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Introduction
Welcome back this Sunday.
If you were with us last Sunday we ended with a bombshell being dropped on the disciples.
I wonder how many of you enjoy watching shows that leave you with a suspenseful closing scene at the end of the year, only to leave you waiting for several months of anticipation.
A bombshell scene.
We experienced something like this but it was a 14 year wait for our boys, and Heather and I were unaware the boys have been waiting.
You see as children, we took them to the movies to watch the Incredibles.
A animated movie about a superhero family and the struggles they went through.
I believe we even had the DVD for them to watch and re-watch the movie.
When we were making plans to move out here, from Alberta and leaving the boys, now grown men, we decided to go as a family and watch in the movies the Incredibles 2. As it was being released in theaters as we were leaving.
“Great” exclaimed both boys, “we can now find out about the underminer!”
You see the movie left the cliff hanger about a character that appeared for a 3 second clip and then the credits rolled.
We had forgotten, but the boys didn’t.
We are looking through Luke’s description of the last days of Christ leading up to his Crucifixion.
It’s a small series as we look forward to the coming days of Celebrating the Easter story.
A story that is not only one day a year, but a celebration that we can live daily as we serve a risen saviour.
Last week’s bombshell was given by Christ that one of them would betray Him.
In the moment of an intimate meal of celebration, as the meal concludes, Christ drops a bombshell,
I left you with the cliff hanger of what will the disciples do with this news.
Well it’s not much of a cliff hanger if you continued reading the passage.
So let’s do that together.
Turn with me if you would to Luke 22:24-34
Let’s Pray
This passage this morning looks at two different discussions.
The first is a debate, the second, although what could be described as a debate is really quite a declaration.
You see, they had just finished an intimate meal with Christ and
“There they were inquiring which would be the traitor, and here which should be the prince.”
The Positional Debate
It all began with a positional debate.
Before we become too hard on the disciples and their apparent lack of awareness, let me tell you it is a common story among people.
In fact, it starts quite early in life.
On thursday morning, as some of the children were arriving for school as some come early, I asked their teachers if I could get their help with assembling the electronic drum kit.
It had been fully disassembled and need assembly.
I could have easily done it myself, but I thought it would be fun for the children.
As I began to instruct them in the process, more and more children arrived, and it quickly became a lesson in crowd and people management on a macro stage.
I had several students sorting the items in their respective parts and assembling the parts.
Here is what I witnessed.
One student, as I quickly stepped out of the room to collect two parts in my office, had begun to tell the other students, what they were to do.
(I was gone a minute)
upon my return, a few were complaining already that,
for the sake of not pointing out the children, let’s call him Peter, was telling them all what to do.
I had others wresting to help and be the ones to put the pieces together.
the funniest, let’s call him John, came up to me on the side.
He exclaimed to me, of course realizing that it was a drum set being put together, declared anytime we put things together, “I’m the tester to make sure it works!”
He wanted to play the drums.
in a 15 min gathering of kindergarten children, we discovered the same characteristics of the disciples.
The Question
A good debate always starts out with a question.
My Bible sums it up this way as a title for this passage,
Who is the greatest?
Luke places this discussion right after the discussion of treachery.
In fact, this was not just a one time discussion but had come up before and like our kindergarten class showed me,
this is a common problem
Who is the greatest?
turn with me to Matthew 20:20
A simple request from a mother’s heart.
A mother coming to the feet of Jesus.
Look at my boys..... Jesus… Look at what they have given up for you......
Matthew 20:21 (ESV)
21 ........ “Say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.”
She wanted the best for her boys.
James, John, my boys.
Are they going to be your favorite?
John, the writer of one of the Gospels even refers himself to “The one who Jesus Loves”
I often look at that statement and wonder if John was a little bias and self focused in his book.
Maybe you have asked yourself that question as well.
Did John really think he was the most loved disciple of the group?
As I was reading and working on this message I came across an article answering this statement.
John didn’t state he was the writer, but was modestly focusing in on the news that God loved even him
We can read throughout the gospels that John was one of Jesus’ closest disciples as he, along with Peter and James were taken to various places with Jesus without the others.
He was at the table reclining with Jesus- John 13:23 “23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus’ side,”
He was at the transfiguration to witness Jesus conversing with Key figures
He was asked to walk with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and support Jesus in his hour of need for prayer
These are all examples of what a close friend would do with one another.
3. Finally, John had a front row seat to the events of Jesus’ life and was in Awe of Jesus’ awesome love for the world.
as our good friend, Jim would say.
God’s unconditional Love
John was there as Jesus’ Crucifixion along with Mary and heard the words of Jesus,
Take care of my mother.
I’m not sure John thought to himself as the greatest when he wrote this Gospel as life had changed for him,
But at this point in the narrative,
There was a dispute among all the disciples for the who is the greatest.
The Response
The debate was rolling along with the disciples and Jesus decided to respond.
Quite simple.
Your looking greatness the wrong way
The World’s View
Jesus begins to answer this question with taking them to the world’s view of Greatness.
exercise Lordship, the greek word is
κυριεύω kurieuō
(key-rear- ow)
it’s a word used very little in the New Testament but is used in the way to bring attention to the person who is holding power.
A ruler who is like a slave owner and holds this power over someone else.
In fact, Jesus describes the concept of a benefactor.
This was not just a description but that of a title.
A title sought out after and to the Jewish mind (namely at this point the disciples),
the gentile would do this to seek personal recognition.
Do we do things to seek personal recognition?
It wasn’t so much having the title
as it was to take all of your energy
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