Take a Seat, Mama | Pastor Adam Mesa

Ay man.

So good to see everybody in the house today. Before

we get started, can we do this. If you are

a mother, grandmother, primary guardian for anyone, would you stand

on your feet so that we can honor you. We

want to honor our mothers, our grandmothers, the women that

take care of us. Thank you so much. We appreciate

you so much more than you know.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. You may be seated,

Thank you so much.

And husbands, I was just giving you some brownie points

right there. So so just says she know I clap

for you today in church.

You can remind her later on.

I asked my wife what she wants for Mother's Day

tomorrow and she said to be left alone. And so

that's what our family, our boys will be doing for

her is we'll make sure she gets time for a

nap and to eat whatever she wants. And I will

after Sunday service go back and do whatever my sons want.

To do so that she could take a nap.

But however, your love this weekend, you're appreciated and we

thank you so much.

Given that it's Mother's.

Day, our team has prepared to speak to the moms

and grandmothers a little bit. And it's our prayer that today,

through the message, that you not only be encouraged, but

you also see how much Jesus sees you and cares

about you as women of our households and as women

that oftentimes carry a lot of the burden of the

family and the home. And so I pray that God

speaks to you today if you haven't joined us last week.

We're in a series, a new series that we do

pretty annually. We either call it Yeshua or Read Letter series,

and it's where we look at the words of Jesus

in the Bible. Your Bible oftentimes has read letters when

Jesus is speaking in the Gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

And there's a series out called The Chosen Series that

depicts the life of Jesus.

Through a TV show.

And so what we do is we take that series

and we take the clip about the Bible passage, we

read the passage, we reflect on the clip, and then

we allow God's word to speak to us today. What

we chose is something a little bit different from Mother's Day.

It's not clearly mothers in the passage, but what it

is is two women who are doing two things around Jesus,

and we're gonna allow this interaction. If you've ever heard

the story of Mary and Martha before, we're gonna see

the value that women have and what Jesus wants to

speak to the mothers and grandmothers today through this interaction

of Mary and Martha. It's a very famous passage where

Jesus comes into their home to teach all of the

disciples about the Kingdom of God. One sister sits at

the feet of Jesus while the other sister is wanting

to put on a good hosting experience, and so she's

in the kitchen, she's making the meals, she's setting the table,

she's making sure that all of the pillows are set

and arranged. She's making sure that all of the candles

are lit. She's making sure that Jesus and the disciples

and everyone there is hosted. Well, I don't know about you, ladies,

if you've ever feared that.

Type of burden.

There are times that I'll tell my wife that one

of my friends is going to stop by to hang

out for a little bit, and she'll say, but the

house isn't cleaned, And I'll say, who cares? None of

us care about any event, she says, but I care,

and so she'll jump in to fix and then all

of a sudden she'll be mad at me because I

didn't give her the heads up, which I should have.

But what we're gonna see is that there's two depictions.

You see, Mary is sitting at the feet of Jesus

hearing everything that he has to teach, and Martha, being

the sister of Mary, is setting the table doing all

the work behind the scenes.

And we're going to read the.

Passage just a few moments, but I want you to

see it first depicted.

Through the show The Chosen series. So let's take a.

Look the moment you got here. She hasn't anything to

serve you. She's completely ignored everything I've been doing to

make all of you comfortable. And it's clear that she's

not going to notice how hard I'm working on her own.

The only thing that could change it is if you

tell her to help me.

Martha, Martha, please.

Sit down here with me.

How can I said, only have your fallowers have been served?

We can discuss this later.

I'm sorry, I know that I want others to hear this.

There's nothing to be embarrassed about You've done a wonderful thing.

You are anxious and troubled about many things, and it

is not for nothing. Hospitality will always matter, and I

am grateful for what you have done.

That's what you deserve and more.

Your intention is well meaning, but only one thing is

truly necessary. The best way to serve me is to

be close attention to my words. That is the priority.

