1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,960 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist Sermon Archives. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,040 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty Baptist 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:13,040 Church in Easton, MA. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:17,280 or contact us at my libertybaptist.org or just look 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,760 us up on Facebook. And now we hope that this 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,040 message from God's Word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:26,520 Well, again, we're in Mark chapter 10, and I alluded to 8 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,840 just a few moments ago, not just in the introduction but also in 9 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:31,720 the song as well, that we're going to look at the fact that 10 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:35,080 Christ is servant. Now, this might be the most 11 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:38,760 startling of all of the titles of the messages we've looked at 12 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:40,640 so far. And I was talking about actually 13 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,760 this morning with the men during men's prayer, because when we 14 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,480 consider that Christ is omnipotent, we remember looking 15 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:49,200 at that last week, the idea that Christ is all powerful. 16 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,640 That doesn't surprise us. We know that Christ. 17 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,920 Is all powerful. We're not surprised of the fact 18 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,320 that Christ is healing. We know that through the Gospels 19 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,000 that Christ is the healer. In fact, we're not even really 20 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,080 surprised that Christ is meek. Well, we might be at first, but 21 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:06,480 that's because we don't understand often times what true 22 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:08,720 meekness is. But we understand that it's 23 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,680 power under his control. Of course, it just makes sense 24 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:17,000 that Christ is healer as well, or rather, Christ is meek as 25 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:18,680 well. But yet you get to the place 26 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,960 where we say Christ is servant. And we got to stop for a moment 27 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:24,440 ago. What the fact that Christ is a 28 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,880 servant because it doesn't seem like omnipotence and meekness 29 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,440 with power being under control would seem to go together with 30 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,440 the fact that Christ is a servant. 31 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,200 But yet, as we're going to see from Mark chapter 10 this 32 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,760 morning, the concept of Christ being servant is not something 33 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,040 that someone else has laid upon Jesus Christ, but rather 34 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,280 something that he is going to communicate to us through his 35 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,640 own words. And those red letter words that 36 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,640 we're going to find in the book of Mark in chapter #10 that 37 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,240 Jesus reminds us that he, he is a servant. 38 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,960 And this morning, as we see the fact that he is the servant of 39 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,720 all, we need to be reminded that the servant of all is calling us 40 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,600 to servants, That the servant of all, Jesus Christ is also 41 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,759 calling. Us to live the servant's life as 42 00:02:08,759 --> 00:02:10,680 well. For truly, if he can live the 43 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,160 servant's life, we should be able to live the servant's life. 44 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:15,440 So let's all stand together again. 45 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:19,600 Mark chapter 10, beginning in verse #42 And as always, we'll 46 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,720 read a shorter section, focus on what the word we're looking at 47 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:26,440 is, and then we will broaden our scope to be able to understand 48 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,400 why Jesus is even saying this in the 1st place. 49 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,320 Mark chapter 10 beginning in verse #42 As soon as I get there 50 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:39,280 and I am there, all right. The word God says, but Jesus 51 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,640 called unto, called them, rather than understanding them, being 52 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:46,680 the disciples to him, and saith unto them, You know that they 53 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,120 which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles, exercise lordship 54 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,240 over them, and they're great ones, exercise authority upon 55 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,320 them. But so shall it not be among 56 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,320 you. But whosoever will be great 57 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:00,840 among you shall be your minister, and whosoever of you 58 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:05,280 shall be the chiefest shall be servant of all, for even the Son 59 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:07,760 of Man. Came not to be ministered unto, 60 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:12,880 but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. 61 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:18,280 Let's look again at verse #45. For even the Son of Man came not 62 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:22,520 to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a 63 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,360 ransom for many. That word ministers often 64 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,520 communicated just as the idea of, well, what I do as a 65 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,040 minister, a pastor. But it really gets down to the 66 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,200 idea of being a servant. And in that case, we're all 67 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,280 called to be ministers and we're all called to be servants of 68 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,880 Jesus Christ. For if the servant of all can be 69 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,240 a minister, that we must be ministers and servants as well. 70 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:44,800 Why don't you be seated as we pray together? 71 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,320 Heavenly Father, we do thank you for this morning and I do thank 72 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:52,600 you again for the opportunity to preach and understanding what a 73 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,080 privilege it is and what a responsibility it is to be able 74 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,200 to stand behind this desk. I pray that you give me the 75 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,360 words to communicate the words of life, the words of healing, 76 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,560 or this comes from your gospel. Be at the same time to 77 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:08,600 understand that that gospel comes through a Christ who was a 78 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,480 minister who gave his life as a ransom for many. 79 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:14,840 And Lord, may we focus on this, dwell on this, and may it change 80 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:16,880 us this morning to be the servants that we are called to 81 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,640 be. And we ask it in Jesus name and 82 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:24,720 Amen. Mark 10 verse 45 has been called 83 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,360 the key to the book of Mark, and some could even argue that it 84 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,680 would be the key to the entire gospel as well, where it says 85 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,760 for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to 86 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:39,760 minister and to give his life a ransom for many. 87 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:43,600 And in that short sentence, in that short verse, Jesus tells us 88 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,360 three different things. He says what he didn't come to 89 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:48,840 do. He says what he did come to do. 90 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,200 And why he came to do it. And all three of these are. 91 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,480 Important for us to understand not just the gospel, but our 92 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,840 relationship with the gospel as well. 93 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,080 First of all, he said what he didn't come to do. 94 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,120 Well, what is that? For even the Son of Man came not 95 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,880 to be ministered unto. If there was anyone who deserved 96 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,760 to be ministered unto, it was Jesus Christ. 97 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,320 Why? Because he is the Son of God. 98 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,360 Why? He is God the Son, the Son of 99 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,560 God, God the Son, the triune God in the flesh here on this earth. 100 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,240 If there is ever anyone who should have been minister, 101 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,320 ministered unto, it was Jesus Christ. 102 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,280 But what does he say? Right after the chute? 