John chapter 13, all about Jesus serving. And we’re in a series called Being the Body. And what we’re looking at in this series is what it means to be the church. What does it mean to be the church today? To be the body.

And I love that metaphor of the body. It it captures so much of what we understand about what it means to be the church. First of all, it means that we are the presence of Jesus in the world. We are the hands and feet of Christ. We are used by him in tremendous ways as the body.

And also we get this picture of being a unified whole. Though we are individually, each person, each believer in Jesus Christ is a member of that body and has a unique gifting. At the same time, we are all united as one body. One body just as many members ultimately are united as one. And that’s important.

It’s so important to remember the unity that Jesus prayed for and how sacred and important that is as we think about being the body. You know, because we live in a very polarized and divided world right now, very fractured in so many ways. Last couple weeks, the the assassination of Charlie Kirk was really a flash point, I would say, in our society. It was a exclamation point on how divided our world has really become. And so, what we need is more than anything, I think this is what God calls us to be.

He calls us to be his body here on earth to represent him to proclaim his gospel to a world that is very divided and and there’s a lot of irreconciliation happening. We want to be those who are reconcilers calling people to be reconciled to God. And I believe that unity when you think about true unity how important that is that can’t be achieved on the political level. It it can’t be achieved at the cultural level. Ultimately, when you think of unity, true unity is a supernatural thing.

It’s something that can only happen in Christ. It’s in Christ that all those barriers that divide people one from another are broken down. And we find that the ground is level at the foot of the cross. That’s the source of unity. And so in Romans 12:12, it says this, “For as in one body, we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function.

So we though many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another. We’re members of one another. We belong to one another as the body of Christ. And in recent weeks, we’ve been talking about Christ’s call to love one another. What does that look like in practice?

Well, Jesus, when he said that, those words, he said, “This is how people will know that you are my disciples, by your love for one another.” Before saying that, he modeled love. He showed us what selfless service looks like as the perfect example of love. So, if you would please stand for the reading of God’s word, John chapter 13. John 13.

This is a powerful, memorable passage. And no matter if you’ve heard it a thousand times or this is the first time, I pray that it will fall on you with a freshness. John 13 says this. Now before the feast of Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas a Scariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper.

He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. He came to Simon Peter who said to him,”Lord, do you wash my feet?” Jesus answered him, “What I’m doing, you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.”

Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.” Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you, for he knew who was to betray him.” That was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

Verse 12, when he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me teacher and lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example that you also should do just as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. Thank you. May be seated. Now, what Jesus does here is extraordinary. I want us to see just how amazing this is.

Now, we’re at times because we’re familiar with a passage of scripture, we can we can miss the impact it’s meant to have on us. But we got to come back to every time we come to scripture, whether we’re reading on our own or or gathering like this and studying a word together, we want to see it as if with eyes seeing it for the first time because Jesus here shows extraordinary love. And if we’re not moved by Jesus’s love for us anymore, if if it’s started to become a more, you know, that’s obvious or that’s humdrum or whatever, we’re so used to it, it can actually be a very spiritually dangerous place to be because Jesus’s love is astounding. It really is. That he would do this for men like them and for any of us.

That he would do this in love is astounding. If you lose your your sense of awe for how loving Jesus is, that that can be a real problem because really what it comes down to is this. If you’re no longer in awe of who Jesus is, then you’re no longer worshiping him. Something else has captured your heart and you’re more invigorated or excited about something else other than the love of Jesus. John says in verse one, “When Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.”

I love that image of Jesus loving us to the very end, to the fullest extent to to the level that we would never love others on our own. Jesus loved us to that extent. If you’ve been wondering that question, does God truly love me? John wrote this in answer to that question. Why did Jesus come into the world?

Why did the son of God become a baby? Because he loves you. Why would he go through all the temptation and all the trials that he went through and travel all over healing people and and preaching the gospel of the kingdom? Because he loves you. Why would Jesus endure all the the hatred, the mockery, the beating, the scourging?

