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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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0:01 Amen. So good to see everybody in the house today. Before we get started, can we do this? If you are a mother, grandmother, primary, guardian for anyone, would you stand0:13 on your feet so that we can honor you? We want to honor our mothers, our grandmothers, the women that take care of us. Thank you so much. We appreciate you so much more0:25 than you know. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You may be seated. Thank you so much. And husbands, I was just giving you some brownie points right there. So so just so she know I clap for you0:37 today in church. You can remind her later on. I I asked my wife what she wants for Mother's Day tomorrow, and she said to be left alone. And so that's what our family, our boys will be doing for her, is we'll make sure0:49 she gets time for a nap and to eat whatever she wants. And I will, after Sunday service, go back and do whatever my sons wanna do so that she could take a nap. But however you're loved1:01 this weekend, you're appreciated, and we thank you so much. Given that it's Mother's Day, our team has prepared to speak to the moms and grandmothers a little bit. And it's our prayer that today through the message that1:12 you not only be encouraged, but you also see how much Jesus sees you and cares about you as women of our households and as women that oftentimes carry a lot of the burden1:24 of the family and the home. And so I pray that God speaks to you today. If you haven't joined us last week, we're in a series, a new series that we do pretty pretty annually. We either call it Yeshua or Red Letter1:36 series, and it's where we look at the words of Jesus in the Bible. Your Bible oftentimes has red letters when Jesus is speaking in the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And there's a
1:48 series out called the chosen series that depicts the life of Jesus through a TV show. And so what we do is we take that series and we take the clip about the Bible passage. We read the passage, and
1:59 then we reflect on the clip, and then we allow God's word to speak to us. Today, what we chose is something a little bit different from Mother's Day. It's not clearly mothers in the passage, but
2:11 what it is is 2 women who are doing 2 things around Jesus. And we're gonna allow this interaction. If you've ever heard the story of Mary Mary and Martha before, we're gonna see
2:23 the value that women have and what Jesus wants to speak to the mothers and grandmothers today through this interaction of Mary and Martha. It's a very famous passage where Jesus comes into their home
2:35 to teach all of the disciples about the kingdom of God. 1 sister sits at the feet of Jesus, while the other sister is wanting to put on a good hosting experience.
2:47 And so, she's in the kitchen. She's making the meals. She's setting the table. She's making sure that all of the pillows are set and arranged. She's making sure that all of the candles are lit. She's making sure that
2:59 Jesus and the disciples and everyone there is hosted well. I don't know about you ladies if you've ever feared that type of burden. There are times that I'll tell my wife that 1 of my friends is gonna stop by to hang out
3:10 for a little bit, and she'll say, but the house isn't cleaned. And I'll say, who cares? None of us care about any of that. She says, but I care. And so, she'll jump in to fix, and then all of a sudden, she'll be mad at
3:21 me because I didn't give her the heads up, which I should have. But what we're gonna see is that there's 2 depictions. You see, Mary is sitting at the feet of Jesus, hearing everything that he has to teach, and
3:32 Martha, being the sister of Mary, is setting the table, doing all the work behind the scenes. And we're gonna read the passage just a few moments, but I want you to see it first depicted through the show, The Chosen
3:43 series. So let's take a look.
3:46 From the moment you got here, she hasn't done anything to serve you. She's completely ignored everything I've been doing to make all of you comfortable. And it's clear that she's not going to notice how hard I'm working
3:55 on her own. The only thing that could change it is if you tell her to help me.
4:07 Martha, Martha, please sit down here with me.
4:13 How can I sit? Only half your followers have been served. We can discuss this later. I'm sorry.
4:25 I know. And I want others to hear this. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. You've done a wonderful thing.
4:46 You are anxious and troubled about many things, and it is not for nothing. Hospitality will always matter, and I
4:58 am grateful for what you have done.
5:00 It's what you deserve and more.
5:03 Your intention is well meaning, But only 1 thing is truly necessary. The best way to serve me is to pay close attention
5:15 to my words. That is the priority. That is what your sister has chosen. It is a good portion,
5:27 and it will not be taken from her.
5:33 Taken?
