Family Values: Service
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Family Value- Service
Family Value- Service
Family Values- Service
What did it take for us to get to here
The Church is a family, Just like a biological family we have a DNA.
That is how we get to Family Values
So let’s review,
Family Values
Honor God
__________
__________
__________
Honor God- In all things, thoughts, words, actions
Not just in some things but in all things, with every part of our lives
1. Honor God
2. Transparency
3.__________
4. __________
Transparency- The Church is to be open with all matters, the members are to live an honest and open life with one another. Relationships are built on trust, and if we are not open with one another we aren’t living. I think that many times this is the hardest of our family values to live out, who wants to share their struggles? It is not something that the world says we should do.
1. Honor God
2. Transparency
3. Community
4. ____________
Community- as a Church we are called to be part of the community by stepping up and stepping into the roles God needs us to. When the members live in community, the Church excels
This brings us to This week- we will be talking about our fourth family value- service.
As we have done the last three weeks, we need to know what service means.
Service
Service- the action of helping or doing work for someone.
35 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached him and said, “Teacher, we want you to do whatever we ask you.”
36 “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked them.
37 They answered him, “Allow us to sit at your right and at your left in your glory.”
38 Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup I drink or to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”
39 “We are able,” they told him. Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with.
40 But to sit at my right or left is not mine to give; instead, it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”
41 When the ten disciples heard this, they began to be indignant with James and John.
42 Jesus called them over and said to them, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions act as tyrants over them.
43 But it is not so among you. On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you will be your servant,
44 and whoever wants to be first among you will be a slave to all.
45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
So let’s think about this,
in verse 42 we see the worldly leaders characterized the following way”lord it over them” and “act as tyrants over them”
Christian Standard Bible Chapter 10
lord it over them
I don’t know about you but I don’t want to be lorded over, that type of leadership usually doesn't work well.
As Christians there is this big word that is part of all of our lives, sanctification, the process of becoming more like Christ.
So what how do we see Jesus lead.
Let’s look again at verse 45
Christian Standard Bible Chapter 10
45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
the son of man did not come to be served but to serve......
so guess what, it is all about living our lives by putting the needs and desires of others before themselves.
So here is how the great Theologian Charles Spurgeon summarized this concept:
The genuine spirit of a Christian is not to ask that something should be done for him but to ask his Master what he could do for him. C. H. Spurgeon
1 Peter 4:7-11
We find this was written in the time that Nero was persecuting believers
And was written to provide hope and strengthen, when we know this it makes it easier to understand the context.
7 The end of all things is near; therefore, be alert and sober-minded for prayer.
8 Above all, maintain constant love for one another, since love covers a multitude of sins.
9 Be hospitable to one another without complaining.
10 Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve others, as good stewards of the varied grace of God.
11 If anyone speaks, let it be as one who speaks God’s words; if anyone serves, let it be from the strength God provides, so that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ in everything. To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
So lets think about what Peter is telling them, maintain constant love for one another
here you are in the worst place, in a terrible time and the important thing isn’t me, it is how I treat you, how I love you. Man that isn’t what the world tells us, Imagine if we could spend time as a world focused on that...
So what does that next part tell us:
since love covers a multitude of sins.
I can think of some really important ways this could be used today, love covers a multitude of sins, that could be ground breaking, earth shattering for most of us…we may have a message at some point in the future.
So the important verse in this group of scripture is Verse 10:
What is it in verse 10?
10 Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve others, as good stewards of the varied grace of God.
We are called to use our gifts for_______ grace and ________glory.
We all have different gifts, each of us in our uniquely perfect self has been given a gift from God, it is imperative that we use those gifts for God’s grace and God’s glory
We are called to use our gifts for God’s grace and God’s glory.
If we don’t share our unique God given talents with others are we living out the call that God has placed on our life. What did we learn earlier? We are to put others before ourselves, if we don’t share our treasure are we truly serving others?
None of us want to be greedy with our treasure...
So lets look at another example of serving..
1 If, then, there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and mercy,
2 make my joy complete by thinking the same way, having the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.
4 Everyone should look not to his own interests, but rather to the interests of others.
5 Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus,
6 who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited.
7 Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man,
8 he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death— even to death on a cross.
9 For this reason God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow— in heaven and on earth and under the earth—
11 and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
So Paul wrote this letter during his first Roman imprisonment. He wrote this to the church at Phillipi,
Here we see Paul sharing with us what true Christianity looks like. Let’s look at what Paul says..
2 make my joy complete by thinking the same way, having the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.
Verse 2- Unity, united in cause , one body brought together by a relationship with Jesus
Christian Standard Bible Chapter 2
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves. 4 Everyone should look not to his own interests, but rather to the interests of others.
Verses 3 and 4, selfish, nope don't want to be that way, others more important than yourselves..
Christian Standard Bible Chapter 2
consider others as more important than yourselves.
That is a game changer, imagine how the world would be if every man woman or child lived this way...
Christian Standard Bible Chapter 2
should look not to his own interests, but rather to the interests of others.
I don’t know about you but I struggle with this on occasion...
look to your own interests rather to the interests of others....
So after Paul gives us what we are to do, after he instructs us, he follows up with the why, I really like to know why, I’m sure if I had a dollar fro every time I asked Why? when someone told me something, I’d very likely have a pretty nice savings. So what does Paul do, knowing that we like to know why, he tells us why… It’s funny my first thought when I was preparing this today, well duh it’s easy to know why--- Jesus is always the answer. So let us look at how Jesus handled it..
6 who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited.
Check out this example of humility
7 Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man,
Others before himself- he served
8 he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death— even to death on a cross.
Obedience, could he have stopped it all, yes he could, but he understood what God needed, but even more so he knew that the only way we would not destroy ourselves at that time was his sacrifice as atonement for our sins.
9 For this reason God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow— in heaven and on earth and under the earth—
11 and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
By being humble, buy giving us an example, an example of how to live the best life, how to live a pleasing life to God.
The world wants us to live not like Jesus did but like this:
So if you take one thing away from the message this afternoon, it is this Lets put others before ourselves, lets serve others, lets not live out a life that resembles the excerpt from that song but one that more closely resembles the life that Jesus lived and his attributes that Paul reminds us of in Philippians.
I want to think that most of us have our lives in a place where we live a life of service to others and not focused on “me” so yes I am saying don’t live like Toby Keith live like Jesus.
Let’s pray-