Title Matthew 20:26-28
Content God, who is the ruler of history and life, insists on history completely differently from human thinking. We can see it when we look at the people God has spoken to through the Bible.
In order to rescue the Hebrew people from oppression and suffering in Egypt, God did not raise a king more powerful and powerful than Pharaoh, but rather chose Moses, the son of a Hebrew slave, and brought him into Pharaoh's palace.
Even in the New Testament, he leads history in a completely different way from the expectations of the people of Israel, who were waiting for the political Messiah, groaning under the Roman colonial rule. He was not an iron-fisted ruler who was more powerful and capable than Herod the Great or Caesar, but he was a fragile baby in human form. God is the ruler of history, and at the center of that history is the weak and insignificant people of God.
Today's text is about the time when He said that He would go up to Jerusalem, be crucified, and rise again on the third day. The ignorance of the immature disciples who went to Jerusalem as a political Messiah and expected to become king is a word that makes the heart of the Lord even more lonely.
Today, he says that if we believe and follow the Lord of creation and the Lord of history, we must live a paradoxical life that is contrary to worldly values.
First, if you want to become great, he asks you to live a life of humility and sacrifice as a servant first. The world right now is full of voices that seem to be the only ones you have. But the simple life of serving and sacrificing belongs to fools. This is what a believer looks like.
Second, he says that if you want to become the best, you must first become a servant and experience the joy of obedience to the master, surpassing even time, money, and effort in the lowest position. It means voluntarily and on your own, to enter the place of suffering and not to plead for injustice.
Third, He says that if you want to receive, give the most precious thing. When he gave his life as a ransom, he said, 'God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name' (Philippians 2:9).
If we are to bear the cross on the premise of the resurrection, if we are walking the path of failure for a while on the premise of success, if we have to go down the path of misunderstanding, antagonism, and envy for a while on the premise of eternal love, we must pray silently and follow that path to be a man of God. will be