The Longing for Greatness - January 18
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🗓️ 18 January 2019
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Summary
Today as we continue our series looking at 7 longings of the human heart, we’re going to take time to recognize and satisfy our longing for greatness. The longing for greatness within the heart of man has produced tremendous and terrible things. It’s produced peace and war, advancement and destruction. And as we look at this longing today, I pray that God reveals the purity and power of it as well as his plans to satisfy it moment by moment, day by day.
The titles and main concept for this week are all derived from The Seven Longings of the Human Heart by Mike Bickle and Deborah Hiebert.
Our Scripture for today comes from 1 Corinthians 2:9, and today's worship is Spirit Move by Bethel Music featuring Kalley Heiligenthal.
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| 0:00.0 | Today as we continue our series, looking at the seven longings of the human heart, |
| 0:09.2 | we're going to take time to recognize and satisfy our longing for greatness. |
| 0:15.0 | The longing for greatness within the heart of man |
| 0:18.0 | has produced tremendous and terrible things. |
| 0:21.0 | It's produced peace and war, advancement and destruction. |
| 0:25.1 | And as we look at this longing today, I pray that God reveals the purity and |
| 0:30.4 | power of it as well as His plans to satisfy it, moment by moment, day by day. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. Our verse of today comes from 1st Corinthians 2, verse 9. |
| 0:57.0 | Scripture says, |
| 0:59.0 | What no I is seen nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined but God has prepared for those who love |
| 1:07.5 | him. As children we dream of a life of adventure and impact. |
| 1:15.0 | We pretend to be astronauts adventuring into the unknown police officers serving and seeking justice or even a king rightly deserving respect |
| 1:27.0 | from all in our kingdom. No child ever dreams of doing something mundane or meaningless. |
| 1:35.0 | But as we grow older, we accept reality, |
| 1:39.0 | that few ever attain what society deems the most respected and honorable professions. |
| 1:46.0 | We settle into mediocrity and work to attain greatness in whatever ways we can. We give our lives to a business, a social circle, or even a church |
| 1:57.3 | position all in an attempt to fulfill our need to do something or be someone great. |
| 2:05.9 | The truth is that our longing for greatness will never be satisfied |
| 2:11.1 | until we surrender our concept of greatness to the truth of scripture. |
| 2:17.0 | Jesus tells us, whoever humbles himself is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. |
| 2:23.0 | And in Matthew 2026, Jesus says, |
| 2:26.0 | whoever would be great among you must be your servant. |
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