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August 26, 2022 12:00 am
Welcome to the child and family for Friday, August 26. What kind of behavior characterizes a great leader. The Bible points to the role of the servant.
Today's podcast helps you embrace servant hood as the believer's highest honor.
Bill I think a lot of people that God has called in the service and open times. We have do that service means preach the gospel.
Being a missionary of playing a church orchestra so you know the church choir doing some specific work in the church, which also very very important areas of service would think about this if your mother raising godly children and you see that is the place that God is called you to serve at this particular time in your life will be forever because you children grow up, but it's the place that God is called to serve with your husband. At this point in your life you are serving God in that place, it may be in your business, you may be the president, the vice president you are you may work somewhere else along in that business, but you there because you believe that's why God's place to you trying to make an impact on the people around you. You are doing exactly what the apostle Paul said in Colossians when he said with it.
Do our work as unto the Lord, that we are serving God by doing our work with quality doing our work the best. We know how doing our work in the right spirit and the right attitude doing it, as unto the Lord himself and doing it in a fashion that's making an impact on the lives of those around us. That is, are added to the decisions that are being made, either about the decisions we make with the principal subscription month serving God in that place. He segued to be like salt and light light so he still is going to put us all the same place he's going to put his servants in different aspects of society in biz the business world where it might be displacing is there not to be like salt changing the flavor like light driving out the darkness so that all of us who believe this fall in the category of being servants of God. I want to say this, I will make this point clearly I am not talking about the fact that only preachers and missionaries are servants of God.
But I'm simply saying again that every single believer is a servant of the living God. When you carry out your service and not not even the issue.
That's what call God called you to do and I want to listen why I believe it should be considered a great honor. First of all, it's a prelude to what you and I going to be doing. We get to heaven. Somewhere along the way back in the past. Somebody put out these big huge family Bibles that all these pictures he is black and white pictures now of angels and and what a similar singular float ran this gone flying around and so forth. And if you asked some people living there. We get to heaven.
Why don't I guess we just gonna worship God today something happens going to be a very active place.
Some people so I'll just be sure when it's all of these days I get to heaven. I can just rest, well forget it because number one the skill of the arrest. There are souls, but that if you think that means that not doing nothing. Listen, God is not enacted.
Jesus isn't enacted and the saints of God on this earth not enacted in what you think happens going to be some inactive place you sit around doing nothing for all eternity. Jesus is not going to prepare a place for you going I'm going to get busy and repair place you so when I come again I'll call you to myself. Heaven is going be a very active place someone eternity will to revelation because somebody says what you mean to tell me that after our labor. Then he all these years that I go to heaven go to work. Amen, amen.
That's right. And for you folks who decide you don't retire, listen, you may retire against God's will, but on him. He gonna wake you up when you got this and this. This is what he says.
He says, for example, is beginning verse one of the 22nd chapter. Then he showed me a river. The water of life, clear as crystal.
He says, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of the street. Only the Saudis of the river that was the tree of life, bearing 12 cans of fruit, yielding its fruit every month and that leaves the tree were for the healing of the nations that will be no longer there in a curse and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his bond servants will serve him away, his bond servants will serve him. That is God is going to give you and me the privilege they hot honor of serving him in heaven for all eternity. That is not a single verse in the Scripture that gives anybody the legitimate excuse for not serving God. The idea of joining a church and sit down and filling up a peer or a seat and going home and forgetting and not serving out is totally unscriptural, totally unscriptural is not a single verse in the Bible whereby a person can defend that kind of attitude.
So let's think about this for moment, one of the other reasons. For example, that we should honor him and extra feel extremely honored by being one of his sermons is this and that is that to serve him, to serve the living God is the eyes and opportunity for us to exercise our spiritual gifts is somebody says well you know what that I'm glad you brought that up because I don't have any spiritual gift.
Well I'll tell you what if you don't the Bible is absolutely in aerosol turn to first Peter and then let's decide who is an area that we are of the Bible is I have a sneaking suspicion that there's nothing wrong with this Bible. Amen there was God doesn't make any mistakes and he certainly not make a mistake.
It was who ever you are.
Listen carefully who ever you are. I want you to look at every word in this verse because every word in this verse is important and it's easy.
Listen to skip over that. Now if you want something we all have the capacity to read something and miss it right. We all done that so word by word. Listen the first Peter chapter 4 verse 10 first Peter chapter 4 verse 10 the honor we have of serving our Lord listen what he says as each one having is that each one that everyone at each one has not will come to the point, I believe, is that each one has received a special gift employee and put it to work in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold indescribable grace of God to Moses. What he didn't give me a gift was a citizen when he says this passage. Each one has received a special gift. I watch this. Why would God give you a special gift.
The listings amen because he's given you something special to do so. Well, now you lost me on them. I am nearly a mother. I'm home with my children all day guarded.
