S7E25 - Luke 10:21-42 - Who Is My Neighbor?

Your calendar can be full of good things and still leave you spiritually empty. We open Luke 10:21–42 and watch Jesus redirect the spotlight from impressive results to the deeper reason for joy: salvation, humility, and God’s gracious revelation to the childlike heart. Along the way, we notice the Trinity at work as Jesus rejoices in the Holy Spirit and praises the Father, reminding us that faith is received before it is performed. 

Then we slow down for the Good Samaritan, because this parable refuses to stay abstract. A lawyer tries to test Jesus and justify himself, and Jesus answers in a way that exposes pride, prejudice, and our urge to draw tight boundaries around “neighbor.” The Samaritan’s mercy is specific and costly: he stops, he draws near, he takes a risk, and he pays. We talk about being interruptible, opening our eyes to the needs right in front of us, and asking a better question than “Who counts?” 

Finally, Mary and Martha bring it home for anyone who serves at church, leads a team, or carries a heavy load. Martha’s problem isn’t service, it’s distraction and anxiety that push Jesus to the edge. Mary models the “good portion,” listening at Jesus’ feet, and we unpack what that can look like today through Scripture, worship, and a life shaped by what is central. 

If you want practical Christian discipleship from Luke 10, thoughtful Bible teaching, and a challenge to love your neighbor with real mercy, press play, then subscribe, share the episode, and leave a review so more people can find it.

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Welcome And Luke Series Setup

SPEAKER_02 0:10

Well, what's up, Lifehouse family? Welcome back to the Life Talk Podcast. We are excited to be on our Monday episode and rolling through the book of Luke, and not only Luke, but rolling through the summer. Man, we are getting through June and just wrapped up an amazing week of VBF. Hopefully, some of our listeners, either your kids were here or you served, and it was just a blessed week to see God moving in Illumination Station, but journeying through the life. But we keep the podcast rolling. We don't take any weeks off. We work like dogs to bring you great content. And we're starting off uh the next series picking up in Luke chapter 10. Last week Jeremy took us through Jesus sending out the 72 and the rejoicing that our names are written in the book of life and being focused on that versus necessarily all the works. But I got an all-star crew back today. Jeremy's back keeping the streak going. How's it going, man?

SPEAKER_04 1:13

Uh well, I'm super excited to be here. I keep the streaks going, and you know, I can't let Rico get back on it.

SPEAKER_02 1:20

I was gonna say you can't break the streak. Been a couple weeks now since you preached, so glad you got a lot of study time and ability to get back on the podcast with us. Yeah, it's just an honor to be back with you, man. Uh we appreciate you. And Rico is back! We found him. He went off in the wilderness for a while, and we went out a search party. It was like descending out of the 72, right? Rico, you were sent out and now you have come back.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

So come with greetings. Um I'm happy to be back. Claiming my strike back. That's right. You got your chair back.

SPEAKER_02 1:51

So indeed. Keith got tired of us after four weeks. Uh Rico came back. But it's good to have you start a new streak and you know, don't trip Jeremy up on the way out the door or anything.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

I got Grace on there, so I appreciate you everybody. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 2:05

And our retirement expert, Mitch Poe, is wait, you're not a retirement expert because we got you out of retirement. Back at it. Don't don't talk to Mitch about how to stay retired. Is that right? There you go. All right. But Elder Mitch Poe, good to have you with us. Thank you there. Got a great crew for you as usual, and we are going to be continuing through Luke, picking up in verse

Jesus Rejoices In The Father

SPEAKER_02 2:27

21. Jesus talks about revealing the Father, and then pretty important parable, the Good Samaritan, and how that relates. So Rico's got some good study, man. What can we take away from the rest of chapter 10 here?

SPEAKER_00 2:40

Well, uh, first and foremost, thank you for bringing me back. Uh it feels good. It feels good to be.

