Servant To All (Mark 10:32-52)

So we're going to be in Mark chapter 10, starting in verse 32 this morning.

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And it just as a reminder, the way that we teach and the heart behind this time of kind of formal discipleship, I guess we call it, the heart really is that you are gaining enough out of this to where you could sit down with somebody during the week, Tuesday for coffee, and then that you could teach them the same passage.

So I love looking out and seeing people underlining and highlighting and writing notes in the margins and taking notes and all of those things just for the sake of understanding the word to the capacity where then we could go out and start to disciple others with it as well.

So like I said, we're gonna be in chapter 10 of Mark, starting in verse 32.

Let's stand for the reading of God's Word.

It says, They were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them.

The disciples were astonished, but those who followed him were afraid.

Taking the twelve aside again, he began to tell them the things that would happen to him.

See, we are going up to Jerusalem.

The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death.

Then they will hand him over to the Gentiles, and they will mock him, spit on him, flog him, and kill him, and he will rise after three days.

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached him and said, Teacher, we want you to do whatever we ask you.

What do you want me to do for you?

He asked them.

They answered him, Allow us to sit at your right and at your left in your glory.

Jesus said to them, You don't know what you're asking.

Are you able to drink the cup I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?

We are able, they told him.

Jesus said to them, You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with.

But to sit at my right or left is not mine to give.

Instead, it is for those for whom it has been prepared.

When the ten disciples heard this, they began to be indignant with James and John.

Jesus called them over and said to them, You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions act as tyrants over them.

But it is not so among you.

On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you will be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you will be a slave to all.

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

They came to Jericho, and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.

Many warned him to keep quiet, but he was crying out all the more.

Have mercy on me, son of David.

Jesus stopped and said, Call him.

So they called the blind man and said to him, Have courage, get up, he's calling for you.

He threw off his coat, jumped up, and came to Jesus.

Then Jesus answered him, What do you want me to do for you?

Raboni, the blind man, said to him, I want to see.

Jesus said to him, Go, your faith has saved you.

Immediately he could see and began to follow Jesus on the road.

Lord, we thank you so much for your word.

Lord, I pray that you would show me how to rightly divide it here this morning.

That you would speak through the person of the Holy Spirit here this morning to each one of our hearts.

Pray these things in Jesus' name.

Amen.

You may be seated.

So last week we took a break from the book of Mark to talk about worship.

But two weeks ago, the week before that, Ben spoke on the rich young ruler and how difficult it is to have earthly riches and not be consumed by them.

And Jesus takes that lesson and he talks about the reward that is waiting for us when we sacrifice the things of this earth for the sake of the gospel.

And Jesus ends that teaching in verse 31 by saying, But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

And that's a theme that we've talked about before.

It's a theme that we saw in chapter 9 when the disciples were arguing about who is the greatest.

And it's that same theme that we're going to come across again here today.

You know, it's something that Jesus is concerned with.

We see it brought up multiple times.

So I think that's something that we need to be concerned with as well.

And that is not being self-promoting.

That's not trying to build up our own self-importance.

It's not trying to look good for the sake of advancement.

It's not seeking a place of honor.

That's the theme that we see that keeps coming up, and that Jesus is teaching his disciples.

But he's trying to teach them that being a servant to all is what he's really wanting them to take hold of.

That the last and the least are the ones that are actually first in the kingdom of God.

So look at verse 32 with me.

Jesus jumps in and he says, or it's set in the scene here.

It says, They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them.

The disciples were astonished, but those who followed him were afraid.

So my first question when I read this verse is, why were they astonished and why were they afraid?

And it doesn't really say directly exactly why.

But I think if we look at the context of this passage, you know, what comes before and what comes after, that we can get a really good idea of what they're astonished and afraid of.

You know, we see Jesus telling the disciples over and over what's to come.

We've seen that theme since Jesus healed the blind man in chapter 8, of Jesus trying to help his disciples to see more clearly.

He's been telling them about himself being turned over to the religious leaders, about being mocked and about being tortured.

He's been talking to them about him dying a criminal's death.

