I want you to know that I don’t take it lightly to have the honor to be standing in this great pulpit and standing in the place of Dr. Moore today. I trust that you certainly will be praying for him and his family.

Let us bow together as we pray.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, My rock and My redeemer. Amen.

I stayed away from this scripture for a long time because of the misunderstanding of what it really says. If you have your Bibles you might want to just kind of stay with the Bible text a moment as there are really just two things I think are crucial in understanding what the text really says and I want to begin looking very carefully at these.

We begin with that first verse in which Martha receives Jesus into her house. Now, …