Don't know what happened to the worship team
that were supposed to, like, s off for
you.
But
last Sunday,
Janelle and I later in the afternoon
got a text
from the die.
That it was a little video that Audrey
Die and Ash Die made
for this sermon series.
It's 53 seconds long.
Here is their creation to be a sermon
bumper.
I don't know what it's funnier watching the
video or watching Ash watch that just die
in of over here.
Very well done. I think Jane it could
put you guys to good work for creating
some of this stuff.
Bob Cool in town. Bob's in the back
of the room. Bob was founding
per part of our church. We used to
use his house for baptism. He had a
pool and,
Bob is now mostly living in Florida, but
Christie, I've been wanting to introduce you guys
because he's from Louisiana. You're from Louisiana. So
you guys should meet. You're from the great
state of Louisiana.
Right? See I said it right there. Let
me pray. Father thanks. For Jesus, thank you
for the holy spirit.
Thank you for 1 another.
I thank you for this church.
I thank you for the people that make
this church.
God, I pray this morning as we
look into the scriptures that you'd give us
ears to hear.
What you're trying to say, and Lord as
I pray weekly,
we don't need to hear from Scott. We
need to hear from you.
So Lord, I
humble myself before you and before my church
family,
I pray for the needs that are represented
in this room and online,
physically,
emotionally,
materially,
financially.
Thank you for being our provider.
Touch us this morning, holy spirit.
Jesus name. Amen.
Perspective,
Perspective is
someone's angle
on a situation,
a point of view. It's based on someone's
experience. Right? We all have a perspective
on different things.
So I was reading this story,
it's about perspective.
Following World War 2, a general in his
lieutenant,
boarded a British train.
They sat across from an attractive young lady
and her grandmother.
As the train departed, it entered a long
tunnel,
total darkness encompassed the train for approximately 30
seconds.
In the darkness
of those moments, the passengers heard 2 things,
a kiss.
In a slap.
Everyone on board had his or her own
perspective of what happened.
For example,
the young lady assumed to herself,
while I'm flattered the handsome lieutenant kiss me.
I'm embarrassed that my grandmother slapped it.
The grandmother supposed,
I'm disappointed with the lieutenant, but I'm proud
that my granddaughter had the courage to slap
him.
The general thought, what in the world?
Why did my lieutenant kiss that civilian young
lady and why did she slap me by
mistake?
The lieutenant was the only person on the
train
who really knew what happened.
In that brief period,
of darkness.
He had the opportunity to kiss an attractive
young lady as well as slap is general.
Perspective.
We're concluding our our series asked the rabbi,
where we've been looking at different questions over
the summer that were asked of Jesus?
And what was his response?
What what who was the person asking the
question?
And what's the context so that we can
learn
important questions
for us. Today,
we're gonna look at a time when Jesus
was asked by the disciples, who is the
greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
Who's the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
And it got me to think about,
you know, this acronym that we use
in modern culture called who's the goat?
The greatest of all time. It's acronym, greatest
of all time. Who is the greatest of
all time. So I have a couple here
for you. I want some crowd
participation. Alright? And who is
in this kinda either or when I show
you a series of 2 pictures, who's the
greatest of all time. Start with this 1?
Greatest quarterback of all time. Is it Tom
Brady?
How many has?
Yeah. Alright.
Or is
John L the greatest of all time.
We're all homer, but we got to watch
him play for so many years and do
what he did, so I by far, think
he's the greatest of all time.
Said it on live Tv.
Check on the Youtube tomorrow.
Alright.
Next, greatest of all time. Muhammad Ali. He
said he was the greatest boxer of all
time. How many think he is?
Some of you're too young to know who
Muhammad ali he is. Maybe you know who
this is.
Mike Tyson.
This is Mike Tyson.
Ali or Tyson.
Tyson. Okay. Alright. Next, we'll go into the
movies.
Lord of the rings
or
Star Wars.
Alright. Let's go to music, music. Greatest of
all time, the king Elvis. Right?
Or
the beatles. Yeah
Beatles actually at the height of their fame
said they were, more famous than God.
Yeah.
Alright. Let's switch it over to food.
Mexican food.
Or
pizza.
How many mexican can food?
How many pizza?
We're all hungry now.
How about this 1?
Subway
or
Jimmy Jones.
So which 1 subway?
