Old Llantrisant Hill
Introduction
- Looking at the Ten Commandments
- Taking a slight detour
- Looking at the underlying principles
- Loving God
- Loving your neighbour
- Looking at Mary and Martha
- The Devotion of Mary to Jesus Christ - love for God
- Next week considering the Good Samaritan - love for neighbour
Love for God is more than activity
- More than service, ministry and activity
- Martha had invited people to her home
- She was very busy and stressed but Mary was not helping
- Martha speaks to Jesus without speaking to Mary
- Martha has the audacity to tell Jesus what to do - "tell her to help me" (v40)
- Are we ever like this - in prayer?
- Martha doubts that Jesus cares - "do you not care" (v40)
- Do we ever feel like this?
- Do not take your eyes of Jesus
- Do not do things in the flesh - personal example
- Jesus tells Martha to stop and listen to Him
- To love God
- Deut 6:6-7 - a call to worship
- Ps 95:6
- Be like Mary and listen intently to the word of God
Love for God is supremely about listening to His word and enjoying His presence
- We have returned to church - but do we feel frustrated with the coronavirus restrictions?
- We must humble ourselves and listen to the word of God
- Jesus is with us by His Spirit
- Other things (like music) are unnecessary
- Consider Moses - who spent 40 days with God, without singing or music
- Consider Isaiah
- Consider Peter, James and John at the Transfiguration
- Sunday by Sunday we can hear Jesus voice
- What made Mary stop and listen to Jesus?
- She must have seen something so eminently beautiful in Him
- She knew that He loved her
- She knew that He could forgive her
- She knew that only He had the words of eternal life
- Do you long to hear the voice of Jesus?
- Mary sat at Jesus' feet
- She came in humility and reverence
- John 12:1-10 - She loved Jesus
- She came with pure hands before Him
- How have we come this morning?
- Consider Nadab and Abihu
- Consider Cain and Abel
- Consider King Saul
- We must come humbly before God
- Mary listened to Jesus' word
- We are spiritually dead and we need the word of God to bring light into our dark souls
- "The word is a light to our feet and a lamp to our path"
- "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God"
- Desire the pure milk of the word - grow by feeding on the word of God
- Ps 19:10 - have you found this to be so?
Closing Remarks
- Accept the word of God and embrace Jesus Christ
- Be like Mary and come and sit at the feet of Jesus and hear His word