That was what dishwasher all how my serving God. Listen carefully God places us in areas to serve him at different times and I like different seasons of our life. You give is one area of service here in the lab service that another observer so here don't belittle become discouraged, get depressed because you think this will never in you got to remember that you are serving God in the place that he's put you for this moment for this time and when you doing that, as unto the Lord in the spirit of the servant you know what God's going on to you. He's going to bless you. He's gonna bear fruit through you that you will never be able to imagine there's no such thing as an unimportant place in the kingdom of God, whether it's in your business aware of it may be you and I are servants of God and he has equipped us to be servants to do whatever he's called us to do now. If I don't see myself as a servant.
I'm going to become very self-centered because I'm going to be looking out for me.
I'm going to be looking out for my security and what people think of me that me and Mark their approval and support. No, a servant of God is not self-centered, a servant of God is God centered a servant of God is Christ centered a servant of God is depending upon the Holy Spirit assembly. God does not serve him for the approval or even for future rewards in heaven.
But listen simply because we have a love for God and desire that the quality of that service be as excellent as we can make it because Paul said we are to serve him. As unto the Lord, where in the world we ever get the idea that serving God is only limited preaching and teaching the gospel in churchgoing summer.
Listen you are servants of the living and you and I have been privileged to serve him. We been so perfect. We have been given spiritual gifts, special gifts by which the serve him and so missing because we are his servants because he's given us gift. It is our responsibility to discover what that gift is an ask him to show us how to utilize that gift to the maximum of our potential and you say well but you know what.II could've maybe that will work back down the years and years ago went when I was younger. Your age has nothing to do.
And people say wealth I'm 65 is time to quit does not time to quit. Show me that the Bob was in the Bible that you returned 65 7075 885 90 is not in their way to serve the living God, to listen in some fashion until we breathe, and last breath and tragedy of tragedies is that some people have lived their entire life and it's never dawned on them. I have a personal responsibility to my God, to my Savior to the Holy Spirit enables me to serve the living God daily. When it's in my home in my business in Moscow among operant time to serve the living God. You see the truth is we all his servants. That's who God has made us one thing to be called a saint in a Christian and a follow-up in the soldier in advance and all the rest servant of the most high God.
Every single one of us is a servant of God and serve spirit is made to serve him in humility with to serve him, to the best of our God given ability through the gifts that God has given. Certainly we should consider, and indeed a high wellness. Another reason for that is this to serve God is a means by which I can express my gratitude to God for saving me medicine carefully. We do not serve God in order to be saved and will say that three times because that's what people here.
We do not serve God in order to be forgiven.
We do not serve God in order to go to heaven. We do not serve God notably say we do not serve God in order to inherit eternal life.
We serve God because we are say because we do have the gift of eternal light.
Because we are his children because we are eternally secure because we are born again because we are saved is because we are that we serve him. God in his grace and mercy and love and patience and long-suffering is put up with a whole bunch of junk's stuff in all of our lives. What is he just kept on living us Blessing Us Kept on Using Us What Is and He's Not Looking for Perfect People Use Their Lime so Imperfect Joined the Ranks of the Imperfect. We Are All Imperfect. We Don't Come to Church Because We Are Worthy Will Come to Church Because We Good We Don't Come to Church Because We're Perfectly Don't Come to Hers Because with Saints We Come to Church to Worship Him Because We Are His Sons and Daughters and Servants of His and We Want to Honor Him, Serve Him, Love Him Praise and Worship and Adore Him Because of Who He Is, Not Because of Who We How Do You Express Your Gratitude to God for Saving You Express Regret You. He Can Let You Die and Go to Hell Every Single One of Us Could Be in Hell Right Now. Can You Tell Me One Good Reason God Saved You All Reason, I Can Tell You, God Save Me Pure Love. There Is Not a Single of the Reason. Not One.
He Had Saving about Anyone of Us Can Adapt Long Time Ago Anyone Was Could've Died in Sin. Anyone of Us Could Be in. Listen Living in Torment Today, but with the Grace of Almighty God. He's Kept Us Alive. He Saved Those He's Blessed Is He's Grace Because He's Made His His Servants. How in the World Can We Live Our Lives and Never Give It Back to Him. Servants Are God Centered. Listen. Cardinality Is Self-Centered If I Warned about Where, When, How Much Listen How Much Approval How Much Affection How Much Rejection at the Risk If That's What My Concern Is the Amount of Latitudes Messed up. I'm Going Serve God Because I Love Him Because of What He's Done for Me. I Can Never Repay Him. You Can Never Repay Him for What Is Done for You.
And so It Is a High Honor to Serve Him Because It Is a Way That I Can Express My Gratitude to That I Have the Gift of Eternal Life, but There's Little Reason That Simply This One That Is to Serve God Is a High Honor Because, Listen.
