The Captivity of Activity - Week 2

Sallee's Notes

• Martha is named Martha, but why is Mary called Mary?
• Mary comes from the Hebrew Miriam, which comes from the Hebrew root - Mara. Mara means bitter.
• Ruth 1:20

“Don’t call me Naomi, ” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.

• Could something could have happened in Mary's life to make her withdraw and become bitter?
• Could she have said," Call me Mara."
• What may have happened to her?
• Could that be why she is sitting at the feet of Jesus while Martha was rushing around?
• Desperation can be the sweetest gift that God offers you.
• Without a doubt, desperation brought me to the Lord.
• I was messed up.
• I was either going to truly live or truly die.
• I wonder - What would you be called if you were called by your state, or condition.
• In all three scenes where this woman appears she is at the feet of Jesus.
• Something drove her there.
• Was she just smarter than Martha? No just more desperate.
• Are you tired of being bitter?
• People characterize you by your bitterness.
• Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

• We will never keep our bitterness to ourselves.
• It invades the space around us.
• It is the gift that keeps on giving, if you will
• Call me blessed, call me healed, that happens at the feet of Jesus
• Any teacher worth their salt is a student, too.
• When we sit so close that nobody can sit in between Jesus and me. We are going to get some healing.
•  Mary to invited women into the classroom of Christ teaching.
• Water of the Word.
• Crawl right up next to Jesus at his feet so our heart and mind can receive healing.
• Thank-you Lord.