103 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:28,480 He says this I didn't come to be ministered unto. 104 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:30,880 So he says, this is what I did not come for. 105 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,800 But then he says in a very brief phrase, what He did come to do, 106 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:41,080 and that was but to minister. The idea of the contrast that 107 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:46,040 the Creator of all things came to serve His creation. 108 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,440 Let's just stop about that for a moment, because it is. 109 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:50,720 And a lot of times we get to this place where we just are 110 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,880 used to the fact that Jesus did what He did. 111 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,360 And certainly it should be something that we dwell on in a 112 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,880 way that becomes commonplace. But even as we commonly dwell 113 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,920 upon it, it should never become a common thought in our life. 114 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,880 The idea that we just get used to the fact that the Creator of 115 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:12,840 all decided to dwell with mankind and literally minister 116 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,080 to that same mankind is something that ought to blow the 117 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:19,160 mind of mankind if He really dwells on it for any length of 118 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,120 time. He says I didn't come to be 119 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:25,000 ministered unto even though He deserved that ministration. 120 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:29,520 However He came to be a minister and then He said why He was 121 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:32,240 ministering? What was that reason to give His 122 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:37,600 life a ransom for many? The word ransom for many needs 123 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,160 special attention. That word ransom, it comes from 124 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,960 the Greek word lutron, which is the price for redeeming the 125 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:48,160 ransom paid for slaves. There was a price that would 126 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,800 need to be paid that was often talked about with slavery, that 127 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,960 there would be this idea, this concept of someone who had been 128 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:57,960 enslaved and a price would need to be paid to free them. 129 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:01,920 Julius Caesar, at one point, before he was the first, Caesar 130 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,400 was attacked by pirates on a ship and was held captive. 131 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,160 During that captivity, he was told that he had to raise funds 132 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:13,320 to be able to be freed. And so he had those who were his 133 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:15,880 associates, those who believed in him and his leader. 134 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,280 Leadership ability and they raised what the called what we 135 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:22,360 would call the ransom to be able to pay so that he would be 136 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:24,200 freed. By the way, when he was freed, 137 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,200 he ended up killing all the pirates who took him. 138 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,600 And so there's a whole different story that probably doesn't want 139 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,680 to take us in a direction that we're going here with our text, 140 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,160 but that is that is literally what happened. 141 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,520 The idea of a ransom is something that Jesus is 142 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,720 presenting to us for us to understand because it helps us 143 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:44,000 to understand not just why Jesus did what he did, but also the 144 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,120 predicament of which we have. Well, who is the one who's in 145 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,880 captivity? Who is the one who has judgment 146 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,680 laid upon them? Who is the one that has no hope 147 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,160 for eternity? Friend, that's you and that's 148 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,360 me. This is where we are and we need 149 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,800 someone to pay the ransom. And here's the problem, not many 150 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,440 people want to pay the ransom. And even if they could pay the 151 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:07,520 ransom, they couldn't pay. Only Jesus has the ability to 152 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:08,840 pay through his precious. Blood. 153 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,160 How do you remember the old song, that old folk song? 154 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,160 Charlie and the MTA? They may remember that. 155 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:14,800 There's a few of you that do. All right. 156 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:16,080 I do. I didn't hear, I've never heard 157 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,880 of it till I moved up to Boston for obvious reasons. 158 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:21,640 But the story was based on the fact that there's this guy named 159 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,640 Charlie back before he was even called the MBTA and he's riding 160 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:26,400 down on the Green Line. I think it's going down to 161 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:29,640 Leechmere or something like that and he has enough money for the. 162 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:31,440 Fair. But back then you also had to 163 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:33,640 have a token for the exit fair as well. 164 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,440 Well, Charlie went down to the green line and he had a token 165 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,120 for the fair, but he had no token for the exit fair. 166 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,559 So what happened to Charlie? You just kept riding around on 167 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,640 the MTA over and over again, day by day because he couldn't get 168 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:45,920 out. You know what the interesting 169 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:48,040 part about that song is? Somewhere near the end where it 170 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:49,320 says that his wife came down every. 171 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:51,680 Every day and gave him a sandwich and a bag of lunch. 172 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:53,920 And I'm thinking, you know what, if his wife really loved him, 173 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:55,760 why didn't she give him a token to get him out? 174 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,240 Forget the sandwich. Put a token in that bag. 175 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:03,520 Lady, I want to get out of here. There's a lot of people who are 176 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:06,440 just like that. They're trapped and there's 177 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:10,080 nobody that can pay the ransom. There's nobody that wants to pay 178 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,520 the ransom. Nobody even understands what the 179 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:15,800 ransom is, but there's Jesus Christ that here we are. 180 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:19,080 We're riding around in the endlessness of life and we don't 181 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:21,320 know which way to go and we don't know which way to turn it. 182 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,960 Here's people who try to give us the advice of self help. 183 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,680 Maybe that will get you out. And here's the someone who will 184 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:29,400 give you the advice of false religions and maybe that will 185 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:30,880 get you out. And there's some people who will 186 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:34,040 give you the advice of just trusting the God within you and 187 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,240 maybe that will get you out. And that's just the same as 188 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,120 someone coming down and giving you a sandwich and having you 189 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:42,880 keep riding around and. Circle but nobody wants to help, 190 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:49,680 but there's Jesus Christ who gave his life as the ransom for 191 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:52,040 many. By the way, we believe in a 192 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,080 whosoever gospel and Jesus believed in a whosoever gospel 193 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:57,400 when it talks about many who is that many people? 194 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,840 Well, the many people of the all people who ever lived. 195 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,840 That's many people. That's all whosoever gospel we 196 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:05,120 believe. Don't get worried because it 197 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,280 says many how many people lived on this earth? 