{"id":45017,"date":"2022-10-01T01:37:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-god-measures-true-greatness-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:37:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:37:41","slug":"how-god-measures-true-greatness-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-god-measures-true-greatness-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"How God Measures True Greatness &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story is told of a noncommissioned officer who was directing the repairs of a military building during the American Revolution. He was barking orders to the soldiers under his command, trying to get them to raise a heavy wooden beam. <\/p>\n<p>As the men struggled in vain to lift the beam into place, a man who was passing by stopped to ask the one in charge why he wasn&#8217;t helping the men. With all the pomp of a general, the soldier responded, &#8220;Sir, I am a corporal!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are, are you?&#8221; replied the passerby, &#8220;I was not aware of that.&#8221; Then, taking off his hat and bowing, he said, &#8220;I ask your pardon, Corporal.&#8221; Then the stranger walked over and strained with the soldiers to lift the heavy beam.<\/p>\n<p>After the job was finished, he turned and said, &#8220;Corporal, when you have another such job, and have not enough men, send for your Commander-in-Chief, and I will come and help you a second time.&#8221; The corporal was suddenly awestruck. The person who was speaking to him was General George Washington!<\/p>\n<p>God measures true greatness <strong>by service<\/strong>. The Lord Jesus has set us an example, for though He was God and worthy of all honor, He &#8220;did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many&#8221; (Matthew 20:28).<\/p>\n<p>To be truly great in God&#8217;s sight, we must <strong>willingly serve others!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Article:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Looking At Where True Greatness Is Found<strong><br \/> <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story is told of a noncommissioned officer who was directing the repairs of a military building during the American Revolution. He was barking orders to the soldiers under his command, trying to get them to raise a heavy wooden beam. As the men struggled in vain to lift the beam into place, a man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-god-measures-true-greatness-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How God Measures True Greatness &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}