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Missing the Heart of God 0:01 For the last 3 sessions, we have been unpacking the lives of people who who just miss it. People who encountered Jesus in scripture and maybe heard some truths that he was sharing that were hard for them to to0:13 grasp, or people that just missed the adventure of going all in of a life of following Jesus. And for 1 reason or another, these people just missed it. For some, it was fear.0:25 Fear of the unknown, fear of what they had to let go of. For some, it was comfort. We saw with the rich young ruler, it was his riches. It was all the stuff that he had that kept him from following Jesus with everything.0:37 Others had doubts. Others wanted to play it safe. But what we've been trying to unpack in this series, missing it, is what clues do their lives leave for us? What0:49 decisions did they make? What opinions did they hold? What views did they have about this life that led them to, as we saw, miss God's heart? You know, we saw the man with 2 sons and his sons were missing the1:01 heart of the father. 1 thought he had sinned so bad that he had blown it so greatly that he just wasn't worthy to be called son anymore. The other thought that he had earned God's love. Both of them just missed God's1:13 heart. Like I mentioned, we saw the rich young ruler. He missed the adventure of following Jesus with everything. He had too much stuff to hold on to. So he couldn't get in to1:25 the adventure of following Jesus. He missed out on an incredible life. He missed this opportunity that we don't wanna miss today. Last1:36 session, we saw a few examples of people who missed key truths that Jesus was sharing with them. Whether it was the truth that all of us must be reborn or that anyone can be reborn1:49 or the truth about what it actually is that a pleasing sacrifice, a pleasing offering to God. Looks like so so far boys, we've been looking at a lot of stuff that we should not do. These are lives to avoid. But2:01 scripture is not just filled with people who missed it. In fact, the movement that started the day that King Jesus walked out of the tomb that has been continuing2:13 for thousands of years continues because Jesus made sure that we got it. The truth about Jesus is here today. We are worshiping him today because the truth has been passed down by those that2:25 God has revealed himself to by those who didn't miss it. And so we wanna wrap up this series by looking at the lives of a couple of people who did not miss it. And our firstFaith That Amazes 2:37 character is kind of an unlikely hero. Right? He's the only person in all of recorded scripture who had something that amazed Jesus in the positive way. If you have a bible, turn over to2:48 Matthew chapter 8. I'm gonna start reading in verse 5. This is the New Living Translation. It says, when Jesus returned to Capernaum, a Roman officer came and pleaded with him. Lord, my young servant3:00 lies in bed, paralyzed, and in terrible pain. Jesus said, I will come and heal him. But the officer said, Lord, I'm not worthy to have you in my home. Just say the word from where you are,3:12 and my servant will be healed. I know this because I'm a man under the authority of my superior officers. I have authority over my soldiers. I only need to say go when they go,3:24 or come when they come. And if I say to my slaves do this, then they do it. When Jesus heard this, he was amazed. Turning to those who are following him, he said, I tell3:36 you the truth. I have not seen faith like this in all of Israel. And I tell you this, many Gentiles will come from all over the world, east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac,3:48 and Jacob at the feast in the kingdom of heaven. But many Israelites, those for whom the kingdom was prepared, will be thrown into outer darkness, where there'll be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then he turned to the3:59 Roman officer and said, go back home, because you believe it has happened. And the young servant was healed that same hour. Incredible passage of scripture. And for us, we4:11 see a man of God who clearly did not miss who Jesus was and what Jesus was capable of. It says this man is a Roman Centurion, which already makes him an unlikely4:23 candidate for a man of faith, especially for a man of faith that was so great that it actually amazed Jesus. He did not have the lineage of faith. He was not amongst God's chosen4:35 people, but it does remind us of something important right away. The grace of Jesus Christ comes to the unexpected and the undeserving. The unexpected and the undeserving.4:47 God's grace, his love, his kindness, it goes out to those that society has either decided or someone undeserving or those that society is surprised by that they view as