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Now in Matthew Chapter Twenty, matthew
twenty, verse seventeen. So I want
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to consider with you today. Are
Calling each and every Christians calling to be
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a servant, even a Deacon,
to the Lord, and will do so
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to to the Lord and for the
Lord and in the Lord's name. Will
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consider that today from Matthew Twenty,
beginning at verse seventeen, and I'll read
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through the end of the chapter.
And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem,
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he took the twelve disciples aside and
on the way he said to them,
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see, we are going up to
Jerusalem and the son of Man will
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be delivered over to the chief priests
and the scribes and they will condemn him
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to death and deliver him over to
the gentiles to be mocked and flogged and
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crucified, and he will be raised
on the third day. Then the mother
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of the sons of Zebede came up
to him with her sons and kneeling before
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him. She asked him for something
and he said to her, what do
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you want? She said to him, say that these two sons of mine
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are to sit one at your right
hand and one at your left, and
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your kingdom Jesus answered, you do
not know what you are asking. Are
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you able to drink the cup that
I am able to do or that I
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am to drink? They said to
him, we are able. He said
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to them, you will drink my
cup, but to sit at my right
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hand and at my left is not
mine to grant, but it is for
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those whom it has been prepared for
by my father. And when the ten
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heard it, they were indignant at
the two brothers. But Jesus called to
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them. Or but Jesus called them
to him and said, you know that
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the rulers of the gentiles Lord it
over them, and they're great ones.
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Exercise Authority over them. It shall
not be so among you, but whoever
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would be great among you must be
your servant, and whoever would be first
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among you must be your slave.
Even as the son of man came not
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to be served but to serve and
to give his life as a ransom for
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many. And as they went out
of Jericho, a great crowd followed him.
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And behold there were two blind men
sitting by this roadside, and when
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they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, Lord, have
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mercy on a son of David.
The crowd rebuked them, telling them to
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be silent, but they cried out
all the more. Lord have mercy on
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us, son of David, and
stopping. Jesus called them and said what
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do you want me to do for
you? They said to him, Lord,
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let us let our eyes be opened. and Jesus and pity touched their
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eyes and immediately they recovered their sight
and followed him. May God bless his
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his word to us. So for
the past two or three years here in
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our church we've been asking the Lord
to raise up new deacons for US officers
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in the church, to serve us, and over that time I've also been
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discipling various men in our congregation to
help them grow in their ability to serve
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and to lead as as deacons.
And, if the Lord Wills, in
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a month or so, you will
have the opportunity to vote on certain men
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in to become deacons in our church. And so, in order to help
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us to be ready for that,
in order to prepare us, I want
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to spend a few weeks preaching on
some key passages to help us understand what
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the Bible says about who deacons are, what they're called to do, what
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that ministry is and means in the
life of our church, in life of
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God's church all over the world.
But before we begin considering the calling and
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qualifications and job description, all of
these things of deacons with a Capital D,
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I want to begin by thinking about
are all of our work and calling
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as deacons with a lowercase D,
in other words, each and every Christian,
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every brother, every sister, whether
you are a little person or a
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big person, all of us have
been called into the Lord to serve,
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to be servants, as he says
here. The Word Deacon is used in
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this passage in Greek and and another
similar passages. So I want to begin
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with that. Before we consider these
special offices at the Special Office of Deacon,
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I want to begin by considering the
General Office that we all share together
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as deacons. And so that's why
I titled Today's Sermon Every Christian is a
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deacon, just to make the point
really clear. So let's begin by thinking
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about this distinction between the Office of
Deacon and the General Call that we all
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have. We won't spend a lot
of time here, but I do want
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to just make sure we're all on
the same biblical page as we begin.
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So first this distinction. There is
a special office called Deacon, what I
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might refer to, or have referred
to as Capital D Deacon. If you
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turn with me to first Timothy Chapter
Three, I'm you'll find one example of
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this, and this is a passage
will consider several times over the next few
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weeks. First Timothy Chapter three,
in verse eight through verse thirteen, we
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have a passage where the qualifications for
deacons are listed. That's right over we
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have in that's right after, I
should say, we have in chapter three
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the qualifications for the office of overseer, as it says in verse one of
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Chapter Three. So we begin with
the Office of overseer and now we move
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to the Office of Deacon. Verse
Eight. Deacons likewise must be dignified,
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not double tongued, not addicted to
much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.
