Monday, June 06, 2005
Serve the Lord unselfishly
Well Praise the Lord and lets go right into the word tonight. I am going to look at a command the book called serving but I want to call the way we serve the Lord and we are to be humble. I work from this passage
“You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. 26 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. 27 And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave— 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”[1]
Jesus has just been asked to give the seats he has to James and John. They want to be in power. Jesus response is one that said that we must serve to be great in the kingdom of God. Jesus is the example when he went to the cross and served us first in dieing in the cross. Jesus set the example in the last supper when he took the towel and washed the feet of the 12. Jesus wants us to serve him and he wants us to be like him and serve in humble ways. The command tonight is a call also to unselfish service to the Lord. Jesus is the example we look to because he was so unselfish. Lets look at some more examples of this Unselfish service.
Mark 4 But they kept silent, for on the road they had disputed among themselves who would be the greatest. 35 And He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.” 36 Then He took a little child and set him in the midst of them. And when He had taken him in His arms, He said to them, 37 “Whoever receives one of these little children in My name receives me; and whoever receives Me, receives not Me but Him who sent Me.”[2]
Note that Jesus takes a child and shows that we need to have time for kids. If you got time for kids your time is unselfish I think. If we do not have time for kids do we have time for Jesus and are we being a unselfish servent of Jesus.
Romans 15 We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves.[3]
Here the command is for the strong. We if we are strong ought to bear with the weak and help the weak in faith grow. We are to help weaker brothers so they grow deep in the Lord and in that we grow.
I close with the next verse in Romans
Romans 15 3 For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.[4]
Need I say more on this
Shadman
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
[2]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
[3]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
[4]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
“You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. 26 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. 27 And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave— 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”[1]
Jesus has just been asked to give the seats he has to James and John. They want to be in power. Jesus response is one that said that we must serve to be great in the kingdom of God. Jesus is the example when he went to the cross and served us first in dieing in the cross. Jesus set the example in the last supper when he took the towel and washed the feet of the 12. Jesus wants us to serve him and he wants us to be like him and serve in humble ways. The command tonight is a call also to unselfish service to the Lord. Jesus is the example we look to because he was so unselfish. Lets look at some more examples of this Unselfish service.
Mark 4 But they kept silent, for on the road they had disputed among themselves who would be the greatest. 35 And He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.” 36 Then He took a little child and set him in the midst of them. And when He had taken him in His arms, He said to them, 37 “Whoever receives one of these little children in My name receives me; and whoever receives Me, receives not Me but Him who sent Me.”[2]
Note that Jesus takes a child and shows that we need to have time for kids. If you got time for kids your time is unselfish I think. If we do not have time for kids do we have time for Jesus and are we being a unselfish servent of Jesus.
Romans 15 We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves.[3]
Here the command is for the strong. We if we are strong ought to bear with the weak and help the weak in faith grow. We are to help weaker brothers so they grow deep in the Lord and in that we grow.
I close with the next verse in Romans
Romans 15 3 For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.[4]
Need I say more on this
Shadman
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
[2]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
[3]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
[4]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
