Servanthood

1. TO SERVE IS TO BE HUMBLE.

• Humility is when we take our focus off of ourselves and make our end serving the needs of others.

• Philippians 2:6-8

6Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;

7rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

8And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!

• 2 Corinthians 8:9 "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich."

2. TO SERVE IS TO BE OBEDIENT

• Christ "being found in appearance as a man... humbled Himself and became obedient..."

• Jesus honored the authority of God, the Father.

• Jesus was careful to carry out every detail according to the will of His Father.

• Ephesians 2:10

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

• Galatians 5:13

"For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another."

3. TO SERVE IS TO SACRIFICE.

• Isaiah 53:10

Yet it was the LORD ’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.

Mark 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.”