The Servant King: Humility, Joy, and Community

Only one name. Every knee shall bow. Every tongue confess. And he's Lord. On heaven and on earth and even under the earth. All of hell will have to say, yep. He's Lord. We don't like it, but he's Lord. Every man, woman, child, even if you don't like it, here's a really good news. Jesus is lord. You can either surrender to it and celebrate it or you could be crushed by it, but you cannot avoid it. There's one lord. There's one king. His name is Jesus. [00:29:31] (23 seconds)  #JesusIsLord

The same God that came through for Jesus will come through for you. The same God that came through for Jesus will come through for you. The same good father that came through for Jesus will come through for you. And if you're looking for a place to reset your life, a foundation to build your life on, you can do no better than the promises of God. He came through for Jesus. He will come through for you. Build your life on the father's promise. Build your life and your death on the father's promises, and watch what the father will do. He'll come through for you. He'll come through for you. He'll come through for you. [00:27:27] (35 seconds)  #BuiltOnGodsPromises

Merely being ambitious, self assertive, domineering, it looks strong, but it's fragile and temporary. If you want a king and a kingdom that lasts forever, you get there not by wielding power and assertion and dominance. You get there through humility. In fact, what Jesus does is he totally upends the whole value system. Like, Jesus actually turned humility from a vice to a virtue. I wanna ask you, how many of you know someone, your family, a coworker, colleague, a a classmate, schoolmate, how many of you know someone who's genuinely humble? Like, you would say they're really humble, beautiful person. How many of know humble people? Aren't they amazing people? [00:12:29] (41 seconds)  #HumilityOverHubris

Jesus got it a whole different way. Jesus got it a whole different way. The path to glory, honor, dominion, power, not through power and assertion, but through humility and obedience to God the father. The servant king Jesus is exalted as lord, not Caesar. Caesar's been dethroned, disarmed. It didn't look like it, but that's how it turned out. Listen, my friends. Listen, my friends. Here's really good news. Today, if you're in a hard spot. Today, if you're in a hard spot, here's the really good news. The same god and father that Jesus trusted makes promises to you too. You can trust God is good because he raised Jesus from the dead. [00:26:52] (34 seconds)  #HonorThroughHumility

Don't you just love them? Humility is so great in other people. Amen? It's lot of work for me. It's one of those things that we most admire in other people, but don't wanna do for ourselves. But, man, we so admire humble people. You know who established that? Jesus did. The only reason why we like humble people is because Jesus showed us that humility was beautiful. He turned humility from a vice into a virtue. That's just one small way that Jesus has totally revolutionized the world, by establishing humility as a beautiful, beautiful thing. [00:13:10] (29 seconds)  #PowerBreedsPride

Call for the first apostles and for us today is to go build communities that look more like Jesus and less like the world. Go build communities that are built on the same humility, the same service, the same self giving. Go build these communities. Right? Now it seems really hard, really challenging, but here's the reality. Here's the truth. It turns out it turns out that building community is really, really hard. How many of you have been a part of a a work project, a group project, a school project, a neighborhood, a family where people just disintegrated? Just the whole thing fell apart. People are messy. Not you, of course. Other people are messy. [00:14:23] (33 seconds)  #JesusStyleLeadership

In fact, Matthew goes to great pains to quote the prophet Zachariah. He said, listen. Look look how this guy's coming in. This guy's coming in completely in a weird way. He's coming in gentle, riding on a donkey on a colt, the foal of a donkey. So think of the typical king entrance to a town with lots of pump, lots of circumstance, lots of horns and trumpets, a lot of flexing especially happened in ancient Rome with the Caesars. And in ancient Rome, this is very important. In ancient Rome, humility was a vice. It was weakness, not a virtue. [00:10:38] (27 seconds)  #HonorVsDominance

Again, not out of not out of guilt, not out of obligation, but on the other side of grace. Because listen, this is where the church is at its best. It looks like this. When the church is at its best, it looks just like this. It's like this crazy list of things. That's what the church at its best. It looks like nothing else in the world because it's built on nothing else in the world, the grace and mercy of our lord Jesus Christ. And when you know the grace and mercy of our lord Jesus Christ, it looks like this in your life on the other side of it. So is there somebody, someplace in your heart, relationships with each other where God's saying, I need you to step in and grow as a follower of Jesus. [00:23:16] (36 seconds)  #ServeWithGrace