unexpected.4:58 And that's exactly how the Jews that were witnessing this interaction would have felt. Most would have been surprised. A handful of them probably would have been outraged to see that Jesus was showing such kindness5:11 to an outsider. That he agrees to heal the slave of a Gentile, not just any Gentile, a member of the Romans, the oppressors of God's people.5:23 But isn't that who Jesus is? I mean, just a few chapters before. Right? Matthew chapter 5, the greatest sermon ever. Preached by the greatest preacher ever, the sermon on the mount. Didn't Jesus5:34 kinda lay out exactly how his kingdom was going to roll by telling us that this is going to be surprising? He said it was the poor in spirit. Right? Those that are5:46 humble enough to realize their need for God, they're the ones that the kingdom belongs to. He said that those that are mourning, those are the ones who will be comforted. He says that the humble will be lifted up and5:56 inherit the earth. On and on and on, Jesus was clear. His kingdom was upside down. His blessings, healing, restoration that was gonna come. His kingdom had come6:08 specifically to those the world had found undeserving and unexpecting. And now Jesus is going beyond just talking about that. He's proving it. He's moving from ideology6:20 into practicum. Right? He's demonstrating the stuff that he's just been teaching. Theoretical truth was becoming real right in front of these people. Right? Just before this Jesus healed a leper. Another person that6:32 would have been incredibly surprising, untouchable, unclean, and outsider. And now he's choosing to heal the slave of a Roman6:43 Centurion. I mean, a Roman Centurion would have been a commander of Roman soldiers, so he's in charge of a lot of oppressors of Israel. And these people had proven themselves to be nasty.6:56 These are the type of people that the Jews didn't wanna see Jesus heal. They wanted to see Jesus deal with these people. They wanted Rome overthrown. And yet when the Centurion comes to Jesus,7:09 he comes in great faith and expectation. He doesn't come with a demanding spirit. In fact, we'll see just how humble he is, but his faith is great. Jesus says he's never seen faith7:21 like it. Not even amongst his own chosen people. And that's a tough truth for us. Because amazing faith can't be inherited. Amazing7:33 faith has to be demonstrated. Faith that amazes Jesus isn't something that we're just born into. It's not the thing we inherit because of who our parents were. The Jews were God's7:45 chosen people. No question about it. But the faith of their forefathers, it didn't belong to them. It was an incredible example. It was a great background to be coming from. It was important,7:57 but each person had to choose just like each of us have to choose to follow Jesus. The faith of our parents doesn't qualify us for God's grace. But8:08 how cool is it that the lack of faith in the Centurion's parents didn't disqualify him for receiving everything Jesus had for him? In both cases, what's true is that faith must be demonstrated8:20 by each of us. Both the Centurion and the Jews alike had to choose if they were going to trust in Jesus for themselves, and then live into that decision. But8:33 they would have been surprised and outraged, not just because this was a Roman Centurion, but 1 step deeper. Remember, he's asking for the healing of 1 of his slaves.8:45 At that time in history, slaves were not seen as people, they were seen as property. They were literally just seen as tools for work. They were not humanized. When they got sick, or they got old, or they8:57 somehow couldn't do what they used to be able to do, just like a tool that was broken. You would get rid of it and get a new 1. But already the Centurion shows up and he demonstrates an unusual9:08 care. And it shows us a little bit into this dude's heart. Right? This is uncommon care for anybody at this time. Let alone a Roman, let alone a Roman leader. And maybe this is what begins to9:20 kind of pique Jesus's interest that there might be more to this guy. For the Roman to even come publicly to Jesus reveals a lot more about him and where his heart's at. It shows us that9:32 he had enough faith in who Jesus was, the reality of who Jesus was that he didn't care who saw. He set aside public opinion, his persona, his image, he did not9:44 care who saw him publicly speaking to King Jesus. Because it would raise questions with the people that he oversaw. And yet, his genuine care for the servant and his genuine9:56 belief in who Jesus was just it moved him forward, it says, to plead with the Lord. To plead with God. Is that true of10:08 us? I wonder, do our hearts break enough for the people in our care? The people in our lives that were pleading with Jesus for their10:19 healing. I