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Let's sharpen up.

All right, welcome back to the Daily Blade. Day five in Matthew chapter 20.

We're talking about the five attributes of a great man. This is not an exhaustive list.

This are just five things that I see in Matthew chapter 20, hope and pray they have been helpful

and challenging. Number five is this. This is really the foundation of the whole thing.

A great man is a ransomed man. We're going to read the whole text again because we need to hear it again.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons and kneeling before him.

She asked him for something and he said to her, what do you want? And she said to him, say that these two sons of mine

are to sit one at your right hand and one at your left in your kingdom. And Jesus answered,

you do not know what you were asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink? And they said to him,

we are able. They've been there the whole time. And he said to them, you will drink my cup,

but to sit at my right hand and my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has

been prepared by my father. And when the 10 heard it, they were indignant at the two brothers,

probably because they wish they would have had the idea to go ask to be senior VP of Jesus

Incorporated. But Jesus called them to him and said,

you know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them and their great ones exercise authority

over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant.

And whoever would be first among you must be your slave even as the son of man came

not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many all right two things one

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