Finished: A Journey to the Resurrection — Week 2

As Passover crowds gather in John 11-12, the religious leaders plot Jesus' arrest. The message first sets the Passover against the Exodus story—the blood of the lamb on the doorposts—then asks whether our faith ever shakes anyone up. At the dinner in Bethany, Lazarus reclines alive and Mary pours out perfume worth a year's wages, washing Jesus' feet with her hair—an unashamed, no-holds-back devotion the whole house could smell. Judas objects, exposing a heart that wants worship on its own terms. The teaching turns the question inward amid the church's own changes: is my faith a beautiful aroma drawing people to Jesus, or an intolerable stench driving them away? The triumphal entry follows as prophecy fulfilled.