5:34 Their food, her servings, they are wonderful, but they'll pass away. But the rest of this world, my
5:46 words, they'll never pass away. Mary has chosen to feast on something of eternal value.
5:58 I want you all to hear this clearly. I do not rebuke Martha. Acts of service are beautiful. Action is good.
6:10 You're doing what you thought was expected of you, and what you do is valuable.
6:22 And Mary probably could have helped a little. But listen, I don't want you distracted
6:34 from being able to be present with me and the friends that I have brought. I'm inviting you to something that is better, to sit
6:46 at my feet, Listen carefully to my words and devour them as a meal more nourishing than actual food.
7:01 Amen. Let's talk about that a little bit today, that interaction. If you're taking notes, the title of my message, if you wanna write the title in, is this, take a seat mama. That's what I wanna share about today.
7:13 And go ahead. Sit down, mama. That's the encouragement of Jesus that's found in this passage. It's highly likely that Mary and Martha both that, as sisters, could also have been mothers and even
7:25 grandmothers. The Bible does explicitly say their age, but they have a brother named Lazarus. And I want you to see, we're gonna read the passage of scripture for just a moment. So if you're ready, could we just stand to
7:36 give God our full attention in Luke chapter 10 is where we're gonna read from today. Here's what it says starting in verse 48. Now, as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village and a woman named Martha welcomed
7:47 him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted
7:59 with much serving, and she went up to him and said, Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me. But the
8:11 Lord answered her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things. But the 1 thing is necessary, Mary has chosen the good portion which will
8:23 not be taken away from her. You may be seated today. Let's talk about that a little bit today. You see, this Mother's Day, we celebrate the beauty of how women
8:35 serve. It's often a call and it's often something that women and mothers and grandmothers are gifted with. But we also encourage our mothers to sit. That's Jesus'
8:47 encouragement because mothers are more than workers. They're disciples. They're daughters. And they're loved. Mothers are the emotional glue of the family. Often, it's been, you know,
8:59 shared in many by many preachers that mothers are the thermostat. They set the temperature in the home. If you want it to be cold, a mother can set the room to be cold. If you want the room to
9:11 be warm, the mother can set the room to be warm. But here's the thing about a thermostat. It's thermostats still need power. They do not self power. And if a if a mother and a woman
9:23 wants to be regulated by the Lord and wants to be a healthy thermostat, then the reality is you're gonna have to be connected to a power that's greater than your own strength. That's greater than your own
9:34 ability of what you can hold together. Because many moms today and many people, you may feel like Martha, constantly doing, constantly managing, constantly serving and solving. But in this
9:46 moment, Jesus invites every mother to take their rightful seat at his feet. There's many things that can be done. There's many responsibilities to be had. But more
9:58 than that, you and I are disciples of Jesus. And there are there's a rest that Jesus can give that we cannot find on our own. It doesn't how many spa days you have, how
10:10 many massages you have, how many glasses of Pinot Grigio you drink. You cannot have the type of rest that Jesus has to offer. That's how good
10:22 Jesus is. The beauty about this story is Jesus doesn't come in the home and knock on the door to be served. He's coming in your home to serve you.
10:33 That's our savior. That's who he is. And so today, with just a few moments, this is gonna be such a simple but practical message that I hope everybody's encouraged by. We're gonna talk about 3 steps that
10:45 everybody should take to take a seat. The first step is this, if you're taking notes, is what we need to do is we need to pause the performance. If you wanna have the type of
10:57 rest and the type of discipleship that Jesus has to offer, what's gonna happen is you have to pause performing. Let go of perfection. Let go of the pressure in
11:08 everyone. There are responsibilities that will come at any moment and every moment. There are children and grandchildren, and there are bills, and there are home duties and responsibilities, and there are oil
11:20 changes, and there are this, and there are that. That will always exist.
11:24 Yes. But
11:26 you wanna know that was always available for you and I? It's to sit at the feet of Jesus. Here's what Jesus in this moment says that we already read. I wanna revisit it for a moment. It says this. If you're taking a We
11:37 could have it up on the screen starting at verse 38. It says, now, when they went on their way, Jesus entered a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister called Mary who sat at the
11:48 Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted. I want you to see that for a moment. And we're gonna illustrate that a little bit. I think I gotta
12:00 I haven't wrote in a while. There we go. Okay. Look at this. Distracted. It says, but Martha was distracted with much serving.
