Nancy DeMas Walgamu says, when you're in disagreement with someone, it's an opportunity to be like your Savior.

You get into dispute and, you know, voices just get raised because you want to prove you're right and the other person's wrong and the pitch gets higher and higher.

Jesus doesn't do it that way.

That's not how he wins.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMas Walgamuth, co-author of You Can Trust God to Write Your Story.

For April 11, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

We've been able to get to know Jesus in a deeper, more intimate way over these last few weeks.

Nancy DeMas Walgamuth is continuing in the series, The Wonder of His Name, 32 life-changing names of Jesus.

If you were to ask a whole group of people, would you rather be a king or a servant, what do you think most would say?

Now think about that, kings have power, they have influence, control, kings are important, kings are wealthy, and servants, well, servants are on the other side of the scale on all those

counts, right? So given the choice, I think that most people would rather be a king than a servant.

We think a king is more glamorous. Who wants to be a servant? And throughout salvation,

history of all of Scripture, we see that God is indeed a king. He is the king of all

creation. And so it follows that throughout the Old Testament, we would see people serving him,

because he's the king, they are the servants. So we have Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Moses.

These were all identified as chosen servants of the Lord. He's the king. They're the servants.

Now, these men and others who served the Lord considered it both an obligation to serve God,

but also a great, amazing privilege. Imagine you get to be a servant of the Lord. And he is the king after all. So our service is due to him.

He is worthy of our service. But he is definitely the king. We saw that in our last session.

Jesus is the king. Now against that backdrop, it's amazing to me that the king and the sovereign

lord of this universe, God, Jehovah Almighty, ordained before the foundation of the world, that he would

save his subjects by stooping down, condescending, and sending his son to earth as a servant,

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