I go subway or Jimmy Jones.
Or Jersey Mike's.
This is fun.
So what that either or who's the greatest?
What's the greatest?
Should
bring out about us like... But but what
about Joe Montana
instead of these yeah, what about
you're talking deep dish pizza thin crust,
Chicago stuff... I mean, there's all these possibilities
because of perspective.
It boils down to perspective.
Now,
there will always be debate on these kinds
of things.
But I'm here to tell you this morning,
there is no debate
about who is the greatest in the kingdom
of God.
And that's Jesus.
But what we're gonna see in the context
of the question that has asked of Jesus,
it's it's not about Jesus.
It's about people who follow Jesus? Who is
the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. What
does greatness look like?
In the kingdom of heaven. The perspective of
the king and his kingdom. So how does
the world first define greatness. The world defines
greatness says success.
Power,
money,
stuff. Good looks, all of that,
and those things have nothing to do with
greatness,
in the kingdom of God.
In Matthew 18 verses 1 through 4.
It was at this time that the disciples
came
to Jesus
with the question.
Who is really the greatest in the kingdom
of heaven?
Jesus called a little child to his side
and set him on his feet in the
middle of them all.
Believe me, he said,
unless you change your whole outlook or perspective
and become like little children you will never
enter the kingdom of heaven.
It is the person who can be as
humble as this little child
who is the greatest in the kingdom of
heaven.
Now, if you read through the gospel, you
you realize Jesus disciples were getting on the
job training.
For 3 years.
And they had some serious blu along the
way. Right?
Peter
You know, he's bold and and had a
big talk, but he ended up denying Jesus
on the job training to make Peter
the humble apostle that he ultimately became. James
and John,
come to Jesus, they have the audacity to
come to Jesus and say, hey, when you
enter into your kingdom,
Can 1 of us sit on your right
in your left hand? And can we be
the of a place of a very importance
in your kingdom?
So let's let's talk for a second and
answer the question. What is the kingdom of
heaven?
And what does it like?
What is the kingdom of heaven and what
is it like? The kingdom of heaven is
where Jesus is king.
It's where he is
recognized as king.
It's the place where
his will
is done, where his will is always done.
Jesus taught us to pray, our father in
Heaven, Hall would be thy name.
Your kingdom come, your will be done on
the earth as it is in heaven.
God's will is always done in the kingdom
of heaven. And we should be praying that
his will is done on the earth. It's
not always done on the earth. If we
wreck that. Right? It's not.
So the kingdom of heaven is both
now
and also future.
We are get... We get glimpse of the
kingdom as we
follow and submit to Jesus and want to
do his will, the kingdom of heaven is
within us, and we're demonstrating that to the
world around us. Physically,
literally, 1 day when Jesus returns and at
the resurrection
and when he renew
the heavens and the earth,
all things will be perfect, and his will
will be perfectly done. We're not there yet.
So let's look at some things that maybe
describe
the kingdom of heaven or first of all,
what is the kingdom of heaven like? The
king of the kingdom
of heaven is a humble king.
Our king is a humble
king.
Think about
the son of God, God the son, the
second member of the Trinity,
who is eternal, the eternal living word of
God
He came to this earth
in humility, he humbled himself,
and the the
God became 1 of us. He entered
into our life into this world,
into this broken world.
And he took on an additional nature to
forever be the god man. He will always
be perfectly a hundred percent God, perfectly a
hundred
percent human.
And he's perfect at both. But but when
we read about how Jesus came into the
world, he came very humbly
He didn't come into a family of power
or wealth. He came into a very blue
collar
parents,
blue collar
situation, born, you know, in a manger and
a stable and all of that. He he
could have come in pom in circumstances.
But the king of the kingdom of heaven
is a humble king.
The apostle Paul writes
to the Philippians church.
He says have this attitude
in yourselves,
which was also in Christ Jesus,
who as he already existed in the form
of God,
did not consider equality with God something to
be grasped,
but emptied himself by taking the form of
a bond servant.
And being born in the likeness of men
and being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient.
To the point of death, death on a
cross.
For this reason, also god highly exalted him.
And be bestowed on him, the name, which
is above every name.
So that at the name of Jesus,
every knee will bow,
of those who are in heaven and on
earth and under the earth, and that every
tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord
to the glory of God, the father.
Did you catch that?