198 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,720 Many and Jesus died for them all. 199 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,320 Amen. He gave his life a ransom for 200 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,040 many. He paid the money he paid, or 201 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,880 rather He paid the ransom of which we could not pay. 202 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:21,240 How did He pay? Well, first Peter one verse 18 203 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,360 and 19 say, for as much as you know that you were not redeemed 204 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:28,480 with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain 205 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,600 conversation, retrieved by received by tradition from your 206 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:36,600 Father's, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb. 207 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:40,640 Without blemish and without spot, that is what the ransom 208 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,080 was paid with, not with silver or gold. 209 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:47,120 Corruptible meaning this it goes away, but with the precious 210 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:52,440 blood of Jesus Christ. And what's amazing about this is 211 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:54,760 Jesus didn't just do this for the people who loved him. 212 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,480 In fact he did it for the world who did not love him. 213 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:04,400 You say, well I love Jesus and my answer to that would be you 214 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:08,680 love him now, but you didn't always love him. 215 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:11,360 I didn't always love him before we knew him. 216 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:16,960 First John verse four, or First John chapter 4 verse 19 says we 217 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,440 love him because He first loved us. 218 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:23,840 Romans 5, verses 6 through 9. For when we were yet without 219 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:27,000 strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 220 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,320 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet for 221 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,880 peradventure a good man, some would even dare to die, but God 222 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,880 commendeth. God showed His love toward us in 223 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,160 that why we were yet sinners, even knowing who we were. 224 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:45,720 Christ died for us much more than being now justified by His 225 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:48,520 blood. We shall be saved from wrath 226 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:52,160 through Him. Some of us have been in 227 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,640 situations before where perhaps debts have started to mount up, 228 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,560 where there was difficulty in being able to pay those debts 229 00:11:58,560 --> 00:12:02,600 that start to accumulate through credit cards or through loans or 230 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,400 whatever it might be. And you get in those situations, 231 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,560 what do you have to do? Well, I've always been told that 232 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:12,960 if you have a income problem, your income needs to go up or 233 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,760 your outgo needs to go down. And when it comes to debt, all 234 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:17,520 you got to do is get your income up. 235 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:20,320 So what do you do? Maybe start working nights, 236 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:23,840 maybe start working overtime, maybe find a second job. 237 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,360 Maybe you get a side hustle. That's what they call that 238 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:29,040 today, going out and do an Uber or those kind of things. 239 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,400 Maybe that's what you need to do and you do that because you need 240 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,080 to be able to get yourself out of that financial hole. 241 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,800 But imagine that you did that. You work nights, you worked 242 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,480 overtime, you worked a second job, you worked yourself down to 243 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:48,120 the bone, not just for days or weeks or months, but for years. 244 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:51,280 But you didn't do it for yourself, you did it for 245 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,240 somebody else. How many people would do that? 246 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:57,440 I'd say very few. Let me ask you this, How many 247 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:00,680 people would do that for someone that actively hated them? 248 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,600 Nobody do that. Nobody in their right mind would 249 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:07,240 do that. Be it. 250 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:11,680 Jesus endured hardship of which this world has never seen before 251 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:13,840 and this world will never see again. 252 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:16,480 The brutality. Of the cross. 253 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:19,640 And yet he did it. The Bible says in Hebrews 254 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,200 chapter 12 verse 2 for the joy that was set before him. 255 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,240 Not the joy of the pain, not the joy of the suffering, not the 256 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:29,680 joy of the mocking, but the joy of having restoration with 257 00:13:29,680 --> 00:13:33,120 mankind because he was able to pay the ransom. 258 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:35,600 This is what our servant did for us. 259 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,080 This is what he came to do. He didn't come to be ministered 260 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,400 unto, but he came to minister. And why do you do it? 261 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:44,880 To give his life as a ransom for many. 262 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,400 And listen, if that was the end of the message right there, 263 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:49,280 praise the Lord, but you're not that lucky. 264 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,160 You're not even close to. That lucky you, say pastors. 20 265 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:55,880 minutes left. You go circle around for 20 266 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:57,520 minutes. I got plenty more. 267 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:00,240 Like they used to say, I got a lot of MO. 268 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,360 I can go for a while all right? But there's there's a couple 269 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:07,000 things that you have to understand because really we 270 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,080 need to kind of plant a flag here for just a second and 271 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:13,520 remind you the Bible says you must be saved and that you must 272 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:18,120 be born again, that you are a Sinner, that judgment is real. 273 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:22,160 Did you see that word wrath? That the wrath of God abideth on 274 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,040 you if you don't know. Jesus Christ, your Savior, 275 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:26,600 because you have a penalty to pay that you can't pay. 276 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,240 You can't work enough nights, you can't work enough weekends, 277 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:31,800 you can't work enough overtime, you can't work enough Grubhub, 278 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:33,720 Uber, or whatever you want to call. 279 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:38,400 It to pay for the sin debt that's upon your life In fact, 280 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:44,320 you can't work at all to pay the sin debt of your life because 281 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,360 the Bible says that salvation is the gift of. 282 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:51,480 God not of works. Best any man should boast if you 283 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:55,160 work for your salvation, you can be proud of what you earned and 284 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,080 what you achieved look at the salvation that I have achieved. 285 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:02,480 But all we can do is say, look at the salvation that God has 286 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:06,640 given me, that I am undeserving of, that I am but a worm. 287 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,880 But. I'm to dust, but he took pity 288 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:12,760 upon me. He brought me up out of the pit, 289 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,520 out of the miry clay Psalm chapter 40, set my feet upon the 290 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:20,040 rock and established my goings. This is what God did for us. 291 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,360 And if you don't know where you're going to spend eternity, 292 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,240 you may have been coming here for months or even years, and 293 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:27,600 you just still, maybe you would just try to put this part of the 294 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,240 message out of the way. You like the parts where I'm 295 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:31,680 funny and there's a lot of those. 296 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,720 Amen. But you, that wasn't one of the 297 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,200 funny parts, all right. I wasn't expecting you to laugh 298 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,200 there. There's a lot of parts where 299 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,800 there's places that maybe make you feel good inside and helpful 300 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:44,200 for you, but you just want to put away this idea that you 301 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:45,880 don't know where you're going to spend eternity. 