What Do You Desire? Matt. 20:17-28

I. The Sons of Thunder’s Desire vs. 20-21

A. James and John put their Mommy up to asking Jesus for a place of honor. We know this, by Jesus’ answer.

B. What they wanted was to be compensated for their sacrifice. That is, that they thought they had deserved honor.

Matthew 19:27–30 NASB95

Then Peter said to Him, “Behold, we have left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us?” And Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life. “But many who are first will be last; and the last, first.

(What we think we deserve ex)

II. The Rebuke of the Sons of the Thunder vs. 22-24

A. Jesus asks them if they were able to drink of His cup (referring to the crucifixion that He had just talked about).

B. They didn’t know what they were answering.

C. Jesus said they would. James would suddenly be martyred in Acts 12:2, and John would die with wearisome waiting by being exiled in Rev. 1:9.

Acts 12:2 NASB95

And he had James the brother of John put to death with a sword.

Revelation 1:9 NASB95

I, John, your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance which are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

D. The ten were angry because James and John got to Jesus first. They would constantly argue over this.

III. Jesus’ Desire of All vs. 25-28, 17-19

A. The Gentiles were about being in charge, and me, me, me. They were all about themselves and no one else. Little has changed.

B. Jesus says, that we are to be about others and not ourselves. If we wish to be great, serve , if we want to be first be a slave. Don’t think of yourself, but rather others.

C. Jesus would do this by the cross. (vs. 17-19).

Hebrews 12:2 NASB95

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

D. We should embody that by the way we live our life.