Our humble king humbled himself
And in his humility,
the father
exalted him to the place place of highest
glory.
He humbled himself.
The king of the kingdom is a humble
king. I was thinking about this,
the king always sets the tone for the
kingdom,
just like,
You know, if you own a business,
you set the tone for your employees.
In a family, you set the tone
for your family.
Leaders set the tone for the people that
they are overseeing. If you're a manager of
any type in your work, you set the
tone
for what it's gonna be like.
Arch king
set the tone as humility. And he actually
did it,
showed us and set the tone in
the upper room on the night of his
betrayal in John 13,
Jesus takes the place of a servant.
And he washes the disciples feet.
He got, you know, put a towel around
them him and he wash their feet.
And if if we're not careful, we'll go
too fast beyond that
demonstration of humility.
Think think about the disciples feet.
First of all, their men's feet. That's pretty
gross to start with. Right? Men's feet are
not, something very attractive.
But
that sandals,
dirt,
no paved roads,
animal waste because of the animals being the
mode of
transportation.
So maybe we could equate that almost to
like, cleaning a really gross toilet or something
on behalf of somebody. It's a place of
complete servant hood of what Jesus did,
And he told them afterwards, he said for
I gave you an example that you also
should do as I did to you.
So our king is a humble king. Therefore
it's a humble
kingdom.
Secondly, the kingdom of heaven is an upside
down kingdom.
It's an upside down kingdom.
It's the opposite of the way of the
world. It's counter cultural.
It's counterintuitive
to the ways of the world. In Matthew,
5 through 7, it's the lengthy version of
the sermon on the mount.
And in the sermon on the mount, Jesus
says several times. He says you've heard it
said in the old
or in the law.
That it's I for an eye tooth for
a tooth.
But I say to you, love your enemies.
Bless those who per you. It's a complete
flipping
of our normal
reaction
intuitive
to take revenge to fight back.
And he says, no. Love those who per
you.
That the kingdom of Jesus doesn't come through
military force.
It doesn't come through
national borders or tanks or Any of that,
the kingdom of Jesus is within us in
the body of Christ, the body of believers.
Then thirdly,
the kingdom of heaven is for the humble.
It's for the humble.
Jesus as I read earlier, believe me, he
said,
unless you change your whole outlook or perspective
on greatness.
And become like little children you'll never enter
the kingdom of heaven.
It's a humble kingdom. It's upside down.
And it's for those who are willing to
humble themselves.
You humble yourself when you say Jesus, I
agree with you.
You are the supreme authority.
You are the creator and sustain of all
things. I'm not my own boss. I don't
get to call.
My own shots. I want to follow you.
That
submission to our humble king,
it helps gets us to enter into the
kingdom and say, Lord, you're the savior. You
died for me.
You rose for me. I wanna live
for you.
Let's switch gears. How does the kingdom of
heaven measure greatness?
Complete opposite of the way the world measures,
greatness.
Now it's okay to have championships
and do well and and all of that.
There's nothing wrong with any of those things.
We were we were born with competitiveness.
We were born
to to be achieve.
It's just we gotta make sure our hearts
are always in the right place when it
comes to that. And real and and stay
humble. A humble champion
is the best kind of champion. Right? When
you see someone who is humble when they
win something great or do something great or
they give credit to the Lord or they
give credit to mom or they give credit
to somebody else, that humility is attractive.
So how does the kingdom of heaven and
measure greatness?
First of all, it's
humility over pride.
Humility over pride.
I was thinking
about my dad, and
My dad was he played
baseball for the University of Georgia,
and then he played a couple years of
minor league Baseball and
the
Pittsburgh Pirates
organization and the old Washington senators.
And he said,
there was a game
that his team
got killed. Like,
like, the other day, the Rockies won
be the Red sox 20 to 7
for you football people. That's like, winning 75
to 10 or something. I mean, 20 runs
is a lot.
Of of of runs and a game. So
it was a game like that where my
dad was on the losing team.
And he said, he's in the locker room,
and he was showering
and he's kinda happy because he went 3...
Like, 3 for 4 with a home run
and 2 doubles.
He wasn't really worried about the fact that
they lost. He was, like, I had a
pretty good game in spite of this loss.
He said he was in the shower and
he was
he was singing
and w.
And the manager
overheard that. And the manager came in.
