The G.O.A.T.
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Main Idea: God desires to use humble servants for Kingdom work.
Main Idea: God desires to use humble servants for Kingdom work.
Motivating Thought: May we prefer serving others before ourselves.
Motivating Thought: May we prefer serving others before ourselves.
Key Question: How are you serving others?
Key Question: How are you serving others?
1. Desired greatness blinds you. (v. 24, 27)
1. Desired greatness blinds you. (v. 24, 27)
Now there was also a dispute among them, as to which of them should be considered the greatest.
For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the One who serves.
A. It blinds you to the big picture. (v. 24)
A. It blinds you to the big picture. (v. 24)
Now there was also a dispute among them, as to which of them should be considered the greatest.
Pride goes before destruction,
And a haughty spirit before a fall.
Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty,
And before honor is humility.
B. It blinds you to godly examples. (v. 27)
B. It blinds you to godly examples. (v. 27)
For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the One who serves.
Steve Gaines & J.D. Grear
Then a dispute arose among them as to which of them would be greatest. And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a little child and set him by Him, and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me. For he who is least among you all will be great.”
2. Desired greatness goes against the world’s example. (v. 25-26)
2. Desired greatness goes against the world’s example. (v. 25-26)
And He said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those who exercise authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’ But not so among you; on the contrary, he who is greatest among you, let him be as the younger, and he who governs as he who serves.
v. 25 - “them are called...” = “called themselves” (self titled as good)
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
3. Desired greatness can’t achieve God’s reward. (v. 28-30)
3. Desired greatness can’t achieve God’s reward. (v. 28-30)
“But you are those who have continued with Me in My trials. And I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed one upon Me, that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
Notice their faithfulness set them a part.
Adult table at Ninny and PawPaw’s
If we endure,
We shall also reign with Him.
If we deny Him,
He also will deny us.
To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.