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Seeking True Greatness

Discover the true meaning of greatness through Jesus' teachings and example. Learn how greatness requires suffering and self-denial, and how we can follow Jesus' steps to achieve true greatness.

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Seeking True Greatness

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  1. Seeking True Greatness Matthew 20:20-28

  2. Seeking True Greatness • The Request: Jesus, Make Me Great (20-21)! • The Response: Greatness is Not What You Think (22-27). A. Greatness Requires Suffering (22-23).

  3. Seeking True Greatness More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:3–5

  4. Seeking True Greatness • The Request: Jesus, Make Me Great (20-21)! • The Response: Greatness is Not What You Think (22-27). A. Greatness Requires Suffering (22-23). B. Greatness Requires Self-Denial (24-27).

  5. Seeking True Greatness Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. John 13:3–5

  6. Seeking True Greatness • The Request: Jesus, Make Me Great (20-21)! • The Response: Greatness is Not What You Think (22-27). A. Greatness Requires Suffering (22-23). B. Greatness Requires Self-Denial (24-27). III. The Representative: Follow the Example of Jesus (28).

  7. Seeking True Greatness For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 1 Peter 2:21–24

  8. Seeking True Greatness • The Request: Jesus, Make Me Great (20-21)! • The Response: Greatness is Not What You Think (22-27). A. Greatness Requires Suffering (22-23). B. Greatness Requires Self-Denial (24-27). III. The Representative: Follow the Example of Jesus (28).

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