That is what your sister has chosen. It is a

good portion, and it will not be taken from her.

Taken the food there servings. They are wonderful, but they'll

pass away. But the rest of this world, my words,

they'll never pass away. Mary has chosen to restane something

of eternal value.

I want you all to hear this clearly. I do

not rebuke Martha. Acts of service are beautiful. Action is good.

You're doing what you thought was expected of you, and

what you do.

Is valuable.

And Mary probably could have helped a little. But listen,

I don't want you distracted from being able to be

present with me and the friends.

That I have brought. I'm inviting you to something that

is better.

To sit at my feet, listen carefully to my words

and devour them. As a meal more nourishing than actual food.

Hey man, let's talk about that a little bit today.

That interaction. If you're taking notes, the title, my message,

if you want to write the title.

In is this. Take a seat, mama.

That's what I want to share about today, and go ahead,

sit down, mama. That's the encouragement of Jesus that's found

in this passage. It's highly likely that Mary and Martha

both that as sisters, could also have been mothers and

even grandmothers. The Bible doesn't explicitly say their age, but

they have a brother named Lazarus.

And I want you to see.

We're gonna read the passage of scripture for just a moment,

so if you're ready, could we just stand to give

God our full attention. In Luke, chapter ten is where

we're gonna read from today. Here's what it says, starting

in verse forty eight. Now, as they went on their way,

Jesus entered a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed

him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary,

who sat at the lord's.

Feet and listened to his teaching.

But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she went

up to him and said, Lord, do you not care

that my sister has left me to serve alone?

Tell her then to help me.

But the Lord answered her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious

and troubled about many things, but the one thing is necessary.

Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be

taken away from her. You may be seated today. Let's

talk about that a little bit today. You see, this

Mother's Day, we celebrate the beauty of how women serve.

It's often a call, and it's often something that women

and mothers and grandmothers are gifted with. But we also

encourage our mothers to sit. That's Jesus's encouragement. Because mothers

are more than workers, their disciples, their daughters and their loved.

Mothers are the emotional glue of the family. Often it's been,

you know, shared in many by many preachers that mothers

are the thermostat.

They set the temperature in the home.

If you want it to be cold, a mother can

set the room to be cold. If you want the

room to be warm, the mother can set the room

to be warm.

But here's the thing about a.

Thermon set is thermiststats still need power. They do not

self power and if a mother and a woman wants

to be regulated by the Lord and wants to be

a healthy thermisttat, then the reality.

Is you're going to have to be connected to.

A power that's greater than your own strength, that's greater

than your.

Own ability of what you can hold together.

Because many moms today and many people you may feel

like Martha, constantly doing, constantly managing, constantly serving and solving.

But in this moment, Jesus.

Invites every mother to take their rightful seat at his feet.

There's many things that can be done, there's many responsibilities

to be had.

But more than that, you and I.

Are disciples of Jesus, and there's a rest that Jesus

can give that we cannot find on our own.

It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter how many spaw days you have, how

many massages you have, how many glasses of pinogrisio you drink.

You cannot have the type of rest that Jesus has

to offer.

That's how good Jesus is.

The beauty about this story is Jesus doesn't come in

the home and knock on the door to be served.

He's coming in your home to serve you. That's our savior.

That's who he is.

And so today, with just a few moments, this is

going to be such a simple but practical message that

I hope everybody's encouraged by. We're going to talk about

three steps that everybody should take to take a seat.

The first step is this, if you're taking notes, is

what we need to do is we need.

To pause the performance.

If you want to have the type of rest and

the type of discipleship that Jesus has to offer, what's

gonna happen is you have to pause performing, let go

of perfection, let go of the pressure. And everyone there

are responsibilities that will come at any moment and every moment.

There are children and grandchildren, and there are bills, and

there are home duties and responsibilities, and there are oil changes,

and there are this, and there are that that will

always exist.

