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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. I haven't been with you for the

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Speaker 1: last few weeks, and it is good to be back home.

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Speaker 1: When I last saw you, I was teaching and preaching

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Speaker 1: from kind of a stream of stories in the scripture

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Speaker 1: where God calls somebody in the scripture by their name,

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Speaker 1: and I chose for us some scriptures where He calls

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Speaker 1: them by their name twice. And I was doing that

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Speaker 1: because there are significant seasons that you and I will

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Speaker 1: walk through where God will want to get our attention

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Speaker 1: for something that He's bringing us into. And so today,

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Speaker 1: I think is going to be the funnest one of all. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know that we've disrupted the flow of the series

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Speaker 1: because I had to go and minister in all kinds

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Speaker 1: of wonderful places, and we did minister to over one

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand people in Jesus' name over the two weeks

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Speaker 1: of our tour. But you know, what there's nowhere that

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Speaker 1: I can preach that feels just as good to me

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Speaker 1: and as free to me as this pulpit right here

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Speaker 1: at Elevation Church. And although you may not remember the

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Speaker 1: flow that I was in, I have been preparing this

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Speaker 1: sermon the whole time I've been gone, So I'm just

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Speaker 1: excited to preach it today. Please stand at all of

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Speaker 1: our locations if you're seated, and we'll stand for the

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Speaker 1: reading of the Word of God, and we'll pick up

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Speaker 1: in Luke chapter ten. Thank you so much, team, I

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Luke chapter ten, verse thirty eight through forty two.

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Speaker 1: Luke chapter ten, verse thirty eight through forty two. The

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Speaker 1: Bible says as Jesus and his disciples were on their way,

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Speaker 1: he came to a village where a woman named Martha

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Speaker 1: But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had

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Speaker 1: do the work by myself. Tell her to help me. Martha. Martha,

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Speaker 1: there you go. Martha, Martha, not just Martha, but Martha Martha.

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Speaker 1: The Lord answered, you are worried and upset about many things.

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Speaker 1: Now some of you, that's your whole life in one

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Speaker 1: Bible verse right there, you are worried and upset about

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Speaker 1: many things. If you're not obeying any scripture, some of

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Speaker 1: you are living that one out right there. You are

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Speaker 1: worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed,

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Speaker 1: or indeed, only one. Mary has chosen what is better,

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Speaker 1: and it will not be taken away from her. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give this a title. It's gonna sound like

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Speaker 1: a negative title, but we're gonna work it to a

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Speaker 1: positive conclusion today. And the title for this message is

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Speaker 1: a recipe for resentment. I didn't think you'd like that title.

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Speaker 1: So a recipe for resentment is the title, and the

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Speaker 1: subtitle is this. And you can ask it as a

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Speaker 1: question to your neighbor before you take your seat, ask them,

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Speaker 1: whose list is this? Whose list is this? Ask your

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Speaker 1: other neighbor, whose list is this? And Father, in the

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Speaker 1: name of Jesus, I know your word is powerful, but

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Speaker 1: I pray now that it would penetrate our hearts. In

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Speaker 1: your name, I pray Jesus and expect and believe the

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Speaker 1: man you may be seated. Just for an opening illustration,

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Speaker 1: I want to tell you a story I've never told

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Speaker 1: in church, but I've told it to my family so

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Speaker 1: many times. I just remembered it because Austin asked me

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Speaker 1: to tell this story on tour. It happened when me

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Speaker 1: and his dad are executive pastor of Elevation Church, the

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Speaker 1: Great Chunks Corbett. We were traveling in Nashville, Tennessee with

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Speaker 1: another pastor. The other pastor is a very forceful personality,

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Speaker 1: very tall, bald, big goatee, and very passionate, and that

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Speaker 1: can be a good thing, but this was one of

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Speaker 1: the occasions where his passion was kind of bad. Soa

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Speaker 1: tell you a story. We walk in a restaurant. We

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Speaker 1: don't have the reservation, and there's no hostess at the

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Speaker 1: so we expect. Everybody say expect. Now, I want you

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Speaker 1: that word. Expect. We expect that someone will come seat us.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm about to yell what he yelled. So you

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Speaker 1: done with this in five seconds. But I'll never forget it.

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Speaker 1: He stands in the middle of the restaurant, in front

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Speaker 1: care that we're here, which, of course helped nothing except

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Speaker 1: that and I was telling Austin that story because it's legendary. Now,

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Speaker 1: when we're waiting at a restaurant, we'll just joke to

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Speaker 1: trying to pay down the damage to my reputation because

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Speaker 1: I'm hungry. I'm hungry, there's a seat, and it's just building.

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Speaker 1: And finally he blew up. Does anybody care that we're here?

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Speaker 1: So here's the formula, and you might want to write

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Speaker 1: this down. I shared that to share a recipe with you.