SPEAKER_02 2:44

You were on probation, so but I'm out. I'm out. We're we're watching you this episode. So, you know, you may or may not come back.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

Well, I truly appreciate it. For all the hearers out there, thank you for your mercy, thank you for your kind words when you see me. Where are you being at? Well, I'm back. I'm back. So we're gonna go ahead and and let's get this right started first. We're gonna look at this passage in Luke 10 from 21 to 42. It's a lot of information in there. So I I would encourage you to, if you have not written the whole chapter, take take a break and go forward and read it on your own. And there's some cute things in there that it will be able to be enlightened uh for you. But I I brought these patches in in three sections. I think it's it brings justice to uh note that. Number one, I got Jesus rejoicing in the Father's plan. We're gonna go there in verses 21-24. Uh, the Good Samaritan, verses 25 to 37, and Mary and Martha from verses 38 to 42. Now, before we start, I have a couple questions to set the mood here. What brings you the greatest joy to be in a relationship with God? That's the first question that I want to ask the public who's hearing this to soak that question. Second uh question is if somebody watched your life for a week, will they say you are focused on serving Jesus or spending time with Jesus? That's some of the questions that I personally asked myself as I was going through this passage, and a lot of things has been revealed, and I'm glad for God's grace in how He provides. So we're gonna dig in on that section one. Uh read Jesus rejoices with his father, and we're gonna read the good scripture starting with verse 21. And in the past hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wives and understanding and revealed them the little children. Yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been given handed over to me and my father, and no one knows the son except the father, or who the father is except the son, and anyone to whom the son chooses to reveal him. Verse 23. Then turning to the disciples, he said privately, Blessed are these eyes that see what you see. For I tell you that many prophets and kings desire to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. Just to set up the mood before we go in, this is in context to what started Luke 10. And Jeremy, you you you brought a good synopsis there in the whole chapter of Jesus sending his 72 disciples, then returned and they were excited. They were excited. Why they were excited? They're they responded to the call of the Lord. They the demons flee, they submit to the name of Jesus. But what is so uh outstanding in this couple of verses is that Jesus doesn't spend a lot of time there in the rejoicing part. He addressed the situation, he knows that the mission is not completed, and he redirects the focus from success to salvation so he can rejoice God that reveals the truth to the humble. So, this is what in these verses here is so amazing to see what the Lord first and foremost recognize what happened when he told the 72 A go, don't take anything, come back. And the report that he received, he acknowledged that. Mind you, everybody was excited, everybody was happy, everybody was like, okay, what is the next thing? Jesus said, Hey, let's get back in the fight. Job is not done. So, what stands out about what Jesus did? What is the joy in that?

SPEAKER_04 6:56

What something I can see, Rico, is that revelation and spiritual insight uh and the Lord working in your heart comes when we get out of our own way, right? When we get out of when we humble ourselves, when we get rid of our what what is continuing theme in Luke, I think, of our of you know our self-importance and our pride, and we approach it through a childlike dependence on the Lord. Um, Jesus Himself rejoiced in the Father's work, and so should we, but we should appropri what we should be depending on him with that childlike dependence.

SPEAKER_02 7:35

I think we see worth noting the Trinity here, too. Jesus rejoicing in the Holy Spirit, praising the Father. So all three of the Trinity present here, worth pointing that out. But exactly like you said, I think this tags on well to last week's episode where, you know, as you pointed out, Rico, the ascending out of the 72, but Jesus is at that time really re-emphasizing salvation as the reason we rejoice and not getting too tied into works. And I think that'll be a theme as we work through this chapter of this is why we rejoice. This is why we praise God in the work of the Father through revealing to us and requiring that childlike faith. You know, it was several weeks ago, but we had baptism and understanding that God can even work in the heart of a little child. And sometimes it's even easier for you know children to grasp it because it's really simple and pride creeps in. As I know you are you haven't been with us in a little while, but pride is like Rico, man, it so much comes down to pride, Mitches we've had on a podcast, and you know, a lot of times that's what really will start to hang us up versus having that childlike faith.

SPEAKER_03 8:44

Yeah, I think for me, one of the things I saw the Trinity piece of that as well, Nate. But the other thing I saw, and this is kind of a theme in Luke's uh gospel, he talks about right at the end of this passage in 24, he talks about and being able to hear what you hear and did not hear it. I think there's a this it it's it's it seems like it's in many of these passages, there's this tendency of of the author to say, you know, to be in tune with who God is and to really listen to him. And I think that's demonstrated in pay in prior sections that we've gone through, and I think it's definitely demonstrated in really what we're going to talk about next, the Good Samaritan, and then the Mary and Martha piece. I mean, we can we can do things, both of these situations are highlight people that have served in one way or another, but ultimately the way this passage really ends is sitting at the feet of Jesus and hearing him. And that I think is one of the Luke's themes throughout this entire really out of out of this book, I think, is really being in tune with who Christ is and listening to him. And I think it's interesting that he kind of ends that one section in verse 24 with that analogy again.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

