A Servants Heart

October 22nd 2009 the lord gave me this message for everyone to hear. I preached it in a youth group for the first time on December 17th 2009.

Matthew 20:26-27 (KJV)
But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.

So in the beginning of the sermon I had people wash their friend’s feet. Then after ward I asked them how it felt to get their feet washed and how it they felt washing the feet of the other person. Both of the people that got their feet washed were very thankful. But then I asked the people that washed the feet how they would feel if the other person was not thankful, but not only not thankful spit in their face and was just well excuse me French but a total jerk about it? Then I said this quote

“How do you know if you have a savant’s heart? It’s how you act when you’re treated like one.”

How do you know when you should serve?

Well one day I was shoveling my driveway. The snow was heavy and wet and to make it better I was shoveling with the shovel me grandpa Adams made and it was all straight and metal. So every time I would pick up a pile of snow it would slide right off. Fun right? Well I was coming down to the end of the drive / the hardest part because the snow plows through everything into a pile at the end of my drive. So as I was digging a maze through the snow I looked across the street. And there lied the drive way of the Nabors across the street coated with a heavy thick blanket of snow. And I felt like God was saying to go over there and do there’s after mine. I mean you could imagine what I was thinking “ya right”. But the lord just kept laying it harder and heavier on my heart. So as I got done with mine I put the shovel over my shoulder and gazed over across the street fighting with myself should I or should I walk my freezing body back inside? So I chose to go back inside. But as I was walking it dawned on me that if we have to ask if we should do it but we know its right than we should probably do it.

So I ran over there nobody appeared to be home which was good. So I started and tried to go as fast as I could. Every time a car would drive by I just kept thinking “o no is that them” And kept trying to think of something to say if they came. Like “um I’m not trying to steal your snow” or things along those lines. But they did not show so I finished in record braking time and ran back to my house and took a shower.

So how do we know when we should serve? “If we have to ask if we should do it but we know it’s right than we should probably do it.

So God calls everyone to different things. But he calls everyone too and gives the ability to everyone to talk about him and his love. So in a sense we are all called to be leaders to stand up for our faith and to work to plant seeds.

So I see Jesus as a leader not just because he had followers but because he shows us what a really leader should be like. And we as Christians try our very hardest to be Christ like. But let us remember Jesus Christ is the master of love and he came not to be served, or be some kind of big ruler but He came to to serve and give his life.

By serving you’re not only being Christ like our also being a leader.

1 Thessalonians 2:8-9 ( NLT )
We loved you so much that we shared with you not only God’s Good News but our own lives, too.
Don’t you remember, dear brothers and sisters, how hard we worked among you? Night and day we toiled to earn a living so that we would not be a burden to any of you as we preached God’s Good News to you.