A woman who poured perfume on Jesus' head

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.  But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.  When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her. (Matthew 26: 6-13)

Jesus said many times that he would die and be resurrected in three days. None of the disciples listened to this statement. But the only thing was, when Jesus was in Simon's house, a leper of Bethany, a woman was aware of Jesus' death. Jesus said:『For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her. 』(12-13) As such, Jesus' death on the cross was important. Jesus' death on the cross is a ransom to save all mankind.

In order for Jesus' death to be my death, I have to be nailed with Jesus. In Romans 6: 3-4『Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 』

Those who do not realize this are bound under the law of Galatians 3:23. These are old man before faith came from God. Through the law, when we realize that we cannot escape without being the Christ of the cross, we can be united with his death. The reason for this is as follows:『But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. 』(3:22) When you read the Bible and realize, "I am trapped under sin," you are led to Jesus Christ.

Everyone is captured by Satan Because God has imprisoned all people under sin and, like Job, has been captured by Satan. What is captured, its instrument is the law. It is like a net, so it cannot be pulled out. It's a contradiction to say I'm free, being trapped in the net. When you realize that you are trapped, you discover that the only way to release the net is the cross.『Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 』(3:24) Through faith that is associated with the death of the cross, we are justified by coming out of the law.

Faith associated with Jesus' death on the cross is the only way of salvation. This is baptism. Baptism is an expression of denying oneself and carrying his cross and following Jesus. If you say more than that, you dilute the meaning of baptism. Many church problems today focus on the results of baptism rather than the meaning of baptism. So, instead of carrying his cross every day, he believes that he is a heavenly people by sinning every day. Those who do not bear their crosses do not become the people of heaven. Even if humans believe and think for themselves, it is in God's hands. God knows everything. God knows if you really live a life of repentance and self-denial.

Many church people today turn to God for "everything that is sanctifying from repentance." Their thought is that "repentance must also be helped by God, otherwise it cannot be repented." God makes us realize through the cross that "all humans have been imprisoned under sin." However, it is a man's job to realize that he is locked in sin. Faith associated with the death of the cross is a gift from God, but it is only in the parable of the sower that we realize that we are bound in sin. The only thing humans can do is to realize that "we are dead in darkness." When the death of the cross approaches my death, I know that the hand of God's grace is coming.

We cannot go to the cross until we realize that we are "dead in transgression and sin." "The not-to-be-dead" is a sin to God. The cross is where God confirms that you are dead. God will say, "You are dead with my Son Jesus, and now you can come into my kingdom because of Jesus' name."

Those who do not come to the cross become alive to sin. Eventually, they become sinners until the judge. Only the dead can enter the kingdom of God. It is repentance that becomes the dead. It is turning to God. God gave the law to realize and turn it back. However, there are still many people who think legally and think that if they keep the law, they will be saved.

The fruit of repentance is death. Only when the old man dies will the fruit of repentance be born. People ask for the blood of Jesus to be forgiven of worldly sins without repentance, but that doesn't happen. The covenant of blood is made through the death of an old man. Confessing, "I believe in Jesus," does not mean that the blood covenant Jesus made was fulfilled. The covenant of blood is fulfilled only by those who are united with Jesus' death and those who have died of sin. In Romans 6: 2『God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 』 If you live in sin while saying that you were baptized, you have never repented. It should not be a formal baptismal process, but a dead person coming from the heart.

This is the heart circumcision. The attitude of a baptized person's life is to be a person who fights evil, not a person who washes sin every day. Jesus went to God as a priest, carrying all the sins of the world in the past, present, and future at once for the repentant and the dead who died together on the cross. But what do you do when you say, "Take my sins back" every day? It is a sin to not believe what Jesus said.