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Mark chapter 10 verse 45

for even the son of man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.

That is a shocking verse.

We oftentimes think about ourselves as servants of God, which we should. The New

Testament certainly teaches that. We're servants of Christ. We're servants of God.

We follow him. We worship him absolutely in those senses. We are

servants of God. But the whole picture here in Mark 1045 is actually the

opposite.

This is Jesus, God in the flesh, saying he came not to be served by us,

but to serve us.

He came as our servant. The word there is like helper, slave almost. Now obviously

we know Jesus is not our helper, slave in a sense that he does whatever we tell him to do.

Like, no, that's clearly not what this means,

but it does mean very clearly that Jesus came to serve you.

Just let that soak in.

Whatever's going on in your life right now, you have a servant named Jesus.

Doesn't mean you tell him what to do, but he exists.

He came for this purpose to help you, to help you, to help you, to help you, to give his life as a ransom

for you and to serve you, to save you from your sin and to serve you in your life.

Just let this soak in. Jesus is your servant, my servant.

Oh! servant, my servant, oh, that's, I don't even know how to comprehend that, but I believe that,

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