Scripture Luke 10:38-42
Example: mint dill cumin – don’t
neglect but pay attention to more important things [one is ‘gooder’]
Luke 10:38-42
As Jesus and his disciples were on their
way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39
She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he
said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made.
She came to him and asked, "Lord, don't you
care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!"
41 "Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, 42
but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is
better, and it will not be taken away from her."
Here’s the story, of a lovely lady,
who was busy making food for her Lord.
She made fish, bread and cheese, like her mother,
And poured some wine to drink.
Here’s the story, of her sister Mary,
who likes sitting and talking with her Lord.
Just the two of them conversing all day
She never felt alone.
Till the one day when Martha got upset
And she said “Jesus make her help me now!”
He said, Martha you are too distracted,
And Mary’s chosen what is right!
What is right
What is
right
Mary’s chosen what is right!
BY
JEFF COOPER Nov. 4 2016
John 11:1-47
Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was
from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2
This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured
perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair. 3 So the sisters sent word to
Jesus, "Lord, the one you love is sick."
(Lois Lane getting
news to Clark Kent that Jimmy Olsen is hanging off the empire state building by
his fingers which are about to come loose and Superman needs to come quick and
save him)
4 When he heard this, Jesus
said, "This sickness will not end in death. No, it
is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it." 5 Jesus loved Martha and her sister and
Lazarus. 6 Yet when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two
more days.
7 Then he said to his
disciples, "Let us go back to Judea."
8 "But Rabbi," they said, "a short while ago the Jews tried to stone you, and yet
you are going back there?"
9 Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight? A man who walks by
day will not stumble, for he sees by this world's light. 10
It is when he walks by night that he stumbles, for he
has no light."
11 After he had said this,
he went on to tell them, "Our friend Lazarus has
fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up."
12 His disciples replied,
"Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better."
13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he
meant natural sleep.
14 So then he told them
plainly, "Lazarus is dead, 15
and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that
you may believe. But let us go to him."
Then Thomas (called Didymus) said to the
rest of the disciples, "Let us also go, that
we may die with him."
On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus
had already been in the tomb for four days. Bethany was less than two miles
from Jerusalem, and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in
the loss of their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went
out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home. "Lord,"
Martha said to Jesus, "if you had been here,
my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you
whatever you ask." Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." Martha answered, "I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last
day." 25 Jesus said to her, "I am the
resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he
dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
"Yes, Lord," she told him, "I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who
was to come into the world."
And after she had said
this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. "The Teacher is here," she said, "and is asking for you." When Mary heard this,
she got up quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet entered the village,
but was still at the place where Martha had met him. When the Jews who had been
with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went
out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet
and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my
brother would not have died." When Jesus saw her weeping, and the
Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit
and troubled. "Where have you laid him?"
he asked. "Come and see, Lord," they replied.
Jesus wept. 36 Then the Jews said, "See how he
loved him!" But some of them said, "Could
not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"
Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone
laid across the entrance. "Take away the stone,"
he said. "But, Lord," said Martha,
the sister of the dead man, "by this time
there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days." Then Jesus
said, "Did I not tell you that if you believed,
you would see the glory of God?"
So they took away the
stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I
thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said
this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that
you sent me." When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice,
"Lazarus, come out!" The dead man came out, his hands and feet
wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them,
"Take off the grave clothes and let him go."
Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus
did, put their faith in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told
them what Jesus had done. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a
meeting of the Sanhedrin.
John 12:1-11
Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived
at Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2
Here a dinner was given in Jesus' honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among
those reclining at the table with him. 3 Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard,
an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her
hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
4
But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him,
objected, 5 "Why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth
a year's wages." 6 He did not say this because he cared about
the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to
help himself to what was put into it.
7 "Leave her alone," Jesus replied. "It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day
of my burial. 8 You will always
have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."
9 Meanwhile a large
crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and came, not only because of him
but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 10 So the chief priests
made plans to kill Lazarus as well, 11 for on account of him many of the Jews were
going over to Jesus and putting their faith in him.
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