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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message

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Speaker 1: we're studying from Luke chapter ten, verses thirty eight through

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Speaker 1: forty two. Today we're gonna talk a little bit about Well,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a very practical message. I think

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Speaker 1: would be a lot of fun too. If you participate,

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Speaker 1: sometimes you can help the preacher preach better and you

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Speaker 1: don't even know it. So I just invite you to

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to do. But I'm gonna tell you this.

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Speaker 1: The sooner you look like you get it, the sooner

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Speaker 1: I can let you go. So you can speed this

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Speaker 1: along today just by looking interested, to shake your head

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Speaker 1: like this, we get it, we get it, we get it.

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Speaker 1: This is one of those little Bible passages just that

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Speaker 1: you can't quite figure out why this part got included

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Speaker 1: in the Bible, because it seems pretty small, little insignificant

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Speaker 1: in the scope of the whole narrative of Jesus going

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Speaker 1: to the Cross and rising from the dead, and then

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Speaker 1: little things like this get told in the Bible. And

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Speaker 1: I want to use this for the third installment of

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Speaker 1: trigger taking back your mind in the age of anxiety,

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Speaker 1: look at somebody and say, you look less stressed than

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Speaker 1: the last time I saw you. You know, it's always

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Speaker 1: awkward because I tell people to say things to their

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Speaker 1: neighbors and there's always one person who's like independently minded

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Speaker 1: and they're like ah ah, But then the person next

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Speaker 1: to them is like totally a rule follower, and they'll

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Speaker 1: turn to the other person and start to say it

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Speaker 1: and then like, oh, you're not actually doing it. You're

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Speaker 1: a rebel and you're going to hell. So this little

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Speaker 1: passage is going to give us some practical insight today

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Speaker 1: and help us get our minds focused and help us get,

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Speaker 1: you know, a concentration on what matters. At least that's

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Speaker 1: our prayer. Luke, Chapter ten, verse thirty eight. And even

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Speaker 1: Jesus and his disciples were on their way, So something

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Speaker 1: is about to happen while they're on the way somewhere else,

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Speaker 1: and some of God's greatest invitations will happen through life's interruptions.

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Speaker 1: It will be places that we didn't plan on going,

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Speaker 1: and it will be through conversations that we didn't plan

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Speaker 1: on having that sometimes God will give his greatest blessings.

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Speaker 1: How many can testify to that? Maybe you met your

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Speaker 1: wife not even trying to meet a woman. You were

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Speaker 1: moves proved otherwise, and then you just happened to I've

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Speaker 1: met people here who signed up to serve on the

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Speaker 1: parking team and ended up on a honeymoon in Turks

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Speaker 1: and Caicos, And so it happens, right, did that happen? Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it happens. I'm telling you just on the way, And

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Speaker 1: I pointed out because since we're talking about distractions today

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Speaker 1: and that's our central subject matter, we need to understand

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Speaker 1: that not everything that you didn't plan on is a distraction.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes the distraction is the thing you planned to do

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Speaker 1: that God didn't even want you to do. But you

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Speaker 1: made up your mind what you were going to do

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Speaker 1: before you even asked God what you were supposed to do. Amen,

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Speaker 1: I am I'm gonna preach this. She said preach that, well, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm already halfway there. So study sometime in the Bible

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Speaker 1: all the things that happened on the way or along

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Speaker 1: way to Jerusalem for a festival. Ultimately, Jesus was going

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Speaker 1: to Jerusalem later in order to pay for our sins

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Speaker 1: and die on the cross. That's what he came for.

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Speaker 1: And since he knew what he came for, he could

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Speaker 1: can't go die, Jesus was able to say, get behind me, Satan.

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Speaker 1: What you represent right now is in opposition to the

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Speaker 1: got to keep moving toward Jerusalem. That's for somebody. You're

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

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Speaker 1: how Martha responds. I'd love to know, but it doesn't say.

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Speaker 1: It just ends right there. The movie just goes to

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Speaker 1: the credits right there. And I want to talk to

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Speaker 1: title for this message, is the movie in my mind.

