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Messages by Desiring God

Greatness, Humility, Servanthood

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

Christianity, Messages, Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Preaching, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, John Piper

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2009

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Humility is happy to rely on God and quick to give him the credit for all that’s accomplished.

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The following resource is from Desiring God.org.

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Please turn with me in your Bibles to our sermon text found in Mark,

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chapter 10, starting in verse 32 to 45.

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And they were on the road going up to Jerusalem,

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and Jesus was walking ahead of them.

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And they were amazed.

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And those who followed were afraid and taking

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the 12 again he began to tell them what was to happen to him saying see we are

0:31.7

going up to Jerusalem and the son of man will be delivered over to the chief

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priests and the scribes and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.

0:42.1

And they will mock him and spit on him

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and flog him and kill him.

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And after three days, he will rise.

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And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him,

0:54.0

Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.

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And he said to them, what do you want me to do for you?

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And they said to him, Grant us to sit one at your right hand and one at

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your left in your glory. Jesus said to them, you do not know what you are asking. Are you able

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to drink the cup that I drink will be

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baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized and they said to him we are

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able and Jesus said to them the cup that I drink you will drink and with the baptism with which I am baptized you will be baptized.

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But to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.

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