He was like Apple gate. It's all this
singing and w.
I'm taking you out of the lineup up
tomorrow. We got our butts handed to us
today, and you're over here Wi and singing
about yourself. And not the team, and he
sets some very more colorful things. My dad
said to him.
But
humility over pride. Right? Humility always gives us
the right perspective.
Pride is the idol tree of self.
It is putting too much stock into ourselves,
making too much out of ourselves.
Again, Jesus said, it is the man or
person who can be as humble as this
little child.
Who is the greatest in the kingdom of
heaven.
I had the privilege of being part of
the V this last week and be around
these kids and watching what was going on
and
made me think about little kids, like, children
up to a certain age. They are the
definition of the humility
that Jesus is talking about.
Children are dependent upon their parents,
whoever's watching them. To a certain age, they
can't do things for themselves. They are dependent.
We are dependent upon God. They trust
until their parents give them a reason, not
to trust, children trust, and they don't worry.
They're not worried about if the bills are
gonna get paid or am I gonna get
fed. They they just expect that.
That's what it means to be humble like
it. Child before God.
Jesus said, people who make themselves great will
be humbled.
And people who humble themselves will become great.
The kingdom of heaven measures greatness,
humility over pride, 1 of my favorite authors
John S.
He said at every stage of our Christian
development
and in every sphere of our disciples ship,
Pride is the greatest enemy
and humility is our greatest friend.
Pride,
that's our greatest enemy.
Humility
our great friend.
This 1 guy said, he said,
I'd really like to be humble
What will anybody notice?
It was supposed to be funny?
Will anybody notice?
That's that tug of war. I wanna be
humble,
but will somebody recognize my humility.
And when when that's where we're at, we've
kinda lost what it means. To be humble.
We've all been there. I... I'm there all
the time.
Humility is a right assessment of ourselves before
God,
and before each other.
Humility
is
a full dependence
upon our creator and our savior.
Pride is the dependence upon self
and thinking we can do things that only
God can do for us
like save ourself,
like and provide and all of that. So
humility
pride.
Second way,
The kingdom of heaven measures greatness is serving
over being served.
Serving over being served.
There's a I'm gonna read this here in
a second a Mark 10. The disciples were
arguing amongst themselves,
about who is gonna be... Who's the greatest
of the 12.
Imagine these guys, sometimes you just...
But we all would have been there doing
the exact same thing.
And he Jesus overheard that. It says Jesus
called them to him.
And he said, you know how it is
in the in the pagan nations or the
gentile.
He said, think
how their so called rulers act. They lord
it over their subjects.
The high and mighty ones boss the rest
around,
but that's not how it's going to be
with you.
Anyone who wants to be great among you,
you must be become must become your servant.
Anyone who wants to be first must be
everyone's slave.
Don't you see? The son of man didn't
come to be waited on. He came to
be the servant to give his life as
a ransom
for many.
Jesus led by example.
Jesus
never asks anything of you and I. That
he didn't do or wasn't willing to do
himself.
Jesus is the ultimate
servant leader
And in the kingdom of heaven, leadership is
about serving.
My job as a pastor
is to serve.
To be lead servant, if you will.
And and
anybody in a place of leadership as you
follow Jesus, it is to serve
not to be
served.
I love this
picture somebody made
about the difference between being a boss or
a leader.
The boss is, you know, there's another 1
where it's like on a chariot.
And he's telling his employees go, get me
to where I need to be.
The leader is out front with the business
or the church or the organization saying, let's
go
and is the first 1 taken the charge.
That's what a leader does. You serve.
Leaders serve. Serve over being served.
Another measure
of greatness in the kingdom of heaven is
self denial
over selfish.
Self denial over selfish.
Selfish is at the root of a haul
our problems,
it's at the root of sin.
Selfish ness ruins
relationships, it ruins marriages
ruins
churches at ruins families.
In Matthew 16,
Jesus said to his disciples, if anyone wishes...
To come after me,
he must deny himself and take up his
cross and follow me.
For whoever wishes to save his life will
lose it. But whoever loses his life for
my sake
will find it.
The context of that very
quoted
often quoted
scripture. Let me give you the context.
Jesus
takes his disciples
to a place called Caesar Philip.
In the old testament, it was called Bash,
and it was at the the foot of
mount Hu
in northern Israel.