It's so good to point out here what everybody uh conception is, right? The the the eyes focus on Jesus, knees on his feet, and literally do what he says. And one of the things that really strike to me is that the the the greater blessing is not what we do for God, but what belongs to him. Not from human achievement. So it's amazing how he took 72 people who demonstrated, hey, I'm here, send me, I'm able. And they come back with that report. But at the end of the day, we get to read this in the in the natural for the supernatural. They didn't, they didn't have the scripture that we have it. So putting ourselves in exegetical way is like, man, we can see examples like this in scripture of what happened there, right? What do we need in order to what not just like them, but be like them? So if you're hearing, uh I have a couple questions for you as we jump into the next section, just to marinate, how can Christians become distracted by success instead of salvation? I I pause him there for a second. I when I when I sat a question, it was like, wow, what am I being distracted on? Right. And the second question to that is uh what does it mean to rejoice that our names are written in heaven? That's one of the main things that Jesus told them. Hey, you're you're you're you're good. All this stuff that you do here in the natural, it really don't matter. Everything is for above. So I just want people to marinate on that because we can get so distracted and lose the main point.

The Good Samaritan Parable

SPEAKER_00 11:45

Going to section two, uh the Good Samaritan, one of my favorite passages in the Bible. This I did a lot of study on this, and it it brought a lot of attention on the history or this context. So we start in verse 25. And behold, a lawyer stood up and put him to the test, saying, Teacher, whilst you are inheriting internal life, he said to him, What is written in the law? How do you read it? And he answered, You shall love your Lord, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and the neighbor as yourself. We heard that before, right? And he said to him, right? Wow. And he said to him, You have answered correctly, do this, and you will live. But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, and who is my neighbor? So Jesus replied. A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among the robbers who stripped him and bit him and departed him, leaving him to half dead. Now, by chance, a priest was going down to that road, and when he saw him, he passed by to the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to that place and saw him, passed on to the other side. Verse 33. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, come to where he was, and when he saw him, he saw compassion. He went to him and bound him to his wounds, pouring all in wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to in to the inn took care of him. And the next day he took him two denaries and gave him to the innkeeper, saying, Take Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back. Which on these three do you think prove to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers? He said, The one who showed him mercy, and Jesus said to him, You go and do likewise. I mean, there's not a lot of things to say there. It's just the context by itself. And if you double-read it, triple read it, it shows how men's pride shows right out of his mouth. This is something, uh, a little bit of history on this passage, as we learn about the road that this was taken care of. This is a 17 to 20 mile road going down the hill. It's a hill that it was known to have a lot of robbers, it's a hill that was known to have a lot of indoor places that people will be scared to go through. So for Jesus to go ahead and point this parable right here, that everybody at that time they knew what would happen in that area, and for this to happen is for us to observe it two things. And this is very, very good. Number one, we're not looking at the circumstance or how we can help somebody, both the proud of men, which is the heart. As we can see, the lawyer he asked Jesus, hey, how do I inherit eternal life? Jesus pointed back to him and he said, Love your God and your neighbor. Something that he already knew, right? But it's crazy how he went ahead and how do I do that? Trying to retest Jesus on something so simple that he already knew. Manuel, this is a lawyer that he's speaking. He's not somebody who does not have education, he's somebody who scriptural knowledge. And we talked about this before. You can be scriptural knowledge, you can be book knowledge, but it's hard to be a follower of Jesus through the heart. So what do the priests and the Levite walk past the injured man without helping him? Why did Jesus put the outings just like that for everybody, especially us that we are reading, to point out the Samaritan that was the one who helped and went beyond his reach? And number three, what practical ways can we believers show mercy, not just every day, but just this week are we meditating on these verses?

