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Serving in Step

with JesusJohn 12:20-26


First Point

Seeking to Serve


John 1220 Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. 21 So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."


John 1222 Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 23 And Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.


The Ultimate “Non

sequitur”

Do you go to New York or by water?



Mark 724 And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyreand Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden.


Mark 725 But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.


Mark 726 Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.


Mark 727 And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.”


Mark 728 But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.”


Mark 729 And he said to her, “For this statement you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.”


Mark 730 And she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.


Matthew 15

24He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”


Matthew 1528Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly.


Second Point

Dying to

Serve


John 1224 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.


John 1225 Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.


Living by the Numbers

70 years =

613,607 hours =

36,816,414 minutes


Muscle

Memory


Third Point

Honored to

Serve


John 1226 If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.


Matthew 4:19

“Come follow me, and I will make you fishers of

men.”


Mark 8:34

“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and

follow me.”


2 Timothy 4:7-8

7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.


8 Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.


John 12:26b

“If anyone serves me, the Father will

honor him.”


Johann Paul Friedrich Richter

(Jean Paul)

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life

the clearer we should see through it.

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