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So I want to invite you to open 
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Matthew chapter 20, Matthew 20. 
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Jerusalem and on the way he took
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We are going up to Jerusalem and
the Son of Man will be delivered

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over to the chief priests and 
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They will condemn him to death 
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Gentiles to be mocked and 
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On the third day he will be 
raised to life. 

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Then the mother of Zebedee's 
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kneeling down, asked a favor of 
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What is it you want? 
He asked. 

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She said. 
Grant that one of these two sons

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of mine may sit at your right 
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your Kingdom. 
You don't know what you're 

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asking, Jesus said to them, Can 
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I am going to drink? 
We can, they answered. 

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Jesus said to them, You will 
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sit at my right or left is not 
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These places belong to those for
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my Father. 
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they were indignant. 
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Jesus called them together and 
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of the Gentiles Lord it over 
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exercise authority over them. 
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Instead, whoever wants to become
great among you must be your 

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servant, and whoever wants to be
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as the Son of Man did not come 
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to give his life as a ransom for
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Her name is Mary Solomi. 
You might know her as Solomi or 

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the other Mary. 
She showed up with the group of 

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disciples and women that had 
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She was Mary's the mother of 
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So sometimes she's called the 
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Jesus's auntie, showing up with 
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This is a mother's request. 
How many of you know that your 

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mother prays for you? 
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like. 
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She's kneeling at the feet of 
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She's going low so that her sons
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She wants good things for her 
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How many of you had an internal 
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scripture? 
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I mean, how would you feel if 
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of the president of UBC on Maine
Mall and dragged you along and 

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knelt in front of the president 
and said, President Makan, 

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please give my daughter a job 
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Anybody volunteering for that? 
This is a little awkward. 

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She is kneeling in front of 
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She is going low so that her 
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It's a reasonable request, isn't
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Maybe in terms of family, she's 
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disciples. 
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Jesus says they're going to 
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But maybe they're all still 
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going to Jerusalem to go low, 
that Jesus is going to Jerusalem

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to suffer and be raised up, and 
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on a cross. 
But it is a reasonable request 

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if you think that Jesus is going
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which he rules. 
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help him? 
Not those other 10 disciples who

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seemed to not have it all 
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James and John, the sons of 
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Thunder. 
They've got it together. 

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They would be the best 
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Jesus, at his left and on his 
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Keep this in the family, Jesus. 
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request that she's looking 
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be the most helpful to Jesus. 
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helpful to Jesus. 
Maybe you're like, oh, Craig, 

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she came and asked for a favor. 
Why are you having such a good 

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opinion about her? 
It is in our nature these days 

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to assume the worst of those who
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We assume the worst of 
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We assume the worst of those who
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Please don't assume that. 
Even if people do, hey, let it 

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go like water off a duck's back 
and come to the small group 

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Leaders workshop today, we 
assume the worst of people who 

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rise up in the club in order to 
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We're like, who do they think 
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Well, at the best, the best 
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want to be helpful. 
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Or perhaps they're going low. 
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Ronald Rolheimer or Roll Roll 
Heiser has three stages of 

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discipleship. 
They're almost like 3 stages of 

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life. 
They're each three immense 

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struggles of our life. 
The first struggle he calls 

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essential discipleship. 
This is the struggle to get our 

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stuff together. 
This is the struggle to get it 

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together. 
It all goes well until puberty 

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hits, and then it's like, what 
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How do I get my life together? 
Some of you call this adulting. 

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You keep putting it off. 
You're like, I'll just take more

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classes, more classes, I'll just
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And then somehow in the mix it 
starts to happen that you have 

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to start getting your life 
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You have to start organizing. 
I can go to bed, I can wake up, 

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I can take on responsibilities. 
I can do things. 

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I can pay my bills, bills. 
I can. 

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I can do these things. 
Essential discipleship is just 

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what we've all been invited 
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But Jesus is inviting us into 
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and that's mature discipleship, 
the struggle to give our lives 

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away, to become a person who 
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but looks after others and gives
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There isn't just a morning where
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that person. 
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of discipleship, if you live a 
while, is that this generative 

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discipleship of becoming a 
person who gives your life away,

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where you learn more and you 
face the struggle of how will I 

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give my life away while I'm 
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How do I give it away? 
I have all these skills and 

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abilities in my life. 
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Wow, I have these children in my
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How do I give myself away to 
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Wow, my parents have gotten 
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How do I give myself away to 
help them in the latter years of

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their life? 
Wow, I have this responsibility 

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in this company. 
How do I give myself away 

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without losing myself in this 
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This is the struggle of mature 
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It is the struggle that Jesus 
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It was the struggle that even 
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How do we give our lives away? 
What is required in order to 

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give our lives away? 
Do I require a position or do I 

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require a posture? 
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give my life away? 
The third stage is this radical 

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discipleship, and it's the 
struggle to give our deaths 

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away. 
I barely understand what he 

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means, but you can go read about
it in his book called Sacred 

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Fire. 
Jesus models all three of these.

