrender it to Jesus.
Her act showed a submission to
Jesus as Messiah!
B. N.U.T.S.:
1. In order to be used, we have to be
broken.
2. In being broken, we are exposed
for who we are!
3. In being broken, we are humbled to
the point of submission. God will
use drastic means to break us!
Remember David? Remember Peter?
Remember Saul/Paul? Even Jesus:
Kenosis in Philippians 4!
C. Normals:
1. Pride stands in the way of
brokenness!
2. They refuse to be subject to
anyone, even Jesus!
III. Pour it on!:
A. The perfume & woman:
1. To just open the jar would not
suffice for what God intended, it
had to also be poured out.
2. It was ultimately up to her to
follow through.
3. Was poured out despite the
criticism of others, Judas, in the
room.
B. N.U.T.S.:
1. To be broken is just the first
step. We must then follow through
with pouring ourselves out at His
feet. In doing so, we completely
empty ourselves of self and make
room for God to replace that with
Himself.
2. We must not be swayed by the
criticism of others or fear:
A. Fear of unknown
B. Fear of critics
C. Fear of failure
D. Fear of success
C. Normals:
1. Are unbroken therefore impossible
to be pour out.
2. Have subjected themselves to the
criticism of others and the fears
afore mentioned.
