"8 But you, do not be called 'Rabbi'; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren. 9 Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. 10 And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ. 11 But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. 12 And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. 13 "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in."This is Jesus speaking to the multitude and to the disciples and He was saying to them certain things that they must not do and certain things they must start doing. After talking about the Pharisees, He said ''but you…'' and that is the same word that Jesus is saying to you. “What I say to one I say to all.” There are three things that Jesus is saying in this Scripture. In Verse 8, He started talking about ''don't be called '' don't look for titles and this is very instructive for us at this time where God is looking for men, true men that will bear His power and His wisdom in our generation, God is not looking for title, God is not concerned about titles ''don't let people call you Rabbi'' the one that is called Rabbi is Christ, your teacher. Don't call anyone on earth your Father, for your Father is the one that is in heaven. What is Jesus saying here? Don't look for titles, don't be carried away by titles. He didn’t stop there, He went further to say in verse 11 "but he who is greatest among you shall be your servant." He who is greatest among you will be the one that is serving. This is what Jesus is saying in essence, don't look for titles but look for service, look for responsibilities. From the beginning of time, God has been using the foolish things of this world to confound the wise and the based things of this world to confound the mighty. God will bring title-less, ambitionless people from the back side of the desert and give them responsibility. God is always looking for a heart of service. As believers, we must understand this and work in the reality of it. Don't look for titles, look for responsibility because the Kingdom of God is not concerned with titles. That was why Jesus said “In the last days, many will call me Lord, Lord and I will say I don't know you. You workers of iniquity.” Even though you have titles, once the act of service is missing, you are not entitled because the Kingdom of God is looking for servants, men and women with servant heart. Because those are the ones that are the greatest. In verse 11, “but he who I'd greatest among you, shall be your servant,” and When God calls you, He doesn't give you a title, he gives you a responsibility. The heart of God is service oriented not title oriented. I have not seen in the Scripture where God calls a man and says I have called you now you be an Arch Bishop. God calls men and gives them responsibility to serve. When God calls a man from Adam to Abraham, to Moses, to Elijah, to Jeremiah, all the people that God has called in time past, God called them and gave them responsibility and opportunity to serve and we must not miss this because this is missing out among believers. Believers are looking for titles, they are not looking for responsibilities and God wants us to focus on it this year. Look for opportunity to serve and not titles or to be served, don't be faithful because you want to be given a title, be faithful because you have a heart for service. As a believer, your service is a life time. You don't serve God only with your time, you serve God with your life. Listen to Podcast: Kingdom Responsibility: Discover How to Serve God Acceptably The nature of service in the kingdom is a service of life and that's why when you become born again, the first thing you lay on the altar is your life. Don't serve and grumble or murmur. The service of the kingdom has code and conducts. God does not just accept any kind of service. He is not just looking for responsibilities and not just filling the gap. There is a procedure. Let us look at the procedures for the service of the kingdom from the book of Romans 12:1-8.Matthew 23:8-13.(NKJV)
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; 7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; 8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness."Before you can serve God;Romans 12:1-8 (NKJV)
- You must lay your life on the altar
- 2. Holy without spot wrinkle or blemish
- Acceptable to God
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