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TITLE: What do you want from Jesus?
TEXT: Mark 10:35-36
PROPOSITION: Jesus can grant our request if we ask for the right things.
QUESTION: What?
KEY WORD: Requests
SCRIPTURE READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:

1. James and John come to Jesus privately.
   
2. Grant our request - seeking a commitment before knowing the request.
   
3. Jesus did not make any promise.
   
4. “What do you desire that I do for you?”
   
5. Similar question of blind man (Mark 10:51)
   
6. HOW WOULD YOU ANSWER?
   

Notice the context

1. The request comes right after Jesus tells them he would die.
   
2. Some families are like this - Learn a friend is dying - “Can I have his _____?”
   
3. Families in hospital of dying parent argue over who gets the china, jewelry, etc.
   

James and John answer

1. Put one of us on your right hand, other on your left hand
   
2. Thinking was: Put us as top two men in charge.
   
3. Jesus answered in verse 40.
   
   1. Not mine to give
      
   2. Left or right is determined by the individual
      
   3. Goes to those for whom it is prepared
      

What would you say? Would your request be for:

1. Personal issues - health, happiness, love, patience, self-control
   
2. Family - better spouse, better children, better in-laws
   
3. Personal use - fame, wealth, power, patience, more kindness
   
4. Religious - prayer, worship, kind to others, love neighbor
   
5. Spiritual - faith, courage, knowledge, understanding, wisdom
   
6. Eternal - life with Jesus, be with God, heaven, salvation
   

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