Lyrics
for the hymn, Make Me A Servant by Kelley Willard (©
1982 Maranatha Music, Willing Heart Music and CCCM Music
(ASCAP)(admin. by Music Services); see image reference above)
Today,
reply is on the sacred excellence of Christian servitude. All
Christian believers are to respond to one another as though always
acting in obedience to, and presenting the presence of Jesus Christ.
In this way courtesy, empathy, impartiality, and respect continually
appear among the members of the body, the church. When unselfish
service is properly practiced at every level—no
matter how menial or small ones assignments and tasks may be within
the household of faith—those
who are cheerful and dutiful earn
merit, and add great value on the basis of their bestowal of
affection, loyalty, respect, and trust; by their ability to secure confidences, mysteries, and secrets as well as through their
maintenance of discretion, humility, integrity, and self-government
under acknowledged authority. One of the fighters in the “Yahoo!
Answers” public forum on Religion and Spirituality who uses the ID
“Anonymous” (no profile information shown) posted the following:
What
do you do when a guy calls you a bastard in church?
My
first visiting a church was a food offering that was happening and my
friend invited me to come. The guy who was serving tea because he
made the tea was angry at people taking too much cups and my friend
and I were standing in front of him and he looked at me taking cups
and said 'bastard."
What
the f? why the hell would you come to church in the first place if
your in an angry place? I hope Hell is guaranteed for someone like
you. I have been visiting the church to see that bastard again so I
can call him the same way he called me bastard to his face
Update:
I NEVER call anybody bastard in the first place. I was in peace
enjoying my food. Bastard originally means you have no father. My
father died and is in heaven, Thank God for that because he is saved
from this horrible world full of angry people calling people names
for no reason.
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but
righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that in
these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved
of men. Let us therefore follow after the things which make for
peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. (Romans 14:
17-19, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Rendering Our Reasonable Service (06/15/2018); The
Relationship As Servant (06/03/2018); Being A Good Samaritan
(02/18/2018); Mankind’s
Priesthood in Heaven (02/16/2018); The Servitude of Angels
(08/28/2017); Divine and Unconditional Love (09/18/2016);
Covetousness, Slavery and Sin (09/16/2016); Called To Be Servants?
(11/25/2015)
“Anonymous”,
sinners who choose to come to GOD through Jesus Christ eventually are
to become anointed and ordained as priests, kings and joint-heirs
with the Son of the Highest by receiving a fresh endowment of spirit
substance from the makeup of divinity. Included are Christ-likeness,
faith, holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness, personhood,
righteousness, wisdom, and wrath against sin. Water baptism depicts
the death, burial, and rebirth of ones inborn spirit; and those who
become born-again also are to “grow up again” to become
mature/ripe for harvest by the Lord at his appearing (we also say,
the Advent; the Rapture; the Second Coming).
The
transformation to become one of those who will meet the Lord in the
air is completed in the twinkling of an eye; however, permanent
changes in ones lifestyle and daily routine begin with the decision
to acknowledge Christ as Savior. Only by operations of the Holy
Spirit are the character, makeup, and spirit content of GOD imparted
to the followers of Christ. Believers are edified and nourished
through such life experiences as acknowledging correction, discovery,
“growing pains,” enduring hardship, gradual growth, sacrifice,
unselfish service, study of the holy writings, and suffering.
Before
any believer may receive a crown of life, they will have learned and
practiced the meaning and value of forgiveness, giving, ministry,
oneness without sameness, respect, restraint that
displays love, and service. Consider again the following that uses
language from the Bible:
1.
Matthew 20: 20-29, King James Version (KJV): 20 Then came to him
the mother of Zebedee’s children
with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing
of him. 21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him,
Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and
the other on the left, in thy kingdom. 22 But Jesus answered and
said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I
shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am
baptized with? They say unto him, We are able. 23 And he saith unto
them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the
baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on
my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them
for whom it is prepared of my Father. 24 And when the ten heard it,
they were moved with indignation against the two brethren. 25 But
Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes
of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great
exercise authority upon them. 26 But it shall not be so among you:
but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; 27
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: 28
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to
minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. 29 And as they
departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.
2.
Luke 17: 7-10, KJV: 7 But which of you, having a servant plowing
or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from
the field, Go and sit down to meat? 8 And will not rather say unto
him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me,
till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and
drink? 9 Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that
were commanded him? I trow not. 10 So likewise ye, when ye shall
have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are
unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 3. Hebrews 12: 3-9, KJV: 3 For
consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against
himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. 4 Ye have not
yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And ye have
forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children,
My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when
thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,
and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure
chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he
whom the father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye be without chastisement,
whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 9
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us,
and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in
subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?) Even so, I trust
this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your
faith.
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AN
AFTERTHOUGHT: When Samuel the Prophet anointed David, the son of
Jesse, to be the divinely appointed ruler over all Israel, David was
yet within the household of King Saul as the king’s
adopted son; the Champion of Israel, a chief warrior, and a commander
over one thousand troops; the king’s
exorcist, music minister, and personal physician; and the kings
son-in-law by marriage to his daughter Michal. It would be an entire
generation (40 years) before David would finally wear the crown, and
receive the allegiance and fealty from all the 12 tribes. David
endured a period as a fugitive, a nomad, and a vagabond that provided
growth, practical knowledge, and testing to establish lasting
strength. David was required to serve in many lesser roles before he
would be acknowledged as Judge, King, Priest, and Prophet. In the
same way, before developing Christians may judge, officiate, reign,
or rule within the kingdom of heaven they must become refined and
tempered within the fire of service. It is written: 1st
Peter 1: 3-9, King James Version (KJV): 3 Blessed be
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his
abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance
incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in
heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith
unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 Wherein ye
greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in
heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your
faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though
it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and
glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8 Whom having not seen, ye
love; in whom, though now ye see him
not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of
glory: 9 Receiving the end of your faith, even
the salvation of your
souls.
THE
BLACK PHOENIX
Washington,
DC
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