JESUS commands us:
Luke 10:27
King James Version
27 And he answering said,
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul,
and with all thy strength,
and with all thy mind;
and thy neighbour as thyself.
JESUS was loved by many.
They didn't care what people thought.
They did what felt right in their hearts.
They just worshiped the LORD JESUS.
Here are THREE striking instances of such love:
JESUS and the sinner.
Luke 7:36-43
King James Version
36 And one of the Pharisees desired him
that he would eat with him.
And he went into the Pharisee's house,
and sat down to meat.
37 And, behold,
a woman in the city,
which was a sinner,
when she knew that Jesus sat at meat
in the Pharisee's house,
brought an alabaster box of ointment,
38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping,
and began to wash his feet with tears,
and did wipe them with the hairs of her head,
and kissed his feet,
and anointed them with the ointment.
39 Now when the Pharisee
which had bidden him saw it,
he spake within himself, saying,
This man,
if he were a prophet,
would have known who and
what manner of woman this is that toucheth him:
for she is a sinner.
40 And Jesus answering said unto him,
Simon,
I have somewhat to say unto thee.
And he saith, Master, say on.
41 There was a certain creditor
which had two debtors:
the one owed five hundred pence,
and the other fifty.
42 And when they had nothing to pay,
he frankly forgave them both.
Tell me therefore,
which of them will love him most?
43 Simon answered and said,
I suppose that he,
to whom he forgave most.
And he said unto him,
Thou hast rightly judged.
Luke 7:44-50
King James Version
44 And he turned to the woman,
and said unto Simon,
Seest thou this woman?
I entered into thine house,
thou gavest me no water for my feet:
but she hath washed my feet with tears,
and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
45 Thou gavest me no kiss:
but this woman since the time I came in
hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
46 My head with oil thou didst not anoint:
but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.
47 Wherefore I say unto thee,
Her sins,
which are many,
are forgiven;
for she loved much:
but to whom little is forgiven,
the same loveth little.
48 And he said unto her,
Thy sins are forgiven.
49 And they that sat at meat with him
began to say within themselves,
Who is this that forgiveth sins also?
50 And he said to the woman,
Thy faith hath saved thee;
go in peace.
JESUS and Mary, sister of Martha.
John 12:1-8
King James Version
12 Then Jesus six days before the passover
came to Bethany,
where Lazarus was,
which had been dead,
whom he raised from the dead.
2 There they made him a supper;
and Martha served:
but Lazarus was one of them
that sat at the table with him.
3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard*,
very costly,
and anointed the feet of Jesus,
and wiped his feet with her hair:
and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
4 Then saith one of his disciples,
Judas Iscariot, Simon's son,
which should betray him,
5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence,
and given to the poor?
6 This he said,
not that he cared for the poor;
but because he was a thief,
and had the bag,
and bare what was put therein.
7 Then said Jesus,
Let her alone:
against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
8 For the poor always ye have with you;
but me ye have not always.
JESUS, Joseph of Arimathea, and Nicodemus.
John 19:38-42
King James Version
38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea,
being a disciple of Jesus,
but secretly for fear of the Jews,
besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus:
and Pilate gave him leave.
He came therefore,
and took the body of Jesus.
39 And there came also Nicodemus,
which at the first came to Jesus by night,
and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes,
about an hundred pound weight.
40 Then took they the body of Jesus,
and wound it in linen clothes with the spices,
as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
41 Now in the place where he was crucified
there was a garden;
and in the garden a new sepulchre,
wherein was never man yet laid.
42 There laid they Jesus therefore
because of the Jews' preparation day;
for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
When JESUS was born, kings paid homage to Him, too.
They brought gifts worthy of the ONE, TRUE KING.
Let's now look at OIL for PRIESTS, PROPHETS, and KINGS.
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* Spikenard
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