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Andy Im

Spoiling Your Spiritual Appetite

Heavenly Father, we thank you so much once again.

We pray for your Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us and direct us this evening.

May the words that are spoken tonight not be my own words, but may they be a reflection of your thoughts and your truths and expression of your love.

We thank you Lord and we ask this in the name of Jesus, Amen.

You know, the Bible says, taste and see that the Lord is good.

How many of you, how many men in here like to cook?

How many of the husbands or the males up here like to actually cook and make delicious food.

How many of you, now and ladies as well, I'm sure you enjoy cooking and it's a really fun experience.

You know your go-to dish that when you have visitors coming, you have this go-to dish that you prepare that you know because it's been proven and tested that when they come, they're just going to eat that food and you're going to enjoy that meal together.

A lot of times when you make food, it's like your honor is at stake, right?

Your whole pride of your cuisine and the secret recipe that you have.

And really if you were just looking up on YouTube and you know, kind of putting that thing together.

And then after a while, through trial and error, you get a little bit better, that dish gets a little better, and that kind of thing.

I can imagine that Martha had a signature dish.

She had God, she invited God, Jesus Christ into her home.

We find this story in Luke chapter 10 verses 38 through 42 and verse 38 reads that a woman named Martha welcomed Jesus into whose home?

Well it was hers so she had the ownership.

The pressure was on her and so here she has I'm sure she had a couple of signature dishes.

She wanted everything to be just perfect.

My wife knows that when I'm inviting, when we're inviting guests and that kind of thing, don't mess with me in the kitchen.

You know, as Pastor Justin was mentioning, You know, we can only focus on 1 thing at a time.

And so it's whether it's that tubu we're frying or whatever, we can't have any other external factors to distract us or to confuse us, right?

And so I can imagine Martha having several dishes she was preparing.

And she had a sister called Mary who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching.

So there she is, Mary sitting down, listening to the words of Jesus, sitting at his feet.

And I can imagine Martha, you know, she's frying things up, she's getting things ready, and she's like, hey, hey Mary, like it's game time.

Right now it's game time, and I need a little help.

You know, and she goes back, you know, because she doesn't want to burn things, and she's giving her that eye, you know.

And so here the pressure is on, And after some going back and forth and after the evil eye and all these kind of things, she says in verse 40, but Martha was distracted.

Here she is distracted with much serving, the Bible says, and she went up to him and said, So she reached this boiling point where she could take it no more.

And she goes to God himself, to Jesus, and says, Lord, those famous words, don't you care like I'm doing all this work and I'm doing it for you." But it was really about herself, right?

At a certain level, because humanly speaking that's what happens, right?

Don't you care that my sister has left me to serve all by myself." And then not only does she make this subtle, passive accusation against the character of God, but now she's dictating to God what to do.

Hey, you command her, you tell her, tell her to help me.

And of course Jesus in much patience says, but the Lord answered her, Martha, Martha you are anxious and troubled about many things.

They're legitimate, I understand, but 1 thing is necessary.

Mary has chosen the good portion which will not be taken away from her." Jesus states here very explicitly that 1 thing is necessary in our lives on a day-to-day level, and that is to sit at the feet of Jesus and to hear his word.

You know, the piano lessons are very important.

The piano lessons, the soccer games, That's why we're, you know, we call it soccer moms, because you're rushing here and there, because you don't want your kids to miss out on all the growth and all the things that all the other kids are learning.

But in this context, don't forget that Jesus is stating very explicitly 1 thing is necessary.

And that's what Mary was doing right here, to sit at the feet of Jesus and to hear his word.

You know, family worship is so important.

We have full-time jobs and it's sometimes very challenging to squeeze in worship, but how important it is to sit at the feet of Jesus with our children to listen to the words of God.

And I want to appeal to all the parents in here, if you're not doing worship, again it's not a checklist.

It's not just something we do to appease God.

But don't you and I want to raise our children and have them fall in love with our Lord and Savior?

There is nothing more important than that.

Mary has chosen that good portion which will not be taken away from her.

You look at the story of blind Bartimaeus.

Blind Bartimaeus sat by the road begging and when he heard that it was Jesus, he began to cry out, Jesus, have mercy on me!

Then many warmed him to be quiet, but he cried out all the more, And then Jesus said to him, Go your way, your faith has made you well.

When challenges arise, when things are impeding our progress and having that time to spend as a family with Jesus in devotions and studying the Bible together with our children.

And when these impediments come, I hope that that is our cry.

We cry out all the more and say, Lord, 1 thing is necessary.

I do not want that to be taken from me and to commit to God that as a family, we're going to spend that time.

It's great to come to church once a week to worship together, but how much even better it is to spend that time with our families before Jesus every day.

The question, Well, before I go there, 1 of the things my daughter used to do, this is our youngest.

This is Karis, she's 2 now, but this is when she had her big fat chubby cheeks.

But 1 of the things that she used to cry out all the time, she doesn't do it anymore, hopefully we have some videos that have captured it, but 1 of the things that she used to cry out like all the time, she doesn't do it anymore, and hopefully we have some videos that have captured it, but 1 of the things that she used to do is when we would feed her something that she liked and she would eat it, and then she would just start going, ma, you know, She could barely talk at the time, she was like 1.

And she would start yelling at the top of her lungs, ma, ma, until we're just like, OK.

And the appeal is our hearts and is our minds crying out to God more.

Why is it that we don't wake up and the first thought is, Man, I can't wait to spend time with God, spend time with Jesus.

And we've studied on the first night some of the things that impede that desire.

We're born with nature, that human nature, where it's not innate, it's not inherent that we desire spiritual things.

So God even has to intercede and change our desires and help us and empower us to even desire and want spiritual things.

And God of course helps us with some of these things.

We find in, we read in Romans chapter 7, I know that in me, this is Paul reflecting, in my flesh there is nothing good.

I might even have the will or the desire, the intentions, the determination, the desire to want to follow God.

It may be present with me, but how to perform it, but doing it is another thing entirely.

We have these desires and yet it's so often very challenging.

I want to share a principle that we find in Numbers chapter 11 verses 1 through 6.

And we read here in chapter verse 4, the children of Israel also wept again and said, who shall give us flesh to eat?

We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely, the cucumbers, the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.

There is nothing at all except for this manna before our eyes.

How many of you have eaten, it doesn't matter how sweet or how good mango is.

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