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Matthew 20:26–27 · BSB
20:26 It shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,
20:27 and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave—
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…This service came from our church wide sabbatical, our day of rest. [SPEAKER_00]: Our guest pastor, Dr. William Seth Martin, came from the book ofMatthew, chapter 20, verses 20 to 28. [SPEAKER_00]: And he gave us a story about serving. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll be your Bibles, and let's join our service. [SPEAKER_01]: Matthew chapter…
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…we want to get to today. Power, honor, and worth. How do they work in the kingdom? Let's go. Now we're gonna open our Bibles, okay? We're gonna goMatthew 20, verses 20 to 28. And we're gonna read. There's a couple questions you need to ask yourself when you're looking at scripture. Something that Nathan and I have been…
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…Whoever is first among you, let him be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve and give his life a ransom for many."Matthew 20, verse 25 through 28. Great teaching, but also great exemplifying of it. Because here's Jesus near the end of his life. He is facing the cross. With his mind's eye, he…
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…seen or feel worthy. I'm serving to become more like him. I learn more each day that God sees all of me and the way he sees me is more than enough.Matthew chapter 20, verse 26 to 28says, Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve. After…
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…over someone, but it's a holy desire. He says, Man, that is a good thing. He would go on in Matthew 20, he'd say, Man, it looks like this desire.Matthew 20, verses 26 to 28. He says, It must not be like this among you, talking about the leaders in the world. He said, On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among…
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…the sick, casting out demons, kneeling to serve his disciples, feeding the hungry, evangelising to huge crowds of thousands of people. And then inMatthew 20, verses 26 to 28, we see that he flips that and also asks this of his followers. And when we realise this, that this is something that we're meant to do, that it's…
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…Lord and defeats him with a sling. Obviously, we've mentioned this, but the ultimate example of not avoiding weakness was Jesus, where he says inMatthew 20, verses 26-28, it shall not be so among you, but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave.…
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…the culture of the kingdom of God. Now let's go to Matthew 20 verse 20 and let's read something that happened here briefly to lay foundation.Matthew 20 verse 20 to 28. There was a political happening that happened here. Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to him with her sons. That is, The disciples of Jesus.…
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…like, I should worry a little bit. Like, I do worry a little bit, right? It's like, it's incisive. Yeah. Let's do one more. This is a short one.Matthew 20 verses 25 through 28. But Jesus called them to himself and said, you know that the rulers of the Gentiles, domineer over them, and those in high position exercise…
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…different from all the other kings and emperors and rulers that world history has thrown up. We see that in words earlier on in Matthew's gospel inMatthew 20 verses 25 to 28where we read that Jesus called the disciples to him and said, you know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them and their great ones…
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We're reading Matthew 19 verses 3 to 12 and after I finish this particular passage we'll move on toMatthew 20 verses 20 to 28. ! Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two…
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…to govern the church. Christ will talk about and differentiate or contrast the leadership between the world and the elders within the church fromMatthew chapter 20, verses 25 to 28, when he says this, Jesus called them, speaking of his disciples to him and said, you know that the rulers of the Gentiles lorded over them, and…
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…God? But Jesus as a person, he hid nothing. He was authentic. Turning your Bibles to Matthew 20, I'd like to read verses 20 through 28. Matthew 20.Matthew, chapter 20, verses 20 through 28. I'm reading this scripture to bring out the illustration of Jesus knew who he was, jesus knew what his mission on earth was and Jesus knew his…
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…privileges in order to help the morale of the people that you lead. Folks, this is the same thing that Jesus did, the same attitude that he had,Matthew 20, verse 26 through 28. It shall not be so among you, but whoever would be great among you must be your servant. And whoever would be first among you must be your slave,…
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…rest of the world operates. There's a paradigm shift here. So when Jesus talks about being the greatest, let's look at how he paints that picture.Matthew 20:26-27, whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant. And whoever wants to be first among you must become your slave. Imagine hearing this…
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…teaching, that will help continue to transform your mind so that you can walk out the plan and purpose of God. Amen. So then Jesus says this inMatthew chapter 20, verse 25 to 28, but Jesus called them to himself and said, you know, that the rulers of the Gentiles Lord, it over them and those who are great exercise authority…
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…get to preach to you again. I don't know if you all share that excitement, but I'm excited. And that's the main thing. No, we're going to be inMatthew chapter 20 verses 20 through 28this morning. This is a sermon I actually preached at our men's retreat two years ago, I think it was. And at that time, it was maybe my third or…
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…on, and that is what we're gonna always do whenever God calls us to come together. So here's a pace where I want to encourage us. Um, found inMatthew chapter 20, verse 20 through 28, it says this. Then the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came uh to Jesus with her sons. She's knelt down respectfully to ask a…
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…Will we submit ourselves to service, to care, to love what God has allowed us to, or will we just serve ourselves? Jesus says in Matthew 25, orMatthew 20, verse 25 through 28. Jesus called them together and he said, He's speaking to his disciples, you know that the rulers of this world, Lord, Lord over their people, and…
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…through 4, an almost identical narrative, an identical situation. Jesus does the same thing again, trying to get it through their heads. We find inMatthew chapter 20, verses 20 through 28, this even gets better because two of the guys bring their mom. It says this. Could you imagine that coming up with? I've heard stories now. I know…
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