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Speaker 1: I wonder do you have a similar movie? Have you

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Speaker 1: ever bought a ticket to the theater of your own imagination,

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Speaker 1: only to demand money back because that plot sucked. Seeing

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Speaker 1: the same old things and the same old hurts and

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Speaker 1: the same old memories. You know, Sometimes the movie in

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Speaker 1: my mind, I edit together scenes that should have been deleted,

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Speaker 1: and yet they're on repeat in my mind. One time,

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Speaker 1: Finding Nemo got stuck in our DVD player in the

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Speaker 1: in Holly's Yukon, and so we know every scene from

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Speaker 1: Nemo because just every time we got in the car.

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Speaker 1: I feel like certain things in my life are like that.

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Speaker 1: Just you know, I'm like Dory, swimming around, just barely

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Speaker 1: remembering Wallaby Way and just swimming around the same memories.

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Speaker 1: The movie in my mind. Now, I need to tell you,

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Speaker 1: the movie in my mind is rated R for ridiculous

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Speaker 1: and redundant. And I don't know about your taste in movies.

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Speaker 1: Usually when I get to know somebody the way that

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Speaker 1: of music do you like? And what's your favorite movie?

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Speaker 1: the answer to that, because if they go, well, I

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Speaker 1: don't really like music, I'm done with you. You You have

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Speaker 1: no soul. And then I'd rather, you're not believe in God,

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Speaker 1: but at least I can convert you. But when we

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Speaker 1: talk about movies, people act real funny. If they know

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Speaker 1: I'm a pastor, they'll always say this Christian answer. You know,

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Speaker 1: been her the Ten Commandments start listing every Christian movie,

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Speaker 1: and I want to stop them. They're facing the giants fireproof,

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Speaker 1: don't usually even like Christian movies. I appreciate good messages

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Speaker 1: and wholesome family entertainment. It's just as sometimes I like

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Speaker 1: gritty movies. I don't know why. Maybe I like comparing

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Speaker 1: maybe it's a relief to me that at least it's

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Speaker 1: not my idea of a good movie. Okay, if everybody

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Speaker 1: fish during the counter Caspin for Breath, blood everywhere, Blood

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Speaker 1: of the Lamb. Of course, for the church people, it's

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Speaker 1: just a different kind of movie. In one of our

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Speaker 1: campus Faster Wives, she was telling me, you know, when

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Speaker 1: don't need drama, need escape. And yet the worst movie

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Speaker 1: from the movie. You ever done? This movie in my mind?

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Speaker 1: And so here comes a scene in the Bible we

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Speaker 1: There's this weird little little movie, this little scene, at

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Speaker 1: least with a really weak plot. You know, Jesus came

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Speaker 1: But Martha is the one that I relate to. I

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Speaker 1: And just like I like Martha a lot more than

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Speaker 1: You can tell why he likes Martha because Martha is

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Speaker 1: I've heard I've heard preachers. I've heard preachers annihilate Martha

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Speaker 1: the Like Bill, let's have a south for Martha. She's

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Speaker 1: I said, she's been with me like eight and a

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Speaker 1: we need a little bit of Martha. It's Martha's house.

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Speaker 1: five you back, say you don't have to. You don't

428
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Speaker 1: have to. You don't have to do any of it.

429
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: You don't have to study for your test this year.

430
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: You don't have to pass your class. You don't have

431
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: to get a job or ever be employed, or have

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00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: any money with which to enjoy your life. You don't

433
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 1: have to. I get to. I want to. I want

434
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: to get a want to back in our worship. You

435
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, where the worship leaders don't have

436
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: to work so hard and play your song and that's

437
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: my jam and I just love that song. I want

438
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: you to be able to throw up your hands to

439
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 1: anything they sing that mentions the name of the one

440
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: who sets you free. And if you're singing about Jesus,

441
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: I don't care if I'm watching on a screen on

442
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: an iPhone or at rock Hill. I'm not praising him

443
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: because the preacher told me to. I want to give

444
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: him praise. I want to give him glory. I want

445
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: to if you want to, if you want to. There

446
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: was a girl who came here from church from Danville.

