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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.

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Speaker 2: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope

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

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Speaker 1: In your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: We're studying from Luke chapter ten, verses thirty eight through

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Speaker 2: forty two. Today we're gonna talk a little bit about Well,

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Speaker 2: it's going to be a very practical message. I think

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Speaker 2: it would be a lot of fun too. If you participate.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you can help the preacher preach better and you

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Speaker 2: don't even know it. So I just invite you to

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Speaker 2: whatever you want to do. But I'm gonna tell you this.

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Speaker 2: The sooner you look like you get it, the sooner

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Speaker 2: I can let you go. So you can speed this

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Speaker 2: along today just by looking interested, to shake your head

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Speaker 2: like this, we get it, We get it, we get it.

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Speaker 2: This is one of those little Bible messages that you

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Speaker 2: can't quite figure out why this part got included in

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Speaker 2: the Bible, because it seems pretty small, little insignificant in

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Speaker 2: the scope of the whole narrative of Jesus going to

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Speaker 2: the Cross and rising from the dead, and then little

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Speaker 2: things like this get told in the Bible. And I

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Speaker 2: want to use this for the third installment of trigger

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Speaker 2: taking back your mind in the age of anxiety. Look

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Speaker 2: at somebody and say, you look less stressed than the

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Speaker 2: last time I saw you. You know, it's always awkward

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Speaker 2: because I tell people to say things to their neighbors

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Speaker 2: and there's always one person who's like independently minded and

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Speaker 2: they're like ah ah, But then the person next to

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Speaker 2: them is like totally a rule follower, and they'll turn

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Speaker 2: to the other person and start to say it and

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Speaker 2: then like, oh, you're not actually doing it.

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Speaker 1: You're a rebel and you're going to hell.

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Speaker 2: So this little passage is going to give a some

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Speaker 2: practical insight today and help us get our minds focused

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Speaker 2: and help us get, you know, a concentration on what matters.

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Speaker 2: At least that's our prayer. Luke, Chapter ten, verse thirty eight.

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Speaker 2: And even the first line has a little message in

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Speaker 2: it as Jesus and his disciples were on their way,

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Speaker 2: So something is about to happen while they're on the

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Speaker 2: way somewhere else, and some of God's greatest invitations will

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Speaker 2: happen through life's interruptions. It will be places that we

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Speaker 2: didn't plan on going, and it will be through conversations

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Speaker 2: that we didn't plan on having. That sometimes God will

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Speaker 2: give his greatest blessings. How many can testify to that.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you met your wife not even trying to meet

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Speaker 2: a woman. You were at the club trying to look

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Speaker 2: like somebody who was worthy of a date, and you

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Speaker 2: just you your dance moves proved otherwise, and then you

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Speaker 2: just happened to I've met people here who signed up

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Speaker 2: to serve on the parking team and ended up on

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Speaker 2: a honeymoon in Turks and Keikos, And so it happens, right,

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Speaker 2: did that happen? Yeah, Yeah, it happens. I'm telling you

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Speaker 2: just happened on the way. And I pointed out because

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Speaker 2: since we're talking about distractions today and that's our central

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Speaker 2: subject matter, we need to understand that not everything that

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Speaker 2: you didn't plan on is a distraction. Sometimes the distraction

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Speaker 2: is the thing you planned to do that God didn't

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Speaker 2: even want you to do. But you made up your

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Speaker 2: mind what you were going to do before even asked

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Speaker 2: God what you.

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Speaker 1: Were supposed to do. Amen, I am I'm gonna preach this,

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Speaker 1: she said preach that, well, hey, I'm already halfway there,

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Speaker 1: So study sometime in the Bible all the things that

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Speaker 1: happened on the way or along the way. You'd be surprised.

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Speaker 2: As they were on their way to Jerusalem for a festival. Ultimately,

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Speaker 2: Jesus was going to Jerusalem later in order to pay

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Speaker 2: for our sins and die on the cross.

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Speaker 1: That's what he came for. And since he knew what

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Speaker 2: He could not be distracted by the preferences of people

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Speaker 1: And that's why when Peter said you can't.

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Speaker 2: Go die, Jesus was able to say, get behind me, Satan.

