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Value Others Above Yourself- Minister Max Lucado Daily Sermons · Max Lucado Daily Sermons

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  Speaker 1: If we're looking for ways to be that ice cream
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  Speaker 1: truck in the world, to deliver a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: happiness everywhere we go, lighting the load and brighten the
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  Speaker 1: day of a few people, specifically a hundred people. It's
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  Speaker 1: the one hundred Happy People Challenge forty days in which
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  Speaker 1: is set out to go the extra mile, and many
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  Speaker 1: of you are doing this, receiving lots of fun emails
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  Speaker 1: and hearing wonderful conversations. An email came saying, I visited
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  Speaker 1: shut ins from our church today. Hope they feel the
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  Speaker 1: love of Christ. Another one said, my mother in law
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been able to go to church. She doesn't have transportation.
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  Speaker 1: We got up extra early to take her to worship.
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  Speaker 1: Some typical responses, but then we got this one, and
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  Speaker 1: this was fun. This came in the general church email list,
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  Speaker 1: not from one of our members. It says I was
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  Speaker 1: having trouble transporting some things on my car roof carrier.
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  Speaker 1: I pulled over to rearrange it, praying Lord please help me.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately a man's often offered to help. He introduced himself
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  Speaker 1: and told me his pastor had challenged him to make
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  Speaker 1: one hundred people happy. He loaded my things in his
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  Speaker 1: pickup and he followed me home, helped me unload. God
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  Speaker 1: answered my prayer by sending along someone from your church.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you well whoever that is. You get five points.
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  Speaker 1: So the idea is this set out to create one
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  Speaker 1: hundred extra mile moments over forty day period. It's just
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  Speaker 1: an exercise to develop our sensitivity and our unselfish muscles.
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  Speaker 1: We try to do something that we typically wouldn't do.
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  Speaker 1: Just go a little above and beyond in the way
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  Speaker 1: we treat people. I encourage you to keep up with
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  Speaker 1: this and share it with your groups, your Bible study groups,
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  Speaker 1: your home neighborhood groups, your family, great dinner table conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Share it on social media at hashtag hundred Happy People,
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  Speaker 1: and email me at one hundred Happy People at Oakhillschurch
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  Speaker 1: dot com. We'd love to read these, share a few
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  Speaker 1: of them. We're looking for some blog opportunities. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: sharing your way. Keep a journal of all this and
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  Speaker 1: it'll really be a treasure to you. And at the
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  Speaker 1: end of those forty days you can look back we begin.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're on day eighteen now or day nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: but you can start whenever you want to and do
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  Speaker 1: this and our quest to make one hundred people happy.
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  Speaker 1: We're studying some verses out of the Bible that we
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  Speaker 1: could call the one another verses. They're verses that have
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  Speaker 1: that phrase one another in them. Encourage one another, admonish
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  Speaker 1: one another, build up one another. Practical passages from the
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  Speaker 1: Bible that teach us how to just be a better person. Well,
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  Speaker 1: today's passage, I'll warn you it's a little challenging. It's
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  Speaker 1: in Philippians chapter two, verses three and four. Do nothing
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  Speaker 1: out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Well, we could
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  Speaker 1: stop right there, couldn't we. Rather, in humility, value others
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  Speaker 1: above yourselves, not looking to your own interests, but each
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  Speaker 1: of you to the interests of others. So Lord, would
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  Speaker 1: you help us unpack this passage? And would you forgive
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  Speaker 1: the sins of the one who speaks for their many
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  Speaker 1: and help us to see Christ, just Jesus through Christ.
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  Speaker 1: We pray, and all the church said, it's a big
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  Speaker 1: day in the Locato house when we purchased a piano.
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  Speaker 1: My wife, DeLand loves to play the piano, and she
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  Speaker 1: wanted to pass the passion onto the girls. We have
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  Speaker 1: three daughters. They were very small at the time, ages
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  Speaker 1: four and two, and Sarah was still a new born,
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  Speaker 1: so when it came to playing the piano, it was
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  Speaker 1: more pounding the piano than playing the piano. But still
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  Speaker 1: it was enough for them to want to have a
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  Speaker 1: nightly piano recital. Maybe it was just a ploy to
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  Speaker 1: postpone bedtime, but either way, what dad can resist that invitation? Daddy,
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  Speaker 1: can I play you a song? And so into the
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  Speaker 1: living room we would go, and and they would get up,
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  Speaker 1: and I have this memory really in my mind that
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  Speaker 1: repeats itself many times of a little girl wearing her pajamas,
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  Speaker 1: those footed pajamas, you know, her hair still wet from
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  Speaker 1: the bath, and she gets up and she plays something,
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  Speaker 1: and then she jumps down and she curtsies, and mom
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  Speaker 1: and dad applaud and then up comes daughter number two.