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Speaker 1: Your expectations plus others limitations minus grace is a recipe

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Speaker 1: for resentment. You're only talking to me today, but I

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Speaker 1: Your expectations plus others limitations minus that part is important.

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Speaker 1: Grace is a recipe for resentment. Your expectations. What they

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Speaker 1: how they should assist you, what they should have taught you.

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Speaker 1: Your expectations minus others limitations. Maybe they didn't teach you

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Speaker 1: because nobody taught them. Maybe they didn't call and check

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Speaker 1: could do anything. In fact, let me point this out

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Speaker 1: Peter didn't have to go out and yell. The Bible

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Speaker 1: but it names the woman. Her name was Martha, and

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Speaker 1: she opened her home to him. Now bring out my screen,

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Speaker 1: would you, because I want to do a little teaching

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Speaker 1: You didn't sound excited about that, Abby, get more excited.

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Speaker 1: that's all right. If they thought you weren't the one

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Speaker 1: someone greater than you. I can't stay stuck just because

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Speaker 1: can't promote me anyway. So if they didn't open the

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Speaker 1: that everyone is going to accept you. In fact, if

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Speaker 1: So in preparing them for rejection, the Bible says in

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Speaker 1: could manage, one of them was not Mary. There are

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Speaker 1: a few things you can't control in this world. One

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Speaker 1: is whether and the other is others. Martha was distracted.

428
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: She wasn't even distracted playing that game that my family

429
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,360
Speaker 1: is all addicted to with the blocks on their phone.

430
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: She was distracted, baking, cleaning, preparing. She was distracted, but

431
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 1: she was multitasking, right. And this is the illustration I

432
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: want to give. Okay, I really think you're going to

433
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Speaker 1: remember this. This is the part of this I rememberhere.

434
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,880
Speaker 1: I think when they say did you go to church Sunday? Yeah,

435
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 1: it's it good as all right what he preached you about.

436
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: Oh he did this one thing where this is what

437
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna show him. And I pictured you preaching this

438
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 1: back to your spouse this week. Okay, So I'm gonna

439
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: give you something. I'm give something to use as ammunition

440
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: this week when the people in your life start acting

441
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: kind of Martha, all right, or or when you start

442
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: feeling it inside of yourself. Now, I asked Holly, I said,

443
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: where's something to church that you wouldn't mind being seen

444
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 1: on camera? Where in it? So here we go. Holly's

445
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 1: gonna be in my illustration. Come on, Holly, and Holly,

446
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: I know y'all love her, but she's got to play

447
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: the part of Martha for a moment, just for illustration purposes.

448
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: I don't have her play this part because I think

449
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: she resembles this character. In fact, I marvel at her

450
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: ability to balance things. But I was thinking about something

451
00:28:54,480 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: last night. You know, Abby had her birthday on Monday fourteen. Yeah,

452
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 1: happy birthday baby. But of course the party went on

453
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: all week, and we were planning a party on Saturday.

454
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: So stand up, okay, party on Saturday. Lots of guests,

455
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: very very cool, occasion. And then I watched Holly as

456
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: she was checking her calendar by a week or two,

457
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 1: and she remembered that Graham's wrestling banquet, state champion, two

458
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: times state champion, right here. His banquet is also on Saturday.

459
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: Party is at six, banquet is at six. Okay, stand

460
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: up Graham. So now I watched her just become completely

461
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 1: disappointed in herself because she realized, now I got a party,

462
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: a birthday, a banquet, and a highly emotionally needy husband

463
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: who needs extra emotional support before he preaches on Saturday.

464
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Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, I am such a baby before

465
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 1: I preach. I need her to do everything for me.

466
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: For the twelve hours before I preach, I can't think

467
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: about anything but the sermon. So I've got a birthday,

468
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: a banquet, and a baby. Now I want to illustrate this,

469
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:14,719
Speaker 1: and I'm going to take my time with it. It's

470
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: alright if I take my time with it today, Okay,

471
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 1: I can't get that thing because I see some of you.

472
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: You're not bad, You're distracted, You're not wicked. You're distracted.

473
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: You keep going off on people. Does anybody care that way? Here?

474
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: Because you're distracted, You're mad because you're distracted. Your hunger

475
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: is distracting you from your true heart. The demands are

476
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: distracting you from the destiny. But here is the thing

477
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 1: about this distraction. We're doing this as a family today.

478
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: Apparently in the Greek the word for distraction is not

479
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 1: like the English word for distraction. In English, we say

480
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: distraction to mean something that comes up that we didn't

481
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: plan for. Right, Well, in the Greek it doesn't mean

482
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 1: something that you didn't plan for. Often in scripture, something

483
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: you didn't plan for is called a miracle. So a

484
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: lot of times you will see that someone who the

485
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: disciples saw as a distraction, like a blind man by

486
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Speaker 1: the roadside, was the reason that Jesus was on the journey,

487
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: because he said, bring him to me and let me

488
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: heal him. But Jesus, he's a distraction, No he's not.

