Part 6 | The Mistake of Misplaced Priority
From Luke 10:38-42
📖 Matthew 11:28–30 ESV Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
If the Devil can’t get me to , he will try to keep me .
📖 Luke 10:38 ESV And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God. Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house.
📖 Luke 10:39 ESV And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching.
Bible Study Pro Tip #5: Play the of each in the story.
Sign Number 1:
I have many .
📖 Luke 10:40a ESV But Martha was distracted with much serving.
📖 Luke 10:40b ESV And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone?
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Sign Number 2:
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📖 Luke 10:41 ESV But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things
Sign Number 3:
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📖 Luke 10:41 ESV you are anxious and troubled about many things
Discipleship is a call to .
📖 Luke 10:42 ESV but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.
📖 Psalm 27:4 ESV One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.
📖 Philippians 3:13 ESV one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 ESV 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
📖 Mark 10:21 ESV And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
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📖 1 John 5:11 ESV This is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
📖 Isaiah 26:3 ESV You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
Sermon Resolve:
Life at the feet of Jesus is a , demands zero with others, and leads to .