You know, Jesus could have called down an angel to break the arm of that soldier before he brought the whip down on his back. He could have done that. He could have called down angels to destroy all of them. He didn’t because he loves you. And even when he was pinned to the cross, the religious leader scoffed at him and said, “Hey, if you really are the son of God, why don’t you come on down from there?”

But see, it was not the nails that held Jesus to the cross. It was his love. Jesus loved us to the very end. Let me just encourage you. Spend some time meditating on that truth this week.

Think about how deeply Jesus loves you. He He did all of all that he did when he came to earth. He did because of love. And when you serve, you’re living out the truth that life is not all about me. You’re living out that truth that actually Jesus is the one who shows us how to love.

When you when you serve others, you’re tapping into something that transcends our me centered culture. The culture that wants to put all the focus on yourself and say, “Take care of yourself first and focus on yourself.” And it says, “No, I’m going to embrace the way of Jesus when you serve.” And I can hardly think of a better way to embody selfless love than to see what Jesus did here in your notes. The world, the flesh, and the devil are conspiring to keep you from serving.

The world, the flesh, and the devil are conspiring to keep you from serving. This is why we need the example of Jesus because on our own, we don’t want to serve. Our flesh grates against this idea of serving others, putting others first. These three enemies don’t want you to embrace your identity as a servant of Jesus Christ. This is why serving is hard for us.

Every message we hear from the world comes back to focusing on yourself. Think about some of the slogans you hear out there. Live your best life. You know, follow your heart. You do you.

The focus is always on you. It’s about what can I get out of this. Meanwhile, the Bible says in humility, consider others more significant than yourselves. Think of others and and see them as the primary one to be thinking of. What could be a more countercultural message than that?

If you’re going to serve, you’ll have to reexamine your priorities. You’ll have to rethink all the ways that you you go about life because naturally in our flesh we don’t want to do this. This is why the G story of Jesus is so powerful and in many ways what Jesus does here just doesn’t seem to fit. You think about this. This is the king of heaven.

He he was the one who for all eternity is on the throne and and ever since the angels were created, the angels have been worshiping him. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. And Jesus, this same King of heaven, comes down and what is he doing? He’s kneeling down. He’s dressed in this lowly garb and he’s doing the work that is reserved for the lowest slave.

He’s scrubbing feet. And by the way, these aren’t just any feet. Back then, they didn’t have, you know, socks and protective boots like we wear today. They wore sandals and they walked all over dusty feet. And so these are stinky, calloused, sweaty feet.

All right? It’s not as though Peter and John had just had a pedicure. Jesus was willing to do this. This was a menial task. And and honestly, it’s amazing when you go back and you look at the laws at this time.

Jewish people, even though they were mistreated by the Romans, they were not required to do this task of washing feet because it was so lowly. Only the lowest slave should be required to do this. Let’s also remember that this is in a time when animals were walking the roads. And let’s just say animals have this knack for leaving behind little messes. And so these were on the roads that they’re walking on.

All of that is in this picture. But Jesus does what no one was willing to do. Before anybody asked him to do it, there was no prompting. Jesus chose to do this. Jesus said, “I came not to be served, but to serve.”

That’s astonishing. It’s astonishing that the creator of all, the king of heaven, would say, “I came to this earth not to be served.” And if anybody deserves to be served and never have to serve, it would be Jesus. And yet, he said, “I didn’t come for that. I came to serve, to give away.

Not to get but to give. When we think about what a great day would be like, maybe like a dream vacation or something like that, we don’t typically think of serving others. That’s not towards the top of our list of a great day. By nature, we want people to recognize and honor us for how great we are. My sin nature doesn’t want to serve.

And so, what I need to do is I need to ask the spirit to change my thinking to be more like Jesus. Because clearly Jesus knew something that these other 12 did not know. Think of the fact that none of his disciples was willing to play the role of a servant. Now they had seen Jesus in action. They had seen him serving and caring for others already.

They had seen him healing people. They had seen him touching a leper. The the unclean of society, the people you do not go near. Jesus reached out and touched. And yet when it came time and they’re all knowing this is the process.

