Part 6 | There’s Greatness in You

From John 3

📖 Matthew 11:11 ESV  Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

📖 John 3:22 ESV After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing. 

📖 John 3:23 ESV John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized 24 (for John had not yet been put in prison).

📖 John 3:25-26 ESV Now a discussion (argument) arose between some of John’s disciples and a Jew over purification. 26 And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.” 

3 Convictions to be Great in God:

1: I can only what wants me to .

📖 John 3:27 ESV John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.

When I start to my life – I’ll be tempted to my life. 

📖 2 Corinthians 10:12 NIV We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.

📖 2 Corinthians 10:13 NIV We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will confine our boasting to the field God has assigned to us, a field that reaches even to you.

📖 1 Corinthians 4:7 ESV What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

3 Convictions to be Great in God:

2: My comes from having absolute on the behind my .

📖 John 3:28 ESV You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’ 29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. 

is not what I’m to do.

is what I with a .

📖 Colossians 3:23-24 ESV Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

📖 1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

3 Convictions to be Great in God:

3: Making Jesus is the thing I can do for the .

📖 John 3:30 ESV He must increase, but I must decrease.” 

1st: Jesus is .

📖 John 3:31 ESV He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all. 

2nd: Jesus the . 

📖 John 3:32 ESV He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony. 33 Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true. 

3rd: Jesus the .

📖 John 3:34 ESV For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure. 

4th: Jesus is in of .

📖 John 3:35-36 ESV The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand. 36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.