It's One of the Reasons He Saved Us. Look, If You Will, in Ephesians Chapter 2 an Unreturned of These Because A Lot Of People Who Are New Christians.
We Have Lots and Lots of New Christians and Lots of People Listen to Not Know What the Scriptures Are Look at This.
Ephesians Chapter 2 Verse Eight He Says, for by Grace God's Goodness and Love and Mercy toward Us. He Saved Us. He Says Listen by by Grace You Have Been Saved through Faith That Not of Yourselves Is the Gift of God Not As a Result of Works, so That You so He Says Listen This.
I Didn't Save You Because It Works so You Could Boast about It, but We Are Hitless and We Are His Workmanship, Created in Christ Jesus That Is Born Again through Christ for the Purpose of Good Works Service, Which God Prepared Beforehand. Listen, so That We Would Walk in Them and Only Say That Servant Hood Is Way of Life. When He Says Walk in the Next Serve As a Way of Life. He Has Saved Us in Order to Do What That You and I May Serve Him. Look, If You and Hebrews like If You're in the 19 Each of the Ninth Chapter of Hebrews and Notice If You Will, What He Says in This Passage Is Just Talk about Jesus Being Unlike the Other Sacrifices of Goats and Bulls, and so Forth All the Restless and What He Says Now He Says in Verse 12 the Middle of That Verse As He Entered the Holy Place Once for All, Having Obtained Eternal Redemption. For If the Blood of Goats and Bulls, and Ashes of Heavens of Sprinkling Those Who Been Defiled Sanctified for the Cleansing of the Play. She Thought of What Happened in the Old Testament, How Much More with the Blood of Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit Offered Himself without Blemish to God, Cleanse Your Conscience from Dead Works to Serve the Living God. One of the Reasons He Saved You and Me Is to Serve Him. What Am I Going to Say to Him Will Be Able to Say Anything Us and Asked the Question What Am I Gonna Say to Him in Eternity in the Judgment When I Live My Life Self-Centered.
What I Can Get What I Can Do What Can Please Me. What Can Indulge Me. What Can Satisfy Me Instead of Living for the Very Purpose for Which God Called Us to Serve Him. You See, Whatever He's Called You Do and What and Whatever Gifts He's Given You. It Is Our Response within the What to Give It Back to Him. How Do We Give It Back to Him in Serving One Another Is What He Said Employer Gift in Service to One Another. He Says Because It Is a Grace Gift That Is. We Didn't Deserve. It's a Great Skip One of the Reasons He Saved Us Is in Order That You and I Will Serve Him Well Let Me Give You One Last Reason That Simply This, to Serve God Is to Be Placed in the Highest Position That There Is in the Eyes of God.
It's There Is to Take the Place of the Highest Position. There Is Now Some Gardeners Go Back to Matthew Chapter 20 He Said in Verse 25 Jesus Called Himself He Said to Them, Rulers of the Gentiles, That Is the World's Leaders Lorded over Them Control Them. Exercise Authority over Them of the Gentiles Lord It over Them, and Their Great Men Exercise Authority over That Is, Those in Positions of Power and Prestige and Prominence and All the Rest These the Great Men Is What He Says It Is Not This Way among You Who Ever Wishes to Be Great among You Shall Be Your Doctor Not Your Servant Whoever Wishes to Be First among You Shall Be Your Slave, Your Due Loss. Just As the Son Of Man Did Not Come to Be Served but to Serve and to Give His Life a Ransom for Many.
Somebody Says A Lot like to Be a Great Person. I Can Tell You the Route Is Not the World.
Throughout to Be Great Does Not Mean We Can't Allow It to Be Number One to Be Great Means That You Are Not Kneel before the Lord Jesus Christ Say Lord, I Humble Myself before You As Your Servant. I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go. I'll Do What You Want Me to Do and Say What You Want Me to Say I'll Be What You Want Me to Be. I Am Available 24 Hours a Day to Your Divine Call. I'm Willing to Work I Went into Labor Hard.
I Will Employ My Gifts. I'm Willing to Suffer. I Will Do Whatever Is Necessary to Please You. My Master Created in Christ Jesus for the Purpose of Good Works Which He Foreordained That You and I Should Walk in Them As a Lifestyle. Father I Pray the Holy Spirit Will Speak to Every Single One of Us I Were You Speak to My Heart. God Every Single One of Us. We Owe You Everything You Have Honored Us with Allowing Us to Be Saved and to Be Your Servants. I Pray for Those Who Have Never Even Thought about It until This Occasion That You Would Grant Them the Wisdom of the Courage to Say Lord Here in My Send Me. But We Ask It in Christ's Name.
Amen. Thank You for Listening to Part 211, the Believers Highest Honor. If You'd like to Know More about How Thinly More Intense Ministry That My Antistatic OIG Podcast for the Presentation of InTouch Ministries Atlanta, Georgia