Who is the greatest?
My answer is gonna surprise you.
Hi, welcome to "Little Lessons."
The big question today is who is the greatest?
Now, before we get into the answer there's a story told about a pastor who, every Sunday
before the adult sermon, brought the children forward and would give a little children's
sermon before they'd be released to go to Sunday School.
So, one Sunday, at the beginning of his children's sermon with all of those kids gathering around
him, he said, "Okay, children, I have a question for you.
What is small and furry and has a long tail and climbs up and down trees?"
One little boy raised his hand, and the pastor said, "Okay, [Johnny 00:00:54], what's the
answer?"
And he said, "Well, I know the answer is Jesus but it sure sounds like a squirrel to me."
He was so used to the answer always being Jesus, it had to be Jesus even when it didn't
make a bit of sense.
So, my question today, who's the greatest?
I know everyone's thinking, well, that's any easy question.
Jesus said, "The greatest among you shall be the servant of all."
Okay, you're right, but that's really not what I was gonna say today, 'cause there's
another person whom Jesus said is the greatest and this particular verse we're gonna look
at is not hardly ever mentioned.
It's surprising.
The one that I just quoted, whoever is the servant, he'll be the greatest, everybody
knows that one.
There's been lots of sermons about that.
The one I'm gonna share is hardly ever shared but it's right out of the Gospel of Matthew
and it's right out of the Sermon on the Mount, and it's Matthew chapter five and verse number
19.
I happen to have it right here.
Jesus was speaking about the Commandments, and holiness and righteousness, and he says,
"Whoever then annuls one of the least of these Commandments and teaches others to do the
same, he shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven."
Now, it didn't say you wouldn't get in, but he's lowered his status in the Kingdom of
Heaven because he annulled some minor commandments and also taught others.
Now we keep reading.
"But, whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven."
So, of course the important thing is to get into heaven.
I mean, if you get in just barely and you're amongst the least, praise the Lord, better
than being cast into hell, right?
Right.
But, why settle for being the least when there's no reason you have to be among that group
of people and you can get to be among the greatest, or at least closer to it?
And Jesus told you how to accomplish that by keeping and teaching the commandments.
Of course, we know we're not under the old covenant law of Moses, we're under the law
of Christ.
I've talked about that on previous "Little Lessons," although the law of Christ certainly
includes all the moral aspects of the law of Moses.
But, were under the law of Christ, so whoever keeps and teaches the commandments of Jesus,
that's gonna be the greatest person have ... and notice Jesus didn't say, "Whoever teaches
the most people, has the biggest crowds, biggest church, widest audience."
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
God is not looking at numbers like we're looking at numbers.
He's looking at faithfulness, and the heart's motivation.
So, it's gonna be so surprising.
So many great people in heaven that you and I never heard of, Sunday School teachers,
people that have jail ministries, people that go into personal care homes and have little
bible studies and all those people who are just faithfully teaching small numbers of
people and they're teaching them the important things.
Here's the Commandments of Christ.
This is what Jesus said we should do, and that's what we all should be striving to do
and I'm teaching you by my example and by my words.
And again, it's not just teaching, the lecture kind of teaching.
The most important kind of teaching, of course, is our example.
We teach other people.
They look at us and then they can imitate us.
Just as Paul said, "Imitate me like I'm imitating Christ."
So, here's the question.
Are you doing it?
I can, first of all, speak to pastors.
I wonder so much sometimes if pastors are aware of this particular verse, because it
doesn't seem like the thrust of their teaching revolves around trying to help people understand
and obey Christ's commandments.
There's so many things that Jesus said that nobody talks about.
All those things Jesus said about stewardship, they're rarely mentioned by preachers in North
America, anyways, and I guess by preachers all over the world.
Those are things Jesus said to do, and that's extremely important.
So, if you're just teaching people how to live an abundant life and how to get more
stuff and how to be happier and how to overcome their psychological woes, I'm happy for all
that but that's not what Jesus said is gonna make you great in the kingdom.
Jesus also didn't say whoever is successful at it, no.
He's not judging on how well people listened to you as you taught.
If you do teach Christ's commandments I can guarantee you're probably not gonna get a
big crowd, or big following.
Just face up to it because people don't wanna follow or obey Jesus' commandments.
So, whether they listen to you or not, if you're keeping his commandments and teaching
them, and of course, doing it in a loving way, 'cause that's one of his commandments,
is to love people, love your neighbor as yourself.
Now, if you're one of those holiness preachers who's always screamin' at people and yellin'
at them and, oh my goodness, condemning everybody and sending them to hell with you, come on,
come on, come on.
You need to get up there and weep for people, and you need to confess your own faults.
God likes this point, because look, He did me the sun start shining more through my window
over here.
I'll look for any affirmation I can.
All right, thank you so much for joining me.
One more affirmation I'm looking for is, if you like something that I say on these videos,
click the little thumbs up guy there.
That helps the search algorithms help other people find us.
If you write a comment, that also is within the search algorithms, so you just say something
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And I read all those things.
I really like the encouraging ones.
Thank you so much, again.
God bless you.
Bye-bye.
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