Great things. If you're ready for the words, say yes. All right. I'm going to be teaching today from Matthew 20 versus 20 through 28. But for the sake of time, I'm just going to start reading at verse 25. So I'm going to be teaching from 20 to 28. But I'm just going to read verses 20 through 25 to begin our time together. It says, Jesus called them together and said, you know that the rulers

of the Gentiles lowered it over them and their high officials exercise authority over them.

Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must first be your servant.

And whoever wants to be first must be your slave just as the son of man

did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many i want to talk from

this subject in our time together very simple our subject Our subject is one statement. I want to talk

about the greatness gap. The greatness gap. Clap your hands 10 o'clock if you're ready for God's

word. The greatness gap. Family, let me just leap right into this lesson by saying very pointedly and boldly that you are not made to be

mediocre you are not created to be common and you don't need an anointing to stay average

you've been grounded you've been gifted you've been graced for greatness and I am aware that

that statement creates a degree of consternation within certain Christian circles certain

Christian circles and streams of thought would say that that statement is sacrilegious

they would argue that greatness is

incompatible with the Christian virtue of humility. They would say greatness and godliness are on two

opposites ends of the ethical spectrum, to which I would push back and simply suggest that greatness is not only not

inconsistent with godliness greatness when properly understood from a biblical perspective

is an expression of godliness God is great. Yep.

This is what the psalmist said in Psalms 48, verse one.

He says, great is the Lord and most worthy of praise.

And so if God is great, then those of us who are made in his image and likeness,

those of us who are image bearers of God, watch this, should also demonstrate a degree of greatness. And greatness from God's perspective is not about going viral, it's about

being valuable. Because everything viral is not valuable. Come on. Yeah. Greatness from God's perspective is our

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