Sitting at the Feet of Jesus
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What do I want them to know? To love God is to sit at His feet
Why? To often we equate love with just doing
What do I want them to do? Sit at God’s feet and listen, let His Words minister to you by receiving, reflecting, remembering, rejoicing.
Why? It shows our love for God and it ministers to us
ME/WE
In many areas of life one the questions we ask is “what are the ways or instructions for this thing or how do we do this or that?”
We have this with games, board games, school yard games, sports games. We ask the question what are the instructions or ways of this game? How do we play this game or that game.
We ask this question when it comes to relationships....”what the ways or instructions to having a good relationship?” good news for us is we have numerous instructions and ways to have a good and healthy relationship in the Bible....forgiveness, sacrifice, love
TENSION
We don’t just ask this question about games, relationships, but we also ask this question when it comes to our relationship with God.
WHAT ARE THE WAYS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD?
Not how do we get into the kingdom of God....we get into the kingdom of God by shear grace by the work of Jesus dying on the cross for our sins making payment for our sins that
2 cor 5:21 “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
and faith
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Grace, Jesus work and faith/belief
Not how we get in, that’s a work of God, but now that we are in, what are the ways of the kingdom of God.
This is a question we see a lawyer ask Jesus in Luke 10:25 in what many Bibles call the Parable of the Good Samaritan, it really should be called the parable of the greatest commandments Luke 10:25-42
We see lawyer want to know what are the ways to inherit eternal life.
Let’s read
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
Test, that word alone shows us what the lawyer thinks of Jesus, he doesn’t think Jesus is God.
“You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.
And also to test someone in that day, when someone tested someone you are saying “you are guilty until proven innocent” that is opposite of how are court systems work.
- The lawyer is doing two egregious acts
that’s why it such a big deal for us to test the Lord…it shows that we do not trust or believe God and it says God we believe you are guilty.
He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?”
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”
What he gives him is the SHEMA from Deut 6 and Lev 19:18
Heart (emotions)
Soul (being)
Strength (everything, in the Hebrew where he is quoting from also means all your possessions)
Mind
The lawyer response with the SHEMA, what’s the SHEMA? It is a prayer that Jewish people prayer every morning when they wake and when they go to bed.
Why is it called the SHEMA?
That is how the prayer starts, SHEMA means
listen, pay attention, respond to what you, if you SHEMA something it means you listen and do
Where we and Israel get ourselves in a mess is when we just listen but do not SHEMA....this is what gets us and Israel in trouble
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,
that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.
Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
“And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build,
and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full,
then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear.
You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you—
for the Lord your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
“You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.
You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers
by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has promised.
“When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?’
then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
And the Lord showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes.
And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to give to our fathers.
And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day.
And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.’
The lawyer answer correctly
But here’s the BIG QUESTION....how do we love the LORD with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength?
Many of us would say we SHEMA the LORD, obey him....that is correct, but here is the problem, can you obey the LORD but not love the LORD?
yes, this is what the Pharisees and religious leaders did
God was a check box
We can do this in our relationships, we can check all the boxes by doing but not be really loving
This is what Jesus wants to drive home to us a couple verses later…he wants to show us that there is something BETTER THAN OBEYING.....that to SHEMA Jesus is not just doing the commandments but it also resting at Jesus feet.
LUke 10:38-42
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 much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.”
But the Lord answered 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.”
BETTER
God is saying the same thing to us.
How we love the Lord is not just obeying him, SHEMAing by sitting at His feet and SHEMAing HIm.
Do we see this?
How do we sit at Jesus’ feet and SHEMA him??
Receiving the Words of life from our heavenly father.
God ministers to us
He fills our soul, heals us, lifts us up
The Words He speaks over us is to build us up
let the Lord speak to you and minister to you....I would say all of us have expereienced this if we walked with Jesus for any length of time…we sit at His feet Jesus ministers to our soul.
We practice Christian Meditation, where the Lord fill us up, this is different than modern meditation where we empty ourselves out.
Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Reflecting on the Words of God. Reflect on the Word of God. don’t move to what do I need to do. We are too quick to do that
I am
Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,
what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
Who the Son sets free
Oh is free indeed
I’m a child of God
Yes I am
VERSE 2
Free at last
He has ransomed me
His grace runs deep
While I was a slave to sin
Jesus died for me
Yes He died for me
I am chosen
Not forsaken
I am who You say I am
You are for me
Not against me
I am who You say I am
REMEBERING HIS SPECIFIC FAITHFULNESS
And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’
then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.’
For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over,
so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.”
provided a friend
provided a spouse
provided finically
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
REJOICE
Rejoice in the Godness of God.
What I truly believe God is calling the church in 2022 to do is SIT at the FEET of JESUS and SHEMA HIM
THIS IS WHAT GOD IS CALLING US TO DO IN 2022
sit at his feet
Shut of the TV, put down the phone