447
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: Whereas Danville I don't know. They said it was like

448
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 1: an eight hour drive. She drove eight hours. Somebody else

449
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: wouldn't drive eight minutes. But that's all right, does God

450
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: will always have somebody who wants to waiting to take

451
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: the place of somebody who wants to complain. This is

452
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: starting to hurt about what I gotta do. I want

453
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 1: to raise my kids. I don't always feel like it.

454
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: But what does feeling like it have to do with it?

455
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: I want to kill this lion. I want to kill despair.

456
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 1: I want to sonic a liah. I want to sit

457
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: it his me some privilege. It's a privilege. You gotta

458
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: fight Martha. Martha will make you miserable. Yeah, I gotta

459
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: you gotta go, you gotta gotta got it. No, no,

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00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: no, no no no, I'm going, and I want to go.

461
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to. Man, there's nothing worse

462
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: than having somebody doing something for you because they ought to.

463
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel right. It makes me nervous when somebody's

464
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Speaker 1: doing something because they should. I don't want your should,

465
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 1: love should. I don't think God does either. And the

466
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: worst word we use is ought. I ought to. That's worse.

467
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: And I've got to because now you're obligated and you're

468
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: not even doing it. So now you got all the

469
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: burden of obligation with none of the efficiency of commitment.

470
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: Buck is so funny. Now you never heard him make jokes,

471
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 1: but he is hilarious. You just gotta give him the

472
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: right thing. We were working out one day a few

473
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: years ago and he made me a workout and I

474
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: went in. I looked at the workout. It was some legs,

475
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: some burpies. I said, he said something. You know, he

476
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: respects me in and I pay his salary. But he

477
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: said it. He said it so cool. He said, what

478
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: kind of workout do you like? I heard him. I

479
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: heard what he was saying. You make that same noise

480
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: every time you walk in here, no matter what I

481
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: write on the board. You hear Martha in the kitchen.

482
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: You know she's making all kinds of noise in the kitchen.

483
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: She makings from Mary and Jesus can hear banging pops together.

484
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: And what's really weird about the passage is Martha is

485
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: simultaneously the judge who is telling Mary what she needs

486
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 1: to do, and the victim. Because this is the third

487
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: attitude that causes us to be distracted. Remember, distracted is

488
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 1: not an action, It's an attitude to a state of mind.

489
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: So now she's in the third element that makes a

490
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: really bad movie in your mind, stresses you, out keeps you,

491
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: keeps you from really entering into the joy of the Lord.

492
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: And that is victimization, is taking on the victim mentality Lord,

493
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: she left me to do all the work by myself.

494
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: On the surface, this has since, but being mad at

495
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:07,719
Speaker 1: Mary doesn't make your life any easier. You know, like

496
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: maybe Mary should help, but that's not your place. You

497
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: can't make Mary do anything. And so she's she's judging

498
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: one minute, and she's a victim the next. And that's

499
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Speaker 1: why the Bible says that you don't want to get

500
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: in this habit of judging, because you too will be judged.

501
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: You will become the victim of your own judgments. When

502
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: you don't let other people operate in their grace, you

503
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 1: will find very little grace for yourself when you need it.

504
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: You know, you start scrolling, and you know, for a

505
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: few pictures you're okay, Ah, their baby is kind of cute.

506
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: The real stuff that you don't say to them, you know,

507
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: kind of cute. No, they're on vacation again. May know

508
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: they can't afford to be on two vacations. Martha's getting mad,

509
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:11,280
Speaker 1: madder and madder and madder with every flick of the finger. Huh,

510
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: must be nice. Does she think she looks good in that?

