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1 ,,-7--=--=.--%,.--, ,--' p'-.6-9:, -- Wfl...:5='s-Y:.'.... ' :Cl...4 : 7 #k:.. 5 f 9.P-- : C P.: K'' 2... SUNDAY, MAY CHARES FLLYORE TRUE GREATNESS --.' , Matt. 20:7-28. C t.... f.' "- '..V '-* CHARLES FLLMORE--SUNDAY, MAY ' TRUE GREATNESS Matt. 20 : 7:28. ). t wll call you attenton agan to the man ponts 00 T E of the lesson. Jesus told Hs dscples that He must go Z LU 0 LL 0 0H -< up to Jeusalem and be pespcuted, msteated n vaous 02 O t= & - &. kays»'by-the scbes and Phasees, and fnally cuclfled *Z by the Gentles. t was at ths tme that the mothe of, 2 S.

2 2 Fathe alone could glve.-.2,. James and John asked that he sons be allowed to st, the.:, one on the ght and the othe on the left of Jesus, n Hs kngdom. And Jesus -asked them f they could dnk of K the same cup that He had dunk, and they sad, "We can." And He told them also that t was not Ms pvlege, t was not wthn Hs powe, to allow them to st on Hs ght and on Hs left. Ths pvlege Was somethng that the 7='0-.al/"--////... _. C: 3 t These ae the han ponts n the lesson; and He also bought out that those ae:geatest n the kngdom who seve most; and that, eally, s the cental dea n the lesson ths monng. What s tue.geatness? gea tness of the Chst type, compaed wth geatness ln the mlnds of men n the natual wold? Ths geatness needs ou dscnaton, and we need to get a bette undestandng - fy of what tue geatness s. t has to do wth,the unfoldment

3 - f« , 93-= f of a hghe pland of conscousness, o a sptual qualty, n man. To man n the natual conscousness, ths geatness - s, as Jesus sad, lke the geat n the Gentle wald, to lod t ove hs fellows, to_make them s evants to hs wll; that hs dese shall come fst. That, say, s the conscousness, o the concept, of geatness held by the natual man; and,untl he acheves a hghe conscousness, o ' '.., untl he undestands bette hs elaton to God and to hs fellow man, he can neve se above that conscousness of ' geatness and ts pesonal ambton. - The saced books of the Hndus and nealy all the metaphyscal people, tell us that we must-kll out ambton. ' Jesus dd not teach that. He taught that ths ambtoh must =' = _._be_execsed n_a_unvesal and-asdyng lay.; -that we mls. be ambtous to - seve ou fellow men nstead-of beng seved. # '. : / 4,

4 0-:.-:- 6., ' t s a evesal of the whole dea 'of what man can attan A. ' though execsng hs powe. We all want to cultvate ambton. You know how lstless and unambtou a boy o. - a gl s unless they seek and stve to accomplsh somethng; and that 9 ambton. That s the unvesal uge n us to know, to undestand, to acheve, and f you haven't that, you wll neve get anywhee. You wll neve develop. 80 that.s an nnate qualty th the nfnte Mnd has - -../ -- l.- 7 bestowed upon all of us, that we shall be ambtous. But n what decton shall ou ambton flow? That - L A s the bg subject; and ths s whee we get the lesson thls monng that we must execse ambton. We must 5 have an aspaton to do somethng, to accanplsh somet. thlng; but we must put t n just the ght thought t [ - -8uent,- n - jut the ght.dea, and then sudcess wll 4 come to us that s eal success.

5 , 8 j 46 :..-- eal success; and yet, as we look at the lfe of Jesus Chst fom a tempoal - Now, we all want ths ' vewpont, we cannot help thnkng that t was moe o 9.,.-..:.less of a falue. He told Hs dscples that He had to a go up to Jeusalem and be pesecuted. They put a cown of thons on Hs head, and they spt on Hm, and they mocked Hm and sad, "Hee s the kng of the Jews; now sn't he a fne specmen?" Jesus took t all. And we often thnk 9 t : that.we would not consde that makng vey much of a success of lfe, as we undestand success, and then to --be klled. To--s'um t-all up, t doesn't seem to be a geat achevement.. But we must get behnd the eal ssues that led up to what Jesus was attanng. He was sevng man. He was «sevng the whole human famly; and n ths sevce He -, F.. & had to kll out ambton. Not the pmal ambton. He,

