Human and Godly Ambition

Beatitudes = happiness

“Blessed are you who are poor,    for yours is the kingdom of God.”

Luke 6:20

“But woe to you who are rich,    for you have already received your comfort.”

Luke 6:24

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” Mark 10:25

How do we try to explain this?

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” Mark 10:25

• I’m not really rich• Tithing is enough• The needle was a gate • A mistranslation of ‘rope’• It’s the love of money that is evil• All things are possible with God

How do we try to explain this?

The meaning is clear!

“I have kept the law since I was a boy”

The rich young man

Ambition to inherit eternal life

“go sell everything and give to the poor”

Human Ambition

The Past

The Present

The Future

What are your views on ‘Ambition’?

Have you achieved an ambition?

Have you given up on an ambition?

Is ambition a good thing?

Are you ambitious?

What do you think of ambitious people?

Is your ambition realistic?

Do you have an ambition?

What is your ambition?

To achieve ...To be the best ...To win a personal battle ...To gain ...

A religious zealot

The Apostle Paul

“a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;

as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.”

Phil 3: 5,6

An Ambitious man!

Human Ambition

The Past

The Present

The Future

The Past

The Present

The Future

Counted as lossBecome like Jesus

Knowing Jesus Christ my Lord

Human and Godly Ambition

Ambition to inherit eternal life

Forgetting what is behindStraining to what is aheadPress on towards the goal

Win the prize for which God is calling us heavenward

Phil 3: 13,14

Human and Godly Ambition

Human and Godly Ambition The prize is not yet won ... “if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.... Live up to what we have already obtained”

Phil 3: 15,16

Check your ambition against God’s