Called To Serve

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Called To Serve

• James Jam 11
• a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ

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Called To Serve

• James Jam 11
• Paul Rom 11
• Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to
  be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God

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Called To Serve

• James Jam 11
• Paul Phil 11
• Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Jesus Christ

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Called To Serve

• James Jam 11
• Paul Rom 11, Phil 11
• Peter 2 Peter 11
• Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus
  Christ

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Called To Serve

• James Jam 11
• Paul Rom 11, Phil 11
• Peter 2 Peter 11
• Jude Jude 1
• Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother
  of James

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Called To Serve

• James Jam 11
• Paul Rom 11, Phil 11
• Peter 2 Peter 11
• Jude Jude 1

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Called To Serve

• As His Disciple we are called to serve Matt
  238-12
• Jesus as our example John 1312-17
• Vs 14 - Serve one another
• Vs 16 Remember our place
• Vs 17 We will be blessed
• He came to serve Matt 2025-28, Phil 25-8

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Who Do We Serve?

• God Jam 11
• James, a bondservant of God

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Who Do We Serve?

• God Jam 11
• Jesus Jam 11
• James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord
  Jesus Christ

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Who Do We Serve?

• God Jam 11
• Jesus Jam 11
• Righteousness Rom 617-18
• But God be thanked that though you were slaves
  of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form
  of doctrine to which you were delivered. And
  having been set free from sin, you became slaves
  of righteousness.

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Who Do We Serve?

• God Jam 11
• Jesus Jam 11
• Righteousness Rom 617-18
• One another Gal 513-14
• For you, brethren, have been called to liberty
  only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the
  flesh, but through love serve one another. For
  all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in
  this You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

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Who Do We Serve?

• God Jam 11
• Jesus Jam 11
• Righteousness Rom 617-18
• One another Gal 513-14

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Called To Serve

• Implies
• Absolute obedience 1 Cor 619-20
• Or do you not know that your body is the temple
  of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have
  from God, and you are not your own? For you were
  bought at a price therefore glorify God in your
  body and in your spirit, which are God's.

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Called To Serve

• Implies
• Absolute obedience Luke 646
• But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not
  do the things which I say?

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Called To Serve

• Implies
• Absolute obedience Matt 721
• Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,'
  shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who
  does the will of My Father in heaven.

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Called To Serve

• Implies
• Absolute obedience 1 Cor 619-20, Luke
  646, Matt 721
• Absolute humility 1 Cor 159-10, Eph 38, 1
  Tim 115-16, Luke 1710

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1 Corinthians 159-10

• For I am the least of the apostles, who am not
  worthy to be called an apostle, because I
  persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of
  God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was
  not in vain but I labored more abundantly than
  they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which
  was with me.

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Ephesians 38

• To me, who am less than the least of all the
  saints, this grace was given, that I should
  preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches
  of Christ

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1 Timothy 115-16

• This is a faithful saying and worthy of all
  acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world
  to save sinners, of whom I am chief. However, for
  this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first
  Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering, as a
  pattern to those who are going to believe on Him
  for everlasting life.

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Luke 1710

• So likewise you, when you have done all those
  things which you are commanded, say, We are
  unprofitable servants. We have done what was our
  duty to do.

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Called To Serve

• Implies
• Absolute obedience 1 Cor 619-20, Luke
  646, Matt 721
• Absolute humility 1 Cor 159-10, Eph 38, 1
  Tim 115-16, Luke 1710
• Absolute loyalty Gal 110
• For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek
  to please men? For if I still pleased men, I
  would not be a bondservant of Christ.

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Called To Serve

• Implies
• Absolute obedience 1 Cor 619-20, Luke
  646, Matt 721
• Absolute humility 1 Cor 159-10, Eph 38, 1
  Tim 115-16, Luke 1710
• Absolute loyalty Gal 110

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A Title Of Honor

• Abraham, Isaac, Jacob - Deut. 927
  (Thy servant)
• Moses 1 Kings 835 (Thy servant)
• Joshua Joshua 2429
  (The servant of the Lord)
• Caleb Numbers 1424 (My servant)
• Job Job 18 (My servant)
• Isaiah Isaiah 203 (My servant)
• The prophets Jerimiah 725 (My
  servants)

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Called To Serve

• Do you not know that to whom you present
  yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's
  slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to
  death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
  Romans 616