12:12 Here here here's the word. You see the the the the actual Greek word is actually more powerful because it uses the word called paraspao. That's the word, the Greek
12:24 word that's used, which is actually more than distracted. It actually means to be pulled apart. That's the word. So, what happens is it says it Well, read it back, but in the original
12:36 Greek with that word. But Martha was pulled apart with much serving. And she went up to him and said, Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to
12:48 serve alone? Really, what she's saying is not just serve, but my sister has left me to be pulled alone, Torn alone. And so, it's not just a
12:59 distraction of sight. It's this thing that I have to do this, and I have to do this. And Jesus is at the table, and we have guests, and we have to prepare. And so, she is experiencing this moment where she's
13:11 being pulled. Are there any moms in here today where you ever feel pulled apart? I don't know if that sounds familiar. You're juggling meals. You're juggling messes. You're juggling meetings,
13:23 midnight feedings, sports appointment, bills, intimacy with your spouse, date nights, this and this. It is being pulled apart. And that's how it often feels. Have you
13:35 ever this happens all the time, and I'm I'm actually kinda glad that they make us spend 10 cents for grocery bags. Because you guys remember the old grocery bags? Like these ones. The, like, really cheap
13:47 ones. And and have you ever experienced that when it gets heavy Yes. And it pulls and it tears that it just falls apart. You guys remember these bags? We don't get them anymore. They make us
13:58 pay for these heavy duty things and stuff like that. But I remember, you carry them, and they'll just tear apart. Why? Is it because the bag's weak? Is it because the bag's cheap? Is it because
14:10 the bag no. The reality was the bag, the things that were being put in the bag were too heavy for the bag to hold. And so what Jesus is telling Martha is
14:22 he's saying, Martha, this has nothing to do with you. This has nothing to do with your abilities or whether we're happy with how you're serving it. What it has to do with right now, you are
14:34 taking on so much that it is tearing. It is pulling you apart. The distraction, the all the things, the expectations
14:46 that you're caring for this house, caring for this family, it's tearing you. And so when she comes to Jesus, it's not a statement of equality. It is
14:58 a statement to say, hey, tell my sister to help be pulled on as well. If I gotta feel this way, then my sister ought to feel this way. And isn't that
15:10 oftentimes how mothers and grandmothers talk to each other? When a mother or grandmother is stressed and they tell another mother and grandmother, their response is, let me tell you how stressed I am.
15:22 In other words, let let me tell you how pulled apart I am. And then the the moms, and this is something me and Ashley talk about all the time, is you feel better because someone else is being pulled on.
15:35 Doesn't it make you feel better? You comment, oh, my husband this, and my kid's that, and I have my job. I got the worst manager in the world, and we're trying to go to this trip, but it's looking slim. And then the next
15:47 person comes in, and they're like, oh, well, you and your husband haven't had a date night in 3 months. We haven't had a date night in 3 years. And your kid is getting bees, but my kid's in juvenile hall right now. And
15:57 you're going like this, oh. I'm glad I'm not the only 1 being pulled on. I'm glad they are. And so what Mary Martha is doing as just another woman, another mother, she's
16:09 saying, Jesus, I want my sister to experience the weight and the pull that I'm experiencing it. And Jesus doesn't, you know, correct her or
16:21 diminish her or not even appreciate that moment. All he's doing is he's saying, hey, because moms fill it all the time. You go on grocery shopping, it's this, and this, and this. And all Jesus is saying is saying, moms
16:31 don't just carry groceries, they also carry burdens. And, all Jesus is trying to do is carry those burdens. A mom is a chef, a chauffeur,
16:43 a cheerleader, a therapist, and a life coach. Those are all the occupations of a mom on top of the occupation that she may have daily. You see, moms are often the ones
16:55 behind the scenes holding the whole play together. Even my own life for Adam. I go to work, I set my schedule, I get a coffee, Then I just look at my calendar on my phone, and my wife just
17:06 populates it with soccer and dentist appointments and this and that. And she still shows up to work, and she still goes to church, and she still has to have her own relationship with the Lord. And it's my duty
17:18 as a husband to say, hey, am I creating space for my wife to not be like Martha, to be like Mary who's allowed to sit at the feet of Jesus, who's welcome to sit at the feet of Jesus, Who can allow
17:30 Jesus to bear the very burdens that Jesus is bearing for me? Are we creating that type of availability? Because that's what Jesus is speaking to. John Mark Comer says this, the greatest
17:42 threat to devotion is distraction. And he's talking about this relationship with Jesus. The greatest threat in your life to being able to sit at the feet of
17:53 Jesus is distraction. All of the things that have to be done, that need to be done, that are very well important. They were important. Jesus never
18:05 said they were. But he makes an invitation to Martha that Mary took him up on, which is this. Here's step 2. If you need to pause the performance, the second step is, now you need to park at his feet.