But you want to know that was always available for

you and I it's.

To sit at the feet of Jesus. Here's what Jesus

in this moment says that we already read. I want

to revisit it for a moment.

It says this, If you're taking a we could have.

It up on the screen starting in verse thirty eight,

it says. Now, when they went on their way, Jesus

entered a village and a woman named Martha welcomed him

into her home. She had a sister called Mary, who

sat at the Lord's feet and.

Listened to his teaching.

But Martha was distracted. I want you to see that

for a moment, and we're gonna illustrate that a little bit.

I think I gotta I haven't wrote in a while.

There we go, Okay, look at this distracted, it says,

but Martha was distracted with much serving.

Here's the word.

You see, The actual Greek word is actually more powerful

because it uses the word called para spot. Oh, that's

the word. The Greek word that's used, which is actually

more than distracted.

It actually means to be pulled apart. That's the word.

So what happens is it says that we'll read it

back but in the original Greek with that word. But

Martha was pulled apart with much serving. And she went

up to him and said, Lord, do you not care

that my sister has left me to serve alone? Really,

what she's saying is not just serf, but my sister

has left.

Me to be pulled alone, torn alone, and so it's

not just a just distraction of sight.

It's this thing that I have to do this, and

I have to do this, and Jesus is at the

table and we have guests and we have to prepare,

and so she is experiencing this moment where she's being pulled.

Are there any moms in here today where you ever

feel pulled apart?

I don't know if that sounds familiar.

You're juggling meals, you're juggling messes, you're juggling meetings, midnight feeding, sports,

appointment bills, intimacy with your spouse, date nights, this and this.

It is being pulled apart. And that's how it often feels.

Have you ever this happens all the time? And I'm

actually kind of glad that they make us spend ten

cents for grocery backs, because you guys, remember the old

grocery backs like these ones, the like really cheap ones.

And have you ever experienced it when it gets heavy

and it pulls and it tears, that it just falls apart?

You guys, remember these backs. We don't get them anymore.

They make us pay for these heavy dues things and

stuff like that. But I remember you carry them and

they'll just tear apart.

Why is it.

Because the bag's weak? Is it because the bag's cheap?

Is it because the bag? No, the reality was the

bag the things that were being put in the bag

were too heavy for the.

Bag to hold.

And so what Jesus is telling Martha is he's saying, Martha,

this is nothing to do with you. This has nothing

to do with your abilities or whether we're happy with

how you're serving it. What it has to do with

right now, you are taking on so much that it

is tearing. It is pulling you apart. The distraction, the

Paris Fao, all the things, the expectations that you are

caring for this house, caring for this family.

It's tearing you. And so when she.

Comes to Jesus, it's not a statement of equality. It

is a statement to say, hey, help my sister to

help be pulled on as well. If I gotta feel

this way, then my.

Sister ought to feel this way.

And isn't that Oftentimes how mothers and grandmothers talk to

each other. When a mother or grandmother is stressed and

they tell another mother and grandmother, their response is, let

me tell you how stressed I am.

In other words, let me tell you how pulled apart

I am.

And then the moms and this is something to me

and Ashley talk about all the time.

Is you feel better because someone else is being pulled on?

Doesn't that make you feel better?

You call me, oh, my husband this and my kid's

dad and I'm my job, I got a worst manager

in the world, and we're trying to go to this

trip but it's looking slim. And then the next person

comes in and they're like, oh, well, you and your

husband haven't had date night in three months. We haven't

had a date night in three years. And your kid

is getting bees. But my kids in juvenile hall right now.

And you're going like this, who.

I'm glad. I'm not the only one being pulled on.

I'm glad.

And so what Martha is doing is just another woman,

another mother.

She's saying, Jesus, I want my sister.

To experience the weight and the pool that I'm experiencing it.

And Jesus, doesn't you know, correct her or diminish her

or not even appreciate that moment. All he's doing is

he's saying, hey, because moms feel it all the time.