302 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,760 You cannot take just part of the message and focus on that, 303 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:52,400 because the parts that you like about the message, the parts 304 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,040 that encourage you, the parts that help you, the parts that 305 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:58,640 motivate you are only dependent upon the fact that you need to 306 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:00,480 be saved. Because there's not enough 307 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:04,320 motivation in this world to be able to have you pay the ransom 308 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,200 yourself. Only Jesus paid that ransom. 309 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:10,680 And so you could try to put it off to the side as much as you 310 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:13,400 want. But the fact of the matter is, 311 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:17,080 you will be presented with the fact, And we saw in Revelation 312 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:22,240 Chapter 20 on Wednesday and Revelation chapter #21 that if 313 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:27,480 you refuse to be confronted with this idea, this reality of the 314 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,760 Lake of Fire, you will be confronted with the reality of 315 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,560 the Lake of Fire once you were at the Great White Throne 316 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,400 Judgment, and it'll be everlastingly too late to do 317 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,040 anything about it. What do you need to do? 318 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:44,600 The ransom's been paid. You just need to accept the free 319 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,800 gift of salvation. When ransom is paid, when a 320 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:53,520 pardon is given, it still must be received, still must be 321 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:55,880 accepted. We talked a few days ago during 322 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,280 our Soul Winning conference about the idea that particularly 323 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,240 during Civil War times, there were issues and times when 324 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,839 Abraham Lincoln would issue pardons for men who had done 325 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:11,359 certain deeds, maybe had been on gallant on the battlefield, but 326 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,040 yet for some reason had received a pardon to spare their life. 327 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,920 And they refused it because they said I deserve that which I'm 328 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,560 about to receive. A pardon is no pardon if it's 329 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:23,160 not received, and a ransom is not your ransom if it is not 330 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,880 received. So you must receive the gift of 331 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,080 salvation today. You must trust in Jesus Christ 332 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:34,040 as your Savior today. But as usual, we have to ask 333 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:37,200 ourselves this question. It's incredible that Jesus said 334 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:39,360 that. The amount of truth in just 335 00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:43,040 verse 45 is immense. But why did he say it? 336 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,760 Where did this come from with his walking down the road one 337 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:49,080 day and all of a sudden he turned around and he said, let's 338 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,600 talk about ServiceNow. There were times that he popped 339 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:54,440 some questions on the disciples just like that. 340 00:17:55,280 --> 00:18:00,400 But in this case, this was precipitated by a conversation 341 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,640 that took place that showed the disciples truly didn't 342 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,200 understand what ministry and service was all about. 343 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:10,120 So what I need you to do is I need to go back up to verse #25 344 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:12,000 we're going to stay in Mark chapter 10. 345 00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:13,720 Actually, I want you to verse 35. 346 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:21,680 Don't go to verse 25. Verse #35 and let's review this 347 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,160 because as we've done before, we kind of focus on the word. 348 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:27,240 We focus on what the characteristic is, but then we 349 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,760 broaden our scope to see why is this here? 350 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:33,000 Why is this even a discussion? Because as we broaden, it helps 351 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,840 us to understand how this applies to our life. 352 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:40,120 Verse #35 says And James and John the sons of Zebedee, come 353 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:44,200 unto him again, being Jesus, saying, Master, we would that 354 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,240 thou should US do for us whatsoever we shall desire. 355 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,240 Now this is a bold statement to make to Jesus Christ right off 356 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,600 the bat, but I will tell you there is something that is not 357 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:55,960 found in the book of Mark that is found in an adjoining passage 358 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,360 in Matthew chapter 20. And that is the fact that it is 359 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:01,120 not just James and John who are approaching Jesus Christ. 360 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:06,680 It is also their mother. Now James and John probably 361 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:10,400 thought, you know, maybe Jesus isn't going to hear this request 362 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,520 as well, but I bet he'll say yes to our mother. 363 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,600 This ought to tell you this is a bad start right here. 364 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,160 This is when you're trying to manipulate Jesus Christ, say, 365 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,120 well, he couldn't say no to an old lady. 366 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,480 It's not a good start. And it says, And he said to 367 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,280 them, What would ye that I should do unto you? 368 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:34,640 And they said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit one on 369 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:37,960 the right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in glory. 370 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:41,480 Now there's a fundamental problem with what they are 371 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,600 asking here. One, they are asking for 372 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:48,280 something of which they have no understanding of, because 373 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:50,240 they're talking about glory. We could even put it this way. 374 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,960 They're talking about the Kingdom, but yet they don't even 375 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,880 understand what the Kingdom is. In fact, you're going to get to 376 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,480 Acts chapter one, verse 6, and Jesus is ascending into heaven 377 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,840 and they're still asking is it time for the Kingdom? 378 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,520 And they do not understand the concept of the Kingdom that is 379 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,480 to come as they should. So they're asking for something 380 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:13,520 here. They do not know the time, they 381 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,040 do not know the place, and they don't even know what they're 382 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:21,400 asking for. And it says next in verse 37. 383 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,720 Verse #38 rather, But Jesus said unto them, You know not what you 384 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:29,680 ask, Can you drink of the cup that I drink of and be baptized 385 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:31,800 with the baptism that I am baptized with? 386 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,440 Now he's Speaking of the suffering that is to come to 387 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,080 baptize, to be immersed in the suffering that is to come. 388 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:41,080 Can you drink of the cup of suffering of which is to come, 389 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:45,520 that cup of suffering that Jesus even prayed in the garden that 390 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,640 it could pass from him? But nevertheless, not my will 391 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:54,160 Father, but your will be done. And it says are you able to 392 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:56,560 Verse 40 sit on my right hand and on my left hand. 393 00:20:56,560 --> 00:21:00,440 It's not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom 394 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:07,560 it is prepared. Now this conversation was one 395 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:11,040 that showed these two men were concerned with what leadership 396 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,680 and not service they were wanting to serve. 397 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,280 They were wanting to be served. They had some fundamental 398 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,840 misunderstandings. Now this is bad enough, but look 399 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:25,000 at what it says in verse 41. And when the 10 heard it, they 400 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,400 began to be much displeased with James and John. 401 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,880 I bet they weren't because here's in James and John behind 402 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:34,440 their back going to Jesus and saying basically when it comes 403 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,360 to glory, when it comes to Kingdom, could you make sure 404 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,960 we're ahead of the other 12 or the other 10? 