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They must hold the mystery of the
faith with a clear conscience, and
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let them also be tested first,
then let them serve as deacons if they
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prove themselves blameless. Their wives,
likewise, must be dignified, not slanderers,
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but sober minded, faithful in all
things. Let Deacons each be the
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husband of one wife, managing their
children in their households well, for those
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who serve well as deacons gain a
good standing for themselves and also great confidence
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in the faith that is in Christ
Jesus. So here we have. We
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see in several ways that there is
a special office of a Deacon. One
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way we see that is that there
are qualifications. Here we also see that
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some people are not to be deacons
and some are, notice verse ten in
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particular. Let them be tested first, then let them serve right. So
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this doesn't say that this person is
a deacon and is still a deacon,
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but is not a deacon, and
then we'll be a deacon, provided they
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passed that period of testing, provided
they are qualified and ready to serve.
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So we see that some men in
Christ church are called to be deacons and
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some are not. Some Christians are
deacons, some are not. We also
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see this the this office in acts, chapter six. So if you would
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turn with me, there a similar
place where we see qualifications given and a
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particular distinction being made between some Christians
and another in terms of job or a
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function. So this is another important
passage when we consider the Office of the
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Deacon. It chapter six, verses
one through seven. Now, in these
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days when the disciples were increasing in
number. A complaint by the Hellenists rose
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against the Hebrews because their widows were
being neglected in the daily distribution. And
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the twelve summoned the full number of
the disciples and said it is not right
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that we should give up the preaching
of the word of God to serve tables.
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Therefore, brothers, pick out from
among you seven men of good repute,
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full of the spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this
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duty, but we will devote ourselves
to prayer, into the Ministry of the
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word. And what they said please
the whole gathering. And they chose Stephen,
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a man full of faith and of
the Holy Spirit, and Philip and
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prochorus and Nicko Nore and team on
and Parmenas and Nicolas, a proselytype from
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aunt of Antioch. These were set
before the apostles and they prayed and laid
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their hands on them and the word
of God continued to increase in the number
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of disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem,
and a great many of the priests became
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obedient to the faith, as is
a a great story, right if if
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you're learning story structure right in Elementary
School of beginning, a middle and an
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end, a conflict of resolution.
It's all here very nice and and neat.
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And then we have in this account
a very serious problem, though.
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It is a problem between different kinds
of people within the church, Greek people
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and Hebrew people, on both Christians, but a complaint rising up against one
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group against the other over widows being
neglected. This is a serious problem.
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And the disciples called together the church. And then they make a distinction.
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They say we need to continue our
work in preaching the word of God.
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We cannot give this up. This
is our particular calling, and so we
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need to have others who are dedicated
to that. And then we have the
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list of those who were chosen.
So these people that were chosen, it's
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not that they were not Christians,
they were, they were among the full
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number of disciples, but they were
chosen by the Church for this particular task
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and we have those qualifications. So, as I said, we have sought
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this office of Deacon, clearly described
in Scriptures. All deacons must be Christians,
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but not all Christians must or even
should hold the office of Deacon.
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But though there is a special office
of Deacon, there is a general office
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as well, one that every Christian
is called to. One of the ways
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we see we see that is through
various uses of this word on Deacon or
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similar variance of that in the Bible
as it refers to us in general.
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Sometimes the word Deacon is even used
to refer to unbelievers or non Christians.
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Romans Thirteen for speaks, for example, of government rulers or magistrates in general,
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Christians or Non Christians, and says
of of the of the rule or
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over over all people. He is
God's Deacon for your good. This even
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refers to a man like Nero,
someone who was evil in so many ways
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and persecuted Christians. This person could
be considered a deacon, even God's Deacon
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for your good. How does the
Roman Magistrate, how does Emperor Nero,
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serve as a Deacon of the Lord? Paul explains, if you do wrong,
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be afraid, for he does not
bear the sword in vain. He
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is the Servant of God and Avenger
who carries out God's wrath on the wrong
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doer. Now, of course,
some do this well and some do this
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poorly, but Paul's point here is
that the state has the power of the
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sword and has it legitimately from God's
own hand as God's own servant. Now,
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those servants don't always do well,
just as we do not always do
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well in our role of servants,
but servants they are nevertheless. The point
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here is just to see you show
you this use of the Word Deacon.
