#1,056 – Servants of Others (Matthew 23:11)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 30 June 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Humility, The Life of Christ, The Person & Identity of Christ, Value & Authority of the Word, Love, Spiritual Growth, Evangelism & Making Disciples
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net. |
| 0:04.7 | Matthew chapter 23 verse 11 |
| 0:08.2 | Jesus says the greatest among you |
| 0:11.9 | shall be your servant. |
| 0:15.0 | Eight words that go totally against the grain of the way the world thinks. |
| 0:27.0 | They go totally against the grain of the way our sinful hearts are wired. |
| 0:35.2 | Like we think, we're wired to think |
| 0:39.8 | that the greatest among you shall show him or herself superior in this way or that way. |
| 0:50.0 | But Jesus totally turns that on its side and says no the greatest among you is the one who is |
| 0:58.7 | serving the one who is putting others interests above their own |
| 1:05.4 | the one who is laying down their life |
| 1:08.9 | to help others to care for others to build up others. |
| 1:15.8 | The one who is greatest among you, Jesus says, |
| 1:19.0 | shall be the one who is serving you. |
| 1:22.6 | So just think about that today, |
| 1:24.4 | like what if we live this way? |
| 1:27.0 | What if our approach when we got up in the morning? |
| 1:29.8 | Now we saw in Matthew chapter 20, |
| 1:32.1 | Jesus is our servant, like he came to serve us so we wake up in the |
| 1:36.5 | morning and Jesus says I'm here to serve you today and so then what if we lived out of the |
| 1:42.1 | overflow of that? |
| 1:43.0 | And we had the same posture toward the world around us, |
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