405 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:42,520 Now they're going to be ahead of one of them, that's for sure, 406 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:43,680 because one of them was the devil. 407 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,600 But there's nine others that definitely had some issues with 408 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,040 what's being said. I can only imagine. 409 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:53,320 I wish the Bible had told us. I would love to ask the Lord 410 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,320 when we get to heaven someday. What did Peter? 411 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,200 Have to say about this. Perhaps it's not recorded 412 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,880 because we should know what Peter said about this here in 413 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:02,760 this life, because it probably wasn't good. 414 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:06,000 James and John, the sons of Thunder, please put us on your 415 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,640 right hand and on your left, and Jesus says, do you think you can 416 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:09,920 handle? It they say we can handle it, 417 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:11,880 but they don't know what they're handling, They don't know what 418 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,200 they're talking about, and they're asking a fundamentally 419 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,440 flawed question because we understand from what we just 420 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:21,240 read in verse 45, they're called to be servants, not to be 421 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:25,320 served. And so Jesus has to get the 422 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:26,480 disciples. That's why he tells them all to 423 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:28,960 come to him. And he says, you know, that 424 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,680 they, which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles, exercise 425 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,120 lordship over them and they're great ones, exercise authority 426 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,680 upon them. He says this type of thinking, 427 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:42,080 boys, it comes from the world. What you guys are talking about 428 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:45,720 right now is exactly the way the world thinks. 429 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,760 You ever wonder why people pay, why people donate? 430 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:53,560 People give billions upon billions upon billions of 431 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:58,880 dollars to be able to win a presidential race, of which the 432 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,240 salary costs only $250,000 a year. 433 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:05,880 Why would people pay billions and billions and billions and 434 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,560 billions and billions of dollars donations, all of that? 435 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:13,440 Because it's all about power. You know, I'm not talking about 436 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:14,440 politics. I'm just talking about the 437 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:18,360 reality of the situation. That's just all about power. 438 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:20,960 And here's what Jesus says. Say you're thinking like the 439 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,400 Gentiles think. You're thinking like the world 440 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,760 thinks. Your thought process as a 441 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,600 believer is fundamentally flawed. 442 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:34,720 And he says it in this phrase in verse #43 but so shall it not be 443 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:37,800 among you. He says let them think that way, 444 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:42,320 but you think differently. They're going to think that way, 445 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,040 but you think differently. But whosoever will be great 446 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:51,680 among you shall be your minister, and whosoever you will 447 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,000 be the chiefest shall be servant of all. 448 00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:57,360 Jesus is asking to do the exact opposite of what their flesh 449 00:23:57,360 --> 00:23:59,800 wants to do. What does their flesh want? 450 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,000 Their flesh wants to be at the top. 451 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,400 And Jesus says if you want to be at the top, be at the bottom. 452 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:12,920 If you want to be served, then you just need to serve. 453 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,160 Now coming from Jesus, that could be something that maybe 454 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:19,440 they would be even offended by. Well Jesus, who are you to give 455 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,920 us this kind of teaching? Why would you ask us to do 456 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,640 something like this? Nobody teaches this way. 457 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,600 But then in verse #45 Jesus gives them the kicker. 458 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,680 He says, you may not think this is the way to live, but I'm 459 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,080 telling you this is the way that I live. 460 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:41,360 And if I can live this way, I came not to minister unto or to 461 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:44,720 be ministered unto, but to minister and to give my life a 462 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,080 ransom for many. It's as if Jesus saying, if I 463 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,200 can do this, you don't think that you can do this. 464 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:58,760 If I can come and serve my own creation that will by and large 465 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:03,960 reject me, then you think that you have a right to do that 466 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,640 which is above even that which I am doing. 467 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:13,240 It's lunacy, but yet Jesus makes clear this is what He was called 468 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,520 to do and what we're called to do. 469 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,880 That last part is important. It's what we're called to do. 470 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,000 So you thought this was just about the disciples? 471 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:30,200 He called the disciples to come. He talked to them, but no doubt 472 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:34,840 He's also speaking to us today. The idea of servanthood and 473 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:40,200 ministry is not just for rugged fishermen some 2000 years ago, 474 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,920 but it's the calling that the Lord has placed upon us today as 475 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:47,200 well. For certainly if Christ was a 476 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,720 servant, then we must be servants as well. 477 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:54,000 But Pastor, you say if I serve like Jesus said, that I'll never 478 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,480 get anywhere in life, I'll get run over, I'll get abused, I'll 479 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,320 never get ahead. And certainly there'd be many 480 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,080 that would think that. And I would agree with you 481 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,720 except for the fact of, well, I'd answer by saying this, it 482 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,240 depends on what you define as getting ahead. 483 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,520 Do you define it the way James and John we're trying to get 484 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:19,840 ahead, which was trying to bypass 10 other disciples and 485 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,640 all other believers and to become sitting at the right hand 486 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,120 and the left hand of Jesus? Do you define as the Gentiles, 487 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,200 as Jesus said, as he talks to the disciples, which of the 488 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,760 Gentiles exercise leadership and lordship over all? 489 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,680 This is what they want. If you define that as getting 490 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,560 ahead, then yes, as a servant of God you will not get ahead. 491 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,520 But what does he do? He readjusts their thinking of 492 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:48,960 who he is to remind us how who he is effects Our Calling. 493 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,440 He says I want you to be reminded who I am because who I 494 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,400 am should make you rethink how you are called and what your 495 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,440 calling is to this world. That is to be a servant. 496 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,960 In essence, he's saying if I can serve. 497 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,720 You can serve. Jesus was the one who washed the 498 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,440 disciples feet. Jesus was the one who fed the 499 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,720 5000 and by the way, that 5000 with 5000 men when you had women 500 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:17,640 and children, it likely was well over 10,000 that he served and 501 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,480 that he fed. Jesus was the one who healed and 502 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,400 touched the leper, the one who was physically and spiritually 503 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,080 compromised, but yet Jesus reached out to him. 504 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,480 Jesus is the one who calmed the storm when he was trying to rest 505 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,560 but yet saw the needs of the disciples. 