18:17 Take a seat. Take a seat. Park. Make space to spend time with Jesus. Verse 39, it says, and she had a sister
18:29 called Mary who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. See, Mary parked herself at Jesus' feet. This was a profound
18:41 cultural moment because in Jesus' day, Jesus being a rabbi, whenever you're reading your bible, especially in the gospels, whenever someone sits down when someone's talking, that
18:52 means that they put that person at a higher teacher authority. And so, let's just say Jesus begins to speak. Those that consider him their rabbi, their teacher, they will sit down in a
19:04 resemblance to tell everyone, this is my teacher. And in Jesus' day, only men were allowed to have that rabbi. And if you were a married woman or anything like that, it was whoever your father
19:16 or husband chose as their rabbi, you were allowed to stand in the back. But you were not allowed to sit in with everyone else and listen to the rabbi like the disciples would. And so,
19:28 it wasn't just happening with Jesus. There were hundreds of rabbis in Jesus' day. And anytime your rabbi would teach, would sit down, but the but the ladies, they had to stand in the back and just be able to listen
19:40 in. And so, Mary, which I'm sure Jesus had made an invitation for her to sit, Mary does something that's not even just relevant to you and I when it comes to learning from Jesus. Jesus was making
19:52 a huge cultural shift in that day to say that women are welcomed in an equal playing field as disciples with me. And that's powerful because what
20:03 Martha's not just speaking to is she's just not speaking to Mary's inability to help her when she's being torn apart. She's also somewhat correcting culture as well. To say, hey, tell her to get
20:15 up. She's acting crazy right now. Like, she's sitting at your feet, Jesus. We're not allowed to do this. Just tell her to come and help me and the ladies will be in the kitchen
20:26 while you men learn and then later on the men will teach us. Because that was common. And what Jesus goes is Jesus goes, no. I'm not gonna have the men teach you
20:38 later like that. I'm gonna allow you that if you wanna be a disciple of me and you wanna learn from me and you wanna experience my rest and experience my presence, then go ahead and sit down. Take a
20:50 seat. Rest. Sit. This was a culture shifting moment where Jesus says this, you're not just welcome in the kitchen, you're welcome in the kingdom.
21:02 That's what Jesus says. It's powerful. And the moment we're reading is not a competition between sisters. It's a revelation of priorities.
21:15 Jesus was not rebuking Martha for service. All he was doing was redirecting her schedule. He wasn't saying that there wasn't something that needed to be done or could be done, but
21:27 he was saying he was saying this, that if it's my presence that you are trying to supply for, he goes, I don't need that type of service because Jesus is there to serve them with the kingdom of
21:38 God. And so he's saying, Martha, I don't need you in the kitchen right now. I need you here because the kingdom is right now. Cory Tenboom,
21:50 the great preacher said this, if the enemy can't make you sin, he'll just make you busy. And that's what will happen. That's what Martha's experiencing. She's getting busy.
22:03 And her sister is there radically shifting culture. And instead of her saying, man, I'm gonna join my sister. This is something that we have never had in our history as women
22:14 within the Jewish culture. Instead, she says, hey. Let's just assimilate back to culture. Let's just get back to serving, and then let's let the men here and the disciples learn from Jesus. And Jesus says, no. No. No.