mean, the Centurion got it. He did not miss a thing about Christ's heart or Christ's ability. There's no doubt in this guy about God's desire to heal and10:31 God's ability to heal. He was pleading, not based on fear that Jesus wouldn't hear him. This wasn't like trying to be loud annoying for fear that he was gonna be overlooked. His pleading10:44 reveals the depths of his faith and the same is true of you and me. The earnestness of our prayers proves that we believe that God can10:55 answer them. Let me say it another way, how hard it is that you and I pray, how often, how intensely we pray, it shows directly how much we actually think that God's listening11:07 and that God is able to do what we're asking him for. Fervor in prayer equals depth of faith. Desperate prayers come from the heart of the person who is completely convinced that Jesus can11:19 do everything he claimed he could. How often we pray. It reveals how much we believe that Jesus is who he said he was. Because if we truly believe this is the king of kings, and if we11:31 truly believe that if we ask anything of the father in the name of the son that it's going to be done for us, then how could we ever explain not praying constantly?11:45 For the follower of Jesus prayer is life. Prayer is is heir to our faith. If we don't pray it either shows arrogance. Right? We think we got this thing handled11:57 or it shows a lack of faith. In either Jesus's willingness or ability to answer our prayers. Like I said, if we don't pray we either think we got it12:09 or we think that Jesus doesn't. But the Centurion shows us the perfect model. He comes desperately and then Jesus responds and says immediately. I love it. He pleads it. Jesus just goes sure. I'll12:21 come heal him. Show me the way to your house. But the Centurion stops him and he says I'm not worthy. This would have showed incredible care for Jesus,12:33 for a rabbi to enter the home of a gentile. He was saving him from that. This shows that this man understands who he was. He gets it. He sees Jesus rightly and he sees12:45 himself rightly. We will never see ourselves rightly until we first see king Jesus rightly, until we see Christ for who he is, then we'll12:57 never see ourselves as we are. We will think too highly of ourselves or we'll think too lowly of ourselves. If we don't see Jesus for who he is and who we are in him, then we'll13:08 either wrongly believe that either the world spins around us or that our world is spiraling out of control because God doesn't see us. But neither 1 is true. You13:20 hear a lot when people say, humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's just thinking of yourself less often. I think humility is not thinking less of yourself. I think true humility is just thinking13:32 rightly about yourself. It's seeing yourself as you truly are. You and I, we're not the king of the world. We're not the king of anything, but we13:44 are the sons and daughters of the king. Right? Not thinking higher than we ought to. Not thinking lower than we ought to. This is something the Centurion understood. His next statement13:55 is equally interesting because he tells Jesus, you don't have to come, I'm not worthy. Right? He kind of goes on to go into his own mini sermon, mini parable about the fact that he understands authority.14:08 I'm under authority and I'm over authority. I take commands and I give commands and I see that they're done. He's telling Jesus, I understand your complete authority. And this might be where his14:19 faith is starting to become amazing to Jesus. Right? He says, I'm not worthy to have you in my home. But then he says, but Jesus, you don't even need to come to my home.14:32 In order to heal my servant, he says, you just need to say the word from where you are. This is the most amazing thing about his14:44 faith. He trusted Jesus to do something that no 1 had ever even heard of Jesus doing before. We can glaze over that. We can read that14:55 and say, you don't need to come, you can heal with the word. Because we know on the other side that God can heal from a distance. But at this point, in Jesus's ministry, people had only seen Jesus15:07 heal people that he physically put his hands on, or that he was physically present with. He was trusting that God could do something, heal from a distance, heal with a word that no 115:19 had ever even heard of Jesus doing before. That is real faith. That's amazing faith. It's 1 thing to trust that God has done15:31 something and will do it again. To trust that God will be faithful again. That is faith. It's another thing to believe that God can do something in my life that I've watched him do in the lives of other people.15:43 But to trust God to do something that you've never even heard of him doing for somebody else, that's amazing. I mean, that's