Matthew 20 verses 20 through 28. 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? 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. Jesus answered, you do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the

cup that I am to drink? They said to him, we are able. He said to them, you will drink my cup,

but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant,

but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my father.

And when the ten heard it, they were indignant at the two brothers.

But Jesus called them to him and said,

You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lorded 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 a son of man came, not to be served,

but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. Amen. This passage is going to be about

greatness. That's what this episode is called. When I first started doing house church, you know,

I thought to myself, man, I have to clean the garage bathroom, which can be a very dirty bathroom when you have a lot of kids.

And it was a difficult thing for me to do week in and week out because I just never grew up watching pastors or men clean the church bathroom. It's something that,

I mean, I worked at churches where they were hire out cleaning companies to come and clean

the bathroom. Meanwhile, you know, I thought it's strange, you know, that the pastor, you know, mainly his main job is to write a sermon.

And as a person who writes two to three sermons a week, it doesn't take all week to write a sermon.

And so, you know, I just thought it was strange that we had these people cleaning our bathrooms who don't go to our church

but we pay them to do that and that's an expense someone's tithe money is going towards that

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