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Here's another interesting use of the word. And glaciers to hundred and seventeen.
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It says. Is Christ then a
Deacon of Sin or a Servant of sin?
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And Paul Answers, certainly not right. He is not a Deacon of
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Sin, a servant of sin.
What this frominds us is what a deacon
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is it. It is the servant
of another. Christ is not the Servant
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of Sin, He is the Servant
of righteousness, he is the Servant of
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God. We see Christ being called
a deacon of the Lord, a servant
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of the Lord. and Romans fifteen
eight, for I tell you that Christ
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came, became a Deacon, a
servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness,
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in order to confirm the promises given
to the Patriarchs. The apostles are
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called deacons, Paul says. And
glaciers to ten. Only they asked us.
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That is the apostles asked us to
remember the poor, the very thing
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I was eager to do. And
as we have here in Matthew, Chapter
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Twenty that we read, Jesus says
it shall not be so among you,
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but whoever would be great among you
must be your servant, your Deacon,
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Ministers of the Gospel. That office
are also called Deacons, Apollos, for
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example, in First Corinthians three five. What, then, is Paul?
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Is Apollo's? What is Paul?
Deacons through whom you believed as the Lord,
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assigned to each. So the Ministry
of the word and the Apostolic Ministry,
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These particular callings are seen as service
callings, Deacon callings, and that's
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important for ministers to remember. But
it's not just apostles, it's not just
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Jesus, it's not just ministers of
the Gospel that are called deacons. But,
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as I'm making the point, we
are all called to be deacons,
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all called to serve John Twelve twenty
six, Jesus. John Twelve twenty six,
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Jesus says, if anyone serves me
or serves me and that we're deacon
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is there again. He must follow
me, and where I am there my
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deacon be. Also, if anyone
serves me, deacons me, the father
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will honor him. So we have
a general calling to all Christians and to
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and a promise to the world that
if you serve the Lord, if you
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follow the Lord and if you are
a servant of the Lord, then God
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will honor you, God will be
with you, God will be present with
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you. So this calling that we
all have to follow the Lord, to
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serve the Lord, to be in
service to the Lord, is a very,
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very important one and it's important that
as we think about the office of
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Deacon, we begin with grounding that
in the General Office of service that we
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all have. This helps us avoid
all kinds of errors, that helps us
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avoid thinking things like, well,
we don't have deacons, so we don't
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need to care for the poor among
us. Right. That would be very
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bad, because we all are deacons, right, and we are all called
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to care for the poor. We
ought not to say, well, once
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we have deacons, to say well, that's not my job, I don't
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have any responsibilities anymore because now we
have deacons, right, this would be
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improper. We also see that,
to speak positively, that the deacons of
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the church are those who work alongside
of other servants in the church. Together
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we fulfill this Ministry on. Together
we take care of of those who are
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needy and show Christ's mercy to those
who are in need. So, as
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we look and see these words and
this word being used in various places in
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the scripture, I want to now
consider with you something that is more fundamental
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than just word usage and particular instances, and that's the Gospel itself. When
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we consider the work of deacons,
whether that is capital D or lowercase D,
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official or unofficial, we have to
begin with the work of Christ himself,
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because, apart from that, we're
just busy buddies. Apart from that,
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we're ultimately not about serving other people
or serving the Lord, because in
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our sinfulness, in the state of
sin into which we are all born into,
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we're servants of only one thing ourselves, or perhaps we could say ourselves
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and our sin. Is Christ a
Deacon of sin? Certainly not. But
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are those who are born under the
wrath of God and born in a sinful
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state? Are they deacons of sin? Absolutely, before we were rescued by
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Christ, before he lift US up
out of our invalidity, before he healed
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our eyes, like he does with
these two men in this passage we were
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deacons of sin, servants of Sin, servant to the evil one, servants
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of our own pleasures, our own
lusts, our own desires. There's a
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sad instance, a story in the
gospels, of a man coming to Jesus
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and he says, what must I
do to be saved? Man Say,
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and Jesus says to this man,
a rich young man, he says give
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away what you have to the poor, and the man turns away in sorrow.