489
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: He is the destination. Great. The word for distraction, and

490
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: the problem with distraction is not when you're doing more

491
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: than one thing at the same time. That is called adulthood.

492
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: That is called maturity. When you're juggling this and juggling that.

493
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: And I keep hearing people talk about you need to

494
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 1: be more present, you need to be present with your

495
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 1: family at the dinner table. Okay, let me tell what

496
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: that means to me. I eat with them. I do

497
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: not kill them. That's my definition of present. Yeah, but

498
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: do you put the phones up? Sometimes sometimes the phone

499
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: is the only thing that numbs the pain of their

500
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: arguing to get me through the dinner without indigestion. Y'all

501
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 1: are so fake in this church today, acting like y'all

502
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:00,719
Speaker 1: all pray around the table and share strip her versus

503
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: over tacos, and then we have worship Wednesday for our family.

504
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: And here I am to all. So the process is this,

505
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna lead Holly around for a moment. Okay.

506
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: There are times in your life where, like Martha, you

507
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 1: will feel so busy and I don't know who is

508
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: in this season right now, where you will feel like, okay,

509
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: I'm doing good, I'm doing good, and then all of

510
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: a sudden, a different priority will come and you have

511
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: to change direction. Changing directions is not distraction. That's called pivoting.

512
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: Pivoting is an essential skill, so you don't get so

513
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: locked into what you thought was important that you miss

514
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: what was really important. So in order for her to

515
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: be the Holly that she needs to be the mom

516
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: that she needs to be, the pastor that she needs

517
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: to be, the leader that she needs to be, the

518
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: daughter that she needs to be, the friend that she

519
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: needs to be. That means that there are sometimes where

520
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: she is going to feel like she has multiple personalities

521
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: while she is trying to walk in multiple roles. That

522
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: is normal. That is not sinful. It is the skill

523
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: of pivoting. It is realizing that one moment you may

524
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: have to be yelling down the stairs did you brush

525
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: your teeth? The next moment you might have to pick

526
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: up the phone and use a little bit more of

527
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: that bedside manner with somebody who is struggling in the

528
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: hospital with cancer that goes to the church. This is

529
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: not sinful, This is skillful. It's her ability to discern

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00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 1: in this moment, Okay, I plan to do this today,

531
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 1: but that completely interrupted my day. I'm gonna have to

532
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: go a different direction this day. I'm gonna have to

533
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: get it done a different way today. I'm not gonna

534
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: be able to do it how I thought I was

535
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: gonna do it today. I'm gonna have to cook for

536
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 1: all of these disciples by myself today. And Peter won't

537
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: shut up. He keeps yelling. Martha wears the peanuts, Martha

538
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: wears the gummy worms. This guy is loud mouth. Does

539
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: anybody care that we're here? And so while she is

540
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: being led through her day, that is completely normal. The

541
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: Lord will lead you, and it'll lead you sometimes to

542
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 1: do something that you didn't plan to do. He'll lead

543
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: you to do something that wasn't on your list, and

544
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: you have to be a tentive in those moments. We

545
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: sang a song earlier, You gave Me one more Day.

546
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: That song was written while we were finishing writing another

547
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 1: song and one of the songwriters in the room started

548
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,879
Speaker 1: to play something that I had not heard, and I said,

549
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: what is that? He said something that just came to me.

550
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: I said, no, we're going to write that right now.

551
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: We wrote the song off of something that he was

552
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,320
Speaker 1: doing as a distraction while we were waiting to record.

553
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: If we did not pay attention to the moment that

554
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: we were in just to fulfill the agenda that we

555
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 1: had set, we would have missed the song that we

556
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: sang that is now blessing people and life is like that.

557
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: You got to be a tentive to God. See how

558
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,479
Speaker 1: she's doing this she's fine. I am taking she doesn't

559
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: know where I'm taking her. And that's what it means

560
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: to walk in faith. It's like, I don't know what

561
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 1: I'm going to face today. I don't know who's gonna

562
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 1: need me today, Especially if you're responsible for others. Some

563
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: of you got your own company because you didn't want

564
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: anybody to tell you what to do. Now you got

565
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: Now you've got hundreds of terrorists employees, and their needs

566
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: become your agenda, and you have to move like this.

