SERVING OTHERS!

Sunday, October 27, 2019

SERVING OTHERS!

Gal 5:13-14

13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Rom 15:1-2

15:1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

The success of our church is determined by the church itself. I do not know what I would do without those volunteers that are so faithful they are mostly forgotten. Their value is evident only when sickness or some other necessity causes them to be absent. No one considers what they do but without them the whole system tends to collapse. The biblical basis for what we often call the “Prophet’s Chamber” is found in the following portion.

2 Kings 4:8-10

8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.

10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

Mary, Martha and their brother Lazarus often provided lodging for Jesus since he “had no place to lay his head.”

Matt 21:17

17 And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.

Ø It was at Bethany the barren fig tree was cursed.

Ø It was at Bethany the Alabaster Box was broken and Jesus was anointed with the perfume.

Ø It was at Bethany that Judas (seeing the waste of perfume) launched his plan to betray Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.

Ø It was very near Bethany that the colt was found upon which Jesus rode on Palm Sunday.

Ø It was at Bethany that Lazarus was raised from the dead.

Ø It was from Bethany that Jesus ascended into heaven.

Service makes you significant! No other action or attitude attracts the attention of the master like humble and extravagant service!

Dear Lord, give me a servant’s heart. Let me be faithful as a volunteer. Help me to do what I can and make a difference. AMEN