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Episode 82 Where's Mary? (John 11:28) Ron's Notes

The Teacher is asking for you.

Is Mary skulking? Hiding? Angry? Sorrowful? She doesn’t come out to meet Jesus, The Teacher. Interesting that Martha calls him the Christ and then goes to her sister and calls him the Teacher. Why didn’t she go to Mary and say The Christ is here and he’s asking for you? Was that too much to say out loud to her sister? It’s easier to call him teacher than Christ. Maybe she was still getting used to the title. And maybe there were people around and it was less risky to use “teacher”.

Either way it’s amazing that the Christ is come to see to the affairs of these two sisters. Why does it merit his attention? And why does he seek out a woman who is snubbing him or pouting? Doesn’t this mitigate against so much Christian angst that we’ve somehow missed out on what God wanted to do for us by not paying attention or by ignoring him at a key juncture? God is the God who seeks after us and comes to our aid. These women and their brother are no different from the entire nation of Israel enslaved in Egypt. Their cries have come to the attention of God. He is sending a rescuer. Death is not going to hold its slave any more.

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