Mary & Martha

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Mark Driscoll

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🗓️ 11 April 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Are you Mary or Martha? Mary’s contemplative; Martha’s active. Mary’s about being; Martha’s about doing. Martha thought she was going to serve Jesus the good portion, but Mary chose the good portion. Jesus is our good portion that will never be taken away. A meal is temporary, but time with Jesus is a gift that lasts forever. We live in a Martha world; we’re troubled, we’re anxious, and we’re distracted. But God built this world to be a Mary world with Martha moments. When sin entered the world, it turned into a Martha world in which we have to fight for Mary moments. The rhythm of our day is supposed to be Mary first, then Martha. Spend time with Jesus, then get stuff done. Worship like Mary, then work like Martha. Worship God before you work so that you can worship God in your work. We want Mary’s heart and Martha’s hands.

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0:31.8	Thank you.
0:34.0	Father God, I pray for us as a people, as a church.
0:39.6	God, I pray that as we study your word, that we would have the heart of Mary who sat
0:43.6	at the Lord Jesus' feet, that we'd be humble, submissive, teachable, and available.
0:49.6	God, for those of us who have Martha Proclivities, I pray we wouldn't check our phone, I pray
0:54.9	we wouldn't be working on our to-do list.
0:57.4	I pray we wouldn't be ruminating over the fact that our friend or spouse didn't take
1:01.2	the shortest route to church today.
1:02.8	So, we're very frustrated with them because we wasted some time and we didn't get the
1:06.4	best parking spot.
1:07.6	God, let it all go, may we let it all go.
1:10.5	May we examine Mary and Martha.
1:13.0	May we have Mary's heart as we sit at your feet to concentrate for a bit in Jesus' name.
1:18.4	Amen.
1:19.4	All right, Mary and Martha, you ready to go?
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