567
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 1: So before we just chopped Martha down, oh, she should

568
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: have sat at the feet of Jesus realized that there

569
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: were things that needed to happen, and everybody was calling

570
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 1: for her attention. Martha, Martha, Where do we keep the

571
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: Where do you keep the water for the washing of feet? Martha, Martha,

572
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 1: there's twelve of these guys. They've already used up all

573
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: of the water. Martha, Martha. What are we gonna do

574
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: with the bread? Is burned? The bread? I'm sorry, Martha, Martha, Martha,

575
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 1: this God Judas is looking at your jewelry. You want

576
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,280
Speaker 1: me to put it in a different drawer, Martha, Martha.

577
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 1: So that's what's happening, right and it's just demand after

578
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: demand after demand. Because she is a good mom, and

579
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,439
Speaker 1: she can be a good mom as long as she's

580
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: just mom. I have a birthday, she can plan that.

581
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 1: But what about when it's mom, Mom, Martha Martha, Because

582
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,800
Speaker 1: now I got a birthday, and I got a banquet,

583
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:21,879
Speaker 1: and I got a baby, and she can do this.

584
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: Let her go if Graham needs her. I've seen it

585
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,399
Speaker 1: a million times. She's so good. Just gently, boy, don't

586
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: talk her too hard, just gently, just gently. She can

587
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: do that. Oh Mom, I need this. And I'm using

588
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: the illustration of mom, but you could feel this as

589
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,879
Speaker 1: a young person. I'm using the illustration of a mom,

590
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,879
Speaker 1: but you can definitely feel it as a dad. I'm

591
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: using the illustration as a mom, but you can definitely

592
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: feel it as you navigate all of the roles and

593
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 1: the frequencies that your life has to occupy in the

594
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 1: places you have to show up. I'm a student, I'm

595
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: an employee, I'm a boss, I'm an employee, I'm a pastor,

596
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: and I'm a dad. I get it. So she's mom.

597
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:04,439
Speaker 1: This is fine, she's a mom. This is fine, Leo.

598
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 1: But the Greek word where it says martha was distracted

599
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: the Greek word for distracted, and I'm stolen because I'm

600
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: trying to remember how to say it. Ah, pariaspotos, pariaspotos.

601
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: Now that's the word. Here's what it means. It means

602
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 1: pulled apart. So watch this. Lego she can pivot or

603
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 1: lego abby she can pivot. Neither of those are bad.

604
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,800
Speaker 1: That's life. You gotta dance with things. You know. You

605
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: gotta dance with life. You gotta make it look easy too.

606
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: You got a multitask and up and down nobody. That's

607
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: called dancing. This is reality. Stop praying that your life

608
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: would get simpler. You want your life to get simpler.

609
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 3: Die either die or dance is dance or die is

610
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 3: Pay this down, pay this off, hold this back is

611
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 3: dance or die.

612
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 1: Smile here, cry there, win here, lose there, take the

613
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: award there, take the hit.

614
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 3: There's dance or die.

615
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: You should have called the message dance or die. That

616
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: is reality. But when I have Martha Martha and a

617
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: birthday at six and a banquet at six, and both

618
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: are pulling me and I cannot give myself the grace

619
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 1: my expectations and other limitations minus grace, what is that

620
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: go that way. This go that way is a recipe

621
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: for resentment. This is for you. Have you been feeling

622
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: Have you been feeling like this? This is why Martha

623
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:25,399
Speaker 1: feels like a martyr. It's like she's up on the cross. Man.

624
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 1: I guess I'll just be the only one to cook

625
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: around here. Jesus, since you came to die on the cross,

626
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,720
Speaker 1: I guess I'll just die for you in this kitchen.

627
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 1: But Jesus didn't call Martha to be a martyr. He said, Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha.

628
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: You can't be mom, mom, mom, Mom. You can't be

629
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,720
Speaker 1: holly mom, Holly mom. You can't be all that at once.

630
00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: Now comes the solution, he says, he it's not that

631
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 1: what you're doing is wrong. It's not that I don't

632
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 1: want to eat. It's not just be less busy. How

633
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 1: many dumb sermons have we heard about be less busy? Okay,

634
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: well tell that, Tell that to my professor, tell that

635
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 1: to my boss, and I realize that it is not

636
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 1: busyness that is the problem. The problem is division. So

637
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Speaker 1: you did the birthday, I did the banquet, and none

638
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Speaker 1: of them are going to end up in therapy over it. Oh,

639
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Speaker 1: I need to say that you'll sit down for a minute.

640
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Speaker 1: You'll sit down for a minute. I need to talk

641
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Speaker 1: about this. Who made this list of all the things

642
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Speaker 1: we think we have to do to be a good

643
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 1: parent today, I'm gonna come back here behind the safety

644
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Speaker 1: of my pulpit when I say this. Okay, this is

645
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Speaker 1: going to be controversial. I could literally say that the

646
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Speaker 1: Bible is not the word of God and get less

647
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Speaker 1: hate than what I'm about to get for what I'm

648
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: about to say right now. By the way, the Bible

649
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 1: is the word of God. Just in case I get

650
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Speaker 1: a clipped. Okay, now that being said, your kid does

651
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: not have to play on every team. I'm helping. Come

652
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: down off that cross, baby, I'm gonna help you from

653
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: feeling like this. Your kid does not have to be

654
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: in at chemistry in kindergarten. Yeah, but they need to

655
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Speaker 1: get it on their resume. What if they apply for

656
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: a college that doesn't accept that kind of class.

