Jesus the Servant

What do you think caused everyone to want to follow Jesus?

Why do you think that patience is so important if you are going to be a Servant of Jesus.

John 6:38 ESV

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

You see the reason that jesus stated this is because He wanted to tell the world the real reason He was here.

His heavenly father.

Think of this, the king of kings, the one who came to the earth to die on cavalries cross for our sins didn’t want it to be all about him.

You see Jesus himself knew the importance of being of servant.

He came to this earth with the purpose to serve the fathers will.

three things we need to be reminded of today.

What is God’s will for us?

Very simply, God’s will for us is to live for Him.

Living for him should mean to be a servant to him.

Unfortunately, many times we think we have to begin on top.

when in reality, Jesus doesn’t want us to be on top of the world.

(Use live sermon analogy)

He himself, humbled himself to a servant.

He did this because before he could lead people, he had to serve people.

God’s will for us is to be about the Fathers business and do his work.

What is God’s Will for Jesus?

So God and Jesus are two in one, but when God sent his son Jesus to this earth he had a very specific goal that no one else ever has had and ever will have.

That was that he would go to Calvaries cross and die for the sins of mankind.

In order for this to happen, there had to be a perfect, sinless sacrifice, that meant that Jesus's life was the perfect example of what it should look like to serve God.

Even though God’s call on the life of Jesus was big, Jesus was still a servant of God.

His life’s goal was to please the Father.

Because we know what Jesus did for us we have the choice to live a life for him.

But we cannot do so with the thoughts that we are the best.

We cannot be as a king on our throne.

We have to be a servant.

What Does it Really Mean to Serve?

You see serving means that whether we are doign the biggest of jobs or the smallest of jobs we are doing them for the Lord’s Kingdom.

In reality, God has called us all to do his work, sometimes his work is dirty, sometimes his work doesn’t come easy, but he has asked us to it anyway.

I would never want to be the one that at the end of this life, failed to do God’s work. \

What being a servant really is is to be a “Living Sacrifice to God”

Romans 12:1 ESV

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Being a living sacrifice is that we let God take possession of our life.

Our own selfish desire comes second to what God wants for us!