And
the
Romans changed the name from Bash to Caesar
Phillip,
But Caesar F was a place of great
evil.
It's where they worship demons,
and they they did sacrifices
and child sacrifices.
And most
scholars believe that what happened, the d disparity
that happened in Genesis chapter 6.
With the sons of God, these spiritual beings
come down and and and pro create with
beautiful women and create this
off, you know, offs shoot,
you know, of of humanity, off race or
whatever,
this corrupt race,
that that's what brought in the flood and
why god flooded the earth, but
the that that happened on the top of
mount her own.
So at Caesar,
there was a place
called the gates of Hell.
Those of us who went to Israel in
2019,
and I'm not gonna say it. Those of
us that went to Israel in 2019,
we went to Caesar phillip pie. Oh And
you go there,
and there are 3 little areas
that
there... 1 of them is a pool of
water still active today.
And they called that pool of water, the
gates of hell
or the gates of hades. They believed at
that pool of water
led right to
the get... That 2 hades, the ab boat
of the dead.
And if you re remember,
Jesus takes them to this
evil area
and he says... Because he's got a object
lesson in mind for them.
And he says, who do the people say
that I am. Remember the disciples say, oh,
your elijah, you're Jeremiah,
1 of the prophets come back maybe even
John the Baptist.
Jesus turns the question on to them directly
and he says, who do you guys? Say
I am.
You remember Peter.
He gets the revelation. And he says, well,
you're the Christ. You're the messiah, you're the
son of the living God.
Not the son of all these dead gods
around us, but you're the son of the
living God.
And Jesus says you're right.
Simon.
He says,
flesh and blood did not reveal this to
you, but my father in heaven revealed this
to you.
And he said upon this revelation, I'm gonna
build my church and the gates of hell
will not stand against it.
Gates are a defensive thing.
And he says those the gates that guard
hell in Hades were going in.
We're going in with this truth that I'm
the son of God. I'm the messiah, the
son of the living God.
And changes his name to Peter, the rock
from Simon to Peter.
Well,
a couple paragraphs later. Jesus tells his disciples.
I'm gonna have to suffer and die at
the hands of sinful men, but I'm gonna
rise on the third day.
Peter says not on my watch. No way
is that happening.
And Jesus says, get behind me, Satan.
You do not have in mind the things
of God, but the things of men.
He went from,
Peter, you're the rock. To get behind me,
Satan pretty quick.
What this means about denying ourself.
Is self denial over selfish,
is Peter
had an agenda for Jesus.
That was not god's agenda.
He had this agenda
that through Jesus
that that Israel was gonna become a great
nation again, and they were gonna... He was
gonna overthrow Rome and free them from all
the tyranny of that. Jesus didn't come for
that. He came to defeat. We're the enemies
of sand death and the evil 1, and
he did it through his life death and
resurrection. He's coming back 1 day, in the
all the world is his anyway, but he's
gonna set up his kingdom in the new
heavens and the new Earth.
So for us,
to be great in the kingdom
is to not have our own agenda for
our lives
is to take our life as a blank
piece of paper.
Say Lord, I'm just gonna sign my name
on the bottom. You tell me what do
you wanna do with my life? How do
you want me to live my life?
It's making his agenda, the priority
of our life.
And then greatness in the kingdom is last
over first.
Last over first.
Jesus said, but many who are first will
be last
in the last
first.
The new testament for everyone
puts it this way, But many at the
front will find themselves at the back, and
the back ones at the front.
Think about the people we elevate
in society,
This person's great. This person's a rock star,
this person's successful, and we elevate and put
them first. We even do this in the
church.
The people who we think play such an
important role
in the kingdom of heaven
because they have a title
or they're out front or they're a missionary
or whatever. No.
It's it's us. It's you.
Greatness
in in in the kingdom of god is
faithfulness.
And sometimes it's it's faithfulness
when nobody sees
Nobody sees
your prayers. Nobody sees you inner inter seating.
Nobody sees you being faithful.
In the little things, faithful in the small
things.
That's greatness in the kingdom of god,
in I think we have this idea that
when we go to heaven
that just people who
were vocational
pastors or whatever, no way.
It's the people who are faithful
without titles,
without any of that.
Do you know that
Jesus and Paul,
talk a lot about rewards in the life
to come,
that we will be rewarded in the life
to come for our faithfulness and how we
lived our life. Jesus talks about this and
the parable of the talents. Right?