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Speaker 2: What you represent right now is in opposition to the

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Speaker 2: got to keep moving toward Jerusalem. That's for somebody. You're

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Speaker 2: on the right road, and there are a lot of

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Speaker 1: But here's what happens in this passage.

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Speaker 2: Jesus came to a village where a woman named Martha

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Speaker 2: Oh, but Martha was distracted by all the preparations that

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Speaker 1: Tell her to help me. This is funny to me.

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Speaker 1: I've read it many many times.

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Speaker 2: And then I laughed because he says their name twice, Martha, Martha.

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Speaker 2: Look at your neighbors, say their first name twice, Martha, Martha.

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Speaker 2: The Lord answered, you are worried and upset about many things,

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Speaker 2: but few things are needed, or indeed, only one. Mary

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Speaker 2: has chosen what is better, and it will not be

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Speaker 2: We don't get to see how Martha responds. I'd love

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Speaker 2: to know, but it doesn't say. It just ends right there.

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Speaker 2: The movie just goes to the credits right there. And

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about the movie

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Speaker 2: in my mind. That's my title for this message, is

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Speaker 2: the movie in my mind. I wonder do you have

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Speaker 2: a similar movie? Have you ever bought a ticket to

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Speaker 2: the theater of your own imagination, only to the and

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Speaker 2: your money back, because that plot sucked seeing the same

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Speaker 2: old things and the same old hurts and the same

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Speaker 2: old memories.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes the movie in my mind I edit together scenes

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Speaker 2: that should have been deleted, and yet they're on repeat

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Speaker 2: in my mind. One time, Finding Nemo got stuck in

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Speaker 2: our DVD player in Holly's Yukon, and so we know

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Speaker 2: every scene from Nemo because just every time we got

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Speaker 2: in the car. I feel like certain things in my

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Speaker 2: life are like that. Just you know, I'm like Dory,

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Speaker 2: swimming around, just barely remembering Wallaby Way and just swimming

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Speaker 2: around the same memories the movie in my mind. Now,

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Speaker 2: I need to tell you, the movie in my mind

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Speaker 2: is rated R for ridiculous and redundant. And I don't

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Speaker 2: know about your taste in movies. Usually when I get

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Speaker 2: to know somebody the way that I get to know

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Speaker 2: them quickly, I'll say what kind of music do you like?

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Speaker 1: And what's your favorite movie?

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Speaker 2: And I can tell whether they're worth talking to by

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Speaker 2: the answer to that, because if they go, well, I

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Speaker 1: Music, I'm done with you. You have no soul. And

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Speaker 1: then I'd rather you're not believe in God, but at

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Speaker 2: Talk about movies, people act real funny. If they know

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Speaker 2: I'm a pastor, they'll always say this Christian answer.

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Speaker 1: You know been her the Ten Commandments start listing every

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Speaker 2: They're facing the giants fireproof, and I don't have the

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Speaker 2: heart to tell them. I don't usually even like Christian movies.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate good messages and wholesome family entertainment.

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Speaker 1: It's just as sometimes I gritty movies. I don't know why.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I like.

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Speaker 2: Comparing my life to somebody else's worst life. Maybe it's

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Speaker 2: a maybe it's a relief to me that at least

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Speaker 2: it's not that my idea of a good movie. Okay,

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Speaker 2: if everybody in the movie doesn't end up dead, I'm

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Speaker 2: disappointing by the end of it. I want the villain dead,

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Speaker 2: the hero dead, the dog dead, the fish. I want

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Speaker 1: They're on the counter cassmin for bread, blood everywhere, Blood

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Speaker 2: Of course, for the church people, it's just a different

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Speaker 2: she was telling me, you know when I go to

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Speaker 2: the movies, I don't want anything that resembles my real life.

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Speaker 2: I want happy endings. I want everything to go well.

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Speaker 2: I get enough of the drama in my real life.

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Speaker 1: I'm a third grade teacher. I don't need drama. I

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Speaker 2: And yet the worst movie I ever saw was in

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Speaker 2: one this week. I had something to do, and when

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Speaker 1: You ever done? This movie? In my mind?

