Lord's Day Sermon

August 15, 2020

Being Great in God’s Kingdom

Matthew 18:1-5 Michael Mang

Sermon Details

Title
Being Great in God’s Kingdom
Scripture
Matthew 18:1-5
Preacher
Michael Mang
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Who Is the Greatest?

18 At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” 2 And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them 3 and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

5 “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me,

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Cross references

Matthew 18:1 : ch. 17:24; For ver. 1-5, see Mark 9:33-37; Luke 9:46-48; [ch. 20:20-28] Matthew 18:3 : See Luke 22:32 Matthew 18:3 : ch. 19:14; Mark 10:15; Luke 18:17; [Ps. 131:2; 1 Cor. 14:20; 1 Pet. 2:2] Matthew 18:3 : [ch. 5:19, 20] Matthew 18:4 : ch. 20:27; 23:11, 12 Matthew 18:4 : [See ver. 3 above]; [ch. 5:19, 20] Matthew 18:5 : [ch. 10:40, 42]

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Outline

  1. The Disciples’ _______________________ (1)
  2. Jesus Uses a __________________ to Make His Point (2)
  3. Teaching on ______________________ in the Kingdom (3-5)
  4. Applications A. Our nature in Christ leads us to express _____________________ because in coming to Christ we recognize our utter _____________________________ to save ourselves. B. Humility gets short-_______________________ in _______________________ because we still have sin in our members and the ____________________ of putting ourselves first. C. The Church learns and practices humility as the spiritually more ___________________ saints

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