How did... What did we do with our
time, talent and treasure?
Did we invest in the kingdom of god?
Or did we invest in our own little
kingdom or the kingdoms of this world?
And then Paul, in first Corinthians talks about
at this this... It's an award ceremony
when when you think about it there... You
you go to a football banquet at the
end of the year or school or whatever.
You're celebrating
people's accomplishments. Right? Paul talks about this,
award ceremony where,
you know, he says things that are done
in the right motives for the right reasons.
He said those things will be
rewarded and that that we all be tried
by by this fire.
And that the things that I did
in the power of Christ and for the
glory of Christ, and when I was faithful
when I didn't feel like being faithful.
He said those things when tried by fire,
Are gonna be like rub and gold and
precious stones that the fire won't
ex.
But he said he's saying things that I
did for my sake and if for myself,
or my own glory, those are gonna be
like, wood, hay and stubble. And they just
don't melt away.
But he's gonna reward you for faithfulness,
when you don't feel like being faithful, and
when you forgive people who you don't feel
like forgiving. When you love the un unbelievable.
When you do the hard things in the
kingdom,
of heaven.
It's not perfection.
Lord knows it's not perfection.
It is
faithfulness.
It's when you fail,
you get back up, and you
continue being faithful.
Repentance and faithfulness,
repentance and faithfulness.
And then lastly, the kingdom of heaven measures
greatness by action
over apa.
Action over apa.
Brian did an amazing job,
last Sunday. In his message, answering the question
on who is my neighbor. I'm grateful for
Brian and his teaching.
It was excellent. And he talked about that
question of what must I do to inherit
eternal life and
the the
guy that was the person of the law
says what must I do to inherit eternal
life and he says,
Well, he... What are the commands read. And
he says, well, love god heart soul mind
and strength and love your neighbor as yourself.
Jesus says, good. Do that and you'll live.
The guy wanted to justify himself and he
said, well, who's my neighbor?
Wrong. Bad question.
Because then he gives him this parable about
the good samaritan.
That there was a fellow jew who was
beaten and robbed
and left for dead on the side of
the road.
And that a priest
walks by and didn't have time for him.
A levi walks by and didn't have time
for him.
And yet this Samaritan did. He took at
action.
On behalf of this man, samaritan were completely
hated
by the Jewish people.
And yet this guy who is hated by
the Jews
took care of this Jewish man.
It was action over apa, the Levi and
the priest had... Where were
He was the good neighbor.
Jesus talks about,
when we do things for the least of
these,
we've done it onto him,
the poor, the broken,
the prisoner,
the thirsty,
the naked
when you do it for him,
when you do it for them, you do
it for him,
action over apa.
Who are the least of these in our
midst? Who are the least of these in
our community?
Well, you're doing some of it when you
take a backpack,
and you fill it for a family who
does not have money for school supplies,
or when you just look out for 1
another. When we look out for 1 another,
that's action over apa. Maybe there's an area
in your life, you go, I don't wanna
be or. I wanna take action.
Pray about it. Pray about it. Because when
we take action,
we demonstrate the kingdom of heaven
to a broken world.
We demonstrated demonstrate it. So they can they
can see what the kingdom of heaven is
like.
We stand with me.
We just put your hands out in front
of you in a way of receiving
this morning.
May the holy spirit
fill you, fresh and new this morning.
May you know the love of God the
father, the eternal love
that he is set upon you and demonstrated
in his son.
May you
Push push push aside shame,
and walk
in your new identity in Jesus.
May you live
in this world
that
pushes a different set of priorities and greatness
in a way that is salt and light
to the people around you.
May God give you
courageous
faith.
May he open your eyes
to people in situations around you where you
need to take action.
And may you experience the joy
of obedience?
The experience of experiencing the love of God
and passing that on to others.
And Lord,
I think of the the verse where it
says that you oppose the proud, but you
give grace to the humble. We humble ourselves
before you.
We don't wanna be in opposition to you.
We humble ourselves and realize it's a hundred
percent grace.
But it's through that grace. You've called us
to participate in in your world and what
you're doing.
So thank you for a fresh perspective today,
Jesus on what it means to be great
in your kingdom. It's for your glory, and
in your name, we pray.
Amen.