You going grocery shopping is this, and this this, and

all Jesus is saying is saying. Moms don't just carry groceries.

They also carry burdens. And all Jesus is trying to

do is carry those burdens. A mom is a chef,

a chauffeur, a cheerleader, a therapist, and a life coach.

Those are all the occupations of a mom on top

of the occupation that she may have daily. You see,

moms are often the ones behind the scenes holding the

whole play together, even my own life.

For Adam, I go to work, I set my.

Schedule, I get a coffee, and then I just look

at my calendar on my phone and my wife just

populates it with soccer and dentist's appointments and this and that.

And she still shows up to work, and she still

goes to church, and she still has to have her

own relationship with the Lord. And it's my duty as

a husband to say, hey, am, I creating space for

my wife to not be like Martha, to be like Mary,

who's allowed to sit at the feet of Jesus, who's

welcome to sit at the feet of Jesus, who can

bear and allow Jesus to bear the very burdens that

Jesus is bearing for me. Are we creating that type

of availability, because that's what Jesus is speaking to John

Mark Comer says this.

The greatest threat to devotion.

Is distraction, and he's talking about this.

Relationship with Jesus.

The greatest threat in your life to being able to

sit at the feet of Jesus is distraction. All of

the things that have to be done, that need to

be done, that are very well important, they were important.

Jesus never said they were.

But he makes an invitation to Martha that Mary took

him up on, which is this, here's step two.

If you need to pause the performance. The second step

is now you need to park at his feet.

Take a seat, take a seat, park make space to

spend time with Jesus.

Verse thirty nine.

It says, and she had a sister called Mary who

sat at the lord's feet.

And listened to his teaching.

See Mary parked herself at Jesus's feet. This was a

profound cultural moment because in Jesus's day, Jesus being a rabbi,

whenever you're reading your Bible, especially in the Gospels, whenever

someone sits down when someone's talking, that means that they

put that person.

At a higher teacher authority.

And so let's just say Jesus begins to speak, those

that can or him their rabbi, their teacher, they will

sit down in a resemblance to tell everyone, this is

my teacher. And in Jesus's day, only men were allowed

to have that rabbi. And if you were a married

woman or anything like that, it was whoever your father

or husband chose as their rabbi. You were allowed to

stand in the back, but you were not allowed to

sit in with everyone else and listen to the rabbi

like the disciples would. And so it wasn't just happening

with Jesus. There were hundreds of rabbis in Jesus's day,

and anytime your rabbi would teach, you would sit down.

But the ladies they had to stand in the back

and just be able to listen in.

And so Mary, which I'm sure Jesus had made.

An invitation for her to sit, Mary does something that's

not even just relevant to you and I when it

comes to learning from Jesus.

Jesus was making.

A huge cultural shift in that day to say that

women are welcomed in an equal playing field as the

biles with me. And that's powerful because what Martha's not

just speaking to is she's just not speaking to Mary's

inability to help her when she's being torn apart. She's

also somewhat correcting culture as well to say, hey, tell her.

To get up.

She's acting crazy right now, like she's sitting at your feet.

Jesus, we're not allowed to do this.

Just tell her to come and help me, and the

ladies will be in the kitchen while you men learn,

and then later on the men will.

Teach us, because that was common.

And when Jesus goes is, Jesus goes, no, I'm not

gonna have the men teach you later like that. I'm

gonna allow you that if you want to be a

disciple of me and you want to learn from me,

and you want to experience my rest and experience my presence,

then go ahead.

And sit down, Take a seat, rest. Sit.

This was a culture shifting moment where Jesus says this,

you're not just welcome in the kitchen and welcome into kingdom.

That's what Jesus says. It's powerful and the moment we're

reading is not a competition between sisters. It's a revelation

of priorities. Jesus was not rebuking Martha for service. All

he was doing was redirecting her schedule. He wasn't saying

that there wasn't something that needed to be done or

could be done, but he would saying. He was saying

this that if it's my presence that you are trying

to supply for, he goes, I don't need that type

of service because Jesus is there to serve.