657
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 3: They put them in a community.

658
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Speaker 1: College, or make them an entrepreneur and tell them you

659
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Speaker 1: did it to teach them character, teach them to sell

660
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Speaker 1: jolly ranchers out their backpack. I don't care, but stop

661
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: putting all this pressure on stuff that robs your peace. Ah,

662
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna help you. Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha. There's only

663
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Speaker 1: one Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha. That's what it sounds like.

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Speaker 1: That's why Jesus called her Martha Martha, because that's how

665
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Speaker 1: she felt in that moment. There's only one of me,

666
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Speaker 1: and I'm being old and Martha, you can work in

667
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Speaker 1: the kitchen or you can sit at my feet. But

668
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Speaker 1: being mad because Mary's at my feet while you're working

669
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Speaker 1: in the kitchen, that is going to kill your joy.

670
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: Feeling like you're a bad dad because you're not the

671
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: dad like the other kids had, that is going to

672
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: kill your potential as a parent. How many times have

673
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: I felt bad about myself as a dad because I

674
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 1: never taught my kids how to fish. They don't need

675
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: to learn how to fish. They got fish sticks at

676
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: the grocery store. Cut out the whole middle man of

677
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: the ocean or the lake, straight to the freezer. I'm serious,

678
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: whose list is this? Martha is not really stressed about

679
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: the situation. I'm gonna show you this. She comes to

680
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: Jesus right and I want to walk you back slowly

681
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: through this passage. Oh, I love teaching you the word

682
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,439
Speaker 1: of God. This is what I live for right here.

683
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Speaker 1: In verse thirty nine, it says that Mary sat at

684
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Speaker 1: the Lord's feet. Can I get my scripture back? Yeah? Yeah,

685
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: she sat at the Lord's feet, and my style wars said. Yeah,

686
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Speaker 1: she got at the Lord's feet listening to what he said,

687
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Speaker 1: to what he said, But Martha was distracted by all

688
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: the preparations that had to be made according to who.

689
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Speaker 1: I don't think Jesus sent a writer in events with

690
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Speaker 1: the two that went. You know, Jesus only eats brown

691
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Speaker 1: eminem to make sure when he comes in his green room.

692
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: You know, Jesus not a rock star. He's the rock

693
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Speaker 1: of ages. He just told him eat whatever is sept

694
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Speaker 1: before you when I send you out. So Jesus is cool,

695
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: Jesus is just. You know, I was gonna say Jesus

696
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 1: is just, and I'm not gonna say I'll tell you later,

697
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: but Jesus just show up and eat whatever you put perform.

698
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Speaker 1: So so let me ask you a question. When she says, Lord,

699
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Speaker 1: don't you care that my sister has left me to

700
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Speaker 1: do the work by myself. Tell her to help me

701
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Speaker 1: with my work that I decided to do. Jesus Lord,

702
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Speaker 1: respectfully tell her to do what I decided needed to

703
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: be done to host you.

704
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Speaker 4: Let me try that again, Lord, here's my list. Here's

705
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 4: my list.

706
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Speaker 1: I hear your teaching my sister Mary, and I know

707
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: you think she's attentive. She's really just kind of lazy

708
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:50,760
Speaker 1: spacey Jesus, you know you get an attitude, right, Jesus, Lord, Lord,

709
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Speaker 1: Lord Lord, let me say right, tell her to help

710
00:44:55,040 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: me do this work on my list. I have a contrast, Nick,

711
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: She Mary is listening, ye, Martha is listing. One is

712
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: listening to what he says. One is listing what they

713
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:22,439
Speaker 1: have to do what they think ought to be done. So, Lord,

714
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: I know you're teaching these amazing teachings about the Good

715
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 1: Samaritan and all this, but let me put one on

716
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Speaker 1: the list, because I know you're teaching my sister right now,

717
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 1: and she's listening to you, and that is wonderful. And

718
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 1: we're so glad to have you in our home, and

719
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 1: it's so amazing to have you in Bethany. We really

720
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Speaker 1: do care that you're here. We care that you're here.

721
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Speaker 1: But does anybody care that I'm stressed? I imagine as minutes

722
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 1: turned to hours, and Jesus kept teaching you know, the

723
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Speaker 1: parable of the prodigal son. Maybe Martha comes and says,

724
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Speaker 1: I appreciate your teaching, but would you mind teaching the

725
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 1: parable of the lazy sister who needs to get in

726
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:06,280
Speaker 1: this kitchen and help me fulfill my agenda for you, Jesus.