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  Speaker 1: It was really a delight most nights, but some nights
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  Speaker 1: there were fights. Now I know your kids didn't fight
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  Speaker 1: or don't fight, but sometimes Jenna, according to Andrea, would
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  Speaker 1: play too long, or sometimes Andrea, according to Jenna, would
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  Speaker 1: not do right on the song, and so there was
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  Speaker 1: often this collision on the piano bench. One would jump
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  Speaker 1: up next to the other start scooting her off, you know,
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  Speaker 1: or saying no, no, no, do it this way, do
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  Speaker 1: it this way, And so I would have to referee
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  Speaker 1: and they would say, well, but Daddy, she's taken too long.
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  Speaker 1: You're not playing it right. And what they didn't know
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  Speaker 1: is that I wasn't grading them, I wasn't keeping score.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a contest. It was just let's all enjoy
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  Speaker 1: one another. You know. Competition and comparison was turning those
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  Speaker 1: little girls into tyrants. It always does. Jesus once had
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  Speaker 1: an issue like this with two sisters, and it's in
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  Speaker 1: a fascinating story that is really challenging, and it has
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  Speaker 1: to do with competition and comparison, and it reads like this.
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  Speaker 1: As Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: they came to a certain village where a woman named
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  Speaker 1: Martha welcomed him into her home. Her sister Mary sat
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  Speaker 1: at the Lord's feet, listening to what he taught, But
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  Speaker 1: Martha was distracted by the big dinner she was preparing.
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  Speaker 1: To Jesus and said, Lord, doesn't it seem unfair to
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  Speaker 1: you that my sister just sits here while I do
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  Speaker 1: all the work. Tell her to come and help me.
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  Speaker 1: But the Lord said to her. My dear Martha, you
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  Speaker 1: are worried and upset over all these details. There is
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  Speaker 1: only one thing worth being concerned about, and Mary has
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  Speaker 1: discovered it and it will not be taken away from her.
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  Speaker 1: Have you already read this story? Most of the time
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  Speaker 1: when we talk about Mary and Martha, we talk about
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  Speaker 1: it from the vantage point of two distinct personalities, one
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  Speaker 1: a very tranquil or contemplative, reflective person Mary and the
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  Speaker 1: other Martha, very productive, kind of high energy, maybe a
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  Speaker 1: little type a personality. And I think that's fair. But
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  Speaker 1: I think there's something else in here that would help
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  Speaker 1: us to understand the passage, and that is the problem
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  Speaker 1: that Mary dealt with was I'm sorry that Martha dealt
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  Speaker 1: with was not so much her list of things to do,
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  Speaker 1: but the attitude with which she was doing it, And
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  Speaker 1: that begins to shine through as we studied the story deeply.
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  Speaker 1: I do you like to fill in blanks? This lesson
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  Speaker 1: has some blanks that you want to fill in on
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  Speaker 1: your outline. We begin Luke ten thirty eight reading Martha
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  Speaker 1: welcomed Jesus into her home. This is if you want
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  Speaker 1: to fill in the blank Martha's moment. This is Martha's
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  Speaker 1: big moment. It's interesting, don't you think that, Luke says,
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  Speaker 1: Martha welcomed Jesus into her home. Not Martha and Mary
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  Speaker 1: welcome Jesus. Not Martha and Mary and their brother Lazarus,
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  Speaker 1: who all lived under the same roof. But Martha took charge.
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  Speaker 1: Martha stood at the doorway. Martha welcomed Jesus in the
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  Speaker 1: Disciples into their home. No, her home, her kitchen, her house,
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  Speaker 1: her domain, her territory. Martha welcomed Jesus into her home.
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  Speaker 1: This was her big moment, and she had a special
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  Speaker 1: event planned for Jesus and the Disciples. She had in mind,
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  Speaker 1: Luke says, a big dinner. This wasn't just orders or
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  Speaker 1: peanut butter sandwiches. She had in mind a big dinner.