This is what we do for cleanliness. We we get our feet washed. Nobody volunteered for it. But Jesus was willing to do this. Now, we’d like to think, you know, if I was there, I would be that disciple that get up and wash everybody’s feet.

We’d like to think that, but the truth is, we’re not all that different from these guys. The same sin nature that they had, we have. We need to see Jesus washing our feet too. Before we can know why serving is important, we need to know who we are serving. In the beginning, God created us to be his children, to know him, to love him, and to be loved by him, not to be slaves.

That was the other that was the the myths of Babylon and other places. They they said we’re created to be slaves as human beings. Not the Bible. The Bible says you’re made in God’s image. You have inherent dignity and value because you were created to be a child of God.

But part of being a child is having this high dignity and responsibility to serve God and others. And the Bible says that worship and and service go hand in hand. Whatever you are worshiping, you will serve. That’s why Romans 1 will say that they they exchanged the truth for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever. In other words, when people refuse to serve God and others, they will serve themselves.

When we see Jesus serving this way, we’re moved by it. We should be moved by it because this isn’t the natural move of our world. It’s as we serve the way Jesus serves and we we follow his example just as he said, “Do as I have done to you, that’s when we get to experience his joy. That’s when we get get to experience his his love on a new level because we’re seeing what he saw. We’re loving as he loved.

We’re living out that agape love.” And you know, Peter, if anybody’s going to blurt out any objection, it’s going to be Peter, right? And Peter says, ‘Lord, if if I or he says not, sorry, he says, ‘d don’t be washing my feet. Basically, and Jesus responds, if I do not wash you, you have no share with me. In other words, before you can understand why you are serving and what serving is, you have to know the one who serves you.

You have to know the one who created you. You have to let him wash you, make you clean. You have to be given a new identity and let him wash your sins away. And then then you are in that place where you can now serve others. There’s nothing more important than knowing who you are in Christ.

Being secure in that identity. And then as you live out that identity, service is something you just do because you’re a servant of Jesus Christ. That’s who you are. Romans 12:1, Paul says,”I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. This is your true and proper worship.”

He’s saying when you serve, you are offering your whole self as a as as a gift, as an offering of worship to the Lord. You’re saying, “Okay, Lord, whatever you want, wherever you want, I’m willing. Here I am. Send me. That’s the attitude of a servant.

Paul’s saying, considering all that God has done for you. When you look at everything God has done to rescue you from destruction, to save you from your sins, to forgive you, to adopt you, to make you his own, the only reasonable thing, the only thing that really makes sense in response to that is to give yourself totally over to him. Secondly, in your notes, the love of Jesus must be your greatest why for serving. See, if you don’t serve out of love for Jesus, then you will have a lesser motivation. It might be, you know, I I’d like some recognition.

I’d like people to honor me for what I did. I’ I’d like people to acknowledge what I did. I’d like people to say thank you for what I did. But see, the problem with that lesser motivation of looking to others for that affirmation or looking to others for their approval or praise is that the time will come when you will take a meal to someone who needs it and no one notices. No one else saw it.

There will be times when you stay after the service to stack chairs or pick up trash or whatever it might be and nobody sees it. Or it could be that you’re teaching children or youth and you know it could be that the youth don’t always express appreciation for all that you do for them. See, unless Jesus is your greatest why for serving in the church and in the world, you will lose motivation. You’ll lose your steam. You’ll start to see it as less important.

You’ll start to tell yourself, you know, I’ve given enough of my time. I’ve done my duty. And when you struggle with that, think about how Jesus washed the feet of very ungrateful disciples. In fact, he even washed the feet of Judas a Scariot, the very man who would betray him for 30 pieces of silver. Think about that.

Jesus knew that. We’re told that Jesus knew who was going to betray him. And he’s still washing his feet with love and service. Yesterday, Whitney and I took the kids to the Tiger Police and Public Works Family Funday here in downtown. It was a lot of fun.

We got to, you know, meet some police officers and sit in the cars. I got to wear a a bulletproof vest, which is, of course, every boy’s dream, right? It was great. And, you know, I was talking to Hayden King recently about this. Every police officer makes an oath to serve and protect.

