Restored: Peace - Audio
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We're continuing our series restored, recovering the gifts of Christmas today. And today, we're gonna be talking about peace. Restoring peace. But in order to understand peace, we need to know it's opposite. We need to know what's going on against peace. And so we do have a fun Christmas story. Jesus is coming in this story. And that's what Christmas is about, Jesus coming. And everyone, we're gonna see how their house is prepared for Jesus coming. So let's look here at Luke 10. As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet, listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do this work by myself? Tell her to get up, help me." Jesus responds, "Martha, Martha, the Lord answered, "You are anxious and distracted about many things." But few things are needed, and indeed, really just one. Mary has chosen what's better, and it will not be taken from her. Now, when we were talking about this, and our staff meeting on Thursday, our intern, Caden, was very passionate. He's like, "Martha gets a bad rap. "Martha's awesome." And if you don't, I mean, what's she guilty of here? She's guilty of what hard work. She's guilty of being a responsible host. If she's bad, what does that say about us? The word there anxious is marim namzo in Greek, marinato. And it's made up of two words that one means disturbed, and the other means mind. And you put those words together, and that's what we get for anxious, a disturbed mind. You can't always do that with word etymology, otherwise we would park on parkways and drive on driveways, but we don't. But in this case, it works. In this case, it's exactly what's going on with Martha. She's got so many things going on in her life. She is missing out on something that's really important. Her mind is so disturbed, she's so distracted,
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What is peace and how do we get it and maintain it?