727
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: One is listening to Jesus' agenda for her. The other

728
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: is giving Jesus her agenda for him. Which is your

729
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: prayer life? Is your prayer life giving Jesus an agenda?

730
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: Or is your prayer life listening to his? Which is

731
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:42,319
Speaker 1: your discipleship journey? At this stage? Whose list is this? Well,

732
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: we got to fluff the pillows, Jesus is like, I

733
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,320
Speaker 1: don't need fluffy pillows. Son, a man has nowhere to

734
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Speaker 1: lay us head. I'll sit right here on the floor.

735
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 1: I don't need the fluffy pillows. Jesus, we know you

736
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: got a special diet. I don't have a special diet.

737
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 1: Just make sure it follows the Jewish customary law. So

738
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: the Pharisees don't get mad and shut down the meeting. Oh,

739
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 1: whatever you put in front of me. So whose list

740
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 1: is this? For those of you that struggle with perfectionism?

741
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: Whose list is that? That makes you feel like you

742
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 1: could never measure up. Of course you could never measure up.

743
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: That's why he came down. He fulfilled the righteous requirements

744
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: of the law. He did the list. He was sinless,

745
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 1: he was spotless, He did not retaliate. He fulfilled all righteousness.

746
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 1: He was the spotless lamb of God. He was blameless.

747
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: He was the perfect one. So you don't have to

748
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 1: be so when condemnation starts in your brain telling you, well,

749
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: you're this, you're that, and you're not, and you can't

750
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: and you won't. Who's ask the question all week long?

751
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 1: Whose list is this? Ask your neighbor? Whose list is this?

752
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 1: Got me feeling all stressed out? Like I gotta do

753
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: a thousand things to be right with God? I only

754
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: got to do one thing to be right with God.

755
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,720
Speaker 1: If I call on the name of Jesus, I will

756
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 1: be saved. Whoever calls on the name of the Lord

757
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 1: will be saved. If I confess my sins, He is

758
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 1: faithful and just and will forgive me of my sins

759
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:13,839
Speaker 1: and cleanse me of all unrighteousness. So for all the

760
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: Pharisees and Sadducees who are sad, you see because you

761
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: keep expecting others to follow your list, and you have

762
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 1: no grace for your expectations, and others' limitations make you

763
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,439
Speaker 1: angry because they are not living up to your list.

764
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 1: To be a good Christian. Christian isn't named after you.

765
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: There is one name, we follow, one standard, we raise,

766
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: one banner that we bought on whose list is this?

767
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: I want you to look at your to do list

768
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: for this week before you start it and ask the question,

769
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: is this your list? Lord? Is there stuff on this

770
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: list that I'm doing just to look good and impress

771
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 1: others that you never called me to do?

772
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 3: Oh?

773
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: I'm preaching now, because sometimes we label it responsible, But

774
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,799
Speaker 1: sometimes what we do in an effort to appear responsible

775
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: is really out of the comparisons that we've made with

776
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: people that we don't really know whose list is this.

777
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 1: I sat time to eat with somebody the other day

778
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: and they said you ought not eat that. I said,

779
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:22,280
Speaker 1: what's wrong with it? And they told me some story

780
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 1: about what chemicals were on the food and the chemicals now,

781
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, hold on, I'm confused. You went

782
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: to the grocery store and bought it? No, you cooked it? No? Hmm,

783
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,760
Speaker 1: sounds like if you didn't purchase it and you didn't

784
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:50,720
Speaker 1: prepare it, then you don't get to make the list.

785
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:57,720
Speaker 1: And I like chemicals. I think, let me go on record,

786
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: go ahead, just throw something at me, throw it, Throw

787
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: an organic avocado at me. As I say this, I

788
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 1: like the chemicals. I dig down the less us used

789
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: to just be don't snort cocaine. Now I can't snort cocaine.

790
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 1: I can't eat chemicals. And it was a vegetable I

791
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: was eating. It's a vegetable. Where did vegetables become villains?

792
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 1: Who's list is this? Well, you know you're really on

793
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,840
Speaker 1: a homeschool in your kids, because if you homeschool your kids,

794
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 1: then they're gonna get you know, they're gonna get a

795
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 1: more better relationship. So homeschool your kids, Well, you have

796
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 1: to socialize your kids in a great environment as well.

797
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: And if you homeschool they are kids, you'll be socially

798
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: awkward and so no, no, but if you put them

799
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: in a social environment, they'll be tempted. But if you

800
00:50:57,480 --> 00:50:59,839
Speaker 1: don't put them in a social environment, they'll face great,

801
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: greater temptations in later days and they'll end up paying

802
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 1: on the back end. For the decisions you shielded them from.