511
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: Somebody needs to tell her? Tell her Jesus, tell her

512
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: that's too tight, Tell her that dress fit her in

513
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: a previous lifetime. Was someone y'all should come to the

514
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 1: nine thirty. That's when I'm fresh, alert and guarded. So

515
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: Martha is mad, and in a sense she has a

516
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: right to be. But remember something now, he said in

517
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: verse thirty eight, where it says, not only was it

518
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: Martha's home, her name was under deed, but it was

519
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:58,359
Speaker 1: Martha's idea to begin with. As Jesus and his disciples

520
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 1: were on their way into a village where a woman

521
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: named Martha opened her home to him, Now touch the

522
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: person next to you and say this was your idea.

523
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 1: Come on, now, you're the one who wanted to have

524
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: Peter and Bartholomew and Judas. It was your idea to

525
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: let all these former fishermen up in our house. Don't

526
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 1: get mad at me because you wanted to have a party.

527
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 1: But now you want me to panic because you over committed.

528
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 1: Don't move Mary. Don't let people who over commit drag

529
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:44,840
Speaker 1: down your priorities into the chaos of their urgency because

530
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,280
Speaker 1: they made bad decisions. And don't do it to yourself either.

531
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 1: Don't make yourself the victim. Everything that I'm stressed about

532
00:35:53,960 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: today is something that I committed to yesterday, about a

533
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: schedule that I made. I'm gonna take these kids to

534
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: the game. No you don't. You do not have what parents?

535
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:15,280
Speaker 1: Since when did we get in this prison of having

536
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: to be at everything? I'm okay this side. Holy Spirit

537
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 1: just left that part of the church. Some of y'all

538
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: need to drop your kids off at soccer and go

539
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 1: out on a date with your wife because your kid

540
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: is an average soccer player and they're not gonna score anyway.

541
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: So go to Bonefish. Not every game, go to some games,

542
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: but god, my god, every once in a while, it's

543
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,919
Speaker 1: good for our kids to get the message the world

544
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: does not revolve around you and your dance recital. If

545
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: you want to dance, baby girl, I'll be there. It's wonderful,

546
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: and I'll saw up when I can. But I might

547
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: not be there every time, and I'm not going to

548
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 1: be many places at once, so i gotta be where

549
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: I am and be okay with that. I feel freedom

550
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: breaking out in the church right now. Now go to

551
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:22,479
Speaker 1: the next game. Don't let Martha, who comes to every game,

552
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: make you feel bad because you couldn't make that one.

553
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: It's okay. This is therapeutic. This is one hundred and

554
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: fifty dollars an hour work right here, trying to keep

555
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: you off that expensive couch and just give you this,

556
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: this teaching from the Word of God. Because when you

557
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:49,760
Speaker 1: live in that place of manipulation, obligation, victimization, the next

558
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: thing that happens is interpretation, and the skill of interpretation

559
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: is so important. It's like your life is a is

560
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: a foreign film, and what God has planned for you,

561
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: the events that happened to you, you don't always know

562
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: what it really means. And when you're under pressure, and

563
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: when you play the movie in your mind where you

564
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: remember different ways you were offended, which I do so often,

565
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: and what I've got to do, and how it's not

566
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: fair and how others don't and how others should, and

567
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: all these things that I can tend to dwell on

568
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: like Martha, that Martha in all of our minds will

569
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: start to come to this conclusion This is the interpretation.

570
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: Jesus will not do what Martha wants him to do,

571
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,839
Speaker 1: and Mary won't do what Martha wants Martha Mary to do,

572
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: and nobody is saying their lines like Martha wrote them

573
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:50,720
Speaker 1: in her mind. So here's what she says next. Lord,

574
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: all this is in verse forty. Lord, don't you care?

575
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 1: You see it? Since she can't control everybody, she thinks

576
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 1: that nobody cares about her. Since she can't control the situation,

577
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: she interprets the situation, Lord, don't you care? And Jesus

578
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: is like, no, not really. I care about you, but

579
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: I don't care about what you're cooking in there right now.

