And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
Mark Ch 14 v3:
And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a women came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.
True worship. Not one stone built upon another stone, but love outpoured.
He saw everything, that included the good!
He saw the legacy of Simeon & Anna and we know he saw the widows mite.
Jesus didn’t act rashly & impulsively.
He was hungry…..for communion and loves affection.
He was hungry to answer his Fathers Heart: Fathers Heart was to bless all nations and families – be ye fruitful.
Jesus was hungry for the fulfillment of fathers commission, his word of blessing. He was hungry to fulfill Fathers will.
Fathers will requires faith in God and boldness to come to his throne and ask…believing & yielding to his will.
Jesus sees everything and he came to see if he could find anything!
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.
And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, ‘This man receives sinners and eats with them’.
The Pharisees were hungry to. They needed to be fed by Him, and they needed to eat with him.
Instead of drawing near themselves to have their own hunger met, they grumbled instead, their own stomachs testified against their lack of communion and fellowship.
So he told them this parable: What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?
And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
Or what women, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?
And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice. With me, for I have found the coin that I had lost’.
There was a man who had two sons.
And when the younger had spent ‘everything’, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need.
So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into the field to feed pigs.
And his stomach grumbled to the extent that he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.
This man was literally starving to eat and figuratively starving for; love and affection, for communion and fellowship – mans true hunger.
And no one gave him anything. He had hired himself out to a citizen of that country and yet no one gave him anything. He was so hungry that he long for the pods being fed to the pigs.
What had been his agreed hire fee? But that he long to be fed with pigs food, implies that the anything is literal concerning his hire fee, he wasn’t given anything.
He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country. This citizen sent him into his own fields – thus the younger son who had traded his own inherited fields has effectively hired himself out as a slave to work another mans field without a union protected contract.
He had spent everything and no one gave him anything. He had reaped the field he had sold/sown on himself.
Spiritual reality: Nothing to trade and no charity.
Their was a famine, food was scarce. The younger son had attempted to get better work, but the famine was such that eventually he settled for work without any employer pledge or commitment.
The citizen was willing to accept this mans begging for any kind of work, and decided that it was better to have him feed his pigs than himself. This citizen placed more value on his pigs than this younger sons welfare – else he would have slain a pig or even allowed him to eat some pigs pods.
This citizen was the bottom of the barrel, he was the bottom of squandering parental endowment for reckless living. A man willing to use your labour on feeding his own pigs, without any return for it.
This citizen had no soul, so to speak. He was a tax payer, and he knew Caesar’s head was on the denarius, but he had no regard to Gods laws concerning clean and unclean and he had no paternal heart for this man who had spent all. Rather he saw his poverty as an opportunity to exploit some gain for himself.
Cold & Calculated to advance his own cause, only. Communion with the trinity of: Me, myself and I is a desperate famine.
He was a citizen and saw no man as a Son. Not feeding his own pigs was a step up the natural selection citizenship class.
This son came to himself and realized that his father would never treat one of his hired servants in this manner, they always had more than enough bread.
The father saw him a long way off.
But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet’.
And bring the fattened calf and kill it and let us eat and celebrate.
From desiring to eat animal food, and not being given anything, serving a pig principled citizen boss to a parental love that gives for you the actual fattened calf, all the labour done feeding animals his Father would not have that sown without a return!
In coming to himself he had understood his inheritance, the heart of his Father was righteous and just, having his Fathers heart was the produce of the field.
The younger Son had seen the commandments and laws of his Father outworked at home, his Father never allowed a man to labour for a day without more than enough bread left over.
You were hungry even for the food that fed the animals being fattened up, but we shall kill the fattened animal and share and celebrate together.
The cord of life. Communion and fellowship, light that reveals that he sees everything. The plural Word of Life – Gen Ch 1 v3.
Reaping what you sow: He had given himself to fattening another mans animals up, without any return – Gods sees everything even in Pagan foreign lands. No wonder the younger son came to himself, it was the fruit of his sowing into another mans fattened animals.
The younger son came to understand the purpose of the laws that govern life, they were not given to restrict life but to preserve good fruit, communion and fellowship, benefitting others, plural. The sharing of light.
Lost sheep – Found it and gathers his friends ‘I have found my sheep that was lost’
Lost coin – Found it and gathers her friends ‘I have found the coin that I had lost’
Repetition, what was lost and is found this good news is shared with friends.