And what does verse 32 say?

It says, They were on the road going up to Jerusalem.

They are walking into the lion's den.

They are willfully walking into their worst nightmare.

And hear me here.

They are willfully following Jesus into their greatest fear.

No wonder they were astonished and afraid.

Jesus told them what's waiting for them in Jerusalem, and he is willfully walking into Jerusalem.

You know, we've had many occasions to make fun of the disciples throughout the book of Mark.

We've just seen them do a lot of things where it's just like, wow, you know.

But here I think we need to give them credit.

They could have easily said, You're going to Jerusalem on purpose after everything that you've told us.

They could have easily said, you know, then we're going back to Galilee.

Let us know how things go.

We'll be praying for you, Jesus.

You know, they easily could have had that attitude.

But most of us know the story.

You know, when things get crazy, we are going to see them scatter.

We're going to see Jesus deny, or we're going to see Peter deny Jesus, rather.

Don't want to mess that one up.

But here are a bunch of guys that don't have the Holy Spirit working inside of them.

They don't have the Word of God complete and done sitting in their hands.

And so I think we need to note how courageous they were without those two benefits that we have access here today.

And I don't want to overlook the bravery of Jesus either.

Yes, he's fully God, but he's fully dealing with the emotions that are coming from him being fully man.

I don't care who you are, how submitted to the Lord you are, willfully walking into spirit or into physical pain is a lot to go through mentally before you even experience the pain.

I've been through some major surgeries in my life, like on my nostrils of all things, and my knees, stuff like that.

But just knowing the pain that you're walking into, knowing the pain of the physical therapy that's going to be taking place afterwards, I look out and I see a couple people that are going through that right now, the healing process in the physical therapy.

But that can really mess with you, knowing that a lot of pain is in your future and knowing that you have to walk into it willfully.

And here is Jesus with the anticipation of not only knowing what he's gonna go through, the torturous pain, but knowing that that's gonna lead to death as well.

You know, for Jesus to be our compassionate high priest, you know, a priest that can relate to us on every human level, he had to experience temptation, as we saw, at the deepest level.

He had to experience loss at the deepest level.

And here we're gonna see that he has to experience pain at the deepest level.

And as we're gonna see as we move on in the book of Mark, we're gonna see that Jesus has to experience stress at the deepest level.

And I point all that out because we serve a brave and courageous God that can relate to our every struggle on the deepest level.

And as we will see on the way to the cross, Jesus has to go through a lot.

But at the same time, he can relate to us because of that.

Look at the second half of verse 32.

It says, Taking the twelve aside, he began to tell them the things that would happen to him.

You know, I love the compassion of Jesus.

He's still trying to prepare his disciples, he's still trying to help them, as we said earlier, to see more clearly the things that are coming.

And what he's doing is he's proving over and over again that he came to serve and not be served.

It would have been so easy for Jesus at this moment to say, you know, I'm about to go through all of this.

Just give me some space, guys.

I just need some space right now.

Or he could have said, I'm so tired.

I just need some quiet.

Would you guys please stop talking?

Or, you know, how about you serve me and you comfort me for once?

You know, he could have easily said those things.

But he continues to serve selflessly.

And we see that as he goes on in verse 33, still trying to prepare his disciples.

He says, See, we are going up to Jerusalem.

The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death.

Then they will hand him over to the Gentiles.

So the Son of Man, when we hear that term, Jesus is referring to himself and the 100% humanity that he is at the same time as being 100% God.

And he's walking the disciples through what things are going to look like and how they're going to unfold once they reach Jerusalem.

And he's doing it, notice, with really specific detail of exactly what's going to take place.

And this is the first time that we see in Mark's gospel that Jesus mentions that he will die by the hands of the Gentiles, the Romans.

But this is the first time that we see him mention that in the book of Mark.

All of this to the disciples is absolutely unheard of.

The Messiah dying a sinner's death by the hands of the Gentiles.

This is nothing like what any of the disciples envisioned the Messiah doing when he came for the first time.

And Jesus goes on in verse 34 and he continues to give them great detail of what's ahead.

