You Can’t Just Call Yourself King | Season 4 Ep 11
December 3, 2025
Even if you have horses and chariots and a priest
This week, we are on episode 9 of Bible Talk. Let’s dig in!
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John 11 tells about Jesus raising a man, Lazarus, from the dead. He was dead, dead. Been in the tomb for four days. Definitely a miracle. Definitely a great story. However, it’s not my favorite part of the story.
Lazarus had two sisters, Martha and Mary. Everyone may know that Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, but they also know about these two women. See Martha was the one that was distracted and worried about serving Jesus and his friends at her home while Mary sat at Jesus’s feet. And Jesus told her that Mary had chosen the better thing. Being at Jesus’s feet was Mary’s thing.
Every time we see her in the Bible that is where she is. (Luke 10:39, John 11:32, 12:3) But I love Martha. She had to work to get to Jesus’s feet. By that I mean that she had to work against what her nature was. She had to make herself stop with the busyness and just sit and be present with Jesus. She did not let Jesus’s rebuke of her not choosing the better thing affect her relationship with Jesus.
She learned from it. I think she grew from it. So much so that she is able to declare with certainty that he was the Christ. She believed Who. Jesus. Was.
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