6 .. 0 t.. had an ambton, and that ambton was to show the whole human famly that thee was a geat sevce necessay to save them fom the sns, fom the shotcomngs; -to - «- save them fom that pesonal ambton that, lke Caesa, wanted to make slaves of all the Romans. Butus, you wll emembe, sad that he slew Caesa because he was ambtous, and, as he. sad ove the copse of Caesa, "As Caesa loved me, weep fo hm; L._. As he was fotunate, ejoce at t; As he was valant, honoed hm; But as he was abtous, slew hm." Thee wee teas fo. hs love, joy fo hs fotune, hono fo hs valo, and death fo hs ambton. Hee, we can see, ls the culmnaton of that pesonal ambton. Butus sad C -. -that -he loved Caesa, - but he loved Rome moe because, --n - hs agument, he blamed that Caesa's ambton was to.2

7 f;.. F" 2 e 4. t. make slaves of all omans. He wanted them fee. Jesus sad the same thng, "The Gentles lod t ove.you," make slaves of you. So we fnd, n ou analyss of the mnd of man, that -k. n hs pesonal conscousness he deses to ule and he t,. A wants whateve powe he has to be execsed n the ule 6 W ove hs fellows. Hee s the geat stuggle between ' l 2 what we call the captans of ndusty and the wokes, t-»... 3 '' o captal and labo. We must come to the standad of Jesus Chst befoe we shall have hamony o peace n these elatons. Jesus sad that He must "go up to Jeusalem." Why Jeusalem? Jeusalem s the place of peace. t s called the "cty of peace." Jeu, and Salem means am -=- peace. --That _s.the ognal_meanng -df _the.wod Jeusalem.' And hee we fnd the place of peace s the objectve of k /

8 ths sptual man, ths man who looks behnd all appea- ances, looks nto the vey heat of thngs. That man says - that he mu3 t go up to that place of sptual peace, and - thee he wll meet wth a geat deal of pesonal opposton. To what? the attanment of hs eal, sptual dentty ' and the ovecomng of the pesonal man.. - Jesus was constantly talkng about ths attanment of.-. the sptual man; ths ascendency. Now, n conscousness, 5 we fnd that as we thnk about what we shall attan, what we shall acheve, t s nealy always of a pesonal tend. - How can make my money bng justce and ghteousness? wll go nto the couts. How shall make my effots bng me moe ecognton by the people? That s anothe» CT 0 LL 0 k 0$ LL 0 one : have to get a push o a pull, to wn somethng n 0e J < t--. poltcal-achevement. n'the LZ Chst conscousness, you., C) _. CO f dop all ths and thnk about a geat achevement. What 4 0 Z

9 eveythng, '.. EL. W s t? To get nto the mnd of sptual hamony, sptual e peace, whee the eal man s ecognzed, whee t s not A- the money that counts. -- We fnd people gvng to.educatona nsttutons,.. and we say, "snt that good? sn't that eal Ch stahty?" "Aen't they dong good wth the money?" But nne tmes out of ten, you wll fnd that thee s a stng attached - to that money. They gve to an nsttuon fo a memoal [ 7 t -. fo sgme fend, o that the name may be pepetuated n the nsttuton. s that eal Chstan chaty? s.- 'that gvng to the good? No, that s always a thought of pesonalty; but f you gve wthout lettng you ght hand know what you left hand s dong, f.you gve wtht. out lettng you name be made ponnent, you ae gvng -- n ths -Chst mnd that knows-eveythng/lthat.acheves._.'. b though ts gvng.

