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ποΈ 16 December 2018
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Jesus came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many. Praise God that He is where our help comes from for all our days.
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0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
0:06.0 | Mark chapter 10 verse 45 |
0:08.0 | for even the son of man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. |
0:18.0 | That is a shocking verse. |
0:21.0 | We oftentimes think about ourselves as servants of God, which we should. The New |
0:27.2 | Testament certainly teaches that. We're servants of Christ. We're servants of God. |
0:31.6 | We follow him. We worship him absolutely in those senses. We are |
0:36.6 | servants of God. But the whole picture here in Mark 1045 is actually the |
0:41.9 | opposite. |
0:43.7 | This is Jesus, God in the flesh, saying he came not to be served by us, |
0:49.7 | but to serve us. |
0:50.6 | He came as our servant. The word there is like helper, slave almost. Now obviously |
0:59.4 | we know Jesus is not our helper, slave in a sense that he does whatever we tell him to do. |
1:06.4 | Like, no, that's clearly not what this means, |
1:08.6 | but it does mean very clearly that Jesus came to serve you. |
1:17.0 | Just let that soak in. |
1:20.0 | Whatever's going on in your life right now, you have a servant named Jesus. |
1:27.0 | Doesn't mean you tell him what to do, but he exists. |
1:32.0 | He came for this purpose to help you, to help you, to help you, to help you, to give his life as a ransom |
1:40.0 | for you and to serve you, to save you from your sin and to serve you in your life. |
1:46.6 | Just let this soak in. Jesus is your servant, my servant. |
1:52.3 | Oh! servant, my servant, oh, that's, I don't even know how to comprehend that, but I believe that, |
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