The Worst Seat at the Table

March 17, 2024
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Bless me
Lord, I Lift Your Name on High
Rest on Us
Great Are You Lord

TODAY’S SERMON
SERMON SERIES: Meals with Jesus
TITLE: The Worst Seat at the Table
TEXT: Luke 14:1-14

SPEAKER: Pastor Dan
Humanity has a natural bent towards pride. We want to receive honor and recognition. We want to feel superior. At the table with Jesus this week we learn that our hearts have to be retrained away from pride with intentional downward experiences. So Jesus encourages the overachievers around the table to seek out the worst seat instead of the best. Small acts of surrender done in everyday situations keep us moving in the direction of Jesus who “humbled himself by becoming obedient even to the point of death on a cross.”

SERMON NOTES

1. RETRAIN YOUR HEART TO MOVE DOWNWARD
   For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” Luke 14:11
   
   
   
2. LET LOVE BE YOUR MOTIVATION
   My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:12-13

3. IF YOU ARE ROCK BOTTOM, GOD SEES YOU!
   “The Spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind,
   to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Luke 4:18-19

What is God saying to you today?

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