Them with the Kingdom of God.

And so he's saying, Martha, I don't need you in

the kitchen right now. I need you here because the

kingdom is right now. Corey Temblem, the Great Preacher, said this,

if the enemy can't make you sin, he'll just make

you busy.

And that's what will happen. That's what Martha's ex expiriting.

This is getting busy and her sister is there radically

shifting culture.

And instead of her saying, man, I'm going to join

my sister.

This is something that we have never had in our

history as women within the Jewish culture, instead she says, hey,

let's just assimilate.

Back to culture.

Let's just get back to serving, and then let's let

the men here and the disciples learn from Jesus.

And Jesus.

No no, no, no, no no, no no no, come take

a rest, jesuays, I want to be able to talk

to you directly.

I want to be able to share with you directly.

The spirit of God is available to everybody, and everybody

who is hungry and everybody who is thirsty. Jesus does

not predicate based off of what you do for a living,

or how exceptional you are, or what your gender.

Is, or what your past was.

Jesus says, anyone who is hungry, anyone who is thirsty,

he will give them rest. That's who Jesus is. That's

what he does. That's the goodness of God. That's what

he took. Park not to visit at his feet, but

to park at his feet. There's a time my dad.

You guys, anyone got any one of these in your car?

If you do, I think it's because you probably forget

to fill your gas tank a lot or anything like that.

I remember that when I was younger, my dad, I'd

go with him to buy if he was buying a

new car. I remember a couple of times my parents

got me a car when I was eighteen in early twenties.

And here's what my dad does.

I don't know if any other dads are like this,

but my dad always makes a big deal of getting

a free gas tank, like getting his gas filled up

when he buys a car, Like he's.

A big deal for him. So they'll he'll be at

the negotiating table and.

There's tens of thousands of dollars on the line, there's

you know, thousands of dollars being put down, and he'll

say this, I'll only shake your hand if you give

me a full tank of gas.

I always thought that was odd with how much was

on the line.

He wanted like a fifty or sixty dollars free tank

of gas. And the reality was every single person every

time would be like, yeah, I can give you that,

because their thought was you're not gonna get a free

tank every time, you're just gonna get a free tank now.

So we could do that and they had no problem

with it. You want to know what would be a

great deal is if he said if the deal with

there was go every time I need gas, I want

to be able to pull up here and it's like,

oh wow, that's that's a deal. But a lot of

times we treat Jesus as this kind of emergency gas source.

But if you only treat Jesus as an emergency gas sourse,

in other words, you only visit him when you're on

e then what happens is is you're gonna be carrying

one of these.

Around all the time. And a person who carries this

and lives in fear with this.

I'm not saying don't exercise wisdom and have one in

your trunk, but a lot of people you keep this

filled because you on eat so much and you got

it in your trunk or whatever, and you filled this

up so many times because you forget to fill your car.

Up so many times.

And what Jesus is inviting Martha to do that Mary's

doing is she is sitting long enough to be filled up.

She's parked long.

Enough, not just as a visitor, but.

Mary is saying, I'm a disciple of Jesus. I don't need.

This emergency gas tank. Because what Mary's doing is she's saying,

I sit at Jesus's feet and everything that he's teaching,

I am gonna soak this up. So not that she's

giving out of the emergency fund, but now she's giving

out of her overflow. How many of you guys know

it is much more difficult to make a decision when

you're using your emergency funds rather than when you live

on overflow. When you live on overflow, that payment is

relatively easy because you know you got it. You're like, oh,

I'm fine, I got I got overage, we got a

little bit, we got money left over, and so problem.