22:26 No. No. No. Come take a rest. Jesus says, I wanna be able to talk to you directly. I wanna be able to share with you directly. The spirit of God is available to everybody, and
22:38 everybody who is hungry and everybody who is thirsty, Jesus does not predicate based off of what you do for a living or how exceptional you are or what your gender is or what your past was. Jesus
22:49 says, anyone who is hungry, anyone who is thirsty, he will give them rest. That's who Jesus is. That's what he does. That's the goodness of God. That's what he invites to park.
23:01 Not to visit at his feet, but to park at his feet. There's a time my dad you guys anyone got any 1 of these in your car? You if you do, I think it's because
23:13 you probably forget to fill your gas tank a lot or anything like that. I I remember that when I was younger, my dad, I'd go with him to buy if he was buying a new car, remember a couple times
23:25 my parents got me a car when I was 18 and and early twenties. And here's what my dad does. I don't know if any other dads are like this, but my dad always makes a big deal
23:37 of getting a free gas tank. Like, he's fully getting his gas filled up when he buys a car. Like, it's a big deal for him. So they'll he'll be at the negotiating table, and there's tens of thousands of
23:49 dollars on the line. There's, you know, thousands of dollars being put down, and he'll say this, I'll only shake your hand if you give me a full tank of gas. I always thought that was odd. With how much
24:01 was on the line, he wanted like a 50 or 60 dollar free tank of gas. And the reality was, every single person, every time would be like, yeah. I can give you that.
24:13 Because their thought was, you're not gonna get a free tank every time. You're just gonna get a free tank now, So, we could do that. And they had no problem with it. You wanna know what would be a great deal is if he
24:24 said, if the deal there was go every time I need gas, I wanna be able to pull up here. And it's like, oh, wow. That's that's a deal. But a lot of times, we treat Jesus as this kind of
24:36 emergency gas source. Right. But if you only treat Jesus as an emergency gas source, in other words, you only visit him when you're on e, then what happens is is you're gonna be
24:48 carrying 1 of these around all the time. And a person who carries this and lives in fear with this, I'm not saying don't exercise wisdom and have 1 in your trunk, But a lot of people, you keep this filled because you run
25:00 on e so much, and you got it in your trunk or whatever. Or and and you filled this up so many times because you forget to fill your car up so many times. And what Jesus is inviting Martha
25:12 to do that Mary's doing is she is sitting long enough to be filled up. She's parked long enough not just as a visitor, but Mary is saying, I'm a disciple of
25:24 Jesus. I don't need this emergency gas tank. Because what Mary's doing is she's saying, I sit at Jesus' feet, and everything that he's teaching, I am gonna soak this up.
25:37 So not that she's giving out of the emergency fund, but now she's giving out of her overflow. How many of you guys know it is much more difficult to make a decision when you're using your
25:49 emergency funds rather than when you live on overflow? When you live on overflow, that payment is relatively easy because you know you got it. You're like, oh, I'm fine. I got I got overage. We got a little bit We got
26:01 money left over. It's no problem. But when you're dipping into the emergency funds or when you're drip dipping into that overdraft fee, how many of you guys know that's stressful? Martha's in the
26:13 overdraft. She's overdrafting in that moment. She's tired. She's torn apart. She's distracted. Mary, she's trying to establish being filled to live in the overflow.
26:24 That's the difference. And Jesus makes the same invitation to her. Here's the third point that I wanna share with you today. And the final point is this, pour from your
26:35 fullness. Pour from fullness. Not out of emptiness. Pour from a place that has been overwhelming and overflowing. Don't pour from
26:47 exhaustion. How many of you have ever found it hard to give your best when you're just exhausted? When you're just tired. There's been so many times that me and Ashley have
26:59 said, we need a date night because we haven't had 1 in forever. And then we're just at dinner just staring at each other. And we're counting down the moments to get home to go to bed. And so we treat that moment as
27:10 something that we know is important, but because we're on e in our own life and busyness and schedule, that moment is not a moment of overflow. It's a moment of empty. And so then, therefore, there's no value in that
27:21 moment. It just becomes we're doing it because we have to. And how many times does a relationship with God, we result to that? Why do I do it? Because I have to.
