NT Puzzle - Servanthood 2009.11.08

Brent TrickettNov 8, 2009

The Question

If you could ask Jesus to do one thing for you what would it be?

The text- Mark 10:32-45

 They were on their way up to Jerusalem, with Jesus leading the way, and the disciples were astonished, while those who followed were afraid. Again he took the Twelve aside and told them what was going to happen to him.

"We are going up to Jerusalem," he said, "and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles, who will mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he will rise."

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. "Teacher," they said, "we want you to do for us whatever we ask.”

"What do you want me to do for you?" he asked.

They replied, "Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory."

The response

“You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?” And they said to him, “We are able.”

And Jesus said to them,  “The cup that I drink you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized, but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”

The Other Response

When the ten heard about this, they became indignant with James and John.

Jesus called them together and said, "You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.

Not so with you. Instead,

whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

MEMORY VERSE

“For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Mark 10:45

PHILIPPIANS 2:1-11

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2

complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

HUMILITY- THE KEY

3 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

A TRUE SERVANT THINKS OF OTHERS, NOT THEMSELVES

5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

A TRUE SERVANT-SERVES

7 but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

A TRUE SERVANT-SACRIFICES

8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

A TRUE SERVANT- GLORIFIES GOD

9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

MEMORY VERSE

“For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Mark 10:45

The door of no return

Brent TrickettNov 8, 2009