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He didn't want to love, he
didn't want to serve, he didn't
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want to follow Christ and the service
that Christ gives. He wanted to keep
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his things, he wanted to keep
them for himself, he wanted to keep
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his own life. He was a
servant of himself. And that's who we
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all are. And so the call
to serve Christ is not just a job
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description, another job you might take
on. The call to serve Christ is
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in a way salvation itself. The
call to serve Christ is in a way
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salvation itself, because apart from that
salvation there is no call to serve,
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there's no desire to serve, there's
no heart to serve. But because of
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who we are in Christ because of
what Jesus first did for us, we
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enter into a very wonderful thing,
a service to the Lord, no longer
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slaves to sin, but slaves and
servants and deacons of Love, of righteousness,
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of healing, of restoration. Here
God's word in Hebrews three one.
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Therefore, holy brothers, you who
share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus
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the Apostle and high priest of our
confession. So this is where we begin
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when we consider our calling as deacons
in Christ's church. We consider and we
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begin with Jesus, the Chief Deacon, the chief servant, the one who
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has given us a share in his
heavenly calling. In other words, it's
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important that is we begin to think
about our service to others, in our
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service to God in Christ. We
don't think about ourselves often over somewhere doing
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something on our own, but we
think about ourselves as those who share in
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the very calling that Jesus himself has
been called to, that calling that he
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describes in Matthew Chapter Twenty. And
so let's turn our attention back there and
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remember the word that was for set
before us. If to these two parallel
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stories right, we have two groups
of people coming to Jesus and saying,
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I want you to do something for
me, and Jesus saying what do you
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want me to do? In the
last instance, we have these blind men
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by the side of the road begging
Jesus, feeling they're inadequacy, feeling their
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need, feeling their lack. They
cannot see, like this poor man who
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was unable to be healed that we
read about and John Chapter Five. I
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Have I've been a been valid,
he says, for thirty eight years,
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because there is no one to help
me. What do you want me to
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do for you? Help me,
all right. This is not the position
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of someone who is glorious and confident
and has it all together and, out
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of their own power and resources,
are now going to be able to make
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their mark on the world. These
people that Jesus is helping, our people
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that say help me, I need
help. If we think about our role
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as deacons in Christ church and we
think about ourselves as fancy, great,
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glorious people who are capable of saving
others, we've got it all wrong.
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From the very beginning, deacons in
Christ church are first and foremost people who
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have been helped by him. Blind
people by the side of the road,
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who were given their sight invalids,
who are uncapable, are incapable, of
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bringing healing into their lives, of
doing anything that would move them toward that
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goal, but who were told by
Christ, get up, take up your
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bed, walk, follow me,
serve me, and they go forth.
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We begin our calling as servants,
as those who have first been served.
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And that's what Jesus says, and
he corrects James and John and their mother,
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when she comes to them and they
come to or when she comes to
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Jesus and they come to Jesus.
They come to Jesus as a group.
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So how takes Jesus aside, you
know, away from the others, so
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they don't hear. Says we want
you to do something, we want you
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to I want you to do something
for my son's what do you want when
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you come into your kingdom? I
want you to put one on your right
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and one on your left and then
the three of you will go gloriously right
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into the world. Or whatever she
had in mind, whatever they had in
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mind. Jesus, I love this
passage. Jesus says you do not know
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what you're asking. Then he asked
this question. He says, are you
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able to drink the cup that I
am able to drink. And they said
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to him. So this is why
I'm saying it's not just mom, but
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mom and boys, that all three. They say to him, we are
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able, right, are you?
And when he says drink the cup,
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right, drink. Will you drink
the cup that I am to drink?
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What is he talking about? He's
talking about the cup of Wrath that he's
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just described in the verses. Right
before this, right as he was going
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into Jerusalem, he takes the twelve
disciples and says the son of Man will
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be delivered over to the chief priests, inscribes they will condemn him to death,
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deliver him over to the gentiles to
be mocked, flogged and crucified,
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and then he will be raised on
the third day. They come to Jesus,
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having totally forgotten every thing that he
is just said, are you able
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to drink the cup? We're able, we're ready. Right. It's very
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much like Peter Right when when he
says I will never deny you, Lord,
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I will go to the death for
you Lord. Well, fascinatingly,
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Jesus says to them, you will
drink the cup, right, they say,
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we are able. And he says, well, you will. But
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in a way they don't understand,
as he says, what they're asking for.