But when you're dipping into the emergency funds or when

you're dipping into that overdraft fee, how many of you

guys know that's stressful. Martha's in the overdraft. She's overdrafting

in that moment, she's tired, she's torn apart, she's distracted. Mary,

She's trying to establish being filled, to live in the overflow.

That's the difference, and Jesus makes the same invitation to her.

Here's the third point that I want to share with

you today, and the final point is this, pour from

your fullness. Pour from fullness, not out of emptiness. Pour

from a place that has been overwhelming and overflowing. Don't

pour from exhaustion.

How many of you have ever found it hard to

give your best when you're just exhausted, when you're just tired.

There's been so many times that me and Ashley have said,

we need a date night because we haven't had one

in forever, and then we're just at dinner, just staring

at each other, and we're counting down the moments to

get home to go to bed, and so we treat

that moment as something that we know is important. But

because we're on e in our own life and busyness

and schedule, that moment is not a moment of overflow.

It's a moment of empty and so then therefore there's

no value in that moment. It just becomes we're doing

it because we have to. And how many times does

a relationship with God we result to that?

Why do I do it because I have to? I'm

on empty?

Why do I go to church because I'm empty? I

feel like I have to? Why am I starting to

pray because I feel like I'm empty and I feel

like I have to? Why am I doing this because

I feel like I'm empty and I have to? Rather

than saying this, man, God is so good to me,

Jesus has been so good. He gives me rest, he

gives me comfort, he gives me peace, he gives me joy.

So therefore, though times I may be tired, I have

an overflow to give from. Look at forty one to

forty two as this. But the Lord answered her, Martha, Martha,

you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one

thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which

will not be taken away from her.

I want you to look at this.

This is this statement right here where he says Mary

has chosen the good portion. I want you to see

this right here, right here says good portion, this level,

right here, this good portion. What Jesus was saying in

the original language is he said this. Let me put

it in white for you or gray. He said this.

What Mary is.

Being is she's being intentional, this good portion good. But

what he was saying was, it's an intentional choice of

choosing this portion. It's like it's like oftentimes when we

go home, you have a decision to eat healthy or unhealthy.

You don't just show up at home and an unhealthy

meal is there. It's an intentional decision that we make

that says, ooh, I want a little sweet treat. Coming

home or whatever it is. It's a choice that you make.

And so what Jesus was saying is he was saying this.

He's saying, no one forced Mary to sit here, No

one forced Mary to take a seat, No one enticed

Mary to do this. Mary had a choice. Mary could

have joined you, Martha and done all of the things

that you're doing.

But she chose something greater.

It was an intentional decision that every mother has to make,

an intentional.

Decision to sit at Jesus's feet. It won't creep up

on you.

It won't necessarily make itself available to you. How many

of us have hoped for a slow season, or a

down season, or a rest season, and maybe you'll get

two days, maybe you'll get three days, get more than that.

Oftentimes it doesn't creep up on you. Sitting at Jesus's feet.

Doesn't happen by happenstance. It doesn't happen by accident. It

happens because you say, I know there are priorities on

the table. I know there are things that need to

be get done. But if I'm not healthy, then nothing

else will be healthy. And if I'm not rested, then

nothing else will be rested. And if I'm not joyful,

then chances are nothing else will be joyful. The best

version of you doesn't come from burnout. It comes from

being filled by God. It's not burnout when you find

yourself empty. This is the time that I encourage you

that not only do you need rest, you need time

spent with the Lord.

Because that's what Mary's doing with Jesus.

And she's spending a moment and she's sitting as she's

resting with Jesus's feet. Have any of you guys been

on the airplane before, and you guys know all of

these emergency videos that they play nowadays, and so they'll

play those videos. Hey, this is how you buckle your

seat in case of emergency, this or that.

And then they'll always have in the video one of

these things.

The little oxygen mask, and they'll have this picture and say, okay,

if this comes down, put it over your face. But

here's what it'll say, is it'll say, if you have

children with you, what does it say, do yours first?

Why?