Look at verse 34.

It says, and they will mock him, spit on him, flog him, and kill him, and he will rise after three days.

So Jesus continues to give them graphic detail here of what lies ahead.

And I get the impression that these guys are still trying to find the meaning of all of this as if it's a parable.

Because it's so far out there that they can't even wrap their heads around it.

Because surely God can't die at the hands of the religious authorities, or for that matter, at the hands of Gentiles, right?

These must have been the thoughts, you know, that are going through their heads.

But Jesus just continues on to prep them and to serve them.

Remember, only in a couple days, Jesus will sweat what was like drops of blood as he's praying in the Garden of Gethsemane.

From the stress he was experiencing as he prepared himself for what lied ahead.

Imagine knowing that this is your fate in just a couple days.

And then look at where Jesus' heart is in all of this.

Look at where his time is being spent.

Look at where his energy is being used.

It's completely on others as he prepares his disciples for what's ahead.

That is the God that we serve.

Isn't that incredible?

And I just see this scene, you know, in my head, and I see Jesus just pouring his heart out to the disciples, and I see it as kind of a real serious moment that he's having.

And then verse 35 happens.

You know, in our home, we call this conversational whiplash.

Okay?

Look at verse 35.

It says, James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached him and said, Teacher, we want you to do whatever we ask.

That's conversational whiplash, right?

They're just like, where did this come from?

And as I read it, it's kind of like, come on, guys, really?

Like Jesus was having this moment and he's teaching you, and then you're just gonna come up and change the subject on him.

I so badly want to root for the disciples in moments like this, but sometimes they make it really hard.

But I just picture this scene like they're little kids.

You know, the parents are talking to them, they don't hear a word, and then all of a sudden they've learned about, you know, if I ask you a question, will you say yes?

And the parents are like, you know, what question?

Just say yes first.

And what's more embarrassing is we learn this in Matthew's account of the gospel, is they brought their mom with them to ask this question of Jesus.

And then Jesus patiently responds to him.

Look at verse 36.

What do you want me to do for you?

He asked them.

They answered him, Allow us to sit at your right and at your left in your glory.

You know, I really think this goes back to chapter 9, about that whole discussion of who's the greatest.

You know, when they were back arguing on the road.

I think that's still kind of of utmost importance of what they're thinking about and what these guys are talking about.

And it's obviously something that these two have been talking about, and they've been talking about it with their mom, apparently, as well.

I know.

I want to root for them so badly.

I really do.

But what they are asking for is the first and second greatest places of honor in Jesus' kingdom.

Jesus had already told them that when he sits on his glorious throne, that they, the twelve disciples, would sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

And what James and John are doing is they're trying to secure the thrones to the right and to the left of Jesus, the two most important places of honor.

So in verse 38, it says, Jesus said to them, so here's his response, you don't know what you're asking.

Are you able to drink the cup I drink?

Or to be baptized with the baptism I'm baptized with.

Basically, you guys, you have no idea what you're talking about.

You have no idea what you're asking.

And I still don't think these guys realize that Jesus is going to die.

Even though he's telling them over and over very plainly what's going to happen.

And part of me wonders if they think sitting on the right and left is going to be some earthly throne that's going to be established when Jesus finally makes it into Jerusalem.

Thinking like, once Jesus overthrows the Romans and establishes his earthly throne, then we're going to sit on the right and left.

Because I don't think they had an eternal perspective personally when they were asking this question.

And I think that just because Jesus responds, you don't know what you're asking.

And then he asks if they are able to endure what he's about to endure.

And remember, they don't know what he's about to go through.

Even though he keeps telling them over and over.

It was so easy to think the disciples were so dense when we read through the gospels.

But I want to encourage you, as I often try to encourage myself, to be even more thankful that we have the Holy Spirit living inside of us as our counselor and as our teacher, helping us to understand the deeper things of God's word.

If it were us, I think we would do the exact same thing that we see the disciples doing right here.

You know, we have the complete Bible right in front of us right now in our hands, the complete inspired word of God given through the Holy Spirit.

