Mark 10:45(NKJV)
45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
John 13:17
17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Philippians 2:3-5
3 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. 4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
The Humbled and Exalted Christ
5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
Even though God created and controls the world, He did not demand that fallen humanity serve Him. Instead Jesus invited us to serve Him by modeling His lifestyle for us; He spent himself in the act of serving us. He wants us to put the interest of other people ahead of our own. He informed us that the only way to be first in His kingdom was to be last (Mark 9:35)
Jesus wants us to guard against an inflated sense of our own importance.
3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith -Rom. 12:3.
For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? -1 Cor. 4:7.
We are to live our lives with the servant attitude exemplified by Jesus Christ Himself when He stooped to wash the disciples' dusty feet (John 13:14-15).
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