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What does it mean to be a servant?
A person under tribute, a bonds person or slave, by right of purchase, pledge for indebtedness, or indenture (legal agreement, contract, or document).
As we look at the upcoming Experiencing God, one of the first things we must establish is - what is our relationship with God?
We are called, scripturally, to be servants of God.
By definition, we accept by legal agreement (salvation), to be indentured.
Furthermore, Christ paid for our salvation through His death.
What does a servant, then, do?
Work.
Does this mean works are a requirement for salvation?
NO.
But it does mean that works are considered a vital part of the Christians life as a result of salvation.
We desire to work for God as a result of the free gift of salvation.
Can we ever get to the point we have done enough?
Learned enough?
Been involved enough?
I mean, is there any reason we should NOT be serving our church, our community, our Lord?
This truly comes as a desire from the heart of the Christian.
So, what happens when we have Christians that don’t want to do the work of the Lord?
Part of it can be a result of inattentiveness.
Those desires come with a warning.
Christ also gives us the perfect example.
But even those closest to Him needed to be cautioned.
Place our heart and mind in the right place before we enter study - Experiencing God.
Inattentive
Don’t you love the Bible?
It has all sorts of awesome examples of things we should do, and we shouldn’t do.
It’s like road map.
A recipe book.
It’s a book for the relationship we have with God through our life.
The disciples…of all people…are more concerned about who the greatest is, instead of listening to Jesus tell them He would soon be leaving them.
They…Didn’t…Hear…His…Critical…Message...
Do we ever get to a place where we miss God’s critical message for us because WE AREN’T LISTENING.
Questions:
When was the last time you HEARD from God?
When was the last time you LISTENED for God?
When was the last time you were OBEDIENT to God?
Big one now - when was the last time you HUMBLED yourself before God?
Warning
I included this passage for one simple message.
There is a price for being great.
As Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem, He had been speaking of His death and resurrection to the disciples.
They knew this trip would be leading to the end events Jesus was speaking of.
Then, the mother of James and John, most likely the sister of Mary (Jesus’ aunt) asked Him to say publicly that her two sons would be seated to the left and right of Jesus.
Self-proclaiming greatness, with a false understanding of the implications.
Jesus gives a stern warning against wanting to claim fame.
We have to guard our intentions of the heart & head.
There is good, healthy ambition; and there is bad, unhealthy ambition.
Good ambition gives purpose, meaning, and significance to life; it builds drive, initiative, self-esteem, and much, much more.
All such qualities are healthy and needed by every human being.
We must all feel worthwhile, yet true inner health comes only from serving others, not from position and power.
This is what James and John were missing.
Bad ambition is false ambition.
It is deceptive in every conceivable way.
It may lead to exaltation and power, but it corrupts and destroys.
It eats away at a person’s body as well as a person’s spirit and consumes and misuses people.
Sin corrupts and destroys, so false ambition is sin.
There is nothing wrong with high positions of responsibility and authority.
Leadership and organization, government and law, teachers and learners, parent and child—all are essential.
However, all positions should exist not to lord it over people but to serve people.
We are to seek to serve people, not seek to rule people.
Our ambition should not be to lead but to serve.
This was James’ and John’s error.
It is often ours.
There is a tremendous difference between leading and serving.
There is something very commendable about James and John in this experience: their strong faith in Jesus and His kingdom.
They were wrong in their ambition, but they were right about Jesus Himself.
He was the true Messiah who had come to rule over the works and lives of men.
They were just wrong about His method.
He was going to do it spiritually not militarily.
James and John had left all for Christ (Mt.
19:27–29).
They had travelled about the country and suffered with Him for three years.
Now they thought their trials were about over.
Christ was going to change things and raise them up above the sufferings, and He was to reward their trust.
They were so wrong.
Like so many of us, they misunderstood what following Christ really meant.
Christ does not remove our trials; He carries us through them.
He does not take suffering away; He delivers us through suffering.
Our rest from labor and trials and our crown come in the next world, not this world.
ADDITIONAL WARNING
Perfect Example
The supreme act of ambition is seen in Jesus Christ.
He set His face like a flint to accomplish His purpose.
This is seen in three supreme acts.
1.
The supreme humiliation.
This is the act of coming to earth: “The Son of Man came.”
The incarnation is the Son of God becoming man.
To most men, mankind is the summit of creation on this earth.
But within the span and scope of the universe and before God, man is nothing—not to an honest and thinking man.
He is as a microbe on a speck of sand floating through what seems to be infinite space and lasting only about seventy years if he can.
In all reality, for God to become a member of so low a race of beings is unimaginable.
It is the most humiliating act possible.
2. The supreme mission.
There is the act of ministering: “[He] came not to be ministered unto, but to minister.”
He was treated as the lowest by the men to whom He came.
Impossible, yet true!
They gave Him no place to lay His head (Mt.
8:20; Lu. 9:58), and only three years after publicly announcing that He had come to save them, they killed Him.
Now note: Jesus is the King of kings and Lord of lords, yet He secured his kingdom by becoming a minister and a servant to all.
He did not “lord it” over men.
He ministered to and served men.
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