<html><head></head><body><div><div><div><div><br></div>Mark 33-35<div><br></div><div><b>33. &nbsp;And they came to Caperna-um; and when he was in the house he asked&nbsp;them, “What were you discussing on the way?”</b></div><div><b>34. &nbsp;But they were silent; for on the way they had discussed with one another who was the greatest.</b></div><div><b>35. &nbsp;And he sat down and called the twelve; and said to them, “If any one would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”&nbsp;</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Greatness in the kingdom of God is displayed by voluntary&nbsp;sacrificial slavery. &nbsp;This is what the love of God is.</div><div><br></div><div>Jesus referred to Himself rather cryptically in this way when He told the disciples, <i>“Truly, I say to you, among those born of woman there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” &nbsp;</i>(Matthew 11;11) &nbsp; Jesus is speaking of himself as the One,&nbsp;<i>“who is least in the kingdom of heaven.”</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><span>The apostle Paul says it this way, <i>“Have this mind among yourselves <u>which is&nbsp;yours <b>in</b>&nbsp;Christ Jesus</u>, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born&nbsp;in the likeness of men. &nbsp;And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. &nbsp;Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” &nbsp;</i>(Philippians 2;5-11)</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Greatness belongs to&nbsp;humble Believers&nbsp;who are in the Mind of Christ. &nbsp;His mind <b><u>is</u>&nbsp;</b>for us to live in, it was made ours when we were baptized <b><u>into</u>&nbsp;</b>Christ. &nbsp;</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Prayer: &nbsp;Merciful Heavenly Father, we praise You that You have delivered us from the ‘spiritual insanity’ which we were born into. &nbsp;In Christ, we are <i>“clothed, </i>(robed in the righteousness of Christ) <i>and in his&nbsp;</i>(Jesus’ own)&nbsp;<i>right mind.” &nbsp;</i>(Mark 5;15) &nbsp;In Jesus we pray, Amen.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Love,</span></div><div><span>Dad/Baba/Eric</span></div><div><span>Grandpa Pickle Pastor</span></div><div><span>“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word. &nbsp;God’s Word is our habitation, and we are His.”</span></div><div><br><br><div><a href="https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&amp;c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&amp;af_sub1=Acquisition&amp;af_sub2=Global_YMktg&amp;af_sub3=&amp;af_sub4=100000604&amp;af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>


Mark 33-35
33.  And they came to Caperna-um; and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”34.  But they were silent; for on the way they had discussed with one another who was the greatest.35.  And he sat down and called the twelve; and said to them, “If any one would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.” 
Greatness in the kingdom of God is displayed by voluntary sacrificial slavery.  This is what the love of God is.
Jesus referred to Himself rather cryptically in this way when He told the disciples, “Truly, I say to you, among those born of woman there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”  (Matthew 11;11)   Jesus is speaking of himself as the One, “who is least in the kingdom of heaven.”
The apostle Paul says it this way, “Have this mind among yourselves which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.  And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.  Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”  (Philippians 2;5-11)
Greatness belongs to humble Believers who are in the Mind of Christ.  His mind is for us to live in, it was made ours when we were baptized into Christ.  
Prayer:  Merciful Heavenly Father, we praise You that You have delivered us from the ‘spiritual insanity’ which we were born into.  In Christ, we are “clothed, (robed in the righteousness of Christ) and in his (Jesus’ own) right mind.”  (Mark 5;15)  In Jesus we pray, Amen.
Love,Dad/Baba/EricGrandpa Pickle Pastor“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word.  God’s Word is our habitation, and we are His.”

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