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Are you willing to adjust your life to whatever God reveals of Himself in the coming days?
Who our Master is will determine how we serve Him.
The measure of His dignity and rule must be the measure of our obligation and privilege in serving Him.
Tonight we will be looking at passages that describe the sovereignty of the King of heaven.
The attribute of God’s sovereignty is going to teach us that God possesses and exercises the solitary right to do all His pleasure with all His creation, without explanation or interference. .
As with all other attributes, God’s sovereignty is part of who He is and never requires any effort on His part to maintain it.
It is difficult for us to imagine a being who can possess such rights.
A question I had to face before my right relationship with Jesus was this, “What right does God have to rule over all areas of my life, over all lives, or over all the universe?”
So tonight in a timely manner we are going to exhaust our minds and bibles to see this truth.
A.W Tozer said
As the knowledge of God becomes more wonderful, greater service to our fellow men becomes for us imperative.
READ the verses below and summarize what they say of God’s rule.
READ the verses below and summarize what they say of God’s rule.
Conclusions
In these Scriptures, we see that He has the right to rule upon His self-established throne (no one helped Him gain His kingdom).
He has the right to rule over all that He has created (from nothing, not from materials which He received from another).
He has the right to rule over all that dwell in His realms (every galaxy, planet, angel, human, animal, plant, and atomic particle).
He has the right to govern all that occurs throughout the duration of His eternal reign (He will never be replaced).
He not only possesses the right to rule over all; He also has the ability.
His power, wisdom, righteousness, and goodness demonstrate the perfection of His rule.
Thus we see that if anyone disputes His claims, he is guilty of the most irrational rebellion against the most perfect king.
It is God upon His throne, whom we trust.
— C. H. Spurgeon
The Lord is worthy of our service.
Seeing God as He is, the Christian joins the apostle Paul when he exclaimed:
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever.
Amen.
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Nearly sixteen hundred years later, a dying Scottish minister expressed the same determination to do all for Christ.
Surrounded by friends and fellow workers, Samuel Rutherford pleaded with them:
My Lord and Master is chief of ten thousands of thousands.
None is comparable to Him, in heaven or in earth.
Dear brethren, do all for Him.
Pray for Christ.
Preach for Christ.
Do all for Christ; beware of men-pleasing.
The Chief Shepherd will shortly appear.*
*This statement is taken from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford.
Service in Christ’s kingdom must begin with a clear look at the King.
The brightest example of a servant life, built upon an appreciation of the majesty of God, is the life of our Lord Jesus
He is, after all, the One we are called to follow.
This may appear to be an unnecessary statement, but if we look at the modern church scene, it becomes apparent that few of us are treating the pattern of Christ as the only option for Christian service.
Happily, the pattern of Christ is the most beautiful, God-exalting, and joyful pattern for service, as well as being the only truly practical one.
Nothing is more impractical than attempting to serve others in Christ’s name while ignoring Christ’s pattern.
Therefore, few things are more beneficial to a person who wishes to serve God than to carefully study and imitate the servant life of Jesus.
Does God ask us to do what is beneath us?
This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.
— Elisabeth Elliot
We will begin with one of the loftiest servant passages of the New Testament, .
In this letter, Paul encourages the believers to interact with each other in humility and self-forgetfulness.
To help them in this calling, Paul offers them a motive and a pattern, both of which are found in the life of their Lord.
Christ’s humility is unveiled in the choices He made as He did the Father’s will by serving others on earth.
READ and list the descriptions of this Servant.
Jesus demonstrated the close connection between humility and faithful service offered to God
We should ask ourselves: How can we imagine that it is right to serve this King with our hearts full of self-importance?
One fruit of real humility is self-forgetfulness.
It is one thing to say, “I am not more important than others.”
It is quite another thing to pour your life out for others while forgetting yourself.
The Christian aims to be like his Lord.
He desires to live free from the tyranny of constant self-focus which would elevate his desires and needs above others.
Self-centered pride refuses to serve others if the service requires being taken advantage of or putting our own needs behind another’s.
Our pride will occasionally stoop down and help someone, but only after we know that we can still get what we want.
These proud thoughts were foreign to Jesus.
Listen to what Paul said to the Christians in Rome who were struggling to forget themselves and love each other:
For even Christ did not please Himself.
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So simple!
So humbling to our pride.
Yet nothing less can be called “Christian” service.
And I will labor to be like my Savior, by making humility lovely in the eyes of all men, and by following the merciful and meek example of my dear Jesus.
— George Herbert
Another fruit of humility is the willingness to serve from the motivation of love (to God and others).
We should serve for the good of the people and refuse to use our service to gain a sense of personal worth.
It is amazing how much we will do in religion to obtain purpose and significance.
Purpose and significance are certainly found in the Christian life, but they come through seeing Who it is that loves us.
When feeling good about ourselves becomes the goal of our Christian service, we have left the pattern of Jesus and embraced “crooked patterns.”
How can we grow in Christ-like humility when pride is so natural to us? Andrew Murray’s little book Humility: The Beauty of Holiness is a friend to any Christian who desires to follow Jesus.
Murray points out a number of truths that promote humility in believers, such as realizing the depths of our sin and the great grace of God.
However, the main reason he gives for humility is this: seeing the majesty of the Creator and the beauty of taking our proper place before Him.*
*Andrew Murray, Humility: The Beauty of Holiness (London: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1969), 5–7.
We are weak and sinful before the thrice-holy God, but Jesus stands before Him perfect and sinless.
Unlike us, shame over sin was never a part of His humility, yet He willingly chose to humble Himself, taking a role of submission to His Father.
When we turn our eyes upon the Son of God, we find One who is essentially humble.
In reality, humility was as much a part of His divine nature as holiness.
How can we understand the manner in which His humility is expressed toward the Father while carrying out the work of our salvation?
The answer must lie in part in the reality of His perfect love for the Father.
Jesus’ love for the Father made submission to the Father’s will His great joy.
His determination was to live in perfect harmony with His Father.
All of His service to mankind was ultimately an expression of the love and humility He bore toward His Father.
For believers, seeing God in His regal splendor brings a gentle and voluntary humility.
Seeing God’s majesty and His unexpected grace reaching out to us, we find that we are happy to take our proper place as servants.
Being loved by Him, we do not feel the need to gain other people’s approval.
Serving others out of love for God, we are happy to lay aside our personal rights as Christ did.
SELF-EXAMINATION
What think we of Christ?
Is He altogether glorious in our eyes, and precious to our hearts?
May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all.
May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.
— Matthew Henry
READ again.
Do you have those characteristics of humility that Jesus possessed?
Are you presently pursuing them?
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