580
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: I came to be with you. And since I can't

581
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: accept the fact that God loves me more than he

582
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: loves what I can do for him, I interpret the

583
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 1: fact that he's not doing exactly what I want him

584
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: to do, and others aren't doing exactly what I want

585
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: him to do. I interpret that to me that they

586
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: don't care about me. I imagined it so many different ways, Martha, Martha.

587
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: Because he said it twice, Martha, she didn't listen first time, Martha,

588
00:39:54,400 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 1: or like this, Martha, Martha. I've been here in it

589
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: more tenderly lately Martha Martha. So I always thought that

590
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 1: this passage was about work in worship. I thought that

591
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: Martha was working, Mary was worshiping, and that worshiping was

592
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: better than working. But really you can't make that case

593
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: if you read the Bible in context, because Paul said

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00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: that to live your life as a sacrifice is your

595
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: spiritual act of worship, and that has nothing to do

596
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: with a song that has nothing to do with Sunday morning.

597
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 1: So if he's not contrasting work in worship, maybe he's

598
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: advocating that the two should become one. That there should

599
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: be a way that I try to live my life

600
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: by the grace of God and move into that is

601
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: more like Mary. Not to kick Martha out of the

602
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: house because it's her house, and not to stop being

603
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 1: busy or start feeling bad about how you've been spread

604
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: so thin, but to blur the line between work and worship.

605
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 1: A few weeks ago, we were having a staff event

606
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: and our interns were serving our staff on this particular day,

607
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 1: and they had put in a very long day. But

608
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we're having a worship

609
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 1: service with our staff, and it was so strong what

610
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: was happening in the auditorium that the interns on their

611
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: way to tear down chairs and tables and clean the

612
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: floors and do the work, got caught up in a

613
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: spirit of worship. There was a TV in a room.

614
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: One of our interns, Ellie, pulled out her phone and

615
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: she caught this moment when they stopped working for a

616
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: moment and started worshiping. And see how Martha can become

617
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: merry and Mary needs Martha because you see that girl

618
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 1: on her knees right there, and that you see that,

619
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: see that girl head banging right there. See that white

620
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: guy clapping off rhythm right there. All that is worshiped.

621
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: But then what they did in video is when they

622
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,879
Speaker 1: stopped singing and started serving, and they took that same

623
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: spirit with a mop and a broom. And my goal

624
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: in worship today is not just that we have a

625
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: moment in the presence of God, but that when we

626
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: leave and we grab our mop and our job and

627
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: our kids and our responsibilities and yes, our tests and yes,

628
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: our books and yes the things that we have to do,

629
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: that we work like we worship, and we worship like

630
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: we work, and we find ourselves with extraordinary joy in

631
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: the congregation, and extraordinary joy in the kitchen, and extraordinary

632
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: joy that spills over and overflows, and this becomes a

633
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: way of life. I know you got to go. I'm

634
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: almost done because the fifth thing that I want to

635
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: discuss with you is the most important of all, and

636
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: it's expectation. More than anything else. This movie in my

637
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: mind is about my expectation. And when the movie in

638
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 1: my mind doesn't match the scene in my life, there

639
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: is a tendency for me to begin to think that

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Speaker 1: maybe God is not the author of my story. Bring

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Speaker 1: the movie. In my mind. I saw Martha who saw

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Speaker 1: her to be an extra. And now she's acting extra

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Speaker 1: that was not hers script. And I wonder if you've

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Speaker 1: been sitting in the wrong seat, and God gave me

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Speaker 1: this message so you could switch positions and sit like

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Speaker 1: Mary for a little while at his feet and say, God,

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Speaker 1: this is your movie, These are your gifts, this is

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Speaker 1: your temple my body, this is your assignment. God. You

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Speaker 1: know why Mary was so good at interpreting what Jesus

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Speaker 1: was doing because she did something Martha didn't do. She listened,

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Speaker 1: She listened, and Martha, Martha's too busy giving directions. She

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Speaker 1: took a while to learn this. It took a little

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Speaker 1: while of learn this. It takes a while to learn

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Speaker 1: that this is not your place. Everybody that said amen,

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Speaker 1: just now is over fifty. It takes that long. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you, you don't want this seat because you get

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Speaker 1: it one way in your mind, how it needs to be,

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Speaker 1: how it should be. And now you're miserable, like Martha.