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Speaker 2: And so here comes a scene in the Bible we

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Speaker 2: Little movie, this little scene, at least with a really

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Speaker 2: it's in here because this is more like everyday life

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Speaker 1: Like most of us, our life is not epic all

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Speaker 2: My Monday morning usually isn't you know this miraculous good

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Speaker 1: Okay, if I get up right now, maybe I won't

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Speaker 2: You know, the most epic thing that might happen to

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Speaker 2: that they include these little everyday life things in the Bible,

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Speaker 1: And I got to tell you one more thing, and

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Speaker 1: you probably really won't like this because you already don't

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Speaker 1: like that I don't like Christian movies, and you're already

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Speaker 1: considering leaving the church and going to a real church

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Speaker 1: with a real man of God. And I wouldn't blame

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Speaker 1: you for it.

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Speaker 2: But my favorite character in this little scene is not

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Speaker 2: that Jesus took up for. But Martha is the one that.

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Speaker 3: I relate to. I don't know if I should say

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Speaker 3: this on YouTube and Facebook, And just like.

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Speaker 2: I like Martha a lot more than I like Mary.

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Speaker 2: why he likes Martha because Martha is the one that

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Speaker 2: heard I've heard preachers. I've heard preachers annihilate Martha in

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Speaker 3: And in my script, Mary is here in the kitchen

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Speaker 2: In my script, my husband comes home at five point thirty.

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Speaker 2: By all the preparations that had to be made, here's

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Speaker 2: The preparations that have to be made obligation. Sometimes you

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Speaker 3: The way I said it. Get off me. I gotta

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Speaker 1: to me. You don't gotta do any of it. It

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Speaker 1: kind of stopped me on my tracks and I start

442
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Speaker 1: playing it out.

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Speaker 2: Well, if I don't show up, who's gonna preach somebody?

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Speaker 1: Hmm.

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Speaker 2: That's true, isn't it. And if I don't want to

446
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Speaker 2: do it, somebody else does.

447
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Speaker 1: Huh? Okay, kids, not right now, I.

448
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Speaker 2: Get to go preach for the glory of God to

449
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Speaker 2: shepherd the flock over. I didn't say that. I wish

450
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Speaker 2: I was as spiritual. It takes me longer than that.

451
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Speaker 3: You know, here's a good exercise to do.

452
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Speaker 2: If you've been distracted, pulled apart, go home if you

453
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Speaker 2: got time tonight, Martha. I know you're busy, but before,

454
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Speaker 2: before the day is over, sit down and make a

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Speaker 2: list of all the things in your life that you've

456
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Speaker 2: got to do every I mean detail, dishes and phone

457
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Speaker 2: calls and bills and appointments and messages and all of it.

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Speaker 2: And then go back through the list and cross every

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Speaker 2: one of them out because you don't got to do

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Speaker 2: any of it. That is horrible grammar and great theology.

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Speaker 2: Tell somebody, I don't gotta do none of it, none

462
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Speaker 2: of it, none of it. Well, I gotta go to work, No,

463
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Speaker 2: you don't, don't go, but I gotta pay the bill.

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Speaker 1: No, you know.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to live indoors either. You don't have

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Speaker 3: to do any of it.

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Speaker 1: Hold on, let me a quick announcement. This is probably

468
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Speaker 1: really bad for church growth.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to come to church now.

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Speaker 2: Don't come here because you have to come here because

471
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 2: I owe him the glory.

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Speaker 3: And God has been so good to me. I can't

473
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Speaker 3: wait to give.

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Speaker 2: Him the praise in my life. Let everything that hot

475
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Speaker 2: breakfrays the Lord. High five of your neighbors, say.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to.

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Speaker 2: And if they don't, high five you back, say you

478
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Speaker 2: don't have to.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to. You don't have to do any

480
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Speaker 3: of it. You don't have to study for your test

481
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Speaker 3: this year. You don't have to pass your class.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to.

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Speaker 3: Get a job or ever be employed, or have any money.

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Speaker 2: With which to enjoy your life.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to. I get to. I want to.

486
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 1: I want to get a want to back in our worship.

487
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, where the worship leaders don't

488
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 2: have to work so hard and play your song and

489
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Speaker 2: that's my jam and I just.

490
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Speaker 3: Love that song. I want you to be able to

491
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Speaker 3: throw up your.

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Speaker 2: Hands to anything they sing that.

493
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Speaker 3: Mentions the name of the one who sets you free.