SPEAKER_02 16:37

So much in this man. With many directions, we could this could be a long episode, but I know just for me, a few things that jump out is you know, Jesus doesn't really identify the man, you know, who was robbed. You know, he doesn't give him an ethnicity, he doesn't give him any characteristics. So your neighbor is anybody. You shouldn't be biased towards just people like you or you know, people that maybe uh, you know, what could I get from this person? It doesn't matter who it is, it just says a man. And I think, like you said, we get so caught up in, I think you well laid out the history of the route, you know, like we're worried about our own hide. I can't stop because I might get robbed, you know, the people might be around. And also the priest and the Levite, like super religious guys, probably were going to very important things that they had to attend to, but could not be, you know, distracted. So how much we get, you know, just focused on things, and I know that'll be something we talk about in the third section, but if we're not interruptible, we'll miss where God is working. And if we have a bias towards people, likewise we'll miss that. I think.

SPEAKER_04 17:43

Yeah, I I had something similar written down for this section that our our neighbor is anyone whose need intersects with our ability to help. So it's not a named person, it's not like so that that expands our you know, our world. Like who who who should we reach out to? The the thing that that I wanted to highlight, and the thing that stood out to me, is Jesus when when these testing moments come up, he has a way of answering the question with a question, right? And he like he he questions to reveal the heart. And so we see like what like well, what does the law say? Like, and this and then the the scribe, the the the lawyer knows the law, and Jesus says, Okay, go do that, right? Well, that's meant to expose the fact that we can't do that and we need we can't fulfill the law on our own. But the the the the lawyer goes, Well, how do I do that? Well, let's just c ask a clarifying question, you know, like, well, who is my neighbor really? Well, it's just like again, it's good going back to self-justification, self-like trying to fulfill things in our own righteousness and not seeing the need to c for a savior.

SPEAKER_03 18:59

I love Rico pointed one thing out that stood out to me as well, and that's and I this is one of those subjects I can't unsee. It's pride, whether you're reading it in scripture or you're talking to a brother or sister in Christ, or you're looking inward and you can see it in your own life. But verse 22 starts out and it says, Behold, a lawyer stood up. Why? To put him to the test. His entire intention there was to make himself look good and make Jesus look bad. And I love the way Jeremy, you pointed it out, how Jesus really answered back with questions. And the the lawyer first starts out, Teacher, what should I do to eternal life? And Jesus says, What is written in the law? Question number one, how do you read it? Question number two. And then he's he gives basically, you know, a summary really of the Ten Commandments. If you think about it, he says, You love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, that's the first four, and love your neighbor as yourself, that's the last six, arguably. So he kind of summarizes that, and then Jesus comes back to him and says, You have you have done correctly, do this and you shall live. And then verse 29, but he, that's the lawyer, desiring to justify himself, there's pride again, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, and who is my neighbor? And then Jesus answered that question. And then Jesus ends this section and he says, his last question was, which of these three do you think proved to be the neighbor to the man who fell among robbers? And the lawyer said, the one who showed mercy, and Jesus says, Go and do likewise. Earlier in the text, when the lawyer answered the question about what is written in the law, love the Lord your God with all your heart, do so with your neighbor, Jesus says, Go and do this, and you shall live. Then he had to give them this object lesson about this Samaritan. Then he ends this section and says, Go and do likewise. Twice he's commanded to do something that obviously his pride really got in front of, and he wasn't willing, I don't believe, you know, to really it's a heart issue, like you mentioned here ago, and I think it's exposed.

SPEAKER_04 20:51

Yeah, and you see how the Samaritan answers in at the end of that when he says the one who showed mercy. He can't like Can't even bring himself to say the Samaritan. Yeah, exactly. I saw that, yeah. It's just exposing the pride and prejudice in his heart, still. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 21:07

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 21:08

From a recent podcast, I would say for the listeners, if you haven't listened to Matt Kasperzik's testimony, it was a couple months now, but I would encourage you, he's got an amazing story. But part of his story was when he was broke down on the side of the road, and it was two pastors who stopped and helped him change a tire when he thought no one would help and he was going to lose his job. And so it was somebody being a neighbor to him that was critical in his coming to faith. So we just never know when these kind of things, being obedient, showing mercy will ultimately then be part of someone else's story.

SPEAKER_00 21:43

Absolutely. I it's amazing how even reading this and analyzing putting yourself in the story every time you drive or every time you go to a place and you see people and it you you're not expecting to be ready to serve somebody who The Lord might be telling you, hey, go help that individual. You just say, Oh, I am not stopping here. How many times do we ride to someplace? And well, I am not stopping here. And that right there, you just have the posture of man, I could allow if you would have a different posture of yourself that, like, Lord, present the opportunity. I'm walking with you. There's nothing going to happen here. If you're with me, who can I help? Who can I protect? So the question is not who qualifies my neighbor, but am I acting like a neighbor? That's what I get.