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Speaker 1: Didn't the universe get my script? Didn't my future husband

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Speaker 1: get my script? Where is he future wife? Whatever? Everybody said,

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Speaker 1: why you always put it on the women. You're such

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Speaker 1: a sexist. I'm not a sexist. I'm an equal opportunity offender.

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Speaker 1: I'll try to make everybody in the sermon, but this

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Speaker 1: is not mine place. And see, it makes sense that

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Speaker 1: this scene, this little, weird little scene. Now that we've

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Speaker 1: this works. Yeah, but to really understand the scene, you

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Speaker 1: have to put it in context of the whole story,

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Speaker 1: don't you don't you you can't understand the movie just

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Speaker 1: by one scene. The reason this simple little introduction to

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Speaker 1: because of what the Bible records in John eleven. That's

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Speaker 1: where their brother Lazarus gets sick unexpectedly and they send

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Speaker 1: for Jesus to come heal him. So go get that

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Speaker 1: rabbi that stayed at our house, that rabbi who ate

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Speaker 1: my Brussels sprouts and tell him to come heal my brother.

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Speaker 1: And Jesus doesn't show up for his casting call. He misses,

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Speaker 1: you know, Martha. Martha's got it all scripted out. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Lazarus is sick and and and Jesus is gonna come

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Speaker 1: heal him. Lights camera, Jesus. Jesus don't show up until

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Speaker 1: after Lazarus died, and Mary, the director of the movie,

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Speaker 1: now has to reconcile what happened in her life with

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Speaker 1: the way she planned it in the movie in her mind,

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Speaker 1: and she's frustrated and angry. In fact, you're gonna laugh

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Speaker 1: at this verse in John eleven, after Lazarus died and

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Speaker 1: Jesus shows up late. Mary, this is funny. Can I

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Speaker 1: read you this? You got a few more seconds, Martha said, Uh.

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Speaker 1: When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, this is twenty Yeah.

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Speaker 1: There she went out to meet him. She's waiting at

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Speaker 1: the road when he arrives. She's got her hand on

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Speaker 1: her hip and Mary stayed home. Mary's got her head

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Speaker 1: on her pillow. They're both playing their role. Mary's like dead,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing to do. Martha's like, it's about time. Did

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Speaker 1: you not get the script? Did you not get the

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Speaker 1: missed You missed them. You didn't say you were supposed

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Speaker 1: to say, be healed, and he was supposed to be well,

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Speaker 1: and you did it. Jesus didn't come to read your script.

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Speaker 1: He came to flip the script and to show you

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Speaker 1: something that you never could have expected, a movie you

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Speaker 1: didn't know to write, immeasurably more than you ask her. Imagine,

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Speaker 1: I feel the spirit of God on this message right now.

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Speaker 1: I know you wanted me to show up and heal him.

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Speaker 1: I didn't come to heal him. I came to show

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Speaker 1: you something greater. And one time God showed me that

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Speaker 1: the reason he can't meet all of our expectations is

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Speaker 1: because if he always met my expects, he would never

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Speaker 1: have the opportunity to exceed my expectations. He's making this movie,

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Speaker 1: not you. He's written this script, not me. And so

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Speaker 1: Martha's like, you should have been here. This is not

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Speaker 1: the way I wrote the movie. This is not the

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Speaker 1: way I imagined it. And she's waiting at the rod

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Speaker 1: verse twenty one. But even if you you would have

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Speaker 1: been here, my brother wouldn't have died Verse twenty two.

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Speaker 1: But I know that even now, God will give you

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Speaker 1: whatever you ask. You see, you're getting out of the

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Speaker 1: director's chair a little bit. She's still working. Jesus, by

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Speaker 1: the way, I know you can still do it. Come on,

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Speaker 1: women do this to men all the time. How do

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Speaker 1: you carry all those groceries, you big strong man. I

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Speaker 1: know you still do it. It didn't go the way

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Speaker 1: I wanted. And she said, your brother will rise again?