494
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Speaker 3: And if you're singing about Jesus, I don't care if

495
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Speaker 3: I'm watching on a screen on an iPhone or in

496
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Speaker 3: rock Hill. I'm not praising him because the preacher told

497
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Speaker 3: me to. I want to give him praise. I want

498
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Speaker 3: to give him glory. I want to if you want to,

499
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Speaker 3: if you want to.

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Speaker 2: There was a girl who came here from church from Danville.

501
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 2: Whereas Danville I don't know. They said it was like

502
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 2: an eight hour drive. She drove eight hours. Somebody else

503
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 2: wouldn't drive eight minutes. But that's all right, because God

504
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 2: will always.

505
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Speaker 1: Have somebody who wants to.

506
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 2: Waiting to take the place of somebody who wants to complain.

507
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 2: This is starting to hurt about what I gotta do.

508
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 2: I want to raise my kids. I don't always.

509
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 3: Feel like it. But what does feeling like it have.

510
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: To do with it? I want to kill this lion.

511
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 3: I want to kill this pair. I want to sonic

512
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 3: a liar. I want to sit on his beak.

513
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Speaker 1: A privilege, it's a privilege. You gotta fight Martha. Martha

514
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Speaker 1: will make you miserable. Yeah, I gotta you gotta go,

515
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: You gotta gotta got it. No, no, no, no no,

516
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Speaker 1: I'm going, and I want to go. I want to.

517
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: I want to.

518
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Speaker 2: Man, It's nothing worse than having somebody doing something for

519
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 2: you because they ought to.

520
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Speaker 1: It doesn't feel right. It makes me nervous when somebody's

521
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Speaker 1: doing something because they should. I don't want your should,

522
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: love should. I don't think God does either. And the

523
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 1: worst word we use is ought. I ought to.

524
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Speaker 2: That's worse than I've got to because now you're obligated

525
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 2: and you're not even doing it. So now you got

526
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 2: all the burden of obligation with none of the efficiency

527
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 2: of commitment. Buck is so funny. Now you never heard

528
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 2: him make jokes, but he is hilarious. You just gotta

529
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 2: give him the right thing. We were working out one

530
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 2: day a few years ago and he made me a

531
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 2: workout and I went in away. I looked at the workout.

532
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 2: It was some legs, some burpies. I said, he said something.

533
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Speaker 1: You know, he respects me in and I pay his salary.

534
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 1: But he said it. He said it so cool. He said,

535
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Speaker 1: what kind of workout do you like? I heard him.

536
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: I heard what he was saying.

537
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Speaker 2: You make that same noise every time you walk in here,

538
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 2: no matter what I write on the board.

539
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: Do you hear Martha in the kitchen?

540
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 2: You know she's making all kinds of noise in the

541
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 2: kitchen j' makings from Mary and Jesus can hear banging

542
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 2: pots together.

543
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Speaker 1: And what's really weird.

544
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Speaker 2: About the passage is Martha is simultaneously the judge who

545
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 2: is telling Mary what she needs to do, and the victim.

546
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 2: Because this is the third attitude that causes us to

547
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Speaker 2: be distracted. Remember, distracted is not an action, it's an

548
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 2: attitude to state to mind. So now she's in the

549
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 2: third element that makes a really bad movie in your mind,

550
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 2: stresses you, out keeps you, keeps you from really entering

551
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 2: into the joy of the Lord. And that is victimization,

552
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 2: is taking on the victim mentality.

553
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Speaker 1: Lord. She left me to do all the work by myself.

554
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Speaker 1: On the surface, this is sensible, but being mad at

555
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: Mary doesn't make your life any easier. You know, like

556
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:13,239
Speaker 1: maybe Mary should help, but that's not your place. You

557
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: can't make Mary do anything. And so she's she's judging

558
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: one minute, and she's a victim the next. And that's

559
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Speaker 1: why the Bible says that you don't want to get

560
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: in this habit of judging, because you too will be judged.

561
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Speaker 1: You will become the victim of your own judgments.

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Speaker 2: When you don't let other people operate in their grace,

563
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Speaker 2: you will find very little grace for yourself when you

564
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 2: need it.

565
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: You know, you start scrolling.