faith that astounds the sun.15:56 And I don't know about you guys, but that's the kind of faith that I want. I don't want faith that's based just on biblical trivia, That's based on facts and figures16:08 that I've memorized from the Bible. Sound theology. Scripture tells me that demons have that kind of faith where they know what's true or not. What demons lack is submission16:20 and worship and dependence and trust, but that's the kind of faith the centurion has. That's the kind of faith that I wanna display, not the kind of faith I wanna think about.16:33 The kind that believes that God can do stuff in my life that I've never even heard of him doing in the lives of others. And I don't know what that is for you right now. I don't know what it is that you're trusting God to16:44 do in your life that you've never even heard of him doing in the life of another. But let's live boldly. Let's let's plead with the Lord. Let's16:56 trust. Let's prove with our life and our attitude and our trust and our emotion that we believe that our God can actually do anything. I mean, when was the last time17:08 you prayed for something that you've never even heard of God doing before? And look what Jesus says next, because you believed, it has happened. Some17:19 translations actually like say, as you have believed, so let it be done for you. Now I thank God that he heals us based on who he is. We are not earning17:31 anything from Jesus. Never listen to anyone who tells you that they weren't healed because their faith wasn't strong enough. That puts the onus on us. Our God heals based on who he is, but this verse17:43 is a strong challenge. It's a strong encouragement that Christ is healing in accordance with the belief that he sees. As you have believed, so it will be done for you.17:56 If you and I were to be healed in accordance with our belief, would we be healed? What is keeping us right now in our lives from completely18:08 trusting the work of Jesus? Maybe we feel overwhelmed by what is. And we just cannot see. Maybe we don't even know how to pray because we're saying, Lord, I don't know the answer to this problem. I don't even know. I18:18 don't even see a way through. Maybe it's that we're too confident in our own ability to take care of what it is, and so18:30 we're not even praying deeply into that situation. But all the peace that we experience as we pray in the in between, as we're waiting on God to answers, our ability to18:42 overcome the emotion that starts to rise up when life is a challenge, that ability to endure, it all comes down to our view of God. Tozer said it so well. Right? The most important thing about18:54 us is what comes into our mind when we think about God. And it's so true because our lives for God will never outperform our views of God. As we believe he is,19:06 so our lives will be. Right? If we believe that he is loving and caring and kind and and all powerful and all knowing and just and loving, then I can trust deeply.19:18 My view of god is gonna inform the faith that I have in god. But we have to keep reminding ourselves. I'm not talking about earning something from him. We're19:29 not earning our healing from him. We're not earning the answers to prayer that we're asking for. Remember, we're not performing for him. We're trusting in him. We're not performing19:41 for him. We're trusting in him. Faith is not something that we're doing for god. It's the natural relationship that we have with him. So the Centurion puts his faith19:53 in Jesus. He decides and he acts. So he just purposed to live out his life trusting in in all of the new that Jesus was unleashing on this culture.20:06 He just made a decision. Joshua actually put a similar decision in front of the Israelites many many years before. He basically says, decide what you're about. Choose which team you're20:18 on. Joshua actually summoned all of the tribes of Israel, to Shechem and Joshua gives the people a little bit of a spiritual pep talk and then he kind of calls them out.20:30 He puts the question to them like this in chapter 24 verse 14. He says, so fear the lord and serve him wholeheartedly. Put away forever the idols your ancestors20:42 worked worshiped when they believed beyond the Euphrates River in Egypt. Serve the lord alone. But if you refuse to serve the lord, then choose today who you'll serve. Would you20:54 prefer the gods of your ancestors that they serve beyond the Euphrates? Or the gods, lowercase g, of the Amorites in whose land you live now? But as for me and my family, it's Joshua's21:05 decision. We're gonna serve the Lord. It's so important for you and I to decide what it is that we're about. To decide21:17 that we're gonna live with our eyes locked on Jesus. Are we going to struggle? Yep. Is is doubt the opposite of belief? No. It's