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Speaker 1: What she still got her script? I know he'll rise

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Speaker 1: again on the resurrection the last day. I know, JESSI no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I came not just to read my lines in the

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Speaker 1: script that you wrote for your life. But I came

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Speaker 1: to change your expectation for something greater than you even

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Speaker 1: knew to ask for. And Jesus said to her, watch,

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Speaker 1: I am the resurrection and the life and the one

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Speaker 1: who believes in Me will live even though they die

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Speaker 1: next verse, and whoever lives by believing in Me will

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Speaker 1: never die. Do you believe this, that's the question. Do

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Speaker 1: you believe this? Do you believe that you are not

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Speaker 1: the one making this movie? That this is not my place?

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Speaker 1: This is this is my place. So let's take a

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Speaker 1: moment in God's presence today and just consider that maybe

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Speaker 1: it's not our life that's making us anxious. Maybe it's

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Speaker 1: the movie in our mind, what we wanted it to be,

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Speaker 1: what we always imagined it would be, what we think

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Speaker 1: we have to be. The saddest thing about Martha is

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Speaker 1: that she's frustrated trying to meet an expectation that Jesus

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Speaker 1: did not even have of her. Jesus never even asked

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Speaker 1: her for all this. Jesus came into her house to

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Speaker 1: be with her. Are you frustrated with yourself because you're

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Speaker 1: expecting something of yourself that God never even put on

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Speaker 1: you to begin with? I came to day to break

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Speaker 1: the spirit of manipulation, to break the spirit of obligation,

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Speaker 1: to break the the victim mentality, to let you know

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Speaker 1: that just because God isn't doing it like you want

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Speaker 1: him to do. It doesn't mean he stopped caring about you.

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Speaker 1: I'm really thankful for one thing says that Jesus raised

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Speaker 1: Lazarus from the dead, which Mary never would have put

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Speaker 1: in her movie. She didn't know it was possible when

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Speaker 1: you let him sit in this seat. What he has

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Speaker 1: for you is so much better than what you have

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Speaker 1: for you. I'm telling you by faith what I know

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Speaker 1: by experience. Let's just stand up like you're in a hurry,

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Speaker 1: because it'll pressure me to finish this. I could talk

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Speaker 1: to you all day. I love this stuff. In John

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Speaker 1: chapter twelve, verse one, it says that a little bit later,

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Speaker 1: on six days before the Passover, Jesus came to bethany

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Speaker 1: where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

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Speaker 1: Now watch verse two. This is gonna bless you here

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Speaker 1: at dinner was given in Jesus' honor. Martha served. See,

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Speaker 1: she finally got it. She's not talking, she's not manipulating,

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Speaker 1: she's not serving out of obligation and guilty anymore. She's

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Speaker 1: serving because she has seen God do what only God

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Speaker 1: could do. And I am here at your service God.

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Speaker 1: What you want me to be, I'm ready to be

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Speaker 1: that now, and so I throw off the expectations of others,

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Speaker 1: and I throw off the expectations of self. Do what

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Speaker 1: you wanted do God, this is your story, this is

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Speaker 1: your movie, and I am your child, and I am

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Speaker 1: at your feet and I trust you in this season

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Speaker 1: of my life. Well, I hope you enjoyed the podcast today.

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Speaker 1: If you did, there are just a couple things I'd

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Speaker 1: love for you to do. Number One, subscribe to our show.

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Speaker 1: That way, the most recent episode will always be in

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Speaker 1: your feed, waiting for you, ready when you are. And Secondly,

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Speaker 1: if this ministry has impacted you and you'd like to

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Speaker 1: help us continue to reach others, you can click the

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Speaker 1: link in the description and you can give now and

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Speaker 1: I'll see you next time on the Elevation Podcast