566
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Speaker 2: And you know, for a few pictures you're okay, Ah,

567
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 2: their baby is kind of cute. The real stuff that

568
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 2: you don't say to them, you know, kind of cute. No,

569
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 2: they're on vacation again. You may know they can't afford

570
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Speaker 2: to be on too vacations. Sixty Martha's getting mad, madder

571
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Speaker 2: and madder and madder with every flick of the finger.

572
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Speaker 1: Huh, must be nice. Does she think she looks good

573
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Speaker 1: in that?

574
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Speaker 4: Somebody needs to tell her, Tell her Jesus, tell her

575
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 4: that's too tight, Tell her that dress fit her in

576
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 4: a previous lifetime with someone.

577
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Speaker 1: Y'all should come to the nine thirty. That's when I'm fresh,

578
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: alert and guarded. So Martha is mad, and in a

579
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Speaker 1: sense she has a right to be.

580
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Speaker 2: But remember something now, he said in verse thirty eight,

581
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Speaker 2: where it says, not only was it Martha's home, her

582
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 2: name was under deed, but it was Martha's idea to

583
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Speaker 2: begin with.

584
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Speaker 1: As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he

585
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: came to a village where a woman named Martha opened

586
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Speaker 1: her home to him. Now, touch the person next to

587
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: you and say this was your idea.

588
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 3: Come on, now, you're the.

589
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: One who wanted to have Peter and Bartholomew and Judas.

590
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: It was your idea to let all these former fishermen

591
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:26,280
Speaker 1: up in our house.

592
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 2: Don't get mad at me because you wanted to have

593
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,760
Speaker 2: a party, but now you want me to panic because

594
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 2: you over committed.

595
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:36,280
Speaker 1: Don't move Mary.

596
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,840
Speaker 2: Don't let people who over commit drag down your priorities

597
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 2: into the chaos of their urgency because they made bad decisions.

598
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 3: And don't do it to yourself either.

599
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 2: Don't make yourself the victim.

600
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Speaker 3: Everything that I'm stressed about today is.

601
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Speaker 2: Something that I committed to yesterday. Man about a schedule

602
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 2: that I made.

603
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,720
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take these kids to the game. No you don't.

604
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 3: You do not have parents.

605
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 2: Since when did we get in this prison of having

606
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 2: to be at everything?

607
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 1: I'm okay this side.

608
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit just left that part of the church. Some

609
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 2: of y'all need to drop your kids off at soccer

610
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 2: and go out on a date with your wife because

611
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 2: your kid is an average soccer player and they're not

612
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 2: gonna score anyway.

613
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:40,439
Speaker 3: So go to bowl fish.

614
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 2: Not every game, go to some games, but God, my god,

615
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 2: every once in a while, it's good for our kids

616
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Speaker 2: to get the message the world does not revolve around

617
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 2: you and your dance recital. If you want to dance,

618
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Speaker 2: baby girl, I'll be there is one and I'll show

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Speaker 2: up when I can.

620
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Speaker 3: But I might not be there every.

621
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Speaker 2: Time, and I'm not going to be many places at once,

622
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 2: so i.

623
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Speaker 1: Gotta be where I am and be okay with that.

624
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 2: I feel freedom breaking out in the church right now.

625
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 1: Now, go to the next game. Don't let Martha, who

626
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 1: comes to every game, make you feel bad because you

627
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: couldn't make that one. It's okay. This is therapeutic.

628
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 2: This is one hundred and fifty dollars an hour work

629
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 2: right here, trying to keep you off that expensive couch

630
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 2: and just give you this, this teaching from the Word

631
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 2: of God. Because when you live in that place of manipulation, obligation, victimization,

632
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 2: the next thing that happens is interpretation.

633
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: And the skill of interpretation is so important. It's like

634
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: your life is a.

635
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 2: Is a foreign film, and what God has planned for you,

636
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 2: the events that happened to you, you don't always know

637
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 2: what it really means. And when you're under pressure and

638
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 2: when you play the movie in your mind where you

639
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 2: remember different ways you were offended, which I do so often,

640
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 2: and what I've got to do, and how it's not

641
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 2: fair and how others don't and how others should, and

642
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 2: all these things that I can tend to dwell on,

643
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,879
Speaker 2: like Martha that Martha, in all of our minds will

644
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 2: start to come to this conclusion.

645
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: This is the interpretation.