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They are going to suffer, they
are going to die. They're not
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thinking about that. They don't want
that. They just want to enter into
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glory. They want to be at
the right and the left. They want
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to be the great and mighty people
of God in this kingdom. But how
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does the kingdom come? How will
God's will be done on earth as it
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is in heaven? It will be
done through suffering, through service, through
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self sacrifice in the name of the
Lord. When the ten hear of this,
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they're not happy. Right, kids, have you ever maybe taken your
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mom and dat aside and said Hey, can I have one of the cookies
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before anyone else? How do your
brothers and sisters to to feel about that?
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When not happy? Right, maybe
a little bit upset. That's exactly
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what happens here. These two brothers
take the master aside and they say we
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want this special privilege, and the
other ten, when they find out about
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it, say hey, they're indignant, they're they're angry. They say essentially
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what's in their minds as we want
that too. We also want to be
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in this glorious position. And so
now that what is happening is they're committing
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the same problem that James and John
just did. And so Jesus again takes
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them and says, no, boys, let's let's talk. It's time to
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learn. And he says then he
calls them to him. He says,
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you know that the rulers of the
gentile lorded over them. They're great ones,
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exercise authority over them. Power and
glory and strength comes from power and
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glory and strength. That's how it
works in the kingdoms of this world.
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That's how it works among the gentiles. Not so in my kingdom. You
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must understand, it shall not be
so among you. Different order, different
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kingdom, different way. Whoever would
be great among you must be your servant,
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your Deacon, and whoever must be
first among you must be your slave.
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Even as the son of man came
not to be served, but to
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serve and to give his life as
a ransom for many. So this is
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the heavenly calling that we share in
right Hebrews three one. Therefore, holy
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brothers, you who share in a
heavenly calling, consider Jesus the Apostle and
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high priest of our confession. The
calling that we share in is the giving
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of ourselves to others in the name
and in the love and in the grace
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of Jesus. Our work begins with
his work. First to US consider these
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verses, Second Corinthians eight nine.
We consider the service of Christ. Second
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Corinthians eight nine, for you know
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that
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though he was rich, yet for
your sake, for your sake, he
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became poor so that you, by
his poverty, might become rich. Now,
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if you're thinking, well, I'm
not poor, I don't need anything,
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I'm basically got it together, he
might not be a Christian, because
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Jesus didn't come to save selfsufficient people. It says right here he came he
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be he who was rich, became
poor so that we might become rich through
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his poverty. And when we consider
the richness that he gives to us,
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what does Jesus have in mind?
Everything, Body and soul, and that's
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expressed in some of these things that
we've read today. That sin might no
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longer have its hold on us,
that blindness, disease, invalidity might no
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longer have its hold on us.
Richness and wealth and abundance in every way,
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remember the passage we read from Isaiah
and thinking about on this great salvation
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that is to come, feasts of
great food and well aged wine and abundance
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and celebration, not in any kind
of sinful way, but simply enjoying the
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goodness of the Lord without lack.
This is what Jesus gives to us through
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his service to us, or Romans, fifteen eight, consider the work of
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the Lord for you, when God
says, for I tell you that Christ
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became a servant to the circumcised to
show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm
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the promises that he gave to the
Patriarchs. And so when we think about
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our calling, as I say,
it's not like we're just getting a job.
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It's it's more than that. It's
not just a list of things that
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we do. We do do things, but it's much more than that.
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Our Service are following Christ is being
called to live in a certain way,
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and that certain way is a sharing
in Christ. And so we have passages
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like Ephesians five, one and two. Therefore, be imitators of God as
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beloved children and Walk in Love,
as Christ loved us and gave himself up
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for us. A fragrant offering and
a sacrifice to God. So is it
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any wonder, then, that those
who are part of the body of Christ,
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who share in his heavenly calling,
are then called to be merciful,
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even as Your Father is merciful,
Luke Thirty six or Galatians ten? So,
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then, as we have opportunity,
let us do good to everyone,
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and especially to those who are the
household of faith, or Hebrews thirteen ten,
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do not neglect to show hospitality to
strangers, or first John Seventeen.
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For anyone who has the world's goods
and sees his brother in need yet closes
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his heart against him, how does
God's love abide in him? Just doesn't
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make sense. Right if we are
part of the body of Christ, of
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which he is the head of way, of whom we are united to,
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and his calling is to give his
life in mercy for sinners like us,
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and we don't see ourselves as sinners
and we don't see ourselves as connected to
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him, and we don't see ourselves
either needing mercy or needing to give mercy.