27:30 I'm on empty. Why do I go
27:31 to church because I'm on empty? I feel like I have to. Why am I starting to pray? Because I feel like I'm empty and I feel like I have to. Why am I doing this? Because I feel like I'm empty and I have to. Rather than
27:41 saying this, man, I God is so good to me. Jesus has been so good. He gives me rest. He gives me comfort. He gives me peace. He gives me joy. So therefore, though times I may be
27:52 tired, I have an overflow to give from. Look at 40 41 to 42. It says this, but the Lord answered her, Martha, Martha, you
28:04 are anxious and troubled about many things. But 1 thing is necessary, Mary has chosen the good portion which will not be taken away from
28:16 her. I want you to look at this. This is this statement right here, where he says, Mary has chosen the good portion. I want you to see this right here. Right here, it says good portion.
28:28 This this level right here, this good portion, what Jesus was saying in the original language is he said this. Let me put it in white for you or gray. He said this, what Mary is being
28:41 is she's being intentional. This good portion, good, what what what he was saying was, it's an intentional choice of choosing this portion. It
28:52 it it
28:53 it it it it like
29:07 that says, oh, I want a little sweet treat coming home or whatever it is. It's a it's a choice that you make. And so what Jesus was saying is he was saying this. He's saying, no 1 forced Mary to sit here.
29:19 No 1 forced Mary to take a seat. No 1 enticed Mary to do this. Mary had a choice. Mary could have joined you, Martha, and done all of the
29:31 things that you're doing, but she chose something greater. It was an intentional decision that every mother has to make, an intentional decision to sit at
29:42 Jesus' feet. It it it won't creep up on you. It won't necessarily make itself available to you. How many of us have hoped for a slow season or a down
29:54 season or a rest season? And maybe you'll get 2 days. Maybe you'll get 3 days. But you might get more than that oftentimes. It doesn't creep up on you sitting at Jesus'
30:06 feet. It doesn't happen by happenstance. It doesn't happen by accident. It happens because you say, I know there are priorities on the table. I know there are things that need to be get done. But if I'm not
30:17 healthy, then nothing else will be healthy. And if I'm not rested, then nothing else will be rested. And if I'm not joyful, then chances are nothing else will be joyful.
30:31 The best version of you doesn't come from burnout. It comes from being filled by God. It's not burnout. When you find yourself empty, this is the time that I encourage you that not
30:43 only do you need rest, you need time spent with the Lord. Because that's what Mary is doing with Jesus. And she's spending a moment, and she's sitting as she's resting with
30:54 Jesus' feet. Have any of you guys been on the airplane before, and you guys know all of these emergency videos that they play nowadays? And so they'll play those videos. Hey. This is how you buckle your seat. In case
31:06 of emergency, this or that. And then they'll always have in the video 1 1 of these things, the little oxygen mask. And they'll have this picture and say, okay. If this comes down, put it over your face. But here's what
31:18 it'll say. It'll say, if you have children with you, what does it say? Do yours yours first. Why? I mean, I I would give
31:30 my life for my sons. I I would do anything for my for me and Ashley, our children are highest priority. It's it's something that man, we love our boys. We love
31:42 our children. The the idea that I would put myself first before my sons, that sounds ludicrous. But when you really think about it, it makes complete sense. Because in an
31:53 emergency situation, when there is no oxygen in the cabin, what can happen is while you are attempting to save your children, if you run out of
32:05 oxygen, you have no strength to help your children. There's nothing you could do. And so if you're trying to grab it and fix it, you're trying to get this to your children, but you
32:16 are losing air in the meantime, you're a disservice to the moment. So the process is they say, hey, put this on yourself. So
32:28 now you're getting actually and you could do whatever you gotta do for your children, and you can be there for your children and your family, and you will not pass out.
32:41 Because if you pass out, it's no good to the family. And what we need to do as disciples, the reason why you do prioritize your own relationship with God, your
32:53 own rest with the Lord, your own moments with the power of God, because if you do not give yourself oxygen, you cannot help anyone else. Amen. You you are on empty. And
33:05 and if you're trying to save your children on burnout, if you're trying to save your marriage on burnout, if you're trying to save your parents or grandparents, but you are burned out, it's gonna be hard.