I mean I would give my life for my sons.

I would do anything for me and actually our children

are highest priority. It's something that we love our boys

we love our children. The idea that I would put

myself first before my sons that sounds ludicrous, but when

you really.

Think about it, it makes complete sense.

Because in an emergency situation, when there is no oxygen

in the cabin, what can happen is while you are

attempting to save your children, if you run out of oxygen,

you have no strength to help your children. There's nothing

you can do. And so if you're trying to grab

it and fix and you're trying to get this to

your children, but you are losing air in the meantime,

you're a disservice to the moment. So the process is

they say, hey, put this on yourself. So now you're

getting oxygen and you can do whatever you gotta do

for your children, and you can be there for your

children and your family and you will not pass out

because if you pass out, it's.

No good to the family. And what we need to.

Do as disciples, the reason why you do gotta prioritize

your own relationship with God, your own rest with the Lord,

your own moments with the power of God, because if

you do not give yourself.

Ox you cannot help anyone else.

You are on empty and if you're trying to save

your children on burnout, if you're trying to save your

marriage on burnout, if you're trying to save your parents

or grandparents but you are burned.

Out, it's gonna be hard.

It's gonna be difficult because when you're trying to help

someone else while you're gasping for air, or when you're

both drowning and you're trying to help someone else, stay

afloat and guess what, it may just lead to your

own drowning. And what Jesus is He makes it clear

with Martha. He says, Martha, I can tell that you're

burnt out. I can tell that you've been distracted. I

can tell that you've been pulled apart. And Jesus offers

the fix to her is to sit down, Sit down

and be in the Kingdom of God and rest in

the things of God. And So, if I have one

challenge to you this week, it may not be one

that you expect, or it may not be super spiritual,

but here's one challenge I give you today. It's a

spiritual challenge, but it's a practical challenge.

This week for Mother's Day. Here's the trick.

Here's the challenge mom's Grandma's say no to at least

one thing this week, say no to at least one thing,

and the husbands are here.

So we're you tell us not to.

If you're gonna rest in God, if you're gonna prioritize

your faith and you're gonna prior to some things that's

for your walk, then the reality is all the yeses

in the world do not mix with rest.

Because that's what Martha was.

Doing, is she was saying yes to everything, Yes to

the meal, yes to setting up the pillows, yes to

establishing the house, all while she was saying no to.

Sitting at Jesus's feet.

And so there are times where we want to be

healthy and we want to be bounced, we have to

say I just can't do that this week. I just

got to say no to that. And that may mean

that something doesn't get cleaned, That may mean that something

that doesn't get fully done, That may mean something doesn't happen.

But what happens is if you can fill yourself and

your tank, then what will happen is you will be

a better person a week from today. Because Jesus is

invitation and what impresses Jesus is not our busy schedules.

It's our ability to sit spend time spending in the

presence of God, whether it's through prayer, whether it's through worship,

whether it's through reading your Bible.

Spend time with Jesus.

Because he can fill you in areas that the world

could not fill you in. And you may not always

get a thank you, and you may not always get

an appreciation. You may not always get and I love you,

or this is amazing, or how valuable you are. But

in the presence of Jesus, what you can get is rest.

And that's what we want to.

Encourage you with today, is to sit at the Savior's

feet and allow God to fill you up this Mother's Day.

And if you're here today, I just.

Want to make a simple invitation while we leave church

today is if you've never made Jesus Christ your personal

Lord and Savior, then I encourage you here today on

this Saturday, that all of us one day will stand

before God. And the Bible says when we stand before God,

we will hear one of two things. You will either

hear well done, good and faithful servant, or you will

hear to part from me.

I've never knew you.

Oftentimes people ask the question, why does God send people

to hell?

Well, the reality is God doesn't send anyone to hell.

