The Conditions For Greatness, 18:1-5
To be a citizen of the kingdom, you must become a child of the King.
The necessity of conversion…
Turn from yourself.
Trust in the Father.
A necessary clarification…
Jesus calls His disciples to humility of heart, not childishness of thought.The disciples’ struggle for position and power should not surprise us, for all men have the same needs, the needs for…
• some recognition
• some position
• some prestige
• some money
• some authority • some esteem
• some challenge
• some physical satisfaction
There is nothing wrong with these needs.
They are human and legitimate needs and they must be met.
But men allow their hearts to be overtaken with selfishness and begin to want more and more to the point of lusting and consuming and hoarding.
They become prideful, covetous, worldly, ambitious, envious, and hurtful even to the point of destroying and killing.
What Christ sets out to do is to change the lives of men and reeducate men in their concept of greatness.