1. Part 27: “True Greatness”
Mark 9:33-50 ”

5. True Greatness Humility/Service Living for the fame of His Name
Doing Violence Against Our Sin

6. Mark 9:33-37 “Humility/Service”

7. “What were you arguing about on the road?”

10. 35 Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all.”

11. 36 He took a little child and had him stand among them
36 He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, 37 “Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”

12. Mark 9:38-41 Living for the Fame of His Name

13. Acts 19:13-16
13 Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.” 14 Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.

14. 15 One day the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?” 16 Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.

16. 41 I tell you the truth, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to Christ will certainly not lose his reward.

17. Mark 9:42-50 Doing Violence Against Our Sin

18. Mark 9:42
42 “And if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck.

19. …“‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’

21. True Greatness Humility/Service Living for the fame of His Name
Doing Violence Against Our Sin