646
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 2: Jesus will not do what Martha wants him to do,

647
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 2: and Mary won't do what Martha wants Martha Mary to do,

648
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 2: and nobody is saying their lines like Martha wrote them

649
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:47,760
Speaker 2: in her mind.

650
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Speaker 1: So here's what she says next. Lord, all this is

651
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 1: in verse forty. Lord, don't you care? You see it?

652
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:02,439
Speaker 1: Since she can't control everyding, she thinks that nobody cares

653
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: about her. Since she can't control the situation, she interprets

654
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: the situation, Lord, don't you care? And Jesus is like, no,

655
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:14,800
Speaker 1: not really.

656
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 2: I care about you, but I don't care about what

657
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 2: you're cooking in there right now. I came to be

658
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 2: with you, And since I can't accept the fact that

659
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 2: God loves me more than he loves what I can

660
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 2: do for him, I interpret the fact that he's not

661
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 2: doing exactly what I want him to do and others

662
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 2: aren't doing exactly what.

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Speaker 1: I want him to do. I interpret that to me

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Speaker 1: that they don't care about me. I imagined it so

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Speaker 1: many different ways, Martha, Martha. Because he said it twice, Martha,

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Speaker 1: she didn't listen the first time, Martha, or like this Martha, Martha,

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Speaker 1: and hearing it more tenderly lately, Martha Martha.

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Speaker 2: So I always thought that this passage was about work

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Speaker 2: in worship. I thought that Martha was working and Mary

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Speaker 2: was worshiping, and that worshiping.

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Speaker 1: Was better than working.

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Speaker 2: But really you can't make that case if you read

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Speaker 2: the Bible in context, because Paul said that to live

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Speaker 2: your life as a sacrifice is your spiritual act of worship,

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Speaker 2: and that has nothing to do with a song that

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Speaker 2: has nothing to do with Sunday morning.

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Speaker 1: So if he's not contrasting work.

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Speaker 2: In worship, maybe he's advocating that the two should become one,

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Speaker 2: that there should be a way that I try to

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Speaker 2: live my life by the grace of God and move

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Speaker 2: into that is more like Mary.

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Speaker 1: Not to kick Martha out of the house because it's

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Speaker 1: her house, and not.

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Speaker 2: To stop being busy or start feeling bad about how

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Speaker 2: you've been spread so thin, but to blur the line

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Speaker 2: between work and worship. A few weeks ago, we were

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Speaker 2: having a staff event and our interns were serving our

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Speaker 2: staff on this particular day, and they.

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Speaker 1: Had put in a very long day, but at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day. We're having a worship service with

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Speaker 1: our staff, and it was so strong what was happening

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Speaker 1: in the auditorium that the interns on their way to

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Speaker 1: tear down chairs and tables and clean the floors and

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Speaker 1: do the work, got caught up in a spirit of worship.

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Speaker 1: There was a TV in a room.

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Speaker 2: One of our interns, Ellie, pulled out her phone and

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Speaker 2: she caught this moment when they stopped working for a

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Speaker 2: moment and started worshiping. And see how Martha can become

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Speaker 2: merry and Mary needs smarta because you see that girl

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Speaker 2: on her knees right there, and that you see that,

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Speaker 2: see that girl head banging right there.

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Speaker 1: See that white guy clapping all rhythm right there. All

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Speaker 1: that is worshiped.

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Speaker 2: But then what they did in video is when they

705
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Speaker 2: stopped singing and started serving, and they took that same spirit.

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Speaker 1: With a mop and a broom.

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Speaker 2: And my goal in worship today is not just that

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Speaker 2: we have a moment in the presence of God, but

709
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Speaker 2: that when we leave and we grab our mop and

710
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Speaker 2: our job and our kids and our responsibilities and yes,

711
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Speaker 2: our tests and yes, our books and yes the things

712
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Speaker 2: that we have to do, that we work like we worship,

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Speaker 2: and we worship like we work, and we find ourselves

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Speaker 2: with extraordinary joy in the congregation, and extraordinary joy in

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Speaker 2: the kitchen, and extraordinary joy that spills over and overflows,

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Speaker 2: and this becomes a way of life.