And not only that, we have the Holy Spirit living inside of each one of us.

Both of which the disciples did not have.

So I want to encourage you, as I encourage myself, to take advantage of both of those things, which we have free and abundant access to at every moment.

You know, if we don't want to be seen as dense disciples of Jesus, stay in the Word.

Rely upon the Holy Spirit, living and working through us at every moment.

Because otherwise, I think if we don't do those things yet still call ourselves Christians, that we are going to look like the dense disciples that we read about in the Gospels.

Look at their response here in verse 39.

This is their response to whether they can have the same baptism and drink out of the same cup.

We are able, they told him.

Jesus said to them, You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with.

You know, I have to wonder what James and John thought Jesus was talking about right here.

They obviously didn't know the extent of what Jesus was talking about.

Because if Jesus asked them outright, can you handle being mocked by the religious leaders?

Can you handle being flogged to within an inch of your life?

Can you carry your own cross and then be crucified?

I think they would have said, ah, that right and left thing, Jesus, don't worry about it.

We're good.

You know, you just do your thing and we'll watch from a distance.

Because if they really understood, they never would have said, we are able, like they did right here in this verse.

You see, when Jesus starts talking about the cup and about baptism, he's talking about being submerged into the suffering that he was going to endure.

And they obviously were not ready for that.

But through the Holy Spirit and a lot more time of being sanctified by Jesus, church tradition tells us that John was sentenced to die by being dipped in a boiling vat of oil.

But miraculously came out unharmed.

And then that's when he got sentenced to slave labor, slave labor on the island of Patmos.

And then in Acts 12, 2, it tells us that Herod killed James by the sword, which most likely means that he was beheaded by Herod with the sword.

And who knows what other persecutions that these two endured before those incidents.

But the point is, they think they are ready now, but they're not.

And that's really what Jesus is trying to communicate to them in this verse.

You're not ready now, but you will be when you have the Holy Spirit living inside of you.

And you will be baptized in the same way that I am for the sake of the gospel.

And you will share in the cup of my suffering.

And that's the same cup that Jesus is shortly going to pray.

If it's possible, let this cup pass from me.

Look at verse 40.

Jesus goes on.

But to sit at my right or left is not mine to give.

Instead, it is for those for whom.

It has been prepared.

Basically, that's not my position to give that to you.

That is up to the Father.

Verse 41.

When the ten disciples heard this, they began to be indignant with James and John.

So imagine this.

Put yourself in the disciples' position.

So you're working for a company.

You have 11 other co-workers that are all doing the same exact job that you're doing.

And you find out that two of those people that are doing the exact same thing that you're doing go to your boss and they say, We know you can only give out two bonuses this year.

Can we have it?

What would you do if you found out about that?

I think I'd be indignant too, right?

You're all kind of like, who do they think they are?

We're all doing the same job and they're asking for the bonuses.

I deserve that bonus more than they do.

I work harder than they do.

I show up earlier, you know, and all that stuff.

I think I could get indignant really quick with that.

But that's basically what James and John are trying to pull here.

So the scene, as we're going to see, begins to get a little bit tumultuous.

Look at verse 42.

Jesus called them over and said to them, You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions act as tyrants over them.

But it is not so among you.

On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you will be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you will be a slave to all.

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

We talked about this in chapter nine kind of extensively, so I want to give you a couple of reminders.

But it was when the disciples were arguing on the road about who is the greatest.

We talked about how the word servant and serve are all from the same root of the Greek word for deacon in the New Testament.

And how deacon means one who executes the commands of another.

We talked about how if you want to be first, you must be an attendant of all or a servant of all.

Have you ever heard somebody say that they were trying to descend the corporate ladder?

That's a very foreign concept to our culture, isn't it?

It's all about climbing the ladder and stepping on whoever you have to to get up to that next run.

But descending in the corporate ladder, this is kind of what Jesus is talking about.

The last being first.

That's the kingdom of God.

That's what Jesus is trying to communicate.

It's not the ones that climb to the top, it's the ones that are at the bottom that are serving all, that are the greatest in the kingdom of God.

