After Martha had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside to tell her, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling you.”And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.And when she had said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Teacher is here, and calleth thee.
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Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. I bet you'd have a seat. so uh one of my uh we a lot of us have guilty pleasure things right so i one of my guilty pleasure uh tv shows i don't know why but all of them almost all of them are surround reality tv i don't know why maybe it's me you're escaping reality by going to reality tv but one of these shows i haven't watched in a while one of these shows was a tv show called the bar rescue and the bar rescue it was always the same setup bar rescue it's one of those kind of genre like a homestead rescue where the expert rescuer comes in. So bar rescue is always the same story. It was this bar that was struggling. They were in debt. They didn't know how to run a bar. And here all of a sudden they bring in John Taffer. John Taffer is the expert rescuer. And again, it's always the same. They set up cameras in the bar and he's going to watch. He's doing a stakeout. And it's one night and he's in his escalade out in the parking lot with maybe his assistants. And they sent, I sent some people into the bar to see what they're doing, right? And he watches until he can't taken anymore. He's like, I got to go in there. He comes in. He just yells at everybody. He yells at the staff. He yells at the owners. He yells at everyone out of here. And he just, you know, …
… difficult topics specifically this weekend and I thank God in advance for the opportunity for all of us to grow in truth this morning amen we'll be reading from John 11 verses 28 through 37 If you are able, please stand as we read the word of the Lord. After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. The teacher is here 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 had been with Mary in the house comforting her, noticing 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 also moved deeply in spirit. …
He who has ears to hear the word of God, let them hear it. Please be seated. When last we looked at this narrative in John's Gospel, we looked at the discussion that took place between Jesus and Martha, in which we had Christ's affirmation of his being the resurrection and the life. And we read at the close of that passage the words of confession of Martha, I believe you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come to the world. It's at this point that we pick up the narrative this morning, where we read after she said these things, she went on her way and reported to Mary that the Master had come. The one they had summoned, the one in whom they had placed all of their hopes and trust, had finally arrived now four days after the death of their brother. The teacher has come, she said, and he's calling for you. And so as soon as she heard these words, Mary arose and came to him. …
"And when she had so said, she went her way, and secretly called Mary, her sister, saying, The Master is come, and calls foryou. As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto Him. Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met Him. The Jews who were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goes unto the grave to weep there. Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying unto Him, Lord, if You had been here, my brother had not died." John 11:28-32. IT seems that Martha had heard of Christ's coming, and Mary had not. Therefore Martha rose up hastily and went to meet the Master, while Mary sat still in the house. From this we gather that genuine Believers may, through some unexplained cause, be at the same time in very different states of mind. Martha may have heard of the Lord and seen the Lord. And Mary, an equally loving heart, not having known of His Presence, may, therefore, have missed the privilege of fellowship with Him. Who shall say that Martha was better than Mary? Who shall censure the one, or approve the other? Now, Beloved, You may be tonight, yourselves, though true Believers in Jesus, in different conditions. I may have a Martha here whose happiness it is to be in rapt fellowship with Christ. You have already gone to Him and told Him of your grief—you may have heard His answer to your story and you may have been able by faith to say—"I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world." And you may be full of peace and full ofjoy. On the other hand, sitting near you may be a person equally gracious as yourself who can get no farther than the cry, "Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to His seat!" Dear Martha, condemn not Mary. Dear Mary, condemn not yourself! Martha, be ready to speak the word of comfort to Mary. Mary, be ready to receive that word of comfort and, in obedience to it, rise up quickly and, in imitation of your sister, go and cast yourself, as she has already done, at the Savior's feet. I must not say, because I have not all the joy my brother has, that I am no true child of God. Children are equally children in your household, though one is little and the other is full grown, and they are equally dear to you, though one is sick and the other in good health—though one is quick at his letters and another is but a dull scholar. The love of Christ is not measured out to us according to our conditions or attainments. He loves us irrespective of all these. Jesus loved Martha, and Mary, and Lazarus. He loves all His own and they must not judge Him by what they feel, nor measure His love by a sense of their own lack of love. …