Oh, let the Son of God enfold you with His spirit and his love.

Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you,

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with Be Humble, as we pick up in Matthew chapter 18 verse one and now with today's message here's

pastor chuck not the same time there came disciples to jesus saying who's the greatest in the

kingdom of heaven oh boy how they long for this.

You're talking about motivation.

And, you know, the disciples were not pure in their motivations.

They were always wrangling about, well, I'm going to be bigger than you.

I'll be better than you.

I'll have a better place than you, you know.

And their motivations were not always the purest. And they

many times were arguing about these things, the greatest. In fact, even the mothers of the disciples

sometimes got in on this and said, Lord, when you come into your kingdom, would you let one of my

sons be on your right side? And the left side? A little Jewish mother's wanting to set up

their boys, you know, and that's very typical. God bless them. And so the disciples came and said,

who's going to be the greatest in the kingdom?

And Jesus called a little child unto him,

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