And obviously the disciples hadn't picked up on this, even though this is about the third time that Jesus has had this conversation with them to some extent.

And it's something that they needed to be reminded of.

But I don't want to skip here what Jesus says.

He says, For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

The God of the universe, God Almighty, God of armies, all-knowing, all-powerful, present everywhere all at once, did not come to be served, but to serve.

To the point of giving his whole life all the way to the point of death on a cross.

To serve us.

To serve each one of you individually.

And he did it all because he so badly wants us to spend eternity with him.

You know, I have to believe that once the disciples fully grasped who Jesus was and all that he did after his resurrection, they must have felt so ridiculous recalling the time when they fought over who was the greatest.

Or when they asked to sit at the right hand or the left hand of Jesus in his glory.

You know, like one of those moments when you're lying awake at night recounting everything cringeworthy you've ever done in your life.

I just imagine the disciples like, I can't believe I asked Jesus if I was the greatest.

Because what each of those disciples learned, and then we see demonstrated, minus Judas, of course, was that Jesus was the perfect servant leader.

He led by example, by putting himself last, by serving all and putting everyone else's needs in front of his.

This is conflicting.

And I have to ask, husbands, are we listening right now?

Leaders, are we listening right now?

Every follower of Christ in this room, are we listening?

That the last shall be first.

But once again we see Jesus is so gracious, and he just says, You don't know what you're asking.

That is an incredible amount of patience, I think, on Jesus' part right there.

So now we're gonna be moving on from that scene, and we're gonna see Jesus heal a blind man.

And as we go through this section, I want to point out how this blind man, Bartimaeus, really gives us a great outline for a prayer of petition, where we're asking God for something.

And these two passages at first might seem like they're not related, but they tie together really well, and we'll see that in the end.

Look at verse 46.

They came to Jericho, and he was leaving, as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples in a large crowd, Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.

You know, the first thing that I noticed when we look at uh this little chunk of verses is that this guy must have already heard about Jesus.

And not only heard about him, but already has an understanding that Jesus is the Messiah.

Because he calls him the son of David, referring to the lineage of Jesus.

And not only that, this guy already has faith in Jesus.

He hears Jesus is near and he just starts calling out.

He's not ashamed to cause a scene in this moment, as we see, because his need is so great.

You know, part of me wonders if he has already heard of Jesus and already thought, you know, if only I could have a moment with him.

From the things that I've heard of this man, if I could just have a moment, then I can get my sight back.

Or if only he would come to where I am, if he would walk through where I sit every day, then maybe I would have a chance to gain sight.

And then we see that he has a chance to interact with Jesus, the Messiah, the healer, and he jumps in, as we're gonna see with both feet.

Look at verse 48.

Many warned him to keep quiet, but he was crying out all the more, have mercy on me, son of David.

So he's making such a scene that people are shushing him.

Like, hey man, you're making a scene.

Just keep quiet.

But his faith was too great to be discouraged by those discouraging him.

And as we'll see, that's the faith that Jesus desires from each one of us.

Look at verse 49.

Jesus stopped and said, Call him.

So they called the blind man and said to him, Have courage, get up.

He's calling for you.

He threw off his coat, jumped up, and came to Jesus.

Then Jesus answered him, What do you want me to do for you?

Rabboni, the blind man, said to him, I want to see.

You know, I think Jesus probably knew what this guy wanted, right?

It's probably fairly obvious.

But note that Jesus still wants him to present his need to him.

And look at this guy's response.

He calls Jesus Raboni.

That's an Aramaic word that takes the Hebrew word for rabbi or teacher, and it adds a ton of weight and meaning to it.

And it adds master, chief, or prince to the teacher side of rabbi.

And it was reserved only for those in the utmost, highest places of honor.

And that's the term that this guy used.

This is a very humble position that he's putting himself in before Jesus.

You know, talk about someone seeing Jesus clearly, and he's blind.

Think about that.

This guy probably sees Jesus more clearly than any other example that we have seen so far in the book of Mark.

This guy is showing an all-out belief in Jesus with no reservation.

