Sermons on Self-serving Ambition

A Mother’s Selfish Request Introduction: The last will be first and the first, last.  The way up is down.  The one who wants to lead must become a servant.  These are truths Jesus makes explicitly clear in the passages we have recently been studying; in fact, in a sense our last two sermons and the one today all have the same essential message.  I trust you recall the conclusion of the story of the Rich Young Ruler in chapter 19: “Many who are first will be…