10 9 8,.. Somewhee n Emeson s ths statement: "See how the mass of men woy themselves nto nameless gaves; whle' : hee and thee a geat soul fogets hmself nto mmo *. talty.".the geat mass of men.woy themselves nto 4 nameless gaves. They seek ambton. They seek to leave thel names to postelty, whle hee and thee a geat, unselfsh soul "fogets hmself nto mmotalty." Fogets about attanng.any objectve, and then eveythng s added. t s sad that S saac Newton, as a dhld, ced fo the moon, a'nd that, as a man, he got not only the moon, but.the sun and the stas n.addton. He had that nnate dese fo geatness, and so he got moe than that. So, when you have ths wok of the Spt n you, that s gong to accomplsh somethng and do t 0 wthout any pesonal effot, but the effot of the Spt - /

11 ,«20-2,- to seve, to do good and then you-he gettng somewhee. k. «f..', One of the geat futs of what we cd ou young peoplevs movements, and especally the Boy Scouts and Gj the Campfe Gls, s that they.shall do some sevce evey day--some lttle sevce. s not that a wondeful ncentve to the development of ths Chst mnd? Ths 4 - mnd that seves? We begn wth the chlden, and they gow up wth the dea of sevng; sevng God, sevng 2 humanty. Sevng nstead of beng seved. So hee s the lesson ths monng fo evey one of us, that we shall seek to seve; that we shall seek fst to seve God, and thoz gh the n- + - spaton -of ths geat sevng Mnd we shall be ased up to a place whee we can seve humanty These followes.of-jesus _bought out *. pesonal ambton n the eque st of the mothe to have them C

12 k.:, - st at the ght and left of Jesus an Ha comng thone., n Luke, ths eqllest was made by the dscples themselves, / but hee t was made by the mothe; but t bngs out f pesonal ambton agan, even n sptual thngs. Jesus P answeed sayng that t was not wthn Hs powe to gve - the authoty, o the pvleges, that they asked, and whj. Why? We see thet n Spt Re *e wokng wth sptual L-- foces; man only gets what he eally eans. n Spt. 23,thee s no such thng as poltcal push o pull, no do you get any pvleges whateve, only what you ean;,but whateve you eally ean though you eanest effots, you get. And you need neve fea, when you get nto the development of you nne soul as dected by Jesus, that you won't get you ewad. You ewad s sue; you.t A- - ae layng up these teabutes h the h6avens, and-whateve you lay up thee you,get. Whateve eal sevce you /

13 -/2.:ll-=-7 24 / / - 4. do--znlselfsh sevce--thee s a sue ewad. Ths s ' 4 ''., a soluton to all people who ae sevng, and yet seem-,- f. ngly gettng stkes, gettng pesecutons n the P mateal. As Jesus ponted out, n you unselfsh dese Q3 4 - to seve, you ae fequently msundestood. Sometmes we l seve wthout that spt of humlty. We seve as these followes of Jesus seved. They wanted the ewad. They looked fowad to some ewad. But Jesus' teachng was gven expectng nothng n etun, and f you gve wth ths conscousness that you ae gvng to the Lo/'d, that you ae gvng to the sptual nsn, you etun wll be n dvne ode and t wll come back to you, as Jesus l'gve, Chst sad: and t shall be gven untc you; good measue, pessed down, heaped up, and unnng ove. " Ths dd not n:ean that -you should gve money alone, - ' but that you should gve of you vey best; gve love; # 2

14 F.. D 26 7 t:... & b.- gve a good w6d, a knd wod. Gve ght out cf the fullness of you heat, and t wll come back to you multpled. Jesus sad that t should come nto you '- bosom; be poued nto you bosom. That means that though love, though the execse of love, you st,- F.. love, not only n those people that you ae n touch wth, but the whole wold seems to espond to unselfsh love;.and f we gve as we teach hee, gve ou money F-. 27 wth love. Put a lttle leve nto what you gve and. p expect that love to etun to you, the satsfacton, the help, you wll get t. You needn t woy about the ewad, but you wll get a sue ewad. And when you ae pesecuted, when you have to gve up ths pesonal man--and we all have to go up to Jeusalem t and be - cuc lfed, -f we ae -gong to-f-ollow-jesus;-f we want to a ttaln thls kngdom of the heavens--you must.