And then we see that he lets Jesus know exactly what he wants.

That's good prayer advice, right there.

To be specific and to let Jesus know.

Even though we know that he already knows.

It's good for us to be very specific.

This guy is unknowingly giving us a great prayer template.

Look at what he does.

He cries out to Jesus.

He has faith that Jesus can do whatever we're asking.

He comes and places himself in a place of utmost humility before Jesus.

And then he's specific to let Jesus know exactly what the need is.

Finally getting my chance.

But let's look at this guy's response, verse 52.

Jesus said to him, Go, your faith has saved you.

Immediately he could see and began to follow Jesus on the road.

Notice what Jesus says here.

Your faith has saved you.

Yeah, I don't think Jesus is talking about this guy's vision here anymore.

That's not what saved this guy.

Jesus is pointing to the spiritual salvation that this guy has because of his unwavering faith in Jesus.

I think the physical healing was just proof for that guy and everyone around him that this man's salvation was real and that Jesus had the ability to give that salvation.

Now I know that we've talked about it before, but I want to point out again that Jesus never defines faith in the Gospels.

He just points it out when he sees it, and he points it out when he doesn't see it.

And right here, he does it again.

Your faith has saved you.

We saw it with the woman with the flow of blood.

Your faith has saved you.

When he healed the leper, your faith has saved you.

You know, Jesus desires our faith, our unwavering trust, our conviction that Jesus is the Messiah and that he has the ability to do anything that he wants to do.

You know, as a father, I can really relate to this.

Because I want my kids to trust me and to not second guess when I tell them something.

You know, when I tell them two plus two is four, nothing is more maddening than when they say it's five.

Because I know what two plus two equals four.

God desires a faith that trusts that he knows what he's doing, that doesn't doubt him.

You know, I can tell my kids that I know that two plus two is four, and I can tell them that with confidence.

We need to have that same trust that God knows the beginning from the end.

And have that same confidence in him.

Shouldn't our trust be undoubtedly in him?

Because that is what he desires.

And I know this is so hard for us when circumstances are hard.

And I know it's easy to doubt God when he doesn't do things the way that we think that he should.

Or he does things that just don't make sense to us in that moment.

Where for a moment it may even seem like he's against us.

You know, I think of Joseph in slavery.

You know, I think of Daniel in the lion's den.

But he wants us to trust him with the big things, and not only those, but with the tiniest things as well.

You know, if my story was in Scripture, I would so badly hope that it would be one where Jesus looks and says, Your faith has saved you.

So the question is, what's our take-home today?

What is our application?

Well, I think first, it's that Jesus is the greatest, most perfect servant leader.

He led by example, and we need to follow in that example as well.

You know, if anything that we're doing is to gain recognition or a place of honor or elevation in any way, even if it's just in somebody else's thoughts, we're doing it wrong.

I think we could just plainly say that.

And that's kind of convicting because it kind of sheds a lot of light on social media, doesn't it?

The second thing that I hope that we take home is that we have unhindered access to the Holy Spirit and to God's Word.

Why would we choose anything other than to saturate ourselves and be filled with both of those?

We have access that no one before Jesus ever had, but all of those people would have given anything for.

Why would we ever take that for granted?

The third thing that I hope we can take home is that we could have the faith of Bartimaeus, ready to jump at the sound of Jesus' voice, having the faith to pray for big things with boldness and with confidence, having the right understanding of the power and position and authority of Jesus to call him master and to not doubt his abilities or his intentions.

You know, I think if we take all of this so that we can sum up these two different passages that we covered this morning, and I think we can sum it up into we need to think bigger of God and lesser of ourselves.

It's probably not grammatically correct, but that's like I figure that's how we, you know, that we need to think bigger of God and lesser of ourselves.

It's when we do that that our faith is bolstered.

It's when we do that that we rightfully see ourselves in position to God as servants of the Most High God.

When we truly see the greatness of God, it will seem ridiculous for us to seek a place of honor or to think that we deserve a place of honor in comparison to all that He is.

Would you please pray with me?