Lost Son, – Found and gathers friends ‘It was fitting we celebrate’.
The Older Son, ‘you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends’
The obeying of the laws should have produced understanding about honoring Father and Mother that through it the inheritance of the land of promises was being shared from one generation unto another.
The Old to be shared with the Young, friendships the very principles of Gods covenant promises and founded upon this great truth: ‘God shall provided himself a sacrifice’, that had been spoken by the Father of the faith, and so as a son of Abraham he should have been sharing this young goat with his friends many, many years ago.
What has been lost, in the garden of paradise, must be found: Plural – God had not withheld any good thing, not even his very own SON.
What was lost and found must be shared – not the law of citizenship. If the father had given the older son a goat he wouldn’t have been able to share the truth concerning himself, with his friends. As he would have viewed it as a reward for having served and obeyed his commands, rather than because he was asking knowing his Father heart would bring it to pass as all things had been given unto him.
Original man had been given the Word of eternal life, it was a word of life to keep him and his bride from ever being lost.
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.
Salt had reached their grumbling pallets and created a hunger that they knew had been absent from their soil (fields of labour) and from their personal manure pile (all that had been wasted from the fields of their labour).
Animal waste, laboring without pay. No man gave him anything. He came to himself! He knew that the commandments had been given to preserve the likeness of God: Made in his image, God sharing all of himself, the blessing: God shall provide ‘himself’ a sacrifice.
Gods sacrifice at his prime, 33 years old – God who spared not his Son, how shall he not share with us everything: For this my son was dead, and is alive again, he was lost, and is found. And they began to celebrate.
Galatians Ch 2 v21.
‘Look, these many years I have served you’ – And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve’.
The Father is mentioned directly as Father x12 in the third parable of a man who had two sons.
May no one ever eat fruit from thinking that you are akin to God when you are expecting God to reward you for your religious service – this is pigs pens as all mans righteousness is as filthy rags- to desire to built a place of Worship out of commandments being placed upon commandments – One stone upon another stone.
Rather, sharing the blessing by asking your Father to fulfill the promises made unto Abraham: Every nation and family. Sharing that which had been lost in the beginning but found through ‘Gods provided sacrifice’: “Father forgive them”.
Mark Ch 11 V22-25
The younger son, never asked for the robe, ring and shoes.
The Father gave commandments to his servants to bring them, because his son had asked to be treated as one of his hired servants.
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you’.
Treat me as one of your hired servants – Treat me – and no one gave him anything.
Sonship was within the Fathers heart, and the beloved Son had come as a suffering servant to redeem a lost world.
Have faith in God.
Tax collectors and sinners.
Have faith in God.
Fields and manure piles.
Have faith in God, that if you say to this mountain, your inability to fulfill the great commission, your inability to be a blessing unto distant lands and unto families. That if you believe with all your heart that ‘For this my Son was dead’, and that his word will be fulfilled in its season, then you will be a blessing unto other people.
How can you believe, that God has shared the answer for the hearts deep longing, unless the Bible and gospel narrative is true: For this my Son was dead: The robes, ring and shoes.
Jesus foretells the destruction of temple.
A women breaks an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and poured it over his head.
Jesus was reclining at table, but someone had been salted to such an extent that she went further than Simeon and Anna and the poor widow, she anointed the Son ready for his burial.
She knew the value of the ointment and she knew his heart for the poor and widows. Yet she didn’t ask anything for herself, other than to pour her love upon him.
Wherever the gospel is proclaimed, this principle of sharing love, this act of love through faith in the Word of God: God shall provide himself a sacrifice, shall be proclaimed, so that the mountains may be cast into the sea, in every nation and every family, that love might be the habitation of all prayer, the heart of God made known.
Anything, her most precious ointment of great worth – redeeming love back to its source. Everywhere its fragrance spread. He is beautiful, and she in deepest fellowship and communion fed his hunger for the meat of Calvary – Fathers Will- For God shall provide himself a sacrifice – His Son.
Note:
Happy with this post despite a certain lack of form. It covers in part scriptures from Wednesday night a few weeks ago & my note pad Wednesday morning had the words ‘Everything, anything and beautiful penned down’ all words that were included in the evening service.
eternalrays 