506 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,560 Jesus was always serving. You find Him in man, Matthew and 507 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:41,320 Mark and Luke and John, and all He ever did was serve and serve 508 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,920 and serve all the way to the cross, when He gave His greatest 509 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:49,560 act of service that He ever gave and that mankind will ever see, 510 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,840 and that is to give His life on the. 511 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:57,640 Cross so that we could be saved to give his life a ransom for 512 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:03,960 many. So I ask you, what do you have 513 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,800 to give up compared to him? So I got a lot to give up 514 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:12,240 Pastor. I mean, he gave up the 515 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:17,720 prerogatives of glory, proximity with the Father to spend around 516 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:22,760 33 years with people who by and large didn't listen to him and 517 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:28,200 it crucified him. But if knowing the end from the 518 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:32,120 beginning as He did, may I remind you that Jesus in his 33 519 00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:35,120 years was not on the edge of His seat wondering what would happen 520 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:37,600 next? You know, I'm not trying to be 521 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,480 sarcastic about it. I'm trying to remind you it 522 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,440 wasn't as Jesus was walking around during His earthly 523 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,360 ministry and was wondering what was ahead around every corner. 524 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:49,920 Jesus knew before the beginning what the plan was, and yet 525 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:55,520 knowing what the plan was, was willing to do it and knew that 526 00:28:55,520 --> 00:29:00,320 He'd be mistreated and mischaracterized and ultimately 527 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,640 give his life on the cross. But how can we understand this 528 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:06,440 further? You're called to be a servant. 529 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,960 I'm called to be a servant. How can we understand this 530 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,600 further? There's a text that we have to 531 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,000 go to this morning. I mentioned I believe on Friday 532 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:14,960 night. There's a text we have to go to 533 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,280 today because I really governs the way we understand the mind 534 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,960 of Christ and how we are to be able to have that mind of 535 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:22,800 service ourselves. So if you would turn to 536 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:24,960 Philippians chapter #2 we don't have to go back to Mark chapter 537 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:25,840 10. You don't need to hold your 538 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,200 place there. Philippians chapter #2 For some 539 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,080 of you, this is a foundation, foundational set of verses. 540 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,880 You've read this many times. I'm always reminded there are 541 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,160 new believers that are with us. There's some who are younger in 542 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,520 the faith. And I want to reintroduce you or 543 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,680 rather to introduce you to some of the foundational passages of 544 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,760 the Word of God. What we're about to read right 545 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,560 now, new believer, is 1 of what I would call the foundational 546 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:50,520 passages of the Word of God. Who is Jesus and how does it 547 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,280 affect how we live, particularly in this area of service? 548 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,920 Let's start verse #1 it says Philippians 2 verse one. 549 00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,160 If there be there for any consolation in Christ, if any 550 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,360 comfort of love, any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and 551 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:08,080 mercies fulfill ye, my joy that ye be like minded having the 552 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,920 same love being of 1 accord. Of one mind, he's talking to the 553 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,280 church and he's saying this. I want you to be have the same 554 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,560 love be of 1 accord, of one mind. 555 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,600 He's saying this. You need to have the right 556 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,560 mindset as a church and as a church. 557 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,520 Liberty Baptist Church today, we're not the Church of 558 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,360 Philippi, but we are a church that should also have the same 559 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,760 love being of 1 accord and one mind. 560 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,320 This should be the most harmonious place on the. 561 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:34,600 Planet at least tied with other Bible believing churches. 562 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,680 Often that's not the case. I thank the Lord for the 563 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,520 wonderful unity that God has given us at liberty, but at the 564 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,920 same time, we must guard ourselves because this is not 565 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,000 what the world wants us to have, certainly not what Satan wants 566 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,840 us to have. Let nothing be done through 567 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,080 strife or Vainglory, but in lowliness of mind, there we go, 568 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,680 lowliness of mind that we could start to see something forming. 569 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,680 When it comes to service, let each esteem other better than 570 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,480 themselves. Isn't service about the fact 571 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,760 that I see your needs to be more important than my own needs? 572 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,400 Look, not every man to his own things, but every man on the 573 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,920 things of others. Now maybe you'd get to verse #4 574 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:12,360 and you'd say, how is this even possible? 575 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,160 How could I even get to the place where everyone else's 576 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:16,560 needs are more important than my own? 577 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:21,400 Well, that's where verse 5 opens up and again, if you're in the 578 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,400 habit of marking your Bible, you could just underline from verse 579 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,200 5 and verse 10 and don't stop. In fact, I just take out a 580 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,200 highlighter and highlight till it runs out of highlighter 581 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:31,840 because that's what we're looking at in the Word of God 582 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:32,680 right now. It's that good. 583 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,360 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, 584 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,240 being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be 585 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:43,760 equal with God. That talks about the deity of 586 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:49,120 Christ, but made himself of no reputation, took upon him the 587 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,840 form of a What's that next word, servant, and was made in the 588 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:57,000 likeness of men. Being found in the fashion of a 589 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:02,880 man, he humbled himself, became obedient unto death, even the 590 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,640 death of the cross. Wherefore God has also highly 591 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,440 exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name, 592 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,640 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. 593 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,480 Of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the 594 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:20,040 earth. To be able to from verse 6 to 595 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:26,560 verse 8 truly to understand how low Jesus Christ brought himself 596 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,520 to be to this earth is unbelievable. 597 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,720 That yet is 100% God and 100% man. 598 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,600 All God and all man at the same time came to this world, humbled 599 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,760 Himself as a fashion of man, became obedient unto. 600 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,200 Death. Look at He was not forced to 601 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,080 death, he was not tricked into death, A Judas did not put him 602 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,480 in a corner and there was no way for him to be able to extra 603 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,160 extradite himself. This is not checkmate placed 604 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,120 upon Jesus. He became obedient to that which 605 00:32:56,120 --> 00:33:00,360 his Father had even the death of the cross. 