SPEAKER_03 22:37

And are your eyes open to see your neighborhood?

SPEAKER_00 22:39

100%.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

You know, I mean, I think what's interesting about this, this good Samaritan was he was interruptible. And that's something that in our busy schedules, and I understand everybody's got lives, we all have things to do. But I think, and one of the things I challenge my Kinect group with consistently is guys, always look for the opportunity that God is going to put in front of you because it's it's there. You just got to open your eyes and it's right there. And the Samaritan did exactly that. Look how Jesus describes, look at the actions that he took from really verse 33 on. First of all, he saw him, he had compassion on him, he went to him, he bound up his wounds, he poured oil and wine on his wounds, he set him on his own ample, he brought him to the inn, he took care of him, and then he paid for the inn. He did all of those things for somebody really he did not know. And that's what Jesus designs, or actually the lawyer says this is the one who showed mercy, and Jesus says, Yes, go and do likewise. And man, what a lesson for each one of us just to be interruptible in our day, because it's easy to, you know, do your eight to five or whatever you do and and not look around and not take your eyes up and look what's going on a lot of times right in front of you.

Mercy Without Labels Or Excuses

SPEAKER_00 23:45

Before we jump into the next section, last session, I want to challenge the audience because I truly believe that when people hear this and the spirit of the Lord is moving and reflecting on life and reflecting on our walk and reflecting on on the on the thing that we know that He's alive. Is uh who are the hardest people in culture to love? I think that there's some practical practical ways for believers to show mercy, but do we? Do we truly show mercy? Do we took the time and do we truly believe scripture when we say, hey, I'm here, I'm able, send me? Is your pastor ready to go ahead and answer the call? And I mean, even in the in the scripture, is uh how would Jesus' audience have reacted to a Samaritan who being the hero? Manuel, it wasn't the people who you think they were gonna help. The priest didn't help. It was a Samaritan. And he went beyond like you mentioned. You can we can you can see five things that he added to helping the individual and to the security that hey, if you spend more, I'm gonna trust you to do your job and I'm gonna repay you for that the next day. Do we do the same?

SPEAKER_03 25:03

Yeah, and the two denarii, this is an interesting point. Denarii at the time was known as a day's uh day's wage for a laborer. This is like two days' pay. I mean, take your paycheck, you know, if you get paid every two weeks and divide it by ten, and you're giving uh you're giving away two of those in this particular situation, is what the I mean, to make it kind of real and practical in our terms. So not only did he do all these things, compassion and all the things that maybe didn't necessarily cost him other than some time, but this physically cost him as well. He actually paid this, and then to your point, he said, you know, if if there's more that racks up on this guy's bill, when I come back, I'll take care of it. Just an amazing sense of compassion and charity and a good example for all of us.

Mary And Martha Serving Vs Sitting

SPEAKER_00 25:43

Then he goes ahead and he hit us with the third session, Martha and Mary, starting verse 38. 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 so much serving, with so much serving. Yes, I repeat it again, and she went up to him and said, Lord, do you care that my sister has left me serve alone? Tell her then to come and help me. But the Lord answered her to 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. My goodness. So we're coming to see how your heart posture is not to serve somebody, and now the heart posture is like you're doing too much, but you're not focused on the main thing. As we can tell here, Martha is being very busy serving while Mary sees at Jesus' feet, and that's a this different word. I use it in business, I use it with my kids, all my kids is like I'd rather for you to be proactive than busy. I don't like that word busy. We all can be busy while we're being proactive in the business that we call busy. So Jesus, very interesting, he sees what's happening in the atmosphere. And I want people, if you're hearing this, put yourself in a situation, especially here at church, we need people to serve. I mean, we command this to never forget the assembly for a reason. So many things that you have the gift to come and be helping at the church. But the pasture and the main thing of that, if it's not Jesus, you're missing the big point. Here we can see that Mary was sitting at Jesus' feet. What is more important to sit at his feet and let him speak his words? Mind you, again, we have the scripture, we can read what happened. They didn't. You don't know what they go the speaker is gonna be talking about. Everybody's busy, make sure that everybody has everything served, the speaker's talking, and everybody pay attention, you miss the main point. So, my question, what Martha wrong was Martha wrong for serving? What why did Jesus defend Mary's choice? How do Christians become distracted by good things? Mind you, by good things. I didn't even go into the bad things yet, but in good things. And lastly, what does it look like to see at Jesus' feet today?