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Speaker 1: I know you got to go. I'm almost done, because

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Speaker 1: the fifth thing that I want to discuss with you

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Speaker 1: is the most important of all, and its expectation. More

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Speaker 1: than anything else. This movie in my mind is about

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Speaker 1: my expectation. And when the movie in my mind doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Match the scene in my life, there is a tendency

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Speaker 2: for me to begin to think that maybe God is

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Speaker 2: not the author of my story. Bring my chair real quick.

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Speaker 2: This is the way I saw the movie.

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Speaker 1: In my mind. I saw Martha who saw herself as

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Speaker 1: a director, and I saw how Jesus wanted her to

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

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Speaker 2: Because she's trying to direct a movie in her mind

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Speaker 2: that was not hers descript And I wonder if you've

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Speaker 2: been sitting in the wrong seat, and God gave me

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Speaker 2: this message so you could switch positions and sit like

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Speaker 2: Mary for a little while at his feet and say, God,

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Speaker 2: this is your movie, these are your gifts, this is

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Speaker 2: your temple.

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Speaker 1: My body. This is your assignment. God. You know why

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Speaker 1: Mary was so good at interpreting what Jesus was doing

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

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

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Speaker 1: while learness. It took a little while of learness. It

741
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Speaker 1: takes a while to learn that this is not your place.

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Speaker 1: Everybody that said amen, just now is over fifty. It

743
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Speaker 1: takes that long. I'm telling you you don't want this

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Speaker 1: seat because you get it one way in your mind,

745
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Speaker 1: how it needs to be, how it should be. And

746
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Speaker 1: now you're miserable, like Martha. Didn't the universe get my script?

747
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Speaker 1: Didn't my future husband get my script? Where is he

748
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Speaker 1: future wife? Whatever? Everybody said, why you always put it

749
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: on the women. You're such a sexist. I'm not a sexist.

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Speaker 2: I'm an equal opportunity offender. I'm trying to make everybody

751
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Speaker 2: he mad in the sermon, but this is not my place.

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Speaker 1: And see, it makes sense that this scene, this little,

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

754
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Speaker 1: we got we understand how this works. Yeah, but to

755
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Speaker 1: really understand the scene, you have to put it in

756
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Speaker 1: context of the whole story. Don't you don't you? You

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Speaker 1: can't understand the movie just by one scene. The reason

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Speaker 1: this simple little introduction to Mary and Martha is made

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Speaker 1: here in Luke ten is because of what the Bible

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Speaker 1: records in John eleven.

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Speaker 2: That's where their brother Lazarus gets sick unexpectedly, and they

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Speaker 2: send for Jesus to come heal him. So go get

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Speaker 2: that rabbi that stayed at our house, that rabbi who

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Speaker 2: ate my Brussels sprouts, and tell him to come heal

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Speaker 2: my brother.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 2: Jesus don't show up until after Lazarus died, and Mary,

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Speaker 2: the director of the movie, now has to reconcile what

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Speaker 2: happened in her.

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Speaker 1: Life with the way she planned it in the movie

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Speaker 1: in her mind, and she's frustrated and angry. In fact,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna laugh at this verse in John eleven, after

776
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Speaker 1: Lazarus died and Jesus shows up late. Mary, this is funny.

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Speaker 2: I read you this. You got a few more seconds,

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Speaker 2: Martha said, Uh. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming,

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Speaker 2: this is twenty no. Yeah, there she went out to

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Speaker 2: meet him. She's waiting at the road when he arrives.

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Speaker 1: She's got her hand on her hip and Mary stayed home.

782
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Speaker 1: Mary's got her head on her pillow. They're both playing

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Speaker 1: their role. Mary's like dead, there's nothing to do. Martha's like,

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Speaker 1: it's about time. Did you not get the script? Did

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Speaker 1: you not get the missed You missed them. You didn't

786
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Speaker 1: say you were supposed to say, be healed, and he

787
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Speaker 1: was supposed to be well, and you did it. Jesus

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Speaker 1: didn't come to read your script. He came to flip

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Speaker 1: the script and to show you something that you never

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Speaker 1: could have expected, a movie you didn't know to write,

791
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Speaker 1: immeasurably more than you ask her.

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Speaker 2: Imagine. I feel the spirit of God on this message

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Speaker 2: right now. I know you wanted me to show up

794
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 2: and heal him. I didn't come to heal him. I

795
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 2: came to show you something greater. And one time God

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Speaker 2: showed me that the reason he can't meet all of

797
00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:00,760
Speaker 2: our expectations is because if he always met my expectations.