People choose because people hear the Gospel and we hear

the freedom and the grace of God, and some people go,

I don't want to receive that grace. I don't want

to receive that freedom. I don't want Jesus to be

my savior. Every man and woman has been given an

opportunity in this world today, as we see it, especially

in this moment, to hear the good news of Jesus

and to make a decision. Am I willing to rest

my faith and my hope on Jesus? And if you're

here today and you're ready to make that decision, that,

as Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins

and rose three days later to show us that there

was victory in the cross, a decision and a choice

to follow Jesus is available for every person. There's people

that sometimes come up to me that say, the pastor

around him, I would choose Jesus, but here's what my

past is like. I would choose Jesus, but here's what

I'm currently going through. I feel like I need to

fix that before God would accept me. Reality is, God

will accept you exactly how you are right now now.

If he accepts you exactly the way you are right now,

here's what you got to get ready for.

Is he loves you so much he won't keep you there.

But you can't do it on your own, and he

can't do it by yourself, and you can't be distracted

and pulled apart in your own ways and your own times.

Reality is to say, Jesus, I sit at your feet

and I rest in you to allow you to carry

my burdens, for you to carry my shame. Because he

carried the cross, he can surely carry our burdens.

So, if you're here today.

And you're ready to make that decision, all we're gonna

do is affirm this moment by publicly receiving Jesus as

our Lord and savior. The Holy Spirit's already at work

right now in your life. All we're doing is affirming

the miracle that God is doing in this place. And

so if you're ready to say that prayer out loud,

we're all going to join you together in affirmation. Would

you bow your head and close your eyes and would

you say this, dear Lord Jesus, in this moment, I

confess you as Lord and Savior. I believe in my

heart that you died on the cross and you rose

three days later. From this day forward, I commit to

follow you for the rest of my days in Jesus's name.

Amen.

In just a moment, right now, I'm going to count

to three. If you said that prayer today for the

first time or the last time, would you just raise

your hand up in the air.

We want to celebrate with you. Book of Revelation says.

That if one person gives their life to Jesus Christ,

all of Heaven rejoices.

And so as a church, patrion means family. That's all

it means.

But specifically it means family that have believed in Jesus,

and so we want to welcome you into the family. So,

if you've said that prayer today for the first time,

second time only, counter three, would you raise your hands

so we can welcome you. One two, one, two three,

raise your hand high and proud as Jesus gave his life.

How in prayer, I see your hand, my friend, I

see your hand, my friend.

Congratulations, Welcome to the family of God.

We believe that you are brother and.

Sister in Christ, and all of us will one day

stand and celebrate this moment in heaven together.

Pastor Nathan's gonna dismiss us today.

I'll bet out in the courtyard foyer if you like

to say hello, otherwise we'll see.

You next week. Pastor Nathan, would you dismiss us today? Man?

Family, can we give Jesus a handclap again?

Tonight?

Will you stand with me as we get ready to

dismiss today? Moms, you heard your homework assignment for this

coming week, so he asked you to go home, pray

about it, and go where God's leading you. To let

that one thing go and say no tonight.

Family.

At the end of our service, like we do every service,

we have a prayer team up here at the altar.

They would love to take a moment to pray with

you if you are in need of prayer.

For anything in your life.

If you don't mind, just come up and they will

take that time to pray with you. Also, for all

you moms, no matter what exit you leave out of,

we have a beautiful gift for you to wish you

a happy Mother's Day, which is a Patrio lip balm

just for you, so make sure you grab one on

your way out.

Let's pray. God, We thank you Father for your word. God.

We thank you Father through the life God of Mary

and Martha. God.

I pray for every mother that is here today, every

grandmother God, every aunt God, every lady that is here

represented tonight.

God.

We thank you Father for the gift that they are

to us. God to sons and grandsons, God to brothers. God,

we thank you Father. To the daughters in the house. God,

we just ask you to cover them, grace them. God,

may they find rest this weekend and going into next week.

We give you glory and honor in Jesus' name.

Amen. Happy Mother's Day weekend.