Today's Sermon:

"To Be or Not to Be"

I. Martha Wanted to Earn Jesus’ Favor

II. Mary Wanted to Learn at Jesus’ Feet

III. Being Comes Before Doing

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul…What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we set ourselves in life? To know God. What is the “eternal life” that Jesus gives? Knowledge of God…What is the best thing in life, bringing more joy, delight and contentment than anything else?Knowledge of God…Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life’s problems fall into place of their ownaccord.-J.I. Packer, Knowing God

Christ Jesus has true excellency, and so great excellency, that when (the mind) comes to see it, it looks no further, but the mind rests there. It sees a transcendent glory and an ineffable sweetness in (Christ); it sees that until now it has been pursuing shadows, but that now it has found the substance; that before it had been seeking happiness in the stream, but now it has found the ocean…The soul is exceedingly ravished when it first looks on this beauty, and it is never weary of it...This excellency of Jesus Christ is the suitable food of the rational soul. The soul that comes to Christ, feeds upon this, and lives upon it…here the longing soul may be satisfied, and the hungry soul may be filled with goodness…The soul has found the river of water of life, and it desires no other drink; it has found the tree of life, and desires no other fruit.-Jonathan Edwards