Main Point: Ever increasing joy requires ever decreasing self-importance.

OUTLINE:

1) HORIZONTAL COMPARISON

2) VERTICAL COMPARISON

3) ETERNAL COMPARISON

RESOURCES: Commentaries - Bruner, Carson, Hamilton, Wright. Books - Jesus & The Eyewitnesses, by R. Bauckham; Devoted to God, by S. Ferguson; How to Reach the West Again, by T. Keller; Dynamics of Spiritual Renewal, by R. Lovelace; Humility, by A. Murray