Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Alright, so we are in a series entitled Divinely Human.

And what I mean by that is that we are 100% human, we're humans, but when we accept Christ, the divine comes to live within us.

And so God can use us in a divine way to touch someone, or to encourage someone, or to minister to someone.

God uses us and all, and we've been looking at people in the Bible, like Abraham and Sarah.

And Moses and Zaporo and we've looked at Peter and we looked at John last week.

And the very first message was called the New Covenant. You really, that's the foundation.

I'd love for you to go back and listen to that at least seven or eight times because of the practical theology that's in that message, understand.

We're not living under an old covenant. We're living under a new covenant. And that allows us to be humans with faults and failures and even sins, and yet still be used by God.

And it's been a funny series. And so last week, as I was preparing the message, John, I was starting to feel this. And then as even as I was preaching it, I was feeling it, it was like everyone was saying, okay, Pastor, we got it.

We got it. They're humans and yet God used them. They're humans and yet God used them. And so I began to pray about this week practical ways to allow the divine to use us, even though we're humans.

And the Lord took me to a very two sisters, very practical Mary and Martha. All right. So that's what we're going to do today is look at Mary and Martha.

But here's what I want to say to you that every time something happens in your life, you get to choose whether to respond as just a human or as a human saved by grace.

So you get to choose whether I'm going to respond with just my human emotion, a fear or anger or resentment or, you know, whatever anxiety or worry.

Or you get to choose to respond as a human saved by grace with trust and faith and joy, even though you might still experience some other emotions, right? So I got three points.

That's obviously here's number one quiet or busy quiet or busy. Let me, let me just give you a little bit of a bottom line so you can be looking for this when stress and worry and anxiety, something like that comes into your life.

You respond by getting quiet with God for a little while first or do you respond by getting busy.

If I just get busy, I can take my mind off of it. The problem is that's a little bit true, but when you finish doing what you did, the worry is still there.

The only one who can take care of the worries, Jesus. So you got Luke chapter 10 verse 38. Now it happened as they went that he entered a certain village. That's Bethany, by the way.

And a certain woman, they Martha welcomed him into her house. We believe that Martha was a widow. And this was her house.

And she had a sister called Mary. We believe a younger sister who also sat at Jesus' feet and heard his word. This word heard means absorbed.

It's more than just hearing. It's, it's a taking. It's an understanding of the information, not just hearing the information, absorbed his word, but Martha was distracted with much serving.

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