15 ' expect to wpe out of you mnds, out of ou thought, out # 2 ou of wold, and out of ou bodes, eveythng that s of the flesh. Flesh and blood cannot nhet the kngdom f of God. That s absolutely tue. Ths kngdom of God s a 4 'S F. '9 L' sptual kngdom; and befoe we can ente-nto that 7 kngdom, we must elmnate pesonal selfshness; that s,.the canal mnd and that mnd s the mnd that des. Let - 3 P L t de. t had to.de n.jesus. People say, "Jesus ddn't :j P t have a canal mnd." He cetanly dd..he had a cahal - t mnd, not so exubeant as n most of us, but He had 3 canalty enough to hold Hm n physcal conscousness, - \. and Hs body was lmted to that physcal condton untl 4 t was cuc fed. Not the body, but that canal mnd was wped cut. And when t was eased, evey cell n Hs body - 0 bounded lke a balloon, out -of the estctcn of that canal mnd. / - -2

16 /4., So we flnd that as we take up ths wok of sptual- 4. zaton, we see the Tuth that we must glve up the old and l- ente nto.the new. Ve.must gve up ou physcal lmtatons, ou thoughts that bnd us to the thngs of the natual wold. L As we gve up those, 6 at once we wll come nto,anothe wold, anothe conscousness. That s a cucfxon, that L s an easement, a wpng out. t s the death of the old and t s lvng anew. Ths s what s meant by gong up F 3, to Jeusalem and beng cucfed. Don't be afad of ths cucfxon. Rejoce n t. Jesus was not afad. He saw what was comng. The ds-.. -cples sad, "No, you won't have to be cuclfed..you don't have to go though ths. You don''t have to go though anythng. Get whateve you can. You ae a. maste, -_ - you aefa kng. Aye, and evey nch-a kng -Execse you -- D '.,, kngly ghts. "No," Jesus sad, " wll go up." He sad f t

17 n whee angels fea to tead." And these dscples of»(- 32 to Hs dscples, "Can you dnk of ths cup that. dnk of?" They sad, "Oh, yes, we cal dnk of t." They had no concept of what they had to go though. So we fnd people sayng today, "Oh, can take ths lght -. on. t s somethng that have been taned fo all my.- lfe. have been a good Chstan, and of couse t :! wll just lft me ove nto the kngdom ght away."..- Out hee ae a whole lot of selfsh thoughts and ambtons # clusteng aound'that dea; that, lke the ch young tan, they have kept the Conmandments, but that young man had to sell all.that he had and "come and follow me." We fnd a whole lot of people n ths wold of Spt who flounde n. As some one sad,."fools blunde --Jesus Chft exbectedthat-ehey-could just take ght-up - 0 t E.,.. what He had attaned, and they.could dnk of that cup.

18 L'' 34 t- f you know what t s to kve up the old man of the K.- flesh, you know that t s SOethng moe than meely '' :. sttng on a thone--a tempoal thone--o dnkng of a. cup. t s the cup of lfe; t s the cup that eases fom ' = you conscousness all mateallty; and t s a temendous sacfce. Jesus Chst dd a wok fo the human famly that t wll teke us ages and ages to undestand;.and fo that eason we look to Hm and ecognze Hs J esence and *, 35, t: (.. " Hs powe n ou lves, n eveythng that we do. Ke have to dnk of ths cup evey day, fst n - fath, and then n undestandng of the geat wok that He has done fo 6 of us; and,.at the end of the age, we, shall come to ths place whee good must be put on the -. ght and the bad on the left. We ae comng to that evey k / _' day, n evey_step tha.t..we takel and. evey. achevement...t_ that we accomplsh, n the ght atttude of mnd, we ae # H

19 .. 36 gettng neae and neae to ths Jeusalem, o ths place whee we shall acheve peace; whee we shall.ovecome all ; the lls of mnd, body, and affas. Now, ths monng, let us ente nto ths place. And t s hee watng fo. us evey one, whee we shall 6 have peace of mnd, undestandng of Tuth, and health of body. Jesus Chst had a vey healthy body afte the F cucfxon. He ddn't have to cast out any of the evls, P.: k l 37 - any of the sns,.any 02 the.s ckness, because He had. eased fom Hs mnd all fea of sn, of sckness ; and that s what we must 4 b 2 - evey one do. So, let us, ths -7 monng, dop out of ou mnds all thought that we ae subject tc sn, sckness, o death, n Spt. Ths s n co 0 U- 0 O0t sptual conscousness. We nhet nothng fom the 0 Z 4 72 flesh; though-spt- conscousness. The flesh nhets- 2 fom the flesh. t. s the flesh mnd that takes on sn, : 0 *