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• Examples include: |
+ Using natural intellectual abilities for personal gain and pride |
+ Becoming focused on career advancement and status over serving others |
+ Wanting children's successes to reflect positively on oneself |
+ As a pastor or leader, wanting church growth to increase one's own reputation and influence |
• The work of self-examination is necessary to identify how this temptation affects us personally |
• Jesus teaches that the way up is down, and the path to greatness is through servanthood and humility |
• The importance of humility in leadership and serving others, inspired by Jesus washing his disciples' feet |
• Using one's position and authority to serve others, rather than simply wielding power or influence |
• Examples of members of the church serving their neighbors and community through various initiatives |
• The value of "emptying oneself" and being a servant in areas where one may have significant influence |
• Inviting listeners to consider how they can occupy their spaces as servants, using their positions for good. |
• Sid shared a humorous story about being mistaken for the janitor instead of one of the pastors |
• The speaker relates this anecdote to John 13, emphasizing the importance of serving others in any capacity |
• The church's ministry fair is mentioned as an opportunity for members to serve and utilize their gifts |
• The speaker criticizes the use of the word "volunteer" and suggests that serving is a responsibility, not an optional activity |
• Jesus' statement about serving others is highlighted as a key aspect of Christian living |
• A prayer is offered to ask God to enable church members to be servants and resist selfish desires. |
• The congregation is asked to let go of an unhealthy sense of greatness over others and instead become servants |
• They are given a vision for serving the Lord in their everyday lives |
• The power to make Jesus known through service is requested |
• A song, "Heal Our Land", is sung as a response |
• The speaker mentions a future episode featuring a woman named "thành" and her place in nine months. |
[0.00 --> 17.70] Well, it's a new ministry season, and we're starting a new sermon series. |
[18.18 --> 21.30] And the name of this series is called Contrast Community. |
[22.08 --> 26.24] For the next number of weeks, we're going to be looking at the way in which we are called |
[26.24 --> 30.68] to live distinctively as the body of Christ in the midst of our city. |
[31.04 --> 34.22] We're going to open up some of the ways that are normal for people to live in our city |
[34.22 --> 38.86] and just the unique ways that Christ calls us to bear witness to Him and live a unique |
[38.86 --> 41.94] kind of discipleship lifestyle in the midst of our world. |
[43.02 --> 47.14] A quote that is sort of percolating in my mind for this series actually comes from Leslie |
[47.14 --> 49.52] Newbigin, but he says, as a missionary, he says, |
[49.52 --> 55.30] The church is called to love this city so deeply that it stands against the idols. |
[56.24 --> 59.58] And so in this series, we're going to look at what it means for us to be a community |
[59.58 --> 66.26] of rest in a world of hurry and anxiousness, what it means to be a community of generosity |
[66.26 --> 71.18] in a world of greed, what it means to be a community of upright speech in a world of cheap |
[71.18 --> 74.16] talk and gossip, and many more things like this. |
[74.98 --> 78.92] This morning, we're going to look at what it means to be a community of sacrificial service |
[78.92 --> 80.96] in a world of self-elevation. |
[81.60 --> 85.88] And if you have your Bible, I do invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 20, where |
[85.88 --> 90.00] we're going to read a story of an ambitious mother who makes a very interesting request |
[90.00 --> 90.62] of Jesus. |
[92.04 --> 94.44] This is Matthew 20, starting in verse 20. |
[96.94 --> 103.36] Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Jesus with her sons and kneeling down, asked |
[103.36 --> 104.24] a favor of him. |
[105.00 --> 106.20] What is it you want? |
[106.38 --> 106.94] He asked. |
[107.74 --> 112.90] She said, Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other |
[112.90 --> 114.60] at your left in your kingdom. |
[115.70 --> 118.52] You do not know what you're asking, Jesus said to them. |
[119.08 --> 121.84] Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink? |
[122.66 --> 124.18] We can, they answered. |
[125.22 --> 129.80] Jesus said to them, you will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right and left |
[129.80 --> 131.18] is not for me to grant. |
[131.64 --> 135.60] These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my father. |
[136.54 --> 140.02] When the ten heard about this, they were indignant with the two brothers. |
[140.02 --> 145.80] Jesus called them together and said, you know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over |
[145.80 --> 149.24] them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. |
[149.84 --> 151.80] Not so with you. |
[152.48 --> 157.08] Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and those who want |
[157.08 --> 159.40] to be first must be your slave. |
[159.68 --> 165.60] Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and give his life as a ransom |
[165.60 --> 166.68] for many. |
[166.68 --> 168.34] This is God's word. |
[168.34 --> 172.34] God's word. |
[172.34 --> 176.68] Well, one of the things that you discover when you become a parent is that there grows |
[176.68 --> 179.16] in you this ache for your kids. |
[180.02 --> 184.50] An ache to see these kids make it and succeed in the world. |
[185.08 --> 188.60] And maybe some of you, as your kids have gone back to school and experienced all the challenges |
[188.60 --> 190.08] there, and you feel that ache. |
[190.16 --> 191.96] You want your kids to do well in the world. |
[191.96 --> 197.52] And that ache for your kids drives a lot of parents to do some pretty crazy stuff so that |
[197.52 --> 200.14] their kids have a competitive advantage in the big wide world. |
[200.24 --> 205.90] Things like, you might remember this in the news, Hollywood stars bribing the way of their |
[205.90 --> 208.06] children into Ivy League schools. |
[208.80 --> 211.74] Children who would never on their own make the admission standards. |
[211.74 --> 212.74] parents. |
[212.74 --> 218.88] Or, in other cases, parents pretending to be their children in a job interview on the phone |
[218.88 --> 220.82] in order for the kid to get the job. |
[221.32 --> 225.24] And I always think that one would so backfire once the child gets the job, but different |
[225.24 --> 225.60] story. |
[226.94 --> 228.34] And there's many more like this. |
[228.46 --> 232.48] And there's also ordinary ways that most of us will try to help our kids, right? |
[232.48 --> 239.42] One of them is leveraging our network of relationships to help them find a place, find a job, with |
[239.42 --> 240.00] an opportunity. |
[240.50 --> 243.24] We sort of reach out to those we know for the sake of our kids. |
[243.70 --> 247.00] And that's kind of what's happening in our passage. |
[248.10 --> 254.00] There's an ambitious mother who comes to Jesus with a request that's for the sake of her kids. |
[254.68 --> 259.38] And we're going to learn that the request she has is that her kids experience greatness |
[259.38 --> 265.28] and prestige, and Jesus looks at her and says, I want to introduce you to the upside-down kingdom |
[265.28 --> 267.68] where the way up is through service. |
[268.30 --> 270.02] So let's take a look at this story together. |
[271.28 --> 274.40] One of the main characters is not named directly. |
[274.56 --> 275.52] I'm intrigued by this. |
[275.62 --> 277.50] It's called the mother of Zebedee's sons. |
[278.06 --> 282.06] That's like calling Brittany the mother of David's sons. |
[282.54 --> 285.60] But the name of the woman making this request is Salome. |
[286.06 --> 288.28] And she's referenced elsewhere in the Gospels. |
[288.28 --> 294.18] And interestingly, the two sons that she's making this request for are James and John. |
[294.62 --> 298.56] And if you know the disciples, they're actually on the inner circle of Jesus' disciples. |
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