Every single one. And their service is grounded on the authority of the Constitution and the laws of the state. And in that opening line of the oath they take, they say, “As a criminal justice officer, my fundamental duty is to serve humankind. It’s about service.” Now, that’s a high calling.

And as followers of Jesus, we are called to a high and holy calling. We’re called to serve the King of the universe. This requires wholehearted devotion to the cause of Christ and his kingdom. It can’t be my agenda or my preferences getting in the way. It can’t be I need to figure out ways to see what I can get out of this.

No, it’s got to be about him. What does Jesus want? It’s that kind of service that requires a glorious reason for why. Why am I doing this? I I have to know why I do what I do.

What motivates me to serve? If I get that wrong, if I’m motivated by something lesser or or not equal to that, it won’t last. You’ll serve in the way of Jesus to the extent you look at Jesus and are awed by his grace and love for you. Consider Jesus. See, as a Christ follower, the goal is that the gospel would not just be the thing that saves us, but that it would be the thing that transforms us from the inside out.

That it would penetrate our heart more and more day after day. The more we understand Christ’s love for us, the more we go deeper into that truth, that radical truth of his love and what he did to save us, the more we’ll be motivated to serve. So why make sacrifices for others? Why put the needs of others first? Why why should I see others as more significant than myself when the world tells me otherwise?

Because we know Jesus and belong to him. That’s all the reason we need. Jesus is enough. That’s why I love how Paul begins his letters by saying, “Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus.” See, he was owning that title.

He was saying, “This is who I am. I serve my master in heaven. I I live for him, and he gets to make all the shots in my life. I’m a servant of Jesus Christ.” So let me ask you, is that a title that describes your life?

Would that fit into the the biography of your life? Does your life say I am a servant of Jesus Christ? And as we serve others in the body, we are serving Jesus Christ. When you choose to follow Jesus, you’re choosing to forsake the world. Jesus calls us to totally commit to him.

He said, “Deny yourself and follow me.” That means without reservation, without any hang-ups or anything else, you give yourself totally over to me and serve me as your king, the king who loves you. All other rivals that compete for the place in our heart of first place, whether it’s comfort or ease or convenience, money, social acceptance, whatever it might be, none of that should have to place first in your heart. Only Jesus should be there. I remember hearing about stories about missionaries from the 1800s who would go overseas from England to India, China, other places halfway around the world.

And what they would do is they would send all their belongings in a coffin. Why? Well, because going overseas to spread the gospel of Jesus meant death. Death to your old way of life. Death to all the comforts at home that you loved and were used to.

And ultimately death to yourself in service to God. The question is, do I see serving God in the same way? An all-out commitment that requires death to myself. You’re only going to want to serve God in that way if your heart is captured by the love of Jesus. If you are convinced at the deepest core of who you are, God loves me, and nothing will ever change that, you’ll want to serve him.

It will be the only reasonable response. It will be the only thing that makes sense. Paul said, “It’s the love of Christ that controls us.” Here’s what he means. On your own, you don’t want to serve.

And on your own, you’ll have these lesser motivations. And so, what it takes in reality, it takes a work of God, a miracle in your heart for you to want to put others first, to see others as more significant than yourself, and to serve. It’s a whole new way of life. And only the love of God can overcome every objection that we’d come up with. We can come up with a long list of reasons for why not to serve.

All kinds of excuses, objections, reasons, whatever you call it. And the love of God answers all of them because he served first. When it comes to your career, let me ask you, do you see that as the means to your next paycheck? Or is it the offering of service to your king? That’s how we should all look at our work.

This isn’t just for pastors or missionaries or whatever. This is for all of us in our calling. We are offering a service to the king. And whatever work we do, whatever service we offer, whatever we do is for the Lord. This is what Colossians 3 says.

Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being as for the Lord and not for men. In other words, this isn’t first about customer service or or getting noticed by your boss, looking for opportunities to get ahead. No, this is about Jesus because all of life once you come to him is about him. He says, “You know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

See, if Jesus is not your why for serving, then when things become challenging or uncomfortable, you’ll stop. When you feel like you’re no longer being affirmed by others and people are no longer noticing your hard work, your your blood, sweat, and tears you’re pouring into serving others, if that’s your reason, you’ll lose your steam. You’ll want to quit. It’s the love of Jesus alone. Only his love can change us.

Only his love can give us that empowerment we need to keep serving even when it becomes hard. Now sometimes it could be that we need to scale back in a certain area or a timing in life whatever it might be or we need to recruit others to to join us in serving or we need to ask others to encourage us and pray for us in serving. All of that is totally right. But often times we lose our steam in serving because we forget how much Jesus loves us. That’s what it comes down to.

We need to be recaptured by his grace and find our purpose in him. Nothing else can compete with that. We need to be able to look at Jesus and see him washing our feet. If you were sitting there on that same night, Jesus would be washing your feet. He wouldn’t complain about it.

He wouldn’t think, man, this is a little bit harder work than I was expecting. No, he would do it gladly because that’s who Jesus is. And so, we need to look at that and say, if he was so willing to wash my feet, how could I not give my all for him? Third, in your notes, you can only serve as the person God made you to be. This is really important because we belong to the body of Christ, but individually we all bring our unique set of wisdom, experiences, gifts that God’s given us.

All of us have something unique to contribute. And so when we’re serving, we’re not trying to be somebody else. We’re being who God created us to be. Again, serving others is not going to be a popular concept in our world. It wasn’t when Jesus was here either.

That’s why nobody else is wanting to wash feet. The world says your gifts are all about you. You have these gifts because now you can get ahead. Now you can promote yourself and you can can move forward in life. That’s what it’s about.

That’s the message of the world. In other words, you’re the center of the universe. And ultimately, the message of the world is a message of self- worship, not god worship. And you can see it even in the the hymns of self- worship. Back in the 1960s, it was, you know, Frank Sinatra singing, “I did it my way.

My way, not your way, my way.” And today, packed arenas have sung with Jojo Siwa, the lyrics, “My life, my rules, my dreams, my life. I choose who to be. I follow my own lead.” See, this me centered worldview, those are only a couple examples.

This world view is everywhere. It’s everywhere. It’s in the advertising we see. It’s in the movies we watch. It’s in the music we listen to.

It is literally all over the place. We’re bombarded with this message. You need to put yourself first. Think of you first. The Bible says the exact opposite.

That’s a countercultural message. And we won’t believe that countercultural message if we don’t understand that Jesus put us first. Jesus served us first. Jesus didn’t say, “Not until you do something for me.” He said, “I’m going to love you first.

I’m going to show you what love is. I’m going to sacrifice before I ask you to sacrifice.” And after washing those stinky feet of his disciples, Jesus says this in verse 12, “Do you understand what I have done to you?” See, he asks that question because a lot of people, they they go right through the story. Yeah, he washed their feet.

No big deal. No, he’s saying, “Do you understand? You call me teacher and Lord, and you are right. For so I am. If I, then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

For I have given you an example that you also should do just as I have done to you.” See, here’s what the gospel does for us. The gospel qualifies us for service. Nobody can be in the body of Christ and say, you know, I’ve got nothing to offer. I’m just a mess.

I, you know, I don’t have anything to offer. I can’t contribute in any way. That’s not true. When people say, I don’t have anything to bring to the table, you’re actually, understand, you are disagreeing with God when you say that. That’s not a good place to be.

God calls you a royal priest. He says, “You have been gifted in unique ways to bless and build up the body.” He says, ‘You are my child. You are royalty. You have been adopted into my family.

That means something. You’re not who you used to be. The Bible says Jesus is not ashamed to call you his brother or sister. And for some of you, that could be exactly what you need to hear right now. Jesus is not ashamed of you.

