Grateful or Self-Interested? | The Dinner After Lazarus Was Raised | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:41 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta.

0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this solution of the Fuel for

0:48 Speaker 2: the Soul with John Gifta podcast. Today, I'm going to

0:50 Speaker 2: talk about something I believe is very important for us

0:52 Speaker 2: to take note of from John chapter twelve. Here's the thing.

0:57 Speaker 2: This is a chapter right after John chapter eleven. Jesus

1:00 Speaker 2: raised lasses back to life, and in honor of that,

1:04 Speaker 2: they have decided to give a dinner. This is what

1:07 Speaker 2: it says in verse too. Here a dinner was given

1:10 Speaker 2: in Jesus's honor. See, I want you to understand something here.

1:13 Speaker 2: A lot of times when we get the miracle, we

1:15 Speaker 2: are like, oh wow, thank you Jesus, and then we forget.

1:19 Speaker 2: But here's an example of how after the miracle they

1:23 Speaker 2: wanted to honor Jesus with a dinner. You know, I

1:27 Speaker 2: want to ask you this question. You've been waiting for

1:29 Speaker 2: the miracle, You've been praying for the breakthrough. You've been

1:33 Speaker 2: you know, asking the Lord to show up and show

1:35 Speaker 2: up in a certain area of your life, and then

1:37 Speaker 2: finally got showed up, finally got to the unthinkable, finally

1:42 Speaker 2: got to a miracle. My question is after that, what

1:45 Speaker 2: did you do? Did you honor him? Did you say

1:50 Speaker 2: thank you to the Lord? Did you have like a

1:52 Speaker 2: thanksgiving program or a service? That's exactly what they did.

1:56 Speaker 2: Right now. I'm not saying go and trumpet it to

1:59 Speaker 2: the whole world in a sense of show being like

2:02 Speaker 2: a show off, But what I'm saying is having that

2:06 Speaker 2: attitude of gratitude and expressing that gratefulness in the best

2:09 Speaker 2: way possible. And here's the thing. When they were doing

2:12 Speaker 2: this is when Mary comes in and pours the expensive

2:18 Speaker 2: perfume on Jesus' feet and the whole place is filled

2:22 Speaker 2: with a fragrance, and Judas carry it comes out and says,

2:25 Speaker 2: why wasn't this perfume sold and money given to the poor?

2:30 Speaker 2: It was worth a year's wages. And the Bible also

2:33 Speaker 2: says in verse six, he did not say this because

2:35 Speaker 2: he cared for the poor, but because he was a

2:37 Speaker 2: thief as keeper of the money bag, he used to

2:40 Speaker 2: help himself with what was put in it. Here's the

2:44 Speaker 2: thing I wanted to understand something. Here. Judas was now

2:48 Speaker 2: sitting in this dinner, this feast, this great program. Now,

2:55 Speaker 2: he did not say, why you spending money on giving this? Now?

3:00 Speaker 2: Why are you doing this? You could just give all

3:03 Speaker 2: the money to the poor. He didn't say that. He

3:06 Speaker 2: was enjoying the food in the dinner, and then he's

3:10 Speaker 2: complaining about maybe giving this perfume or pourting the perfume

3:15 Speaker 2: out on Jesus. Here's the thing, here's the thing I

3:18 Speaker 2: wanted to understand. Sometimes you would have noticed about people, right,