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  Speaker 1: So she escorted Jesus into the living room, had him
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  Speaker 1: sit down, had the disciples sit down, and she was
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  Speaker 1: just about to sit down and enjoy a conversation with them,
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  Speaker 1: when ding ding ding. She heard something in the kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: and so she stood up and she said, please excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to stay in chat, but of course someone
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  Speaker 1: has to cook. And so she went in and realized
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  Speaker 1: the timer was going off. And it was time to
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  Speaker 1: check out her soup, her carrot ginger soup. She had
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  Speaker 1: learned the recipe for carrot ginger soup by watching her
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  Speaker 1: namesake on television, Martha Stewart. Martha of Bethany loved Martha
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  Speaker 1: of Stuart, and Martha of Stuart had this special recipe
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  Speaker 1: for carrot ginger soup. And in the TV show that
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  Speaker 1: Martha of Bethany had watched more than once, Martha of
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  Speaker 1: Stuart warned the viewers, be sure, don't let the soup
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  Speaker 1: get too cold or get too hot. And so she
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  Speaker 1: had set the timer because this was a big dinner.
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  Speaker 1: This was Martha's moment. And so Martha went in and
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  Speaker 1: she checked the soup. She pulled it off of the stove.
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  Speaker 1: She set it on the counter. She took a wooden spoon,
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  Speaker 1: and she took a sip, and she nearly gagged. She
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  Speaker 1: realized she had forgotten to put the ginger in the
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  Speaker 1: ginger carrot soup. Martha of Stuart had warned her that
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  Speaker 1: this could happen, but she had forgotten. Oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: it tasted as bland as egg whites. Now what was
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  Speaker 1: she going to do? She said loud enough for the
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  Speaker 1: whole neighborhood to hear. I gotta remake the soup. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't taste good. No response from the other room. So
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  Speaker 1: she walked over and she opened those wooden shutters that
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  Speaker 1: separate the kitchen from the living room in the dining area,
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  Speaker 1: and she looked in and said, I got to remake
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  Speaker 1: the soup. Jesus gave her a thumbs up, says, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we could be a little late on dinner. Jesus gave
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  Speaker 1: her a thumbs up, said We're all right. It never
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  Speaker 1: occurred to Martha to just skip the soup. It didn't
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  Speaker 1: because the soup was a part of a plan. This
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  Speaker 1: was a big dinner. This was Martha's moment, and the
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  Speaker 1: soup was an important part of Martha's moment. She had
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  Speaker 1: envisioned the moment in which Jesus would taste Martha Bethany's
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  Speaker 1: soup that she got from Martha of Stuart, and that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus would taste the soup and all the disciples would pause,
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  Speaker 1: yay verily, all the angels would pause, and all the
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  Speaker 1: neighbors by then would have gathered out in the front
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  Speaker 1: lawn because they would have gotten word Jesus is about
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  Speaker 1: to taste Martha's soup, and Jesus would taste Martha's soup,
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  Speaker 1: and he would say, Oh, this is heavenly, this is divine,
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  Speaker 1: this is the broth of angels. It's all right there
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  Speaker 1: in the Bible. I don't know if you read it
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  Speaker 1: or not. And so it was important. The soup was
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  Speaker 1: all a part of the big moment, the big dinner.
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  Speaker 1: So she said about the task of remaking the soup.
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  Speaker 1: She got the soup going again, got the stovey lit
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  Speaker 1: and thought to herself, well, as long as I'm in here,
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  Speaker 1: I'll check the meat loaf. It had to be basted,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it had to have the tomato sauce, and
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  Speaker 1: then she would put a little glaze of honey on it.
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  Speaker 1: And it was time to get the honey out. And
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  Speaker 1: when she reached up, she got the honey out of
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  Speaker 1: the pantry. That's when she saw on the kitchen table
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  Speaker 1: that tray with a picture of tea and the glasses
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  Speaker 1: full of ice, but no tea. She forgot to serve
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  Speaker 1: the mint tea. What kind of hostess was she? So
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  Speaker 1: she grabbed it and she walked in and she gave
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  Speaker 1: it to Jesus, said Jesus, I'm so sorry I forgot
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  Speaker 1: to serve your tea. What kind of hostess am I?