803
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 1: Look at you, Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha, making your list

804
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 1: of what makes a good mom off of other people's opinions.

805
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 1: It's their opinion. You might need to homeschool one and

806
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:25,839
Speaker 1: boarding school the other. Keep one close, ship one off.

807
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 1: Who knows. But you said only one thing you gotta do,

808
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: stay close to me. Only one thing is necessary because

809
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: I will never pull you apart. If you are being

810
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: pulled apart by the demands of your life, let me

811
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:50,399
Speaker 1: tell you something about the list that you're living by.

812
00:51:50,840 --> 00:52:01,880
Speaker 1: It's not his. It's not his list. That might have

813
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: been your mom's list. She might have demanded more from

814
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: you than you were able to give, but that's not

815
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:10,799
Speaker 1: his list. Others might have expected things out of you

816
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 1: that you weren't able to fulfill. God never will if

817
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: he if he wills you to do it, he will

818
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 1: walk with you through it. Whose list is this, Jesus,

819
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:29,279
Speaker 1: I need help with this list. Now. I'm going to

820
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 1: show you how far Martha comes in the scripture, and

821
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: y'all can sit down, and I want you to come up,

822
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: because Martha in this passage, she's in a tough spot.

823
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 1: She's in a really tough spot, and in a way

824
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 1: we don't get much closure in the passage itself because

825
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 1: it kind of just ends with Jesus saying, Hey, I

826
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 1: know you're resourceful, I know you're responsible, I know you're respectful.

827
00:52:54,400 --> 00:53:04,840
Speaker 1: But Mary is present and isn't present. She's pulled. So

828
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 1: since she's pulled, she begins to resent. It's a recipe

829
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: for resentment. Trying to please everybody, trying to be everything,

830
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 1: trying to achieve everything, trying to achieve eight pack abs

831
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:28,439
Speaker 1: while also going back to school. All of that amalgamation

832
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: of what you think it needs means to achieve that

833
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: comes from culture, that comes from comparison, that comes from condemnation.

834
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:37,920
Speaker 1: It does not come from Christ. It is a recipe

835
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 1: for resentment and for you to just keep adding to

836
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: your life what you think you need to be for

837
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 1: God to love you more, what you think you need

838
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 1: to do for somebody else to love you more, what

839
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 1: you think you need to achieve in order to be

840
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 1: worthy of the life that God gave you by his grace.

841
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 1: Remember your expectation, even of yourself plus other's limitations, even

842
00:53:57,120 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: if it's your own minus grace is a four recentment

843
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 1: and now Martha's screaming in the kitchen. Does anybody care

844
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:14,319
Speaker 1: that I'm tired? Does anybody care? Then I'm doing this

845
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 1: for them? Does anybody care? Jesus? Is what she said?

846
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 1: Don't you care? Don't you care that I'm doing all

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Speaker 1: the work by myself? And she said, I care, but

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Speaker 1: not about your work. I care about your worry. And

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Speaker 1: you want me to help you with your work. But

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Speaker 1: I want to help you with your worry. So I

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Speaker 1: want to take your list and I want to walk

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Speaker 1: with you through it, and I want to show you

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Speaker 1: in this season of your life. I'm not talking to

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Speaker 1: Martha Marth anymore. I'm talking to you you God wants

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Speaker 1: to show you in this season of your life where

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Speaker 1: you are being paralyzed because you are being pulled. That's

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Speaker 1: a picture of worry, isn't it? Being pulled on both

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Speaker 1: sides and going nowhere? Being pulled and spent and tired

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Speaker 1: by making no progress. Don't you care? Lord? He says,

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Speaker 1: I care. I care so much that I want you

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Speaker 1: to be present with me so that you do not

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Speaker 1: resent the demands of your life that you are trying

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Speaker 1: to fulfill without me. This is the same thing that

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Speaker 1: Martha asked Jesus when her brother Lazarus got sick. Does

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Speaker 1: anybody know this story? Wave at me? If you know

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Speaker 1: the story of a man called Lazarus, Did you know

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Speaker 1: that his big sister was Martha? Did you know that

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Speaker 1: his village was called Bethany? How must it have felt

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Speaker 1: for Martha not only to cook for Jesus and his disciples,

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Speaker 1: but to care for a sick brother. Usually men would

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Speaker 1: pay for the bills, but Lazarus couldn't. There's no mention

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Speaker 1: of a husband. Martha is doing it by herself. And

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Speaker 1: that's why it hit a nerve when she said, don't

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Speaker 1: you care that she's left me to do it by myself?

