Selfish ambition ends with us rivaling His glory. 3) “We desire to share in the glory that we worship.” And we are going to see in lesson four that godly ambition does this by pursuing Christlikeness.īut this lesson isn’t about godly ambition, is it? It’s about selfish ambition! So what does selfish ambition look like? Well, just like godly ambition is radically God-centered, selfish ambition is radically what? It is radically self-centered! Godly ambition ends with us reflecting God’s glory. 2) “We seek to get as close to the glory as possible.” Godly ambition seeks to get as close to Jesus as possible through Scripture meditation, prayer, fellowship with God’s people, obedience to God’s Word, etc. 1) “We worship what we perceive to be glorious.” Godly ambition perceives God to be ultimately glorious and worships Him alone. He said that godly ambition is “radically God-centered.” What does it mean to make the human pursuit of glory “radically God-centered”? Let’s take a look at those three points about the pursuit of glory from the end of our last session and show how we can make each of them God-centered.
In a sermon on this passage, John Piper put it this way. In other words, what is the difference between good and bad ambition? So the question I’d like to ask you is this: what is the difference between the glory seeking of Romans 2:7 and the self-seeking of Romans 2:8. Good ambition is described in Romans 2:7 bad ambition is described in Romans 2:8.
However, we also learned that there is a good and a bad kind of ambition. We are “wired for glory.” Hamsters don’t seek glory, but people do. In our first session, we learned from Romans 2:6-8 that every human being is ambitious to some degree or another. Now, I’d like to begin this session with a question. So then we went to Romans 2 and learned some things about good and bad ambition. In fact, we said that you could also define ambition as, “ the strong desire to achieve success and obtain glory.” How many of you who were here last week said you are prone to little ambition? How many decided you are prone to selfish ambition?įinally, we talked about a very important word that is at the heart of the concept of ambition and that word is “glory.” We said that the word “glory” shows up 384 times in the NKJV! It is a very important word biblically, and it is at the heart of the topic of ambition. Next, we took a few minutes to talk about two types of people: those who are prone to selfish ambition and those who are prone to little ambition, and I asked each of you to identify with one group or the other.
My definition of ambition, which combined elements from a number of different definitions, was, “ the strong desire to achieve success, usually defined as power, wealth, or fame.” However, just to give you a synopsis, we looked at various definitions of “ambition” and then wrote our own. If you weren’t able to be here last week, it is going to be hard for me to totally catch you up to speed, so I’d encourage you to check out the notes on our website. I hope you enjoyed last week’s lesson and that you’re ready to be convicted about selfish ambition! But before we do anything more, let’s begin with a word of prayer.
#DEFINE AMBITION SERIES#
Good morning! Welcome to Sunday school! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week! We are on part 2 of what looks to be a four or five-part series on ambition. Ambition | Part 2: Symptoms of Selfish Ambition
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