ARE YOU AN AMBITIOUS PERSON?

Extraordinary Ambition

•Are you an ambitious person?
•What do you think of when you think of ambition?

The word ambition may sometimes cause mixed feeling among Christians because the idea of ambition raise and capture very different things.

Ambition isn’t something you have to be taught, in other words I don’t have to put ambition in my heart. It’s there though often quenched along the way.

Ask any normal child this question; what would you like to be like when you grow up.

•You will hear things like a professional, basketball, and soccer, cricket or rugby player.
•You will hear things like Doctor, lawyer, professor, pilot, physicist etc

Whatever they come to like… they want to be the greatest.

None say I want to start a business and just be average, no they see success mediocrity.

None wants to grow up and be dependant, obviously we are pulled and drawn towards greatness.

It is therefore obvious that we all have at least the traces of ambition at work in us.

What exactly is ambition?

•It is a desire that is, held dear, cared for, wanted or cherished.
•A strong drive for success

We can therefore say that Ambition is a person’s aim or objective, it is that which they are trying to achieve, it is one’s aspiration, desire, drive, and determination.

["His ambition is to own his own business"]

Today… God wants to challenge our sense of ambition.

Php 2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies 2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Vainglory- is translated SELFISH AMBITION in other bible versionS.


•3 Do nothing out of SELFISH AMBITION or VAIN CONCEIT, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

Many have considered these the most beautiful words of the New Testament, some the most challenging words of the New Testament.

Many of us may read these words and assume that they are call to get rid of ambition.

This is not a call to quench our ambition but to exchange it… a call from ordinary ambition to extraordinary ambition.

Often told ambition itself is a sin….Do nothing out of SELFISH ambition.

Ambition is used as positive except when selfish.

Paul said, ’Do nothing out of selfish ambition.’… not ‘do nothing.’.

God created you to be ambitious…Ambition itself is a good thing… a gift from God.

The issue isn’t ambition… but the type. You need ambition.

Every life is intended to

•Embrace its creative nature
•its power to influence
•to effect the world around them.

Actually Paul speaks of a new ambition…

3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Christ has come not to quench our ambition but to transform it… to change the very center of our drive and determination from self to servant.

The new ambition which Christ imparts is to become a servant of others for God.

There is no greatness to be achieved within the limitations of yourself. Greatness is only found in what you can do to add to the lives of others.

God bless,

Pastor George.