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Speaker 2: He would never have the opportunity to exceed my expectations.

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Speaker 1: He's making this movie, not you. He's written this script,

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Speaker 1: not me. And so Martha's like, you should have been here.

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

802
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Speaker 1: is not the way I imagined it. And she's waiting

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Speaker 1: at the rod verse twenty one. But even if you

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Speaker 1: you would have.

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Speaker 2: Been here, my brother wouldn't have died Verse twenty two.

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Speaker 2: But I know that even now God will give you

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Speaker 2: whatever you ask. You see, you're getting out of the

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Speaker 2: director's chair a little bit. She's still working. Jesus, by

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Speaker 2: the way, I know you can still do it. Come on,

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Speaker 2: women do this to men all the time.

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Speaker 1: How do you carry all those groceries, you big strong man?

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

813
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Speaker 1: way I wanted. And she said your brother will rise again?

814
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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 red at the last day. I know,

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Speaker 1: JESSI no, no, no, I came.

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Speaker 2: Not just to read my lines in the script that

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Speaker 2: you wrote for your life, but I came to change

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Speaker 2: your expectation for something greater than you even knew to

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Speaker 2: ask for. And Jesus said to her watch, I am

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Speaker 2: the Resurrection and the Life, and the one who believes

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Speaker 2: in me will live even though they die next verse,

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Speaker 2: and whoever lives by believing in Me will never die.

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Speaker 1: Do you believe this? That's the question. Do you believe this?

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Speaker 1: Do you believe that you are not the one making

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Speaker 1: this movie? That this is not my place? This is

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

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Speaker 1: God's presence today and just consider that maybe it's not

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Speaker 1: our life that's making us anxious. Maybe it's the movie

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

831
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Speaker 1: we always imagined it would be, what we think we

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Speaker 1: have to be.

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Speaker 5: The saddest thing about Martha is that she's frustrated trying

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Speaker 5: to meet an expectation that Jesus did not even have

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Speaker 5: of her.

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Speaker 2: Jesus never even asked her for all this. Jesus came

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Speaker 2: into her house to be with her. Are you frustrated

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Speaker 2: with yourself because you're expecting something of yourself that God

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Speaker 2: never even put on you to begin with. I came

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Speaker 2: to day to break the spirit of manipulation, to break

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Speaker 2: the spirit of obligation, to break the victim mentality, to

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00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 2: let you know that just because God isn't doing it

843
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Speaker 2: like you want him to do, it doesn't mean he

844
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Speaker 2: stopped caring about you.

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Speaker 1: I'm really thankful for one thing.

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Speaker 2: Says that Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, which Mary

847
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 2: never would have put in her movie.

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Speaker 1: She didn't know it was possible when you let him

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Speaker 1: sit in this seat.

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Speaker 2: What he has for you is so much better than

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Speaker 2: what you.

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Speaker 1: Have for you.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you by faith what I know by experience.

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Speaker 2: Wat's just stand up like you're in a hurry because

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Speaker 2: it'll pressure me to finish this.

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Speaker 1: I could talk to you all day. I love this.

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Speaker 2: In John chapter twelve, verse one, it says that a

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Speaker 2: little bit later, on six days before the Passover, Jesus

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Speaker 2: came to bethany where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised

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Speaker 2: from the dead. Now watch verse two. This is gonna

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Speaker 2: bless you here. At dinner was given in Jesus'.

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Speaker 1: Honor, Martha served. See, she finally got it.

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Speaker 2: She's not talking, she's not manipulating, she's not serving out

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Speaker 2: of obligation and guilt anymore. She's serving because she has

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Speaker 2: seen God do what only God could do.

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Speaker 1: And I am here at your.

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Speaker 3: Service, God, what you want me to be. I'm ready

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Speaker 3: to be.

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Speaker 2: That now, and so I throw off the expectations of others,

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Speaker 2: and I throw off the expectations of self.

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Speaker 1: Do what you wanted to God.

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Speaker 6: This is your this is your movie, and I am

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Speaker 6: your child, and I am at your feet and I

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Speaker 6: trust you in this season.

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Speaker 1: Of my life. Thank you for joining us.

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