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We don't abide in God. But
if we abide in him, if
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we have been loved by him,
then this kind of overflow of life that
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is give, been given to us, will then overflow to others. First
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John, eighteen little children. Let
us not love in word or talk,
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but indeed and in truth. James
says something similar. He says, what
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good is it, my brothers,
if someone says he has faith but does
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not have works, can that faith
save him? The answers no. It's
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not real faith, not faith in
the Lord Christ. It's faith in himself,
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faith in his sufficiency, faith in
his the walls that he's put up
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against others. James continues. If
a brother or a sister's poorly clothed or
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lacking in daily food and one of
you says them go in peace, be
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warm and filled, without giving them
the things needed for the body, what
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good is that? It's no good, it's worthless. And so James Concludes.
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So also, faith by itself,
if it does not have works,
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is dead. If this fake faith, if this faith that stands alone,
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not alone in Christ, but alone
by itself, alone, apart from the
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love alone, apart from mercy,
that kind of faith is a dead faith,
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James as so, in conclusion,
when we think about our calling is
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deacons, how ought we to think
about it. Of course we think about
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it in terms of these commands to
love our brothers and sisters, to provide
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for those who are in need,
to exercise love and calling as we have
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opportunity and as God has given us
various gifts and and circumstances to do that.
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We can't merely think about it in
that way, because if we just
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think about it in that way,
we begin to think of our ourselves as
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saviors of other people, not as
those who serve in the name of Christ,
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but those who serve instead of Christ. Instead of pointing to Jesus and
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saying look to him, find his
resources and wealth in him. He is,
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even as he has given them to
me, will we end up doing
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is pointing people to ourselves and saying, look at me, all take care
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of you, all provide for you, all be the one that you need.
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Instead, though, when we see
our calling in Christ in this way,
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we see not only the thing that
he is commanding us to do,
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but also the salvation that he has
brought us into, the kind of love
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and life and joy that is his
up to those who are in need.
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So every Christian is a deacon,
because Christ was a deacon and he calls
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us into that life of service in
his name. Let's pray and ask the
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Lord's blessing on these things and for
faith in that good news. Our heavenly
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father, no one has served as
much or to the degree that Christ has
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served us. There is no one
that we can look to and we can
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say there is someone who has been
more generous. Indeed, his generosity,
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indeed the abundance that he provides to
us, is without measure. The way
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that you save us, through the
work on the cross that brings life to
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our bodies, that brings healing to
our souls, is beyond all praising and
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worthy of all praising, Lord,
as we consider the the depths that you
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went, the ways in which you
humbled yourself, the things that you gave
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in order to save weak people,
people that were cursed for our own sins,
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people that were rightfully under your your
wrath. You loved us while we
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were still unlovely. You served us
when we were not able to give anything
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to you in return. You made
US glorious in Christ Jesus, our Savior,
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and in this Lord, you have
brought us into a new life,
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a life that is full of abundance
and riches a life that is full of
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both material and spiritual wealth. We
don't and we won't always experience this in
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completeness in this life. We wait
for the age to come, but even
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now, how quick you are to
take care of our needs in a plot
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and and provide for us way beyond
what we asked for. In your tender
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mercy, you give and you give
and you give, and we thank you
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for it. We're thankful that,
as we receive our daily bread, and
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even beyond that from you, it's
not merely the bread that we eat,
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but we eat your blessing, we
eat your provision, your care, your
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closeness with us. We ask,
Lord, that as we experience these things,
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that that love and service that you
have given to us would overflow to
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others, that we would be those
who give of ourselves and our resources,
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as those who are not afraid,
those who are not afraid of of losing
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things, those who are not afraid
of not being glorious of those who are
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not afraid of taking care of others, knowing that you perfectly take care of
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us. And, Lord, as
we give this love to others and as
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we give it in your name,
we ask that you would be glorified,
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that the name of Christ would be
magnified and that people would see that love
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in your church and would know from
where it comes from whom it comes,
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that they might come to abide in
you as well. We ask for your
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blessing and all these things, knowing
that you give it to those who ask
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for it, and we pray this
in Jesus name, our perfect savior,
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on men
