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Encounters With Jesus

Benjamin Ng

Jesus’ Encounter With The Devil

Jesus’ Encounter with the First Disciples

Jesus’ Encounter with Philip and Nathanael

Jesus Encounter at the Wedding Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Nicodemus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman at the Well

Jesus’ Encounter With The Centurion

Jesus Encounter with the Blind Man Near Bethsaida

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man by the Pool of Bethesda

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Sick of Palsy

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples in the Storm

Jesus’ Encounter with the Blind, Dumb Demoniac

Jesus’ Encounter with the Demoniacs of the Gadarenes

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Issue of Blood

Jesus’ Encounter with the Five Thousand

Jesus’ Encounter with John the Baptist

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples on the Sea

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus’ Encounter with Martha and Mary

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Born Blind

Jesus’ Encounter with the 10 Lepers

Jesus’ Encounter with the Rich Young Ruler

Jesus’ Encounter with Blind Bartimaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with Zacchaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Spirit of Infirmity

Jesus’ Encounter at Simon’s Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter and His Denial

Jesus’ Encounter with Pilate

Jesus’ Encounters at the Cross

Jesus’ Encounter on the Road to Emmaus

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter at the Sea of Tiberias

Thank you for seeing us safely through another week Thank you Lord for your grace and mercy Which is new every morning and father as we come to you this evening as we study your word Once again, we ask for a blessing We ask for your Holy Spirit to please guide us.

We ask that you would please speak to us, O Lord.

Grace us with thy presence is our earnest plea and prayer.

Well our encounter for this evening is Jesus' encounter with Martha and Mary.

And it's a short story, but there's much that we can learn from this story.

We're starting in Luke chapter 10 and verse 38.

The Bible says this, Now it came to pass as they went, that he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

Now this was Martha's house, not to say that she owned it, you know she had 2 siblings Lazarus and Mary.

In John chapter 11 verses 1 and 2 this is what we read, now a certain man was sick named Lazarus of Bethany the town of Martha and her sister Mary It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointments and wiped his feet with her hair whose brother Lazarus was sick.

So these were the siblings, Lazarus and then there was also Mary and there was also Martha.

But yet it says back there in Luke chapter 10 in verse 38 that Jesus was received into Martha's house.

You know, any time that people came to this place, it was known as Martha's place.

As I said, not that she owned it, but she was probably the more motherly figure of all of them.

She probably cooked for the people and took care of all of them.

She represents all that are busy for the Lord.

They're doers, probably leaders to some extent.

She is the 1 that invites Jesus to her house and she is the first of even the 2 sisters just to show you how much initiative she has.

She's the first of the 2 sisters when Lazarus is sick or even has passed away that she comes and speaks to Jesus.

Look at this in John chapter 11 and verse 20.

Then Martha as soon as she had heard that Jesus was coming went and met him but Mary sat still in the house.

So if you wanted anything done, if you wanted to move forward, you call a person like Martha.

And so there is Martha that invites Jesus into the house and she is taking care of everybody.

Who is Mary, the sister that we know about?

You know, she's probably the younger sister and that's why Martha has more of a motherly figure.

And look at what we read about her in John 11, verse 2.

It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair whose brother Lazarus was sick.

You see Martha, pardon me, Mary, she's the 1 that wiped Jesus' feet with her hair, the 1 that got that expensive perfume and she ended up being reprimanded by some of the disciples but Jesus defended her.

She is the 1 that was showing great appreciation for Jesus and she really had great love for him.

And we're looking at Mary and Martha both but there's not much that is said about Martha but there is much that is said about Mary actually.

John 19 25, Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister Mary the wife of Cleopas and Mary Magdalene.

Mary Magdalene is the 1 that is known as the sister of Martha.

She is 1 of the few people that is standing at the cross of Jesus where he is crucified.

All the other disciples except John had fled but she was there along with the mother of Jesus and also another Mary.

Well let's also go to John chapter 20 and verse 1.

The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early when it was yet dark unto the sepulcher and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulcher.

So this Mary, she is the first to see Jesus when he is resurrected.

She's there early at the tomb on the Sunday morning And that's why she's a first to meet Jesus.

Not only was she there first on the resurrection morning, she was there when Jesus was crucified.

She was the 1 that wiped Jesus' feet with her own hair and this expensive perfume.

Because she is notoriously known as the woman who was caught in adultery in the very act.

And we studied that back in John chapter 8.

And you know, you remember that Jesus was merciful to her, remember that?

And he told her that he didn't condemn her either, and told her to go and sin no more.

So from that experience, her love for Jesus began to grow.

And now Jesus is invited into the house of Martha and of course of Mary and Lazarus.

And so all these siblings, they loved Jesus very much.

Not to say that she hated him but she probably did not love Jesus as much as Mary did.

We read in Luke, pardon me, we're back to Luke, Luke chapter 10 and verse 39.

And she had a sister called Mary which also sat at Jesus' feet and heard His word.

She was sitting at the feet of Jesus, listening to His word, listening to His teaching, listening to his preaching.

She wanted to grow in faith and in love with the Messiah and it was at the feet of Jesus that she first experienced forgiveness.

In John chapter 8 when she was dragged through the streets by the Pharisees and caught in the very act of adultery and thrown at the feet of Jesus expecting to be condemned it was there that Jesus forgave her sin It was there that she left uncondemned with new hope that she could have a chance to change her future and even her present situation when Jesus told her to go and sin no more.

And that's why when Jesus came into the house of Martha and Mary, she was so excited to sit at his feet, because it was at his feet that she found forgiveness.

It was precious to her to sit at the feet of Jesus.

She counted it a privilege and a blessing.

And you know how many of us actually have that experience today?

What does sitting at the feet of Jesus represent for us today in our time?

Well friends the application is very simple.

It's spending time with God in His Word with Him getting to know Him.

It's our daily devotion reading the Bible on a daily basis.

This is what it means to sit at the feet of Jesus, listening to sermons, reading different books from different Christian authors about Jesus Christ, which uplifts his word and makes us more faithful to him.

It is about having a deeper devotion and commitment to Jesus Christ.

That's what it means to sit at the feet of Jesus today.

And you see Mary, she counted it a privilege, a joy, a blessing.

And you know 1 thing that stands out is the reason why she did this, it was It was out of her love for her Savior.

Now I've got to go out and entertain everybody.

She was so happy to be sitting there at the feet of Jesus.

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