Expensive perfume
Children's sermon
Object:
a stack of bills (perhaps bound together with a bill on
top and bill-sized paper cut to look like a large bundle of
money)
This looks like a lot of money, doesn't it? It's really not as
much as you might think. Let's pretend this really is a lot
money. What could we do with it? (Let them answer.) We could use
it for ourselves or we could use it for the poor. There are many
ways we could use the money. We might even use it to buy
something expensive for God's house.
One day long ago, Jesus was at a house in the town of Bethany. It was the home of Lazarus. A woman named Mary had some very expensive perfume. It was worth "three hundred denarii" which is about how much one person could make in a year's time. It was a lot of money! Mary came to Jesus and poured the perfume on his feet!
One of the disciples, Judas Iscariot, was upset. "This is a terrible waste! We could sell this expensive perfume and give it to the poor," he said. But Jesus thought Mary was doing something good with the perfume. He knew that she loved him and this was her way of showing it.
The lesson here is that those who love Jesus often do big things for Jesus. The members of our choir spent an hour this week rehearsing for their anthem today. Some people today will give a lot of their money to Jesus because they love him that much. Your Sunday school teachers will teach you and do it without pay or reward. They probably also spent a lot of time preparing for their lessons before class today. Mary had some very, very expensive perfume and she showed her love for Jesus by pouring it on his feet. We love Jesus too and perhaps we also will do big things for Jesus. The things we do for Jesus might even be things that don't make sense to other people. We do them anyway because we love Jesus so much.
One day long ago, Jesus was at a house in the town of Bethany. It was the home of Lazarus. A woman named Mary had some very expensive perfume. It was worth "three hundred denarii" which is about how much one person could make in a year's time. It was a lot of money! Mary came to Jesus and poured the perfume on his feet!
One of the disciples, Judas Iscariot, was upset. "This is a terrible waste! We could sell this expensive perfume and give it to the poor," he said. But Jesus thought Mary was doing something good with the perfume. He knew that she loved him and this was her way of showing it.
The lesson here is that those who love Jesus often do big things for Jesus. The members of our choir spent an hour this week rehearsing for their anthem today. Some people today will give a lot of their money to Jesus because they love him that much. Your Sunday school teachers will teach you and do it without pay or reward. They probably also spent a lot of time preparing for their lessons before class today. Mary had some very, very expensive perfume and she showed her love for Jesus by pouring it on his feet. We love Jesus too and perhaps we also will do big things for Jesus. The things we do for Jesus might even be things that don't make sense to other people. We do them anyway because we love Jesus so much.