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  Speaker 1: That's when she noticed nobody had noticed. Nobody had missed
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  Speaker 1: the tea. Nobody was missing her. Peter and James and John,
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  Speaker 1: all those guys were just sitting around talking and chuckling.
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  Speaker 1: And right there in the middle of them, who Mary,
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  Speaker 1: Her sister was doing nothing? Well, Martha was doing everything.
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  Speaker 1: She turned and walked right back into the kitchen and
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  Speaker 1: she checked the meat loaf. It was getting hot, and
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  Speaker 1: so was she. She could feel her next her veins
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  Speaker 1: were starting to bulge, and she started chopping vegetables, and boy,
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  Speaker 1: that knock was coming down hard. Heart, heart, heart, Why
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  Speaker 1: can't somebody help me? Why am I in here doing
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  Speaker 1: it all? Why? Why? I mean? It was not what
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  Speaker 1: she wanted, and Martha's moment quickly became, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to fill in the blank, Martha's resentment. She resented her sister.
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  Speaker 1: She resented the fact that Martha was doing all the
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  Speaker 1: work and Mary was in there just listening. Looked ten
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine. Mary sat at the lord's feet, listening to
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  Speaker 1: what he talked. Does she not know there's work to
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  Speaker 1: be done? Does she not know I'm in here doing
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  Speaker 1: all of this by myself. And so Martha set about
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  Speaker 1: trying to get Mary's attention. She clanged some silverware together,
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  Speaker 1: she let some pots clang together, She dropped some cans
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  Speaker 1: onto the floor. She let out one of those big
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  Speaker 1: foghorn sighs, and finally it was all she could handle.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that frustration just bubbled up inside her, and
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  Speaker 1: Martha's moment became Martha's meltdown. With wooden spoon still in hand,
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  Speaker 1: she marched back into the living room and she slapped
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  Speaker 1: that palm in her hand, and don't you know every
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  Speaker 1: male disciples set up straight, and she said to Jesus' Lord,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it seem unfair to you that my sister just
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  Speaker 1: sits here while I do all the work. Tell her
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  Speaker 1: to come and help me. No disciple spoke. Mary didn't speak.
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  Speaker 1: She looked down, and Jesus looked up. He looked at Martha.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to Martha? What do you think? What happened?
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  Speaker 1: What helpened? What happened to that Martha who just moments
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  Speaker 1: ago was welcoming everybody into the house. What transpired? What
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  Speaker 1: changed her? Well, Luke says, Martha was distracted by the
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  Speaker 1: big dinner she was preparing. See, she had big plans
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  Speaker 1: to make a big impression with her big event. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: she ended up making a big mess, and she became
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  Speaker 1: worried and upset over all of these details. Don't you
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  Speaker 1: think it's ironic that there she was in the Prince
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  Speaker 1: of Peace, in the presence of the Prince of peace,
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  Speaker 1: and yet she was a picture of stress. What was
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  Speaker 1: Martha's mistake? Let's see if we can figure out what
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  Speaker 1: did Martha do that caused her to respond this way?
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  Speaker 1: What was Martha's mistake? Is the point of this story
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  Speaker 1: to teach us that it is a sin to cook,
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  Speaker 1: that it is a sin to be hospitable. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think so. I don't think the poet of the stories
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  Speaker 1: to teach us it's a sin to be responsible, or organized,
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  Speaker 1: or even ambitious. Martha's mistake, I would go so far
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  Speaker 1: as to say, was not her request. It would have
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  Speaker 1: been right for Mary to come in and help out.
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  Speaker 1: There was something in Martha's attitude, something in Martha's tone,
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  Speaker 1: something in her perspective that caused her to spiral downward.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the word that best fits is the word self promotion.