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Speaker 1: And it can feel like that, and it has felt

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Speaker 1: like that for some of us. Do you really expect

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Speaker 1: me to be here and there? I can only be

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Speaker 1: one place at one time. That's right, that's right. And

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Speaker 1: when Lazarus got sick, Martha sent word to Jesus saying,

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Speaker 1: the one that you love is sick. This is in

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Speaker 1: John chapter eleven. You can read it when you get home.

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Speaker 1: She said, the one that you love is sick. But

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Speaker 1: when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where

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Speaker 1: he was and Lazarus died, and on the fourth day

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Speaker 1: after the body was thought to have been void of

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Speaker 1: the spirit, which evacuated according to their custom. On the

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Speaker 1: third day, Jesus shows up. He shows up late, and

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Speaker 1: Martha meets him at the gate. And I want to

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Speaker 1: show you how far he's come, because I asked the Lord,

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Speaker 1: where do I land this message to help those who

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Speaker 1: feel like this today, who feel like this, no place

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Speaker 1: to sit, no one to help, nothing to think. And

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Speaker 1: I realized that although in the passage it only ends

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Speaker 1: with Martha being corrected in John chapter eleven, give me

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Speaker 1: the scripture on the screen, please, She calls him Lord.

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Speaker 1: Remember her brother has died, but he's still Lord. Remember

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Speaker 1: he disappointed her expectation, but he's still Lord. Remember he

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Speaker 1: didn't do what she asked him to do, but he's

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Speaker 1: still Lord. And I'm about to show you one of

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Speaker 1: the most major transformations in scripture. Here is this woman, Martha, Martha,

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Speaker 1: who was so distracted and divided that she was coming

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Speaker 1: apart at the scenes. Does anybody care that I'm slaving?

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Speaker 1: Does anybody care that I'm working? Does anybody care that

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Speaker 1: I'm serving? Lord? Martha said to Jesus, if you had

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Speaker 1: been here, my brother would not have died. But I

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Speaker 1: know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.

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Speaker 1: You missed it. There's been a switch. Tell somebody, there's

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Speaker 1: been a switch. When we saw Martha in Luke chapter ten,

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Speaker 1: she was working off her list. But look what she

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Speaker 1: says in John chapter eleven, verse twenty two. But I

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Speaker 1: know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.

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Speaker 1: So she has learned the life lesson. It is his list,

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Speaker 1: not my list, that matters in this season of my life.

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Speaker 1: And I want to speak to everybody who has been

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Speaker 1: living off of your list.

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Speaker 5: You have been listing your liabilities, listing your limitations, listing

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Speaker 5: your reasons to feel bad, listing your reasons to feel shameful,

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Speaker 5: listing the adversaries that are against you, listing the disadvantage

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Speaker 5: of your season.

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Speaker 1: Shift your attention to his list. And when she did that,

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to preach. When she did that, when she

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Speaker 1: said God will give you whatever you ask, get ready

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Speaker 1: to shout over verse twenty three, Jesus said to her,

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Speaker 1: your brother will rise again. So let me preach the

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Speaker 1: whole sermon my expectation plus others. Limitation is a recipe

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Speaker 1: for resentment. But watch this. My faith plus God's presence

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Speaker 1: is a recipe for resurrection. The moment you get focused,

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Speaker 1: whoop on his list? Catch what I'm saying. The moment

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Speaker 1: you begin to believe that he is who he says

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Speaker 1: he is. He can do what he says he can do.

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Speaker 6: He is God all by himself, doesn't need any help,

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Speaker 6: doesn't need an assistant, doesn't need an agenda, doesn't need

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Speaker 6: a calendar, doesn't need a schedule, doesn't need a committee

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Speaker 6: to bless.

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Speaker 1: This is his list and a letter to the tomb.

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Speaker 1: Step by step, and Lazarus came forth, and everything that

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Speaker 1: would try to pull Martha away, No, no, no, you

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Speaker 1: can't get distracted. Now you've got to stay close to him.

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Speaker 1: One thing is necessary. One thing is necessary. Jesus said,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put your list down to one item. Do

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Speaker 1: what I say. If I don't tell you to do it,

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Speaker 1: I don't care what pressure culture puts on you to

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Speaker 1: do it. Do what I say. Be who I called

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Speaker 1: you to be. Let me do my job in your life,

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Speaker 1: and you will see when you get to the tomb,

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Speaker 1: and the word says, Lazarus come forth, if you will

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Speaker 1: stay close to me, I will show you something that

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Speaker 1: you did not even know to play inform. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: stay right there because God brought you to this moment.

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Speaker 1: It's a Martha Martha moment. It's decided. But instead of

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Speaker 1: feeling bad about what you didn't get or being distracted

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Speaker 1: by a phone that rings in the middle of your clothes,

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Speaker 1: you are going to stay focused on what God has

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Speaker 1: put in front of you for this season. He did

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Speaker 1: this so you don't have to.

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