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| Sheila Walsh: What Does Love Look Like? | 5 Minutes with Jesus | March 24, 2026
- What mary anointed jesus feet with
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- Was worth a whole year's salary.
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- In other words, it could have been mary's life insurance.
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- What she had tucked away for her future,
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- Breaking open and pouring on jesus feet
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- Was her way of saying, you're my future.
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- I'm holding nothing back.
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- That's what love looks like.
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- We hold nothing back.
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- We pour our lives out for jesus.
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- And through the indwelling holy spirit.
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- Let's love each other so that our watching world
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- Will know we belong to him.
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- We used to sing a chorus in church.
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- We are one in the spirits.
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- We are one in the lord.
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- And the recurring line was. and they'll know
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- We are christians by our love, by our love.
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- I wonder how people outside of the church really view us.
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- We recognized as people sold out to jesus and to his will?
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- Are we seen as those who waste time arguing about things
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- That eternally don't matter?
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- A hill of beans.
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- We can get so caught up in trying to outsmart each other
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- That we forget what jesus said really mattered.
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- Now there are some non-negotiables
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- That we don't move on.
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- Number one, there's only one way to heaven,
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- And that is through jesus christ.
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- Jesus made it clear on the night he was betrayed.
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- In john chapter 14, jesus told him,
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- I am the way, the truth, and the life.
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- No one can come to the father except through me.
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- Number two, the bible is god's infallible
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- Love letter to us, and we can literally stake our lives on it.
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- Second timothy chapter three says this all scripture
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- Is inspired by god and is useful to teach us what is true
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- And to make us realize what is wrong in our lives.
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- It corrects us when we are wrong
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- And teaches us to do what's right.
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- God uses it to prepare and equip
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- His people to do every good work.
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- Number three, the godhead exists in three persons.
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- Father, son, and holy spirit.
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- The gospel involves all three persons.
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- The father whose kingdom it is,
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- The son who was to die on the cross,
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- And the holy spirit who brings us into relationship
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- With the father through the death of the son.
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- Number four christ is returning for his bride, the church.
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- In his last conversation
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- With his closest friends in john chapter 14, we read.
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- Don't let your hearts be troubled.
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- Trust in god and trust also in me.
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- There is more than enough room in my father's home.
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- If this were not so, would i have told you
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- That i am going to prepare a place for you?
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- When everything is ready, i'll come and get you
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- So that you will always be where i am.
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- Those things we don't move on no matter what
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- The culture or social media tries to sell us.
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- But it seems to me
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- We waste so much time arguing about things that don't
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- Bring anyone closer to jesus or to an outside observer,
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- That we love each other because we've been loved
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- To such an indescribable extent by the lord.
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- In the week before christ was crucified.
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- We read this in john chapter 12,
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- Six days before the passover celebration began.
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- Jesus arrived in bethany, the home of lazarus,
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- The man he'd raised from the dead.
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- A dinner was prepared in jesus honor.
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- Martha served, and lazarus was among those who ate with him.
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- Then mary took a 12 and jar of expensive perfume
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- Made from essence of nard, and she anointed jesus feet with it.
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- Wiping his feet with her hair, the house was filled
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- With the fragrance.
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- I don't know if you've ever dropped
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- A glass bottle of perfume or aftershave on the floor,
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- And it broke.
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- The scent is overwhelming,
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- And that might seem like a nice thing that mary did
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- To fill their home with fragrance,
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- But it was so much more than that.
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- There's no mention of husbands or children for mary or martha.
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- They live with lazarus, who most commentators
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- Assume to be the younger brother.
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- What mary anointed jesus feet with
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- Was worth a whole year's salary.
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- In other words, it could have been mary's life insurance.
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- What she had tucked away for her future,
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- Breaking open and pouring on jesus feet
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- Was her way of saying, you're my future.
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- I'm holding nothing back.
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- That's what love looks like.
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- We hold nothing back.
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- We pour our lives out for jesus.
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- And through the indwelling holy spirit.
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- Let's love each other
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- So that our watching world will know we belong to him.
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- Let's pray.
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- What i want to thank you for the way
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- That you demonstrated what love looks like.
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- I want to thank you for the faithful stories we have in your
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- Words, of men like lazarus and the miracle he experienced
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- In mary and martha
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- And the lessons that you taught them.
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- But lord, like mary, we want to hold nothing back.
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- We want to pour our lives out for you,
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- And we ask for the strength, the guidance to do that
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- By your holy spirit in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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