Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, December 13.

Believers in Jesus know they should be serving God, but how much thought do you give to

why you serve Him?

Today we can learn how to have a passion to serve Him.

Which brings you the most sense of satisfaction?

Serving other people or being served. All of us fall into one of those two categories.

Some of us here love to be served. Some of us here love to serve other people.

That is we get our greatest joy in being a servant to someone else, so we get our greatest

joy in having someone serve us a way to us.

What was the attitude of the Lord Jesus? Jesus said, I have not come to be served but to

serve and to give my life a ransom for many. That is, He said, my service is limited only,

even unto the giving of my life for other people.

Then you recall what He said in John chapter 12, verse 26, He said, those who serve me,

the Father will honor them. Listen to that. He says, the Father honors those who serve

Him. Then you recall that Paul put it this way. He said, let this mind be in you which

was also in Christ Jesus. Then He describes Christ attitude. He says, Jesus did not grasp

His position as the Son of God, but rather He laid down His glory and took upon Himself

the form of a bond servant. That is the lowest slave in the household, the one who would

unsandle the guest and wash their dusted dirty feet and draw them of the towel.

Then Paul put it another way. He said, for we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus

under good works or under service which He hath before or dain that you and I should walk

in them. That is, God has for or dain that every single believer be a servant. So there's

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