The Letter I Series

What if Jesus said man I’m not dying on that cross……

You see Jesus didn’t come for Jesus. Jesus came for others. Just like me and you, Jesus could have said, this life is about me. I was a king in heaven and now it is time to be king here on earth. But he didn’t. Instead he humbled himself and put others first. Jesus came to serve.

And we are called to do the same thing. Why don’t we serve?

We pour into ourselves because we think that will exalt us. It will make us better. It will make our lives matter, but Jesus had a different take on this.

Matthew 23:12 But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

What Jesus is saying is that those who are trying to make themselves something will become nothing, and those who are choosing to become nothing by putting others before themselves will become something.

This last Fri Brooks and I were talking …………..

So what about you?

Are you trying to be something or are you trying to be nothing?

What about as student ministry?

What would happen if for one day, the one hundred or more students who make up the Inner State Youth ministry took one day and said, we are going to be nothing, we are going to take the I out of middle of our lives and focus on other people?

For one day, we are going to pour our lives into others. What would happen?

A lot more of your friends would be here for starters. People would look at us differently.

Our relationships would change. Our lives would change.

Most importantly, we will become more like Christ, who humbled himself and poured out his life for others.

Close:

There are some of you who are living like this world revolves around you and you are pouring into you. If that is you, if like me you have a tendency to be selfish, I am asking all of you to make a commitment to pour your life into other people.

Because of our selfishness, we are separated from God. Jesus came to serve, and pour his life into others, and then he took it another step further. He poured out his life completely on a cross for you and me so that we could be filled with God, and have a relationship with Him.

LET’S PRAY: