Mary Magdalene
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Be Like Mary Magdalene
Luke 8:1-3 (NLT)
· Come to Jesus with Your Needs
“From whom he had cast out seven demons”
What needs brought you to Jesus?
What needs keeps bringing you to Jesus?
· Support Jesus’ Ministry Financially
“Contributing from their own resources to support Jesus and his disciples”
Are you sacrificially investing God’s financial blessings back into his kingdom work?
· Serve as a Missionary
“Jesus began a tour. . . preaching and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom of God. . . Women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases.”
What are your mission fields? Family, friends, work, school, neighborhood, community organizations?
Matthew 27:45-46, 50, 54-56, 57-66 (NLT)
· Companion Jesus as HE suffers
[At his crucifixion] And many women who had come from Galilee with Jesus to care for him were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene
§ With Jesus
§ Caring for him
§ Watching him
Colossians 1:24
Are you companioning Jesus in HIS ongoing suffering in this world?
Women are invalid to testify. -- (Edut 9:2)
This is what the rabbis taught
Luke 24:9-11
The female disciples believed first. The males rejected the truth.
John 20:1-3, 11-18 (NLT)
Women were the first witnesses and evangelists of the empty tomb.
A woman, Mary Magdalene, was the first witness and evangelist of the resurrected Jesus.
§ Believe and Testify
One of the evidences of the authenticity of the NT being from God is that NO ONE would have written in women being the first witnesses to the empty tomb and Mary being the first witness to the resurrection!
Romans 10:9 (NLT)
Men: If a woman could do all of these things in the 1st century, what is God calling YOU to celebrate women doing in the 21st century?
Women: If a woman could do all of these things in the 1st century, what is God calling YOU to in the 21st century?