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Not so with you
There's always a Pecking Order in the Kingdom of this Earth. You can tell it, in subtle ways. Who gives way when two people are talking at the same time? Whose jokes are laughed at, even when they're not funny? You see this going on in offices. Who is allowed to ramble and pontificate in conversation, and who isn't? Who has to say, ?I'm sorry, ? and who doesn't have to say ?I'm sorry?? Go to a high school cafeteria. You will find a table where the jocks and cheerleaders sit together, and no geeky guy would ever try to go sit there. Why not? There are no rules against it. It's the Law of the Pecking Order.

It is stronger by far than any law that any government will ever pass. Nobody will violate it, because everybody knows how a human being can be crushed by it. It just crushes the spirit. This is the way things are in the Kingdom of this Earth. And Jesus says,

  • ?You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.? ''vs. 25''

    Of course. That's the way things go. Then He says these four words that change everything: Not so with you.


    URL: http://data.mppc.org/sermon/video.php?sermon_ID=297

    By: John Ortberg
    Category: A Mother`s Request
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    A Mother's Request

    Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him. He said to her, "What do you want?"
    She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom."
    But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
    They said to him, "We are able."
    He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father."
    When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers.
    But Jesus summoned them, and said, "You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant, even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

    Matthew 20:20-28
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