Sermon
The Race to the Bottom
Mercy Hill Church - Cincinnati
Speaker: Dylan Gilbert
June 11, 2023 · 37 min
Summary
John the Baptist loses his ministry to Jesus and responds with radical joy rather than envy, exemplifying the principle that believers must decrease so Christ increases. Through John 3:22–36, the sermon explores how genuine faith means surrendering reputation and glory to God, contrasting John's humility with Nicodemus's religious confusion, and culminates in the stark division between those who believe in Jesus and receive eternal life versus those who reject Him and face God's wrath.
Highlights
If Christ truly is who he says he is, then the life of true joy is lived in the decreasing of ourselves and the increasing of the glory of God.
John has not only accepted the loss of stock in this world, but he is excited about it because he is giving God the glory and is pointing people towards the one who is worthy of all the praise and honor and glory.
We fear losing what we have worked so hard to gain, but Jesus tells us what good does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul.