Humility vs Pride: Embracing God’s Heart for True Greatness

MATTHEW 20:26-28

Matthew 20:26: But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
Matthew 20:27: And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
Matthew 20:28: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
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LUKE 22:26-27

Luke 22:26: But ye [shall] not [be] so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Luke 22:27: For whether [is] greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? [is] not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.
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JOHN 13:13-17

John 13:13: Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for [so] I am.
John 13:14: If I then, [your] Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
John 13:15: For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
John 13:16: Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
John 13:17: If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
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ROMANS 15:1-3

Romans 15:1: We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Romans 15:2: Let every one of us please [his] neighbour for [his] good to edification.
Romans 15:3: For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
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1 CORINTHIANS 13:4

Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, ...

2 CORINTHIANS 10:1-2

2 Corinthians 10:1: Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence [am] base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
2 Corinthians 10:2: But I beseech [you], that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
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EPHESIANS 3:8

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; ...

PHILIPPIANS 2:5-8

Philippians 2:5: Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Philippians 2:6: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Philippians 2:7: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Philippians 2:8: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
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