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Matthew 20:22-28
Excerpted from: Peace, Peace (Part One): Peace with God

Do you really understand what all of that entails, all the grief and the sorrow and the pain, the agony of what He was going through? Do you really, really understand what it takes to sit on the right and the left side of Jesus? How do you get to that position?

This is another one of those very clear statements about His purpose. It may be the most direct statement of His redemptive purpose in the Gospels. What He does here in this passage, and that is why I read all of that from verse 20 on, is He connects high position, or leadership we might say, with service and sacrifice, using His own example of giving His life for a ransom of many as the prime illustration of what that looks like. It is far more than kneeling down and washing your brothers' feet. Jesus served and sacrificed, showing His leadership by dying the most despicable, bloody, agonizing death that you can imagine.

Matthew 20:24-28
Excerpted from: Government (Part Five)

We have a contrast here between what is normal for the world—that is, abuse of rulership—and also what is normal for the Kingdom of God. What we see for the Kingdom of God is an entirely different attitude in the ruler. The one uses his power, to its fullest extent, to serve himself. The other uses his power first to serve God, and in serving God, he becomes the servant of the governed. That is not directly stated, but it is implied.

Articles
All About Edom (Part One)
From Sheriff to Shepherd: Are We Willing to Be Defrauded?
Living by Faith and Humility
Servant Leadership: Practical Meekness
Who Are the 'Guests at the Wedding'?

Bible Studies
The Parables of Matthew 13 (Part Five): The Parable of the Leaven

Essays
Anarchy in God's Church? (Part Two)
What Makes a Civilization Great?

Sermons
Marriage and the Bride of Christ (Part 3)
God and Self-Government
Wonderful Women
Who Then Is In The Kingdom Of Heaven?
Life Is Service (Part One)
Control and Self-Control
Matthew (Part Twenty-Six)
Continuing on to Completion
Eternal Servant Leadership
Living By Faith: Humility
The Father's Promise of Power!
Marriage and the Bride of Christ (Part 1)
Do Unto Others and Reap What We Sow
Portrait of a King
Dating (Part 1): The Purposes of Dating
The Role of Women
Self-Government: Overcoming
WHAT?! Me Submit to Someone Else?
Character and Leadership

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