Embracing Servanthood: Following Jesus' Example of Service

1. "Be a friend that shows love of God. Be a friend who comforts those through tough times. And lastly, we talked about being a friend who sees your relationships or your friendships as means to point people to the cross. And to point people to Jesus. So, I mean, that's why you have the person beside you. Yes, because they're beautiful and whatever. But also to encourage you. You be encouraging to them. And to befriend them. And to help them through life. More importantly. And especially if you're a Christian. But if they're not a Christian, to talk to them about the Lord." [00:48] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Jesus. God himself coming into the form of a man and emptied himself of that and taking on humanity and exemplified what it means to be a servant because he laid down his life for you and for you and for you and for us. Perfect example of servant. So. We're going to walk a little bit more through that and I was thinking through it and I asked you the question, who do you, what kind of occupation do you think of? But when you think about a servant, individual servant, do you have a name or a person that pops in your head?" [02:58] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "Don't you want to be a servant? Don't you want to be known to be a servant of the Most High God? I hope so, I do. I remember when I first talked to my dad about, who's also with Jesus, by the way, I'm jealous. I can't wait to go to heaven, by the way, I'm just saying. But anyway, he told me when I first came to him as a dad, I've been struggling with calling on my life to preach, and I don't want to. I'm not, I just can't do it. I stutter, I talk fast, I just, I don't know the Bible like I should. I can't do that, Dad. And we talked through that, and I'll never forget this." [05:54] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Serve because it's who we are as believers, as Christians, and Christ set that example for us. Now, here we go in Mark chapter 10. This should be a familiar passage to you. Especially the last verse, but let's read Mark 10, starting reading at verse 35 through 45, and I'm going to try to read this pretty quickly. So, and James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him. I'm sorry. Here's some papers wrestling. Y'all ready? Verse 35. I love hearing that noise. Verse 35. You ready? And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him. Who's him? Jesus. And said to him, teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you." [07:11] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "Jesus reversed that kind of thinking and teaches that true greatness. Listen, true greatness is shown not by how many serve you, but by how many you serve. Let me read that again. Jesus reversed this mentality and was trying to with the disciples. He was trying to teach us that true greatness is shown not by how many people serve you, but by how many people you serve. He goes on to add again right there. Don't be like those who consider who are considered great ones. Those those exercise authority over them." [15:40] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "And the world sees us serving, the world sees us giving, the world sees us helping, world sees us lending a hand. World sees us. World sees us giving and picking up and and loving and embracing and and being a friend to to people that aren't friendly or don't or that need a friend. They see the love. They see the kindness. They see the mercy of God in our lives because it's the kindness and the mercy of God that leads to repentance. It leads people to the fact that they need Jesus. And we if you're a Christian, you're called to be a servant. You're called to be loved. You're called to be compassion. You're called to be a slave and servant of all of finish up if you look at the bottom of your page there." [19:13] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "Be a servant without expecting earthly payment or power. Not don't don't serve because you get paid for it. If you have a job, OK, but even if you're getting paid at a job to serve, go the extra mile. But don't serve others and your friends and your family because you want to be paid back something or you or some type of power or to be a servant by putting others first before yourself. That's hard. It's not always easy, but it's what we're called to put other people's desires and needs and above your own, not to be self deprecating and woes me and I'm a loser, I'm scum on the bottom of my shoe. But but to show people the first is last and last is first, thirdly, be a servant by letting God supernaturally use your efforts of service." [20:03] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "Be a servant who shows or exemplifies how Jesus served, like how he did it, when he did it, you know, the place that he did it always the world lost people. They take note of it. They see the service and lastly, be a servant who humbly obeys, pleases and honors the Lord. What a better way to to live. 00 I mean, what? I mean, there isn't a better way. I mean, but I mean, to be like Jesus, to serve like Jesus, to give like Jesus, to humbly obey like Jesus and so that people can see that you're you're not out there to gain a buck or to to be on top of the of the food chain. You're out there to be like Christ and to serve others like Jesus." [20:45] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)