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  Speaker 1: This was her party, but she had gone from serving
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  Speaker 1: Jesus to promoting self. Instead of making a big deal
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  Speaker 1: out of Christ, she was making a big deal out
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  Speaker 1: of her dinner, out of her offering, and the focus
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  Speaker 1: had gone from honoring him to promoting self. Self promotion
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  Speaker 1: is all about self. Look what I can do, Look
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  Speaker 1: what I have done. Self promotion does not have much
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  Speaker 1: latitude for people who are different than they are. They
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  Speaker 1: need to do more, They need to help me, They
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  Speaker 1: need to get up and come in. Martha's attitude was
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  Speaker 1: such that her sense was that she was being unfairly treated. Interesting,
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  Speaker 1: don't you think that her attitude so soured her that
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  Speaker 1: she actually got bossy with Jesus tell her to come
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  Speaker 1: and help me. Can our service intended for Jesus so
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  Speaker 1: sour us that we begin to tell Jesus what to
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  Speaker 1: do and begin to tell other disciples how to respond.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not a real pretty sight. Is of the
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  Speaker 1: two sisters at this moment? Which of the two would
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  Speaker 1: you want to hang out? With? This self service, this
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  Speaker 1: self promotion. It creates a sour Christian, a sour servant.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if we have any Marthas among us. No,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if most of us have a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of Martha within us, and that the purpose of this
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  Speaker 1: story and others is to warn us to be careful
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  Speaker 1: and not to slide in our intent to serve Jesus
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  Speaker 1: into a posture in which we're really serving and promoting ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: This is a slippery slope, this spiritual ambition. The branch
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  Speaker 1: of service so tightly intertwines with the poison ivy of
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  Speaker 1: self service, and sometimes it's hard to tell where one starts.
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  Speaker 1: In the other thoughts. Maybe that's why the Apostle was
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  Speaker 1: so insistent in this verse. He said, do nothing out
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  Speaker 1: of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, inhumility, value others
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  Speaker 1: above yourselves, not looking to your own interests, but each
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  Speaker 1: of you to the interests of others. Vain ambition it
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  Speaker 1: creeps in on the cat's feet of Christian service and
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  Speaker 1: turns gifted Martha's into miserable mumblers. Have you ever since
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of a Martha within you? Boy?
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  Speaker 2: I have.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I'm about to tell you a story that
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  Speaker 1: may cause you to file a petition to have me fired.
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  Speaker 1: Some time ago, it's been a couple of years, I
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  Speaker 1: received an invitation from a group, a Christian conference that
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  Speaker 1: was taking place here in our city at the eleventh hour.
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  Speaker 1: Their speaker had canceled and they needed somebody to come
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  Speaker 1: and fill in for this speaker. Required no travel required,
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  Speaker 1: only clearing a calendar. Great opportunity, wonderful, strategic group of folks.
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  Speaker 1: Would I be willing to come and fill in for
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  Speaker 1: their guest speaker? My first thought, I'll confess, was fill in.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't your first pick. I'm your substitute. Don't you
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  Speaker 1: know who I am. I don't just go around fill
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  Speaker 1: in for people. And this kind of ugly, tacky, self
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  Speaker 1: centered attitude just took over. I declined the invitation. That's nauseating,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it? Self service always is? And when self service
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  Speaker 1: takes over, Jesus is not served. But Martha's get bossy
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  Speaker 1: and Max's get puffy, and nothing good happens. Hence, the
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  Speaker 1: apostle inspired by the Holy Spirit is very direct. Here
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  Speaker 1: again Philippians two three. Do nothing nothing out of selfish ambition. Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to be on the watch. We got to
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  Speaker 1: check our mote. Do nothing out of selfish ambition. Paul's
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  Speaker 1: antidote is in humility. Value others better than yourselves. Make
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  Speaker 1: it your aim to every time you see another person
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  Speaker 1: who walks with Christ, to determine they're more important to
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom than I am. I'm not God's MVP, You're
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  Speaker 1: not God's VIP. We're treasured, we're loved, we're bought by God,
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  Speaker 1: we're in dwelt by his spirit. But none of us
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  Speaker 1: is indispensable, not one of us. God doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: have your service to do his work, and he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to have mine to do his work. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, if you don't speak, the rocks will cry out.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a lot of alternatives. And there was a
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  Speaker 1: story in the Old Testament when the prophet was hesitanting.
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  Speaker 1: So the donkey preached a lot of people after they
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  Speaker 1: hear me. Think he's still doing that today. Romans twelve
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  Speaker 1: three says have a sane estimate of yourself. Have a
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  Speaker 1: sane estimate, and the word saying there is sometimes translated
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  Speaker 1: sober sober. In other words, don't get drunk on your
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  Speaker 1: own importance, don't get inebriated as to your own importance.
