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Search Search for:. Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Salvation is impossible without a recognition of your sin and a desire for reconciliation with God. Peace with God cannot be attained without a submission to His authority.
A relationship with God cannot be established without believing what He says and trusting Him. That is why Jesus uses a child as the model of what is needed for a person to enter the kingdom.
A person who remains proud, arrogant, boastful, bombastic and insincere will not be converted because their vanity will always keep them from admitting their sin and seeking forgiveness as God has directed. Unless they are converted from those things and become as a child, they shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
They will not spend eternity with Christ. They will forever be separated from Him in everlasting torment. They may be defiant and stubborn at times trying to exert their own will, but they know they are dependent upon their parents and neither know as much nor can do as much as them.
A child will humble himself before his parents. You must humble yourself before God to do things His way. If you are a child of God and you are defiant and stubborn, Hebrews informs us He will discipline and chasten you as a father does his son to bring about correction and eventually yield the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
If you humble yourself before God, He will exalt you at the proper time 1 Peter as you become more like Jesus, and therefore great in His kingdom. The disciples were arguing about who was the greatest in the kingdom. Their first concern should have been about what it means to even enter and be a part of the kingdom.
That may be true of some of you here today. Some of you here today have yet to become as a child and be converted. It does not matter what you may have professed a long time ago. God is interested in whether you are following Jesus or not, and if you are not, then today is the day to begin that journey of walking with Him. You cannot do that by yourself, but God is willing and able to change you.
Your starting place is to repent and seek after Him. Hebrews tells us that God is a rewarder of those who believe that He is and seek diligently after Him. Are you seeking after Him as a trusting child? God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Search for Him as a child, and you will find Him and be converted by the Holy Spirit, and He will give rest to your soul.
Do you want to be truly great? You do not have to have superior skills and abilities, or win the contests or even achieve success. The truly great are His humble servants who serve wherever doing whatever He desires whether that gains the attention and acclaim of men or not.
Are you great? They just continue on as a child, humbly believing and trusting the Lord and follow after Him. May the Lord grant that everyone here becomes characterized by such greatness. Matthew ; Mark ; Luke Here is some help. Young Children — draw a picture about something you hear during the sermon. Explain your picture s to your parents at lunch. Older Children — Do one or more of the following: 1 Write down all the verses mentioned in the sermon and look them up later.
Talk with your parents about what it means to be great and how you can become someone who is great. Questions to consider in discussing the sermon with others.
Have you tried to achieve greatness, if so, how? Does a person have to have a good character in order to be great? What key events had occurred before Jesus came to the house in Capernaum?
When did the disciples start arguing about who was the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? Why were they silent when Jesus asked what they were discussing?
Why does Matthew make it seem like the disciple brought the subject up to Jesus? Why would the disciples be thinking about this subject?
Do you compare yourself to other people? If so, in what areas? How does pride block a person from being as great as they could be? Why is it dangerous to pick and choose among the Scriptures what you will believe and what you will reject? How is the general principle stated in Mark contrary to the way that most human societies function?
Why does Jesus call a child to Himself? Why would a child have been in the house? What is the difference between repentance and conversion? American Standard Version And there arose a reasoning among them, which of them was the greatest. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And deliberation entered among them of who was great among them.
Contemporary English Version Jesus' disciples were arguing about which one of them was the greatest. Douay-Rheims Bible And there entered a thought into them, which of them should be greater. English Revised Version And there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest. Good News Translation An argument broke out among the disciples as to which one of them was the greatest.
International Standard Version Later, an argument started among the disciples as to which of them might be the greatest. Literal Standard Version And there entered a reasoning among them, this—who may be greater of them. NET Bible Now an argument started among the disciples as to which of them might be the greatest. Christ Speaking To Disciples greatness Passion. What Value Is Man?
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