not. It's a part of the journey. It's a part21:29 of the struggle, the frailty. Jesus knows who we are. He knows how we're made. He knows that he shaped us from the mud, scripture says. But if we don't purpose and decide an effort to21:41 serve Jesus wholeheartedly, then we're gonna miss it. And that's what Joshua says. He says, fear the Lord, reverence and awe and focus and serve21:53 him with everything. He says, go all in. And then he gives him the choice. He says, do you wanna you wanna worship the little little gods that your ancestors serve? Reminding22:05 them that, hey. If you hang on to false ideas from the past, from the ways that you were raised, from old traditions, from old beliefs that you had, you're gonna miss it. He says, or you can you can worship the gods22:17 of the land which you live right now with the Amorites. He's saying, or you can let culture come in and you can just kinda do what's popular. You can just kinda believe what everybody's believing here. You can kinda22:26 blend into the culture. He goes, again, you're gonna miss it. He says you can either go all in for Jesus or not. But the enemy wants nothing22:38 more than for you and I to hedge our bets spiritually. To believe the lie that we can somehow kind of diversify our life and diversify our faith efforts.22:49 Sure. A little bit of Jesus, maybe a little bit more golfing on a Sunday morning than gathering in his house. Some faith in God for sure, but a little bit of eastern mysticism. There's some there's some truth over there23:01 too. Right? Power of the holy spirit for sure, but let's not forget the power of the human spirit, you know, manifesting in positive thought and believe all this stuff blending. Blending. Blending. Here's the problem. A23:12 little bit of untruth mixed into your life, your life is no longer built on the truth now. As soon as we introduce a little bit of untruth, what we now hold is now longer23:25 true. Like Joshua says, he says choose purpose, decide. The Centurion was a great example for you and I of a guy who got it,23:37 who just decided and then said nothing is going to keep me from Jesus. All of my problems are being brought to Jesus and all of my hope is in Jesus. And IChoosing the Better Part 23:49 wanna conclude our time in this series together by unpacking the last story, 1 of my favorites in all of scripture. Very short story, 4 verses, incredible impact. Turn to24:00 Luke chapter 10. Luke chapter 10 is 1 of the most powerful examples of a woman who did not miss it. Someone whose life is worth24:12 imitating. Now the chapter Luke chapter 10 begins by Jesus sending out the 72. He's got them paired up. He's hand selected them, and he's sending them out to share the good news that the kingdom of God is24:24 here. That Messiah Jesus is here. He's telling him, I want you to go tell him that I'm here. Tell him that salvation is available through me. They get specific instructions and then what follows is some incredible24:36 teaching. Right? He goes through the the most important commandment, the greatest commandment. We've got the parable of the Good Samaritan. There's awesome wisdom, but I wanna jump down to verse 38. And this is Jesus24:47 showing up at a house visit. Now we don't know the village specifically because it's not specified. Most biblical scholars believe Jesus is entering Bethany, which is the town that's pretty close to Jerusalem. And he24:58 walks into the home of 2 sisters, 1 named Mary and 1 named Martha. 4 verses long, but listen to the impact and the decisions made. We're25:10 gonna read the whole passage, and then we're gonna walk back through with some insights for us. Starting in verse 38. As Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to Jerusalem, they came to a certain village where a25:22 woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. Her sister, Mary, sat at the Lord's feet, listening to what he taught. But Martha was distracted25:35 by the big dinner she was preparing. She even came to Jesus and said, Lord, doesn't it seem unfair to you that my sister just sits here while I do all the work? Tell her to come help me. But the25:46 Lord said to her, my dear Martha, you are worried and upset over all these details. There is only 1 thing worth being concerned about.25:59 Mary's discovered it and it will not be taken away from her. Simple story. 