606 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,400 Consider what the psalmist said about God and His greatness. 607 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,000 Psalm 113 verses 4 through 6. The Lord is high above all 608 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,560 nations, and His glory above the heavens, who is like under the 609 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,520 Lord our God, who dwelleth on high, who humble with himself to 610 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,360 behold the things that are in heaven and the things in earth. 611 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,400 Contrast those words to and being found in fashion as a man, 612 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:30,080 he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the 613 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,000 death of the cross. This explains what kind of 614 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,640 minister he was. This explains his mindset. 615 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,960 But what does that have to do with us? 616 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,560 Go back to verse #5 will you read it with me? 617 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,000 Let this mind be in you. Well, let's try that again. 618 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,080 Let's just pretend I just said, will you read that with me? 619 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,480 OK, good. All right, will you read verse 5 620 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:56,440 with me? Let this mind be in you, which 621 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,960 was also in Christ Jesus. Read it again up to the comma 622 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:00,800 and stop. Ready. 623 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,080 Let this mind be in you. Stop. 624 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,320 What's this message about? Could you summarize it in one 625 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,719 sentence, Pastor? If I was to summarize it, I 626 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,719 would let the Word of God summarize it and it would be 627 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:21,320 this, let this mind be in you. What are we to do? 628 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:29,320 Let this mind be in you. Now let me make some application 629 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:30,600 and we'll be done. Just say there's some of you 630 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,880 that are probably thinking, oh, pastor, I know what I know what 631 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:35,960 this message is about. You need more people to help out 632 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:37,239 the church. And so this is one of those 633 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,719 messages where you know you. Just afterwards, you can say, 634 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,560 oh, if people want to help clean up, how many people want to be 635 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:42,800 greeters? How maybe you want to go in the 636 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:43,960 parking lot. And guess what? 637 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,880 We need people to help clean. We need people in the parking 638 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:46,760 lot. We need people that are 639 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:47,840 greeters. We need people to help with 640 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,400 visitation. We need people in the nursery. 641 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,880 We need junior church workers and Sunday school workers and 642 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,400 helpers. We need all that. 643 00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:56,040 We need all of that and more. But that's really not what the 644 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,040 thrust of the message is about because we can be busy around 645 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,880 the church doing all of those things and more, where everybody 646 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,640 has an agenda that's filled with this and that going here and 647 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,200 there, doing all the things at the church and everything is 648 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:09,400 field. We don't need any workers 649 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,040 because everybody's working. But yet that doesn't mean that 650 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:16,480 we are truly servants at heart. Because really, if we want to 651 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,120 solve the problems of having enough people at church doing 652 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:23,600 that which is needed, or problems of being servants in a 653 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:28,240 home or servants in a workplace or servants at a school, what we 654 00:35:28,240 --> 00:35:30,680 really have to do is this. We have to address. 655 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,200 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, 656 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,240 because otherwise we just get you performing for the sake of 657 00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:40,160 performing instead of really getting down to the heart of I 658 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:43,240 want to serve because I want to be like Jesus. 659 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,800 I want to serve because I want to think like Jesus thinks. 660 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,240 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. 661 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,920 It's not just about the church. Sure, we need help with the 662 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:55,400 church. I can't imagine a time when we 663 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,920 didn't. Need help with the church but 664 00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,080 it's so much. More than the church. 665 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,560 Husbands, you know what your wife needs. 666 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,960 She needs you to be a servant. Oh, Pastor. 667 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:13,120 OK, I know what the proper order is biblically, pastor, that the 668 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:17,760 man is the head, that he is the one that is in charge and he is 669 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,760 the one that takes care of the little woman. 670 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,160 All right. And like it's often said that 671 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:25,240 the man may be the head, but the woman is the neck that turns the 672 00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:25,960 head. Amen. 673 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,200 Some I'll give you a minute. Let that roll through. 674 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,200 All right, go through one more time with that one. 675 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,360 Is there a biblical order to the family? 676 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,600 There is. That doesn't mean that there is 677 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,840 a difference in value because the man and the woman are of the 678 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:46,240 same value. Yet God does assign positions of 679 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:50,080 authority. So yes, Sir, you have authority 680 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,800 in the home. Checkmate, you got me. 681 00:36:54,720 --> 00:37:01,520 But who else had all authority? Hold on a second, was it Jesus 682 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:08,880 and he decided to be a servant to those that he led And if we 683 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,840 are to in our marriage relationships, Ephesians chapter 684 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,080 5, go home and read it yourself if you'd like. 685 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:19,720 We are to be that which is like Christ in the home. 686 00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:21,520 No, no, I'm not trying to give you weird theology. 687 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,200 I'm just telling you that we are to be His representative in the 688 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:25,600 home. Then what are we to do? 689 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:30,960 Well that we are to be the chief servant in the home and that's 690 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:36,200 not popular teaching, but it's Bible was first Peter 37 say 691 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,840 likewise he husbands dwell with them according to knowledge, 692 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:43,320 giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel. 693 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,240 Whoa, hold on, pastor, the lady say the. 694 00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:49,720 Weaker vessel. Haven't you heard of feminism, 695 00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:52,640 Pastor? Oh, yeah. 696 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:54,280 Yeah, Ralph and I've. We've heard of feminism. 697 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,800 I'll tell you what he he'll tell you about after church if you 698 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,280 want to. But I would tell you this. 699 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:03,720 Is the woman the weaker vessel? The Bible says yes, but does 700 00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:09,440 weaker mean of less value? In fact, I could make an 701 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,800 argument that a lot of things that are quote UN quote weaker 702 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:16,760 are actually a very high value. But the God understand there's a 703 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:23,160 need for protection and then he's an honor and of love in a 704 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:27,200 very unique and special way. And Sir, God has called you to 705 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:34,000 be that servant to your wife. Wives, God has called you to be 706 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:38,080 a servant as well, to serve your husband, to serve your family. 