33:17 It's gonna be difficult. Because when you're trying to help someone else while you're gasping for air, or when you're both drowning and you're trying to help someone else stay afloat, then guess what? It may just lead to
33:29 your own drowning. And what Jesus says, he makes it clear with Martha. He says, Martha, I can tell that you're burnt out. I can tell that you've been distracted. I can
33:41 tell that you've been pulled apart. And Jesus offers the fix to her, is to sit down. Sit down and be in the kingdom of God and rest in the things
33:52 of God. And so if I have 1 challenge to you this week, it may not be 1 that you expect or it may not be super spiritual. But here's 1 challenge I give you today. It's a spiritual challenge, but it's a practical
34:04 challenge. This week for Mother's Day, here's the trick. Here's the challenge. Moms, grandmas, say no to at least 1 thing this week. Say no to at least 1 thing.
34:16 And the husbands are here. So we're we're well, you tell us no to if if if you're gonna rest in God, if you're gonna prioritize your faith and you're gonna prioritize some things that's for your walk, then the reality is
34:28 all the yeses in the world do not mix with rest. Because that's what Martha was doing. She was saying yes to everything. Yes to the meal. Yes to setting up the pillows. Yes to establishing the
34:40 house. All while she was saying no to sitting at Jesus' feet. And so there are times where we wanna be healthy and we wanna be balanced. We have to say, I just can't do that this week. I just gotta say no to
34:52 that. And that and that may mean that something doesn't get cleaned. That may mean that something that doesn't get fully done. That may mean something doesn't happen. But what happens is if you can fill yourself and your
35:03 tank, then what will happen is you will be a better person a week from today. Because Jesus' invitation and what impresses Jesus is not our busy schedules. It's our ability
35:15 to sit. Spend time spending in the presence of God, whether it's through prayer, whether it's through worship, whether it's through reading your bible. Spend time with
35:26 Jesus. Because he can fill you in areas that the world could not fill you in. And he you you may not always get a thank you, and you may not always get an appreciation, and you may not always get an I love you, or this
35:38 is amazing, or how valuable you are, but in the presence of Jesus, what you can get is rest. That's what we wanna encourage you with today is to sit at the savior's feet and allow
35:49 God to fill you up this Mother's Day. And if you're here today, I just wanna make a simple invitation while we leave church today. As if you've never made Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior, then I
36:01 encourage you here today on this Saturday that all of us 1 day will stand before God. And the bible says when we stand before God, we will hear 1 of 2 things. You will either hear, well done, good
36:13 and faithful servant, or you will hear, depart from me. I I never knew you. Oftentimes, people will ask the question, why does God send people to hell? Well, the reality is God doesn't send anyone to hell. People
36:25 choose because people hear the gospel and we hear the freedom and the grace of God, and some people go, I don't want to receive that grace. I don't want to receive that freedom. I don't want Jesus to be my savior. Every
36:37 man and woman has been given an opportunity in this world today as we see it, especially in this moment, to hear the good news of Jesus and to make a decision. Am I willing to rest my faith and my hope on Jesus?
36:49 And if you're here today and you're ready to make that decision that as Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins and rose 3 days later to show us that there was victory in the cross. A
37:01 decision and a choice to follow Jesus is available for every person. There's people that sometimes come up to me that say, pastor Adam, I would choose Jesus, but here's what my past is like. I would choose Jesus, but
37:11 here's what I'm currently going through. I feel like I need to fix that before God would accept me. Reality is God will accept you exactly how you are right now. Now, if he accepts you exactly the way you are right
37:23 now, here's what you gotta get ready for, is he loves you so much he won't keep you there. But, you can't do it on your own, and you can't do it by yourself, and you can't be distracted and pulled apart in your own ways
37:34 and your own times. Reality is to say, Jesus, I sit at your feet, and I rest in you to allow you to carry my burdens, for you to carry my shame because he carried the cross. He can surely carry our
37:46 burdens. So if you're here today and you're ready to make that decision, all we're gonna do is affirm this moment by publicly receiving Jesus as our Lord and savior. The Holy Spirit's already at work right now in yourShow more
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