WHO IS THE GREATEST?

 *29/01/2023*


*ANOINTING HEALING AND COMMUNION SERVICE*


TOPIC:

*WHO IS THE GREATEST?*


Text:

Matthew 18:1-5

Philippians 2:6-11


The Christian community is centred on *Jesus*, who is confessed to be 'the Christ, the Son of the living God '.

Matthew 16:16

He is our teacher and, while his teaching fulfils the Old Testament.

Matthew 5:17

It centres primarily on his own life and words.

Status was exceedingly important in first-century Mediterranean culture.

Nothing much has changed over the past twenty centuries! In our world, men and women of status wield power and can get things done.

*Jesus Christ is the Greatest* having fulfilled the full requirement for leadership through humility.

Philippians 2:6-11

Jesus' answer to this question calls for a re-evaluation of the normal understanding of leadership.

*Like Jesus, Christians must become like little children*

Matthew 18:2-5

Christians must have such childlike characteristics as innocence, wonder, dependence, trust and the ability to forgive.

While these qualities are important, the most significant quality of the child is that he had no status, no importance, except as a responsibility for others to care for.

To become like a child is therefore to renounce any notions of self-importance and to embrace insignificance. This is true humility, the prime characteristic of all who follow Jesus.


*Five reasons that humility is essential*

1. For entrance into the kingdom

Matthew 18:2-3

2. For greatness in the kingdom

Matthew 18:4

3. To prevent offenses

Matthew 18:5-11

4. To carry on proper discipline in the church

Matthew 18:5-20

5. For forgiving one another

Matthew 18:21-35


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