2 sisters, 2 very different outlooks,26:11 2 different emotional states which led to 2 different choices and led them down 2 very different paths. So Martha welcomes Jesus into her home and takes the role of host. Now hosting someone in your26:22 home at this point in history was a very big deal. Now hosting God's son in your home, very big deal. So Martha rightly goes to26:34 work. Full on party planner mode. She's making sure everything is dialed in. She is completely focused on what it is that she wants to do and achieve before Jesus gets there. And then26:46 what she's gonna do to keep things going when he does get there. On the other end of the spectrum, is her sister Mary. Martha is flying about the house intent on26:57 serving. Mary is just sitting. But where is she sitting? So she's sitting at Jesus's feet, soaking up his teaching, listening,27:10 learning, just being with Jesus. And what's even more interesting is that when Martha notices it, starts to get upset, she actually asks Jesus, hey, can you tell her to get up27:22 and come and help me? And Jesus lovingly says, Martha, no. Says, Martha, you're missing it. But what was Martha missing specifically? I think a couple of things.27:34 First place that Martha was missing it, that she failed to realize like so many people do that the Christian life is not about doing things for Jesus. It's about doing things with Jesus.27:48 Mary thought that her primary role was servant and not child. Motivated by love with great intentions, but she was way more concerned with what she28:00 was gonna do for Jesus than with what Jesus wanted to do in her. Transforming her with his words. Jesus actually reveals the second place that Martha's,28:12 missing it in her in his response. Look what he says to her lovingly. He says, you're worried. You're upset about a lot of stuff about many details. Verse 40, he says that she's28:24 distracted. No doubt you've heard the adage that if the devil can't make you bad, he's gonna make you busy. I think today, brothers, distraction28:36 is 1 of the greatest enemies of the kingdom. Martha was too distracted to hear the voice of Jesus.28:48 Too busy, too concerned, too much to do that Martha could not hear Jesus brothers. I wonder is the same true of you and me. Are our lives29:00 so loud that we no longer hear the still small voice of God? Are we so worried about the details of our lives, even things we think we're doing for God that we're missing the very heart and29:12 teaching and presence of the king. I talk to a lot of men across the country. And a lot of times men will say, God just doesn't speak to me. Or I really wanna hear a word from the Lord,29:24 Dusty, but God's just not speaking to me. And I wonder, could it be that god is speaking, but that the volume of everything else in our lives is so loud that we just can't hear him?29:37 Not only are we the most disconnected generation from each other, we're the most distracted generation. Screens and phones, videos, reels, our jobs, sports,29:49 leisure, travel, all of it is great. All of it is an incredible distraction that can keep us away from what Jesus says is best. You and I cannot30:01 maintain a life anchoring focus on Jesus Christ if we're distracted by a lot of other things. And if you look, Martha was30:13 distracted by good stuff. Like we said, she was hosting. This is a good thing. She's hosting Jesus. Really good thing. I mean, was somehow caring for his physical needs wrong? Was playing host bad? No.30:25 Not at all. That actually shows us that even good things, maybe specifically good things, have the potential to keep us from the very best thing.30:37 Like Martha, even serving Jesus can keep us from being with Jesus. I think that's why so many in ministry burn out. They spend all of their life and time and energy doing stuff30:49 with God that they forget to just spend time with him who's the source of everything. Scripture tells us that for him and to him and through him are all things. It's not just for him. It's by his31:00 power that we even do it. And he doesn't say Martha's wasting her time or that what she's doing is wrong. He just says, Mary chose better. Mary actually31:12 chose best. I love that he tells Martha that only 1 thing is worth being concerned about. Now that can sound harsh. Like, are we31:24 supposed to be people then who just push away all other concerns? Like, we're we're we're not supposed to be good husbands or good dads or good friends. We're not supposed to be good in the office. We're not supposed to31:33 take care of what God's entrusted us. It's not what I'm saying. But just think about your week. Maybe think about yesterday. Think about all of the things large and small that somehow concerned31:45 you, that you concerned yourself with. Right? Maybe you were watching, the finals last week. Did your team win? Are you concerned about that? Did you close that latest deal that you've been working towards at work?31:57 Maybe you're going to a concert coming up and you're thinking, where are the details? How are our seats? Am I gonna find parking? You start to think through all these kind of things. Maybe you're concerned right now32:07 because they're waiting to hear if you're gonna land the new job. Are you guys