Set Free To Serve The Living God
1 Peter 2:16, Hebrews 9:14 and Galatians 5:1
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The compelling power and love of God’s Spirit in us, will cause us to continually follow in Messiah’s footsteps, to set the captives free and to seek and save the lost."
- 1 John 2:6 -
Our Savior surrendered and poured out His precious life blood to redeem us. When we are “born again” “new creations”, our lives belong totally to Him. (John 3:3, 2 Corinthians 5:18) We are to surrender and submit our lives to Yahshua (Jesus), in order for the Holy Spirit to have His rightful dominion over us. He will lead us to continue the holy work of serving others and glorifying the Father, as we help others to be born again children, destined to fill His Kingdom. We must be born again in order to have the indwelling Holy Spirit lead us into all truth and teach us how to serve our God and Savior and other people. As we grow in an intimate incomparable loving relationship with our beloved Redeemer, we will know the abundant life. The abundant life is the life in the Spirit allowing Him to be exalted, seen, heard, and magnified through our surrendered redeemed lives. The compelling power and love of God’s Spirit in us, will cause us to continually follow in Messiah’s footsteps, to set the captives free and to seek and save the lost. The flesh can never have abundant life, it only looks for temporary joys on this earth.
Our Messiah served. He emptied Himself of all deity, taking on the the form of a humble servant, giving us an example to follow in His footsteps."
- Philippians 2:7, 1 John 2:6 -
It is vital, at this late hour, that we make a decisive prayerful choice as to whom we are going to serve. Yahshua (Jesus) said, "No one can serve two masters.” (Matthew 6:24) Are you going to serve yourself or serve your Savior? We are going to have to give an account, it is vital to do it now, this side of the judgment seat. (2 Corinthians 5:10) Our Savior redeemed and left us here with a holy mission to bring His truth of eternal life in love, by the Holy Spirit to others. We are to prefer one another to ourselves. (Romans 12:10) So, if we are busy serving ourselves and don’t truly care about the salvation of others, we are falling short of His great commission. (Matthew 28:19-20) Our Messiah served. He emptied Himself of all deity, taking on the the form of a humble servant, giving us an example to follow in His footsteps. (Philippians 2:7, 1 John 2:6) As it is written, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve.” (John 3:27) He proclaimed this blessing, “If anyone serves Me, he or she must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; … and the Father will honor him.” (John 12:26) We are to live a life of service, a crucified life that denies the flesh and its desires, by coming out of the world and being a separate and holy people. (See Matthew 16:24, 2 Corinthians 6:17) (Hebrews 13:13)
Our Savior sent the disciples out individually with the great commission. We are the living temples that house His presence and glory and we are to bring Him to others in the highways and byways of our lives"
- 1 Corinthians 3:16, Luke 14:23 -
Our service will fulfill the two vital commandments that Yahshua spoke, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:30-31) These two commandments are what wholeheartedly compels and propels His children, by the indwelling Holy Spirit, to lovingly pour out their lives as a drink offering in service and sacrifice to their God and Savior and for the salvation of others. When we are out of the way, through denying ourselves, Yahshua (Jesus) is magnified, exalted, seen, and heard in and through us. The words of truth, spoken in love, will come from the indwelling Holy Spirit and touch the heart of others with the reality that it is not flesh and blood who is speaking to them. Truly, they are having an encounter with the One who lives in us and loves and speaks truth that sets them free. This is what people are waiting to see. Our Savior sent the disciples out individually with the great commission. We are the living temples that house His presence and glory and we are to bring Him to others in the highways and byways of our lives. (1 Corinthians 3:16, Luke 14:23) If we are living for ourselves and living in the world, whatever we speak biblically, is not going to carry the life changing power that can only come from the Holy Spirit speaking the truth through our redeemed born again surrendered lives.
Yahshua (Jesus) gives His Spirit to those who obey the Father’s commandments and His will and mandate to deny themselves and daily pick up their crucifixion stake to follow Him. (See Acts 5:32, John 14:15, Luke 9:23) When we deny ourselves we give the Holy Spirit His rightful dominion to serve others through us, but self-serving people don't consider others as important, because self is the god of their lives. So, if we choose to serve ourselves, we are guilty of robbing our God of glory, robbing Him of the preeminence and the dominion over our redeemed lives, and robbing others of seeing and hearing from Him living in and through us.
We must redeem the time by fulfilling our Father’s heart's desire to be serving Him and others.”
Those who are self serving are enemies to Yahshua (Jesus), because self is an enemy that wars against the Holy Spirit. (See Galatians 5:17) There are so many within the churches worldwide who do not understand or desire to live a crucified life. Consequently, their religion is based on self-righteousness rather than the true righteousness of the Spirit-filled remnant, who deny their worldly desires to follow Messiah. Continuing to thwart God’s purpose makes us friends with the world and, consequently, enemies to Him and the cross. (James 4:4, Philippians 3:18) If we profess faith while indulging our sinful self-nature we are contemptuously trampling Yahshua’s blood underfoot. (See Hebrews 10:29) Any religious system that endorses self seeking, self centered, self serving ways is a self righteous counterfeit gospel. Messiah said we are to, “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” “For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.” (Matthew 7:13-14, Luke 13:24) At this late hour, we must redeem the time by fulfilling our Father’s heart's desire to be serving Him and others.
Yahshua (Jesus) asks us, “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.” His faithful servants, love their Master, and they are serving the others by helping them love, obey and grow up to bear His holy identity. They will be mightily blessed. In contrast, is the terrifying reality of what will happen to those servants who were busy serving themselves, busy with the world, and did not lay down their own desires to please the Master by serving the other servants. Yahshua proclaimed with certainty, “He will cut them to pieces and assign them a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 24:51) Throughout His ministry, the Savior warned that many who self-assuredly believed they were headed to heaven would be turned away at the gate. He will tell them plainly, ‘You didn't do the will of My Father and ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’ Depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness who broke My Father’s commandments.’ (See Matthew 7:21,23 and 25:12).
Brothers and sisters, let us hear what His Spirit is saying. Time is short, and we must each work out our own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in us, both to desire and to work for His good pleasure. By the power of the Holy Spirit within our lives, may we prayerfully, by grace and faith fulfill this high calling to walk as Yahshua walked, being a humble servant to our God and Savior and to others. (1 John 2:6)