3:21 Speaker 2: they're okay with something as long as they get something

3:24 Speaker 2: out of it. Like Judas was also enjoying the meal

3:27 Speaker 2: in the feast. Right, that's why he was. He was

3:29 Speaker 2: not complaining about the meal. Right, if his intention was

3:33 Speaker 2: save all the money and give it to the poor,

3:35 Speaker 2: if it was genuine, you wouldn't even come, I mean,

3:39 Speaker 2: like to a feast. He would have said, guys, don't

3:43 Speaker 2: don't give to the feast, okay, like, don't spend money

3:46 Speaker 2: on that. Give all that money to the poor. You know,

3:50 Speaker 2: he would have said that. But here's the thing. He

3:52 Speaker 2: enjoyed the feast. He enjoyed the food and the you know,

3:56 Speaker 2: this dinner that was laid out for Jesus. He enjoyed

4:01 Speaker 2: all of this. And then when he realized that the

4:04 Speaker 2: perfume was something he could not enjoy it was only

4:06 Speaker 2: for Jesus. He had a problem with it. You see,

4:09 Speaker 2: some people have this attitude where they're okay as long

4:12 Speaker 2: as they get something out of it, but the minute

4:14 Speaker 2: they realize that they don't benefit out of it, they

4:16 Speaker 2: have a problem. You get know what I'm saying. They

4:19 Speaker 2: have a problem. And there's so many things we can unpack.

4:22 Speaker 2: I've thought so many things about this passage, and I

4:24 Speaker 2: want to talk more about it than the days to come.

4:27 Speaker 2: But today I want you to just think about this.

4:29 Speaker 2: Are you like Judas in this case where you're okay

4:32 Speaker 2: as long as you get something out of it, but

4:34 Speaker 2: you have a problem when you realize you don't get something,

4:37 Speaker 2: but only God gets the glory. When God wants to

4:41 Speaker 2: just use you as an instrument, but you don't get

4:44 Speaker 2: any benefit through that. Are you okay with that? You know?

4:47 Speaker 2: One other things I want to share and close in

4:49 Speaker 2: this episode is that over the years in ministry, I

4:53 Speaker 2: noticed that God has given me this gift of connecting people.

4:57 Speaker 2: A lot of times. Even two days ago, I was

5:00 Speaker 2: able to, by the grace of God, connect someone with

5:03 Speaker 2: another person and that was like a divine connection for them.

5:07 Speaker 2: It was like, you know, described as how I was

5:11 Speaker 2: like the Cobbo who was able to connect the Joseph

5:13 Speaker 2: with the Pharaoh. You know, that is how it was.

5:15 Speaker 2: And I was like, God, you know what, I'm happy

5:17 Speaker 2: about this connection. And I've connected so many people, Like

5:20 Speaker 2: there's so many connections, so many clients for people, so

5:23 Speaker 2: many things like that. God, I wish I would get

5:26 Speaker 2: a divine connection like that. I wish, you know, sometimes

5:29 Speaker 2: I feel like, oh, why should I do this for

5:30 Speaker 2: other people? Like I mean, I've done this so much.

5:33 Speaker 2: I'm not getting a divine connection myself. Nobody is thinking

5:36 Speaker 2: of it like that for me. Why am I not getting?

5:39 Speaker 2: But then I had to remind myself like this. Am

5:42 Speaker 2: I going to be someone who's only going to connect

5:45 Speaker 2: people as long as I get something in return? Or

5:47 Speaker 2: am I going to be someone who's like you know what,

5:49 Speaker 2: let God's name be glorified. If I'm not getting anything

5:52 Speaker 2: in return, it's okay. If Jesus is getting it, that's

5:54 Speaker 2: all that matters. Even if I'm in the negative spot

5:58 Speaker 2: or in the sense of I'm at a disadvantage or

6:01 Speaker 2: I'm not getting the credit or I'm not getting any benefit,

6:04 Speaker 2: even if I'm being crushed or anything, or even if

6:06 Speaker 2: the ministry is not growing, God, it's okay. As long

6:11 Speaker 2: as your name is being glorified through this, as long

6:14 Speaker 2: as somebody is receiving your word, as long as somebody

6:18 Speaker 2: is shining the light for your kingdom, building your kingdom

6:20 Speaker 2: in some way together with that collaboration, as long as

6:24 Speaker 2: somehow your name is being glorified, that's okay. Today, I

6:29 Speaker 2: want to ask you, are you going to be like Judas,

6:32 Speaker 2: who's only going to be like okay as long as

6:35 Speaker 2: you get something a benefit for yourself, Or are you

6:39 Speaker 2: going to be okay even if you don't get anything

6:41 Speaker 2: for yourself, but it's all going to give the glory

6:45 Speaker 2: to Jesus. Are you okay to be a channel or

6:48 Speaker 2: a medium for His Kingdom? Amen? God bless you.

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