gonna be able to pay your bills? Are the test results from the doctor gonna come back?32:19 Okay. Will the marriage ever be restored? Seems like there's a lot of stuff in our life that we should be concerned about. Some small, silly32:31 we're talking about, some huge, life altering. What Jesus is not saying is to not think about those things, to not pray about those things. What he's talking about is32:43 a deep concern. What he's talking about is focusing on the 1 thing we do have control over and that's going and sitting at the feet of Jesus. In the32:55 original Greek, when Jesus says only 1 thing is necessary, saying only 1 thing is is the Greek word. It means a requirement or a deep need. All the33:06 things that you're going through are real and true and worthy of your consideration, your efforts to try to repair, your efforts in fervent prayer that God would take care of them. But33:18 the encouragement is that we should only give our hearts in an attitude of fear, reverence, and concentrated focus to Jesus. That make sense? That's what33:30 Mary models for us. She sits at Jesus's feet. Now she was not someone who just avoided responsibility. Mary would have prepared for Christ before he got there. She would have done work with33:42 Martha in the exact same way Martha did. No doubt, working preparing herself, But she realized when he arrived that being with him was all that mattered anymore. Hearing from him,33:54 experiencing his love and his truth, being comforted by him. Boys, this is what we need every day. Being restored by his truth over our truth or cultures lies, getting filled with his power as opposed to our34:06 own effort, his presence. That's all that matters 1 thing. And we Like I said, we'd be so easy to look at Mary and think that she was some kind of slacker. Man, she just34:18 dodged her work. She dumped it on her sister. That's uncaring. That's unloving. Or we might think that maybe this was just emotional. She just kinda went gaga eyed when Jesus got there and just forgot about everything34:28 that she had to do. Let's not believe that. This was an intentional decision. She didn't forget her responsibilities, but she decided that Jesus was more34:40 important than any of her other efforts. Will we? She decided that even if she offended people, she was gonna be with Jesus. Will we? She was34:52 willing to let things go undone to prioritize Jesus men. Will we? Just like the Centurion, Mary had decided her life was no35:03 longer her own. She belonged to Jesus and so offering her time, offering her attention, it wasn't even a decision for her anymore. It was just the natural35:15 response. She was just living out what it was that she believed to be true. And my prayer is that that will be true of us. But men, you and I would not miss35:27 what Jesus is up to in any areas of our lives. That we would not be distracted. That we'd not be confused by what's most important. That35:39 we'd never let commitments at work keep us from King Jesus and what he's up to and what he wants to do in us and what he wants to do through us. That we would never put our desire for stuff. We talked about a few weeks35:51 ago, stuff that will end up in the dump. Never put that before our desire to see God's kingdom built. Let's never let our own pride, our own desire for recognition, or even our appetites for comfort and36:02 experiences keep us from Jesus. Let's not miss it. Let's be men who purpose to follow him in all things no matter the cost. No matter what we have to lay aside.36:16 Paul said that everything in his life was worth nothing when he compared it to knowing Jesus. Just knowing Jesus, when he compared all of the things that he had accomplished, his accolades, his education, his36:28 position, his influence, he said all of it was worthless in Philippians 3 8. Paul actually says, it's like garbage that needs to get thrown out. Paul did not miss it. His36:40 life was rightly prioritized. I don't wanna miss it either. I don't wanna miss the life of a son because I'm worried to live as36:52 a servant. I don't wanna live for my stuff instead of the true riches of knowing Jesus. I don't wanna let fear or doubt about what God can do or37:04 might do cause me to miss what Jesus is already up to. I don't wanna miss anything that Christ has for me, and my prayers that you would not miss anything that he has for you. Lord Jesus, we37:15 give ourselves to you. We purpose this day that we are yours. Lord, we don't wanna miss what you're up to in our lives. What you're showing us, revealing us, how you're transforming us. We don't wanna miss what you'reShow more In this video 0:00 Missing the Heart of God2:33 Faith That Amazes23:47 Choosing the Better Part37:18 The Inner Man and Spiritual Growth
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