When you think of all the things that you’ve done in your past, whatever it might be, that shame creeps in so easily, so quickly, doesn’t it? And yet Jesus says to you, “I’m not ashamed of you.” If you have repented of your sin, if you have trusted in Jesus Christ for your salvation, and you’ve come to him, you put your faith in God, you’ve been cleansed of all your sin. That that sin that was attached to your name and brought all that shame, it’s been taken away. It was pinned to the cross long ago.

Jesus says, “I’m not ashamed of you.” There’s no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. And not only that, but the Bible says, “You have been gifted.” 1 Corinthians 12 says, “Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same spirit, and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord, and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. He empowers the work of serving in everyone.

That’s what the Bible says. It’s not as though there’s somebody who’s an exception. I have nothing to bring. No. The Holy Spirit in you is going to show you how you can contribute.

Some of you may have a gift that is already in you, but it hasn’t had the opportunity to blossom and grow. And you simply need to show up. And that gift will be fanned into flame. And and there’s this joy, this unique joy that comes from serving. You’re not going to get it anywhere else because Jesus said, “My joy will be in you.”

And he showed us what it is to serve and to love others, to sacrifice. He wants that joy for us. So the gospel qualifies us for service. But here’s the other thing the gospel does. It tells us there’s no service that is beneath us.

See, the gospel will rescue you from self-pity. And it will also rescue you from pride. It can be tempting for someone who’s been a Christian for a while to think, you know, teaching kids, nah, I’m way beyond that. Or, you know, cleaning up trash. No, I’ve got more important things to do.

I could be used in bigger ways. But when you’re tempted to think that way, look at Jesus again. He was willing to do what no one else was willing to do. The job of the lowliest slave. And if the king of the universe is willing to do this, if scrubbing grimy feet is not beneath the king of the universe, then no act of service is beneath you.

Everything you do for Christ and his body matters. And even if it does go unnoticed by others, God notices. Nothing passes his attention. And we live for an audience of one. So serve as the person God made you to be.

Lastly in your notes, you can only serve with the resources God gives you in the place God has you. As important as it is to know this is our calling to serve, it’s equally important to know that you can’t do it all. See, you’re a part of something bigger than yourself. You’re part of the body of Christ. And that’s important because that means that there are some gifts that I don’t have that somebody else has and I need that person in my life.

We need one another. There’s that kind of trust that develops that interdependence because no one can be the body alone. You need all the members doing their various acts of service to be the body. God will give you the resources to serve in the place he has. So this isn’t about overextending yourself.

It’s it’s about knowing the sphere that God has for you and then living that out wholeheartedly. In just two weeks here, we’re going to have a ministry fair down in the downstairs of the ministry center where we normally have cafe. And I encourage you to be thinking ahead. There could be an opportunity to serve there. There could be an opportunity God wants to present to me as a member of the body to serve others.

I encourage you to show up for that ministry fair and be open to different opportunities. Oftentimes people will think, you know, I don’t think I have enough experience. That’s okay. Experience is not required. We all have to start somewhere.

What is required is a humble heart willing to show up. Or you might be thinking, I could never do that. That’s beyond my ability. You might be surprised because God has this tendency, and you see this in scripture. Look at Moses.

He has this tendency to put people who would disqualify themselves into the very place that he wants them. All that is required is a humble heart willing to show up. And so lastly, I’ll I’ll ask this question. What could be a higher priority for your life than one day hearing Jesus say these words to you? Well done, good and faithful servant.

Isn’t that what you want to hear? Isn’t that the the ultimate praise that we should all long for? Let’s pray together. Lord Jesus, I thank you that you were willing to serve. You were willing to play the part of the lowliest slave.

God, and it doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t make sense because you’re the king. You are God. You are the Lord of all. All of creation bends to your will.

Everything belongs to you. You are Lord in heaven and on earth. And yet you were willing to serve. And so I pray Lord Jesus that we would have that same heart that you had for service. That love that says, “I’m going to put others first.

It goes against my nature. It goes against my flesh. It goes against what the world is telling me. It goes against what I want to do in this situation, but I’m going to do it because you served first. Thank you, Jesus, for being that perfect example and savior for us.

We pray in your mighty name. Amen. >> Would you stand and join us? [Mus

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