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In fact, we're inviting you this
summer into a reading challenge 

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that will invite you into a 
consideration of all three 

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stages of discipleship. 
The first book we're inviting 

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you into is called Theo of 
Golden Great Story by Ellen 

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Levi. 
It's a fictional book. 

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No slide. 
We're inviting you. 

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We'll have the slide next week. 
Debbie made a beautiful slide. 

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We're going to use it next week.
But Theo of Golden, we want to 

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invite you to read a fiction 
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How many of you have read a 
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Oh, a few of you are reading 
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I'm so excited. 
Wow, that's really exciting, 

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right? 
Wow. 

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We want to invite you to read 
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The second book is called The 
Return of the Prodigal Son by 

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Andre Nuen and this one you'll 
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connection on discipleship. 
We'll talk more about these 

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books. 
I learned this morning that if 

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you have Spotify premium Spotify
as a student, both of these 

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books are already available 
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I know like, wow, it's already 
there, but I tell you, I am old 

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school. 
If I'm not driving the van, I 

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really like to hold my book and 
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So I encourage you order a copy 
and read it because we want to 

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invite you into a lengthy 
conversation about this kind of 

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discipleship. 
Sometimes you just need to see 

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it in a story. 
Sometimes you need to process it

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in the stories and art of 
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And so we're going to invite you
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these three stages. 
Where do you see yourself? 

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Are you still struggling to get 
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Are you struggling to give your 
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Or have you been blissfully 
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struggle to give your life away?
You still wanted to be a taker 

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rather than a giver. 
This is the shift, because you 

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can miss this and you can be 75 
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taker and not a giver, it's 
possible to miss it. 

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Teresa of a villa, she said 
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When one reaches the highest 
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has only one question left. 
How can I be helpful? 

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How can I be helpful? 
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that this was a really difficult
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I don't know. 
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been challenged to sort of ask 
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you? 
I was hanging out in the Baptist

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Student Union. 
There was hardly anyone there. 

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No one was there. 
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It was a beautiful day. 
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walked an older man with a 
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This was before suitcases with 
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He had a straw hat on. 
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look like the average university
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So I asked him how can I help 
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And he said I need a ride. 
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Like, I drove him for 50 miles 
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had one tiny little hotel, and 
that's where he was booked to 

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stay. 
And on the way, I learned all 

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about his life as a record 
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And then I drove back to Athens 
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God, why did I ask that question
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I really wasn't looking forward 
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I met a really interesting 
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How can I be helpful? 
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this at all? 
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event, which they weren't very 
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They were just just a stone's 
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They were indignant with the two
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They couldn't bring themselves 
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I mean, that's Mary's sister, 
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But they could bring themselves 
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those two brothers, because why?
They've gotten ahead of them in 

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line, asking to be useful to 
Jesus, asking for a special 

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place with Jesus. 
And they were a bit competitive.

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Sometimes I wish the disciples 
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competitive, but they were 
competitive, and so they also 

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assumed something treacherous 
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brothers, their fellow 
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They were indignant. 
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and how Jesus addresses it, is 
that Jesus shows us that he sees

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into the hearts of those 10 men,
and he sees a problem about what

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they see about being useful to 
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Jesus wants to reframe their 
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So he says, you know that the 
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over them, and their officials 
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Not so with you. 
Instead, whoever wants to become

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great among you must be your 
servant, and whoever wants to be

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first among you must be your 
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This is how Jesus says we can be
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If you want to be helpful to 
Jesus, don't seek the position 

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that creates power to Lord it 
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Instead, seek the posture that 
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the slave of others. 
You will go low and be raised 

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up. 
If you go low, you will be 

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raised up as great. 
If you go low, you will be 

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raised up as first on occasion. 
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position. 
Sometimes that might even result

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in a job. 
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take a small job because we say 
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But God is using it to form you 
as a person so that he can raise

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you up. 
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there's some essential skills in
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There's essential qualities in 
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And they give you a chance. 
Jesus seems to indicate the same

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thing, that being useful to 
Jesus is not about lording it 

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over others. 
Being in charge, being control, 

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taking, taking, taking is 
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about. 
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It's such a simple phrase. 
Would you? 

