Do you want to be great? Before you answer that question, it's important to get the right definition

of greatness. Sadly, the world's definition of greatness is often polar opposite to the

Bible's definition of greatness. In this message from Mark 9 verses 30 through 37, David Platt

points us to Jesus' interaction with his disciples about what true greatness looks like.

With the cross before him, Jesus taught and demonstrated for us that true greatness

isn't self-serving, and it doesn't seek to gain the approval of others. Instead,

it finds its satisfaction in God and is therefore freed up to serve God and others.

This is the Radical with David Platt podcast. Here is David with a message titled,

You Were Made for Greatness.

If you have a Bible, copy of God's Word, and I hope you or somebody around you does that you can

look on. Let me invite you to open with me to Mark 9. As you're turning, I want to welcome

those of you in other locations across our city as well as those online who are not able to be with

us in person today. It's really good to be together around God's Word and God's worship. I should add,

it was really good to see so many of you in this room from all of our locations on Friday night

for late night prayer, and particularly for those of you who were able to be there until a little

after midnight, and you experienced what we did. There's something that happens that only comes

after seeking God together for four hours, that just can't be replicated in another way,

and I pray that the Spirit and the zeal and the freedom in seeking God and shouting and praying

and lifting our hands and being silent and bowing down on the ground that marks these Friday nights

will work its way more and more into our Sunday mornings. Let's worship God fearfully and freely,

and as a reminder, if someone prays or says something you agree with, you are free at any point to

say, amen, or that's right, or yes, Lord, or any number of other appropriate phrases,

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