SPEAKER_02 29:15

And as with anything, a whole lot to unpack. And as you were going through that, you know, I think a few things. One, that's why here at Lifehouse we emphasize when you serve, you serve a service and you sit a service. You know, we're blessed to have two services, so for us, but that's why it's an emphasis that you should not serve at the expense of worshiping and sitting under the scripture. Like you should take the time every Sunday, everybody, not to be so busy and distracted just with serving. And I also think too, Jason, you know, Jesus isn't saying here because he just told the servant the story of the Good Samaritan. So he's not saying do nothing and sit still. He's saying focused on the big things. And Martha's busy thinking Jesus needs her to serve him when really Jesus wants us to listen to him and then act, you know, towards our neighbors, you know, in love. So I think that's two things that just as you were going through that jumped out at me.

SPEAKER_04 30:11

Yeah, that's something that I have written down here and sort of echoes into things I've been studying, you know, going preaching a few weeks ago and such was that good things can become bad things when they keep us from the best thing, from from the best thing. And you know, if Christ is not central, something else will be, and what becomes central to us will shape our life. You know, so even service can can if it's if it replaces devotion, can can become a bad thing, can become a thing that hinders our walk with the Lord.

SPEAKER_03 30:51

I think sometimes it's easy to get so busy doing things that we forget to spend time with the Lord. And that's if you look what what Luke records here in verse 40, he says, Mart Martha was distracted with much serving. Doesn't say anything wrong that there's anything wrong with serving. As a matter of fact, in the context of the Bible, we all should be serving. We should be using our gifts, Ephesians 4, many places in the past. But it says she was distracted by much serving. And what was Mary doing? Or yeah, Mary was sitting at Jesus' feet, sat into the Lord's, and listened to his teaching, but Martha was distracted with much serving. I think I've used this passage to challenge church leaders before and church servants to not get so distracted with what you're doing as opposed to who you're doing it for. And that's what Mary is really catching here. And I this is just a cosmetic thing, but it's I don't know, my eye just goes to stuff like this and I can't unsee it. But in verse 41, the Lord answered her, Martha, Martha. I went back and looked. I I can almost hear like the tone in Jesus' voice. And it was probably just like that. Martha, Martha. It was kind of like and then he says, You are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary, and Mary has chosen it. But I just a side note, I went back and did a study a number of years ago because I thought that was interesting why he called her name twice. I don't know if you know it, but there's about six or seven people in the in the Bible that Jesus or God called their name specifically two times. And it's really to get their attention. It was Abraham, Samuel, Jacob, Moses, Martha, Simon, Saul before he was Paul, and then on the cross he said, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? But seven or eight times in the Bible, he calls people's name. And I went back through, if you ever want an interesting study, go back through and read those accounts of where they are. It's always when somebody really was kind of doing something that they shouldn't have been doing that he's really calling to get their attention. And it was that was the point of this. And so anyway, for me, it's just one of those things, Martha, Martha. It's like he called her name twice to get her attention. And I guess the question is is he calling your name and is he calling it twice to really get our attention? What's he calling your name twice about to get your attention to call you back? Or you distracted with serving the church and not being the church?

SPEAKER_02 33:07

Good stuff, man. We could go on for hours with this one. But Rico, great points. And hopefully everybody's picking up look for your neighbor, rejoice in salvation, which should lead us to that. And then again with Mary and Martha, I know I personally can be a Martha a lot, so we have to always listen for that call, like you said, Mitch, and seek those better things. Make sure we are filling up to pour out and not just thinking that we have to pour

Key Takeaways And Closing

SPEAKER_02 33:32

out. So well, Lifehouse family, thanks so much for joining us on this episode. Again, we do pray, it is our continual prayer that this helps you through your week. And if you have any comments or questions, as always, send those in to us. I would love to hear from you, and thanks for taking time out of your busy Martha-like schedule to listen to us. We will see you next week. Thanks for tuning in to the Life Talk Podcast. If this episode encouraged you, please be sure to like, comment, subscribe, and leave a review so others can find this content as well. And we'll look forward to seeing you next Monday for another great episode.