Take what is yours and go your way. I wish to give to this last man the same as to you. Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’ So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.”
“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death, and deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. And the third day He will rise again.”
“You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave— just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
The first 14 verses continue on what we talked
about yesterday, the first will be last and the last will be first in the
Kingdom of heaven.
The Father in heaven has the right to decide.
Our Lord proclaims the suffering and death ahead
and at the same time warns His disciples that they too will go through the
same.
And an account of blind men being healed is recorded.
Today I want us talk about the servant hood.
You will remember when we started to journey
through the gospel by Matthew our Lord fulfilled Isaiah's prophecy of the Lord
servant.
Again the issue of status and positions is raised up by the disciples.
One of the reasons we are journeying through the
Lord’s Word is that we can learn to adopt His attitudes and character into our lives as His followers.
Yesterday we learnt that being humble is a
character of a gospel carrier.
Today we learn that serving is the heart of
following our Lord and carrying His gospel to all around us.
If we don’t humble ourselves we can never serve
anyone.
We have to die to self to become useful to our
Lord in His Kingdom.
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