Religious spirits are always serving man before they serve God, thinking that this is true servanthood, but I tell you this: That’s not true servanthood. That’s just a humanitarian spirit disguised as the Holy Spirit. What it means to be a servant of the Kingdom is this...TO ACTUALLY SERVE THE KINGDOM OF GOD! To serve HEAVEN to the people of God, the lost, all according to the will of God but by the Spirit of God!
Jesus commanded us to be a slave of all! Some people take that literally in a carnal way thinking that they have to go above and beyond to do anything possible to meet the worldly NEEDS and WANTS of Man! Or to become a slave like the mid-evil times and do anything and everything anybody says. That’s not what Jesus is talking about, and if that’s you, you are breaking your back for no reason! There is a place for serving people by helping them with an extra hand, but in this case, Jesus is talking about something completely different. Let’s save your back today!
There’s nothing wrong with Works of Justice and showing hospitality and serving people material things as the Spirit guides. Or helping a brother or sister mow their lawn or even feeding the homeless. Those things are fine, and we need to keep those things going, but this is NOT the heart of what Jesus meant when he said slave of all or about being a true servant of all. This is the problem, we rely on our own understanding when we read with our carnal mind, and we misinterpret what Jesus means by servanthood.
Carnal understandings of the Word will drive us to live in a carnal kingdom of God made up in our own mind. Then we become separated from God’s reality. And in this case, we will call ourselves true servants of God, though we are really just servants of man becoming man pleasers, only feeling satisfaction when man is pleased with us but barely having the thought of how God feels. Then we will accredit our great servanthood to man as our best works.
People say this is love! “That’s love, Brother.” Is it really love when I only serve people material needs and wants that only last them days? Our goals are supposed to be centered around our eternity with God. This is real servanthood: To serve The Kingdom of God to the people of God; to serve what will last them for eternity. We get so focused on flesh, our reward is only flesh. When our focus becomes the spiritual livelihood of people, we reap in the Spirit. And when we reap with God, we reap BIG because His rewards are eternal!
You want to be a servant? Obey the Holy Spirit because all that is on the mind of the Spirit of God’s mind is souls: The production of them, the reproduction of them, all to form back into his likeness for his good pleasure. Not for people’s flesh to feel good and for them to just have a smile on because you build them a house that is going to perish, but for them to return to their Father and the Father to come nigh unto them!
You want to be a servant? Get ready to be a mass producer of His Word! Get ready to be a well and a spring! Because in this land today, the REAL Word of God is esteemed lowly! And the only way you will be able to really serve man to take part in saving man is to be a server of the Word of God! The Words of Life! The Gospel that IS the power of God unto salvation! We are serving so that all would come unto the saving knowledge of Jesus and grow in it, salvation for the lost and the Church, and, moreover, for the sons of God to walk in the full stature of Christ. This should be the fruit of our servanthood. We are to satisfy God above all and everyone!
Because in our satisfactory report with God, we see the REAL needs and wants of man fulfilled, their needs for God and for the Kingdom, the wants that lost men have not discovered yet, the desires of God that tap into hidden wells of life! Most men don’t even know what they need and want, but the answer is always Him! Religion serves people on the surface level, making the bone and skin feel good, but never fulfilling the deep depths of a man. Though, God’s servants can because they minister in Spirit which is where the deep parts of a man reside.
One of the reasons why religious people don’t like to serve God’s way is because God’s way is TOO CONFRONTATIONAL!!! Too much persecution!!! Too much hate!!! Even from so called Christians! But that’s what it looks like to be a slave of all! That’s what it looks like when you live in a land where the Word is esteemed low, especially amongst the so-called church, to be disrespected when you are actually laying down your life, climbing to the lowest place for the freedom of people that hate you. This is the ultimate way to bless your enemies, to do the will of God despite the conflict! This is what it looks like to be a real servant CHRIST!
What’s that last word there? SERVANT! Of whom? Of what? ... Christ! Nowhere in the Bible are you going to find serve man! We serve Christ, and in serving Christ, we serve man in an ultimate way, the best way! Not in a worldly religious way! We serve man the KINGDOM of God, not the kingdoms of this world.
“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace.” 1 Peter 4:10
What does that scripture tell you right there? It tells us that we all are a part of the Body of Christ! We all have a role; we all have a part; we all have a gift, and we all have a calling! And this is how we serve one another! This is how we LOVE one another, by using what we have been entrusted with from heaven to tear down, rebuild and reconstruct the church of Jesus Christ through the power of God. Our inner gifts from God have been given SO that we CAN serve!
The Church is the people! Everyone talks about the church, the church, the church. But when God is talking about His church, he’s talking about His people! Religion focuses on the buildings and more buildings and more laser lights and their laundry list being done. This has nothing to do with serving the church! We serve the church when we release the Kingdom of God that is inside of us and LET THE OIL FLOW!!
The disciples wanted to know who is the greatest in the kingdom! Jesus says in Mark 10:44, “Whoever wants to be great among you must be slave of all!” What it means to be a slave of all is to be a slave to Christ! It is to be arrested to His Spirit! A bondservant, Paul calls himself. A prisoner to His will!
It means to become a living sacrifice, to become a producer of the Kingdom of God instead of your kingdom. What does it take to make that happen? It takes a death to your heart, mind, will and emotions so that God’s heart, mind, will and emotions can become life in you because when it does, life is offered to every person you encounter because the saving power is pouring out of you! No longer being producer of your own vision, your own dream or your own idea of the church, but laying all that down and saying okay God, give me the blueprint for the reconstructing of your people!
Many people even try to be true servers of the kingdom of God, but if you’re not letting him build His house, you’re building the house in vain and you’re serving in vain. We need to let Him be the Chief cornerstone and let him direct his masterpiece as we build brick by brick with Him! We need to stop striving to end world hunger. God rained bread and quail from Heaven in the desert and directed the crows to feed Elijah in a famine! God is trying to draw all men to himself. When we just reconcile people to the source, we don’t have to keep striving and building houses. God can give them 10,000 houses. God can make them a storehouse of food in a second! The Bible says all those who forsake all will have all these things: houses, lands, food, whatever. He said 100 fold, not just in the life to come but in this life now! So forsake your ideas and religious servanthood because it’s time to become a real servant, marked with a high calling from Him. A low calling to the world but a high calling to Him!
This is what a servant really looks like to God! This is how you fulfill the prophecy in the red lettering about yourself and become A Slave of All!
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