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Would you turn and say it to 
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Not so with you. 
Some of you imagined that you 

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were going to get married and 
that finally there would be 

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somebody who would do what you 
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Not so with you, Jesus says. 
Not so with you. 

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Some of you imagined that you 
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finally there'd be somebody to 
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time. 
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that the invitation in marriage 
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move towards the other so that 
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the other. 
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that in occasions and over the 
course of our lives, then our 

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marriage is great because first 
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This plays out in so many areas 
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Some of you were so excited you 
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now there'd be people to do the 
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And you just discovered, no, 
they just create more chores. 

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Even the dishes have babies just
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They're, they're just 
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The struggle in our lives is to 
figure out how to give our lives

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away without resentment, without
bitterness, to give our lives 

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away without anger and rage, to 
give our lives away, even our 

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forgiveness away. 
This is the invitation of Jesus 

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in a way. 
Jesus is on a mission very much,

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he says, just as the Son of Man 
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to serve and to give his life as
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He's saying, this is how I want 
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I want you to live the way I 
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Is this Jesus on mission, or is 
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St. 
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you want to live into this 
second area of discipleship, you

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must let your life become 
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Jesus in action, and then you 
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motivations. 
Jesus's motivation is to serve. 

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Jesus's motivation is to give 
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just like the Spirit of God, and
to give his life specifically as

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a ransom for many because many 
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Many have been kidnapped from 
the life that they were intended

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to live. 
Their life has been derailed and

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they've been snatched up. 
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the price for their freedom. 
I will be there ransom. 

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And this is what we know. 
Jesus left his throne to take 

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this cup of suffering. 
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James and John, even even Mary, 
I believe, was present for this 

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question. 
Can you drink the cup? 

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I'll drink. 
Can you drink the cup of 

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judgement that I'm going to 
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Can you drink the cup of 
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And in their eagerness they 
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And Jesus says you will. 
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But not yet. 
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that Jesus withdrew on a night 
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He had taken some disciples, 
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and he withdrew about a stone's 
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How far can you throw a stone? 
Jesus knew that what he was 

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really facing, he had to face 
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And sometimes in this middle 
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alone. 
It feels lonely and really 

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sorting out how to give our 
lives away, how to live 

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purposely. 
It feels lonely sorting out what

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you're going to major in and 
then where is your career going?

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It feels lonely. 
You have to disengage. 

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About a stone's throw away, you 
can see your friends there. 

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They're sleeping and you're 
praying, you're pondering, 

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you're wondering, how is my life
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And Jesus knows that there is a 
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And he kneels before the Father,
and he says, Father, if you're 

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willing, take this cup from me. 
Yet not my will, but yours be 

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done. 
Jesus left a throne to drink 

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from the cup. 
He went low to do something for 

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you and for me. 
We had been taking ransom. 

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Those of us who know we're being
tempted, those of us who know 

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that we've already succumbed to 
temptation, those of us who know

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that we don't have our stuff 
together and our life is a mess,

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know we need a daily prayer of 
Jesus the Rescuer. 

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Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, 
have mercy on me, a Sinner. 

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This showed up in the 5th 
century in Egypt, scratched into

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the cell of a monk, one of the 
desert fathers, and then it was 

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popularized all across Europe 
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And if you've been following 
with Lectio 365, you've been 

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able to pray this during Lent. 
So I'm going to invite you to 

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stand with me. 
It's a three times prayer. 

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Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, 
have mercy on me, a Sinner. 

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Would you pray it with me? 
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, 

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have mercy on me, a Sinner. 
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, 

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have mercy on me, a Sinner. 
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, 

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have mercy on me, a Sinner. 
As we come to the table, we hear

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the words of Peter reminding us 
that Our Calling is to be holy 

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because God is holy. 
And it was not with silver or 

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gold that you were redeemed, 
that you were rescued, that you 

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were ransomed from an empty way 
of life that had been handed 

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down to you. 
But instead you were rescued, 

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redeemed, ransomed with the 
precious blood of Christ, a Lamb

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without blemish or defect. 
He was chosen before the 

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creation of the world, but was 
revealed in these last days for 

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your benefit. 
Through Him you believe in God 

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who raised Him. 
So now your faith and your hope 

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are in God with those helping 
with the Lord's Supper come 

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forward.