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  Speaker 1: Have a sane, realistic understanding of your place in the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: You have gifts. Mary has gifts. Peter has gifts. We
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  Speaker 1: have skills and abilities, and God can use any of us,
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  Speaker 1: but he doesn't have to have any of us. I
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  Speaker 1: think this is a helpful exercise to apply this teaching,
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  Speaker 1: especially during this time of forty days in which we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to make people happy. Take time to make a
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  Speaker 1: list of all the people who've made a difference in
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  Speaker 1: your life. Just make a list. It's a delightful assignment.
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  Speaker 1: Make a list of every teacher, relative, coach, preacher, friend,
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  Speaker 1: neighbor who has made a difference, and just write a
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  Speaker 1: sentence out and say because of so and so, I
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  Speaker 1: learned this because of so and so, I'm better at this.
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  Speaker 1: And you will soon back up and say, whoa, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people who help me be who I am.
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  Speaker 1: I am who I am because other people cared, and
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  Speaker 1: none of us are in this all alone, and all
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  Speaker 1: of us need all of us. And then once you
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  Speaker 1: have the list, go the second verse with it and
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  Speaker 1: let those people know. Send them an email, write them
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  Speaker 1: a letter, give them a call. Boy you talk about
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  Speaker 1: making somebody happy, thank them, thank them, and thank God
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  Speaker 1: that he has all types of people to do all
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  Speaker 1: types of work, and that whenever that spirit of Martha
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  Speaker 1: comes up in which we insist that things be done
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  Speaker 1: our way or we think it's our big moment, and
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  Speaker 1: may his spirit remind us that sometimes it's right to
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  Speaker 1: be a Mary, to slow down and just sit at
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  Speaker 1: the feet of Christ and listen to what he has
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  Speaker 1: to say. So you play your piano music and I'll
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  Speaker 1: play my piano music, and let's see if we can't
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  Speaker 1: play together. And when we do, I have a feeling
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  Speaker 1: we're going to enjoy the evening a lot more. You agree, okay, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: So thank you for this really interesting story that you
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  Speaker 1: give us. It's such a peek into the human nature,
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  Speaker 1: the human heart. Father, I pray that we've treated it well.
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  Speaker 1: And if we haven't, would you forgive us and then
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  Speaker 1: reveal to us really what you want us to learn.
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  Speaker 1: Would you help us, Lord, to be humble servants, grateful
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  Speaker 1: yet humble servants in your kingdom? And forgive us for
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  Speaker 1: when we do self promote because Lord, your glory, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's yours and yours alone to Christ. We pray and
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  Speaker 1: all the church said, And.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be all right. You don't have to stay if
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  Speaker 2: you've already chosen. I won't stand in your way.
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  Speaker 3: I can feel it in your distance, in the way
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  Speaker 3: you barely speak, like your heart is somewhere else now,
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  Speaker 3: somewhere I can't reach. I was trying to just to
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  Speaker 3: hold us. Why are you slowly slipped away? Now I'm
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  Speaker 3: left with all the sides you didn't want to say.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I just held along.
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  Speaker 1: To something.
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  Speaker 3: Already gone. I'll be fine. You can't leave. You don't
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  Speaker 3: know me anything.
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  Speaker 1: If your heart is found? A way, how do what
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  Speaker 1: we used to be? How?
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  Speaker 3: Be fine?
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  Speaker 1: Don't look back?
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  Speaker 3: How survived this empty space? Not tonight, maybe not soon,
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  Speaker 3: but holler to be okay.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need to fake the feeling.
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  Speaker 3: I can see in your eyes. There's no reason left
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  Speaker 3: the stand when the love already died. Through the quieting
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  Speaker 3: your voice, I can't hear your choice. Be fine.
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  Speaker 1: You can leave. You don't know me anything.
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  Speaker 3: If your heart has found how do what we used
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  Speaker 3: to be habby? Fine?
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  Speaker 1: Don't look back?
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  Speaker 3: Survived this empty space?
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  Speaker 1: Not to night?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe not so, but I'll learned to be okay. I
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  Speaker 3: don't need a reason why. I can see anything goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: And it breaks me in Dutch, But I won't ask
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  Speaker 1: you to stay.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be fine. You can't leave. You don't know me,
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  Speaker 3: get anything.
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  Speaker 1: Give your heartest, found.
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  Speaker 3: Work, how to what we used to be?
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  Speaker 1: Have be fine, don't look back, how surve have this
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  Speaker 1: sampy space.
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  Speaker 3: Not tonight, baby, not soon, But I'll learn to be okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'll be all right.