707 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,440 Ephesians 524 Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, 708 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,840 so let their wives be subject unto their own husbands. 709 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,480 And everything get not popular today. 710 00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:50,920 Get the Bible gives us the order for life. 711 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:55,360 And really the way it makes sense is if the husband serves 712 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:59,880 the wife and the wife serves the husband, doesn't it just kind of 713 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:03,160 work itself out? This is what God has called us 714 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,440 to do. So I'm not going to serve her 715 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:10,200 until she serves me. Maybe you ought to start and do 716 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,760 your part and not worry about what other people are doing and 717 00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:18,200 got to work out the rest. Matthew Henry put it this way, 718 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,160 and I love this. The woman was made of a rib out 719 00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,120 of the side of Adam. Not out of his head to rule over 720 00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:26,960 him, not out of his feet to be trampled by him, but out of his 721 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,920 side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, near 722 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,840 his heart to be beloved. I believe that's what God has 723 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,200 intended to have in the home. I don't care if it's popular out 724 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:41,080 there. I don't say, well, the world 725 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:42,400 doesn't like that. Well, the world doesn't like 726 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:43,800 anything in this book, to be quite honest with you. 727 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:46,640 So I'm not going to change this to make them happy, because if I 728 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,440 change it to make them happy, they're going to be unhappy with 729 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:49,520 the rest of the stuff in the Bible. 730 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:50,960 So why don't we just believe the Bible? 731 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,800 Young people, God served you to called you to serve your parents 732 00:39:57,720 --> 00:39:59,600 and your teachers well. I'm, I'm very busy. 733 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,280 I, I don't know I can serve my parents well. 734 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,080 You, you, you can find some time. 735 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,160 I don't know if I could serve my teachers. 736 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:07,440 That's not what that's not what students say. 737 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:08,920 That's that's what teachers pet does. 738 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,440 No, that's what someone who's trying to be like Christ will 739 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,880 do. You're trying to be a servant 740 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:17,920 employees. God's called you to give an 741 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:19,680 honest day for an honest wage. You. 742 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,880 Need to be the best servant that you can in the office or in the 743 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,440 job site. The Christian ought to be the 744 00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,600 hardest worker at every job. The Christian ought to be the 745 00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,760 most honest person at every job. The Christian ought to be the 746 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,920 one that everyone in the workplace can say, that is 747 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,560 someone who understands what it is to be an employee. 748 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:36,520 Why? Because they understand how to 749 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:40,240 be a servant. Colossians 322 Servants obey in 750 00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:43,000 all things your masters according to the flesh, not with 751 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,560 eye service as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing 752 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,920 God. You see, service isn't just 753 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,080 something that we do at church, it's a life. 754 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,000 And if you only serve when you want to, you're really serving 755 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,720 yourself more than you're serving others. 756 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,640 I even challenge you, the places that you enjoy to serve. 757 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,640 If you only serve and the places you enjoy serving, are you 758 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:05,440 really serving the way that God intends you to? 759 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,280 Because service is about, I'm going outside of my comfort 760 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,000 zone, trusting that the Holy Spirit will help me with that 761 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,720 which He's called me to do. This should be something we do 762 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:19,800 on a daily basis, serve even to strangers. 763 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,560 We show deference in all things. Letting someone ahead at the 764 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,320 checkout, holding the door for somebody that's behind you, 765 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,360 offering your seat to someone who is elderly, listening 766 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,000 without interrupting when someone else is speaking, 767 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,760 allowing someone else to merge into your lane and traffic. 768 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:35,200 I know I had a hard one driving that one too. 769 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,160 Take the less desirable task so someone else won't have to do 770 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,000 it. If there's one piece of pizza 771 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,480 and two people, you don't have to be the one to take it. 772 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,520 This is what services. But you see our mindset. 773 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,080 There's one piece. I'm kind of edging my hand up 774 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,440 like Diane, you don't want that, do you? 775 00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,040 You don't want that, do you? What is that? 776 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:05,920 Service is something of the mind before it's something of the 777 00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,280 body. Let this mind be in you, which 778 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:13,000 was also in Christ Jesus. And when you know who you serve 779 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,720 and why you serve, it changes everything. 780 00:42:15,720 --> 00:42:16,880 Let me give you this illustration. 781 00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,440 We'll be done. I read this many years ago. 782 00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:23,000 It's it's so good. John Kenneth Galbraith, in his 783 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,560 autobiography A Life in Our Times, illustrates the devotion 784 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:30,240 of his family's housekeeper named Emily Gloria Wilson in 785 00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:33,880 this way, he said. It had been a wearying day, and 786 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:37,040 I asked Emily, his housekeeper, to hold all telephone calls 787 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,000 while I had a nap. Shortly thereafter, the phone 788 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,680 rang. Lyndon Johnson, the president, 789 00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:43,800 was calling from the White House. 790 00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:47,640 Get me Ken Galbraith. This is Lyndon Johnson, she 791 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,280 responded. He is sleeping, Mr. President. 792 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,960 He said not to disturb him. We'll wake him up. 793 00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,040 I want to talk to him. No, Mr. President. 794 00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:03,120 I work for him, not for you. When I called the president 795 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,040 back, he could scarcely control his pleasure. 796 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,520 Tell that woman I want her here at the White House. 797 00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,840 Why? Because she understood who she 798 00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,160 served. Who do you serve? 799 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:20,600 One higher than the President, the King of Kings, and the Lord 800 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,520 of Lords. How many of our problems will be 801 00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:26,840 solved if we would just let this mind be in you, which was also 802 00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,680 in Christ Jesus, the servant of all is calling us to service. 803 00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,480 Will you answer? Thank you for listening to the 804 00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,080 sermon from the pulpit of Liberty Baptist Church. 805 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,720 If this message was a blessing to you, or if there's any way we 806 00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:43,840 can serve you, please let us know by contacting us at 807 00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:48,720 info@mylibertybaptist.org. Or you can visit us this Sunday 808 00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:52,640 at 800 Washington St. in Easton, MA. 809 00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,680 May the Lord bless you as you grow in His Word.